Database and Network Journal articles from December 2001

Database and Network Journal archives from December 2001

Web Services in a business system: Silverstream Inc. (Web Services).
December 1, 2001... The Web Service paradigm includes standards for creating, finding, discovering, and using Services and includes: SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP is a protocol that describes how to encode a request for a Web Service and results of...

SilverStream eXtend Director 3.0. (Web Services-Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... SilverStream eXtend Director 3.0. is designed to simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of J2EE-based business applications. It consumes Web Services that contain critical information and services and delivers them to any user...

Liaseonline.com. (Web Services-Products).
December 1, 2001... Liaiseonline.com is launching new marketing services for organisations with modest resources, tailored to meet their specific marketing needs and budgets. The system automatically handles undeliverables and decides whether to delete or keep...

J2EE and Web Services For Oracle 9i. (Web Services-Products).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Two products within the SilverStream eXtend product family, SilverStream extend Workbench and jbroker Web, have been tested and supported for deployment on the Oracle9i Application Server enabling customers to use SilverStream products to...

Online Instrument Services. (Web Services-Products).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... National Instruments next generation of Product Advisors, setting an industry benchmark for online configuration services. Part of NI's Web site redesign and the company's continual effort to deliver total online customer resources and which...

SonicXQ For Web Services. (Web Services-Products).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The SonicXQ, platform for Web services which provides a foundation for building distributed services across an extended enterprise also supports Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and document exchange from a unified platform, and enhances WebServices...

Commander Solutions 2.0. (Web Services-Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Resonate Commander Solutions 2.0 is a solution that allows enterprises to manage and maintain service level objectives for e-business applications and Web Services including monitoring the distributed e-business environment and assure that...

Impedance mismatch in databases: Mary Finn - Intersystems Corp. (Database Systems).
December 1, 2001... With the maturation and wide acceptance of Java, object-oriented programming has moved to the foreground of the application development landscape. Because of their rich data models and support for productivity-enhancing concepts such as...

CBAT - computer based analytical technology: Alterian Inc. (Database Systems).
December 1, 2001... CBAT a high-speed, detail-level data analysis technology, is claimed to enable solutions to maintain rapid response times as data volumes increase, is quick to deploy, easy to administer, and runs on ordinary hardware systems. CBAT solutions,...

Relational database failing internet: Simon Williams Lazy Software. (Database & Network News and Products).
December 1, 2001... `Web-enabled applications are so different from those of its predecessors - host based or client/server - that most applications will need to be entirely redeveloped As long as we continue to rely on the Relational Model of Data, application...

Cache 300% faster. (Database news and products).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Cache the post relational database from Intersystems has shown it can improve the speed of running month end financial processes by 300 per cent. In benchmarking carried out by Cogent Investment Operations, the specialist fund administrator,...

Connect ODBC 4.0. (Database news and products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Connect ODBC 4.0, is claimed to be the first suite of Wire Protocol Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) drivers for access to all major databases. Connect ODBC communicates with databases via the database vendors' wire-level protocols,...

Softek Virtualisation Software. (Database news and products).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Fujitsu Softek have claimed that its new Softek Virtualisation software outperformed standalone hardware arrays by more than two-to-one in recently conducted laboratory tests. The benchmark confirms that Softek Virtualisation, powered by...

CRM esperanto. (Database news and products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Onyx Software has developed its mobile solution (OEP 3.0) to work with Unicode, the character-encoding standard, enabling staff to use multi-lingual text in a single database. Onyx has localised products in more than ten languages and is now...

Sentences V 2.0. (Database news and products).(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Sentences Version 2.0 from Lazy Software contains significant developments in: Support for XML, Scalability, Distributed Capability and API, New Associative Query Facility, and User Interface Enhancements XML In Version 2.0 of Sentences,...

Job Scheduler 2.0. (Database news and products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Embarcadero Job Scheduler 2.0, enables database users to automate database maintenance tasks across Windows NT/2000 and Unix operating systems. Comment Daily job scheduling can be complicated or time consuming for DBAS, developers and...

Very Short Reach Optics Standard. (Network news).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... An agreement reached on a new global standard for very short reach optical interfaces intended for intra-office applications is in making optical technology economically effective. Ever-growing bandwidth demands and higher data rates from 2...

Worldwide 3G Wireless Licensing Program. (Network news).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... RadioScape, developer of software for the wireless and digital communications markets, has announced its global third-generation (3G) wireless technology licensing program for the design, development and integration of W-CDMA/UMTS systems. The...

VC Contact for all Centre Training. (Network news).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Atrium Communications Limited, has a new browser-based on-demand video training solution for call centres that claims to reduce the cost of agent training by up to 50 per cent. It uses the Atrium Video cast technology to deliver video and...

Telereporting Hotline. (Network news).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Most comms managers are unaware that they can now switch mobile phone providers in seven days. In early October, all four UK mobile phone operators introduced a new automated system, which cuts the time it takes to transfer numbers from 25 to...

Business Alerts on Move. (Network news).(Cognos NoticeCast from Cognos)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Cognos has launched its latest business intelligence (B1) technology, allowing mobile executives to monitor and receive alerts about commercial activity while on the move. Cognos NoticeCast "provides just-in-time broad-based wireless alerting...

SonicXQ and SonicMQ. (Network products).(from Progress Software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... A suite of messaging middleware for developing and deploying distributed services across an extended enterprise. SonicXQ is a platform for Web Services, and SonicMQ 4.0, a new version of a Java Message Service (JMS). www.progress.com

Internet Security Record. (Network products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Check Point Software has set a new performance record with its Next Generation product family running on the Alteon Switched Firewall System (ASF) security appliance recently introduced by Nortel Networks. Cheek Point Software running on the...

NetWorker 4.2 Automated Data Protection for Novell NetWare 6. (Network products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Legato NetWorker 4.2 for Novell NetWare, protects NetWare storage assets and supports Novell's new platform release, NetWare 6. NetWorker 4.2 for NetWare provides client software for heterogeneous storage environments managed by Legato's...

Pointsec Mobile Security for Pocket PC 2002 Devices. (Network products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Pointsec Mobile Tech, have announced its handheld computer security product - Pointsec for Pocket PC for enterprises deploying handheld devices operating on Windows CE who require centrally managed data security, Pointsec for PocketPC uses a...

Fusion Works High Availability. (Network products).(openet-telecom)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... FusionWorks High Availability automated management system continuously monitors the availability of FusionWorks components throughout a users' global communications networks, to achieve maximum mediation effectiveness. In the event of a...

Tivoll Plus for Panagon. (Network products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Tivoli Plus for Panagon, is a plug in application to Tivoli, IBM's solution for integrated network systems management. It has been specifically designed to manage FileNET's Panagon software. FileNET is a content management and collaborative...

Onyx Employee Portal (OEP) Handheld. (Network products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... A new wireless handheld solution from Onyx Software, will enable mobile workforces to access vital information anytime, anywhere. Data about prospects, customers, partners and suppliers can be accessed by all field staff. Any organisation...

Zetalink. (Network products).(equisys)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Zetalink, is a new software product which provides secure access to corporate messaging and groupware functions from any WAP enabled device. It has been developed specifically for Microsoft Exchange and allows mobile users to access the...

VoIP. (Network products).
December 1, 2001... NetIQ, have a new family of Voice over IP (VoIP) management products. These include Chariot VoIP Assessor, which tests a network's ability to handle VoIP traffic, and VoIP Manager Suite, a platform for monitoring and proactively managing VoIP...

Communite'. (Network products).(Interactive Intelligence)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Interactive Intelligence launched a new, Windows 2000-based unified communications software, Communite', and wireless application gateway product, Mobilite'. Comunite is based on Windows 2000, Active Director, Exchange 2000, SQL Server 2000 and...

Broadband Wireless IP System. (Network products).(CALYnet system from CALY Networks)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... CALY Networks have released a next-generation broadband wireless Internet Protocol (IP) network solution. Aimed at increasing service provider revenues, the company's CALYnet system is a carrier-grade broadband wireless IP solution that...

Remote NT - 2000. (Network products).(from northgate)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... RemoteNT-2000 allows administrators to monitor and control services from any location. Developed by Seattle Lab, a RemoteNT-2000 is suited for system administrators within SMES, enabling them to monitor, be alerted to, and stop/start services...

Search For Missing Military. (Data systems).(Convera's RetrievalWare)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Department of Defence, Defence Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) has selected Convera's RetrievalWare software to provide the information infrastructure technology for indexing and searching across an archive of more than 2.5...

V2.0 of Sentences DBMS. (Data systems).(Lazy Software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Lazy Software, developer of the Associative Model of Data and the Sentences DBMS - have announced the general availability of Version 2.0 Sentences Version 2.0 contains developments in: * Support for XML * Scalability, Distributed...

DFT - 2. (Data systems).(Sony DTF-2 data storage device)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Sony Broadcast and Professional Europe (BPE) has announced DTF-2, a data storage system that is claimed to offer double the capacity and the fastest transfer rate of any enterprise tape storage technology currently available, The DTF-2 series...

PowerQuest PowerDeploy Suite. (Data systems).(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... The PowerQuest PowerDeploy Suite provides an integrated solution for managing the lifecycle of a company's computer systems, including, imaging and deployment, system migration, management of system updates and system retirement The Suite...

Alterian Suite V.2.3. (Data systems).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Alterian, a provider of analytic technology, have announced the Alterian Suite, version 2.3. A direct response to the needs of which expanded data extract connectivity, localisation support, and centralised administration to its analytic...

Data Stage Update. (Data systems).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Ascential Software has launched its next generation of DataStage, a family of data integration solutions which allows businesses to integrate data from all corporate information sources - including CRM, B2B, e-business, enterprise applications,...

Web Focus 4.3.6. (Data systems).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... The latest version of WebFOCUS version (4.3.6) adds several notable features designed to increase wide-scale deployment and rapid return on investment (ROI). It exploits Internet technology in key areas - usability, broad delivery capabilities,...

ActiveMethod Implements SAP. (Data systems).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... According to META Group, migrating legacy data to SAP is taking between 20% and 40% of SAP project budgets and is increasingly seen as a headache to project managers already facing demands to deliver on time and on budget. To address this...

Column Based Analytic Technology (CBAT). (Data systems).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Alterian (LSE: ALN), have a new analytic category, called CBAT - column-based analytical technology. CBAT is a system that stores and accesses data in indexed column structures specifically designed for analytic queries and decision support...

Witness Miner. (Data systems).
December 1, 2001... WITNESS Miner a new tool within the WITNESS business simulation and optimisation family offers the ability to detect hidden patterns in datasets in a manner claimed to be unique in the current data analysis market. The new tool from Lanner...

InStranet 2.0. (Data systems).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... InStranet, have released of InStranet 2.0, designed to deploy Enterprise Information Exchange applications and claimed to be a natural complement to existing customer relationship management (CRM) transactional solutions. InStranet 2.0 is...

Alterian releases suite for high-performance analyst. (Data systems).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Alterian, a provider of analytic technology, have announced the availability of the Alterian Suite, version 2.3. The Alterian Suite adds expanded data extract connectivity, localisation support, and provides centralised administration to its...

NCC salary survey 2002. (Database & Network News and Products).
December 1, 2001... The NCC's survey is a key overview of the UK IT labour market. Conducted annually over the last 20 years, it provides an independent view of the market both year to year, and of longer trends. The 2002 survey is based on the responses of 490...

NCC definitive IT Skills Guide. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... The NCC has released its Best Practice Guide to IT Skills - Recruitment and Retention. The Guide is aimed at decision makers in IT responsible for planning and implementing IT staff recruitment and retention strategies. It contains key...

CompTIA declaration. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, representing the ICT industry worldwide, presents policy recommendations, to the European Commission's Skills and Mobility Task Force. The Barcelona Declaration: Bridging the ICT Skills...

Survey of IT spending 2001. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... This authoritative independent survey has been carried out annually over the last 20 years and gives a yearly snapshot of key trends and drivers in the IT industry. The 2001 survey is based on responses from 390 organisations employing a...

IT costs. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... A survey of 200 senior board members by KPMG revealed that only half of board members interviewed had any idea of what their IT budget actually was 80 per cent were unaware of the cost savings attributable to the company's information systems....

BCS call for IT incentives. (IT News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... British Businesses are wasting funds on IT support costs and ineffective working methods according to the British Computer Society, which is calling on the Chancellor to support computer skills and training in the forthcoming pre-budget...

e-learning survey. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... A survey of current and prospective e-learning users by blueu has found that there is a growing requirement from customers for custom-buift software. According to the blue research while there is still currently more take-up of catalogue...

Fragmented training market - viewpoint Thinq. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... The training and personnel development market is expanding at a phenomenal rate, and e-learning is the boom sector within it, with conservative estimates suggesting that within the next 3 years e-learning will account for 45 percent of total...

HP offer free online XP training. (IT News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Hewlett-Packard Education Services UK have announced a special promotion on Microsoft Windows XP, an instructor-led online training course. Up until January 2002, the course will be made available free of charge to anyone interested in the new...

Change website theme style in minutes. (IT News).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... A new version of ZyWeb, the Web Page Builder, it is claimed, enables Business and Personal web publishers to create professional web sites quickly, and change the theme style of an existing website in a few minutes. The new ZyWeb' enables...

IBM donates $40 million of software to open source. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... IBM is donating $40 million of software to a new independent open-source community. The Java-based open source software, derived from WebSphere Studio Workbench, will enable developers to use software tools from multiple suppliers together,...

Ygnius- Spanish version. (IT News).(Gael Ltd. invests 100,000 pounds sterling in Spanish version of Ygnius)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Gael Limited has invested over 100,000 [pounds sterling] in the new Spanish version of Ygnius - a product which enables individuals to extract from their own knowledge and experience the information they need to complete a task. The...

Pirated software and hacker sites jump more than 240 percent. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... Websense Inc. reports that the number of pirated software and hacking Web sites has spiked more than 240 percent in the last year alone, now totaling 5,400 sites representing 800,000 Web pages. According to Wordtracker, pirated software...

Size and sector vital statistics for ASP adoption. (IT News).
December 1, 2001... Company size is a key factor in the adoption of Application Service Provider (ASP) solutions, according to research results released by BT Ignite. on average, companies employing over 500 staff are more than twice as likely to use the ASP model...

Retail version of Mandrake Linux 8.1. (IT News).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... MandrakeSoft, have launched the retail version of its new Mandrake Linux 8.1 Linux operating system. The new software is available at www.mandrakestore.com. There are three version's of the new 8.1 product, each designed to suit different...

Red hat Linux 7.2. (IT News).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Red Hat Linux 7.2 and Red Hat Linux Professional are available in stores, through computer resellers, and direct from Red Hat. Red Hat Linux 7.2 and Red Hat Linux Professional will also be available in the coming weeks. Red Hat Linux 7.2...

`Describe' for Borland JBuilder. (IT News).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Embarcadero Technologies, Unified Modeling Language (UML) design and development tool DESCRIBE is now available for integration with Borland JBuilder. With the addition of Borland's leading, offering additional UML modeling options to the...

Organik V 3.2. (IT News).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Version 3.2 of Orbital Softwares Organik expertise sharing platform includes improved tools and new features specifically geared to R&D-intensive organisations looking to speed product time to market. Designed to complement existing...

IBM Privacy Institute. (Security Notes).
December 1, 2001... IBM have formed the IBM Privacy Institute and the Privacy Management Council to focus exclusively on privacy and data protection challenges facing its enterprise customers and the marketplace. The Privacy Institute is the industry's first...

Free copy of Languard Security Event Log Monitor (S.E.L.M.). (Security Notes).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... GFI is offering a free starter pack of its intrusion detection tool, LANguard Security Event Log, Monitor (S.E.L.M.). LANguard S.E.L.M. performs intrusion detection by monitoring the security event logs of all the Windows NT/2000 servers and...

iKey leading USB web token. (Security Notes).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... A recent report on authentication and biometric technologies, "Hardware and Biometrics Authentication Part 2: The Fall Software Sequel, "from IDC, Framingham, Mass., shows that the ikey, from Rainbow esecurity, is the world's leading USB Web...

Security Manager 3.4 supports FireWall-1. (Security Notes).(NetIQ)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Security Manager 3.4, a central console for real-time security incident management and automated response, now supports Check Point's FireWall. It also features enhanced reporting capabilities to enable security managers to prepare for internal...

CyberGuard LX Firewall/VPN. (Security Notes).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... The LX designed for the small office and home office market, is compatible with the companies entire appliance line, so it can also function as part of an enterprise network security solution that includes one of CyberGuard's higher-bandwidth...

WebTrends Firewall Reporting Centre. (Security Notes).(NetIQ)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... The NetIQ WebTrends Firewall Reporting Centre, is designed to provide large enterprise customers and managed service providers with a comprehensive view of events occurring at the firewall, and improved management of the firewall itself. The...

nfast 800 SSL. (Security Notes).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... The nCipher nfast 800 SSL is a high-performance PCI card that, it is claimed, reduces the demand of the software process that underlies the SSL protocol, and is plug-and-play compatible with leading web server packages and operating systems. A...

`One Click' VPN technology. (Security Notes).(Check Point Software's Check Point Next Generation Feature Pack 1)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Check Point Software have introduced new VPN-1 SecureClient technology in the latest release of Check Point Next Generation Feature Pack 1 (FP1). New VPN client features are included which combined with the `One-Click' VPN technologies and...

MailMonitor for Notes/Domino. (Virus Notes).(Sophos)
December 1, 2001... Sophos, has announced the availability of Sophos MailMonitor for Notes/Domino, a gateway anti-virus solution for users of Lotus Notes/Domino R4.5, R4.6x and R5. MailMonitor can, it is claimed, protect enterprises against over 68,000 computer...

Baltimore Threat Lab. (Virus Notes).
December 1, 2001... The Baltimore MIMEsweeper group has formed a resource within its organisation, known as ThreatLab. ThreatLab conducts ongoing research and provides updated information on content security threats and trends, often before they occur. While most...

Five mods of Nimda detected. (Virus Notes).
December 1, 2001... Since "Nimda" was discovered on September 18, 2001 Kaspersky Labs has detected five more modifications of this network worm. Some of them have already been seen "in-the-wild' but fortunately none of them has caused an epidemic compared to the...

Email Security Testing Zone: (Internet Focus).
December 1, 2001... GFI has launched an Email Security Testing Zone to enable organizations to check whether their email systems are vulnerable to email viruses and attacks. The zone, http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/, allows visitors to discover if their...

Increase In3G mobiles, broadband and home video. (Internet Focus).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... New third generation (3G) mobile telephones and the growing availability of broadband connectivity - which will bring with it new Internet-based services such as video on demand - could lead to a ten-fold increase in traffic at Europe's largest...

Internet Model Optimiser (IMO) V 1.5. (Internet Focus).(from ParallelGraphics)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... ParallelGraphics who develop Web and wireless 3D technologies, have released Internet Model Optimiser (IMO) V1.5, to optimise complex 3D models created with CAD/CAM/CAE and other design systems for application on the Internet. Using...

7M Aspire 2.0. (Internet Focus).
December 1, 2001... 7M Aspire 2.0 is claimed to be the world's first complete Application Deployment Platform designed to deliver corporate access to fully functional applications via the Interact, regardless of platform, operating system, location and...

Forte for Java, release 3.0. (Internet Focus).(Sun Microsystems)(Product Announcement)
December 1, 2001... Release 3.0 of the Forte for Java integrated development environment (IDE) is designed to simplify application development that uses the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies, such as Enterprise JavaBeans components. The IDE...