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• SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  Due to incorrect information provided by the vendor, the story "SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight," posted to the wire on May 16, contained an improper characterization of the hardware used in a database cluster set up by SAP.

• Funds Pour Into Big-Data Vendors

  Investors have taken note of the surging enterprise demand for tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data.

• Yahoo's Genome highlights hosted big data analytics trend

  Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week.

• SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight

  SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications, partnerships and functional enhancements for the system.

• Salesforce.com's Heroku rolls out new cloud database options

  Salesforce.com's Heroku division this week rolled out two entry-level tiers for its Postgres-based cloud database service, hoping to cater to applications with lower data-volume requirements as well as helping startup developers make an easier jump into production.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

• Investors are pouring funds into big data

  Surging enterprise demand for tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured data has caught investor attention in a big way.

• SAP's Sikka fires back against Oracle's 'falsehoods' about HANA

  SAP's technology chief has given a strong rebuttal to a recent presentation by an Oracle executive that was critical of SAP's HANA in-memory database, saying it is full of "falsehoods."

• Researcher misinterprets Oracle advisory, discloses unpatched database vulnerability

  Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security researcher who erroneously thought that the company had patched the flaw.

• Users: Oracle Exadata's speed comes at a price

  Few Oracle products in recent years have received as much hype as the Exadata database machine, with the vendor attempting to use it as a standard-bearer for a series of appliances that combine its software with storage, networking equipment and Sun servers.

• SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott explains its five-market focus

  If you think SAP equals ERP, Bill McDermott would like a few minutes to set you straight about the 2012 version of the software giant, which he claims is in the midst of "an intellectual renewal." McDermott has been co-CEO -- along with Jim Hagemann Snabe -- of SAP since 2010 and has helped broaden the company's strategy beyond traditional applications and analytics to the cloud, mobile, Big Data and a bet-the-business focus on real-time computing with the HANA in-memory database at the forefront.

• Google adds new options for viewing data in Fusion Tables

  Google is trying to popularize the somewhat obscure art of data visualization by adding more user-friendly options to its Fusion Tables app.

• Oracle previews MySQL 5.6

  Offering a glimpse of the new features some database administrators will be working with before too long, Oracle has posted a preview version of the next MySQL relational database management system.

• SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile

  SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle and IBM.

• NEC launches software to quickly find video clips in large archives

  NEC has begun sales of new software to quickly find video clips in large archives, which is well-suited for finding illegal content on video sharing websites, it said Tuesday.