IBM Releases Public Beta of IDS 'Cheetah'
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A beta of the update for IBM's Informix database server (IDS), code-named "Cheetah," was opened to the public on Wednesday. Coming with the update are new features, enhanced support for hierarchical data, and improved query capabilities.
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IBM Corp. and four partners on Wednesday announced what they call a "major breakthrough" in identity management designed to help business and government agencies protect assets, including IT systems and physical facilities, from unauthorized users.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) is rolling out a new version of WebSphere software, using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and middleware targeting retail operations.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released what it says is the first software that automatically self-manages and self-tunes databases containing key business information without human intervention.
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(InfoWorld) - Black Duck Software on Monday is releasing an upgrade to its protexIP system for software compliance management featuring an AJAX-based (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) user interface to increase responsiveness. A new software development kit also is a highlight. Black Duck's platform helps companies comply with license terms of different software components. protexIP/development manages software component licenses through an application development process for all parties, including developers, attorneys and managers, the company said. Users can benefit from component-based software development while avoiding complications presented by licenses affecting specific components. Version 4.0 of protexIP includes the new UI, a streamlined visual workflow and an obligation checklist to speed the software compliance management process, the company said. Precision code-matching technology is featured to increase productivity. The UI provides a visual representation of work steps in compliance management, Black Duck said. AJAX increases the interface's responsiveness, particularly when navigating large code bases. Work steps include project management, code identification, component review and approval and reporting. Previously, Black Duck has provided a Web-based interface but the new interface is cleaned up a great deal and illustrates workflow, Jim Berets, director of product management at Black Duck, said. A code navigator in the interface provides for review of all code within a project. Code can be highlighted that appears to have originated from an open source project or other external source. Or, the code can have an origin that requires legal or business approval for use. The interface's obligation fulfillment checklist details license obligations accumulated from components in use in a project to verify adherence to obligations. The checklist can be extended to reflect customer-specific compliance checks. The protexIP 4.0 SDK allows for integration of the protexIP platform with existing systems already in use in software development environments. Black Duck and partners can provide off-the-shelf integration solutions with development tools and environments such as software configuration management systems. Black Duck previously has had internal APIs for integrations with some partners, but has not made an SDK available to customers until now. The company is offering the SDK as a fee-based option because not all of its customers need an SDK, Berets. protexIP 4.0 features a role-based architecture to handle larger projects. Elements of the architecture include "precision technology" to speed code reviews and dependency analysis to report components outside of a project that might be of use in a project. Archive analysis is included to identify reused components that might be contained within composite files. Version 4.0 of the product will be available in mid-November and is sold on an annual subscription basis that includes software, a knowledge base, product updates and customer support. ProtexIP/development Professional Edition, which is geared to individual users, starts in price at $9,500. The Enterprise Edition, which is a multi-user, collaborative environment, is priced starting at $25,000. The SDK costs $10,000 and upward and requires base protexIP/development subscription.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a new ThinkPad notebook line that will use biometrics for added security. Due for release on October 19th, certain models of the ThinkPad T42 will have embedded fingerprint readers that will allow users to sign on using fingerprints rather than passwords.
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IBM is launching the next version of its DB2 Universal Database, code-named Stinger, touting new autonomic features and .NET developer tools.
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(InfoWorld) - IBMÂ and Yahoo have developed a free, entry-level, enterprise search application that at least one analyst believes will seriously disrupt the low-end segment of this market where Google has been selling many of itsÂ Mini search devices. IBM and Yahoo plan to release the server-side application on Wednesday as a free download aimed at companies that haven't tried out enterprise search due to cost and complexity concerns. The software, called IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, has been designed to be simple to install and use, and can index up to 500,000 documents from over 200 file types, like Adobe Systems' PDF and Microsoft's Word and Excel. With that indexing capacity, IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition poses a significant threat the Google Mini, an analyst said. The Mini is a hardware device loaded with Google search software that starts at $1,995 for 50,000 documents and tops out at 300,000 documents in its $8,995 edition. "Google will have to react in some way to this product, to differentiate the Mini from a free competitor with more indexing capacity," said Matt Brown, a Forrester Research Inc. analyst. IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition isn't comparable to more powerful mid-tier products like the Google Search Appliance, nor to high-end systems from companies like Fast Search & Transfer and Autonomy, Brown said. These mid-tier and high-end products have significantly more features, like the ability to index data from many more sources, like business applications. However, this IBM/Yahoo product is precisely what Eric Brierley had been looking for. Brierley, chief technology officer of Decision Critical, had researched tools like the Google Mini because he wanted to do a full-text indexing of the education and training materials the company stores in its databases and serves up to its health care clients. However, he hadn't found an option that fit his budget, was simple to use and could handle the task until he beta-tested the IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition earlier this month. "We're very pleased with it not only because it's free, but also because the integration process [with our Web application] was painless and the performance was exceptional," said Brierley. Decision Critical has the tool on a staging server while it runs final tests and finishes customization work, but plans to deploy it soon to its 400 clients and their 300,000 end users. It will be installed on an existing server box. IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition also features an integrated Internet search tab that lets users query Yahoo's Web search engine. End users interact with the IBM/Yahoo product via a browser-based interface that has the look and feel of the Yahoo search engine, which is familiar to many people. Two other user interface options exist. The product's search box can be embedded in an existing Web page, and the IT department can build its own custom interface via an application programming interface (API). The product now becomes the entry-level option in IBM's enterprise search line, which features the more sophisticated and fee-based OmniFind Enterprise Edition, whose functionality can be extended with OmniFind Discovery Edition. The upgrade path to the Enterprise Edition is far from seamless right now, requiring a re-crawling of the documents to rebuild the index, but IBM plans to make the process smoother in the future, said Marc Andrews, IBM's program director of information management strategies. IBM also offers customers the option of purchasing guaranteed phone technical support for $2,000 per server per year, he said.
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On Wednesday, Symantec released a beta of its new enterprise security product, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, formerly codenamed Hamlet. The beta marks the company&#39;s most significant update to its enterprise security software in years.
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IBM said today it is offering software to the open-source community that could be used to plot the outbreak of an infectious disease worldwide.
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SUBANG JAYA: IBM (www.ibm.com) has released the beta version of its latest enterprise-grade integration software to Malaysian customers.
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The announcement this week by Yahoo that it is planning to test a beta version of its Yahoo ID that supports the OpenID 2.0 protocol has thrown a bright spotlight on the quickly growing online identity-management system.
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IBM announced today that it will release as open-source code some of its software for speech-enabling applications.
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The same week Microsoft released a beta version of its desktop search the butler Jeeves has released a beta of their own. The software is for Windows based pcâs only and will allow a user to search their
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IBM has released a public beta of DB2 Viper 2, the next version of its DB2 9 database for Linux, Unix and Windows servers.
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Next week IBM (NYSE: IBM) will make its latest autonomic-computing creation -- DB2 Universal Database, aka "Stinger" -- generally available.
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IBM has released the latest version of the core middleware product of WebSphere, its application server platform, promising new autonomic, or self-healing, features.