"HANA is not an experimental thing," he said at the company's Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida. "We got lucky and we found something and it runs things 10, 100, 1000 times faster. HANA is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle on Monday announced the general availability of Exalytics, the latest in its family of specialized appliances and a direct competitor to SAP’s HANA product. Both Exalytics and HANA employ ...

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 ...