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TechRadar™ For Enterprise Architecture Professionals: Enterprise Data Integration, Q1 2010

Data Integration Technologies Evolve To Address New Challenges

by Noel Yuhanna, Rob Karel, February 4, 2010

Today, enterprises face increasing data integration challenges, largely because of growing data volumes, data protection issues, data migration complexities, the need for real-time information, integration of structured with unstructured data, and the . . .

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2010 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Enterprises Face A Growing Need For A Unified Integration Competency Center

by Ken Vollmer, Rob Karel, Noel Yuhanna, January 12, 2010

Just as in 2009, technical innovation and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity have continued to have a significant impact on the integration space. The most common trend has been the expansion of existing products and services to the point where . . .

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Test Data Privacy Is Critical To Meet Compliances

Data Masking Can Help Protect Test Data

by Noel Yuhanna, October 13, 2009

Using customer, employee, or other confidential data straight from production for testing or developing applications violates data privacy laws and regulations and makes that data a soft target for attacks. Data privacy is not just a concern for production . . .

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Your Enterprise Database Security Strategy 2010

Stronger Measures Have Become Essential To Defend Against Growing Attacks

by Noel Yuhanna, September 28, 2009

With increasingly sophisticated attacks and rising internal data theft, database security merits a stronger focus that goes beyond traditional authentication, authorization, and access control (AAA). A single intrusion that compromises private data such . . .

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Sybase Raises The Bar On Database Replication

Offerings Focus Strongly On Performance, Reliability, And Heterogeneity

by Noel Yuhanna, July 31, 2009

In the past year, Forrester interviewed 27 Sybase customers who are using Sybase Replication Server to investigate their implementations. Most customers found that Sybase met or exceeded their data movement requirements by offering a reliable, high-performance, . . .

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Why Data Masking Should Be Part Of Your Enterprise Data Security Practice

by Noel Yuhanna, July 9, 2009

This presentation discusses data security trends and drivers; current data security challenges; why data masking is critical; data masking approaches; selection criteria for data masking implementation; and recommendations.

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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009

Oracle, IBM, And Microsoft Lead, With Sybase Following Closely; Ingres Tops Open Source Databases In Current Offering

by Noel Yuhanna, June 30, 2009

In Forrester's 153-criteria evaluation of enterprise open source and closed source database management systems (DBMSes), we found that Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and Sybase lead the pack because each offers mature, high-performance, scalable, secure, and . . .

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DBMS Selection: Look Beyond Basic Functions

Advanced Features, Application Requirements, And Cost Play A Larger Role

by Noel Yuhanna, June 3, 2009

Application development and information and knowledge management professionals evaluating database management systems (DBMSes) will find that comparing basic features and functionality is unlikely to provide a clear picture of the best solution. DBMS . . .

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JAVA Under Oracle: Seven Things You Need To Know

Java Standards Will Narrow; MySQL, ADF, And JDeveloper Will Expand

by John R. Rymer, Noel Yuhanna, Jeffrey S. Hammond, Mike Gualtieri, May 8, 2009

Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun Microsystems (ticker symbol: JAVA) will give it control over two of the most widely used application development technologies in the industry: the Java platform and MySQL. Oracle can't say exactly what it intends to do . . .

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Base Your Oracle "Red Stack" Negotiations Strategy On Your Oracle Adoption Strategy

Preparation And Product Expertise Are Key To Winning

by R "Ray" Wang, John R. Rymer, Noel Yuhanna, March 13, 2009

Amidst worsening economic conditions and a rapidly consolidating vendor landscape, applications professionals will have the opportunity to consolidate their own landscapes by committing to single-vendor "platform stacks." IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, . . .

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TPC Benchmarks Don't Matter Anymore

Features And Cost Are Key Factors When Choosing A DBMS

by Noel Yuhanna, March 6, 2009

Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) benchmarks, once widely accepted as the standard DBMS benchmark, are becoming obsolete. Why? First, all top-tier DBMS vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, and Teradata are delivering high performance . . .

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Market Overview: Database Security

DBMS Security Technology Continues To Evolve, With Independent Vendors Filling Gaps

by Noel Yuhanna, February 27, 2009

Attacks on enterprise databases continue at an all-time high despite security professionals taking measures to protect them. Although database management system (DBMS) security continues to improve, gaps remain in providing real-time protection, proactively . . .

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2009 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Scenario-Based Guidance For Choosing Products That Provide Application, Process, And Data Integration Features

by Ken Vollmer, Rob Karel, Larry Fulton, Noel Yuhanna, January 26, 2009

Technical innovation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity continue to drive the evolution of the integration marketplace, leading to a market with a significantly different array of features and tools than what existed just 18 months ago. In . . .

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App Dev's Role In Securing Next-Generation Information Architectures

by Noel Yuhanna, November 13, 2008

Tightly coupling data sources with applications has been a common approach for applications that need to access enterprise data, but with increasing data volume and data complexity along with the need for real-time and accurate information, new options . . .

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Securing Next-Generation Information Architectures

The Promise Of Improved Security Or The Risk Of New Attack Vectors

by Noel Yuhanna, October 24, 2008

Next-generation information architectures such as data federation and information services are gaining increased adoption, so security professionals must ensure their protection from all relevant threats. What is the nature of those threats? These next-generation . . .

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Market Overview: Enterprise Data Modeling

A Steady State Market Prepares To Enter A Transformational New Phase

by Jeffrey S. Hammond, Noel Yuhanna, October 17, 2008

Over the past five years, selecting a data modeling tool has meant choosing between three leading vendors: CA, Embarcadero Technologies, and Sybase. In a slowly growing market, these vendors have focused most of their efforts on taking share from one . . .

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SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors

Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, And Security

by Noel Yuhanna, September 22, 2008

Microsoft's latest version of SQL Server delivers greatly improved manageability, business intelligence, security, integration, and availability, making database administrators (DBAs) more productive and databases more optimized. In addition, SQL Server . . .

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Database-As-A-Service Explodes On The Scene

DaaS Delivers An Easy-To-Use, Low-Cost Alternative Database Resource

by Noel Yuhanna, July 31, 2008

Enterprises must support hundreds or even thousands of applications to meet growing business demands, but this growth is dramatically driving up the cost of running and managing the databases under those applications. The stress this puts on the IT budget . . .

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Market Update: Open Source Databases

Open Source Databases Remain A Viable Choice For Business Applications

by Noel Yuhanna, July 17, 2008

Open source databases continue to grow in adoption, offering enterprises a reliable and low-cost alternate solution for supporting small to moderately sized applications. Although the rip-and-replace method of trading a commercial database management . . .

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Information-As-A-Service: Delivering Real-Time Information Drives Market Toward The Mainstream

by Noel Yuhanna, May 2, 2008

Increasing business demand for near-real-time delivery of high-quality information in context is driving enterprise architects and application developers toward new service-oriented ways of accessing and integrating enterprise information. Earlier-era . . .

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A New Role Is Emerging Within IT: Database Security Analyst (DSA)

by Noel Yuhanna, April 4, 2008

As enterprises take stronger measures around database security to meet compliance requirements and defend against attacks, the need for security support and administration becomes critical. But who must now assume responsibility for managing these database . . .

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Sybase ASE Remains A Strong Enterprise DBMS

Reliability, Support, And Innovation Are Behind Sybase's Increased Growth

by Noel Yuhanna, March 5, 2008

Over the past year, Forrester interviewed 65 Sybase customers who use Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). A majority of these customers rated Sybase ASE as a highly reliable database management system (DBMS) with strong database features, very good . . .

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The Forrester Wave™: Information-As-A-Service, Q1 2008

BEA Systems Leads, With IBM, Oracle, And Red Hat Following Closely

by Noel Yuhanna, Mike Gilpin, January 23, 2008

Forrester evaluated leading enterprise information-as-a-service (IaaS) vendors across 94 criteria and found that BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat have established leadership positions, thanks to their IaaS capabilities, breadth of focus, and strong . . .

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Tizor Systems Is A Leader In Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Noel Yuhanna, October 26, 2007

Tizor Systems is a Leader in the enterprise database auditing and real-time protection market because it provides strong support for alerting, audit and compliance reporting, performance, policy administration, the discovery of private data, integration . . .

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Microsoft Is A Contender In Enterprise Database Auditing And Real-Time Protection

The Forrester Wave™ Vendor Summary, Q4 2007

by Noel Yuhanna, October 26, 2007

Microsoft's SQL Server native auditing solution is basic, but it's free. It offers a good level of support for monitoring user and DBA activity, but lags in policy management, reporting, monitoring and alerting, and analytics. Although Microsoft has improved . . .