Lisa Vaas

IBM Tuesday rolled out a beta version of the first product to come out of its years-long Xperanto data integration research project. Consisting of two products, the DB2 Information Integrator and the DB2 Information Integrator for Content, the software encapsulates IBMs goal to help customers access, integrate and analyze all forms of data within and […]

The patches that could have stopped last weeks attack on Microsoft Corp. database software were so difficult to install or so poorly publicized that some of Microsofts own database administrators failed to install them. The Redmond, Wash., developer released last July patch MS02-039 to fix a known vulnerability in its SQL Server database and wrapped […]

Computer Associates International Inc. is consolidating a line of database utilities and bundling it for free with an upgrade to its Unicenter Database Management for DB2 for z/OS and OS/390. CA Value Pack for DB2, which is being announced this week along with the Unicenter upgrade, streamlines and automates database tasks, according to officials at […]

A federal court on Friday sentenced former brain-dump site owner Robert Keppel to 12 months and one day in prison, as well as ordering him to pay $500,000 in restitution to Microsoft Corp. Keppel, owner of the defunct brain dump sites CheetSheets.com and Cheet-Sheets.com, in August pleaded guilty to charges of theft of trade secrets, […]

Nowadays, IT professionals who are not angry about offshore outsourcing of IT work are likely a) still employed and b) not scared enough about the imminent loss of their jobs. Judging by data presented at a conference on business process outsourcing within the financial services industry in Boston last week, it is high time to […]

IBM on Wednesday made a $500 million pledge to helps its 90,000 business partners snag a chunk of the $300 billion small-and-medium business marketplace. Big Blue is putting the money into a broad initiative, called the IBM SMB (Small and Medium Business) Advantage, that will consist of channel-enablement activities, incentives, demand-generation tools and teaming opportunities, […]

Versant Corp. and Embarcadero Technologies Inc. are each rolling out new and enhanced tools to better manage and monitor databases. Versant, of Fremont, Calif., last week introduced VMC (Versant Monitoring Console), a systems management software tool that enables visual, real-time monitoring of operational parameters and status of Versant object databases. Versants Object Database Management System […]

IBM and Partner Voltaire Inc. last week at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York introduced technologies that will enable enterprises to scale their Linux-based applications running on DB2 databases. IBMs new DB2 for Linux Clustering solution lets businesses swamped by e-business-generated data scale systems from two to 1,000 nodes, adding nodes as required. The offering […]

Ex-IBM infrastructure engineer George Perkins, laid off and out of work for 14 months, finally got an interview late last month. The interview not only ended a long, frustrating dry spell for the 20-year IT veteran; it also led to a job as supervisor of the state of Wisconsins Department of Transportations Bureau of Automation […]

PeerDirect Corp. last week announced it is providing native support for Linux on its flagship PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise suite. The move will enable its customers to decentralize and distribute database-driven business applications to far-flung locations using Linux-based application servers and databases, officials said. PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise provides bidirectional synchronization, distribution and replication of corporate data […]

Oracle Corp. and EMC Corp. last week announced joint offerings designed to enhance service and support of their respective technologies as well as make them easier to use. The new Oracle on EMC Database Accelerator Service, announced at Oracle AppsWorld in San Diego, is designed to help companies transition from direct-attached storage to what EMC […]

Sybase Inc. Thursday released a version of its Adaptive Server Enterprise relational database management system that works in conjunction with PeopleSoft CRM 8.8. The release, ASE 12.5, adds customer relationship management support to the list of other PeopleSoft Inc. applications supported by Sybase, of Dublin, Calif., including Human Capital Management, Supply Chain Management and Financial […]