Red Hat is shipping a new version of its portal technology, JBoss Portal 6.1, with features and capabilities to help enterprises build innovative customer experiences, including integration with Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, and enable users to log in using their third-party credentials.
Posted October 28, 2013
MuleSoft, a provider of integration platforms, is offering developer tooling for RAML (RESTful API Modeling Language) as a free service to enable any developer to build REST APIs that foster a standard, design-first approach. The new MuleSoft tooling includes API Designer: a modern, web-based, intuitive development tool that guides users through the API design process with RAML and builds a live, visual representation of an API on the fly.
Posted October 28, 2013
With expanded cloud management solutions that enable IT as a service, VMware is sending a message that it supports not only vSphere but also heterogeneous environments.
Posted October 28, 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 October 28, 2013
0xdata, a provider of open source machine learning and predictive analytics for big data, has announced general availability of the latest release of H2O, "Fluid Vector," which delivers new levels of performance, ease of use, and integration with R.
Posted October 28, 2013
ClearStory Data has launched its first product, Data Intelligence, which is designed to accelerate and simplify access to and analysis of diverse data types to enable business users to make faster decisions.
Posted October 28, 2013
At Strata Conference + Hadoop World today,Big data analytics vendor SiSense announced the new opening of its New York city headquarters and new capabilities for SiSense Prism enabled by In-Chip technology with Crowd Accelerated Analytics.
Posted October 28, 2013
MapR Technologies has introduced native authentication in its MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop to enable Hadoop to be used more broadly within healthcare, financial services, and government organizations. The new capability, now in beta, is meant to address the needs of customers who have been looking for a security approach as simple and easy to use as a web-based-banking application.
Posted October 28, 2013
SAS and SAP have formed a strategic partnership to create a joint technology and product roadmap that will leverage the SAP HANA platform and SAS analytics capabilities. The companies will target target business areas that require a combination of advanced analytics running on an in-memory platform.
Posted October 24, 2013
SAP is advancing HANA on three fronts, all aimed at improving the overall experience with the platform. The enhancements include a more visually appealing and intuitive user experience, powerful new features, and simplified cloud-based deployment.
Posted October 24, 2013
A new rapid-deployment solution for SAP HANA Live enables real-time operational reporting within and beyond SAP Business Suite software powered by the SAP HANA platform. The solution offers customers pre-configured content in the form of pre-built reports.
Posted October 24, 2013
The challenges associated with big data can be turned into opportunities for small-to-midsize enterprises (SMEs) with the right data strategy. As SMEs look to increase their businesses, it is critical to incorporate a cost-effective approach that aligns with both existing data challenges and future plans for expansion. Laying a strong base for big data will help SMEs prepare for this growth by providing immediate insight on key business drivers and objectives.
Posted October 24, 2013
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has acquired Confio Software, which provides database performance management software. The Boulder, Colorado-based software company was purchased for $103 million in cash. Confio's flagship product, Confio Ignite, improves software development and service delivery for systems based on Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, and SAP Sybase databases, running on VMware virtual servers as well as physical servers.
Posted October 24, 2013
The latest release of Hortonworks Data Platform has been released, providing the YARN-based architecture of Hadoop 2, Phase 2 of the Stinger Initiative, as well as the latest advancements from the Hadoop ecosystem in a one integrated platform.
Posted October 24, 2013
Glassbeam has released SCALAR, a new cloud-based platform to organize and analyze multi-structured machine data, as well as Glassbam Explorer, a cloud-based search and log management application, and Glassbeam Studio, a tool that enables uses advanced ETL and semantics to map unstructured logs.
Posted October 24, 2013
Splice Machine, provider of a real-time transactional SQL-on-Hadoop database designed for big data applications, has launched a Limited Release program and is seeking 50 evaluators to validate authentic use cases, test SQL coverage and benchmark performance.
Posted October 23, 2013
Pick Cloud and Ladybridge Systems have announced a database as a service (DBaaS) offering, enabling customers to purchase a fully managed hosted OpenQM license.
Posted October 23, 2013
Entrinsik, a provider of information management solutions, has formed a new partnership with KeyedIn Solutions, a software business specializing in cloud-based enterprise applications. The combination of KeyedIn Solutions and Entrinsik Informer reporting software enables users to analyze a wide range of organizational data through a single application and portal.
Posted October 23, 2013
Rocket Software is making some of the most popular hands-on labs from U2 University available online to provide customers with a convenient way to learn about new U2 features.
Posted October 23, 2013
Constantly changing tax rules can make payroll deductions and tax payments a time-consuming and costly endeavor for businesses. To get this onerous job done efficiently and cost-effectively, many utilize payroll software specialists that provide tools to support their in-house staff. Read how Revelation Software's OpenInsight and OpenInsight for Web are giving Ardbrook, a Dublin, Ireland-based software provider of payroll software, the agility it needs.
Posted October 23, 2013
SAS and SAP have formed a strategic partnership to create a joint technology and product roadmap that will leverage the SAP HANA platform and SAS analytics capabilities. The companies will target target business areas that require a combination of advanced analytics running on an in-memory platform.
Posted October 22, 2013
SAP is advancing HANA on three fronts, all aimed at improving the overall experience with the platform. The enhancements include a more visually appealing and intuitive user experience, powerful new features, and simplified cloud-based deployment.
Posted October 22, 2013
Calpont Corporation, a provider of high-performance analytic data platforms, has announced InfiniDB 4.0 and InfiniDB for the Cloud. In addition, the core product will be available under the General Public License version 2.0 to enable more users to have access to its MPP, column-oriented data technology.
Posted October 22, 2013
At its Partners User Group Conference in Dallas, Teradata made a range of product and partner announcements, including the introduction of the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2750, the availability of the Teradata Cloud, and new support for Java Script Object Notation (JSON) data.
Posted October 22, 2013
At the PASS Summit, Dell Software introduced new tools for SQL Server database management and monitoring. The new releases included Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise 10.0, a SQL Server database monitoring tool; two new Spotlight products available for download at no charge; and Toad for SQL Server 6, a performance tuning tool for SQL Server.
Posted October 18, 2013
Oracle has released new versions of its data integration products - Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle GoldenGate - with features designed to enhance performance, increase productivity and streamline deployment. Brad Adelberg, vice president of development, Oracle, talks about the key new features in Oracle Data Integrator 12c and Oracle GoldenGate 12c.
Posted October 17, 2013
Oracle has released the latest version of VM VirtualBox which provides a virtual multi-touch user interface, supports additional devices and platforms, and offers enhanced networking capabilities that allow developers to virtualize modern operating system features while maintaining compatibility with legacy operating systems. Designed for IT professionals, Oracle VM VirtualBox is cross-platform virtualization software that enables users to run multiple operating systems at the same time.
Posted October 16, 2013
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has acquired Confio Software, which provides database performance management software. The Boulder, Colorado-based software company was purchased for $103 million in cash. Confio's flagship product, Confio Ignite, improves software development and service delivery for systems based on Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, and SAP Sybase databases, running on VMware virtual servers as well as physical servers.
Posted October 16, 2013
Datical, Inc. has emerged from stealth mode and introduced Datical DB which uses a patent-pending, data model approach for automating, simplifying and managing database schema change, configuration and complex dependencies as part of the application release process. The solution provides a graphical user interface and wizards for creating a model of schema from an existing database which can be simultaneously migrated to any environment and database such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server, and Postgres.
Posted October 16, 2013
NuoDB, a provider of distributed database technology, today announced the general availability of NuoDB 'Blackbirds' Release 2.0. NuoDB targeted four key areas for improvement in this release, Seth Proctor, CTO, NuoDB, said in an interview.
Posted October 16, 2013
Syncsort, a provider of big data software, has sold its Data Protection business to an investor group formed by members of its executive management team, industry veterans Robert Belau and Ken Barth of Bedford Venture Partners, and established Syncsort investor Windcrest Partners.
Posted October 16, 2013
Clustrix, provider of a scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, has been granted two new patents for systems and methods for redistributing and slicing data in relational databases from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. "For years, people have been trying to figure out how to take a relational database and make sure that you can use it across multiple distributed servers and get linear, better performance and that is at essence of what these patents do," said Robin Purohit, CEO, Clustrix in an interview.
Posted October 15, 2013
Astera Software, a developer of data integration solutions for small and large enterprises, has introduced a new alliance partner program that offers customers complete solutions to their complex data issues. Astera seeks to collaborate with OEM partners and work with resellers and system integrators to bring Astera-enabled data integration and management solutions to market more quickly, easily and with greater impact
Posted October 15, 2013
TIBCO Software introduced the latest version of its data discovery and visualization platform, TIBCO Spotfire 6.0, which includes enhancements and new products that offer greater automation, better contextualization, and expanded deployment opportunities.
Posted October 15, 2013
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has acquired Confio Software, which provides database performance management software. The Boulder, Colorado-based software company was purchased for $103 million in cash. Confio's flagship product, Confio Ignite, improves software development and service delivery for systems based on Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, and SAP Sybase databases, running on VMware virtual servers as well as physical servers.
Posted October 15, 2013
Sepaton, Inc., a provider of backup and recovery platforms, today unveiled a new data protection solution called Sepaton VirtuoSO that is intended to address the challenges organizations are facing due to the exponential growth of both structured and unstructured information. According to the vendor, the scale-out NAS-based data protection solution provides five times the capacity of competitive solutions at initial release with up to 22 times the capacity planned for future releases.
Posted October 15, 2013
Software Diversified Services (SDS) is partnering with McAfee to provide support, maintenance, new enhancements, and compliance upgrades for McAfee's E-Business Server, a comprehensive suite of products using industry-standard encryption to automatically protect corporate data within applications, email, file transfers, and transaction processing. As part of the agreement to take over support and development of E-Business Server, SDS says it will assume full and ongoing responsibility for all current and future customer support functions and also deliver a series of customer-requested upgrades and enhancements.
Posted October 14, 2013
Software AG announced cloud-based IT and process management technologies at its recent user conference in San Francisco. Portfolios Live is a cloud-based service that provides CIOs the ability to manage and transform IT landscapes based on budget, regulatory, legal and technical information. A sister product, Process Live, is a cloud-based service integrating social collaboration with process improvement. "We've changed our architecture from client/server to an event-driven architecture," Software AG CTO Wolfram Jost said at the keynote kicking off the conference.
Posted October 14, 2013
CA is offering a free version of its CA Nimsoft Monitor solution to help customers quickly achieve visibility into the health of their IT resources. With this, CA's first "freemium" offering, the company seeks to meet the requirements of emerging, high-growth enterprises, as well as reaching out to the system and admin people rather than the economic buyer, Bill Talbot, director of product marketing for CA's infrastructure management solutions and business unit at CA, said in an interview.
Posted October 14, 2013
IBM announced new systems and solutions intended to help clients and managed service providers build private and hybrid clouds to get the most out of big data, social, and mobile workloads. These include PureSystems, Power Systems, Smarter Storage Systems, System x, and Technical Computing offerings that provide the flexibility clients need to quickly deploy clouds. "IBM is positioned to compete aggressively for public, private and hybrid cloud computing opportunities," said Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president of IBM Systems & Technology Group and Integrated Supply Chain.
Posted October 14, 2013
Veeam Software, a provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has introduced Veeam Management Pack (MP) v6.5 for VMware. Veeam MP extends VMware monitoring, management and capacity planning to Microsoft System Center, providing complete visibility of physical and virtual infrastructures and applications, all from one console. The Veeam Management Pack connects the VMware virtual infrastructure and puts that data into Systems Center Operations Manager, and then the presentation is done through what is called the Management Pack, Doug Hazelman, Veeam vice president of product strategy, explained in an interview.
Posted October 14, 2013
Syncsort, a provider of data protection solutions, is shipping a new data management solution that provides a centralized way to catalog and search the NetApp ONTAP and VMware landscape, delivering information that helps IT to increase storage efficiency, accelerate the use of snapshot technology for efficient data protection and ensure compliance. The solution, ECX Enterprise Catalog, provides visibility into file and virtual machine environment across all tiers, helping them achieve a new level of operational efficiency to control costs, identify unprotected data or indicate where protection may have failed due to an errant configuration, change or other issues.
Posted October 14, 2013
Macro 4, a software and services company, introduced an Eclipse interface for its mainframe application performance management software, FreezeFrame. The new interface gives developers and support staff extra features to enhance productivity and collaboration and makes it easier for new or less experienced mainframe support staff to work with z/OS systems. "Our products are designed for the various stages of mainframe application deployment, whether in test or production environments, and they work in an integrated way in Eclipse," noted Michelle Harris, Group Product Release Manager at Macro 4.
Posted October 14, 2013
MarkLogic unveiled the latest version of its Enterprise NoSQL database platform, MarkLogic 7. With this release, MarkLogic automates the process of placing data in the storage tiers that are most cost-effective and performance-appropriate, and introduces the new MarkLogic Semantics option.
Posted October 10, 2013
Datical, Inc. has emerged from stealth mode and introduced Datical DB which uses a patent-pending, data model approach for automating, simplifying and managing database schema change, configuration and complex dependencies as part of the application release process. The solution provides a graphical user interface and wizards for creating a model of schema from an existing database which can be simultaneously migrated to any environment and database such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server, and Postgres.
Posted October 09, 2013
To augment its product and service offerings both within and outside of the cloud, TransLattice, a provider of a geographically distributed database management system for enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments, has acquired Red Bank, NJ-based StormDB, Inc. The StormDB database is based on PostgreSQL, and TransLattice expects to incorporate proprietary StormDB capabilities and elements of the open source Postgres-XC into the TransLattice Elastic Database.
Posted October 09, 2013
Percona Server 5.6, based on MySQL 5.6 Community Edition, is now generally available. Percona says the latest version of Percona Server offers all the improvements found in MySQL Community Edition as well as additional features for enhanced scalability, availability, backup, and security features found in the enterprise edition. The free download of Percona Server 5.6 also includes new diagnostics and improved integration with other Percona software.
Posted October 08, 2013
Scaleout Software, a provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), announced the availability of ScaleOut hServer V2, which incorporates new technology to run Hadoop MapReduce on live data. This new platform now gives users the ability to analyze live data using standard Hadoop MapReduce code, in memory and in parallel, without the need to install and manage the Hadoop stack of software.
Posted October 08, 2013
Modern marketers are increasingly targeting their efforts at providing the right information to the right customer at just the right moment. These marketers see the ability to provide relevant content to clients and prospective customers as a way of building their brand awareness and forging lasting relationships. However, according to a new survey, sponsored by Skyword, Inc., and conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., there are obstacles in the path to achieving the full effect of these efforts.
Posted October 04, 2013
NoSQL database vendor MongoDB today announced it has secured $150 million in financing, which the company described as the largest single funding round for any database vendor, NoSQL or otherwise. MongoDB, which is headquartered in Palo Alto and New York, will direct this funding toward the core MongoDB project, as well as toward the MongoDB Management Service, which provides tools and services to operate MongoDB at scale, and to growing its user base globally.
Posted October 04, 2013