Database virtualization should be viewed as a critical weapon in the IT leader’s quiver to attack migration challenges when an efficient way to migrate data to the cloud is called for.

Database virtualization claims to break vendor lock-in on data warehouse technology. How applicable is it and how can IT leaders evaluate the technology?

Think of conventional database migrations as the equivalent of open-heart surgery. In contrast, moving with database virtualization is more like noninvasive surgery. However, it is surgery ...

Database virtualization will enable real-time business intelligence through a policy-driven, latency-agile, distributed-caching memory grid that permeates an infrastructure at all levels.

Database virtualization is not a new concept, but it’s also not a widely implemented one. In one type of database virtualization, such as that practiced by the San Francisco company Datometry, a layer ...

Combining virtualization technology in a shared-disk database cluster allows enterprises to take application availability to new levels while lowering infrastructure costs. With such solutions, ...

Real-time is the most exciting new frontier in business intelligence, and virtualization will facilitate low-latency analytics more powerfully than traditional approaches. Database virtualization ...

Though critical for business operations, SAP, Oracle EBS, and other ERP projects have become notorious for high failure rates, delays, and budget overruns. Given the significant share of IT resources ...

“We want to bring to the database management layer, in general, and to relational databases, in particular, the flexibility and the extensibility you get out of virtualization and the cloud ...

German cloud vendor Zimory has set its sight on databases. Using so-called satellite databases more capacity can be added to the existing database.