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InterBase – IoTA Internet of things awards Winner 2015

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InterBase - IoTA winner 2015

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Most Innovative Use of Data

It was with great pleasure that I attended the 2nd Annual IoTA award dinner yesterday, part of the 17th Annual Total Telecom World Communication Awards (WCA).

Hundreds of senior executives gathered at the iconic Wembley Stadium to see the winners named. An incredible C-Level audience represented the communications industry from across the globe, with representatives from every continent attended.

The awards, (one for which InterBase was a finalist), were sponsored by leading players from the Telco industry, including ADVA, AsiaInfo, CITIC Telecom CPC, IDT Telecom, PCCW Global, Tata Communications, TeliaSonera International Carrier and Vodafone.

Left to right: Adam Oliver, (CEO, Institute of Telecom Professionals); Marc Brunel-Walker, (Director of International Marketing, Embarcadero), Stephen Ball (InterBase Product Manager – Embarcadero), Scott Mills (Radio 1 DJ and host)

As you can see from the photo above, InterBase beat off the competition to win “most innovative use of data” in part thanks to the patent pending technology “Change Views” that we developed and brought to market back in December 2014 with InterBase XE7.

InterBase, the home of Change Views.

Change Views is dramatically changing the way data is moved to and from mobile and the edge of IoT by allowing developers to easily identify delta’s; By retrieving only the deltas, it enables network traffic and cost to be slashed, ensuring a much richer end user experience.  Additionally the enhanced granular encryption and role based security model offered by InterBase enables true enterprise data best practice to exist everywhere through the development life cycle.

For more on InterBase, please visit http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Thank you’s

There was no chance on the night to do a speech and offer our thanks so I’ve decided to decant it here. Firstly I want to thank all the InterBase users out there for your loyal support and amazing stories you share with us. This go a long way to helping InterBase win such amazing awards.

I want to thank Jason Vokes, John Thomas, Marco Cantú, James Pitts and Michael Swindell for their support and guidance when we initially dreamt up Change Views and needed a plan to bring it from development through to market. Marc Brunel-Walker for helping with the award submission. Dmitry Arefiev for his amazing FireDAC integration helping developers get to the technology faster, and similarly Jeff Overcash for IBX; My wife Charlotte for all her amazing support; But most importantly today to my InterBase team, especially Charlie Caro and Sriram Balasubramanian, with whom I spent 3 long, but fun days in 2014 planning and discussing use cases and scenarios as we set off to give birth to this amazing technology.

Finally a big thank you to Rob Chambers and his team at Total Telecom for a wonderful memorable evening; It is by far the best awards event I have been to in my 4 years at Embarcadero, and I hope we get the chance to attend (and hopefully win another award) next year.

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InterBase xe7 Update 5

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InterBase XE7 – Update 5

InterBase XE7 update 5 is now available for general release. The patch/update kits are for server-based Editions of InterBase XE7 only on Windows and Linux for both 32bit and 64bit

For notes on previous InterBase XE7 updates please select the links below

What’s fixed in InterBase XE7 – Update 5?

In short. no new features, just a few bug fixes that improve stability of the core around some specific scenarios reported where:

  • InterBase becomes unresponsive when many clients run repeated select statements against it.,
  • Incremental Backup cannot be opened or converted to read_write
  • Deadlock on RDB$PAGES when server is shutdown if database has a distinguished dump.
  • Following a database crash, journal recovery is interrupted with error message “WAL writer error”.

The resolved defects are documented on the InterBase XE7 DocWiki resolved defects page .

Downloading latest InterBase XE7

Embarcadero CodeCentral “Registered Users” can download the patch binaries (Server/Desktop/Developer/Trial) for Windows and Linux, and, ToGo Edition. You can find the downloads at http://cc.embarcadero.com/reg/interbase

For new users, the trial and developer editions are available for free at http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/downloads

InterBase in the news…

Incase you missed the previous post, InterBase has been shortlisted for an IoT Award.  Make sure you follow @InterBase on Twitter for the latest news on InterBase

InterBase IoTA Awards Finalist 2015

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InterBase shortlisted for IoT Award 2015

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** EDIT – InterBase Wins IoTA  **

InterBase – IoTA Awards Finalists 2015

InterBase IoTA Awards Finalist 2015

Some great news recently – InterBase has been shortlisted for the 2nd annual IoTA awards for Most Innovative Use of Data.

InterBase offers a brand new approach to data movement thanks to its patent pending Change Views technology, dramatically reducing the cost of keeping data up to date on the edge of IoT, coupled with a strong data security model to distributed systems with encryption at its heart across all major platforms.

This year the winners will be announced on the 1 December 2015 at the iconic Wembley Stadium as part of the World Communication Awards. Winners will be named in 9 defining categories in front of an audience of around 500 of the most senior executives in the communications industry.

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El Capitan and Delphi

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Apple have released a new OS update yesterday called El Capitan.

As with most OS updates, things change, and this is no exception. Thankfully, when it comes to Delphi and C++ Builder running on El Capitan, its pretty straight forward, the only thing required is to update the PAServer. The update is available from Code Central http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30398.

For a full blog post by Sarina DuPont on the changes, that also support iOS deployments to iOS7, iOS8 and iOS9 visit http://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/paserver-hotfix-for-rad-studio-10-seattle-ios-9-and-os-x-el-capitan

 

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See Whats Coming in Delphi and C++ Builder

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WhatsNewInDelphi20150902

September 2nd is due to be a very important day in Delphi & C++ Builder history, if the recent news from Microsoft and what I have collated from the “whats coming” posts recently.

Register for the Delphi and C++ Builder “First look”

Spoiler alert!

If you only want to find out whats new when you’re on the “See whats coming in Delphi, RAD Studio and C++ Builder” webinar on the 2nd September, then don’t read further. You may learn

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InterBase officially supports Windows 10

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In case you missed the big news last week, Windows 10 was released by Microsoft.

My early feel for Windows 10 is that its going to be a game changer for the Windows platform. – Its the first platform that includes free upgrades for customers as far back as Windows 7 and brings the best of the Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 UI together.

With many Microsoft customers moving up to Windows 10 for free the upgrade cycle is likely to be rapid, especially in home uses. (Business tends to take a little longer to react) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been quoted as expecting 300+ million new PC licenses this year as well – all of this meaning a lot of windows 10 devices, a large amount of opportunity for developers and a lot of data.

Developers now need data storage working securely and responsibly on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 and also that can migrate between these platforms.

The InterBase team have been testing InterBase on Windows 10 for a number of months now and the great news is that the certification tests we run internally have all passed on the RTM version of Windows 10. This means the recent InterBase XE7 Update 4 will have Windows 10 officially added to the supports platforms list for both Windows 10 (32bit) and Windows 10 (64bit).

While Windows 10 is the big news this week, remember other operating systems are available 🙂 Beyond Windows, InterBase also supports Linux 32bit and 64bit, with Ubuntu added in XE7, Mac OS X, iOS and Android. For more about InterBase, please visit www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

 

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InterBase XE7 – Update 4

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InterBase XE7 – Update 4

InterBase XE7 update 4 is now available for general release.

For notes on previous InterBase XE7 updates please select the links below

What’s new / updated in InterBase XE7 – Update 4?

In short. nothing new, just a few speed improvements and general fixes over update 3. Update 4:

  • Improve performance in a few specific query use cases,
  • Fixes a bug in IBConsole where databases may be created as dialect 1 rather than 3
  • Improves the partial backup feature.
  • Resolves a licensing lock issue on Windows 2012.

The resolved defects are documented on the InterBase XE7 DocWiki resolved defects page .

Downloading InterBase XE7 update 4

Embarcadero CodeCentral “Registered Users” can download the patch binaries (Server/Desktop/Developer/Trial) for Windows and Linux, and, ToGo Edition. You can find the downloads at http://cc.embarcadero.com/reg/interbase

For new users, the trial and developer editions are available for free at http://www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase/downloads

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New Eddystone beacon format from Google

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Google Eddystone™ beacon format

Give your users better location and proximity experiences by providing a strong context signal for their devices in the form of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons with Eddystone™, the open beacon format from Google.

I found out today about a new Bluetooth LE beacon format that google have released called Eddystone.

This makes 3 formats for beacons along side AltBeacons and iBeacons.

The Eddystone format, like AltBeacons, is an open beacon format but allows the inclusion of additional data blobs with the beacon that can be updated once the beacons are deployed. A key part of this vision from Google is an integrated cloud based API’s that Google may well hope puts them at the centre of the growing beacon ecosystem.

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