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Oracle Completes Sun Acquisition; Offers Webcasts and In-Person Events to Outline Strategy
After receiving regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc, Oracle last week announced that it had closed the deal, completing a process begun last spring. While the purchase had been held up by the European Commission's concerns that Oracle's ownership of the MySQL open source database, through the Sun acquisition, would have an adverse effect on competition, in a statement released by the commission, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said, "I am now satisfied that competition and innovation will be preserved on all the markets concerned. Oracle's acquisition of Sun has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products."
News Flashes, 5MB: Oracle - February 3, 2010 Issue
SYSTIME and Oracle Unveil AIA Solution Connecting Oracle’s Agile PLM and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
SYSTIME and Oracle yesterday announced availability of an Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) solution that connects Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
News Flashes, 5MB: Oracle - February 3, 2010 Issue
Syncordant Announces Heterogeneous Database Integrator
Syncordant, a data integration company, has announced the release of its new enterprise-class product, the Data Integrator. The new product enables a single, real-time, customizable view into multiple heterogeneous databases distributed anywhere in the world.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - February 2, 2010 Issue
Informatica Acquires Siperian
Informatica Corporation, a provider of data integration software, has acquired Siperian, a vendor in the master data management (MDM) infrastructure technology category. Informatica will acquire Siperian, on a fully diluted basis, for approximately $130 million in cash.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - February 2, 2010 Issue
Netezza Ships Appliance to Extend Enterprise Analytics
Netezza Corporation, a provider of data warehouse and analytic appliances, announced it has begin shipping a data warehouse appliance with a compact footprint that can power development groups and data marts or serve as a platform for application appliances.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - February 2, 2010 Issue
Breaking News–Sybase ASE Provides ‘Extreme Performance’ with New IMDB Capability
Sybase today announced the availability of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.5, the newest version of its high-performance, mission-critical enterprise database management system. This latest version of ASE nonetheless provides key new functionality, Terry Orsborn, product marketing manager for Sybase ASE, tells 5 Minute Briefing. "The first is really around what we are calling ‘extreme performance.' This is our new in-memory database capability. Our customers are finding our approach to be very compelling and it is really resonating with their needs for low-latency and high concurrency."
News Flashes, 5MB: Sybase - January 27, 2010 Issue
European Commission Approves Oracle Acquisition of Sun
Oracle has received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Oracle said it expects unconditional approval from China and Russia and intends to close the transaction shortly. In a statement released by the commission, Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said, "I am now satisfied that competition and innovation will be preserved on all the markets concerned. Oracle's acquisition of Sun has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products."
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 26, 2010 Issue
Enteros Announces Load2Test ZeroDev Product Offering
Enteros, Inc., a provider of performance management software, is extending the support of its Load2Test ZeroDev offering to a host of platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, Oracle EBUS Oracle Forms and HTTP/XML.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 26, 2010 Issue
Ingres Offers Technology Preview Program for Ingres VectorWise
Ingres Corporation, a leading open source database management company, announced today a technology preview program for Ingres VectorWise. VectorWise is a database technology that, according to Ingres, delivers the performance needed to deal with explosive data growth and is the first business software to fully take advantage of advances in modern chip technology.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 26, 2010 Issue
Quest Software Introduces Toad DBA Suite for Oracle - RAC Edition
Quest Software has released a RAC edition of the Toad DBA Suite. The Toad DBA Suite for Oracle is a single toolset that gives users the productivity tools they need to become more proactive by assuring maintenance, performance and change. The RAC Edition extends those capabilities by adding Spotlight on RAC, providing a graphical view of performance diagnostics for a better understanding of the user's RAC environment.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 26, 2010 Issue
Kickfire Enters into Rackspace Partnership
Kickfire, Inc., a provider of affordable, high performance analytic appliances, has entered into the Partner Network with Rackspace Hosting, a leader in hosting and cloud computing, to deliver affordable, high-performance analytic appliance hosting and managed services. By joining the network, Kickfire can provide its customers with access to Rackspace's fully managed hosting and 24x7 Fanatical Support services. The two companies will also participate in joint sales and marketing programs.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 26, 2010 Issue
HP and Microsoft Target Data Center with Joint Cloud, IT Automation Offerings
HP and Microsoft Corp. announced a three-year agreement to invest $250 million in efforts and product offerings intended to simplify technology environments. The companies plan to deliver new solutions that will be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model; advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation; and encouraging greater IT automation. "Microsoft and HP both have R&D that we're investing in public and private clouds that are related to utilization and management, the applications, the business intelligence, transaction processing," said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, speaking at a joint briefing that announced the partnership
News Flashes, 5MB: Data Center - Janury 25, 2010 Issue
IBM Announces Quarterly and Annual Earnings; System z Revenues and MIPS Down; Software Up
IBM reported a decrease in annual revenues between 2008 and 2009, but revenues for the most recent quarter held steady. Overall, the company reports, revenues for 2009 totaled $95.8 billion, a decrease of 8% (5%, adjusting for currency), compared with $103.6 billion in 2008.
News Flashes, 5MB: Data Center - Janury 25, 2010 Issue
Joe McKendrick on "Closing the Enterprise Data Gap - in Gap Fashion"
Gap, Inc. is a major retail organization that was previously unable to generate a single view of its five-division business, which includes The Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Athleta, and Piperline.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 21, 2010 Issue
IBM Client for Smart Work Available Through Business Partners in India
IBM has announced that the IBM Client for Smart Work is now available in India through business partners. The IBM Client for Smart Work, IBM and Canonical's cloud-and Linux-based desktop package, is designed to help companies do more with less and lower desktop computing costs by up to 50%.
Linux News, IBM LinuxLine - January 20, 2010 Issue
IBM Webcast: Good, Better, Best Workloads for Linux on System z
IBM clients are benefiting from migrating workloads from distributed servers to virtual Linux servers running on z10 under z/VM because z/VM offers an extensive set of virtualization technologies that enable users to enjoy cost-savings when deploying Linux-based solutions on the mainframe. And as clients move mission critical work to Linux on System z, they need to manage that workload. The IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z is a set of integrated solutions that enable System z as a highly reliable hub for efficient management of business and IT services that span the enterprise, bringing service management and process automation to System z.
Inside Linux at IBM, IBM LinuxLine - January 20, 2010 Issue
IBM Webcast: Good, Better, Best Workloads for Linux on System z
IBM clients are benefiting from migrating workloads from distributed servers to virtual Linux servers running on z10 under z/VM because z/VM offers an extensive set of virtualization technologies that enable users to enjoy cost-savings when deploying Linux-based solutions on the mainframe. And as clients move mission critical work to Linux on System z, they need to manage that workload. The IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z is a set of integrated solutions that enable System z as a highly reliable hub for efficient management of business and IT services that span the enterprise, bringing service management and process automation to System z.
Inside Linux at IBM, Linux Executive Report from IBM - January 20, 2010 Issue
10 Years of IBM Linux: Embracing Customer Choice
Involved with Linux since IBM's initial entry into the space more than 10 years ago, Jonathan Prial is now vice president of enablement for sales teams at IBM. Here, he talks with The Linux Executive Report from IBM about IBM's early presence in the Linux market, how he sees Linux use evolving, and why it's important to be a student for life in the world of technology.
Linux News, Linux Executive Report from IBM - January 20, 2010 Issue
Oracle Integrates Enterprise Performance Management with Sales and Operations Planning
To help organizations improve operational alignment and financial performance, Oracle yesterday announced the integration of Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle's Demantra Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning. The new integration is intended to enable CFOs to get a reliable revenue forecast that has been validated against the current operating plan, while on the operations side, supply chain and manufacturing managers can reconcile current operating plans against updated financial targets and budgets.
News Flashes, 5MB: Oracle - January 20, 2010 Issue
Quest Software Introduces Toad DBA Suite for Oracle - RAC Edition
Quest Software has released a RAC edition of the Toad DBA Suite. The Toad DBA Suite for Oracle is a single toolset that gives users the productivity tools they need to become more proactive by assuring maintenance, performance and change. The RAC Edition extends those capabilities by adding Spotlight on RAC, providing a graphical view of performance diagnostics for a better understanding of the user's RAC environment.
News Flashes, 5MB: Oracle - January 20, 2010 Issue
Noetix Supports Social Security Administration Migration in Move to Oracle Release 12
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has chosen Noetix software to automatically handle the conversions and database re-mappings required with new Oracle applications releases. With support from Noetix Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence (BI) content from enterprise applications, the SSA had the tools and technology required to meet deadlines and stay ahead of schedule during its recent migration to Oracle Release 12.
News Flashes, 5MB: Oracle - January 20, 2010 Issue
HP and Microsoft Target Data Center with Joint Cloud, IT Automation Offerings
HP and Microsoft Corp. announced a three-year agreement to invest $250 million in efforts and product offerings intended to simplify technology environments. The companies plan to deliver new solutions that will be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model; advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation; and encouraging greater IT automation.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 19, 2010 Issue
Moving Mountains of Data without Sacrificing Performance
With the increased merging of disparate core business systems in the enterprise—as well as the emergence of additional systems in the form of enterprise resource management, customer relationship management, hierarchical storage strategies, and other business-driven initiatives—many companies today find themselves moving mountains of data on a daily basis.
Think About It, 5MB: Information Management - January 12, 2010 Issue
Breaking News—Jaspersoft Unveils New Enterprise Edition with Latest Product Release
Jaspersoft, a provider of open source business intelligence software, today announced the availability of Jaspersoft 3.7, and also unveiled the new Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition, which offers a complete package of advanced business analytics and reporting functionality.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 12, 2010 Issue
IBM Study Finds Better Analytics Needed to Better Track Tech-Savvy Consumers
A new IBM global survey of over 32,000 consumers reveals that technology is giving consumers a new source of power — pushing companies to engage them more directly via increased use of personalized promotions and offerings. However, companies need greater analytic tools to better understand the data flowing in from multiple channels.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 12, 2010 Issue
Progress Software Buying Savvion
Progress Software Corporation, a provider of enterprise operations software, announced yesterday at its Global Field Operations Conference the acquisition of Savvion Inc., a privately held business enterprise software company based in Santa Clara, Calif., for approximately $49 million, net of cash acquired.
News Flashes, 5MB: Information Management - January 12, 2010 Issue
Breaking News—CA Acquires IT Service Level Management Software Provider
CA announced that it has acquired privately-held Oblicore, a provider of service level management (SLM) software for enterprises and service providers. CA says Oblicore supports and strengthens its ability to set, measure and optimize service levels to meet business expectations across enterprise and cloud environments. Oblicore's solutions also extend CA's capabilities in cloud vendor management and assurance of cloud service quality. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
News Flashes, 5MB: Data Center - January 11, 2010 Issue
Progress Software Buying Savvion
Progress Software Corporation, a provider of enterprise operations software, announced today at its Global Field Operations Conference the acquisition of Savvion Inc., a privately held business enterprise software company based in Santa Clara, Calif., for approximately $49 million, net of cash acquired.
News Flashes, 5MB: Data Center - January 11, 2010 Issue
Special Report—Data Center Trends to Watch in 2010
As we enter the next decade of the millennium, we will see information technology becoming more ubiquitous, driving an even greater share of business decision-making and operations. IT has proven its muster through the recent downturn as both a tactical and strategic weapon for streamlining, as well as maintaining competitive edge. Now, as we begin the next round of economic recovery, companies will be relying on IT even more to better understand and serve their markets and customers.
News Flashes, 5MB: Data Center - January 11, 2010 Issue
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