In brief: SPI Dynamics announces vulnerability-assessment software

Network World
November 07, 2005 12:03 AM ET

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SPI Dynamics has announced a software addition to its vulnerability-assessment products that will let customers check Web applications and services for conformance to a variety of legal and regulatory requirements, including the California SB 1386 data-privacy law, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The software module, called the SPI Dynamics Compliance Pack, is available as a free upgrade for WebInspect, QAInspect and the Assessment Management Platform.
Continuent, the former Emic Networks, which specializes in building highly available clustering software for customers using MySQL databases, is expanding its focus to include a wider range of open source and proprietary database environments. The company last week announced its new name and outlined its expanded product line and its upgraded m/cluster software for MySQL, which will support Windows, Unix and Linux. The upgrade is set to be available early next year and is priced starting at $5,000 per CPU. Continuent's p/cluster for Postgres is in beta and is expected to be available next year. Support for Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and Oracle databases will come later in 2006, as will uni/cluster for universal database support, the company says.
ObjectWeb Consortium's open source software stack now includes a business-intelligence platform. Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA, a systems integrator, is contributing SpagoBI, a business-intelligence platform built on the Spago J2EE framework. SpagoBI can be used to build reports and dashboards using data mining, query by example and online analytical processing techniques. Engineering Ingegneria has tested SpagoBI with DB2 UDB, HSQL, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL databases. SpagoBI can be downloaded here .

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