Software AG Announces Performance Testing Milestone for Adabas on IBM System z9 z/OS Mainframe Platform.320,000 Commands Per Second More Than Doubles the Fastest Speed Recorded for Adabas on a Commercial Mainframe System Adabas 2006 Upgraded to Store Both Structured and Large Unstructured Files RESTON, Va. -- Software AG today announced that its Adabas transactional database software has reached a new performance milestone in joint testing with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Adabas 2006, running along with IBM's recently introduced z/OS v1.8 operating system on the company's new System z9 Enterprise Class mainframe, attained transaction speeds of approximately 320,000 per second - a record speed for Adabas on a commercial mainframe system. During the trials, which took place at IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of test center, Adabas 2006's enhanced level of 64-bit virtual memory was used in combination with z/OS V1.8's ability to support more than 128 GB of real memory in a single image on IBM System z IBM zSeries is a brand name of IBM which was designated to all IBM mainframes in 2000 with the e depicted in IBM's red trademarked symbol. The IBM eServer zSeries line succeeded the IBM System/390 (S/390 (z990 and z9 EC) processors. During the testing Adabas 2006 ran on 32 parallel processors. "We are pleased with the support and continued investment in the System z platform by partners like Software AG," said Randy Daniel, director, System z Marketing Execution, IBM Systems & Technology Group. "The impressive results of these recent joint tests with Software AG not only demonstrate the strength of our system design, but also emphasizes that our approach to transactional data management remains unrivaled throughout the industry." "This achievement demonstrates that Software AG is fully committed to the continued improvement of Adabas," said Philip Howard, Research Director, Bloor Research. "Such performance should convince users that no matter how much their volume demand increases - or their processing resources are taken up by other, more CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. intensive, products - Adabas is likely to have more than enough headroom to continue performing effectively." "As these remarkable joint test results demonstrate, Software AG continues to optimize our Adabas 2006 family of products to keep pace with growing enterprise requirements alongside the industry-leading hardware and operating system platforms of IBM - to the ongoing benefit of our mutual customers," said Joe Gentry, vice president of Enterprise Transaction Systems for Software AG. Additional Features In addition to its unprecedented transactional performance, Adabas 2006 now supports multi-media objects up to 2 GB in size. This new capability means that large unstructured files (such as photographs, design files, fingerprint files, spreadsheets, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. & HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. documents, and other document types) can be stored alongside structured data files inside Adabas 2006. Being able to store structured and unstructured files in the same location eliminates the need for data synchronization, improves data accuracy and reduces costs associated with system integration. Another significant upgrade to Adabas 2006 is the addition of support for logical records exceeding 32 KB, (called spanned records), which eliminates virtually all practical limits on record size. This enhancement prevents down-time when storage limits are reached for extremely large volumes of data, moving Adabas even closer to (theoretical) 24 x7 x 365 operational uptime. Product Availability Software AG's Adabas 2006 is shipping now. For more information about Adabas 2006, visit http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/adabas/default.asp. About Software AG, Inc. (North America) Software AG, Inc. is based in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area and provides enterprise-class data management and integration solutions to customers in sectors such as local, state and federal government, insurance and public retirement. Software AG, Inc.'s customers include American Fidelity Assurance Company, National Gypsum gypsum (jĭp`səm), mineral composed of calcium sulfate (calcium, sulfur, and oxygen) with two molecules of water, CaSO4·2H2O. It is the most common sulfate mineral, occurring in many places in a variety of forms. Company, The California State Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), American Community Mutual Insurance Company, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Buildings, Export Development Canada Export Development Canada (EDC) is Canada's export credit agency and a Crown corporation that provides financing and risk management services to Canadian exporters and investors in up to 200 markets worldwide. , Tulsa County Government and the US Export-Import Bank Export-import Bank (Ex-IM Bank) The U.S. federal government agency that extends trade credits to U.S. companies to facilitate the financing of U.S. exports. . Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, provides a full range of products and services to deliver a service-oriented architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) IT infrastructure, based on over thirty-five years experience in high-performance databases, application development tools and integration technologies. Its technology offers process driven integration through legacy modernization and SOA based integration. Software AG helps its customers to achieve a competitive advantage through flexible and adaptive business processes based on fast and easy integration of existing IT assets. It supports the mission-critical systems of over 3,000 customers globally. Software AG is represented in around 70 countries with more than 2,700 employees. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Frankfurt Stock Exchange The largest of Germany's eight securities exchanges, operated by Deutsche Borse AS. (TecDAX, ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C. DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2005 Software AG posted a[logical not]438 million in total revenue. www.softwareag.com. Software AG and/or all Software AG products are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Software AG. All other product and company names mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only, and may be the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. |
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