Providing expanded cloud services and enhanced compute and storage, the latest release of Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance - X4-2 - has been introduced. In order to save customers hours of labor and decrease the risk of physical and software configuration errors, the system arrives ready to run production workloads with little software-defined configuration, according to Oracle.
Posted April 30, 2014
BackOffice Associates' HiT Software division has announced that DBMoto version 8.2 includes support for SAP Sybase IQ, and support for Oracle Database 12c as a multitenant database with one or many pluggable databases;
Posted April 30, 2014
Melissa Data has introduced advancements in de-duplication of customer data. Based on the company's proprietary logic, Melissa Data's MatchUp Component for SQL Server Integration Services helps DBAs retain the best pieces of information from two or more duplicate records into a single, golden record
Posted April 29, 2014
CodeFutures has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent Office for its continuous replication technology that helps DBAs perform maintenance and other processing functions without downtime. CodeFutures' new patent provides the technology backbone for dbShards/Replicate, its replication and failover solution for enterprise databases.
Posted April 29, 2014
TIBCO Spotfire Spotfire 6.5 provides support for Esri Arc-GIS and WMS/WFS location data, making it easier to blend an organization's WMS and analytics strategies. The new release provides access to a range of demographic, climate, geographic, and other data sources, as well as map projections to support greater insight to location-based analyses.
Posted April 29, 2014
Dell and DataMotion have formed a partnership that will allow users of Dell SonicWALL email security solutions to exceed privacy standards with compliance-grade encryption capabilities for all emails and file attachments, right from their Outlook client.
Posted April 29, 2014
TIBCO Software Inc. says its acquisition of Jaspersoft Corp. accelerates its expansion into embedded business intelligence and reporting, giving the company the portfolio needed to address two fast-growing segments of the business intelligence market.
Posted April 28, 2014
It was a tough first quarter for IBM, including soft mainframe sales. Overall, the company saw first quarter revenues of $22.5 billion, down 4% from the first quarter of 2013. Net income was $2.4 billion, down 21% year-to-year.
Posted April 28, 2014
New Power Systems servers from IBM enable data centers to manage big data at high speeds, all built on an open server platform. Built on IBM's Power8 technology and designed for managing large data stores, the new scale-out IBM Power Systems servers culminate a $2.4 billion investment, three-plus years of development, and exploit the innovation of hundreds of IBM patents.
Posted April 28, 2014
FalconStor Software has signed a reseller agreement allowing X-IO, an enterprise storage provider, to package and sell FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS). By combining X-IO's Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) solutions with FalconStor NSS, customers will have access to a flash-enabled storage solution that includes data protection and DR solutions.
Posted April 28, 2014
BMC has unveiled a new collaboration console to help development teams design batch workflows that are easier for operations teams to implement while providing built-in workload automation. "We're bringing developers and IT operations together for the first time to streamline the process," said Gur Steif, president of workload automation at BMC Software.
Posted April 28, 2014
Anew version of EMC Disk Library for mainframe (Dlm) offers improved performance, enhanced usability and more storage choices. DLm release 4.1 provides for simplification of D/R testing for EMC VNX based Dlms, single drive performance improvements, deeper operational insights, and IPv6 compliance.
Posted April 28, 2014
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, has launched NaviCloud Vault: Data Domain, which provides an on-demand, cloud-based model to scale off-site storage capacity.
Posted April 28, 2014
Splunk is shipping a new version of its virtual environment reporting app. Version 3.1 of the Splunk App for VMware includes 200 out-of-the-box reports, the ability to identify outliers for real-time triage, and built-in correlation into storage systems including a direct drill-down into data from NetApp Data ONTAP.
Posted April 28, 2014
Leveraging Dell Boomi AtomSphere's single-instance, multi-tenant architecture to gain deep insight into customer usage metrics, the spring 2014 release of the integration platform offers new features, including Boomi Resolve, which helps users solve common errors quickly by automatically listing possible solutions in order of relevancy, and Predictive Assistance, which integrates near-real-time customer usage metrics, to support optimization of the use of the Boomi integration platform.
Posted April 28, 2014
Big Data is Causing Companies to Rethink Their Data Strategies
Posted April 25, 2014
Helping data analysts and business users make better data-driven decisions, Alteryx Analytics 9.0 enables the blending of new and established sources of data such as social media feeds, Google Analytics, Marketo, and SAS Analytics.
Posted April 24, 2014
The Dell PowerEdge R920 server, the company's highest performing server, has achieved certification for SAP HANA, and initial SAP workload testing shows a world record 4-socket Linux benchmark.
Posted April 24, 2014
BackOffice Associates' HiT Software division has announced that DBMoto version 8.2 includes support for SAP Sybase IQ, and support for Oracle Database 12c as a multitenant database with one or many pluggable databases;
Posted April 24, 2014
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud now offers applications such as SAP Business Suite, the SAP Business Warehouse application and the SAP HANA platform on a subscription model. New subscription offerings not only emphasize the company's commitment but also increase the choice and simplicity for customers to deploy HANA, according to SAP.
Posted April 24, 2014
With its acquisition of Fieldglass, which provides a cloud-based Vendor Management System (VMS) solution, SAP is addressing a growing need for flexible workforce management. Citing industry estimates that contingent labor and statement-of-work services is a $3.3 trillion market on a fast upward trajectory, SAP says that companies are increasingly moving to variable operating models that enable them to scale their infrastructure, talent and expertise up and down to accommodate changes in business requirements.
Posted April 24, 2014
Vote for Best Relational Database in the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards
Posted April 23, 2014
Vote for Best Hadoop Solution in the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards
Posted April 23, 2014
What's the Best Cloud Database? It Depends Who You Ask
Posted April 23, 2014
Vote for Best NoSQL Database in the DBTA Readers' Choice Awards
Posted April 23, 2014
Supporting a ‘develop once, deploy anywhere' approach, BlueFinity International has launched Evoke, a new product that provides developers with a toolset for all application delivery platforms.
Posted April 23, 2014
Entrinsik, developer of Informer agile operational reporting and business intelligence software, has formed a partnership with SugarCRM, provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Delivered with pre-configured mappings and sample reports, Informer software provides real-time reporting, data analysis and interactive dashboards to extend the value of customers' SugarCRM systems.
Posted April 23, 2014
The latest version of Rocket Aldon LM has built-in U2 Support for Rocket UniData and Rocket UniVerse including Programs, Data Dictionary Items, Schema Changes, TCL, wIntegrate, AE, and ED. Aldon LM simplifies audit compliance, facilitates task and backlog management, enforces quality standards, and secures and manages access to software assets. Rocket is hosting a one-hour webinar to showcase the product features on Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 8 am PT / 9 am MT / 10 am CT / 11 am ET.
Posted April 23, 2014
TEKsystems, an IT staffing solutions provider, says that employers are finding it increasingly difficult to hire business intelligence and security experts.
Posted April 23, 2014
Hadoop distribution companies Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR have joined a new Big Data Protection Partner Program launched by Dataguise, a provider of data privacy protection and risk management analytics.
Posted April 22, 2014
Leveraging Dell Boomi AtomSphere's single-instance, multi-tenant architecture to gain deep insight into customer usage metrics, the spring 2014 release of the integration platform offers new features, including Boomi Resolve, which helps users solve common errors quickly by automatically listing possible solutions in order of relevancy, and Predictive Assistance, which integrates near-real-time customer usage metrics, to support optimization of the use of the Boomi integration platform.
Posted April 22, 2014
Centerprise Rt, cloud-based data integration software from Astera Software can integrate complex, hierarchical and unstructured data. The software can be used by companies to businesses to create web services that integrate and share data of any complexity with their partners, customers and vendors, and suppliers, making important data accessible via the web on a 24/7 basis.
Posted April 22, 2014
Datawatch's visual data discovery solution has added new capabilities to make developing and deploying visualizations faster and more effective. Among the key new features in the Datawatch 12.3 release of the Datawatch solution are predictive and advanced analytics with built-in support for R and Python execution and transforms; and high-performance, in-memory caching of data to support big data and sub-optimized databases.
Posted April 22, 2014
New Technologies for Real-Time Analytics - Webinar on Thursday, April 17, at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET
Posted April 16, 2014
Enhancing its portfolio of enterprise cloud services, Oracle has introduced two new services, Oracle Database Backup Service and Oracle Storage Cloud Service. According to Rex Wang, vice president, Product Marketing, Oracle, the new services help simplify IT, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation to drive competitive advantage.
Posted April 16, 2014
Twitter is acquiring Gnip, a provider of social data and a long-standing Twitter data partner. "Together we plan to offer more sophisticated data sets and better data enrichments, so that even more developers and businesses big and small around the world can drive innovation using the unique content that is shared on Twitter," said Jana Messerschmidt, Twitter VP, Global Business Development & Platform, in a blog announcing the acquisition.
Posted April 15, 2014
2014 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards: It's Time to Cast Your Vote!
Posted April 15, 2014
Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of software solutions for application and database development, has launched Embarcadero RAD Studio XE6, a multi-device, natively compiled app development platform for Windows, Android, iOS, and Mac.
Posted April 15, 2014
MapR has added the complete Apache Spark technology stack to the MapR Distribution for Hadoop. Spark is an Spark is an in-memory processing framework that provides speed, programming ease, and advantages for real-time processing.
Posted April 15, 2014
IBM's latest enterprise cloud offerings for the mainframe include the first System z-based integrated system offering, the IBM Enterprise Cloud System. There is also a new flexible utility pricing model to give service providers the ability to pay for Linux-based mainframe cloud infrastructure over time based on compute consumption, rather than system capacity.
Posted April 14, 2014
New offerings for IBM System z are aimed at helping customers with rapid development and deployment of mobile applications as well as the ability to integrate them with core business processes, applications, and data. As part of this effort, As part IBM is enabling the industry's first commercial Hadoop for Linux on System z - zDoop software - provided through through Veristorm, an IBM partner.
Posted April 14, 2014
Red Hat is collaborating with Google to enable Red Hat customers to move eligible Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to Google Compute Engine using Red Hat Cloud Access. Google, which joined the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program in December 2013, is the second Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider to earn designation as a Red Hat Cloud Access-enabled partner.
Posted April 14, 2014
SUSE has introduced the Starter System for System z to make SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for System z installation quicker and easier. The system enables customers to do mainframe Linux proof-of-concepts with existing IT skills, according to the company.
Posted April 14, 2014
Fujitsu has begun shipping a multi-processor server configuration intended to support high availability environments. The x86 FUJITSU Server PRIMEQUEST 2000 series is comprised of five models, based on the Intel Xeon Processor E7 v2 family.
Posted April 14, 2014
With cloud, outsourcing and BYOD posing new challenges to ensuring authorized access to data, Oracle introduced enhancements to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 that are aimed at helping organizations extend access policies and controls beyond enterprise applications and systems to cloud-based systems and mobile devices.
Posted April 14, 2014
With cloud, outsourcing and BYOD posing new challenges to ensuring authorized access to data, Oracle introduced enhancements to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 that are aimed at helping organizations extend access policies and controls beyond enterprise applications and systems to cloud-based systems and mobile devices.
Posted April 11, 2014
TEKsystems, an IT staffing solutions provider, says that employers are finding it increasingly difficult to hire business intelligence and security experts.
Posted April 11, 2014
To accommodate its expanding customer base, the safety science organization UL overhauled its IT infrastructure, implementing Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle E-Business Suite. The result? The new IT environment runs up to 10 times faster than UL's previous environment, allowing UL to more quickly deliver information to its customers and drive better decision-making.
Posted April 10, 2014
A new product in the Enterprise PPM space has been introduced by Oracle. Primavera Prime is a fully integrated modular solution built on Oracle's Red Stack. The product platform is mobile ready, offers embedded analytics and has built in workflows.
Posted April 10, 2014
Calypso Technology, Inc., an integrated capital markets platform provider, announced that Calypso version 14 has achieved Oracle Exadata Optimized status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). According to Tej Sidhu, senior vice president for Engineering and CTO at Calypso Technology, in simulations of data-intensive straight through-processing tasks, Calypso achieved performance gains of up to 500% using Exadata hardware.
Posted April 10, 2014