MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Xbridge Systems redefines data discovery by releasing an industry first data discovery tool supporting mainframe systems. With the release of DataSniff, Xbridge provides QSA’s and internal auditors with a powerful, yet simple, tool to access mainframe data and scan the data for sensitive information. DataSniff www.xbridgesystems.com/products/productsDataSniff.html has the power to uncover data in mainframe data storage environments that were previously considered “untouchable” or wrongly categorized as “exempt” from audit.

Mainframes often contain sensitive data, like credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other information that is covered by various industry and government standards and regulations. One prominent regulation is the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). In fact, the new 2.0 release of the PCI DSS standard looks to broaden the exercise of scoping “data at rest,” prior to a PCI DSS assessment, in an effort to insure all cardholder data is accounted for. This enhanced scope will include the need to discover cardholder data in mainframe data storage environments. The anticipated changes in version 2.0 under “Scope of Assessment” are as follows:

“Ensure all locations of cardholder data are included in scope of PCI DSS assessments.”

“(Reinforcement of need for thorough scoping exercise prior to PCI DSS assessment in order to understand where cardholder data resides)”

The requirement to include all cardholder data locations means that mainframe data must be included in future PCI DSS assessments. DataSniff provides the unique capability to discover cardholder data on mainframe systems.

The move from “security–centric” risk management to “data–centric” risk management is the impetus for the creation of DataSniff as customers realize the significance of “knowing their data.” An accurate scope of data will provide the necessary foundation for a precise assessment and a successful compliance initiative. As a result, DataSniff is finding immediate interest with mainframe security professionals at many Fortune 100 companies.

“Mainframe data is too often ignored in any compliance and data loss prevention strategy,” said Robert Clyde, Managing Partner, Clyde Consulting, LLC, and former Symantec CTO. “As far as I can tell, Xbridge’s DataSniff is the only mainframe data discovery tool in the market. They provide a unique and crucial capability to include mainframe data in a compliance and DLP strategy.”

Gene Amdahl and Ray Williams, former CEO and CFO respectively, of Amdahl Corporation, acknowledge that mainframe data continues to grow at a phenomenal rate and much of the data contains critical corporate information. As a result, an enterprise-wide DLP solution must include the mainframe and Xbridge Systems is the only mainframe DLP solution in the market today.

IBM confirms the significance of mainframe data as Gordon Rapkin details in IBM Systems Magazine, October 2006, “More than 80 percent of corporate data resides on mainframes, and IBM's "Big Iron" mainframe is the backbone of corporate computing."

Omar Khawaja of Verizon Business outlines a new set of best practices toward the following data-centric approach: 1) Identify target systems to protect; 2) Discover data on target systems; 3) Discover vulnerabilities on target systems; and 4) Prepare final report.

DataSniff will provide the necessary detail for an accurate final report.

DataSniff

DataSniff, data discovery software, can be installed and deployed in less than one day. Once deployed, scans of your data can be enabled immediately. A scalable architecture and simple concise dashboard allows for efficient handling of complex storage environments. Terabytes of data can be handled with ease, and detailed reports can be generated to manage the scope and progress of the data discovery project. DataSniff also provides open connectivity with other DLP solutions allowing enterprise organizations to leverage their existing DLP installations.

About Xbridge Systems

Xbridge Systems gives companies real time, customized and integrated access to business information enterprise-wide. We specialize in Universal Data Access between open-system platforms and enterprise-class IBM mainframes, Microsoft and Oracle. Xbridge Systems enables customers to identify, locate and “map” sensitive information and accurately scope a compliance and/or remediation initiative.

Company History

Co-founded in 1994 by Dr. Gene Amdahl and Raymond A. Williams, Jr., as Commercial Data Servers, the Company's first product was a next-generation S/390 mainframe server. Used by customers to meet Y2K conversion challenges, these departmental servers began shipping in 1997. Xbridge Systems is currently focused on delivering software for universal data access and discovery, whether the information is in old legacy systems, newer database formats, or storage devices.

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Los Angeles, Calif. – September 1, 2010 – SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance vendor, today announced SOLA for IMS, a legacy modernization solution that transforms IMS applications into high-quality, high-performance enterprise services, allowing the mainframe to be a full participant in an Service Oriented Architecture enabled environment.

SOLA is a comprehensive mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution that cost effectively turns the mainframe into a seamless part of an SOA enabled environment.  SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy way to expose mainframe applications as secure, high-performance enterprise services and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services.  Using SOLA, customers can leverage millions of dollars of existing mainframe investments as part of their enterprise SOA environment.  The SOLA runtime environment resides entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. Coupled with SOLA’s Development Studio, this vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost.

 “Many Fortune 1000 companies use IMS,” said Jim Crew, Vice President of SOA Software. “This product extends existing investments and provides growth opportunities for IMS applications that can be reused in new business initiatives.”

SOLA for IMS runs independently of any transaction management software, making it ideal for IMS-only environments.  SOLA for IMS handles IMS transactions written in COBOL, PL/I or Natural, with multiple input and output segments.  SOLA for IMS also allows any mainframe program to easily consume services.  SOLA’s orchestration capabilities allow multiple IMS transactions to be executed on a single trip to the mainframe, vastly reducing latency.  SOLA for IMS can also service-enable DB2 stored procedures and SQL statements.

SOLA is highly optimized, making it the most efficient option for service-enabling mainframe transactions.  Much of SOLA is written in assembler language, so the SOLA runtime offers lower MSU consumption and higher throughput than alternatives that use Java and rely on zAAP specialty engines.

Unlike alternative solutions that only offer one or two components of mainframe SOA, SOLA offers a comprehensive SOA solution, further reducing TCO. SOLA eliminates the need to integrate multiple mainframe and distributed products/platforms to create enterprise-class services.  SOLA is a Governed Service Platform, making it fully governable by SOA Software products like Policy Manager and Service Manager.

Innovative SOLA features such as One-Click service creation and an easy to use drag-and-drop interface deliver the only secure, standards-based and governable SOA product in the mainframe industry.  SOLA provides end-to-end SOA governance for the mainframe with WS-Security, WS-Policy, optimized registry, integrated monitoring, logging, auditing and near limitless scalability, all implemented on the mainframe.  This makes SOLA the only solution for companies seeking secure, high-volume, mission-critical mainframe SOA. SOLA is the only product proven in enterprise implementations to handle high volume (10 million+) transactions per day in mission-critical mainframe SOA environments.


About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA and Cloud Services Governance products that enable organizations to plan, build, and run Cloud and enterprise services.  Our SOA Software Atmosphere Products are built using our Portfolio Manager™, Repository Manager™, Policy Manager™, and Service Manager™. They form a unified SOA Governance Automation solution, with SOLA™ providing a governable Mainframe SOA platform. The world’s largest companies including Bank of America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.  For more information, please visit http://www.soa.com.

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NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ASG Software Solutions, a worldwide leader in business solutions for global enterprises, today announced general availability of ASG-Zena™ 3.0, the latest version of ASG’s flagship distributed workload automation solution. ASG-Zena 3.0 offers robust scheduling and complete workload automation capabilities across both physical and virtual server environments.

The latest release of Zena further extends its integration capabilities in virtual environments with automated provisioning and management of virtual servers through VMware interface support. Additionally, Zena’s unmatched support for leading industry application environments such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle has been upgraded to include support for Oracle Grid Engine, additional Oracle SQL links and enhanced SAP Business Intelligence capabilities.