ZDNet

Salesforce's Database.com as a game changer now they've acquired Heroku?

Yesterday, Salesforce.com pre-announced a cloud based database. On its face this sounds exciting. Or at least you'd think that from the drooling Tweets I saw. As Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce bounced ...
Business Wire

New Vector Database in Salesforce Data Cloud Will Power AI, Analytics, and Automation Using LLMs with Business Data for Use Across the Einstein 1 Platform

Data Cloud Vector Database will unify all business data, including unstructured data like PDFs, emails, and transcripts, with CRM data to enable grounding of AI prompts and Einstein Copilot, ...
ZDNet

Salesforce's Oracle database dependence: Can it open source its way out?

Salesforce has been increasingly looking into PostgreSQL, an open source database, and hiring people who could provide some alternative to Oracle. The rationale is clear: Salesforce needs to diversify ...
TMCnet

Blackthorn Outlines New Platform Vision to Redefine Salesforce-Native Event Management

NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackthorn, the Salesforce-native event management company, today announced a new ...
Datacenter Dynamics

Salesforce's database outage: Why it happened and how to prevent another one

How important is sticking to the script? Important enough that when a script was inadvertently changed last month, Salesforce customers were 'victims' of an outage on one of the company's main servers ...
InfoWorld

Salesforce.com unveils Database.com

Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand service that will be available next year Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand ...