Fifty billion connected objects will invade the market over the next five years, according to some predictions.

With the holiday season officially underway I’m often impressed how well retailers are able to maintain – or unable to maintain – a level of service for their web sites. E-commerce continues to grow while traditional retail treads water at best. The spectacle of Black Friday aside, the crowds are still real, people may just be queued up electronically rather than physically and the amount of information being processed is staggering.

Contributed by Craig Silveira Organizations are being increasingly challenged to do more with less – develop innovative strategies, create compelling products, serve customers more effectively, all while facing limited resources. As a result, IT personnel have begun evaluating how they can manage the IT stack to find additional budget that can be applied back to more strategic initiatives. One...

As of December 1, 2015, Oracle® is no longer offering two of its most popular database license options, SE and SE1; replacing them instead with a new SE2 version which effectively increases license limitations to force more customers onto their Enterprise Edition—at an enormous cost increase.

Open source software has been saving organizations money for years in operating systems with Linux, in the middleware layer with tools like JBoss, and virtualization with Xen and other options. These IT organizations embarked on these journeys to open source alternatives to reconfigure IT spending and improve their agility to drive new innovation.

This blog was written by Ahsan Hadi and co-written by Jason Davis. EnterpriseDB is about to release an update to the Connectors for Postgres and EDB Postgres. The update will include some new capabilities in the JDBC driver to support connection failover. Connection failover provides automatic and robust failover for Java applications connecting to Postgres via the JDBC driver. The idea is to...

There remains significant uncertainty about the future of the Government Digital Service (GDS) in following the departure of its primary champion, Mike Bracken, this past summer.

The only data structure recognized in traditional SQL databases was the row, and repeating groups were extracted into child rows linked through foreign keys. It worked well but could be somewhat artificial and cumbersome for programmers.

Released nearly 15 years ago, PostGIS is an open source extension to Postgres that spatially enables your database server, and follows the OGC Simple Features for SQL specification. If you are coming from another standards based spatial database you may notice similarities in the spatial data types, naming conventions, and functionality. You can easily install PostGIS using EDB StackBuilder and...

Most IT organizations have made large investments in infrastructure and applications that have been running the business for years. Keeping this infrastructure costs a lot of money, perhaps up to 80% of an IT budget.