Mobile Technology is Complicating Mainframe Management
Posted December 09, 2013
SOA Software, an API and SOA management tools provider, has undergone a series of audits by an independent Quality Security Assessor (QSA) to ensure that it met best practices and security controls needed to keep sensitive data secure during transit, processing and storage. As a result, SOA Software is now an 'Approved Service Provider' for major credit card brands.
Posted December 09, 2013
Vitria Technology, Inc. has introduced five new data analytics applications that simplify and accelerate real-time business activity monitoring in the cloud. According to the company, the apps allow business users to uncover, analyze, and act on actual business activity patterns, thus helping them tackle supply chain challenges, fraudulent financial transactions, delayed order fulfillment and shipments, online customer service issues, and suspicious people of interest in real-time, before a customer or the broader organization is affected.
Posted December 09, 2013
Serena Software, a provider of orchestrated application development and release management solutions, has announced Serena Release Manager v5. The new release automates application deployments, provides visibility, control and standardization of the release process, and supports coordination and collaboration for release teams.
Posted December 09, 2013
IT organizations see benefit in providing cloud services and database as a service in consolidation environments and in being able to deliver the needed business solutions quickly and cost-effectively. A first step to starting the journey to providing databases as a service is to consolidate database environments, and the Oracle Database 12c actually provides a great way to do just that.
Posted December 04, 2013
The latest release of CA ERwin Data Modeler, a solution for collaboratively visualizing and managing business data, addresses two major objectives - the need for organizations to manage more data across more platforms, and to easily share that data with an expanding number of users with a range of roles and skill sets.
Posted December 04, 2013
DBTA Webcast on How to Build Geo-Distributed Databases for Global Applications on Thursday, December 5
Posted December 03, 2013
Tableau 8.1, an update to Tableau Software's 8.0 release, delivers new features for the enterprise, sophisticated analytics, and more interactivity on the web and for mobile devices. The update also provides users with rich analytics by integrating with the open source statistics program, R.
Posted December 03, 2013
OpenText, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software, has announced Project Red Oxygen, which the company describes as a "harmonized" release of new EIM software advancements designed to give CIOs the ability to extract value from their enterprise information and accelerate competitive advantage.
Posted December 02, 2013
The Independent SAP Technical User Group (ISUG-TECH), has opened the call for papers for the 2014 ISUG-TECH conference, which will be held April 14-17 at the Hilton, Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. With a strong focus on SAP's database technologies, the conference will provide three days of technical content across all SAP products, including SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE), SAP Sybase Replication Server, SAP PowerBuilder, the SAP Mobile Platform and SAP HANA.
Posted November 27, 2013
Significant momentum for SAP Business Suite software on SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE) has developed in the year and a half since the offering's release in April 2012, according to SAP. The company says more than 1,000 customers have chosen to run SAP Business Suite on SAP Sybase ASE and there are more than 2,000 customer installations
Posted November 27, 2013
A new strategic OEM agreement between Rolta and SAP will enable Rolta to provide customers with business analytics and big data solutions designed to exploit SAP's database and technology portfolio.
Posted November 27, 2013
The latest release of CA ERwin Data Modeler, a solution for collaboratively visualizing and managing business data, addresses two major objectives - the need for organizations to manage more data across more platforms, and to easily share that data with an expanding number of users with a range of roles and skill sets.
Posted November 27, 2013
Temenos, a provider of solutions to the financial services industry, has announced that Arab Investment Bank - Egypt (AIBK) has selected T24, Temenos' core banking system to support its expansion plans. Since 2000, T24 has shipped exclusively with integrated jBASE One of the prerequisites for the Temenos T24 banking application is the jBASE open connectivity technology integrated with the banking functionality and coupled with an open database such as Oracle, IBM's DB2, Microsoft's SQL Server or jBASE, which provides clients with options in terms of future direction.
Posted November 27, 2013
Rocket Software's UniVerse 11.2 Adds Improvements for Developers and End Users
Posted November 27, 2013
The Linux Foundation, a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development, has completed the implemented of Entrinsik's Informer reporting and BI software in order to order to better track, understand and manage its SugarCRM data.
Posted November 27, 2013
With new HP Vertica Analytics Platform capabilities, organizations can now gain insight from new forms of data. As the seventh version of the platform, HP Vertica Crane includes significant security enhancements as well as enhanced integration with Hadoop.
Posted November 26, 2013
Syncsort has introduced its new ETL Hadoop offering for the cloud on Amazon Web Services. Syncsort Ironcluster brings Hadoop ETL to Amazon Elastic MapReduce in the cloud with the aim of enabling customers to quickly and cost-effectively process large amounts of data in the cloud.
Posted November 26, 2013
Attivio and Actian have formed an alliance that will allow their customers to have access to both internal and external sources of unstructured content. The combination of Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine with Actian's ParAccel Big Data Analytics is aimed at helping business users to gain new, real-time business insights that help them build revenue, increase competitiveness, and manage risk.
Posted November 26, 2013
With the introduction of two new products, Treasure Viewer and Treasure Query Accelerator, Treasure Data says it is now making big data analytics accessible to any user with new capabilities and monthly pricing.
Posted November 26, 2013
New technology from CA is aimed at helping organizations lower the cost of storing data processed on IBM System z by backing up the data and archiving it to the cloud. According to CA, by using its Cloud Storage for System z with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage in conjunction with the Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage appliance from Riverbed Technology, organizations can decrease storage costs while also improving disaster recovery readiness.
Posted November 25, 2013
STORServer, a provider of data backup solutions, is now offering backup appliances built on CommVault Simpana 10 data and information management software. The launch of the STORServer Backup Appliance, powered by CommVault, marks the first time the company has offered an enterprise data protection software engine other than IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
Posted November 25, 2013
Compuverde's flagship storage solution now provides support for both scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) and virtual machine (VM) environments, enabling users to scale rapidly using the infrastructure of their choice without sacrificing performance or cost.
Posted November 25, 2013
The latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux adds new networking enhancements to help provide system administrators a more detailed view of network activity. New capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 enable sysadmins to inspect IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) data to list multicast router ports, multicast groups with active subscribers and their associated interfaces, all of which are important to many modern networking scenarios, including streaming media.
Posted November 25, 2013
PKWARE has released two new versions of its flagship products - PKZIP and SecureZIP. The new releases allow customers to take advantage of IBM mainframe hardware facilities to offload compression and free up general computing capacity.
Posted November 25, 2013
Ipswitch File Transfer has added mobile support to the MOVEit Managed File Transfer (MFT) cloud service. The MOVEit MFT system is designed to transfer files between business partners, customers, and employees, as well as automate file-based workflows. MOVEit's mobile features are intended to bring mobile devices into companies' MFT system and automated file workflows.
Posted November 25, 2013
The latest version of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID 3.1) offers new enterprise self-service discovery capabilities for business users. In addition to self-service data mashup and discovery capabilities, the new release provides extended support for unstructured analytics and tighter integration with Oracle Business Intelligence software.
Posted November 20, 2013
Oracle has announced the third generation of its Big Data Appliance - X4-2 - is now available. The engineered system adds upgraded hardware as well as new security enhancements and is optimized to run Cloudera's entire platform for big data, Cloudera Enterprise.
Posted November 20, 2013
Oracle is adding new data centers in Canada and Germany to bring its total number of data centers to 17. The additional data centers provide customers with more options for data residency and regulatory compliance and are expected to go online by Q2 2014.
Posted November 20, 2013
Making Big Data User-Centric - Webcast on Thursday, November 21
Posted November 19, 2013
EnterpriseDBs has announced new product releases that improve database performance. The new products include Postgres Advanced Server 9.3, Enterprise Manager 4.0, and EnterpriseDB Failover Manager. Postgres Advanced Server 9.3 improves performance for applications with large datasets and EDB Failover Manager meets important high availability demands. Combining EnterpriseDB's new software with its Oracle compatibility allows Postgres Plus Advanced Server to support both mission-critical applications.
Posted November 19, 2013
Logi Analytics has formed a new partnership with MongoDB and created the Logi Analytics native connector. Logi Analytics' new connector to MongoDB gives developers the ability to specify custom filter expressions, perform aggregations using MongoDB's pipeline operations, and employ MapReduce functions to query the data for interactive analytics, reporting and dashboards.
Posted November 19, 2013
Tableau Software has expanded its work with Amazon Web Services. The combination of Tableau software and Amazon Redshift provides a business intelligence platform that delivers the reliability, availability, and capability to visualize large volumes of data, derive rapid insight, and make data-driven decisions faster without setting up a costly and time consuming traditional data warehouse environment.
Posted November 18, 2013
DataStax has announced the latest version of DataStax Enterprise, version 3.2, which provides integrated and fault-tolerant analytics and enterprise search in a NoSQL database, a comprehensive security feature set, and OpsCenter 4.0 which provides visual features that make managing a distributed database cluster easier. According to the company, the new features provide a reliable out-of-the-box experience for companies to use the availability and scalability benefits of Apache Cassandra without the operational overhead of open source software.
Posted November 18, 2013
Rocket Software has acquired the MultiValue database business from TigerLogic Corporation. According to Rocket Software, the acquisition demonstrates its commitment to MultiValue database technology, to its partners whose solutions depend on the technology, and customers that rely on those applications to run their businesses.
Posted November 18, 2013
The latest release of CA ERwin Data Modeler, a solution for collaboratively visualizing and managing business data, addresses two major objectives - the need for organizations to manage more data across more platforms, and to easily share that data with an expanding number of users with a range of roles and skill sets.
Posted November 15, 2013
AFORE has announced a portfolio of Amazon Web Services (AWS) security solutions. The data security suite is targeted at enterprise customers and service providers planning to offer EaaS and enables them to take control of securing sensitive data within the AWS. Built for cloud and virtualized environments, the security suite delivers data protection that eliminates traditional costs and deployment complexity barriers, according to AFORE.
Posted November 12, 2013
Birst, a provider of a cloud-based business intelligence platform, has launched its new Recurring Revenue Solution Accelerator targeted at businesses offering SaaS, ongoing maintenance contracts, and other subscription-based products and services. The solution allows organizations to gain insight into product and revenue performance and trending customer data, based on industry best practices.
Posted November 12, 2013
Aerospike, a provider of a flash-optimized, in-memory NoSQL database, and Internap Network Services Corp, a provider of high performance hosting services, have joined forces. The result, the companies say is a "fast big data" platform.
Posted November 12, 2013
Datawatch has introduced a new Visualization Accelerator that enables users to connect to almost any source of information, including Splunk, to develop visual data discovery applications using a drag-and-drop design environment.
Posted November 12, 2013
Cisco announced what it calls its "Application Centric Infrastructure" (ACI) initiative, providing a bundle of network and software products, and new professional services to support the needs of applications. ACI unifies physical and virtual networks, and offers security, compliance and real-time visibility at the system, tenant, and application levels.
Posted November 11, 2013
Attachmate Corporation has introduced Attachmate Reflection Security Gateway 2014, a new software product that allows organizations to extend enterprise authentication and identity management investments to their access controls for host systems. In addition to its access control capabilities, Reflection Security Gateway also provides capabilities that assist IT desktop managers in their efforts to manage and maintain their terminal emulation environment.
Posted November 11, 2013
Two new programs from BMC are aimed at making it easier for companies to adopt cloud computing platforms. BMC's ZipKit program includes a library of pre-built application components for the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and BMC Bladelogic Server Automation management systems. BMC's Express Cloud,designed as a "starter cloud," includes 250 managed server licenses, hybrid over VMW and AWS, and an implementation/education services bundle.
Posted November 11, 2013
SHI International Corp., an IT solutions provider, is opening an online portal designed to help customers source, procure, and manage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions from leading cloud service providers. According to the company, the new service addresses the challenge fo finding the best option which for many organizations can be a time-consuming and expensive process, the vendor says.
Posted November 11, 2013
IT infrastructure management solutions provider Infrastructure Solutions, Inc. (ISI) has introduced a tool to oversee server consolidation to IBM System z environments. Linux on System z offers the flexibility of running Linux with the advantages of mainframe hardware.
Posted November 11, 2013
Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, announced the next release of its cloud management platform, Red Hat CloudForms 3.0. This latest offering is targeted at both the deployment and management of public and private clouds based on OpenStack, and also expands support for AWS.
Posted November 11, 2013
Trustwave, a provider of services and technologies for information security and compliance, has acquired data security provider Application Security, Inc., which offers security software for relational databases and big data stores. According to Trustwave, the acquisition will augment its existing managed security services and extend protection of data and management of threats across endpoints, networks, applications and databases.
Posted November 11, 2013
The database as a service (DBaaS) delivery model has started to take hold in IT, according to a new research report that provides information for IT managers and decision makers who are facing increasing data volumes coupled with greater demand for database services. According to the report, nearly two-fifths of enterprises have or are considering running database functions within a private cloud.
Posted November 06, 2013
To support customers taking advantage of the multitenant architecture for pluggable databases available with Oracle Database 12c, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c has added new automation capabilities to enable quick provisioning of database clouds through self-service
Posted November 06, 2013
To address evolving sales dynamics, Oracle Sales Cloud gives sales representatives the opportunity to sell more, know more and drive growth to their company, said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, product development, Oracle, in a recent webcast. Citing data from a recent Oracle study, Kurian said that sales teams spend 78% of their time on administrative work with only 22% of their time focused on selling.
Posted November 06, 2013