OPENLINK UNLEASHES LINKED-DATA-DRIVEN PLATFORM FOR
SEMANTICALLY ENHANCED DATA VIRTUALIZATION
Virtuoso 6.2 Delivers Smart, Cross-Platform,
High-Performance Data Virtualization across Heterogeneous
Data Sources
BURLINGTON, MA. -- September 22, 2010 -- OpenLink
Software, Inc., the pioneer and technology leader in
high-performance data virtualization, today introduced
the newest version of the Virtuoso Universal Server,
which provides a cost-effective, secure, cross-platform,
and high-performance solution to the perennial problems
of transparent access, integration, and management of
heterogeneous data sources. In this new release, the
basic means of access becomes a hyperlink, enabling
immediate exploitation of virtualized data through a Web
browser or any other HTTP-compatible application or
service, in addition to the long-supported data access
mechanisms of ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE DB, and XMLA.
The Data Silos Problem
The exponential growth of the Internet and World Wide
Web continues to increase the artificial partitioning of
data across structurally heterogeneous and disparately
located silos. Compounding this problem, enterprise data
silos continue to expand due to the proliferation of
application- and SOA-based services. Addressing these
challenges requires a new data-oriented virtualization
technology that delivers "data junction boxes" at both
the logical and conceptual data access and management
levels, without locking users or organizations into
specific application servers, application development
platforms and languages, operating systems, database
management systems, data access protocols, or data
representation formats.
How Virtuoso Solves the Data Silos Problem
Virtuoso delivers an unrivaled platform for real-time
access to and integration of relational databases, web
services, and structured and semi-structured Web content,
without compromising security. Based on a
massively-scalable, hybrid-model database engine for
relational- (e.g., SQL) and graph- (e.g., RDF) model
data, Virtuoso's features include --
- Comprehensive incorporation of back-end relational
databases through native support for external ODBC- and
JDBC-based data sources
- Broad support of more than 40 hypermedia and other
resource types (including icalendar, vcard, mp3, mpeg4,
RSS, Atom, and CSV)
- Extensive integration with SOAP and
more-contemporary REST-pattern-compatible services
(Amazon, eBay, BestBuy, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook,
Google, Yahoo!, Bing, SalesForce.com, amongst
others)
- Sophisticated conceptual-level data views that
transparently integrate graph and relational models,
enabling faceted navigation over relational sources
with linear scale performance
- Powerful change sensitivity via a variety of
replication methods and protocols that support a vast
array of topologies
- Innovative policy-based security that leverages
strong identity (data objects and users) via built-in
distributed identity management
Unobtrusive and Cost-Effective Innovation
One key benefit of Virtuoso's powerful feature set is
the ability to use conventional data access patterns
(spreadsheet-oriented rows and columns, database tables,
analytics-oriented multi-dimensional cubes & pivots,
network-oriented entity models, etc.) over unstructured
and semi-structured data sources including web sites, web
content, web services, as well as structured data sources
such as traditional databases (relational and graph).
Most importantly, all of this is achieved without
disrupting ongoing activities or requiring full-scale
infrastructure reimplementation.
"Conceptual-level access to heterogeneous data, across
disparately located data sources, remains the biggest
impediment to enterprise and individual agility," said
Kingsley Idehen, Founder & CEO, OpenLink
Software. "Virtuoso 6.2 delivers a powerful
'data virtualization' solution for entity-oriented data
access & management that reflects 18 years of
passion, innovation, and leadership at OpenLink
Software," he added.
"The new release introduces change sensitive
end-to-end mapping from remote ODBC/JDBC accessible SQL
data sources all the way to Virtuoso's Native RDF Quad
Store for powerful data discovery and integration," said
Orri Erling, Virtuoso Program Manager, OpenLink
Software.
Putting Virtuoso to Work for You
As always, current versions of Virtuoso are available
for immediate download and free evaluation.
Through December 31, 2010, all Commercial licenses for
Virtuoso are available for half their normal price, which
puts an entry-level Workstation license at $499, and
offers significant savings for all deployments through to
the highest-end, enterprise-grade Cluster Edition.
Virtuoso also continues to be available in Open Source
form (which does not include support for GeoSpatial Data,
Virtualization of Remote ODBC- and JDBC-accessible Data
Sources, Clustering and High Availability, or Data
Replication).
Learn More About ...
About OpenLink Software
OpenLink Software is a privately-held
software company with offices in the USA and the United
Kingdom. It has been the leading provider and technology
innovator in the universal data access middleware market
since 1993, and over 10,000 companies currently use its
products worldwide. Follow @OpenLink on Twitter, http://twitter.com/openlink, or visit our
website for more information, http://www.openlinksw.com/
Contact
Helen Heward-Mills,
OpenLink Software, Inc.
Tel: 781 273 0900
Email: hmills@openlinksw.com
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