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Bradmark Technologies Inc. has announced that its SurveillanceDB version 4.3 is scheduled to be available in the second quarter of 2010; providing DBAs with a single source for managing multi-OS system enterprises. SurveillanceDB: Has client/agent based architecture with n+1 scalability to any number of servers Ensures data integrity by monitoring the OS Manages multi-database, multi-OS […]

The co-winners of The Asian Banker’s Best Customer Relationship Management Applications Award 2010 are Maybank and its information technology vendor Teradata Corporation. Teradata and Maybank worked together to develop their Event Based Management system which comprises of: Teradata Relationship Manager, which connects detailed views of each customer relationships to ensure significant, relevant, and timely communications […]

On Thursday, April 29, Continuent will be holding a one hour webinar on database maintenance and schema upgrade to avoid downtime in business-critical systems. The webinar will cover: Basics of large-system maintenance Tungsten clustering Maintaining and replacing existing hardware Adding capacity to current systems Migrating MySQL databases to new versions And upgrading application schema The […]

While many companies main concern for putting Oracle databases on VMware is performance, their other major concern is its licensing. Especially with x86 server chips which have a large number of processor cores. This is because Oracle views VMware technology as soft partitioning and an environment where end users should license the complete server, regardless […]

Oracle has unveiled the new Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g that helps deliver on a comprehensive set of business-driven IT management capabilities. The new Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g introduces: Business-driven application management; improving IT responsiveness to business priorities and managing of key metrics for user experience and business transactions Integrated application-to-disk management; eliminating the need for […]

Database vendor EnterpriseDB, and their Postgres Plus Advanced Server, have been chosen by managed hosting provider Contegix to power high-transaction, mission critical applications. Contegix’s state of the art data center offers web hosting services with 100 percent uptime and strict SLAs that brought them to look at and select EnterpriseDB’s enterprise-class open source database platform. […]

Having reached release-to-manufacturing status, Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 is now scheduled to be released, first on May 3 to subscribers of Microsoft’s TechNet and MSDN professional services, and then globally on May 13. The Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 are all going to be released; however, the Parallel Data […]

Markit, a global financial information services company, chose Sybase RAP to power their market share analytics platform. Sybase RAP is an optimized analytics server that has provided Markit with the performance needed to handle thousands of users that perform queries against large amounts of real and historic data. Said Will Meldrum, Managing Director – Equities […]

Customers of New York Internet (NYI) can now take advantage of the high performance, customizable backup solutions of R1Soft Continuous Data Protection. R1Soft’s CDP solution offers: Disk-to-disk server backup for Windows, Linux, and MySQL Quick restoration of data by R1Soft’s Bare-Metal Restore Restoration of any combination of tables and/or databases to alternate locations by R1Soft’s […]

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is looking at shipping out later this year with Business Intelligence, widening the scoop of BI across the enterprise. The new server, delivered in SQL Server 2008, is a self service BI and looks to bring intuitive tools to help maximize returns on investment and increase the IT efficiency. Being […]

HCL Infosystems recently migrated their core banking software to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (Oracle Weblogic 11g) and Oracle Database 11g—facilitating faster transactions and operations and managing more transactions. For Oracle database 11g, it has enabled banks offer high service quality and availability while helping to secure and protect data to meet regulatory compliance needs.

Join this webinar on April 30 to see how XteremeData is leveraging Cray technology to develop analytic data warehouse and data mart platforms. Starting in Q2 of 2010 with the Cray CX1™ deskside supercomputer this platform is said to drastically change current limitations of performance, size, and scale. To begin with, XtremeData will give a […]