Brian Fonseca

Looking to provide database administrators with improved failover options wrapped around better management and performance, Sybase Inc. on Tuesday announced a number of new features to its Replication Server software. Sybases Replication Server 12.6 enables DBAs to more easily prepare and set up multiple redundant standby sites, allowing the disaster recovery site database to function […]

Driven by the cost of buying and managing a mounting number of storage devices coupled with pressure to comply with financial reporting requirements, IT organizations are looking for better ways to classify and manage corporate data. Princeton Softech Inc. and OuterBay Technologies Inc. are among the data management software vendors looking to better enable content […]

Progress Software Corp. opened its wallet late last week to the amount of $88 million to purchase all the assets and certain subsidiaries of DataDirect Technologies Ltd., a standards-based data access software provider. DataDirects revenue projected this year and ending in April 2004 is forecasted to reach the low $40 million range, according to Bud […]

Oracle this week issued a high severity security alert warning of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) vulnerabilities that will require the immediate attention of managers to apply patch fixes on at-risk systems. According to an Oracle Security Alert issued on Thursday, the notification addresses SSL vulnerabilities detailed in CERT Advisory CA-2003-26 and SSL vulnerabilities detailed in […]

Microsoft on Friday issued a hotfix aimed at distributed queries that may incorrectly use SQL Server startup account permissions when SQL Server 2000 is running in Fiber Mode. Distributed queries with a linked server may use the SQL Server startup for making a connection to the linked server rather than the configured linked server account, […]

Nesting IBMs DB2 Universal Database offerings comfortably atop the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server platform looks to be among the first objectives for a new group aimed at Linux integration. Announced on Thursday by IBM and SuSE Linux AG, the new Software Integration Center is located at IBMs Toronto lab. The Center will initially focus upon […]

Red Gate Software pulled the covers off its revamped automation software developer toolkit this week to help database administrators avoid programming mishaps and clean up the clutter in their Microsoft SQL Server production and testing environments. SQL Comparison and Synchronization Toolkit Version 3.0 has been rebuilt to satisfy Microsoft .Net and to simplify the creation […]

With an eye toward pruning more from enterprise data and pushing mobile information access to new boundaries, Sybase Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a pair of internally implemented applications putting its “Unwired” corporate mantra to work. Shown before an audience at the Forbes CIO Forum in Dallas, these new tools, Sybases executive leadership Mobile Dashboard and […]

Major storage companies are working on new management tools that focus on disaster recovery and give users new options in workflow management, regulatory compliance and database management—all of which are tailored to specific hardware. IBM is planning to launch in May Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator for Tivoli Storage Resource Manager, officials of the Austin, Texas, […]

Enhanced data management offerings from IBM and Oracle Corp. aim to enable faster decision making by integrating geospatial data across multiple systems and mobile devices. IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., is working with GIS (geographic information systems) software vendor Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., known as ESRI, to construct an integrated technology stack packaging ESRI technology […]

JNetDirect Inc. next week will announce the availability of JSecureConnect, its Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver that enables secure access to a variety of databases. In addition, the company plans to introduce its JSQL-Mapper product into beta release in December, according to Burke Cox, president and CEO of Herndon, Va.-based JNetDirect. Expected to be released […]

Buoyed by a new Java API (application programming interface) and enhanced replication features, Sleepycat Software on Tuesday introduced a beefed-up version of its open source Berkeley DB data management software. According to officials of the Lincoln, Mass.-based company the new Java API within Berkley DB version 4.2 is based upon the Java collections standard. Sleepycat […]