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IBM is working on new technology that extends the reach of its DB2 Information Integrator software to let users dig out data from every corner of an enterprise, whether in a data warehouse or outside of it. The technology, code-named Masala, is designed to push the limits of DB2 Information Integrator, according to Nelson Mattos, […]

Database management vendors The Progress Co. and BMC Software Inc. are each forging strategic partnerships to help keep databases up and running and synchronized like finely tuned Swiss clocks. Progress, a unit of Progress Software Corp., is joining an application hosting company—NaviSite Inc.—to offer brawny business continuity services. Progress, of Bedford, Mass., is pairing its […]

SAN FRANCISCO—With the message that “The grid has landed” blaring full-blast, Oracle Corp. announced the technology underpinnings of that vision at OracleWorld in San Francisco on Monday: Oracle Database 10G, Oracle Application Server 10G and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10G. Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips, in an opening keynote that eschewed any mention of PeopleSoft Inc. […]

DBAssociatesIT Corp. is aiming to make backup and recovery of Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server databases fast and painless with SQL LiteSpeed 3, the latest version of its database backup tool. SQL LiteSpeed 3, which the company released on Thursday, features a data compression and encryption engine fronted by a graphical console that offers guided backup […]

Oracle Corp. partners including InfoCyclone, XIOTech Corp. and SofTrek are unleashing a torrent of products and services to speed Oracle databases, whether youre talking query speeds, technology to hasten cluster rollouts or outsourcing to quickly get Oracle work out of your hair. Israel-based InfoCyclone will launch the latest version of its self-named database acceleration appliance […]

Eight months after the SQL Slammer worm threw SQL Server database administrators into a tizzy, Microsoft Corp. is committing itself to providing semiautomatic updates that will patch holes in the enterprise database. The Redmond, Wash., company began working on automatic patching immediately after Slammer struck in late January, according to SQL Server Group Product Manager […]

Gupta Technologies LLC is prepping an upgrade to its SQLBase embedded database that promises to simplify application deployment and run at greater speeds. To achieve that simplification, SQLBase 8.5 will allow multiple servers to run in isolation on a single machine—a feature that will be important for VARs and ISVs, according to Gupta officials, in […]

Gupta Technologies LLC is prepping a version of its embedded database, SQLBase, that promises to simplify application deployment and run at far greater speeds. To achieve that simplification, SQLBase 8.5 will allow multiple servers to run in isolation on a single machine—a feature that will be important for VARs and ISVs, according to Gupta officials […]

IBM has launched work on a research and development project that promises to extend the reach of its DB2 Information Integrator software until it can dig out data from every corner of an enterprise, whether inside or out of data warehouses, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of Information Integration Nelson Mattos told eWEEK on Tuesday. […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to whet the appetite of small and midsize businesses for a major update of its SQL Server database—code-named Yukon—with a liberal helping of Yukon-ready applications. Its main tool is a program the Redmond, Wash., company calls Yukon Ascend, which encourages ISVs to make applications available for use with Yukon. The first phase […]