Morgan Stanley recently predicted there will be 75 billion connected devices in use worldwide by 2020, a number rapidly approaching the estimated 86 billion neurons in the human brain. We know that ...

As cloud computing evolves, IT organizations are finding that the biggest challenges they face are finding ways to scale databases across the cloud. The vast majority of the databases installed today ...

A major challenge the Defense Department and intelligence community face is managing the massive amounts of structured and unstructured data they possess. Many contractors like MarkLogic are helping ...

Rose Dixon, development operations deputy at the Semper Fi Fund and a longtime database manager, shared with The Chronicle three charts she created when faced with databases that needed an overhaul.

Salesforce.com Inc. has found a new application for artificial intelligence. Researchers from the cloud giant on Tuesday released a paper detailing the architectural details of Seq2SQL, an ...

Just as it's hard to imagine any small business existing today without a veritable fleet of personal computers, it's almost as hard to imagine any small business not maintaining some kind of database.

It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

Apple is trying to make it harder for developers to abuse users' information collected through apps. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple updated its App Store Review Guidelines last week with ...

In 1998, the FBI launched the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), a database that federally licensed gun dealers use to determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible to ...