Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
April 26, 2011
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: April 26, 2011. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Citrusleaf, a new database technology company, has officially launched and announced Citrusleaf 2.0, which the company describes as a different type of NoSQL database that combines the best practices of both database and distributed technology. Simultaneously with the product launch, the company, which was founded in 2009 by Brian Bulkowski, CEO, and Srini Srinivasan, CTO, also announced Series-A funding from Alsop Louie Partners, Kalpathi Investments and Draper Associates. The funding will be used to enhance products, expand the team, and support growing vertical market customers in the advertising, financial, government and healthcare sectors.
Full 360 Inc., a New York-based systems integrator, has introduced a new release of its elasticBI platform-as-a-service (PaaS). elasticBI pairs Jaspersoft4, the open source BI application, with the Vertica Analytic Database in a PaaS offering that is tightly integrated via the Opscode Chef framework. The platform is offered by Full 360 on Amazon Web Services, the Amazon cloud. According to Full 360, elasticBI provides a complete BI-data warehouse platform that is accessible from a cost and technical perspective for small and mid-market companies, as well as enterprise departments.
MicroStrategy Inc., a provider of business intelligence software, announced it has begun shipping the latest release of its BI platform, which includes data visualization capabilities. MicroStrategy 9.2 includes a feature called Visual Insight, which is designed to allow business people to answer business questions on their own, avoiding the lengthy process of report specification and design. Users can access data from a full spectrum of data stores, ranging from massive enterprise data warehouses, to distributed departmental databases, to financial databases, to data that resides on the individual's desktop computer and in Excel spreadsheets.
DBI (Database-Brothers, Inc.) has released Brother-Panther for DB2 LUW 5.1. "Brother-Panther is all about performance monitoring, analysis, tuning and trending. Our customers are very successful at using Brother-Panther to understand what costs the most and what hurts the most in the database. And in a couple of more mouse clicks we are usually able to hand them a solution that will make all that pain go away," Scott Hayes, president and CEO of DBI, tells 5 Minute Briefing. With this release, says Hayes, Brother-Panther now can now help people understand the big picture and the details regarding the consequences of change.
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