New Products Worthy of Your Attention

Sybase, a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, announced the availability of its Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition, featuring patent-pending virtualized resource management (VRM) technology that reduces the complexity of deploying a database application across a shared disk server cluster, and helps customers meet service level agreements for performance and availability, while also reducing hardware and power costs through optimal resource utilization. www.sybase.com

In what company officials are describing as its biggest release in its history, Business Objects, an SAP company and a provider of business performance optimization solutions, has announced BusinessObjects XI 3.0. A single, enterprise-scale platform, BusinessObjects XI 3.0 is intended to help ensure that all people connected with an organization can have access to the information they need. “It is a fundamentally new release of our entire platform,” Franz Aman, vice president, business intelligence platform product marketing, Business Objects, told DBTA. www.businessobjects.com

IBM has introduced the IBM Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control, an integrated offering that combines software, hardware and services in a unified environment to help organizations achieve and prove compliance with multiple legal and compliance mandates. The IBM Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control features an information vault for storing all required evidence, complemented by tools that automatically identify, classify and aggregate content and process information from multiple sources, and allow organizations to analyze, monitor and deliver that information for legal and operational purposes. www.ibm.com

Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), developer of a new generation of Open Mainframe servers, announced the launch of its System64 MS at the SHARE user conference. System64 joins the previously announced System64 DS and ES, and is targeted at the SMB mainframe market and larger organizations that require additional capacity for data centers strained by power cooling and floor space requirements. www.platform-solutions.com

Denodo Technologies, a provider of enterprise data mashups software, introduced a new release of the Denodo Platform, a unified data integration platform able to access, extract and merge data across any digital source to create enterprise applications. By building relevance across structured, unstructured and Web data sources, the Denodo Platform allows organizations to combine and query data sources in ways not possible before, according to the vendor. www.denodo.com

Varonis Systems, a provider of comprehensive, data governance software, has announced the availability of DatAdvantage version 3.5, which extends support to Unix environments. “We have parlayed our expertise in culling information from file systems and brought it to the Unix environment,” Johnnie Konstantas, vice president of marketing at Varonis, told DBTA. Varonis DatAdvantage offers the visibility, auditing and recommendations required to ensure unstructured Unix-based data is accessible for appropriate business needs only. www.varonis.com

Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software has introduced release 6.5 of Sagent Data Flow, a data management solution that offers both ETL and BI in a single integrated product. Sagent Data Flow v6.5 has a new user interface and enterprise-class capabilities designed to improve development productivity, enhance compliance reporting and facilitate global adoption across the enterprise. www.g1.com

Daptiv, a leader in collaborative business software, and Pervasive Software, a leader in embeddable data management and agile integration software, have announced a partnership to provide integration between Daptiv PPM, a project portfolio management solution, and a variety of enterprise systems. The new solution, Daptiv Connect, is intended to enable businesses to gain a holistic view of the spectrum of work across their enterprise and connect Daptiv's SaaS-based solution with both SaaS and on-premise software. www.daptiv.com and www.pervasive.com

Aperture, a provider of data center infrastructure management software, announced it is shipping a handheld data capture device that works with Aperture VISTA, its data center management system. Aperture VISTA Data Capture Handheld is aimed at helping data center managers accurately collect detailed information about equipment and resources. www.aperture.com

Greenplum, a provider of database software for business intelligence, announced general availability of Greenplum Database 3.0 (G3). Greenplum Database is described by the company as the first open source-powered database software that can scale to support the demands of petabyte data warehousing, allowing organizations to analyze large amounts of business data 10 to 100 times faster and at lower cost than with traditional data warehouse solutions. Performance and scalability features in G3 include fully parallel loading, which enables the Greenplum database to load in excess of 3.5TB/hour, which is several times faster than any other competitive system, according to the vendor. www.greenplum.com

Apatar, a provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, announced the availability of StrikeIron Email Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new feature is designed to determine the validity of an email address or domain using StrikeIron Web Services. It allows Apatar users to easily cleanse customer data by validating and filtering emails extracted from databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), files (Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, CSV/TXT files), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds). www.apatar.com and www.strikeiron.com

Infobright, which is taking a new approach to data warehousing, announced Brighthouse 3.0, the newest release of its next-generation analytic data warehouse. The release features an enhanced version of Infobright’s patent-pending Knowledge Grid, enabling users to achieve more than a 100-fold improvement in performance over previous versions. Brighthouse 3.0 also provides enhanced support for ETL tools for faster and easier integration into customers’ IT environments. www.infobright.com

Symphoniq Corp., a provider of end-user performance monitoring, has begun shipping TrueView for SOA, a browser-based product designed to monitor distributed environments through every back-end application server and service, TrueView for SOA offers what the vendor describes as the first end-to-end Web application performance monitoring solution for SOA. www.symphoniq.com