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Unisys UK has joined the SAP PartnerEdge program as an SAP services partner. The program provides the company with access to resources and services from SAP that will help Unisys serve public sector clients with highly sensitive project requirements. Through this new partnership, Unisys will leverage its expertise with SAP solutions in relation to its work with Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), where it supports applications that are critical for the day-to-day policing of London. Over the past 24 months alone, Unisys has delivered more than 12,000 days of SAP solution-related work to the MPS. Unisys plans to leverage this expertise to address highly sensitive projects for customers across the UK's law enforcement and government sectors.

Posted June 27, 2013

Composite Software has released the Composite Data Virtualization Platform 6.2 SP3. This release really has four elements, Robert Eve, executive vice president of marketing, Composite, tells 5 Minute Briefing. It updates the Hortonworks, Cloudera and the Apache Distribution of Hadoop big data integrations through the HiveServer2 interface, and then fourth, provides new access to Cloudera CDH through Impala. "The key problem with big data is that there are not enough people that are skilled at the big data tools to use them effectively," Eve notes.

Posted June 27, 2013

Informatica Corporation, a provider of data integration software, has announced an OEM partnership agreement with Zettaset, a big data management vendor. In this partnership, Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition will embed within the Zettaset Orchestrator Hadoop cluster management solution, a management platform that automates, accelerates and simplifies Hadoop installation, cluster management, and security for big data deployments.

Posted June 26, 2013

Kore Technologies, a provider of enterprise integration and e-commerce web solutions for MultiValue and Microsoft SQL Server databases has announced the availability of Kourier Integrator - Release 4. According to Keith Lambert, vice president of marketing and business development at Kore, "increased connectivity" is the theme for this new release, which includes enhancements for connecting with more data sources.

Posted June 26, 2013

Rocket Software has announced the availability of System Builder Extensible Architecture (SB/XA) which allows users to rapidly build robust business solutions. By applying SB/XA Designer default styles, users indicate mandatory fields and where intuitive help is available. In addition, Outlook-style menus can be included to create an environment that feels familiar to users. Data can be reported out to Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word or XML formats, giving users access to their data in their preferred business application.

Posted June 26, 2013

Revelation Software has announced the availability of the latest release of OpenInsight Development Suite (OI) 9.4, including a new release of OpenInsight for Web (O4W v1.5) and enhancements to the OEngineServer that reduce memory usage.

Posted June 26, 2013

Temenos, a provider of software to the financial services industry, has announced that Cairo Amman Bank, a full service bank with 106 branches in Jordan and Palestine, has gone live with T24, Temenos' core banking system based on jBASE technology. The deployment of T24 replaced the bank's legacy core banking system and consolidates multiple banking modules, helping the company achieve improvements in operational efficiency including automation of real time gross settlement payments and laying the infrastructure to support sustained growth in income and profitability.

Posted June 26, 2013

Oracle Forms Partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce.com

Posted June 25, 2013

RainStor, a provider of an enterprise database for managing and analyzing historical data, says it has combined the latest data security technologies in a comprehensive product update that has the potential to rapidly increase adoption of Apache Hadoop for banks, communications providers and government agencies.

Posted June 25, 2013

Extreme Transaction Processing in the World of Big Data - Live Webcast on Thursday, June 27

Posted June 25, 2013

Terracotta, a provider of in-memory technologies for enterprise big data, is making Terracotta Universal Messaging available as a standalone product. Terracotta Universal Messaging is a software platform for big data applications using real-time data-streaming across a wide range of devices and networks. Addressing the growing challenge of eliminating bottlenecks in transferring data within and beyond enterprise systems to external devices, such as sensors, smart phones and databases, Terracotta's unified messaging solution extends the use of data beyond current enterprise boundaries and accelerates time to insights and action.

Posted June 25, 2013

Dell Software has introduced the latest version of the Dell KACE K1000 Management Appliance, which now includes integrated software asset management to boost software license compliance, while helping lower IT costs. The K1000 adds automated software asset identification, tracking and optimization to its capabilities for managing the deployment, operation and retirement of software assets. The need for the appliance is being fueled by a range of factors, including the influx of new technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and BYOD, which are adding complexity in terms of systems management, Lisa Richardson, senior product marketing manager for Endpoint Systems Management, Dell Software, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 25, 2013

Tokutek, providing database performance at scale, has released TokuMX, an upgraded storage engine for MongoDB that increases performance and database compression. TokuMX speeds indexing by 10x or more for greater scalability of large databases. TokuMX features Tokutek's patented Fractal Tree Indexing to improve how MongoDB organizes and stores information. With its high performance indexing, TokuMX is ideal for applications that must simultaneously query and update large volumes of rapidly arriving data. "We feel that this going to be a very welcome development in the MongoDB world to be able to handle tens of thousands of accesses to the database per second," John Partridge, CEO of Tokutek, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 25, 2013

AIMS Innovation is launching a new technology in the U.S. market tailored for system integrators working with Microsoft BizTalk. "We help IT operations turn from a reactive mode to a proactive mode and really reduce a lot of the time that is spent monitoring, maintaining and supporting their system integration," Ivar Sagemo, CEO of AIMS Innovation, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 25, 2013

Fusion-io has introduced an upgrade of its ioTurbine software that improves performance, control and choice to enhance the value of virtualization investments. The new release of Fusion ioTurbine delivers virtualization-aware caching, dynamic reallocation of cache memory during live migration of virtual machines in VMware vMotion, and unified management of caching across virtual and physical environments.

Posted June 24, 2013

Backup and recovery solution provider Sepaton has introduced the S2100-ES3 series 2925 backup appliance with new version 7.1 software. The data protection platform adds support of Gresham Enterprise DistribuTape (EDT) version 10.0 to allow IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) users to automate key TSM virtual tape implementation processes; and extends support for KMIP-compliant enterprise key managers with qualification of SafeNet KeySecure version 6.3 EKM. The appliance also gives administrators the flexibility to backup and deduplicate data using Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) over Fibre Channel in addition to the existing IP connectivity.

Posted June 24, 2013

Parasoft announced the release of a service virtualization solution intended to help development and QA teams access the complete, realistic test environments needed to develop or test an application. The vendor's Service Virtualization solution can be applied to agile and parallel development, performance testing, mobile testing, and end-to-end functional testing.

Posted June 24, 2013

Compuware Corporation, a technology performance tools company, is shipping a new solution set intended to expose how IT infrastructure conditions impede the performance of business applications. The new package, called PureStack Technology, combines with Compuware's dynaTrace PurePath Technology to directly correlate guest and host infrastructure health to individual application transactions and affected end users in real time.

Posted June 24, 2013

IBM recently laid out a set of new initiatives to further support and speed up the adoption of the Linux operating system across the enterprise. These include two new Power Systems Linux Centers, as well as plans to extend support for Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology to its Power Systems portfolio of server products.

Posted June 24, 2013

IBM has rolled out enhancements across its systems portfolio designed to help organizations adopt cloud computing as they build toward Software Defined Environments (SDE). Enhancements to IBM's Smarter Storage line of Flash, disk and tape systems are designed to give companies faster access to business information and Big Data insights. In addition, new High Performance Computing solutions bring HPC capabilities to mainstream servers.

Posted June 24, 2013

Intel Corporation announced a solid-state drive (SSD) product designed for read-intensive applications such as Web hosting, cloud computing and data center virtualization. The Intel Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series is designed to replace traditional hard disk drives, the vendor says.

Posted June 24, 2013

SanDisk Corporation, a provider of flash memory storage solutions, has upgraded its enterprise software portfolio with a new version of its FlashSoft software for Windows Server and Linux operating systems. FlashSoft 3.2 server-side solid state caching software complements and enhances the performance of existing applications, and server and storage systems.

Posted June 24, 2013

TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of application integration and SOA infrastructure solutions, announced the latest version of its flagship low-latency messaging platform, which adds in-memory technology to bring new levels of reliability to persistent messaging. The new solution, TIBCO FTL 3.1, is intended to provide a messaging platform that delivers high-speed performance to data management.

Posted June 24, 2013

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Composite Software, a privately held company specializing in data virtualization software and services. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Composite provides data virtualization software that enables a simplified and optimized logical view of data from multiple sources across the network, giving applications and business users the ability to access and query all types of data as if it is in a single place. According to Cisco, the acquisition of Composite will expand its Smart Services portfolio and extend its services platform by optimizing data and connecting to the infrastructure layer, enhancing programmability and use of APIs for Cisco customers.

Posted June 20, 2013

Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3, which adds foreign key support, a new NoSQL JavaScript Connector for node.js, and an auto-installer to make setting up clusters easier. MySQL Cluster is an open source, auto-sharded, real-time, ACID-compliant transactional database with no single point of failure, designed for advanced web, cloud, social and mobile applications. "Foreign key support has been a longstanding feature request from day-one," Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL Engineering at Oracle, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 19, 2013

Dell has released Toad for Oracle 12.0 which provides developers and DBAs with a key new capability - a seamless connection to the Toad World user community so they will no longer have to exit the tool and open a browser to gain access to the community. "The actual strength of the product has always been the input of users," John Whittaker, senior director of marketing for the Information Management Group at Dell Software, tells 5 Minute Briefing. The new ability to access the Toad World community from within Toad enables database professionals to browse, search, ask questions and start discussions directly in the Toad forums, all while using Toad.

Posted June 19, 2013

The result of collaboration between hundreds of engineers from more than 30 companies within the Java Community Process (JCP) and the GlassFish Community, the new Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) as well as the Java EE 7 Software Development Kit (SDK) was announced by Oracle and JCP members at a launch webcast. The new release has three main themes, said Cameron Purdy, vice president for development at Oracle. They are support for building HTML5 applications, enhancements for greater developer productivity, and new features that address enterprise requirements.

Posted June 19, 2013

BonitaSoft, a provider of business process management (BPM) solutions, has announced Bonita BMP 6, a platform upgrade that gives business users and IT professionals an advanced set of BMP tools to enhance collaboration, drive end-user efficiency and improve processes quickly. Up to four times faster than the current generation, BPM 6 includes a host of new features that make people, departments and organizations more efficient through the use of intuitive process-driven applications. New features include a redesigned user portal, mobile access and improve business activity monitoring.

Posted June 18, 2013

Garantia Data, the provider of enterprise-class Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud services, has announced a new Multi-Availability Zone capability that affords a greater level of high-availability to its Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud hosting services on AWS. Offering constant dataset replication to a different availability zone (data center) and an instant auto-failover mechanism, this solution guarantees that data is served without interruption in case of a complete or partial outage of the data center.

Posted June 18, 2013

Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3, which adds foreign key support, a new NoSQL JavaScript Connector for node.js, and an auto-installer to make setting up clusters easier. MySQL Cluster is an open source, auto-sharded, real-time, ACID-compliant transactional database with no single point of failure, designed for advanced web, cloud, social and mobile applications. "Foreign key support has been a longstanding feature request from day-one," Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL Engineering at Oracle, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 18, 2013

Datawatch Corporation, a provider of information optimization solutions, has agreed to acquire Panopticon Software AB, a privately held Swedish company specializing in the delivery of real-time visual data discovery solutions. The transaction is expected to be completed before the end of Datawatch's fiscal year September 30. The acquisition of Panopticon adds additional capabilities for Datawatch that are important in the big data space, Ben Plummer, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Datawatch, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 17, 2013

Software AG has agreed to acquire Apama, a platform for complex event processing (CEP) and CEP-powered solutions, from Progress Software. Apama CEP allows organizations to correlate and analyze business activities across multiple data streams in real-time and take immediate action in response. "Data can lose its value in an instant," said Robin Gilthorpe, CEO of Software AG's Terracotta and member of the Software AG Group Executive Board. "This acquisition is a major step in delivering on our strategy of empowering enterprises to derive meaningful business insights and value from big data."

Posted June 13, 2013

Composite Software has released the Composite Data Virtualization Platform 6.2 SP3. This release really has four elements, Robert Eve, executive vice president of marketing, Composite, tells 5 Minute Briefing. It updates the Hortonworks, Cloudera and the Apache Distribution of Hadoop big data integrations through the HiveServer2 interface, and then fourth, provides new access to Cloudera CDH through Impala. "The key problem with big data is that there are not enough people that are skilled at the big data tools to use them effectively," Eve notes.

Posted June 12, 2013

The result of collaboration between hundreds of engineers from more than 30 companies within the Java Community Process (JCP) and the GlassFish Community, the new Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) as well as the Java EE 7 Software Development Kit (SDK) was announced by Oracle and JCP members at a launch webcast. The new release has three main themes, said Cameron Purdy, vice president for development at Oracle. They are support for building HTML5 applications, enhancements for greater developer productivity, and new features that address enterprise requirements.

Posted June 12, 2013

Dell and Oracle have announced an expanded worldwide alliance, through which the two companies will introduce a new x86 infrastructure offering that combines Dell's hardware with Oracle's software. As part of the agreement, Oracle has named Dell a preferred x86 partner, and Dell has named Oracle a preferred enterprise infrastructure partner, including Oracle Linux. The expanded partnership represents an extension of Oracle's engineered systems strategy, said Oracle president Mark Hurd.

Posted June 12, 2013

To enable faster, more efficient decision-making, Oracle has introduced JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Applications on Oracle Engineered Systems. New in-memory applications include JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Project Portfolio Management and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Sales Advisor. The new JD Edwards EnterpriseOne In-Memory Applications provide users with new functionality by delivering immediate availability to summarization and simulations leveraging massive sets of broad and near real-time transactional information to aid in decision making, process accuracy and control.

Posted June 12, 2013

Yarra Valley Water (YVW) has implemented an Oracle Engineered Systems infrastructure to provide a standardized IT architecture aimed at helping the utility to improve business systems performance, achieve a better ROI and enhance customer service. The water provider is using Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system for running business applications and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, to consolidate its core systems and run its Oracle software.

Posted June 12, 2013

To help organizations make better decisions with big data, SAS has introduced SAS Decision Manager, which integrates predictive analytics, business rules, and data management. The announcement was made at The Premier Business Leadership Series event in Amsterdam, a business conference presented by SAS.

Posted June 11, 2013

DBTA and Tableau Present Webcast on Big Data Analytics - Wednesday, June 20

Posted June 11, 2013

At IBM Edge 2013 in Las Vegas, IBM announced enhancements across its systems portfolio. As part of the new offerings, IBM rolled out nine new Power Systems offerings, each providing advanced capabilities in big data analytics and cloud computing. the IBM i 25th Anniversary Edition.

Posted June 11, 2013

JackBe has released its Presto Real-Time Analytics Add-On With Terracotta BigMemory (RTA Add-On), which bundles Terracotta's enterprise-grade BigMemory in-memory data management platform for high performance in-memory analytics. According to the vendors, this combination of in-memory and analytics allows Presto to mash big data with live and transactional enterprise data into actionable dashboards faster.

Posted June 11, 2013

ParStream, a provider of real-time big data analytics technologies, has partnered with Panopticon, a visual data analysis software vendor, to offer a comprehensive solution focused on big data requirements of real-time analytics and advanced data visualization. The merging of Panopticon and ParStream technologies supports agile business intelligence operations relying on complex big data while requiring minimal, non-specialty hardware.

Posted June 11, 2013

Dell, Intel Corporation, and Revolution Analytics have announced the launch of the Big Data Innovation Center in Singapore. Merging the expertise of these three enterprises, the center provides extensive training programs, proof-of-concept capabilities and solution development support on big data and predictive analytic innovations for Asian markets.

Posted June 11, 2013

Business intelligence and analytics vendor Yellowfin has released the latest version of its BI software, Yellowfin 6.3 with enhancements that focus on three key product areas: collaboration, usability and data visualization. A key new feature of the new release is "Timeline," which enables users to monitor and understand their relationship with BI content and relevant decision-makers. Timeline records users' specific activities and interactions within Yellowfin in real-time. According to Yellowfin, the result is a searchable, personalized, chronological catalog of the particular movements of, and anything related to, each individual user within Yellowfin.

Posted June 11, 2013

Progress Software Corporation announced a new platform for building and managing applications on any cloud, mobile or social platform. The new software, Progress Pacific, is the foundation of a major PaaS (platform-as-a-service) transformation Progress previously announced. As part of this new platform, which will ship in the third quarter of 2013, Progress acquired Rollbase, Inc., a privately held independent software vendor, which provides point-and-click, drag-and-drop application-building tools in a standard browser.

Posted June 10, 2013

IBM announced new software, training and resources to help organizations create, test and deliver mobile and cloud applications aimed at enabling organizations' DevOps capabilities. The new initiatives expand the development capabilities of IBM's SmartCloud and IBM MobileFirst offerings. "We are getting a very clear message from our clients. The business and technical pressures they are facing to innovate, stay ahead of their competition and deliver better quality products to their clients is immense," Eric Naiburg, program director for ALM, DevOps and Agile Solutions, IBM, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 10, 2013

To address the increasing power requirements of mission-critical facilities, GE recently introduced its new TLE Series uninterruptible power supply (UPS) global platform. The TLE Series transformer-less, three-phase UPS applies GE's technology to provide facilities with operating efficiencies. The cost of power is a very big concern for data centers, Harry Handlin, director of Critical Power Applications for GE, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 10, 2013

Brandon Systems, a mainframe modernization tools vendor, recently acquired Jolly Giant Software Inc., a developer of terminal emulation software. This acquisition complements WIRE (Web Interface Rules Engine), Brandon's existing mainframe modernization product. Jolly Giant's flagship product, the QWS3270 PLUS emulator, will increase the breadth of Brandon's software line, Seth Hemley, president of Brandon Systems, tells 5 Minute Briefing.

Posted June 10, 2013

PMC, a semiconductor producer, announced a 24-port, PCIe Gen3 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapter, enabling new dense architectures for scale-out or space-limited data centers. The Adaptec 78165's 24-port native connectivity triples storage connectivity by replacing up to three eight-port RAID adapters, the vendor claims

Posted June 10, 2013

Expanding its position in the cloud computing market segment, IBM announced plans to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., a privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider headquartered in Dallas, Texas. IBM also announced the formation of a new Cloud Services division. Following the close of the acquisition of SoftLayer, which is expected in 3Q 2013, the new division will combine SoftLayer with IBM SmartCloud into a global platform.

Posted June 10, 2013

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