Stories about: Teradata

The day Randy Mott left Dell for Hewlett-Packard in 2005 it caused a stir in the IT world. At the time, HP was a company in transition. Its CEO Carly Fiorina had been ousted following the most tempestuous period in the company's history, and the new CEO Mark Hurd recognized immediately that a major change was necessary to stabilize the company.

The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6 percent growth spike in 2007 to US$18.8 billion compared to $16.7 billion in 2006, according to IDC.

The petabyte is the new petaflop.

The Department of Defence today announced a $162 million contract with Telstra for telecommunication services.

Analytic databases are the principal engines driving business intelligence, delivering operational data into reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries.

Australia's largest health insurance provider, Medibank Private, will begin implementing a company-wide Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) by 2009.

Mostly lost among the flock of announcements at Microsoft's Mix08 Web developer conference last week was the news that Redmond is starting to test a Web database service based on its popular SQL Server database management software.

Oracle this week launched Oracle Data Integration Suite, which combines traditional data integration capabilities with an array of middleware and tooling for constructing a service oriented architecture.

Business intelligence is off the chartsLast week Business Objects signed a deal with SPSS to link its predictive analytics application to the Business Objects platform.

Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) is rolling out an integrated data warehouse solution to support its daily distribution of products to distribution centres and regional branches across the country.

Former Teradata executive, Dereck Daymond, has been appointed A/NZ managing director of Sybase.