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Global bootcamps from IBM will educate clients, business partners, and college students on using IBM analytics, information management software, and underlying technologies; educating them to meet Big Data challenges. Those going through the training will learn such things as how to use InfoSphere, DB2, Informix, Optim, and Guardium software, many Big Data management and analysis […]

Devart has released new versions of dbExpress products, lightweight database drivers, for faster access to Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, and Firebird; providing independent library for each supported server that will implement common dbExpress interfaces for queries and procedures. The new versions released include: dbExpress Driver 4.80 for Oracle ,dbExpress driver 4.75 for SQL […]

IBM and SAP test in-memory appliance software and have announced incredible performance results; showing the software handles 10,000 queries every hour for 1.3 TB of data. All tests scenarios were based on query workloads that are typical in a SAP enterprise resource planning reporting requirements. Tests were based on the SAP In-Memory computing technology and […]

Jaspersoft has been named within Gartner’s 2010 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms; proving its breadth and scope of Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition version 3.7 but also providing a testament to future releases such as the revamped version 4. The new version takes the award winning suite and now features a completely web-based architecture and customizable […]

The Oracle Exadata Database has helped Sogeti consolidate their OLTP applications and data warehousing reporting Databases; providing better performance, achieving higher levels of availability, and simplifying database administration and performance tuning tasks. The application performance improvements were increased an average of 6x, took advantage of Exadata Smart Flash Cache, and delivered over 500,000 IOPS.

OpenSpan has announced its support for Oracle Complex Processing; enabling for the monitoring of user activity in real-time for fraud and compliance risks. The software from OpenSpan allows events to be correlated and responded to; enabling the monitoring of relevant user activity within applications and giving a customized event stream to Oracle CEP in real-time […]

Centroid, a gold-level member of OPN and helps clients measure business value and improve ROI, reaches Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) specialization for Oracle Database 11g. Reaching Specialized status requires OPN members to meet stringent requirements tahat are based on needs and priorities of customers and the partner community. Centroid was recognized by Oracle for its expertise […]

Karmasphere has announced it now supports the Cloudera CDH3 Beta 4 version of the Hadoop Big Data platform; keeping up to date with the Hadoop evolution and enabling customers that to focus on tasks at hand while being insulated from the specifics of their Big Data infrastructure.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) has announced plans to make running Oracle Database 11g available in the Cloud. You can learn about the many ways to run Oracle software in the Amazon cloud through a webinar either on March 15 or March 16th, 9am and 5pm PST respectively.

Application Security, Inc. promotes within while demand increases for database security, risk, and compliance solutions; moving Josh Shaul into the CTO role. Mr. Shaul will be responsible for implementing long-term technology strategy as well as taking responsibility for defining the next generation of Application Security, Inc’s product suite. Mr. Shaul is expected to translate customer […]

Imperva announces the availability of SecureSphere 8.5; extending Imperva’s data security solution, combining network and local monitoring with agents for data platforms that include Windows file servers and mainframe databases. SecureSphere 8.5 has added Windows File Server agents as well as DB2 z/OS mainframe database agents for monitoring and auditing and agents for open systems […]

Provider of support and consulting services for MySQL, Percona, celebrates supporting their 1000th customer. Founded in 2006 and having a staff of 50 people globally, Percona provides MySQL support to companies such as Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Groupon, the BBC, and StumbleUpon; attributing success to heir lower system downtime, faster time to market, cost savings, state-of-the-art solutions, […]