SAP becomes one of the most successful enterprise cloud companies (Part 3 of 4) (Continued from Part 2) HANA is SAP’s bedrock SAP (SAP) HANA, or High-Performance Analytic Appliance, is an in-memory ...

In an enterprise technology world featuring too much hot air and not enough world-class technology, SAP has done an excellent job spreading the idea that its 5-year-old HANA database delivers ...

SAP plans to move its applications to its own Sybase-powered database platform and mix in a heavy dose of HANA in-memory technology. The game plan: Push long-time database partner Oracle out of the ...

Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP’s HANA platform.

SAP spokesman James Dever downplayed Ellison’s remarks, saying in an email that HANA has seen a faster relative growth rate than Exadata, and that it offers customers a broader range of capabilities.

In the never-ending battle of royales trying all the time to gain supremacy in enterprise applications, the latest dig from Oracle co-president Mark Hurd saying in an interview that if HANA is the ...

Larry Ellison probably didn’t sleep well last night. Same for his buddy Mark Hurd. I can picture the two of them sitting in a locked office at Oracle’s headquarters, earlier in the day, wringing their ...

At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, the annual event that kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, California, CEO Larry Ellison revealed details on the long-awaited in-memory offering, an update that received ...

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 ...