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IDC, in their new embedded market research forecast, Worldwide Embedded DBMS 2010-2014 forecast and 2009 Vendor Shares, name Oracle as leader for third consecutive year. Oracle has a commanding 30.3% of the embedded DBMS software revenue and is continuing to grow.

BEZVision is being extended to gather database performance statistics in the cloud and we should see some product releases by the end of 2010 according to BEZ. According to Dan Haley, BEZ president and CEO, “For a while now, we’ve been seeing our customers and others moving more of their infrastructure to cloud based platforms, […]

New Release of Sybase Liquidity Management Suite (LMS), with new modules and native support for Sybase’s RDBMS, Sybase ASE; enabling the storage of transactions collected within Sybase ASE. The integration of Sybase’s RDBMS, Sybase IQ will now allow for tracking in real-time bank treasuries; offering a more complete understanding and drill down for asset classes, […]

In a new survey conducted by Embarcadero, 72% of DBAs manage at least two different database environments with Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle at the top of the list, 62% and 60% respectively. The survey also noted that most DBAs also face having to manage multiple versions of these environments, 69% managing more than one […]

Ingres and Pentaho Form Strategic Relationship where Pentaho, provider of BI products, will be improved by Ingres VectorWise database and both Ingres and Pentaho products will be certified by both. Roger Burkhardt, CEO of Ingres, said: “Pentaho has led the charge in delivering agile BI and developing a core BI platform that makes it easy […]

Software AG now offers process-driven master data management (MDM) with acquisition of Data Foundations; helping to optimize business performance by allowing them to the ability to utilize information from differing data sources so the information can be used by different systems, SOAs, or business processes. Consistency of data across the organization will then help process […]

Unify has announced, for its embedded database, SQLBase 11.6 that provides enhanced database and analysis tools with better scalability and performance. New features, such as an enhanced control center, quicker administration, increase in various limits on columns and data types, and lock management, offer easier management of the database and smoother operations. “The release of […]

Migrate data from Hadoop or Pig to Vertica with speed and flexibility using the Vertica connector from Vertica Systems. Additionally, Vertica has announced plans to provide a backup option for Hadoop File System (HDFS) as well as publishing libraries so Hadoop can utilize Vertica’s advanced sorting, compression, and encoding. “As the first analytics platform provider […]

Kaminario, provider of DRAM storage will showcase increased data throughput by eliminating I/O wait times; providing improved levels of application and storage performance for SQL Server.

ClickSoftware’s Mobility Suite will run on Sybase mobility platforms such as SQL Anywhere embedded database and synchronization; focusing on building a business layer on existing mobility infrastructure platforms. “Our mobile strategy has always been to build business applications on top of leading mobile enterprise application platforms,” said Dr. Moshe BenBassat, CEO of ClickSoftware. “The recent […]

Fujitsu Australia Software Technology (FAST), with partnering from 2ndQuadrant, will offer ‘Follow the Sun’ 24×7 support for PostgreSQL; Both FAST and 2ndQuadrant have been contributors in the open source PostgreSQL and with offices in US, Europe, and Australia can effectively breing valuable 24 hour support to customers. “Fujitsu is honoured to partner with 2ndQuadrant on […]

Embarcadero will, in a webinar, present how to optimize queries for Sybase ASE database; presenting what manuals have left out, choosing the proper optimizer mode, and get speed from queries. This webinar will be offered at three different times, all on October 21.