1)  SUG-TX March 25^th Meeting – Handling Large Volumes of Data with Sybase IQ

2)  Future SUG-TX Meetings

3)  Sybase Announces Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition

4)  Sybase 365 Positioned as Trusted Global mCommerce Partner

5)  International Sybase User Group Events

6)  Sybase Events

7)  Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting

8)  Sybase Training Schedule (Mar - Aug)

1) SUG-TX March 25^th Meeting – Handling Large Volumes of Data with Sybase IQ

The Sybase Users’ Group of Texas will hold their next meeting on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm.  The meetings are held at HAL-PC, 4543 Post Oak Place, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77027 (map).

Agenda:

  4:00pm - 4:05pm         Introduction, Welcome, Q&A

  4:05pm - 5:15pm         How to Deal with Volumes of Data with Sybase IQ

                                    Mark Mumy, Sybase, Inc.

  5:20pm - 6:00pm         Monitoring IQ with Surveillance

                                    Edward Stangler, Bradmark, Inc.

  6:30pm -                     Post meeting discussions at Champps Americana (at the Uptown location)

Abstract: Most organizations are struggling with rapidly growing volumes of data. As their data explodes, so does the cost of managing and storing the data, and it becomes challenging to give users the access they need to analyze and extract value from it.  This presentation will focus on Sybase IQ and its role in solving these issues. Sybase IQ is a highly optimized analytics server, designed to deliver dramatically faster results for mission-critical business intelligence, data warehouse, and reporting solutions. Sybase IQ delivers unsurpassed search performance and storage efficiency for structured and unstructured data, making it ideal for specialty operational data stores. Sybase IQ combines extraordinary speed and agility with a low total cost of ownership, enabling enterprises to perform analysis and reporting that was previously impossible, impractical, or cost-prohibitive.

Members frequently continue discussions at Champps Sports Bar after the meeting while waiting for traffic to subside.

2) Future SUG-TX Meetings

Mark your calendar for future topics for SUG-TX Meetings:

• April 26:               PowerBuilder 11.2 and .Net
• June 23:               Sybase Application Development Tools
• July 22:                Adaptive Server Enterprise 15
• August 26:            TechWave 2008 Recap
• September 23:      Sybase Application Development Tools
• October 28:          Sybase Modeling & Metadata Tools

Meetings will not be held in May and November due to proximity to holidays (Memorial Day and Thanksgiving).  December is the annual holiday party.  SUG-TX meets on the 4^th Tuesday so add a recurring appointment on your calendar and watch for future meeting announcements and newsletters for details.

3) Sybase Announces Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition

New ASE Edition Combines Shared-Disk Clustering and Virtualized Resource Management™ Technology to Help Customers Better Optimize Resources, Meet Service Level Agreements and Lower Cost

DUBLIN, CALIF. — FEBRUARY 19, 2008 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced the availability of its Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition. This edition features patent-pending Virtualized Resource Management™ (VRM) technology that reduces the complexity of deploying a database application across a shared disk server cluster, and helps customers meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for performance and availability, while also reducing hardware and power costs through optimal resource utilization.

"Enterprises today are struggling to reduce their infrastructure costs yet at the same time meet high-availability requirements,” said Carl Olofson, Research vice president for Information Management and Data Integration, IDC. “Shared-disk cluster architecture helps to meet these key enterprise requirements for mission-critical database applications. Sybase's focus on building in capabilities to reduce IT complexity through a shared-disk cluster architecture to improve system availability and reliability, and to simplify administration will go towards enabling further adoption of this approach."

“ASE Cluster Edition brings unparalleled availability and resource optimization to a database platform already known for its superior performance, reliability and low total cost of ownership," said Dr. Raj Nathan, Chief Marketing Officer, Sybase. “Customers in areas such as financial services, telecommunications, retail and government have turned to ASE because it handles extreme transactions in OLTP environments ranging from small and mid-sized databases to VLDB systems with rock solid reliability. We are pleased that we've been able to develop ASE Cluster Edition so that our customers, who run some of the world's most critical data, are able to cost-effectively achieve unprecedented service levels.”

See the full story at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1056212.

4) Sybase 365 Positioned as Trusted Global mCommerce Partner

Research Shows mBanking and mPayments Poised for Vast Growth as Consumers Become More Mobile Savvy and Demanding

BARCELONA, Spain  — Mobile World Congress — February 12, 2008 — Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), the global leader in mobile messaging services, today announced its commitment to a global mCommerce strategy.  Until now, mCommerce has been slow to take off due to issues such as technology constraints, local regulations and most importantly the lack of cooperation between mobile operators and banks in individual countries and around the world.

Today, mobile banking is led by banks, and mobile payments by mobile operators. Throughout the next 12 months, we will see mBanking and mPayments coming together, because as the value of transactions increase, integration into the banking system is necessary.
 
“The mobile industry has been discussing mobile business and payments for over ten years.  In 2008 we will start to see financial institutions fully exploit the potential of mCommerce,” said Matthew Talbot, vice president, mCommerce, Sybase 365. “Staying competitive means not only providing innovative services to meet customer demands but also demonstrating value to the customer that will lead to uptake of services, resulting in improved ROI through reduced operational and customer-servicing costs—and increased revenue for banks.”

For mCommerce to scale globally, a trusted intermediary needs to sit between mobile operators, financial institutions and merchants. It is physically and commercially impossible for banks and merchants to work with every mobile operator around the world and vice versa. As the leader in mobile messaging in both Application to Person (A2P) and Person to Person (P2P) messaging, together with the extensive experience, products and relationships Sybase® has with the Financial Services Industry, Sybase 365 is well placed to be this intermediary.

See the full story at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1056153.

5) International Sybase User Group Events

The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) sponsors events for Special Interests Groups (SIGs), Virtual User Groups, and members.  Sign up for ISUG Membership for as little as $20 for a basic membership and get access to events and online material.  For more details, visit:

http://www.isug.com/common/JoinISUG.html

If you’re on the Sybase-l forum, you’re already a guest of the ISUG Members website.  Login and upgrade your membership to get more benefits.  Higher levels of membership offer more benefits such as free NFR software.  Check it out today.  If you have any questions, contact Cindy Bean (cindy@isug.com), your local SUG-TX secretary and ISUG’s VP of Membership.

6) Sybase Events

Seminars, Conferences, Webcasts, Tradeshows, Sports events — whichever way you want to get information from Sybase, they deliver!   Check out future events at:

http://www.sybase.com/about_sybase/events

If you'd like to give feedback on what types of events you think Sybase should offer please email them at events@sybase.com

7) Houston User Group for Sun (HUGS) Meeting

The Houston User Group for Sun meets on the second Tuesday of every month at the Houston Sun office.  The next meeting will be on March 11^th.  To be added to their mailing list, contact Art Blummer at Blummer@computer.org.

8) Sybase Training Schedule (Mar - Aug)

Sybase Dallas Learning Center

14800 Quorum Drive, Suite 505

Dallas, Texas 75240

Contact:  972-687-6400

Register: 1 800-8-SYBASE

Please verify class availability with Sybase registration or http://sed.sybase.com/Osiris/osiris_location_NAA1.htm#DL

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