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IBM unveiled new software for managing and analyzing big data to the workplace. The new offerings span a wide variety of big data and business analytics technologies across multiple platforms from mobile devices to the data center to IBM's SmartCloud. Now employees from any department inside an organization can explore unstructured data such as Twitter feeds, Facebook posts, weather data, log files, genomic data and video, and make sense of it as part of their everyday work experience. IBM is also placing the power of mobile analytics into the hands of iPad users with a free download in Apple's iTunes Store. The new software is designed to help employees in industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, communications, retail, and travel and transportation use and benefit from business analytics on the go. IBM is delivering new analytics and information management offerings: New Hadoop-based analytics software on the cloud, which helps employees tap into massive amounts of unstructured data from a variety of sources including social networks, mobile devices and sensors; New mobile analytics software for iPad users; and new predictive analytics software with a mapping feature that can be used across industries for marketing campaigns, retail store allocation, crime prevention, and academic assessment. http://www.ibm.com/

IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms were not disclosed. With more than 4,500 customers in 150 countries, i2 is a provider of intelligence analytics for crime and fraud prevention based in Cambridge, UK with U.S. headquarters in McLean, Va. i2's clients span multiple sectors globally such as banking, defense, health care, insurance, law enforcement, national security and retail. i2 solutions are currently used by 12 of the top 20 retail banks globally and eight of the top 10 largest companies in the world. http://www.i2group.com/ http://www.ibm.com/

Attunity Ltd., a provider of real-time data integration and event capture software, introduced the Attunity PowerPivot Connector for Oracle, a dedicated for making Oracle data available in Microsoft PowerPivot. In addition, Attunity announced the availability of additional certified connectors that enable PowerPivot users to access data from many heterogeneous sources. PowerPivot lets business users create managed self-service BI solutions without relying on IT resources. The Attunity PowerPivot Connector for Oracle is optimized for loading large volumes of Oracle data into PowerPivot. The connector delivers specific performance optimizations shownn in lab benchmarks to perform up to 50% faster than other connectors. Going forward, the connector will be part of the Attunity PowerConnector Series, which also includes the Attunity high-speed connectors for Oracle and Teradata that Microsoft chose to include with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS). Now generally available, PowerPivot customers can download a free trial of the connector on the Attunity website. http://www.attunity.com

TEMIS, a provider of Text Analytics solutions for the Enterprise, has released the latest version of Luxid, a content enrichment and knowledge discovery solution. Luxid gives access to business insights and delivers industry knowledge, for activities such as Market Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, Scientific Discovery, and Agile Publishing. Luxid 5.2 enables content networking by linking the extracted information to existing or external knowledge bases, providing contextual insights as well as intuitive navigation. Luxid 5.2 also extends the scope of its knowledge extraction with the new Events Skill Cartridge, an annotator that extracts targeted information pertaining to terrorism, armed conflict, and criminal activities. The Events Skill Cartridge is designed for the intelligence community to better monitor and anticipate threats. Luxid 5.2 also brings enhanced versions of its Skill Cartridges dedicated to Scientific Discovery. More generally, Luxid 5.2 introduces a series of semantic capabilities intended to increase the accuracy and the relevance of the knowledge extraction with contextual resolution of ambiguity and anaphora. Luxid 5.2 delivers integration capabilities, with second generation web services featuring enhanced security and scalability. Luxid 5.2 also provides an extended library of connectors to applications such as Accelrys Pipeline Pilot, i2 TextChart and Endeca Information Access Platform. Luxid 5.2 can combine domain-centric taxonomies with companies’  internal knowledge to align content enrichment with the customer’s processes and objectives. Luxid 5.2 also provides information analytics that adapt the knowledge delivery to the users’ communities and uses cases. Another new feature is LuxidBar, replacing the previous Luxid Toolbar, is a sidebar that brings immediate information annotation to the browser, as well as highlighting, summarization, and contextual content linking. The Cross-Match tool “drills across” multiple collections of documents, uncovering relationships and placing each corpus in the context of the others. Along the same lines, the Combined Queries tool enables users to recognize patterns in content at the document collection level. Luxid 5.2 is available now through TEMIS and its network of partners and system integrators. http://www.temis.com/ 

FileTek, Inc., a developer of large-scale data management and information governance solutions, announced Trusted Edge for Intelligent Content Migration, a solution that locates, classifies, and moves documents stored on network file shares into secure locations within enterprise content and records management systems. Trusted Edge uniformly classifies, tags, and moves both new and existing content during the legacy file migration. The solution provides certified adapters for leading repositories, including Microsoft SharePoint, Open Text Livelink, Laserfiche, Symantec Enterprise Vault, IBM Content/Records Manager, FileTek StorHouse, and all repositories that are compliant with the WebDAV interface standard. Traditional file archive applications normally bulk move data "as is" from cluttered file shares to other locations without collecting metadata or applying consistent rules that evaluate individual file content and business value. In contrast to traditional approaches, Trusted Edge for Intelligent Content Migration addresses the shared drive cleanup with automatic content tagging and reorganization in real-time as the migration process occurs. The software "intelligently" classifies, captures, and relocates content based on a set of preconfigured enterprise policies that can be triggered based on file path, file name, file metadata, file type, or even file content. During migration, Trusted Edge tags content with classification metadata for improved indexing and creates a forensic audit trail that details how each item was processed. http://www.filetek.com

Interlock Technology, a Cambridge, MA based startup, is offering a new data migration service that allows companies to move archived data off EMC Corp.'s Centera write-once, read many (WORM) arrays on to any other network-attached disk drive. Interlock said the new offering includes both a data assessment service, which determines how much and what type of data is stored on a Centera device, and then a data migration service to move the data. The services use software with a standards-based API, which the company ensures that data integrity complies with regulatory rules. Interlock's service offers users alternatives to Centera technology and to its proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs). The migration service should allow users to take advantage of archiving software and hardware from a variety of vendors, including NetApp's SnapLock application and IBM's cloud storage service. Interlock has partnership agreements with both IBM and NetApp. EMC's Centera is a content addressed storage (CAS) array, or object-based storage, which stores metadata with data so that it can be retrieved based on its content and not its location. Centera also uses a cryptographic hash to ensure that data is immutable, making it compliant with government regulations requiring that sensitive corporate data not be changed after being created. Interlock uses the Extensible Access Method (XAM) to exchange data between it and network attached storage (NAS) systems or storage area networks (SAN). XAM, a set of standards and a programming interface for storing fixed-content,was developed by vendor members of the Storage Networking Industry Association. The XAM standard allows content to be accessed by a variety of applications while also verifying its integrity. Interlock's software runs on standard servers, and uses XAM to message data from Cetera's object-based file system to any other file system. The software also leverages Centera's parallel I/O channels to migrate up to 6TB of data per day. http://www.interlock-tech.com/

Metalogix Software, a provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint & Exchange migration, management, and archiving, announced the acquisition of StoragePoint software. Winner of Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Innovative ISV award, StoragePoint helps organizations to shrink their SharePoint 2007/2010 content databases up to 95% by keeping content BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) out of SharePoint’s SQL database and storing them on an on-premise or Cloud storage platform. With StoragePoint, SharePoint content size can scale to over 2 terabytes while the content database remains within Microsoft's guidelines. StoragePoint will now be available on a free trial basis by download. http://www.metalogix.net http://www.storagepoint.com/

Serendipity 1.5.2 has been released to address the outstanding issue of SQLite installations with Serendipity. Upgrading an earlier version of Serendipity prior to 1.5.1 to this version should work without any problems, fixing the database upgrades that were faulty in Serendipity 1.5.1. blog.s9y.org/

Alfresco Software, Inc. and EnterpriseDB Corporation announced a partnership under which Alfresco will support Alfresco Enterprise for use with EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus and EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Under the terms of the partnership, the companies will provide joint customers with coordinated support and professional services. Postgres Plus Advanced Server is an open source relational database for transactional and mixed-load applications. Under the partnership, joint customers can now run EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus Advanced Server 8.3 with Alfresco Enterprise 3.1. Further, Alfresco and EnterpriseDB will offer support for shared customers who have active support subscriptions for both products. http://www.alfresco.com/, http://www.enterprisedb.com

Queplix Inc. unveiled QueSearch, a universal search platform that securely integrates structured data from enterprise, SaaS and cloud applications into a single search tool. QueSearch software automatically extracts data and permissions from a wide variety of application and database formats, while enforcing security policies and access controls on a per-user basis to ensure that sensitive data is protected. Queplix has leveraged its QueCrawler technology, developed over several years as part of the Queplix QueWeb information access solution, to deliver automation and integration with enterprise applications including SAP, Siebel, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Salesforce.com and Microsoft Exchange. The QueWeb and QueSearch solutions, built on QueCrawler technology, are for improving information access and productivity in many parts of the enterprise, including customer care, partner and channel management, e-discovery, business intelligence, and Web self-service. In addition, both QueSearch and QueWeb facilitate migration of enterprise applications to cloud computing platforms. The QueSearch solution is available immediately, with software and appliance deployment options. Pricing starts at $19,500. http://www.queplix.com/