http://www...comRSS feeds from DBTA.comAll Content Copyright 1998-2010, DataBase Trends and Applications, a Division of Information Today Inc.60http://www.dbta.com/Images/RSS.gifhttp://www.dbta.comWed, 22 Feb 2012 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80786http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80786Rocket U2 has announced the availability of new offerings, including the U2 DBTools package, U2 RESTful Web Services, and wIntegrate v. 6.3. In addition, the dates have been finalized for U2 University, with the U.S. event taking place in downtown Denver May 8 to May 10, followed by the U.K. event from June 26 to 28, and the Australia event scheduled for August 14 to 16.Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80787http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80787InterSystems will hold its annual Global Summit, March 18-21, at the Peabody Orlando in Florida. The Global Summit is composed of three conferences: the Developer Conference, the Executive Leadership Conference, and the Healthcare Leadership Conference.Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80788http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80788Entrinsik plans to showcase its new Informer dashboard product at its upcoming Informer User Conference (ICON), March 4-6 at the Raleigh Marriott City Center in Raleigh, NC. In addition, Entrinsik has also announced its first annual Operational Business Intelligence Awards for users who have applied Informer's capabilities to improve operational efficiency.Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80789http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80789Revelation Software has announced new features as well as patches and enhancements that will be added in OpenInsight (OI) 9.3.1. The new release will include O4W 1.3 as well as the OI connector for OpenQM from LadyBridge Systems. In addition, Revelation has announced that its next user conference will be held in Nashville, Tenn., in April 2013.Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80804http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80804SAP AG has announced two new offerings that will offer the benefits of the SAP HANA platform to small businesses and midsize enterprises (SMEs). With analytics powered by SAP HANA for the SAP Business One application and SAP HANA, Edge edition, SMEs will be able to leverage in-memory technology from SAP. The new offerings from SAP aim to provide SMEs with real-time access to information tailored to their individual requirements. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80806http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80806Like TechWave 2011, TechWave will be co-located with SAP TechEd in 2012. This year's conference will be held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., October 15 to 19. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80807http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80807Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., has unveiled the 2012 edition of the Sybase Mobile Commerce Guide. "Mobile commerce is reaching a major inflection point," says John Sims, president, Sybase 365. "The developing world has quickly embraced mobile commerce based on a need to access financial services, and the developed world is catching up as regulators start to reform existing banking and transaction rules. Our guide captures practical, real-world depictions of mCommerce in action, which showcases the rapidly growing evolution of commerce within a robust and innovative mobile ecosystem." Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80808http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80808BMMsoft Corporation, a provider of real-time analytic software that automates the storing, integration, management and analysis of big data, has announced the availability of high-speed EDMT 9 for large enterprises, which it says can be deployed instantly and without intensive programming needed by other big data systems. The combination of EDMT 9, Sybase IQ 15.4 and HP Proliant DL 980 Server and cloud, on-premise or hybrid deployment offers the big data functionality to large enterprises that need quick deployment and can't spend time on long development projects, according to Paul Krneta, CTO of BMMsoft. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80727http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80727The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) has announced new programs in the 2012 OAUG Educational Series, a virtual learning series of webinars offered exclusively to OAUG members. "OAUG members consistently report that education is one of the primary reasons for being a member," said Mark Clark, president of the OAUG. "The OAUG Educational Series is a prime example of how our organization continually serves its members by offering informative training events throughout the year to help them reap the most benefit from their Oracle investment."Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80728http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80728Objectivity, Inc. has announced the availability of a new version of its graph database - InfiniteGraph 2.1. The release includes three key new features - a new Plug-in Framework, integrated Visualizer, and support for Tinkerpop Blueprints. The new features are designed to allow application developers to get up and running faster, make queries reusable, and receive query results interactively.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80743http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80743Linux may have faded to the back of the headlines, but there's no question it is a ubiquitous part of data centers across the globe. Our friends at Dice, the online IT recruiting site, in conjunction with The Linux Foundation, just reported that demand for Linux is growing fast as companies expand their IT operations.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80745http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80745UC4, a provider of IT process automation solutions, announced it is acquiring Ventum Solutions, a software provider specializing in enterprise release management. Application release automation is a key capability for organizations struggling with DevOps, IT as a Service, cloud and big data initiatives.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80746http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80746IBM has made several key enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3, including a new solid state drive (SSD) caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, and a new Apple iPhone app that lets people monitor their XIV storage environment from virtually anywhere.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80747http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80747Compuware Corporation, a technology performance tools provider, is shipping an application performance management (APM) solution for IBM WebSphere Message Broker. The solution, Compuware dynaTrace 4.1, incorporates enhanced user experience management capabilities, and enhances visualization and integrates with Compuware Gomez Real-User Monitoring-Data Center.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80748http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80748CA Technologies is offering new CA ERwin products and releases to help a wider range of users visualize data assets across the enterprise - from on-premise platforms to the cloud. The new solutions include CA ERwin Data Modeler for SQL Azure, ERwin Web Portal, and CA ERwin Data Modeler r8.2. CA ERwin data modeling tools are intended to provide a centralized, common view of business data in context to business and technical users.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80749http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80749HP announced a new offering that enables its partners to provide a branded solution to customers for application performance testing in the cloud. HP's LoadRunner-in-the-Cloud offering is intended to provide an on-demand service model of the cloud to help partner vendors deliver consumption-based performance testing of Web 2.0, AJAX, mobile and other applications to customers. The new offering complements HP's own solutions for performance validation, which span on-premise, software as a service and managed services.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80750http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80750Rocket Software, Inc. has acquired Zephyr Development Corporation, a Houston-based developer of terminal emulation software. Zephyr's product, PASSPORT, provides links between the Microsoft Windows operating systems and critical business applications running on IBM System z, IBM i, UNIX, Linux, and OpenVMS servers. Users include hundreds of global organizations in sectors including banking, insurance, government and healthcare.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80751http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80751Applied Software, Inc., a z/OS client/server software developer, has announced a new release of its mainframe-based encryption product for z/OS file encryption. Filegard version 5.0, currently available for beta test, is designed to provide centralized protection of encryption keys, and encryption support of multiple file formats and media.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80752http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80752EnterpriseDB, designer of enterprise PostgreSQL and Oracle compatibility products and services, has released the latest version of its Advanced Server platform, Postgres Plus 9.1. The latest update offers improvements in read performance and write scalability, as well as greater flexibility and reliability due to its transaction-level control over synchronous replication, an industry first. Postgres Plus Advanced Server 9.1 is also more secure than previous versions due to the addition of Virtual Private Database, and has expanded its Oracle-compatible features.Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80733http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80733Compuware Corporation is making available the 2012 issue of its Application Performance Almanac, which provides 400 pages of in-depth guidance and actionable information on how to leverage application performance management (APM) solutions to help organizations optimize performance across production, test and development environments. The guide should be of interest to anyone concerned about performance in production, test or development, according to Alois Reitbauer, dynaTrace Technology Strategist. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80739http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80739Composite Software has introduced version 6.1 of its Composite Data Virtualization Platform. The new release offers improved caching performance, expanded caching targets, data ship join for Teradata, and Hadoop MapReduce connectivity. Composite 6.1 also provides improvements to the data services development environment with an enhanced data services editor and new publishing options for Representational State Transfer (REST) and Open Data Protocol (OData) data services.Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80725http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80725At the TDWI 2012 Conference, Jaspersoft, a business intelligence (BI) software provider, announced an upgraded OEM agreement with Talend to include native connectors to Apache Hadoop big data environments in Jaspersoft ETL. With this enhanced ETL offering, Jaspersoft offers CIOs, data scientists, and BI builders the flexibility of three options to harness big data - direct reporting, direct real-time analysis, and batch analysis through ETL data mart access. "Today's data scientists want options to explore data faster," says Karl Van den Bergh, Jaspersoft's vice president of Product and Alliances.Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80642http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80642Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation, a provider of cloud-based talent management. Together, Oracle and Taleo intend to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee careers.Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80644http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80644Oracle has introduced MySQL Cluster 7.2, which is designed to cost-effectively deliver high availability, high write scalability and low latency for demanding web-based and communications products and services. "The performance and flexibility enhancements in MySQL Cluster 7.2 provide users with a solid foundation for their mission-critical web workloads, blending the best of SQL and NoSQL technologies to reduce risk, cost and complexity," says Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL Engineering, Oracle.Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:00:00 ESThttp://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80645http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=80645