Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
November 2, 2010

Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: November 2, 2010. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.

News Flashes

DBTA On-Demand Webcast Sheds Light on What NoSQL Is and What It’s Not

DBTA On-Demand Webcast Sheds Light on What NoSQL Is and What It's Not

Informatica and Cloudera to Deliver Integrated Platform to Manage Structured, Complex and Social Data

Informatica Corporation, an independent provider of data integration software and Cloudera, a provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, yesterday announced at Informatica World 2010 that the two companies are partnering to provide customers with the solutions needed to address the challenges associated with managing large-scale data, including structured, complex and social data. Together, Informatica and Cloudera say they intend to bring the productivity benefits of the Informatica Platform to the data-intensive distributed computing capability of Hadoop.

MarkLogic Announces New Version of Flagship Product

MarkLogic Corporation has introduced a major new version of its flagship product, MarkLogic Server, a purpose-built database for unstructured information targeted at customers in three verticals: media/publishing, government, and financial services segments.

OpenStack Is Now Open for Windows Server

Microsoft Corp. is partnering with Cloud.com to provide integration and support of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to the OpenStack project, an open source cloud computing platform. The addition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V will provide organizations and service providers running a mix of Microsoft and non-Microsoft infrastructure with greater flexibility when using OpenStack.

Sentrigo Cloud-Compatible Database Compliance Solutions Available for Amazon EC2

Sentrigo, Inc., a provider of database security software, has announced that Sentrigo Hedgehog Enterprise and vPatch solutions are now available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for database audit, protection and breach prevention. Sentrigo's database compliance and security solutions allow organizations to more easily run applications subject to PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SEC regulations and more on Amazon EC2.