Breaking News - Oracle to Acquire ClearApp
Oracle announced today that it has agreed to acquire ClearApp, a supplier of application management solutions for composite applications. ClearApp products, said Oracle, are intended to address the "increasingly difficult" task of managing composite applications built on SOA platforms by providing visibility of business services across all related application components. The combination of ClearApp products and Oracle Enterprise Manager are expected to provide customers with a comprehensive application management solution, enabling enhanced service levels, reduced system down-time and improved return on SOA investments.
"As customers deploy more SOA-based applications, the task of effectively managing them becomes paramount," said Leng Leng Tan, Oracle vice president, Applications and Systems Management, in making the announcement. "With the addition of ClearApp’s technology to the Oracle Enterprise Manager product family, our customers are expected to get continuous and uninterrupted top-down views of their business services and applications, helping them maximize service availability while reducing IT operations costs." The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2008, and until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently. For more information, go here.
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Breaking News - IBM Aims to Help Companies Accelerate Information on Demand by Creating “Information Agenda”
IBM today introduced open software tools, industry-specific data models and blueprints, and consulting services to help customers improve their use of information as a strategic asset across their business. The new offerings are intended to help customers manage, integrate and gain insight from information by building an “Information Agenda.”
Since the Information on Demand strategy was launched, IBM has worked with a range of customers, some of whom have maximized their use of information more than others, Tim Paydos, director of strategy for InfoSphere at IBM, observed to 5 Minute Briefing. “We’ve done hundreds and hundreds of transformational implementations with our customers, where people have used information in innovative ways to really optimize their business,” said Paydos. However, some organizations are pulling away from the pack in terms of their use of information for business benefit, he said. “Industry leaders are doing something around an 'industry agenda' and we’re learning from that,” Paydos noted. As a result, he said, IBM is now providing tools and services to customers “to get them from good to great” in terms of their use of information as a strategic asset.
“An information agenda is nothing more than a strategic approach to freeing information from the application, the repository, the silo of it, and allowing you to share it across multiple applications, business processes, decision points, for business optimization,” he said. “The crux of it is that those who are most successful have taken the time to align the delivery of information, the information supply side, with the business priorities, the information demand side,” Paydos explained. The approach includes getting people on a common vocabulary, getting on them on the same page in terms of what the company is trying to do and managing information across a multitude of projects versus handling each project in isolation, he said.
Key components of IBM's new offerings include: an open set of new IBM Foundation software tools to allow customers to understand, govern and make better use of data from disparate systems; industry-specific Information Agenda guides and workshops to help create an information strategy for better business performance; pre-built reports and pre-configured software, blueprints, and new industry models to tackle some of the toughest information management challenges by industry so businesses can avoid lengthy processes and planning; and new research and development resources and services that help customers build internal expertise in information management. For more information, go here.
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Breaking News - Continuent Announces New Tungsten to Offer Advanced Replication for MySQL
Continuent, a MySQL Gold Partner and a leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database replication and scale-out, plans to announce tomorrow an advanced replication for MySQL with its Tungsten scale-out stack.
Continuent Tungsten is an open source stack for database scale-out via low cost software and commodity hardware. It provides database replication, group communications wrappers, performance testing tools and shared infrastructure, like in-memory state machines, that are required to build scale-out solutions. It also includes cluster management, based on group communications, and it works with any database implementation.
“One of the things that is very powerful about this model is that it allows people to scale systems incrementally, so what we have here is not just a technical approach but an economic approach,” Robert Hodges, CTO of Continuent, told 5 Minute Briefing. “The incremental scaling model has been very powerful particularly in the open source and especially in the MySQL community. We try to keep the database live and available at all times so if one fails you can just go to another one. We are also optimized to work with low cost hardware and databases,” he said.
“There really isn’t anybody out there right now who is in the open source community and is really focused on the overall scale-out problem,” observed Hodges. “Our hope and our determination is to be the go-to guys for this problem.” Continuent is a MySQL partner and since it has accumulated a wealth of knowledge in this space, added Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent, “we decided to apply that knowledge and address those issues right now for MySQL users.”
According to Continuent, its new Tungsten scale-out stack now offers MySQL users easy set-up, proper handling of master failover in presence of multiple slaves; built-in table consistency checks; and checksums on replication events. There are also stack solutions for multi-master replication. Continuent will shortly introduce additional features including bi-directional replication with conflict resolution; semi-synchronous replication; parallel update on slaves to increase performance; processing hooks for SQL transformations; proxying support to reduce or eliminate application changes; and group communications-based management to operate clusters effectively. For more information, go here.
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HiT Software Releases Optimization Enhancements in DBMoto Data Replication Solution
HiT Software, a leader in data integration, synchronization and replication, has announced the release of DBMoto 6.5, the newest version of the company's flagship real-time data management engine that replicates, migrates and synchronizes data among heterogeneous databases. "Data replication projects can be complicated and require administrative expertise. Our objective is to have DBMoto reduce that complexity so that any IT manager or user can easily implement important projects,” said Giacomo Lorenzin, president and CEO of HiT Software.
With this version of DBMoto, HiT Software has “streamlined the amount of time and effort that goes into replication projects,” Carolyn Hughes, director of marketing, told 5 Minute Briefing. “The DBMoto product already has a number of features in it that make a data migration and replication synchronization project an easy project to manage but what we are trying to do is reduce the amount of time and so we added a number of automated tasks, things that we didn't have before.”
DBMoto's "grouping" feature that is designed to stack replication execution now includes a tool that automatically prioritizes replication order based on database relationships, applying referential integrity as dictated by the database. Replication prioritization is usually handled manually, “and if you don't do it right it could cause significant issues,” said Hughes. Another new feature in grouping allows users to more quickly and easily recover from system interruptions by enabling data replication restart at the point of interruption.
With DBMoto 6.5, a graphical interface view of high performance log filtering has also been added. “We have had high performance log filtering for a while but what we heard from a number of users is that if they could spot the errors right away graphically, then they could zone in on them and fix them quickly,” said Hughes.
Adding more power to its heterogeneous database support, DBMoto 6.5 now includes functionality to increase the velocity of data migration to Oracle databases, reducing replication time. ”We already had a powerful database replication for Oracle, however we wanted to increase the speed,” Lorenzin said, noting this becomes particularly important when there is “a massive amount” of data to move. “We used some features that Oracle provides to streamline and make data movement faster.” For more product details, go here.
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OAUG Announces Creation of CRM SIG
The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), the world’s largest knowledgebase for Oracle Applications users, has announced the founding of the OAUG CRM Connect Special Interest Group (SIG). The SIG was formed to accommodate users of all Oracle-owned customer relationship management (CRM) applications and to facilitate communication between the CRM users community and Oracle. The CRM Connect SIG is led by Nimish Shah, staff director of IEEE, and Robin Walker, managing partner of Caliber Services, LLC.
“The new CRM Connect SIG reflects the expansion of the Oracle CRM community as additional product families have been added to Oracle’s product portfolio and offers a way to expand the traditional scope of networking and educational opportunities the OAUG can provide CRM users,” said Jan Wagner, president of the OAUG.
The OAUG CRM Connect SIG provides educational Webinars, speakers and support for regional and industry meetings, a platform for interacting with other CRM users and opportunities for dialogue with Oracle associates about issues such as product development, quality and support. On behalf of the members of the CRM Connect SIG, Oracle will participate in the two-part CRM Connect SIG meeting at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in room 3001 at the Moscone Center. Visit here for more information.
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