New Products Worthy of Your Attention

At its Information On-Demand conference in The Hague today, IBM announced the availability of IBM solidDB, an in-memory relational database software that delivers performance-critical data up to 10 times faster than conventional database software. The new release is the first since IBM acquired Solid Information Technology around six months ago. www.ibm.com

Noetix Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence content from enterprise applications, has introduced Noetix Generator for Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition, the newest member of its generator line of products for BI platforms including Business Objects, Cognos and Oracle. www.noetix.com

Sybase, a provider of enterprise infrastructure, mobile software and mobile services, has announced the new Sybase Analytic Appliance, configured and tuned to provide extreme analytics and alleviate overburdened enterprise data warehouses, data marts and reporting systems. www.sybase.com

Oracle has announced the general availability of Release 1.5 of Oracle SQL Developer, its free and fully supported graphical tool for database development. “The latest release of Oracle SQL Developer delivers numerous feature enhancements across the board that improve the general usability of the software and overall productivity of its users, said Mike Hichwa, vice president of software development at Oracle. www.oracle.com

CA announced eight new and updated solutions that deliver on CA’s Enterprise IT Management vision to enable customers to govern, manage and secure their IT environments. CA’s new offerings include products for managing compliance and risk across mainframe and distributed computing environments; and products that build on CA’s latest advances in automation to enable enterprise IT organizations to implement consistent management policies and processes across computing platforms and organizational boundaries, streamline essential IT operations, and more readily implement best-practice frameworks such as ITIL and COBIT. www.ca.com

BakBone Software, a provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, has released a new version of NetVault: Backup Application Plugin Module for Oracle. BakBone simplifies the advanced backup and recovery features of Oracle with automated GUIs and the integration of backup devices, which allows non-Oracle administrators to manage Oracle data protection without having to learn Oracle internals or create scripts. www.bakbone.com

In what officials described as a very significant announcement, Spotfire, a division of TIBCO Software, has announced TIBCO Spotfire Operations Analytics, which allows customers to deploy real-time process-specific analytics applications and streamline business process control across the organization. The new software embeds event processing into Spotfire’s business intelligence platform. spotfire.tibco.com

Confio Software, a leader in wait-time database performance management tools, has announced “performance intelligence,” a new method of performance analysis that analyzes more than 13 dimensions of wait-time data to identify the source of delays for database applications. In conjunction with these enhancements, Confio has released a major new version of the Igniter Suite called Confio Igniter Suite PI. Confio Ignite PI for SQL Server, the suite's first product, is now available. www.confio.com

SpringSource, the company behind Spring Portfolio, an enterprise Java application platform, has announced the SpringSource Application Platform, an enterprise Java application server that the company says provides a simpler alternative to legacy application servers. www.springsource.com

Panorama Software, a leader in business intelligence, which recently announced a strategic partnership to provide Google Docs with a business intelligence and visualization capability, has unveiled a new solution for the enterprise level market. The beta version of its newly developed functionality for Google Docs supports of its first enterprise data source - Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. www.panorama.com

HP unveiled a new release of its HP Neoview data warehouse solution that provides companies with broader access to real-time business information to improve insight and decision-making. www.hp.com

Vertica, the developer of a grid-based, column-oriented analytic database technology, has debuted the Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud, a new, on-demand version of its grid-enabled columnar database hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. The new pay-as-you-go offering enables companies to create large, high-performance analytic data marts without upfront data center costs and delays. www.vertica.com

Software Diversified Services introduced a new version of the Vital Signs IP Monitor for z/OS mainframe networks, providing administrators of z/OS networks with real-time and historical monitoring of TCP/IP Sysplex Distributors and SNA-HPR network traffic, and with accurate route information for Enterprise Extender connections. www.sdsusa.com

NEON Enterprise Software, a provider of enterprise data management solutions, has announced that NEON Eclipse Reorganization Utilities now support IBM's z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). By offloading more than 70 percent of processing to IBM's zIIP, the company states, the NEON products provide a cost-effective solution for IMS database maintenance. www.neonesoft.com

IONA Technologies, a provider of distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, introduced the latest release of Artix Data Services, an open and standards-based development tool for building model-driven data services, and a key component of IONA’s Artix advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Enhancements within the latest release simplify data interoperability for messaging and SOA projects with improved productivity for developing, testing and deploying messaging data services, enhanced data model collaboration features and broader platform support. www.iona.com