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Jitterbit Enterprise Cloud Edition, a cloud based data integration service running on Amazon EC2, is now being offered by Jitterbit. Jitterbit’s cloud solution has 250 connectors for databases and applications, supports data connections over VPN, and is unique in that, instead of charging per connection, it uses a $799 per month subscription license fee. Jitterbit […]

At its annual conference C-Drive, Compellent took a survey to see what kind of storage needs its customers faced. Over 180 customers responded, with more than a third telling Compellent that structured data like databases and customer applications presented their biggest growth challenge, though many said unstructured data grew more. Says Compellent, “The results of […]

Oracle adds JavaFX composer and PHP tools to the new NetBeans IDE release, expanding the types of apps developers can build. Prior to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, One of the questions asked was whether or not the NetBeans IDE would continue under Oracle ownership. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) gave the market a definitive answer this […]

Franz, Inc. has just announced AllegroGraph 4.0, a native RDF database capable of Enterprise Online Transaction Processing. Said Bill Guinn, CTO of Amdocs Product Enabler Group, “Semantic technologies such as Franz’s AllegroGraph database, can enable real-time, 24/7 customer insight that is both predictive and personalized for each customer. When used to power a decision engine […]

Microsoft’s SQL Azure database will soon be undergoing some changes. However, these changes are simply an increased size limit. The SQL Azure Web Edition will grow from 1 GB to 5 GB, while the Business Edition will grow from 10 GB to 50 GB. Proportionate price changes will also be accompanying the increased size.

Partners Ingres Corporation and Elegant have worked together to design the Hooligan Tracking System to help the Dutch Police track hooliganism and prevent incidents at football games around Europe. Ingres’ open source database is the foundation holding the records of violent incidents, hooligans’ backgrounds, and trends in behavior, while Elegant provided the modeling tool Elegance […]

Helping the need and growing demand for open source databases, Interactive Ideas will be marketing, reselling, and fully supporting EnterpriseDB’s Postrges Plus database. “Partnering with Interactive Ideas — one of the largest open source distributors in Europe — is a key milestone for us as we further our commitment to bringing cost-effective database alternatives to […]

Quest’s patent-pending fast compression can aid in SQL Server backup performance, reducing the backup footprint and enabling IT to cut their storage costs. LiteSpeed also reduces backup times, improves database recoverability, and has the ability to manage the complete backup process by backing up just database changes, validate backup integrity, and clean old backups from […]

Validating database and security solutions, Sentrigo has been recognized by Red Herring along with innovative companies across North America. “Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Harring. The next step in the selection is that of selecting the […]

DBAs now have another free, but scaled down, tool to help in the analysis of Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and DB2/LUW systems. As the free tool uses the same agent-less and low-load monitoring of the full product this might be a nice way to dive into response-time analysis without having to remove a trial product […]

HomeRun version 7.0, a suite of application and database optimization tools for the i/OS platform from Centerfield, has been released. HomeRun contains components for performance monitoring, tuning, resource consumption, security, and auditing for users DB2/400 applications. HomeRun also includes AutoDBA, a “built-in surrogate database administrator,” which makes suggestions on complex DB2/400 performance issues, and provides […]

The SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit June 2010 is now available. A resource designed to help developers take advantage of the benefits brought by SQL Server 2008 R2, this updated Training Kit outlines improvements for use of SQL Server 2008 R2 with Excel 2010 with PowerPivot along with SharePoint 2010. New […]