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Ntirety, a leader in remote database administration, has announced it has received $1 million in venture capital funding to expand marketing and sales. The funding will allow Ntirety to expand its Massachusetts operations and hire database administrators to serve its growing customer base. The Series B funding is being provided by a lead investor, the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), as well as previous investors, CL Ventures, and Ntirety founder, CEO and recognized database expert Michael Corey. www.ntirety.com

NEON Enterprise Software announced that corporate technologist and DBTA columnist Craig Mullins was named co-chair of the 100 Year Archive Committee within the Storage Networking Industry Association’s Data Management Foru). The 100 Year Archive Committee is part of the Data Management Forum’s Long-Term Archive and Compliance Storage Initiative, a cooperative effort of end-users, IT professionals, vendors, integrators, and service providers who are interested in addressing the challenges related to long-term digital information retention, archiving and compliance-related storage practices. Mullins, NEON’s data management strategist for TITAN Archive. www.snia-dmf.org/100year

Texas Memory Systems, makers of what it calls the world’s fastest storage, announced that it is celebrating its 30th year in business. The company was founded in 1978 to supply high performance computer memory products to the energy industry. In 2000, Texas Memory Systems introduced the RamSan line of solid state disk systems to accelerate commercial applications for the enterprise. Today, according to Texas Memory Systems, RamSan systems are the dominant enterprise solid state disk used by major financial exchanges, banks, e-commerce and telecommunications firms across the world, and the company’s solid state disk business has averaged over 40 percent growth per year for each of the last three years. www.texmemsys.com

The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), the world’s largest knowledgebase for Oracle Applications users, has announced a Hyperion-oriented series of initiatives, which provides educational and networking opportunities designed to enable members to more effectively use Hyperion applications. Key elements of the series include hosting the Hyperion eLearning Webcast series, creating a Hyperion special interest group (SIG) and offering educational sessions tailored to Hyperion users at COLLABORATE 08: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community, held April 13-17 in Denver. www.oaug.org

SSH Communications Security Corp., a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol, announced that Symark Software, the leading provider of information security solutions for managing privileged account access, has selected SSH Tectia to provide secure access for administrators managing Symark's PowerKeeper privileged password management appliance. www.symark.com and www.ssh.com

ASG Software Solutions, the originator of the Business Service Platform, announced that through a partnership with Microsoft the company will offer a comprehensive data warehouse package that combines ASG's metadata management strength with the ease and reliability of Microsoft's SQL Server. Slated for availability in the third quarter of this year, the new data warehouse product provides a fundamental data warehouse and business intelligence stack, embedding this critical information within ASG's management technologies to provide an integrated, fully managed data warehouse. www.asg.com and www.microsoft.com

Information Builders, a vendor of production business intelligence systems, announced that Nationwide Financial Services, has selected WebFOCUS to help the company standardize on a single operational reporting tool and improve its data reach. Nationwide, a financial services company that helps consumers invest and protect their long-term assets, had numerous disparate reporting tools and databases which caused business users to lose valuable time searching for the right information. The company needed to centralize its infrastructure, while maintaining a federated reporting model, which would empower business users with real-time information and customized reports. www.informationbuilders.com

LogiXML has announced that the company has opened its first facility outside North America to support the international growth of the company’s business. The new LogiXML International Ltd. office is located in Reading, Berkshire in the U.K., and will support LogiXML international partners. Additionally, LogiXML and Vertica Systems have formed a partnership that will focus on two key objectives: new product development by LogiXML based on the Vertica Analytic Database to extend fast Web-based analytics to small companies as well as enterprises; and integration between Vertica and the Logi 9 BI platform to enable customers to give more people the ability to analyze more data faster. www.logixml.com and www.vertica.com

InterSystems Corp., a global software product company that provides products that enable fast development, deployment, and integration of enterprise-class applications, has announced that the Swedish national electronic health record, known as the National Patient Overview, will be supplied by TietoEnator using InterSystems HealthShare software. The contract is valued at approximately $19 million for the first five years, with an option to extend for an additional two years. www.tietoenator.com and www.intersystems.com

AccuRev and Electric Cloud have announced a technology partnership aimed at improving software development productivity and efficiency.  The combined solution, which integrates the automated build, test and deployment functionality of Electric Cloud’s ElectricCommander software with process-enabled software configuration management using AccuRev, is intended to advance multi-stage continuous integration and scalable agile best practices. The integration between ElectricCommander and AccuRev is available from Electric Cloud. www.electric-cloud.com and www.accurev.com

Teradata has announced an expanded worldwide relationship with Oracle designed to promote enhanced enterprise-wide analytics. Teradata has expanded its channel relationship to now include Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus and Oracle Business Intelligence Analytic Applications. This is in addition to Teradata’s current offering of Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Essbase worldwide. Teradata can offer integrated Oracle software and solutions running on Teradata to address customer requirements.www.teradata.com and www.oracle.com