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
Oracle Engineered Server Systems achieved rapid growth during the third quarter of Oracle's fiscal year 2014. "Our Engineered Systems business is growing rapidly for the same fundamental reason that our cloud applications business is growing rapidly. In both cases, customers want us to integrated the hardware and software, and make it work together, so they don't have to," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, during the recent earnings conference call.
Posted April 10, 2014
TeamWork, a database change management solution from DBMaestro, is now available for SQL Server as well as Oracle.
Posted April 09, 2014
Kelly Stirman, director of product marketing at MongoDB, emphasized simplicity, reliability, and security in a recent conversation about the new capabilities of MongoDB 2.6. "Don't let the 2.6 fool you. It is absolutely the biggest release we have ever done."
Posted April 08, 2014
IBM, which marked the 50th anniversary of the mainframe today, looked to the future by rolling out new mobile, storage, cloud, and Hadoop for Big Data offerings for System z. According to IBM, as it celebrates this landmark occasion, more than 70% of enterprise data resides on a mainframe and 71% of all Fortune 500 companies have their core businesses on a mainframe
Posted April 08, 2014
Today, at COLLABORATE 14 in Las Vegas, Oracle announced two key new mobile capabilities to its Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System. The new capabilities are available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
Posted April 08, 2014
Splice Machine is the newest member of the more than 800-member Cloudera Connect Partner Program. According to Splice Machine, its technology enables Cloudera users to tap into real-time updates with transactional integrity and standard ANSI SQL, which the company says are necessary features for organizations that are looking to become real-time, data-driven businesses.
Posted April 07, 2014
InfiniDB has announced the results of a new, independent benchmark from Radiant Advisors that examined the performance of leading open source SQL-on-Hadoop query engines, including InfiniDB for Hadoop 4.0
Posted April 07, 2014
Windows-upgrade procrastinators, watch out. That's the message coming through from some security experts who estimate that there is a significant portion of business users who still have not moved off Windows XP, despite the fact that patches will no longer be issued. Users have been warned by Microsoft for years now that support for the more-than-decade-old operating system, as well as for Office 2003, would end on April 8, 2014.
Posted April 07, 2014
Teradata has introduced the Teradata Database 15 with a new software product called Teradata QueryGrid that provides virtual compute capability within and beyond the Teradata Unified Data Architecture. The company also announced Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6750 platform with new capabilities to support customers' most demanding real-time workloads.
Posted April 07, 2014
Ntirety, a provider of remote DBA, data consulting, and DBA on-demand services for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL, has been acquired by HOSTING. With the acquisition, said Ntirety founder Michael Corey, the Dedham-based company becomes a division of HOSTING, with Corey as president of the division.
Posted April 04, 2014
A new partnership between Hortonworks and LucidWorks, which provides a search development platform leveraging Apache Solr, will enable users throughout an organization to easily access and gain insight from big data sets that were previously available only to developers, analyst and data scientists.
Posted April 03, 2014
Oracle has introduced the 3.0 release of its NoSQL Database. Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 Enterprise Edition and Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0 Community Edition are now available for download via the Oracle Technology Network.
Posted April 02, 2014
The theme for COLLABORATE 14-IOUG Forum is "Become Your Office Superhero," because, while you may look like a mild mannered technical resource in meetings or at your desk, you fight a daily battle to protect your organization's data, improve performance and generate new business opportunities. COLLABORATE is your chance to recharge your superpowers and to take on new skills.
Posted April 02, 2014
Attunity has launched Maestro, a new big data platform designed to simplify mapping, executing and managing the flow of data between heterogeneous systems—both analytical and operational/transactional systems—to help organizations provide the right information to the right system when it is needed.
Posted April 02, 2014
SAP has officially announced Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 16, a major release of the company's RDBMS, as well as Replication Server, 15.7 SP200 which includes synchronous replication for HA/DR for SAP Business Suite on ASE. It has been 9 years since Sybase (acquired by SAP in 2010) announced ASE 15 in August 2005. With the new release, said Dan Lahl, SAP VP, Database & Technology Marketing, SAP is providing "the right system of record that is going to be able to handle the new world of transaction processing."
Posted April 02, 2014
Attunity Replicate, a data replication and loading solution, has introduced new support for MySQL as a source and target as well as for multiple non-relational sources including Enscribe, RMS, IMS, and VSAM.
Posted April 02, 2014
Continuent, Inc., a provider of open source database clustering and replication solutions, has announced the availability of Continuent Tungsten Replicator 3.0, an open source replication solution for Hadoop.
Posted April 01, 2014
A new Development Milestone Release for MySQL 5.7, as well as other MySQL product releases and early access features, has been announced by Oracle. With MySQL 5.7.4 DMR, the open source database is twice as fast as the previous version.
Posted April 01, 2014
To support better access to big data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds, IBM is joining AT&T, Cisco, GE, and Intel as backers of the newly-formed Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). "IBM's vision of a 'smarter planet' is being realized as we connect more of the physical world with the Internet, pairing the Internet of Things with advances in analytics, mobile and cloud computing in ways that lead to new insights and efficiencies that can be harnessed for competitive advantage," said Ron Ambrosio, distinguished engineer and CTO for smarter energy research at IBM.
Posted March 31, 2014
Stating that the time is right to create a network of clouds that can provide broader reach and faster time to market, Cisco - in conjunction with partners - announced plans to build the world's largest Intercloud designed for high-value application workloads, real-time analytics, high scalability and full compliance with local data sovereignty laws.
Posted March 31, 2014
STORServer is shipping the BA641-CV, a new entry-level backup appliance that incorporates solid-state drives (SSDs), as well as a new expansion system, the EBA-EXPSM-CV.
Posted March 31, 2014
NEC Corporation, a provider of integration of IT and network technologies, is joining BMC Software's global Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program and also integrating software from BMC Remedy, BladeLogic and Atrium product lines into the NEC management portfolio.
Posted March 31, 2014
A new agreement between Micro Focus and Stefanini, an IT systems integrator and outsourcing services provider, enables the international systems integrator's customers to benefit from Micro Focus' Enterprise Developer for zEnterprise and Enterprise Test Server products. Stefanini selected Micro Focus' enterprise product set as part of its goal to use best-in-class technology to deliver mainframe consulting services.
Posted March 31, 2014
Melissa Data is offering Address Objects as a replacement option for customers using SAP's PostalSoft ACE program, which has a designated end-of-life on March 31, 2015.
Posted March 31, 2014
Cloudera has launched what it describes as the industry's first hands-on Cloudera Certified Professional: Data Scientist (CCP:DS) data science certification. According to Cloudera, it is launching the data science certification program now to address to address a pressing challenge in the IT industry: job openings for data scientists are currently outpacing the supply of these in-demand workers, a situation that is aggravated by the fact that there has historically not been a clearly established skill set or university degree that an individual could acquire to qualify as a data scientist.
Posted March 28, 2014
Zettaset introduced a new encryption capability integrated into its existing security solution for enterprises using Hadoop.
Posted March 27, 2014
Datameer, which provides a self-service and schema-free big data analytics application for Hadoop, has introduced Datameer 4.0 which enables big data analytics workflow with visual insights at every step of analysis.
Posted March 27, 2014
Applying Predictive Analytics to March Madness
Posted March 27, 2014
Finding high quality education and training remains a key challenge for SAP users, according to Mike Harrold, executive director for the Independent SAP Technical Users Group (ISUG-TECH). With the 2014 ISUG-TECH conference fast-approaching (April 14-17), Harrold talked about SAP's planned launch of ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) 16 at the conference and the best ways for SAP users to get the product information they need.
Posted March 26, 2014
SAP has announced the availability of the 7.4 version of the SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) powered by SAP HANA as part of the new in-memory data fabric architecture.
Posted March 26, 2014
SAP PowerDesigner, an information modeling and enterprise architecture tool, can now integrate into an organization's operational process intelligence. The new release of SAP Sybase PowerDesigner includes integration with the SAP Solution Manager application management solution, full business process model and notation (BPMN) standard support for improved visibility upstream and downstream across teams using SAP NetWeaver Process Orchestration and additional support for SAP HANA.
Posted March 26, 2014
To help ensure customers and partners get the most out of their investments in SAP software, Compuware has opened a new Center of Excellence for SAP solutions near SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.
Posted March 26, 2014
Evoke, a new product from BlueFinity International, provides a toolset for all application delivery platforms, including Windows native desktop, Windows Modern UI, Windows Phone, iPhone/ iPad and Android phone /tablet. Evoke supports a ‘develop once, deploy anywhere' approach to help developers dealing with the challenges of multiple platforms, operating systems and development tools.
Posted March 26, 2014
Hampshire College selected Entrinsik's Informer, a web-based reporting solution. According to the college, a major factor in its success was Informer's ability to connect to multiple databases simultaneously, including UniData and MySQL.
Posted March 26, 2014
Rocket Software has launched a new version of the Rocket D3 database management system - D3 Linux 9.2. This is the first new Rocket D3 product release since the company acquired the TigerLogic MultiValue database business last November. Separately, Rocket also unveiled the first stage of its System Builder Extensible Architecture (SB/XA) Services, providing mobile and/or web enablement.
Posted March 26, 2014
Kore Technologies' Mark Dobransky plans to talk about key BI and integration trends impacting the MultiValue industry and also highlight the new integration capabilities of Kourier Integrator 4.1 during a breakout session at the International Spectrum conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
Posted March 26, 2014
Specialist Crafts, which supplies art and craft products to a broad range of educational establishments throughout the U.K. and beyond, has selected Rocket Software's CorVu as to replace its previous business intelligence tool.
Posted March 26, 2014
Revelation Software president and CEO Mike Ruane previewed the 10.0 release of the company's flagship product OpenInsight during a recent trip to Australia and New Zealand. In particular there was strong reaction to a new cloud based filing system that will allow the OpenInsight toolset to operate on data stored in cloud databases, as well as to new user authentication and security for developers and programmers to ensure version control, said Ruane.
Posted March 26, 2014
CAKE, a provider of business intelligence to marketers and advertisers, has selected the ParStream real-time database to query and analyze data quickly.
Posted March 26, 2014