New Releases Offer Increased Performance, Cloud Database Connectivity,
Broader Database Coverage and Improved Security
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global software company that
simplifies and enables the development and deployment of business
applications, today announced the release of DataDirect Connect® for
JDBC 5.1 and DataDirect Connect® XE for JDBC 5.1. Both offerings enable
fast, secure, and highly scalable connectivity for a broad spectrum of
data sources, which now include cloud databases such as Microsoft SQL
Azure™, IBM DB2 10.1, IBM DB2 pureScale 9.8, and Microsoft SQL Server
2012. This type of connectivity exemplifies Progress Software's goal to
help companies better access their data whether on premise, or in the
cloud.
In today's fast-paced world, organizations are looking for better ways
to enhance customer experiences and analyze available data for more
focused revenue opportunities. Crucial to that success is highly
efficient and performant data connectivity across a wide variety of data
sources, both on-premise and in the cloud. The improved DataDirect® JDBC
drivers handle communications and memory usage in a novel way —
resulting in significant increases in both performance and efficiency.
Memory and CPU usage is reduced overall while throughput levels are
raised, which translates into reduced operating costs.
In addition to these advances in high-performance SQL access using JDBC,
the new releases of the DataDirect Connect drivers include the following
features:
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Cloud database connectivity, with high-performance support for the
Microsoft SQL Azure database, enabling efficient SQL access to
Microsoft's relational database service in the cloud.
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Expanded database coverage, with advanced support and certification:
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IBM DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, including SQL
enhancements and support for Time Travel Queries
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IBM DB2 pureScale 9.8
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012, including SQL enhancements and protocol
upgrade.
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Expanded native database security for Oracle Advanced Security (OAS),
including support for ten additional encryption algorithms.
Progress Software is the software industry's leading comprehensive
provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business
applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven
and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect
products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of
data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC and
ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software
vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on Progress Software to
simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to
reduce the complexity of mainframe integration.
Quotes:
"Building high performing applications is an art form, and many
developers and business managers don't realize the significant impact
the JDBC driver has on the performance of the application. This release
provides performance gains in raw speed and throughput coupled with
continued reduction of memory and CPU usage per unit of work," said
Michael Benedict, vice president and business line manager, Progress
DataDirect. "It also further widens the performance advantage that our
drivers provide over others on the market. Enterprise's using Progress
DataDirect connectivity solutions see greater performance, scalability,
and reliability—all with increased enterprise security."
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) simplifies the development,
deployment and management of business applications on-premise or on any
Cloud, on any platform and on any device with minimal IT complexity and
low total cost of ownership. Progress Software can be reached at www.progress.com
or 1-781-280-4000.
Follow Progress Software on Twitter: @ProgressSW
Follow Progress DataDirect on Twitter: @DataDirect_News
Progress and DataDirect are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates
in the U.S. and other countries. Any other names contained herein may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
Progress Software
Rachel Harnden, +44 (0) 134-438-6387
rharnden@progress.com
Twitter:
@ProgressSW
or
LEWIS
PR
Lillian Dunlap, +1 617-226-8881
progresssoftware@lewispr.com
Source: Progress Software Corporation
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