See you at the Amazon Web Services Summit 2012
Head’s up! We will be participating in the Amazon Web Services summit next week. The event will take place on April, 19th at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. The post See you at the...
View Article/db ver. 0.5 is out; features security enhancements
SlashDB version 0.5 is out. We have focused on enhancements to user credentials, authorization schemes and added two ways for user authentication. In addition to security enhancements new features were...
View ArticleMortgage Bond Analytics Firm Selects Assetcloud
Assetcloud, a /db – based custom solution for delivering market data, securities reference data, risk management and customer account data as a web service, has been chosen by leading mortgage bond...
View Article/db added to ProgrammableWeb
/db has been included in ProgrammableWeb, a community curated, prestigious index of web APIs. Dear agilevic, The SlashDB API is now live on ProgrammableWeb. You can view it here:...
View ArticleResource Oriented Architecture Among Solutions to Data Silos
Inside Reference Data magazine in article “Transparent Demands” by Michael Shashoua refers to our opinion on using Resource Oriented Architecture to combat data silos and achieve greater data...
View ArticleSee you at the NJ Spark Summit 2012
We will be participating in the NJ Spark Summit conference tomorrow in Hoboken, NJ. The agenda looks very interesting and we are hoping for good networking in between the talks. The post See you at the...
View Article“Big Data. Social Media.” Was a Good Event
The Data Warehousing Institute and Information Builders invited us to participate in their half-day conference “Big Data. Social Media.“. The event took place today in New York at the Information...
View ArticleLet’s meet at the NYC Data Week!
The New York City Data Week is in full swing and we are representing! Selected events in which we will be participating: 10/24/2012 (tonight) Data Innovation in Finance panel and the Python Meetup...
View ArticleLighting talk at PyData tomorrow. See /db ver. 0.6 in action.
Tomorrow we are giving a lightning talk at the PyData conference. We will speak about what /db is, why we designed it as a REST API and will show a demo of the latest version of our product. Time...
View ArticleTurn any Database into an Online Resource with Assetcloud Powered by /db
The news is out. November, 14-15 we will be exhibiting /db at the NY Business Expo, booth #66 at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Come join us, see /db in action. Turn Any Database into an...
View ArticleProspective Clients and Curious Investors Visit our Booth at the NY Business...
We were overwhelmed by the interest we received at the New York Business Expo last week. Assetcloud and /db drew prospects from businesses as diverse as: Financial Services Pharmaceutical and...
View ArticleSlashDB Applauded at PyData Conference
SlashDB lightning talk at the PyData conference was received with a round of applause. Please contact us to discuss /db features in context of your work or to schedule a dedicated presentation. The...
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Mobile App in a few clicks using SlashDB and KendoUI
As a quick experiment this afternoon, we clicked our way through a tutorial to KendoUI and modified it slightly to show data from the SlashDB demo instance. As you can see in the picture a simulated...
View ArticleAvoid VPN for Database Applications
That something can be done it doesn’t mean you should do it. Sharing a database server over VPN using public Internet is ripe with problems. SQL database servers are designed for fast and reliable...
View ArticleSlashDB at the API Strategy & Practice Conference
SlashDB will be used to illustrate the talk on enterprise systems of engagement. You can catch our talk on Friday, Feb. 22nd, between 1:35pm-3pm, 429 Stage, API Strategy & Practice Conference,...
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Database Gateway for Mobile and Web Apps
Many organizations are now building dedicated mobile solutions and most of them will face a dilemma of how to access internal databases on those devices. Direct connection is not an option due to...
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SlashDB ver. 0.7 Released, Improved UX and Admin Functions
SlashDB version 0.7 has just come out. This time, improvements focus on three things: user experience, robust system administrator functionality and enhanced authorization mechanisms. Try the new...
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SlashDB Among Tech Partners to the Fintech Hackathon
Come hack with us April 6-7, 2013 at the Fintech Hackathon in NYC. Win $10,000 + exposure to thought leaders in the industry. SlashDB is pleased to be a technology partner to the event among esteemed...
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SlashDB Recognized a Business App of the Month by NYETM
We are very pleased to announce that SlashDB has been recognized the Business App of The Month by New York Enterprise Tech Meetup and will be demonstrated at the event tomorrow. SlashDB seamlessly...
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TechCrunch Mentions SlashDB in a Piece on Speeding Up Data
“Speed” and “data” are loaded terms that can be hard to cover in one article. TechCrunch has recently published an interesting compilation of perspectives from several leading technology firms that...
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Double Applause for SlashDB at NYETM
The video of our presentation at the last NY Enterprise Technology has been published on YouTube. SlashDB is presented in context of systems of engagement. We discuss how to construct a uniform data...
View ArticleSee SlashDB Tonight LIVE!
Come to the #Meetpacking event and experience the best #data #API. We will be conducting one-on-one demo of our software and share the tips how to connect databases to web and mobile applications....
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Top 10 Databases League Table
According to the DBEngines.com website the Top 10 Database ranking table is as follows. It is interesting to observe a two orders of magnitude gap from top 3 and the rest of the pack. SlashDB is known...
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SlashDB Adds Support for 3Scale API Management Service
We are pleased to officially announce that we have added support for 3Scale API Management service in SlashDB. Powerful Technology Combination With /db‘s capability to generate API on the Fly™ directly...
View ArticleBig Data or Linked Data?
Roberto V. Zicari, editor of ODBMS.org has recently published an interview with a practicing data scientist John Goodwin about using semantic web technologies such as RDF to cope with large amount of...
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VT Enterprise Meets with Polish and U.S. Trade Officials
SlashDB producer, vt.enterprise was among a select few companies invited to participate in a series of events with Polish economic delegation on Wednesday and Thursday this week in New York City....
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Meet with SlashDB at the API Strategy & Practice Conference Oct. 23rd – 25th
SlashDB will be making an appearance in this year’s API Strategy & Practice Conference. Stay tuned for major announcement from us on Thursday. API Strategy and Practice is a vendor neutral and...
View ArticleSlashDB Now Available through Amazon Web Services Marketplace
As announced at the API Strategy & Practice conference today, SlashDB is now available on Amazon’s Web Services Marketplace. Getting listed on the AWS Marketplace is an important milestone in the...
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Are Resource Oriented Architectures the Future of Data APIs?
Fresh from the API Strategy & Practice – slides from The Future of Data session. SlashDB’s founder Victor Olex gave talk on this topic at the API Strategy & Practice conference yesterday. Where...
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Data Scientists Descend on New York to Attend PyData 2013
PyData Conference beings Nov. 8th and runs through Sunday, Nov 10th at JPMorgan’s offices downtown Manhattan. Hundreds of data scientists, engineers and analysts are expected to attend this unique and...
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Leaders From FullContact, Ancestry.com, Urban Mapping and SlashDB Discuss the...
Victor Olex represented the SlashDB team on a panel about the future of data at the API Strategy & Practice conference. See the video below for an hour-long session of different perspectives on...
View Article20 Business Models for Web APIs and How to Be Ready
Whether your are aiming for driving innovation, building partnerships or for an opportunity to expand your service or product, you need to know about business models that can be adopted to accomplish...
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How Bloomberg Uses REST APIs
Bloomberg Industry Leaderboard Uses REST API for Financial Data Visualization; Imagine What You Could be Doing with Your Data Assets If you have visited Bloomberg’s website lately you may have noticed...
View ArticleSlashDB Airzooka Raffle at PyData
Welcome back, here’s a short blast from the past, a video featuring SlashDB that we just discovered on the web. In November last year we were proud sponsors of the PyData conference. In this lightning...
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Innovative Technology is Best Absorbed with Breakfast
Get up early and meet New York Tech Innovators in a monthly breakfast event, where up to five different technologists demo their technologies from a wide range of industries ranging from software to...
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SlashDB API for Data Science vs. Tools Like Oracle BI
We are often asked how SlashDB compares to Oracle BI or other business intelligence software. Well, the main difference is that SlashDB provides unobstructed access to data for reading and writing,...
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I Heartbleed OpenSSL
The vulnerability in OpenSSL has shocked the Internet community and has reverberated up and down society layers worldwide. UPDATE 25-Apr-2014: After our original campaign ended oversubscribed we got...
View ArticleSlashDB Launches a YouTube Channel
Learn about SlashDB, data integration and web APIs from SlashDB YouTube Channel. Here are some videos from our All about SlashDB playlist: What is SlashDB? SlashDB explained in just over a minute. How...
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SlashDB Sponsors National Day of Civic Hacking
Yesterday, we participated as a sponsor in the National Day of Civic Hacking hackathon in Jersey City, NJ. The event was organized by OpenJC and Code for Newark, which are local chapters (brigades) of...
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SlashDB Donates to OpenSSL Software Foundation
Today SlashDB (VT Enterprise LLC) mailed a check with the contribution of $2,304 to The OpenSSL Software Foundation. The funds were raised from our “I Heartbleed OpenSSL” t-shirt sale campaigns, which...
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Is Software as a Service a Good Choice for Your Business?
Does your business utilize online tools to increase productivity or access functionality not easily available from desktop software? Chances are the answer is yes and that you have heard of SaaS, but...
View ArticleSlashDB Puts 2014 to REST
We are saying our goodbyes to 2014 with the final update to version 0.7 of SlashDB. Amazing new features await in 0.8, so stay tuned, but in the meantime, here’s… What’s New SlashDB ver. 0.7.39 Final...
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SlashDB ver. 0.8 Debuts on Microsoft Azure
The latest version of SlashDB launches on Microsoft’s cloud — a direct result of a partnership agreement between VT Enterprise and Microsoft. Pricing starts at $0/hr. SlashDB is an automatic REST API...
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Graph Façade API over Relational Data
Writing SQL queries can be a lot of work. This work feels especially tedious if you made upfront investment into designing a well normalized database model. With all those relationships already...
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CIOReview: API as a Foundation for Systems of Engagement
Influential technology management magazine CIOReview features two-page opinion piece from SlashDB’s founder and CEO Victor Olex: “APIs as a Foundation for Systems of Engagement“. Whereas cloud-to-cloud...
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SlashDB Helps Aruba Win #1 Spot in Digital Marketing Index
Together with ConceptFarm, a leading digital marketing agency in New York, we are delighted to share with you the recent success of our client, Aruba.com. Caribbean & Co. reports that the happy...
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Databases at Scale Part Three: The Reality of Transactional Apps – The New Stack
The growth of cloud computing, the transformative potential of hyperlocal and contextual products […], and the growth of mobile apps in the enterprise and beyond are all driving a need for robust...
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SlashDB Can Turn Any Data Source Into A Website – TechCrunch
Most programmers like two things: pizza and things that make their work easier. That’s why I was especially interested in SlashDB, a product that purports to turn any data source into accessible XML,...
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Turn a database into a website or API with SlashDB
Software is eating the world, according to Marc Andreessen. SlashDB aims to make that more palatable for all those organizations with existing IT assets. Source: Turn a database into a website or API...
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Split Brain Condition in Distributed Systems
Today’s application software runs in the complex environment of interdependent services connected in a network. Users don’t even think about it and many software developers give networks little more...
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