Six free databases with commercial-quality features

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	INSIDER Six free databases with commercial-quality features Free or open source databases run hundreds of millions of public-facing and private applications worldwide, but how effective is this technology and how do these products compare? For answers, we reviewed six popular free or open source database products: Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby and Firebird SQL. Insider content: free registration required. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Amazon Web Services Set up and run SQL Server on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Amazon Web Services RDS for Microsoft SQL Server® makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2008 R2 and 2012) including Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity. Get started for free. Get Started for Free with Amazon RDS for SQL Server! Reduce the complexity and cost of provisioning and managing your SQL Server databases, and focus on your application development, with Amazon RDS for SQL Server. In this Issue 5 tips to find and hire data scientists Amazon introduces data warehouse service Amazon launches workflow orchestration service Robert L. Mitchell: Facebook: The new arbiter of enterprise identity "The Human Face of Big Data" offers a geek-out-worthy coffee-table book Attackers can abuse Yahoo developer feature to steal user emails, other data Irish data protection watchdog faces legal challenge over Facebook privacy audit HP upgrades converged storage portfolio Social analytics firm PeopleBrowsr wins temporary order against Twitter WHITE PAPER: SAS Operationalizing Analytics Discover the three main elements of operationalizing analytics and learn how to develop a scalable framework to quickly solve the problems that lead to more profitable decisions. Read Now 5 tips to find and hire data scientists Data scientists are in demand in this era of big data. IT hiring managers, however, are struggling in their search for qualified candidates (as even the candidates themselves may not realize they are a fit for the role). Here are five ways you can recruit data scientists. Read More Amazon introduces data warehouse service Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to on-premises data warehouse deployments. Read More Amazon launches workflow orchestration service Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources, using a new orchestration engine called the AWS Data Pipeline. Read More Robert L. Mitchell: Facebook: The new arbiter of enterprise identity Today Facebook knows your identity. Tomorrow Facebook may very well be your identity. Before long, enterprise identity and access management may key off of social media identities rather than remaining an island unto itself. Are you prepared? That's the message that Gartner analyst Earl Perkins passed on to attendees at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference last month. Read More WEBCAST: Teradata Big Data Done Right View this on-demand webcast to learn how to reap the benefits of big data through a practical unified architecture; how to improve performance with in-memory technology; and how to lower costs and increase scalability through cloud computing. Register now. "The Human Face of Big Data" offers a geek-out-worthy coffee-table book "The Human Face of Big Data" is an ambitious and attractive new large-format book that aims to give readers, through photography and short articles, a glimpse of how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Read More Attackers can abuse Yahoo developer feature to steal user emails, other data Attackers can read emails, contacts and other private data from the accounts of Yahoo users who visit a malicious page by abusing a feature present on Yahoo's Developer Network website, says an independent security researcher. Read More Irish data protection watchdog faces legal challenge over Facebook privacy audit Privacy campaign group Europe vs. Facebook has threatened to take the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to court if it is not satisfied with the DPC's final responses to its 22 complaints about Facebook's privacy policies, and appealed for donations to cover the costs of such an action. Read More HP upgrades converged storage portfolio Hewlett-Packard released three platform upgrades that include new models of its Converged Storage platform, its StoreAll data archive and StoreOnce backup appliances. Read More Social analytics firm PeopleBrowsr wins temporary order against Twitter Social media analytics service PeopleBrowsr said it has won a temporary restraining order in a California court against Twitter's decision to end its four-year old arrangement to supply data to the company. Read More
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