At VMworld going on in San Francisco this week, Unitrends, a provider of enterprise-level cloud recovery, introduced Unitrends Free support for the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi).
Posted August 31, 2015
The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) has formed a new Mobile Apps for EBS Special Interest Group (SIG) to provide timely information about the various Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Applications released by Oracle. The SIG enables users to more effectively share educational information and best practices related to all mobile apps for the various modules of Oracle E-Business Suite.
Posted August 31, 2015
Embarcadero Unveils RAD Studio 10 Seattle to Help Developers Move Applications to Windows 10
Posted August 31, 2015
SGI, a provider of high performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, announced that its SGI UV 300H is now certified to run the SAP HANA platform in controlled availability at 20-sockets - delivering up to 15 terabytes (TB) of in-memory computing capacity in a single node. Being integrated with the recently announced SAP HANA SPS10, the SGI UV 300H capitalizes on deep collaboration between SAP, Intel, and SGI to optimize SAP HANA-based workloads on multicore NUMA (non-uniform memory access) systems.
Posted August 26, 2015
OpenText, a company specializing in enterprise information management, is partnering with SAP SE to provide B2B managed services and capabilities to multinational enterprises. Together with Ariba, an SAP company, OpenText will provide customers with a solution that enables them to improve time to revenue, reduce costs, and help to advance the digital transformation that today's leaders are undertaking, according to OpenText.
Posted August 26, 2015
SAP SE is offering an on-premise 30-day trial edition for SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA. The trial edition spans end-to-end digitized business processes in finance, procurement, sales, and manufacturing.
Posted August 26, 2015
Highlighting its commitment and renewed focus of customer user experience, SAP recently conducted an app development competition. The challenge of developing SAP Fiori apps on the openSAP platform inspired thousands of participants to work within the context of their individual experiences to build for their own use cases, according to SAP.
Posted August 26, 2015
SUSE has announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is now available to support IBM Power Systems running the SAP HANA platform. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server will allow customers to take advantage of IBM's recently introduced series of Power Systems Solution Editions for SAP HANA.
Posted August 26, 2015
Kore Technologies has announced the release of version 5.4 KommerceServer eCommerce Suite. KommerceServer eCommerce Suite includes a storefront, customer portal, and mobile edition, and is engineered to integrate with any back office ERP system (e.g., Epicor Eclipse, Prelude, Infor LN and more). This release benefits both the customer and the e-commerce administrator.
Posted August 26, 2015
DBTA Reader's Choice Awards Crown Best MultiValue Database
Posted August 26, 2015
Entrinsik has announced a partnership with Ticomix to help companies enhance their customer relationships and improve business results. This partnership will offer Ticomix customers the ability to integrate Informer with SugarCRM to provide organizations with the ability to perform multidimensional reporting and advanced data analysis in order to better track, understand and manage their SugarCRM data with Informer.
Posted August 26, 2015
Revelation Software is preparing for the introduction of OpenInsight 10, the most significant release since Revelation took OpenInsight into the 32-bit world. To provide information to its user base in advance of the new release, Revelation has announced a Revelation Users Group (RUG) meeting in the EMEA region.
Posted August 26, 2015
BlueData is undergoing two big changes that will augment its infrastructure software platform. The company is announcing a $20 million Series C funding round led by Intel Capital and a partnership with Intel that will blend together BlueData's infrastructure software for big data with the data center architecture based on Intel Xeon processor technology.
Posted August 25, 2015
IBM Supports Journey Through Space with Apache Spark
Posted August 24, 2015
Hortonworks, a provider of enterprise Hadoop, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onyara, Inc., the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi, an open source project. The acquisition will make it easy for customers to automate and secure data flows fueling the fueling the "Internet of Anything (IoAT)" and to collect, conduct and curate real-time business insights and actions derived from data in motion. As a result of the acquisition, Hortonworks is introducing Hortonworks DataFlow powered by Apache NiFi, which was made available through the NSA Technology Transfer Program in the fall of 2014. The Hortonworks acquisition of Onyara is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.
Posted August 24, 2015
Basho Technologies, the creator and developer of Riak software, has announced that, in collaboration with Cisco, it has developed a framework enabling the Riak KV NoSQL database to run on Apache Mesos, bringing operational efficiency and high-elasticity to big data services. "The goal is to try and simplify and make it easy for clients to get business solutions as quickly as possible instead of worrying about the distributed data tier," said Adam Wray, CEO of Basho.
Posted August 24, 2015
ScaleArc is acquiring ScaleBase in an effort to enhance its database load balancing solutions with sharding technology. By incorporating ScaleBase's technology and Intellectual Property ScaleArc's offerings will broaden around application availability and zero downtime for enterprise application.
Posted August 24, 2015
Ricoh Company, Ltd, the printing and document management company, is using Oracle's SPARC T5 servers with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances and Oracle Database to analyze data from RICOH @Remote, its real-time support service for customers in more than 100 countries and regions. To unify the data across the company for accurate views and analysis, Ricoh built a private cloud accessible by the entire remote service group that allows high speed access from internal networks.
Posted August 19, 2015
Database Skills More Important Than Ever in Emerging Digital Enterprises
Posted August 19, 2015
The Independent Oracle Users Group is headed to San Francisco this October to join the Oracle technology community at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. Representing the voice of Oracle technology professionals, IOUG members will present more than 35 sessions on critical Oracle technology topics, including big data, cloud, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, and more. There is a lot to discuss with the Oracle database and technology community, and I am looking forward to connecting with Oracle professionals with similar interests to address challenges and solutions face-to-face.
Posted August 19, 2015
Datameer, which offers a big data analytics application purpose-built for Hadoop, has closed a $40 million round of financing. ST Telemedia (STT) led the round, joined by Top Tier Capital Partners (TTCP) and participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Redpoint, Next World Capital, Software AG and Citi Ventures.
Posted August 18, 2015
Innovative Routines International (IRI) has released an enterprise-class, data-centric protection solution for corporations storing personally identifying information (PII) in Excel 2010 and 2013 spreadsheets. The IRI CellShield Enterprise Edition provides a full-featured, professional compliance package for Excel workbooks that can locate and automatically protect sensitive data across a network.
Posted August 18, 2015
BMC is offering a new strategy called Digital Enterprise Management (DEM) that provides solutions for orchestrating IT transformation so IT professionals can rapidly innovate and move in real time while keeping their enterprise secure and existing legacy systems operational.
Posted August 18, 2015
HP is enhancing its Vertica platform to allow organizations to quickly ingest and analyze high-speed streaming data from various sources, including IoT applications. The new version of Vertica, dubbed "Excavator," is integrated with Apache Kafka to allow organizations to analyze volumes of data in real-time.
Posted August 18, 2015
Pepperdata has arrived on the big data scene with the goal of controlling workflows in Hadoop to optimize cluster performance. Pepperdata's solution, called Pepperdata Supervisor, installs quickly and seamlessly, ensures SLAs, and prioritizes jobs and resources so that mission-critical jobs get priority, according to Sean Suchter, co-founder and CEO of Pepperdata.
Posted August 18, 2015
Platform9, which provides an OpenStack powered service that allows an organization to turn its existing servers into a self-service private cloud, has announced general availability of Platform9 Managed OpenStack for VMware vSphere environments. The new solution enables interoperability of OpenStack with VMware vSphere and is intended to facilitate OpenStack adoption among VMware customers.
Posted August 18, 2015
To support developers and operations professionals in their push to implement DevOps principles for their infrastructure environments, ProfitBricks, a provider of cloud infrastructure, is adding support for DevOps tools Ansible and Chef. Ansible is a platform for configuring and managing data center infrastructure that combines multi-node software deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management, and is used by DevOps professionals as they use its playbooks functionality to automate cloud infrastructure. Chef, which is written in the Ruby programming language, makes it easier to manage complex infrastructure and the applications running on it.
Posted August 18, 2015
Hundreds of enterprise IT professionals converged in Orlando, August 9th-14th, for the annual SHARE summer conference, which featured more than 500 educational sessions. "Mainframe data is growing tremendously and companies want to utilize it," said James Vincent, president of SHARE. "They are investing in data analytics," he added. "But data security and privacy are really growing in importance."
Posted August 17, 2015
IBM today announced a significant expansion of the mainframe's strategy of embracing open source-based technologies and open communities. The company disclosed it is shipping two Linux mainframe servers - called LinuxONE - which the company brands as "the most secure Linux servers in the industry." The company also announced it is ramping up its support for open source offerings on its mainframe systems.
Posted August 17, 2015
Software Diversified Services announced it is shipping an enhanced version of its mainframe management tool suite, designed to improve system monitoring, problem resolution, and capacity capping to manage expenses. SDS' latest VitalSigns suite of z/OS management and security software includes a number of new components intended to provide greater real-time monitoring of systems.
Posted August 17, 2015
Syncsort, a mainframe software provider, announced new software innovations designed to further take advantage of IBM z Systems zIIP processors to improve performance, reduce MIPS usage and lower costs.
Posted August 17, 2015
Melissa Data has introduced data quality integration for Microsoft Dynamics CRM to simplify global address verification for enterprise users. Available as a pre-integrated package with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the Melissa Data plugin enables global address verification capabilities without complex programming or development resources.
Posted August 11, 2015
RethinkDB is updating its solution to support an automatic failover feature, enabling clusters to automatically select a substitute machine if one fails giving enterprise-class reliability to mitigate downtime and production errors.
Posted August 11, 2015
Paxata is releasing an updated version of its Adaptive Data Preparation platform, addressing critical enterprise-grade security, manageability and performance functionality. "We are becoming a critical part of the enterprise fabric," said Nenshad Bardoliwalla, co-founder and vice president of products at Paxata. "Data preparation is becoming a mission-critical enterprise capability."
Posted August 11, 2015
Data integration software provider Informatica has been acquired by a company controlled by the Permira funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). Microsoft Corporation and Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce's corporate investment group, are also strategic investors in the company alongside the Permira funds and CPPIB. In making the announcement, Informatica said the new ownership would allow it continue to grow while taking a longer view rather than focusing on quarters.
Posted August 11, 2015
Google, whose name became synonymous with internet search, is reorganizing to maintain its innovation and competitiveness. The company is creating a new public holding company called Alphabet, with Google as well as other companies, housed within the new structure. According to Larry Page, CEO of Google, the reorganization is part of an effort to avoid getting "too comfortable," observing in a blog post that in the tech industry, "where revolutionary ideas drive the next big growth areas, you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.
Posted August 11, 2015
Cirba Inc., a provider of software-defined infrastructure control solutions, is now supporting NetApp storage solutions, enabling organizations to optimize a variety of storage resources. Customers will be able to use NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) to leverage Cirba to place VMs and achieve visibility into storage requirements and health.
Posted August 07, 2015
Lavastorm Analytics has launched an update to its analytics engine that builds upon its self-service software for enterprises, providing a seamless way of sharing governed data analytical flows.
Posted August 07, 2015
Following up on the April 2014 announcement of Solaris 11.2, a modern cloud platform including a full OpenStack distribution, Oracle now plans to integrate Docker into Oracle Solaris.
Posted August 05, 2015
The Oracle Database In-Memory has been certified by SAP for use with SAP solutions based on the SAP NetWeaver 7.x technology platform. This move continues the longstanding collaboration between Oracle and SAP to enable SAP software to run together with Oracle technologies.
Posted August 05, 2015
Making Data Security Easier to Make It More Effective
Posted August 05, 2015
Hortonworks, which provides and enterprise distribution of Hadoop, has signed a reseller agreement with EMC, to become a Select partner in EMC's Technology Connect Partner Program.
Posted August 04, 2015
Seagate Technology plc, a provider of storage solutions, has extended its alliance agreement with HP to equip its high performance computing (HPC) solutions with ClusterStor scale-out storage capabilities. Building on an existing partnership, HP will resell Seagate's ClusterStor 1500 and 9000 appliances along with its HPC solutions.
Posted August 03, 2015
IBM announced a new platform for developers to collaborate with IBM on a newly released set of open source technologies. These consist of 50 projects focusing on cloud innovations around mobile, analytics and other high-growth areas.
Posted August 03, 2015
IBM launched a new program intended to mentor and energize students to innovate using IBM Cloud technologies. The program, called the Academic Initiative for Cloud, will create cloud development curricula using Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service, in over 200 universities, reaching more than 20,000 students in 36 countries. The company also announced a series of industry Hackathons reaching tens of thousands of new developers and a set of diversity programs for women coders.
Posted August 03, 2015
Serena Software, a provider of application development and delivery solutions, announced new application definition and development solutions designed to speed application delivery. These include new versions of requirements management and software change and configuration management solutions in use today: Dimensions RM version 12.3 and Dimensions CM 14.2.
Posted August 03, 2015
Virima Technologies, a provider of data center transformation services and software, is offering a bundled services and application offering that provides IT organizations with an inventory of their complex asset environments. The solution, called FastPath Discovery Package, combines Virima's IT asset discovery application and cloud-based configuration management database with the company's asset inventory and data center transformation consultant team.
Posted August 03, 2015
Yellowfin has signed 15 value added reseller (VAR) agreements, helping to sell and market its business intelligence solution.
Posted July 31, 2015
Denodo, a provider of data virtualization software, formed a technology partnership with Tableau Software, which offers software for analyzing and visualizing data. As a part of the relationship, Denodo is delivering the "Denodo Tableau Data Extract (TDE) Exporter Tool," which will improve the performance and management of data to enable data exploration and self-service BI and analytics. According to the vendors, the enhanced integration between the two technologies will enable IT departments to easily provision reusable and integrated data services while enabling enterprise data consumers to analyze, visualize and share information.
Posted July 30, 2015
DBTA Webcast on How to Take Advantage Of Hadoop's Growing Ecosystem
Posted July 29, 2015