DatabaseJournal.com Staff

The Info Security Products Guide recognizes and awards companies who have proven database security solutions and that help customers mitigate risk and improve overall security. This year, at the Info Security Products Guide Awards Dinner, the 2010 Global Product Excellence Award ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the database security group was bestowed upon Sentrigo’s Hedgehog Enterprise v3.5. […]

This release of Sybase’s SQL Anywhere database will make Sybase the first vendor to offer the development of data-driven spatial applications for leading smartphone devices as well as synchronize of spatial data; giving organizations the ability to provide field workers with access to spatiaal and business data in a scalable way. Said David Sonnen, IDC’s […]

MaxxCAT’s new version release (1.5) of its JDBC connector is said to outperform other search appliances, will be an upgrade to prvious EX-5000 appliances, and an available option for new appliances–allowing for any JDBC compliant database to talk directly to the MaxxCAT appliance.

Large volumes of binary large objects (BLOB) in a database can result in reduced performance and increased SQL licensing cost. To combat this, AvePoint designed DocAve Extender, which now provides beta support for SharePoint 2010. DocAve Extender is a free tool for Microsoft SharePoint’s SQL Server database that offloads BLOB content to disk-based storage, while […]

Novell and Ingres have formed a new partnership. The Ingres database can now help ISVs quickly deploy and package Linux based software on SUSE Studio. Where before developers had to upload and integrate their own database, now Ingres has a SUSE Studio Appliance Template for the database that removes countless steps in order to include […]

IBM is scheduled to completely absorb Guardium into its Information Management software group sometime later this year where partners will be asked to sign up to IBM’s Software ValueNet partner program. However, the database security vendor is not planning to simply disappear, nor will IBM completely absorb Guardium and squander Guardium’s advantage in the marketplace. […]

Thinking of moving to cloud-based database and a virtual environment? While it does offer nice benefits there are some set backs that one needs to remember and consider: Deployment: Common security technologies may not be allowed to be deployed and could violate your service contract or the might not be accommodated by the infrastructure. Visibility: […]

New York Life Insurance Taiwan Corporation (NYLITC) is using the real-time operational data replication (ODR) software and change data capture (CDC) technology from Attunity Ltd. to provide their 1,500 front-line agents the ability to access and manage customer profiles without delays or out-of-date information. What was once a very labor intensive and slow process of […]

The Eclipse Connected Data Objects (CDO) Model Repository store plug-in will be made available through Eclipse.org on March 22, 2010; providing a share model framework for Eclipse Model Framework (EMF) models and meta models that easily allows a variety of pluggable technologies to build complete prototypes with less development time. Objectivity CEO and President, Jay […]

At the Open Source Business Conference 2010, EnterpriseDB’s President and Chief Executive Officer Ed Boyajian will give a presentation titled “Database Disruption Finally Underway: The Biggest Infrastructure Market Yet to Fall to Open Source” on March 18, 2010 from 3:00-3:50 p.m. PT at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Boyajian’s presentation will discuss how companies […]

Oracle announced the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center to increase the extensive capabilities of OEM to help manage physical and virtual Sun environments. It’s tools can address stages across the entire system lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, updating , monitoring and management. Important features include the full lifecycle management of Oracle Solaris Containers […]

DBMoto, the Change Data Capture and Data Replication solution by HiT Software, Inc., is now interoperable with the data warehouse and analytic appliances from Netezza. Tests for interoperability included scalability, performance, and delta detection & change data capture–adding to the list of already supported databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2). Said Giacomo Lorenzin, […]