Cloud databases may gain ground in 2009
eWeek | at | by Mike
Database vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle began taking a long look at the cloud in 2008. Analysts expect more of the same in 2009, this time with vendors putting more database functionality into the cloud.For those of us watching the database space, 2008 can be remembered as the year when cloud computing began to touch the database market in a major way.
The biggest example was the launch of Microsoft SDS (SQL Data Services) in March. The move made Microsoft the first major database vendor to offer a version of its database in the cloud. But smaller companies, such as Blist and LongJump, also sought to make noise this past year with their Web-based databases.