New Products Worthy of Your Attention

IBM has introduced a suite of integrated software to help customers better manage the performance of IBM data warehouses. The new DB2 Warehouse Performance Management Suite provides advanced capabilities for reporting and analysis of data and system utilization that will help enterprises more quickly and easily deploy, manage and scale business intelligence and data warehouse applications. And in a relatively unusual arrangement for IBM, to further the capabilities of DB2 Warehouse Performance Management suite, the company has partnered with Appfluent Technology to deliver a solution that combines the performance optimization feature already available in DB2 Warehouse with the new performance monitoring feature that takes advantage of Appfluent’s monitoring and workload analysis software. www.ibm.com/bi and www.appfluent.com

Quest Software has announced the beta release of LiteSpeed 5.0. Part of Quest’s comprehensive database portfolio, LiteSpeed is a backup and recovery solution that allows DBAs to optimize their processes, minimize downtime and mitigate risk, while maintaining control over their environment. LiteSpeed 5.0 “is probably our biggest release ever since the launch of the product,” said Douglas Chrystall, inventor of LiteSpeed, who is selecting an exclusive group of product testers to participate in the beta program. www.quest.com/litespeed-for-sql-server

Database-Brothers, Inc. (DBI), a highly-specialized company focused exclusively on database performance and auditing, announced Brother-Thoroughbred, which gives organizations the ability to identify the source of performance problems in a database and quickly understand any potential impact performance resolution may have on service level attainments (SLAs). Brother-Thoroughbred is integrated with and a separate add-on component to the company’s Brother-Panther performance analysis, tuning, and change management solution. www.Brother-Thoroughbred.com

Opalis Software, a provider of run book automation (RBA), has announced the availability of version 5.4 of the Opalis Integration Server. The release includes new capabilities for automating, integrating, and orchestrating IT processes within the data center. www.opalis.com

Ingrian Networks, a provider of data privacy solutions, introduced the Ingrian Standard Utilities Bundle to provide customers with easy-to-use features throughout the entire encryption lifecycle. Ingrian DataSecure protects structured and unstructured data at the data center and out to remote locations. The new utilities optimize efficiency of the DataSecure appliance; minimize installation time and costs, and post-deployment administration by discovering, classifying, protecting and managing sensitive data. Utilities in the bundle can be deployed together or independently of one another depending on the needs of the enterprise. www.ingrian.com

HP has announced new database archiving software for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0, and new quality management software for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. www.hp.com/go/oracle

Application Security, a provider of database security solutions, has announced DbProtect, which the company says is the first database security suite to provide support for Oracle Database 11g available on the Windows platform. With this release, DbProtect will accurately discover 11g instances and test their configuration to ensure secure settings upon deployment and beyond. www.appsecinc.com

HiQube a new business intelligence (BI) software company has announced the worldwide availability of HiQube, its high-performance BI platform. HiQube combines three BI database technologies to deliver a solution that handles extremely large datasets while remaining fast and flexible. www.hiqube.com

WaveMaker (formerly known as ActiveGrid) has announced its new WaveMaker Visual Assembly Studio and Rapid Deployment Framework for Enterprise Web 2.0 applications. WaveMaker enables the visual assembly of scalable Web applications using AJAX widgets, Web services and databases. Using WaveMaker, organizations can utilize innovative Web 2.0 technologies while adhering to the architectural, security and data policies of CIOs. www.wavemaker.com