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Outside the Data Center
 Hello, my name is Dave Neudoerffer, Vice President of engineering for Sybase iAnywhere. So you think you know what SQL Anywhere is…SQL Anywhere 11 just might change your mind. SQL Anywhere is actually a lot of different things. But first and foremost, it is a database management system for managing data outside the traditional data center. There are a lot of places of business where you need to manage data, but you don’t have administrators and IT staff to keep an enterprise type DBMS running. A common misconception here is that this is about managing and syncing data on a mobile device. Well, that's part of it, but a small part actually. We see serious data in retail stores, warehouses, small businesses, departments of large businesses, in manufacturing plants, and behind a lot of common software and systems such as accounting systems, point of sale, network management software, backup systems, phone systems, contact relationship management systems and inspection systems.
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Synchronization MattersOur team has recently been in contact with a new customer using our new UltraLiteJ for Blackberry product. The customer provides mobile solutions for field service technicians. While I don’t usually post self congratulatory marketing type material here, I beg your indulgence this once. Here’s what they had to say [...] (More...) Is It Done?Today is the last day of our quarter. For the last couple weeks, I have heard the question many times: “Is it done?”
The “IT” in this case is a new product option for UltraLite that will be useful in certain circumstances for some of our US Government accounts.
The answer to this [...] (More...) Bundling Third Party Code - Part 2In my previous posting, I discussed some of the issues and procedures that we go through within the SQL Anywhere team when considering the use of 3rd party components within SQL Anywhere.
After the bundling of a 3rd party component is approved, there are still two key considerations for our team.
Legal considerations
The ability [...] (More...) Bundling Third Party Code - Part 1– prior to integration of code
One of my tasks as Senior Director of Engineering is to keep a handle on all the 3rd party components we bundle or include in the SQL Anywhere product.
I am sure that our engineering team is not unique in the software industry in looking for ways to speed up development [...] (More...) The Death of the Perimeter Security?Thanks to iAnywhere Systems Consultant Michael Novak for this pointer to an interesting article about the “death” of the network perimeter.
Jason Hiner, Editor in Chief of TechRepublic recently published an article on his Sanity Check blog about how recent changes in where corporate data is used have affected the need for a broader concept of [...] (More...) I’ve Been OutsideNot just “Outside the Data Center”, but Outside. After a few weeks away from blogging, I’m back. It’s been a busy July and August.
Topics of note in my life over the last 5 weeks:
My family and I enjoyed a wonderful vacation to the Canadian Maritimes, along with several excursions within [...] (More...) Does Database Performance Matter Outside the Data Center?Of course it does!
Everyone knows that the database running in a corporate data center has to clearly demonstrate the performance necessary to handle large corporate application requirements. But why does performance matter when the database is on mobile device, or on an server outside the data center?
Consider the case of a [...] (More...) |
Try the New SQL Anywhere Database Monitoring ToolI would like to invite everyone to be involved in the beta testing of our
brand new graphical monitoring tool. The SQL Anywhere Monitor is a
browser-based administration tool that provides you with information about
the health and availability of SQL Anywhere databases and MobiLink servers.
The SQL Anywhere Monitor collects metrics and performance data from
databases and MobiLink servers [...] (More...) SQL Anywhere 11.0.0 AnnouncementsSybase Techwave is happening this week in Las Vegas. SQL Anywhere has made 3 major announcements:
Sybase iAnywhere Announces Availability of SQL Anywhere 11
Version 11 has lots of cool new features. Check out the Top 10 Cool New Features in SQL Anywhere 11
Next we have Sybase iAnywhere Targets Web Developer Community with New [...] (More...) Something Missing From our Docs? Let us know.We recently published our new DocComment Xchangewebsite, built on SQL Anywhere.
DocCommentXchange is a community site for viewing and discussing SQL Anywhere documentation.
You can Use DocCommentXchange to:
View documentation
Check for clarifications users have made to sections of documentation.
Add your own comments and examples to clarify the documentation
Improve documentation for all users in future releases.
We [...] (More...) Where Have I Been?I have not had a lot of time to post lately. Mostly due to
1) Getting everything done for the release of SQL Anywhere v 11.
2) My upcoming wedding at the end of August.
Regular posts should begin again soon…
(More...) You Want to Store How Much Data????SQL Anywhere ships a sample called instest (found in the Samples\SQLAnywhere\PerformanceInsert directory of your SQL Anywhere install) which allows you to experiment on insert performance for SQL Anywhere. However, it is important to think things through before picking requirements out of the air.
In speaking with potential customers, they often ask us whether we can [...] (More...) Accessing Web Services From SQL AnywhereI’ve been playing with SQL Anywhere’s support for web services. What is particularly cool is that you can call out to (or consume) a web service right from the database server using a stored procedure. Since I have been playing with blogs, and setting up rss, I wondered if I could consume RSS [...] (More...) At last the spammers found me…Well, I am in the middle of updating the blog to use the “Bad Behaviour” plugin to see if I can cut down on the amount of spam comments I am getting.
Fortunately the work I did to get the blog running on SQL Anywhere in a generic way allowed me to get this plugin up [...] (More...) |
Enrollment in Canadian CS programs appears to be stabilizingIn my post on the weekend, I highlighted an article from Ed Lazowska of the University of Washington that presented some preliminary evidence that Computer Science enrollments in the United States were increasing for the 2007-8 academic year.
Quite coincidentally, the latest issue of Communications of the ACM, which arrived on my desk today, contains [...] (More...) SQL Anywhere 11 Webcast series announcedAs I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ll be presenting a webinar - actually two - in November as part of the SQL Anywhere 11 webcast series; the registration page for the series is now online on sybase.com.
Here are the descriptions for the two talks I’ll be giving:
Title: Full Text Search in SQL Anywhere
Date: Thursday, [...] (More...) Interest in Computer Science education is on the upswingOn 11 July Ed Lazowska, the Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in Computing Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, wrote an article in the blog of the Computer Research Association about the upswing in enrollment in Computer Science and Engineering. That’s encouraging, because the drop in CS enrollment since 2000 is precipitous, not [...] (More...) BMC Software and virtualization supportWith the widespread adoption of virtualization within data centers, and the anticipated growth of virtualized data centers (to the tune of 10K nodes, if one believes Irfan Amad of VMWare) it is pretty clear that in addition to the scalability issues, two additional problems need to be solved:
The first, mentioned to me by my colleague [...] (More...) SQL Standard compliance verificationIf you Google the ISO/ANSI SQL Standard, it is pretty easy to find criticism of the standard on the web. One that Google ranks pretty highly is from TheOpenSourcery (author unknown), but there are others. By and large, criticism of the ANSI SQL standard falls into two broad categories:
While the standard may exist, there are [...] (More...) Topics in Virtualization Research: notes from Irfan Ahmad, VMWareThis afternoon I listened to Irfan Ahmad, a member of the Resource Management team at VMware, who gave a lecture entitled Topics in Virtualization Research to faculty and students at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Irfan discussed a survey of virtualization topics including:
cloud and datacenter filesystems,
distributed I/O [...] (More...) The risk of insufficient capacity planningThis past week offered an example of the risk of insufficient capacity planning.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) established a website and, in addition, a telephone system to create the Canadian “Do-not-call” list, which telemarketing companies operating in Canada must obey as of October 31. The website and telephone call center “went live” on [...] (More...) |
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