DBI News

April 18, 2017 - Fourth Millennium Technologies, Inc. and DBI Software form strategic partnership to provide a total DB2® performance solution!

The IT industry's go to services company for database services, Fourth Millennium Technologies (FMT) and DBI Software (DBI) have formed a strategic alliance to provide a total performance monitoring, analysis, and services offering to their clients. This partnership will not only ensure access to DBI's award winning database performance software, but also provides access to service professionals from Fourth Millennium Technologies for deployment of any DB2 LUW database, ETL, or reporting assistance...
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October 23, 2015 - DBI Software announces pureFeat™ Performance Management Suite for IBM DB2 LUW V6.2

NEW Features Make It Easier than Ever
to Fight the RIGHT Fires FASTER DBI pureFeat V6.2 adds many customer suggested enhancements, plus provides a new breakthrough in automated index analysis with "Index Benefit Analysis". For each index recommended by IBM program 'db2advis', DBI pureFeat Index Benefit Analysis will tell DBAs the percentage of timeron savings achieved by adding each recommended index individually, plus the amount of savings lost if a recommended index is excluded from the solution set. It's amazing!
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June 1, 2015 - DBI Software: DBTA TOP 100, Three Years in a Row!

Whenever DB2 database performance is critical, DBI matters! For the third straight year, DBI Software is listed in the Top 100 companies that matter most in data - according to Database Trends and Applications magazine (DBTA).
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March 26, 2015 - DBI Software's pureFeat™ Tools for DB2® Empower PrimeSource Building Products SAP® Database to Run FOUR Times Faster---In Less Than 24 Hours

Thanks to DBI Software, PrimeSource Building Products saves hundreds of thousands of dollars in CPUs, memory, and licenses while ADDING its Canadian data and users to its SAP DB2 database!
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October 7, 2014 - DBI Software Announces pureFeat™ V6.1 Performance Management Suite for IBM DB2 LUW

NEW Features Make It Easier than Ever to Fight the RIGHT Fires FAST!
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July 9, 2014 - DBI Software: DBTA Top 100, Two Years in a Row

Whenever DB2 database performance is critical, DBI matters! For the second consecutive year, DBI Software is listed in the Top 100 companies that matter most in data, according to Database Trends and Applications magazine...
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March 27, 2014 - DBI Software celebrates IBM DB2 LUW performance successes with HealthPlan Services

HealthPlan Services^SM (HPS), the nation's leading technology, sales, retention and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, has selected DBI Software's pureFeat™ Performance Management Suite for IBM DB2 LUW as its strategic DB2 performance monitoring, tuning, and trend analysis tool. As the insurance industry adapts to the requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, visibility and importance of the consumer experience has never been higher. By partnering with DBI Software, Tampa, Fla.-based HPS has taken important proactive measures to help provide its clients and their members with a quality website and superior application performance...
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December 11, 2013 - Hewlett-Packard Company and DBI Software announce new partnership offering enhanced IBM DB2 LUW services and software solutions to a global market.

... This partnership pairs DBI's revolutionary database monitoring, tuning, and trending tools with HP's outstanding customer relationships to bring a truly powerful DB2 database support solution to the market. Under this partnership, HP will offer DBI's tools as part of its managed services customer outsourcing agreements to accelerate value for HP clients and, for non-outsourced clients, HP will be a DBI authorized reseller...
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April 25, 2013 - IBM DB2 LUW TOOLS PROVIDER DBI SOFTWARE RECEIVES MAJOR OUTSIDE INVESTMENT

DBI ... today announced substantial investment from private equity investors and new team members dedicated to accelerating company growth. Jason Paull is appointed as DBI's new CEO and Lee Goddard joins DBI as its Chief Performance Architect.
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October 19, 2012 - DBI Software and Triton Consulting expand partnership globally for the benefit of worldwide IBM DB2 LUW customers.

Mr. Kumar, IT Director at Research Now in Plano Texas, provides terrific testimonials for Triton and DBI.
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May 23, 2012 - DBI Software offers new competitive pricing to accelerate value and lower IT Costs

Trade-in, Trade-up, and Swap-out competitive software database performance products and receive license credits
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May 8, 2012 - DBI Software announces new IBM DB2 LUW performance tool releases offering new features and support for z/Linux and DB2 10

... Mr. Hayes continued "New features and performance improvements in DB2 10, announced by IBM 2 April 2012, are rather compelling, so DBI acted promptly to provide support for this new version. With DBI's breakthrough comparison technology, DB2 LUW customers will be able to accurately measure the performance impacts of upgrading from DB2 V9 to DB2 10, as well as promptly address any performance concerns that arise due to new optimizer methods." ...
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September 28, 2011 - DBI announces the addition of Saddle Creek Corporation to its DB2 Customer Family. DBI products simple to use, intuitive, and provide rapid results.

... Peter Kessler, Sr. DBA for Saddle Creek, adds "The DBI performance tools truly shine when capturing workflow and performance analysis. One of the great things about these tools are that they reveal problem areas very quickly. And, best of all, they provide you the ability to resolve them just as fast. For any DBA or IT software engineer, this software is intuitive and flexible, a must have."
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August 17, 2011 - DBI announces the addition of BOLT System to the DBI Customer Family. DBI products deliver increased DB2 database performance while improving overall efficiency of system administration and applications.

Jerry Robertson, CTO at BOLT System, comments, "The relationship with DBI has been exceptional. The products have not only delivered as promised, DBI has exceeded our overall expectations by providing outstanding support." Jerry adds "Response times and quality of service are critical to our customers, and the DBI products help us meet and exceed our stringent service level agreements while minimizing our IT costs."
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May 12, 2011 - FBS announces outstanding results utilizing DBI tool suite for improving DB2 database performance

FBS develops internet based software for real estate professionals and the performance of large DB2 databases is absolutely mission critical to the organization. Mr. Jaison Feed, Vice President of Information Technology for FBS states: "The DBI Brother-Panther for DB2 LUW product has opened our eyes by recommending over 150 important indexes to our database to improve performance. Additionally, it has helped highlight some structural deficiencies deep in our architecture that are now candidates for optimization."
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May 3, 2011 - PartsSource selects DBI as DB2 performance tool vendor of choice

DBI assists PartsSource with its migration from Oracle to DB2 LUW by reducing response times from 6 seconds to 3 milliseconds and cutting I/O by over 75%. PartsSource VP of IT remarked "the ROI was instant."
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April 26, 2011 - Fearless DB2 Database and Application Performance Management from Cradle to Grave

Already recognized by the DB2 LUW IT community as best of breed performance monitoring, tuning, alerting, and trending tools with innovative SQL workload aggregate analysis and trend charts that track change events, these new releases provide aggregate costs and details for database applications and users, include CPU chargeback information, and recommendations for optimized solid state disk (SSD) configuration. Yet, all this is just the tip of the iceberg when the new Database and SQL workload comparison functionality is considered.
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April 14, 2011 - DBI DB2® solutions deliver increased database performance and efficiency to Wasserstrom E-Commerce and SAP systems

Phil Smith, Chief Information Officer for Wasserstrom, stated "by using the DBI tool sets we are able to solve problems that we did not even know we had!" He adds, "This not only saves us time, it saves us money by decreasing our transaction times enabling us to process more orders for our valued customers."
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January 6, 2011 - Triton Consulting and DBI Software form new partnerships

Triton Consulting, the DB2 experts, today announced a partnership with leading DB2 tools provider, DBI Software. This partnership combines DBI's revolutionary database monitoring, tuning, and trending tools with Triton's Remote DBA service to bring a truly powerful DB2 database support solution to the market.
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October 2, 2009 - DBI helps SafeAuto Insurance improve customer-facing DB2 database performance and reduce IT costs

DBI (Database-Brothers, Inc.), a software company providing professional grade datacenter performance management tools, today announced another success � we helped SafeAuto Insurance improve performance, optimize their IT assets and lower energy consumption.
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September 22, 2009 - DBI and Galaxy Software Services Team to Assist World-Class, Innovative Companies Improve Datacenter Performance and Productivity in Taiwan

DBI (Database-Brothers, Inc.), a software company providing distributed database performance management and auditing tools today announced the expansion of its international market by partnering with Galaxy Software Services in Taipei to serve the Taiwan and Shanghai market.
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August 18, 2009 - DBI and BSM Iberia Team to Assist World-Class, Innovative Companies Improve Performance and Productivity

DBI (Database-Brothers, Inc.), a software company providing distributed database performance management and auditing tools today announced the expansion of its international market by partnering with BSM Iberia in Madrid to serve the Spanish market.
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June 5, 2009 - DBI and Tests e Performance Team to Serve Database Performance Management Needs of Innovative Companies in France and Morocco

DBI today announced the expansion of its international markets by partnering with Tests e Performance, an IT services provider bringing 10 years of specialization in Application and Infrastructure Performance, solutions and outsourcing, to serve the French and Moroccan markets.
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April 9, 2009 - DBI launches new release of powerful Oracle SQL performance software with added functionality and new Oracle version and platform support

DBI's Brother-Owl™ release 7.1 provides a unique competitive advantage, improving IT efficiency, productivity and profitability.
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January 21, 2009 - DBI and BSA Brasil Team to Serve Database Performance Management Needs of World-Class, Innovative Companies in Brazil

DBI today announced the expansion of its international markets by partnering with BSA Brasil.
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November 2008 - DBI Releases New Generation of Database Performance Monitoring Software

Brother-Hawk™ brings new levels of controls to lights-out database performance management.
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September 2008 - DBI Partners with Software Engineering GmbH

DBI today announced the expansion of its international markets by adding Software Engineering GmbH to its rapidly growing roster of business partners.
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September 2008 - DBI Survives Hurricane Ike

Austin and Cental Texas were spared the wrath of Hurricane Ike, but our neighbors, family members, and friends in South East Texas were not so fortunate. In a continuing charitable effort to help, DBI will donate 1% of Q3 2008 new license sales to the American Red Cross.

April 2008 - DBI Unveils Oracle Performance Tool Suite, Guarantees Price, Performance, and Value Leadership

DBI today introduced new performance tuning and space management tools for Oracle environments: Brother-Owl™ for SQL tuning, Brother-Wolf™ for space management, and Brother-Eagle® Enterprise Edition for real-time performance monitoring. The new tools provide DBAs with greater insight into performance problems while proactively resolving issues for optimal business availability.
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December 2007- DBI announces the expansion of its database performance offerings with the introduction of Brother-Thoroughbred® and an enhanced release of its industry leading Brother-Panther®.

Brother-Thoroughbred provides IT organizations with the ability to identify the source of performance problems and measure service level attainments (SLAs)...
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August 2007 - DBI Announces General Availability of Brother-Panther® and Brother-Eagle® for DB2 LUW and pureXML

::: DBI Performance Hero Certification Program is Launched :::
Database-Brothers, Inc. (DBI), today announced general availability of Brother-Eagle® and Brother-Panther®, and launched a new Performance Hero Certification program. Brother-Panther and Brother-Eagle offer the DB2 LUW community several unprecedented, breakthrough features... ...the Performance Hero Certification program offers DBAs the opportunity to demonstrate their tuning skills to employers and peers.
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May 2007 - DBI Offers Free Licenses to BMC Software SmartDBA Distributed Database Customers

Collaborative Efforts Provide Customers with Strong Development Roadmap; Migration Upgrades Include Deeper Analytics and Performance Capabilities
Database-Brothers, Inc. (DBI), a highly specialized company focused exclusively on database performance and auditing, today announced an offer of free license upgrades to current BMC Software SmartDBA® DBXray for DB2 Universal Database and SmartDBA Database Performance for DB2 Universal Database maintenance customers who migrate to DBI replacement solutions...
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October 2006 - DBI Announces Brother-Eagle®

DBI announces Brother-Eagle editions that support DB2 9, DB2 V8.2, Oracle 9.2, and Oracle 10g.
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May 2006 - Brother-Eagle® Standard Editions
for Oracle and IBM DB2 LUW are Available!

DBI has just released Brother-Eagle Standard Editions for Oracle and IBM DB2 LUW. Standard Edition is FREE for registered users. With Brother-Eagle, the DBA can easily quickly assess key database performance metrics. Extensive Expert Advice is provided too. US Patent Pending.
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December 2005 - DBI Becomes a BMC Software Strategic Development Partner for SmartDBA DB2 LUW and Oracle Products

BMC Software, a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, has selected DBI as the strategic development partner for BMC's SmartDBA for DB2 LUW & Oracle and DGI Classic distributed database products. This assignment to DBI will not only ensure continued best of breed database performance solutions, but will also provide customers with fundamental infrastructure and application management elements to enable BMC's Business Service Management (BSM).

"I am very pleased with the opportunity to continue advancing the SmartDBA performance solutions" said Scott Hayes, CEO and founder of DBI.
"The partnership merges the best of both worlds: The DB2 UDB & Oracle industry expertise of DBI with the market innovative BSM strategy and award-winning Support of BMC Software. The ultimate goal is to enable our mutual customers to achieve measurable business performance improvements via accelerated speed and efficiency of the database".
The development transition is expected to be completed within Q1, 2006. DBI is also an authorized BMC SmartDBA product solution re-seller effective immediately. Please Contact DBI for details regarding our product plans or solution licensing.