ASE 15 can help IT managers to cope with the twin pressures of explosive data growth and users who demand more data more quickly, according to the company’s European head of marketing, Ketan Karia.

“This doesn’t mean that our strategy only works if you have ASE 15 – all our products work heterogeneously,” Karia said.

ASE competes with databases from Oracle and Microsoft, and Karia said the Sybase product would compare favourably in performance terms and also total cost of ownership.

Operational costs are reduced through automation. “As much as we can, we automatically do all that day-to-day stuff that the IT manager [otherwise] has to constantly monitor,” Karia said.

New query-processing technology has been added in an attempt to accelerate queries without having to sacrifice performance.

The company has also introduced to the update an on-disk encryption feature. This is designed to ensure that corporate information is protected when in transit, when accessed and when stored on disk – without an IT manager having to modify any applications that use the data.

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