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A high-performance, open source, and incremental backup tool, WebCron Site Backup, now offers secure backups for MySQL databases as well as files; generating both emails and reports since last backup as required. WebCron Site Backup integrates well with any website and can perform incremental updates for files and MySQL databases; giving operators any easy way […]

As hackers continue to seek loopholes into corporate data, the focus from structured data, such as database records, may switch to unstructured data in the form of files (word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, transcripts, lab reports, etc.). Imperva’s Asia-Pacific vice president Stree Naidu said that “While most business applications use structured storage such as databases to […]

Drupal 7 has added the ability for sites using open-source content management systems may now embed semantic meta-data; adding native support for W3C’s RDFa for turning human readable data into machine readable and giving more detail to search engines. Also available is a built-in test environment, version upgrade manager, and a database abstraction layer for […]

Autotask Corporation and Cloud Service Depot have announced an integration of data services for MSPs; allowing MSPs to manage remote NOC services and automate data synchronization to remove costs associated with managing multiple service partners and platforms. Autotask integration is free for all Cloud Services Depot resellers who use Autotask to manage IT businesses.

Information Builders has developed a tool, InfoMini in WebFocus InfoAssist, to help business users / non-technical users generate reports, dashboards, and gadgets for business intelligence; helping to build BI functionality across the enterprise. Through the use of InfoMini, users can build applications to customize or filter reports into any format to meet an end user’s […]

Cognitive Match deploys InfiniDB as part of their platform that provides e-commerce companies with visitor insight and optimized marketing. InfiniDB, from provider Calpont Corporation, is a scalable and high-performance column-oriented analytic database. For Cognitive Match, the upgrade from MySQL to InfiniDB was required to help meet data processing performance needs for fast data loading and […]

Talend will be conducting a webinar on the why and how to industrialize of data integration as well as the role of open source data integration. Join them on helping you understand what data integration is, such as the difference between operational and analytic data integration, as well as the benefits and role of open […]

Triton consulting and DBI Software announce partnership; bringing DB2 experts and tools together for delivering DB2 services and software solutions to a global market. DBI brings database monitoring, tuning, and trending tools that can be combined with Triton’s remote DBA service; enhancing Triton consulting service while providing a conduit for selling a range of DBI […]

Toad has extended support for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) with a beta kick-off of Toad for Sybase; offering an integrated Sybase ASE management tool to help DBAs improve Sybase ASE performance as well as DBA productivity. A beta is available for download and will initially be released as freeware this March 2011. As part […]

Cloudera, provider of Hadoop-based data management software sponsors Apache Software Foundation (ASF); extending its support and commitment to open source through organizational, legal, and financial support of a variety of Apache licensed projects. Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera commented that “The entire Hadoop community benefits enormously from ASF support. Cloudera is pleased and proud to […]

The critical trends in data theft, as well as strategies in safeguarding corporate data will be presented in a webinar (on-demand) by Guardium (an IBM company). Christopher Novak will present insights from nearly 900 breaches from 2010 that include backdoors, SQL injections, database server breaches, security basics, migration, monitoring databases, implementing auditing policies, policy-based blocking, […]

Application Security, Inc. will be hosting a webinar where viewers can learn about the top database security threats as well as tips to help protect against them. TeamSHATTER will lead the webinar and discuss new security threats, emerging security threats, and strategies for the 2011 new year. Included will be tips and trends related to […]