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Delphix will present solution at Oracle user groups and technology conference; showcasing their databse virtualization solution with improved agility, manageability, and performance. The solution will be presented at the Technology Convergence Conference (TCC), Wednesday, February 23rd, at 2:30 PM, and two regional Oracle user group meetings.

Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services 1.7.0 has been released; allowing for the exporting of native Excel reports in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services with additional ability to allow DL reports to be converted to: Excel 97-2003 binary XLS format, SpreadsheetML or the Excel2007 XLSX format. Additional features in the release include creation of matrix template […]

Info Security Products Guide, an information security research and advisory guide, names StorHouse from FileTek as winner. FileTek plays in the large-scale storage virtualization and data management space where their StorHouse is a proven storage virtualization, data management, and digital preservation system for administering large amounts of structured and unstructured fixed content, historical and persistent […]

DBSophic’s Qure for SQL Server implements workload tuning and can boost application performance by performing workload tuning that optimizes the entire database workload automatically. At a recent deployment, for SUPER RTL in Germany, Qure for SQL Server helped applications run two to three times faster than before.

Oracle Austria is organizing an Oracle Security Summit; helping attendees learn about the breadth and depth of Oracle Security Solutions and how other organizations are using proven solutions to protect their mission critical information, reduce risk, and meet compliance obligations.

OmBelt Solutions releases export tool for DB2; allowing users to generate a set of SQL statements that can be ported to remote servers and ran. The tool is wizard based and easy to use. A command line interface is also supported in the professional version.

Icinga 1.3.0 provides superior database connectivity; optimizing support for major database platforms that includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Included within the new release was improved IPv6 support; allowing extra IPv6 addresses to be assigned to a single host, and optimized performance in the web interface.

Teradata has been declared the top rated enterprise data warehouse strategy by Forrester Research, Inc.; stating that Teradata is most scalable, flexible, cloud-capable EDW solution in today’s market and has earned the highest possible score for criteria that included scalability, performance,e and optimization, mixed workload management, deployment, and execution flexibility.

The leader of column-based database software, SAND Technology Inc., announces its continued expansion into the Australian market; filling the every growing database market in Asia Pacific and around the world. Leading the charge into the Australian expansion will be Chris Butchers who has come to SAND with over 25 years of experience in the software […]

Quest and HealthCast partner to provide single-sign-on and clinical workflow solution that can simplify and automate secure access to protected health care information. Quest’s vWorkspace and healthCast’s QwickACCESS will improve security as well as speed up the access to records, physician modules, and documentation; improving data security, IT infrastructure, and support costs.

New versions of VCL Data Access Components from Devart (Universal Data Access Components 3.60, Oracle Data Access Components 7.10, and PostgreSQL Data Access Components 2.10) provide NexusDB support, improved SQLite functaionality, enhanced direct mode functionality for Oracle, and highspeed PostgreSQL performance.

Sentrigo Hedgehog DBscanner is winner of 2011 Global Excellence Award from Info Security Products Guide within the Best Security Software Product category. Also to note, Hedgehog DBscanner was also named a finalist in the Vulnerability Assessment/Remediation/Management category.