Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 10, 2012
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 10, 2012. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Attunity CloudBeam, Attunity's recently introduced SaaS platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), has expanded its services to provide a new data replication-as-a-service solution for AWS' Simple Storage Service (S3). Currently available for testing, the service provides replication and synchronization of big data stored in S3 across AWS cloud regions to enable business-critical initiatives, including disaster recovery, backup and data distribution. "Amazon Web Services has a replication capability but it is far less efficient and performant than ours and this is one of the reasons that AWS is so happy to have this capability," Matt Benati, vice president of global marketing, Attunity, tells 5 Minute Briefing.
Embarcadero Technologies announced a suite of major new releases to help developers rapidly build, migrate and maintain single-codebase native applications for Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion. "Today's mixed Windows and Mac environment poses unparalleled opportunities for ISVs and enterprises," says Michael Swindell, senior vice president of marketing and product management at Embarcadero. "Time pressure and R&D costs are the real barriers to reaping the Win/Mac benefits. Delphi XE3 and C++Builder XE3 enable development teams to code a project once, and deliver true native user experiences across multiple Mac and Windows OS versions and form factors."
Database Plugins LLC, a company that specializes in the design, development and implementation of data-centric solutions for the Oracle market, has announced the availability of two new products. The Database Media-On-Demand Server provides specific support for the HTML5 video and audio tags as well as HTTP streaming of Flash videos. The Database Plugin Server and associated DBMPEG database plugin integrates the feature support of FFMpeg with the Oracle Database. The products form a fundamental framework for a multimedia server architecture, making it is easy for programmers and companies to import multimedia data and directly relate it with the relational data in their databases, Steve Guilford, president of Database Plugins, tells 5 Minute Briefing.