Lisa Vaas

Responding to customers growing demand for Linux support, PeerDirect Corp., an operating company of Progress Software Corp., on Monday will announce native support for Linux on its flagship suite, PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise. Officials said the move will enable customers to decentralize and distribute database-driven business applications to far-flung locations using Linux-based application servers and databases. […]

Database security tool makers Application Security Inc. and Eruces Inc. are responding to customers demands that databases be secured against a rising flood of attacks. ASI is joining with nCipher Inc. Ltd. to produce a hardware/software database security module, in addition to rolling out an updates to its database security software for Microsoft Corp.s SQL […]

Linux wannabes can take the Linux Professional Institute certification test for free at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, next week at the Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center, in New York. The test, which otherwise costs $100 in the United States, will be offered in Room 1E04 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. […]

OuterBay Technologies on Monday will roll out its Application Data Management suite, software that allows enterprises to monitor and manage data growth. The ADM suite consists of three key components: ARM (Application Resource Manager), Instance Generator and LiveArchive. ARM allows users to monitor, detect, diagnose and resolve data growth thats gotten out of hand. The […]

Application Security Inc. on Monday rolled out an IBM DB2 version of its AppDetective application security vulnerability scanner. The scanning and penetration-testing software performs network-based penetration tests and security audits. AppDetective locates and identifies a variety of applications within a network, including those running on DB2 and Lotus Domino databases, as well as on databases […]

dbaDirect Inc. has put a new, interactive, graphical interface on its clientDirect Portal, a hosted Web-based user information portal that provides customers with a view of their database environment. clientDirect features a homepage that displays a five-tab layout. New viewing features in Version 2 include Event Calendar, Event Graphing, Event Summary Matrix, Advanced Event Search […]

Dec. 20 was supposed to be Michael Emmons D-Day, the day he was to lose his contractor position. It would have been, had Emmons not quit his post at Siemens AGs Siemens Information and Communication Networks division, in Lake Mary, Fla., on Nov. 22 rather than wait to be replaced by a worker from Tata […]

Whether its determining what constitutes a milk quality grade or finding out when you can dig for clams in Narragansett Bay, the citizens of Rhode Island are some of the first in the nation who can find their government-issued dictates on systems created with open-source tools. Rhode Island put itself on the cutting edge of […]

New tools from 4D Inc. and FMS Inc., respectively, will aid developers who use Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X and Microsoft Corp.s Access extensively. 4D this week at Macworld Expo in San Francisco will unveil 4th Dimension 2003 for Mac OS X, a database development suite that features integrated Web services support for XML, […]

Protegrity Inc. is rolling out security packages for leading databases that combine software with cryptographic hardware to provide enhanced key management capabilities. The Secure.Data F3 package automates encryption and separates duties between database administrators and security officers, enabling centralized management of encryption parameters. It uses NCipher Corporation Ltd.s cryptographic hardware, which is certified to Federal […]