HP announces plans for DDS-4 DAT drives

Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to develop a high-capacity digital audio tape (DAT) drive using the new Digital Data Storage-4 (DDS-4) format, adopted recently by the DDS Manufacturers Group. HP said the 3.5-inch drive is expected to be available in the second half of 1999, providing 20GB native capacity (40GB with typical data compression) on a 150-metre DDS-4 tape. The company said the expected native data-transfer rate will be higher than the specified 6MB/s.

3Com and Computer Associates extend enterprise data to the Palm Computing platform

3Com has announced it is working with Computer Associates (CA) to bring mobile connectivity to CA`s Harmony line of Information Management Solutions. The companies will jointly work on extensions to Computer Associates technology for user interface development. With these extensions, developers can build new applications that put information from enterprise sources onto palm computing connected organisers, such as the 3Com Palm III and PalmPilot Professional Edition.

Oracle, Compaq break performance record on Windows NT

Oracle and Compaq announced a new TPC-C world record for Windows NT on a six-node cluster of Compaq ProLiant 6500 servers running the Oracle8 Database Server with the Oracle Parallel Server option.

Business Objects supports Sybase Warehouse Studio

Business Objects has announced support for new Sybase Warehouse Studio. Warehouse Studio provides a set of design, transformation, database, meta data management and administration capabilities optimised for data warehousing.

EMC and Informix partner for database backup

HP unveils CD-ROM servers for Fast Ethernet

Hewlett-Packard has announced the new HP SureStore CD-ROM Server/Tower 7 and 7Plus, allowing multiple users to share libraries of CD-ROM content across the network.

Brio named top query tool

Brio Technology, the enterprise business intelligence company represented locally by Abraxas, said that Brio Enterprise has been named one of the "Top 10 Products of 1997" in ComputerWire`s Data Warehouse Tools Bulletin.

Sagent makes Upside`s Top 100

Attachmate teams with Computer Associates to streamline data operations for enterprise management

Attachmate said it has joined forces with Computer Associates to provide a simplified solution for managing data centre resources. CA`s Unicenter TNG Automation Point Option for Windows NT and Attachmate`s IRMA 3270 PCI adapters brought together would enable network administrators to manage up to 16 IBM host systems from a single workstation, Attachmate said.

Oracle certifies EMC for NT

EMC Corporation said that Oracle has certified its Symmetrix enterprise storage subsystems as part of a complete cluster configuration to support the Oracle Parallel Server.

HP intros 5.2GB magneto-optical jukeboxes

Hewlett-Packard has announced the availability of its 5.2GB-based SureStore magneto-optical jukebox family.

Sagent 3.0 offers Web OLAP tool

Sagent Technology, developer of an integrated environment for building and accessing data marts, has announced Version 3.0 of its data mart software package Sagent Data Mart Solution. Sagent Technology is represented locay by 360 Solutions.

Unisys SA gets ISO 9001 certification

Unisys South Africa said it has been awarded an ISO 9001 Certification from the South African Bureau of Standards. The ISO 9001 requirements cover all the processes in the quality chain leading to the customer.