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Conference Presentations Focus on Cloud Computing,  Data Modeling and Data Services
Slides, video and podcasts from the Silicon Valley edition of DataServices World have been released. The conference was co-located with Cloud Computing Expo and SOAWorld and the speaker presentations covered a variety of topics related to distributed processing, modeling, data quality, semantic metadata, scalability and data services for SOA, WOA, grid and cloud computing environments. Additional videos from the New York event have also been released.
 

Fortinet Updates FortiDB Database Security Appliances Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management solutions, announced new features of its FortiDB™ database security appliance. The appliance now provides 24x7 monitoring and provides a complete audit trail, enabling organizations to comply with the Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Fortinet also announced two new models, the FortiDB-400B and FortiDB-2000B. Besides auditing and monitoring, the FortiDB appliances also includes an automated, policy-driven vulnerability assessment capability.

ITTIA Announces ITTIA DB-SQL for Embedded Applications
ITTIA announced ITTIA DB-SQL, a database manager for the i.MX family of processors for Freescale Semiconductor. The i.MX processors combine peripheral interfaces and multiple subsystems on a single chip. This enables VARs and OEMs to use the i.MX processors in portable media players, point-of-sale systems, instrumentation, wireless and video surveillance applications. i.MX processors and ITTIA SB-SQL support the Linux and Microsoft Windows CE platforms.

Continuent Announces Tungsten Database Scale-Out Stack
Continuent has announced open source software, Continuent Tungsten, that provides advanced scalability and data replication capabilities. Tungsten provides an open source replication engine that supports multi-master and master-slave replication. The Tungsten ScaleOut stack includes components for replication, cluster services management and performance testing. Continuent Tungsten supports replication for loading data warehouses and distributing data for scalability and performance. It also supports cross-site clustering for disaster recovery.

SOA, Middleware and Database Gurus at DataServices World 2008 in New York
The DataServices World conference in New York City was a successful launch. Conference Chair Ken North discusses the importance of data services for SOA and next-generation applications such as mashups. The distinguished faculty for DataServices World 2008 included Dr. Stef Damianakis (Netrics), Dr. William O'Connell (IBM), John Goodson (DataDirect), Dr. Michael Carey (BEA), Mike Pizzo (Microsoft), Mark Hapner (Sun), John Senor (iWay Software), Nikita Ogievetsky (Morgan Stanley) and Dr. Carlo Innocenti (DataDirect). Slides and video from the conference are available at DataServicesWorld.com.

DataServices World: John Goodson Keynote	DataServices World: Data Modeling for SOA Class

LinkedData Planet Puts Spotlight on Publishing SQL Data on the Web
The LinkedData Planet conference was about the confluence of enterprise and Web computing and there was much emphasis on publishing SQL data for the web audience. The distinguished faculty included keynote speaker Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the W3C. The slides and audio from presentations by Sir Tim and other speakers are available at LinkedDataSummit.com.

SQL Injection Outpaces Other Malware Attacks
ScanSafe, a provider of Web Security software-as-a-service (SaaS) reports that Web-based malware increased 278 percent during the first half of 1978. Legitimate web sites, such as Wal-Mart and BusinessWeek, have been compromised. Password stealers and backdoor Trojans increased to 27 per cent of malware. SQL injection attacks have become the most common form of malware, outpacing other forms of malware by 212 per cent.

Microsoft Updates Visual Studio 2008 with Data Services Features
Microsoft has released a beta version of Visual Studio 2008 and a service pack update to the .NET 3.5 framework. SP1 for .NET 3.5 introduces new data access capabilities, ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Entity Framework, that support the database development cycle beginning with development of the conceptual model. ADO.NET Data Services enable applications to expose data as a REST-based data service that can be consumed by Web clients within a corporate network and across the Internet

The updates support Dynamic Data, an ASP.NET feature that enables a developer to build a web site using LING to SQL or using an Entity Framework data model. In a blog post, Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, wrote "With the ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature you can automatically build
web UI (with full CRUD - create, read, update, delete - support) against a variety of data object models (including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, REST Services, and any other ORM or object model with a dynamic data provider).

EnterpriseDB Raises $10 Million from IBM and Other Investors
EnterpriseDB, which offers an Oracle-compatible version of PostgreSQL, has raised $10 million in series C financing from IBM, Charles Rivers Ventures, Fidelity Ventures and Valhalla Partners. IBM's investment is notable in the wake of Sun's purchase of MySQL, one of EnterpriseDB's competitors in the open source database space. EnterpriseDB offers services for PostgreSQL, a version known as Postgres Plus, and PostgreSQL Plus Advanced Server for Linux and AIX. EnterpriseDB has recently released an open source GridSQL product and positioned its DBMS as a web database product running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3).
 

1968 Survey of Database Systems Uncovered Ken North has uncovered documents about first-generation database technology in a folder from URS Project-70, a project to add database extensions to a COBOL compiler. He reports the emergence of database systems preceded the relational model and SQL standard, as evidenced by the September 1968 database systems survey by the CODASYL Systems Committee.

LogiXML Adds ETL Tool to Web-Based BI Product Line
LogiXML, Inc. announced the release of LogiETL, an extract, transform and load tool for putting enterprise data into a consistent format to support integration with a variety of corporate applications. One unique feature is that LogiETL product is a Web-based data integration tool. It can transfer data from disparate sources, including IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase SQL Server, Sun Microsystems MySQL, and InterSystems Cache. It can also transfer data from web services, flat files, CSV, Excel and XML files, as well as RSS/ATOM feeds, Amazon SimpleDB, Google Docs, and Google Spreadsheets.

IBM Acquires Solid for In-Memory Database
IBM has reached an agreement with the private owners of Solid Information Technology to buy the in-memory database company. Private equity firms Apax Partners and CapMan have agreed to sell the company, which had 2007 sales of $14.4 million. Annual revenues for Solid are not a compelling reason for buying the company, but after Oracle acquired Innobase Solid signed an agreement with MySQL to provide a transactional storage engine. MySQL is reportedly planning to release its own transactional storage engine with MySQL 6.0. SolidDB is a prime competitor of the TimesTen in-memory database product acquired by Oracle. IBM and MySQL announced an agreement in April 2007 that would enable using the IBM DB2 storage engine with MySQL Server for i5/OS.

Data Access Middleware Under a Microscope in 90-Page White Paper
A white paper from Ken North Computing discusses the role and importance of data access middleware. "Middleware in Action" is a 90-page report that describes how middleware plugs into architectures for distributed applications and services, including SOA, OLTP and ESB. It explains defining characteristics of best-of-breed data access middleware, including features for performance and scalability. The report also includes a features checklist for compiling a report card for database drivers and data providers. The executive summary (HTML, ) of "Middleware in Action: Industrial Strength Data Access" also contains the data access middleware checklist.

Despite Criminal Penalties, More Talk Than Action on Compliance Monitoring
A survey of the Oracle Application User Group (OAUG) found only a small percentage of organizations are ready for compliance audits related to SOX, HIPAA, FISMA and PCI Data Security requirements. Ken North discusses those requirements and the results of the survey by Unisphere Research.

Network Resonance CEO Presents Security Taxonomy
The CEO of Network Resonance, Kevin Dick, discusses a security taxonomy of distributed systems and web services in a podcast and videos released this week. Network Resonance, a company founded by Kevin Dick and Eric Rescorla, recently patented a technology for secure SSL auditing. In the video/podcast, Kevin discusses security for point-to-point services, multi-hop services, service components and complex services.

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