SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud now offers applications such as SAP Business Suite, the SAP Business Warehouse application and the SAP HANA platform on a subscription model. New subscription offerings not only emphasize the company's commitment but also increase the choice and simplicity for customers to deploy HANA, according to SAP.
Posted April 24, 2014
With its acquisition of Fieldglass, which provides a cloud-based Vendor Management System (VMS) solution, SAP is addressing a growing need for flexible workforce management. Citing industry estimates that contingent labor and statement-of-work services is a $3.3 trillion market on a fast upward trajectory, SAP says that companies are increasingly moving to variable operating models that enable them to scale their infrastructure, talent and expertise up and down to accommodate changes in business requirements.
Posted April 24, 2014
Vote for Best Relational Database in the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards
Posted April 23, 2014
Vote for Best Hadoop Solution in the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards
Posted April 23, 2014
What's the Best Cloud Database? It Depends Who You Ask
Posted April 23, 2014
Vote for Best NoSQL Database in the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards
Posted April 23, 2014
Supporting a ‘develop once, deploy anywhere' approach, BlueFinity International has launched Evoke, a new product that provides developers with a toolset for all application delivery platforms.
Posted April 23, 2014
Entrinsik, developer of Informer agile operational reporting and business intelligence software, has formed a partnership with SugarCRM, provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Delivered with pre-configured mappings and sample reports, Informer software provides real-time reporting, data analysis and interactive dashboards to extend the value of customers' SugarCRM systems.
Posted April 23, 2014
The latest version of Rocket Aldon LM has built-in U2 Support for Rocket UniData and Rocket UniVerse including Programs, Data Dictionary Items, Schema Changes, TCL, wIntegrate, AE, and ED. Aldon LM simplifies audit compliance, facilitates task and backlog management, enforces quality standards, and secures and manages access to software assets. Rocket is hosting a one-hour webinar to showcase the product features on Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 8 am PT / 9 am MT / 10 am CT / 11 am ET.
Posted April 23, 2014
TEKsystems, an IT staffing solutions provider, says that employers are finding it increasingly difficult to hire business intelligence and security experts.
Posted April 23, 2014
Hadoop distribution companies Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR have joined a new Big Data Protection Partner Program launched by Dataguise, a provider of data privacy protection and risk management analytics.
Posted April 22, 2014
Leveraging Dell Boomi AtomSphere's single-instance, multi-tenant architecture to gain deep insight into customer usage metrics, the spring 2014 release of the integration platform offers new features, including Boomi Resolve, which helps users solve common errors quickly by automatically listing possible solutions in order of relevancy, and Predictive Assistance, which integrates near-real-time customer usage metrics, to support optimization of the use of the Boomi integration platform.
Posted April 22, 2014
Centerprise Rt, cloud-based data integration software from Astera Software can integrate complex, hierarchical and unstructured data. The software can be used by companies to businesses to create web services that integrate and share data of any complexity with their partners, customers and vendors, and suppliers, making important data accessible via the web on a 24/7 basis.
Posted April 22, 2014
Datawatch's visual data discovery solution has added new capabilities to make developing and deploying visualizations faster and more effective. Among the key new features in the Datawatch 12.3 release of the Datawatch solution are predictive and advanced analytics with built-in support for R and Python execution and transforms; and high-performance, in-memory caching of data to support big data and sub-optimized databases.
Posted April 22, 2014
New Technologies for Real-Time Analytics - Webinar on Thursday, April 17, at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET
Posted April 16, 2014
Enhancing its portfolio of enterprise cloud services, Oracle has introduced two new services, Oracle Database Backup Service and Oracle Storage Cloud Service. According to Rex Wang, vice president, Product Marketing, Oracle, the new services help simplify IT, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation to drive competitive advantage.
Posted April 16, 2014
Twitter is acquiring Gnip, a provider of social data and a long-standing Twitter data partner. "Together we plan to offer more sophisticated data sets and better data enrichments, so that even more developers and businesses big and small around the world can drive innovation using the unique content that is shared on Twitter," said Jana Messerschmidt, Twitter VP, Global Business Development & Platform, in a blog announcing the acquisition.
Posted April 15, 2014
2014 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards: It's Time to Cast Your Vote!
Posted April 15, 2014
Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of software solutions for application and database development, has launched Embarcadero RAD Studio XE6, a multi-device, natively compiled app development platform for Windows, Android, iOS, and Mac.
Posted April 15, 2014
MapR has added the complete Apache Spark technology stack to the MapR Distribution for Hadoop. Spark is an Spark is an in-memory processing framework that provides speed, programming ease, and advantages for real-time processing.
Posted April 15, 2014
IBM's latest enterprise cloud offerings for the mainframe include the first System z-based integrated system offering, the IBM Enterprise Cloud System. There is also a new flexible utility pricing model to give service providers the ability to pay for Linux-based mainframe cloud infrastructure over time based on compute consumption, rather than system capacity.
Posted April 14, 2014
New offerings for IBM System z are aimed at helping customers with rapid development and deployment of mobile applications as well as the ability to integrate them with core business processes, applications, and data. As part of this effort, As part IBM is enabling the industry's first commercial Hadoop for Linux on System z - zDoop software - provided through through Veristorm, an IBM partner.
Posted April 14, 2014
Red Hat is collaborating with Google to enable Red Hat customers to move eligible Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to Google Compute Engine using Red Hat Cloud Access. Google, which joined the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program in December 2013, is the second Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider to earn designation as a Red Hat Cloud Access-enabled partner.
Posted April 14, 2014
SUSE has introduced the Starter System for System z to make SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for System z installation quicker and easier. The system enables customers to do mainframe Linux proof-of-concepts with existing IT skills, according to the company.
Posted April 14, 2014
Fujitsu has begun shipping a multi-processor server configuration intended to support high availability environments. The x86 FUJITSU Server PRIMEQUEST 2000 series is comprised of five models, based on the Intel Xeon Processor E7 v2 family.
Posted April 14, 2014
With cloud, outsourcing and BYOD posing new challenges to ensuring authorized access to data, Oracle introduced enhancements to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 that are aimed at helping organizations extend access policies and controls beyond enterprise applications and systems to cloud-based systems and mobile devices.
Posted April 14, 2014
With cloud, outsourcing and BYOD posing new challenges to ensuring authorized access to data, Oracle introduced enhancements to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 that are aimed at helping organizations extend access policies and controls beyond enterprise applications and systems to cloud-based systems and mobile devices.
Posted April 11, 2014
TEKsystems, an IT staffing solutions provider, says that employers are finding it increasingly difficult to hire business intelligence and security experts.
Posted April 11, 2014
To accommodate its expanding customer base, the safety science organization UL overhauled its IT infrastructure, implementing Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle E-Business Suite. The result? The new IT environment runs up to 10 times faster than UL's previous environment, allowing UL to more quickly deliver information to its customers and drive better decision-making.
Posted April 10, 2014
A new product in the Enterprise PPM space has been introduced by Oracle. Primavera Prime is a fully integrated modular solution built on Oracle's Red Stack. The product platform is mobile ready, offers embedded analytics and has built in workflows.
Posted April 10, 2014
Calypso Technology, Inc., an integrated capital markets platform provider, announced that Calypso version 14 has achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). According to Tej Sidhu, senior vice president for Engineering and CTO at Calypso Technology, in simulations of data-intensive straight through-processing tasks, Calypso achieved performance gains of up to 500% using Exadata hardware.
Posted April 10, 2014
Oracle Engineered Server Systems achieved rapid growth during the third quarter of Oracle's fiscal year 2014. "Our Engineered Systems business is growing rapidly for the same fundamental reason that our cloud applications business is growing rapidly. In both cases, customers want us to integrated the hardware and software, and make it work together, so they don't have to," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, during the recent earnings conference call.
Posted April 10, 2014
TeamWork, a database change management solution from DBMaestro, is now available for SQL Server as well as Oracle.
Posted April 09, 2014
Kelly Stirman, director of product marketing at MongoDB, emphasized simplicity, reliability, and security in a recent conversation about the new capabilities of MongoDB 2.6. "Don't let the 2.6 fool you. It is absolutely the biggest release we have ever done."
Posted April 08, 2014
IBM, which marked the 50th anniversary of the mainframe today, looked to the future by rolling out new mobile, storage, cloud, and Hadoop for Big Data offerings for System z. According to IBM, as it celebrates this landmark occasion, more than 70% of enterprise data resides on a mainframe and 71% of all Fortune 500 companies have their core businesses on a mainframe
Posted April 08, 2014
Today, at COLLABORATE 14 in Las Vegas, Oracle announced two key new mobile capabilities to its Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System. The new capabilities are available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
Posted April 08, 2014
Splice Machine is the newest member of the more than 800-member Cloudera Connect Partner Program. According to Splice Machine, its technology enables Cloudera users to tap into real-time updates with transactional integrity and standard ANSI SQL, which the company says are necessary features for organizations that are looking to become real-time, data-driven businesses.
Posted April 07, 2014
InfiniDB has announced the results of a new, independent benchmark from Radiant Advisors that examined the performance of leading open source SQL-on-Hadoop query engines, including InfiniDB for Hadoop 4.0
Posted April 07, 2014
Windows-upgrade procrastinators, watch out. That's the message coming through from some security experts who estimate that there is a significant portion of business users who still have not moved off Windows XP, despite the fact that patches will no longer be issued. Users have been warned by Microsoft for years now that support for the more-than-decade-old operating system, as well as for Office 2003, would end on April 8, 2014.
Posted April 07, 2014
Teradata has introduced the Teradata Database 15 with a new software product called Teradata QueryGrid that provides virtual compute capability within and beyond the Teradata Unified Data Architecture. The company also announced Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6750 platform with new capabilities to support customers' most demanding real-time workloads.
Posted April 07, 2014
Ntirety, a provider of remote DBA, data consulting, and DBA on-demand services for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL, has been acquired by HOSTING. With the acquisition, said Ntirety founder Michael Corey, the Dedham-based company becomes a division of HOSTING, with Corey as president of the division.
Posted April 04, 2014
A new partnership between Hortonworks and LucidWorks, which provides a search development platform leveraging Apache Solr, will enable users throughout an organization to easily access and gain insight from big data sets that were previously available only to developers, analyst and data scientists.
Posted April 03, 2014
Oracle has introduced the 3.0 release of its NoSQL Database. Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 Enterprise Edition and Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 Community Edition are now available for download via the Oracle Technology Network.
Posted April 02, 2014
The theme for COLLABORATE 14-IOUG Forum is "Become Your Office Superhero," because, while you may look like a mild mannered technical resource in meetings or at your desk, you fight a daily battle to protect your organization's data, improve performance and generate new business opportunities. COLLABORATE is your chance to recharge your superpowers and to take on new skills.
Posted April 02, 2014
Attunity has launched Maestro, a new big data platform designed to simplify mapping, executing and managing the flow of data between heterogeneous systems—both analytical and operational/transactional systems—to help organizations provide the right information to the right system when it is needed.
Posted April 02, 2014
SAP has officially announced Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 16, a major release of the company's RDBMS, as well as Replication Server, 15.7 SP200 which includes synchronous replication for HA/DR for SAP Business Suite on ASE. It has been 9 years since Sybase (acquired by SAP in 2010) announced ASE 15 in August 2005. With the new release, said Dan Lahl, SAP VP, Database & Technology Marketing, SAP is providing "the right system of record that is going to be able to handle the new world of transaction processing."
Posted April 02, 2014
Attunity Replicate, a data replication and loading solution, has introduced new support for MySQL as a source and target as well as for multiple non-relational sources including Enscribe, RMS, IMS, and VSAM.
Posted April 02, 2014
Continuent, Inc., a provider of open source database clustering and replication solutions, has announced the availability of Continuent Tungsten Replicator 3.0, an open source replication solution for Hadoop.
Posted April 01, 2014
A new Development Milestone Release for MySQL 5.7, as well as other MySQL product releases and early access features, has been announced by Oracle. With MySQL 5.7.4 DMR, the open source database is twice as fast as the previous version.
Posted April 01, 2014
To support better access to big data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds, IBM is joining AT&T, Cisco, GE, and Intel as backers of the newly-formed Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). "IBM's vision of a 'smarter planet' is being realized as we connect more of the physical world with the Internet, pairing the Internet of Things with advances in analytics, mobile and cloud computing in ways that lead to new insights and efficiencies that can be harnessed for competitive advantage," said Ron Ambrosio, distinguished engineer and CTO for smarter energy research at IBM.
Posted March 31, 2014