SAP (SAP) HANA, or High-Performance Analytic Appliance, is an in-memory database that uses the server’s main memory instead of the hard drive to store information. SAP values HANA very highly and ...

Now that the Jersey Shore is in its final season and we’ve become desensitized to the catfights on the Housewives of Wherever series, how about a reality show featuring the rivalries in Enterprise ...

When Tom Cruise's character in Top Gun exclaimed "I feel the need, the need for speed", you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a soundbite from a CIO discussing their transactional databases. Whether ...

Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, another new member in its ...

At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, the annual event that kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, California, CEO Larry Ellison revealed details on the long-awaited in-memory offering, an update that received ...

SAP, the world's largest maker of business software, may license its HANA offering to main rival Oracle in the future, its co-chief executive told a German newspaper. That would be possible. The ...

Oracle and SAP have been going at it for a long time now. The feud has extended beyond regular industry competition when the former sued the BI solutions maker for corporate espionage, a case that was ...

This morning Birst announces that it has leveraged the lightning fast, agile SAP HANA platform to offer “Instant Analytics in the Cloud.” Though this may sound somewhat familiar to an announcement ...

SAP’s president of platform solutions, Steve Lucas, give his end of year pitch as to why customers should be buying into the HANA story. Does it make sense in today’s world? SAP customers want to move ...

While SAP has made no secret of its desire to lure customers running Oracle databases over to its own HANA in-memory platform, any doubt that Oracle would fight back has been erased. Oracle CEO Larry ...

In an enterprise technology world featuring too much hot air and not enough world-class technology, SAP has done an excellent job spreading the idea that its 5-year-old HANA database delivers ...

Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, another new member in its ...