Lisa Vaas

Sybase inc. is tackling TCO with the latest version of its enterprise DBMS: Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1. The update, due this week, has new features aimed at improving the total cost of ownership of ASE through better manageability and 24-by-7 uptime, according to Sybase officials, in Dublin, Calif. One such feature is dynamic sizing of […]

IBM has patched recently uncovered security vulnerabilities in its DB2 Universal Database, but the process it followed has left some security researchers wondering if the company is too tight-lipped on the subject. One researcher is security company Application Security Inc., which last week found two holes in DB2. These follow two major vulnerabilities, reported Sept. […]

Sybase Inc. is tackling TCO with the latest version of its enterprise database, Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1, released next week. New goodies are aimed at better manageability and at keeping the database up 24×7. One such self-management feature is dynamic sizing of caches, a capability that will spare DBAs (database administrators) from having to shut […]

IBMs DB2 UDB enterprise relational database has two more holes, adding up to a total of six reported within the past three weeks. The two most recent security vulnerabilities were reported on Thursday by security firm PenTest Ltd. The first is a stack-based overflow vulnerability found in DB2s Invoke command. Normally, the Invoke command triggers […]

With skyrocketing IT unemployment as a backdrop, the U.S. Congress let the H-1B visa limit drop back to 65,000 on Tuesday. The limit on H-1B visas had been boosted to 195,000 in 2000 in response to companies that claimed they couldnt hire enough domestic talent to fuel the dot-com bubble. Even then this assertion was […]

Two major databases have sprung security leaks. The security firm Application Security Inc. reported this week that IBMs DB2 Universal Database and MySQL ABs MySQL open-source database have a total of three vulnerabilities that range from low- to high-risk levels. The first DB2 weakness is a buffer overflow in db2dart. This entails a UDP service […]

Versant Corp. is hooking up with SolarMetric Inc. to get JDO (Java Data Objects) technology into its Versant object database, officials announced on Tuesday. Versant, of Fremont, Calif., will resell SolarMetrics flagship product, Kodo JDO, and will OEM that product in order to deliver JDO functionality. JDO is an industry standard that enables the use […]

IBM Tuesday put out four tools to help with the programming, data mining and replication monitoring of its DB2 Universal Database, company officials announced. The data-mining tool is WebSphere Studio Plug-in for DB2 Intelligent Miner, a graphical front-end for DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring/Modeling. It allows users to add data-mining abilities to applications. Officials said in […]

Oracle Corp. is putting a component called Oracle Internet Directory at the core of the security perimeter in its upcoming 10g grid-computing technology. Oracle Internet Directory is an LDAP directory with an Oracle database back end that leverages the databases scalability, high-availability and security features, according to Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson. The […]

The DNA sequence of the entire human genome was mapped as of April, but the battle to keep that massive amount of data available and protected rages on at places such as The Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University Medical School. Established in 1993 with a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute at […]

In a deal worth $26 million, object-oriented database companies Versant Corp. and Poet Holdings Inc. are merging, Versant officials announced on Monday. Versant will swap 1.4 shares of Versant Common Stock for each Poet share. The Versant stock that will be given to Poet shareholders represents about 45 percent of outstanding shares. The move was […]

Users demanded SQL Server bond tighter with Visual Studio .Net, and Microsoft Corp. has since heeded the call, putting into beta testers hands a version that opens the database up to .Net-compliant languages. The next version of SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” was originally slated for a spring 2004 release. That deadline was pushed out to […]