We lift the lid on the data warehouser's latest Greenplum Database release, examine business progress so far this year, and plans being hatched in engineering, including investments in an on-demand computing model.

The startup processor developer has delivered an enhanced version of its 64-core chip and an entry-level offering that features 36 cores as the company diversifies.

Virtualization security is enough of a concern for VMware that it has already picked up one startup. Now we're hearing that it has made another small security acquisition, snagging IPS vendor Blue Lane.

Not-quite-one-year-old Acquia, which is run in part by Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert, is releasing the first version of its Drupal code with the associated support network. Will customers sign up?

After eight years, the Norway-based company has achieved two quarters of profitability with a revamped subscription-focused business model and many channel partners. Now it has its eyes on the US.

Having marketed warehouse appliances with HP, Dell/EMC, Sun and IBM via a three-year-old Optimized Warehouse Initiative, Oracle is now selling an all-in-one Database Machine and Exadata Storage Servers developed with HP.

The company grabbed attention for its plan to provide identity management as an 'on demand' service hosted in the cloud. Now it's progressed down the path of providing the bridge and shared access management for SaaS and enterprise apps.

The company has carved out a piece of the hotly contested GRC market for itself. Now it says disaster recovery is the next frontier, providing features that help enterprises create policies around disasters and other unexpected disruptions in business.

The business transaction management vendor has raised an additional $47.5m in a fourth round of funding and is clearly on a mission to grow through acquisitions.