Recently in Software Infrastructure Category

EVN Solutions, developers of XML solutions for publishers, announced the release of their Drupal Module for MarkLogic Server. The module enables content managed by the Drupal Content Management System to be stored directly in the MarkLogic Server. Once in the MarkLogic server, content can leverage all the server's capabilities. The module enables publishers to: Load already-converted XML files from existing workflow onto the MarkLogic Server, including validation during ingest; Create new content, leveraging the Drupal editing system and store it on the MarkLogic Server; Edit content currently on the MarkLogic Server using the Drupal editing system; List all content on the MarkLogic Server associated with the Drupal deployment; Transform XML content in any DTD/Schema on the MarkLogic Server into the style for display on the Drupal website; Leverage content from a single MarkLogic Server on several Drupal deployments. http://www.evn-solutions.com/

Microsoft has announced a new product in the Visual Studio family - Visual Studio LightSwitch. LightSwitch is designed as a simple way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop. LightSwitch provides a variety of pre-built templates and tools to build business applications that target Windows Client or Windows Azure using as much code as wanted. With LightSwitch, the goal is to easily build quality applications without focusing on writing code. Business applications can be built using Visual Basic or C#. You can build forms from existing templates and populate them with data from data sources including SQL Server, SQL Azure, SharePoint, and others. There is integrated support for working with Microsoft Office for tasks such as exporting data to Excel without having to write code. While developing your application, you can modify the application as it runs. LightSwitch creates Silverlight applications that can run in the browser, out-of-the-browser, or in the cloud.  When your application grows, you can use Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate to extend and customize it further. The first beta of LightSwitch will be available broadly on August 23rd, 2010.  http://www.microsoft.com

Telerik, a vendor of development tools and user interface components for the Microsoft .NET Framework, announced the official release of RadControls for Microsoft Silverlight 4. The suite is natively built on Silverlight 4 and offers an environment for developing enterprise applications. A native RichTextBox debuts in RadControls for Silverlight 4; the suite features Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 support, as well as multi-touch support. Both developers and designers can work with RadControls for Silverlight 4 in various environments such as Expression Blend and SharePoint 2010. The controls are integrated within Visual Studio 2010, enabling teh development of Silverlight applications with design-time support. A preview for each control is supported out of the box, as is the Visual Studio 2010 property explorer for Silverlight controls. The Silverlight 4 RichTextBox debuts with features such as rich text formatting, various layouts and views with stunning performance even with large documents, allowing you to easily integrate Microsoft Word-like editing in your Silverlight application. http://www.telerik.com

FatWire Software announced a new Technology Partner Program and general availability of its WEM Framework. The new resources for partners in the program, combined with the WEM Framework technology components, enable FatWire partners to build on top of the WEM suite with integrations. The FatWire Technology Partner Program provides an expanded set of resources and tools to integrate existing applications into the FatWire suite as well as to build new custom applications on top of FatWire. Partners in the program are provided with access to the WEM Framework components, plus a set of technical resources, training, marketing, sales, and alliance support, to help them integrate. Partners have already joined the program, including Mahindra Satyam, Brightcove, Congruent, Frevvo, HCL, Element 115, netomat, BestTV, and others. FatWire’s WEM Framework is now generally available for all FatWire partners and customers. Components of the framework include a common user interface framework, single sign-on, centralised user and role management, a REST API for repository integration, and centralised administration for sites, roles, and applications across FatWire and partner integrated technologies. http://www.fatwire.com

Six Apart announced that it is opening up the TypePad Platform to developers for the development of social applications that make use of TypePad's smart cloud and API. By using the TypePad Platform, developers can run a social app on a single web server, leaving the storage, infrastructure and organization of social graph data and social objects to the TypePad cloud. Six Apart is also open sourcing TypePad Motion, the first social app built on the platform, to help organizations and individuals start their own microblogging community. Derived from the Pownce code base, which was acquired by Six Apart in 2008, developers can use TypePad Motion as a reference as they build other social apps on the TypePad Platform. The TypePad Platform gives website owners the opportunity to run their own independently branded social applications while being easily available to members of other TypePad-supported sites through easy login to the cloud. Visitors can become members of TypePad Motion sites using their Facebook, Twitter, TypePad, or OpenID logins. The TypePad Developer Program provides developers with the early access beta version, or Developer Preview, of the TypePad API. Documentation and the TypePad Motion open source application, which can easily be adapted for other social apps, is also available. Developers will find a forum, mailing list and group where they can get their questions answered. TypePad Motion is the inaugural open source application built by Six Apart for the TypePad Platform. A microblogging app derived from Pownce for fostering communities, TypePad Motion is written in Python using the Django framework, making it extremely easy to build and customize. For organizations wishing to increase interactivity and page views on their websites, the Six Apart Services team can help incorporate a TypePad Motion community into an existing site, or build a new site. http://www.TypePad.com, http://www.sixapart.com/

Kapow Technologies and StrikeIron announced the immediate availability of Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 to address the web data access needs of the SMB market. Organizations that demand enterprise-class web data access and quality, regardless of size and data requirements, can use Kapow Web Data Services on a per use and volume basis. This strategic partnership brings together Kapow's  web data services technology with StrikeIron's data-as-a-service web platform for delivering business data from the web to any Internet-connected system. SMBs can use Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 to wrap any website or web application into RSS feeds or REST web services for rapid, automated and structured access to external web data sources eliminating the manual process of cutting/pasting data from a web browser. StrikeIron will offer Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 in its Web Services Catalog, an SaaS-based data distribution engine that minimizes the complexity for developers and business users to integrate live data from private and public web applications and websites. Kapow Technologies' "No Coding" technology enables companies to rapidly build, test and deploy standard RSS data feeds and REST web services delivery of real-time web data directly into common business applications such as Microsoft Excel, NetSuite or Salesforce as well as any RSS feed reader. Kapow can also deliver feeds and services directly to any application builder that can access data in standard RSS, JSON and XML format, including IBM Mashup Center, IBM Rational EGL, JackBe and WaveMaker. Kapow Web Data Services 7.0.0 is available immediately via StrikeIron's Web Services Catalog. Pricing is subscription-based, starting at $84 per month. http://www.kapowtech.com/, http://www.strikeiron.com/

Day Software (SWX:DAYN)(OTCQX:DYIHY) announced the availability of three new licensed editions of CRX, Day's JSR-170-compliant Java Content Repository (JCR). These new editions make it simpler for companies to standardize on an enterprise-ready content infrastructure based on Day's commercial implementation of Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling. This release is enhanced by a licensing model that promotes adoption by individual developers, departments and global enterprises. Day now offers three targeted editions of its content infrastructure platform: CRX One: CRX One is a new version of CRX licensed for use to power a single Web application. CRX One is Day's entry-level CRX offering, available directly from Day's Web site for an annual subscription license fee of US$18,500 per server instance per year, regardless of the number of CPUs; CRX Developer: CRX Developer is a limited license version of CRX available free of charge for Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling developers directly from Day's Web site. Web developers can use CRX Developer at no cost under an annual renewal license for building and testing new CRX-based content applications; CRX Enterprise: CRX Enterprise is Day's premier CRX offering for use in powering multiple Web applications. CRX Enterprise is targeted for IT departments looking to consolidate disparate enterprise content repositories under a single, shared cluster of CRX. Organizations can seamlessly update their CRX One licenses to CRX Enterprise to host multiple applications without installing or managing new software. CRX Enterprise is offered under a perpetual license model that starts at US$50,000 per server instance. Day CRX Developer is available free of charge immediately from Day's Web site at http://www.day.com

eZ Systems announced the release of eZ Components version 2008.2. This is the seventh major version of eZ Components, which is a general-purpose PHP library of over 40 components used independently or together for PHP application development. The latest versions of eZ Publish are also based on eZ Components. With eZ Components, developers can concentrate on solving customer-specific needs. The eZ Components tool set provides key application functionality, such as caching, authentication, database interaction, templates, graphs, and much more. Main improvements in this release include more features for the Document and Webdav components. The Document component, which enables you to convert documents between different formats, was already able to convert ReST to XTHML and DocBook. In this release, more formats are implemented, such as three different wiki formats (Confluence, Creole and DokuWiki), the eZ Publish XML formats, as well as reading XHTML and writing ReST. The wiki parser can easily be extended for other wiki formats. The Webdav component now supports authentication and authorization, as well as support for integrating authentication mechanisms into existing systems. In addition, it supports shared and exclusive write locks, even with custom storage back-ends. The main new development of the eZ Components 2008.2 release is the MvcTools component. The MvcTools component implements the tools for a framework. Instead of dedicating the structure of the application, it provides a dispatcher, two request parsers (one for HTTP and one for email messages through the existing Mail component), two routing methods, two view handlers (one through plain PHP scripts and one through the Template component), and a response writer for HTTP. http://ezcomponents.org

Citrix Systems, Inc. and Akamai Technologies, Inc. announced an agreement that will make it easier for customers and integration partners to combine each company's web application delivery offerings into integrated solutions that enhance the performance, scalability and security of enterprise web applications. The companies will leverage Citrix's premise-based NetScaler product line and Akamai's cloud-based Web Application Accelerator(SM) service to bring true end-to-end web application delivery to both Internet and enterprise customers worldwide. Citrix and Akamai are working with system integrators to bring customers the following benefits: Faster Web Application Performance, Greater Infrastructure Scalability, Higher Application Availability, and Deeper Application Security. As part of the collaboration between Citrix and Akamai, the companies intend to establish the following: Citrix-Akamai Partner Assistance Program, designed to help integrators establish practices to implement the two solutions together at customer sites, and the Citrix-Akamai Online Community designed to help enterprise customers share best practices, experiences and support questions when using Citrix and Akamai web application delivery solutions together. The two companies will also publish a series of best practices deployment guides showing recommended configuration guidelines to achieve the best possible application performance for various scenarios. http://www.akamai.com/

Bungee Labs announced federated hosting to expand adoption of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) among enterprises and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. Organizations developing interactive applications on the Bungee Connect PaaS can now elect to host those applications on self-managed infrastructure running the new Bungee Application Server, or on the multi-tenant Bungee Grid at datacenters in the United States, Europe, and on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Beginning in June, organizations will be able to self-designate the hosting location for their Bungee-powered applications from within their online Bungee Connect development and management account. Development, testing and deployment of non-production versions of Bungee-powered applications are free. Fees begin only after a deployed Bungee-powered application is used by end users. Bungee-powered applications deployed on the Bungee Connect multi-tenant grid in the United States, European Union and at Amazon EC2 are billed at an aggregate rate of US$0.06 (six U.S. cents) per user-session-hour rounded down to the nearest second per user-session. During the Bungee Connect public beta, there are no fees for these options. Federation pricing for the self-hosted Bungee Application Server starts at a flat monthly subscription license fee of $500 per month, per server. Bungee Labs also announced plans to make community source code available for the Bungee Application Server under several software source code licenses. http://www.bungeelabs.com