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PostgreSQL earlier this week released an update to eRServer that now supports multiple slaves in master-to-slave replications. PostgreSQL Inc. CEO Geoff Davidson told eWEEK that Friday the company will announce that it is teaming with Lanux Ltd. to offer high-speed, hot-failover capabilities in its eRServer commercial replication software. The high-availability technology from Lanux, of Toronto, […]
BMC Software Inc. and ActiveBase Ltd. are delivering tools to enable databases to recover faster from crashes. Houston-based BMC this week is announcing seven data management tools for IBMs DB2 running in mainframe or distributed environments. BMCs Recovery Management for DB2 1.1 features automatic selection of optimally efficient recovery strategies. The tool also lets database […]
Application Security Inc. this week will make available an IBM DB2 version of its AppDetective, a network-based, penetration testing tool and security audit scanner for databases. AppDetective has three modes of operation: Scan, Pen Test and Audit. Scan searches a network for databases and database components. Pen Test is a penetration test that performs brute-force […]
Sybase Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. today announced that they will prepackage Sybases Adaptive Server Enterpriserelational database management system running under the HP-UX or Red Hat Linux operating system on HP Itanium 2-based servers. Sybase is also planning to roll out a version of ASE that runs on HPs forthcoming EV7 processor-based AlphaServer systems—a move that […]
BMC Software Inc. and ActiveBase Ltd. are coming out with new ways to recover faster from database crash and burn. Houston-based BMC on Monday will announce seven new data management tools for IBMs DB2 database management system running in both mainframe and distributed environments. Recovery Management for DB2 1.1 features automatic selection of optimally efficient […]
3D spatial visualization product maker Skyline Software Systems Inc. Tuesday rolled out support for Oracle Corp.s 9i database in TerraExplorer Pro 4.1, a network-enabled tool for creating, viewing, editing and publishing photo-realistic, interactive, 3D environments. Skyline, of Woburn, Mass., sells the tool to federal and local government bodies, including military agencies, to use in mission […]
PeerDirect Corp., a recent spinoff of Progress Software Corp., this week will release a suite of products that replicates bidirectionally, distributes and synchronizes data across heterogeneous database environments. New in the PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise suite beyond the bidirectional technology that Progress Software had already made available is full application replication. This means that applications deployed […]
This holiday season, InterSystems Corp. plans to give Mac users an enterprise-level database. The Cambridge, Mass., company, one of the larger makers of embedded databases, on Monday will announce that it plans to take advantage of Apple Computer Inc.s push into the enterprise by rolling out a Mac OS X version of its Caché database. […]
BOSTON—Oracle Corp. Vice President of Marketing Rene Bonvanie on Wednesday opened the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo 2002 by demonstrating a simulation of an “unbreakable” eight-node cluster running the companys Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Cluster) technology on top of Linux. With equipment set up to resemble database servers and four application servers, Bonvanie flipped […]
Two open-source database developers are upgrading their respective software in an effort to make them more attractive to the enterprise. Open-source database leader MySQL AB, of Uppsala, Sweden, this week will announce Version 4.0.5 of its namesake database with support for IBMs zSeries servers running the Linux and AIX operating systems. While such support is […]