PSC

The Progress OpenEdge SaaS platform now has a highly compliant and cost-effective data privacy solution. This delivers full life-cycle data encryption that complies with things such as the latest Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations, an important requisite for the ongoing expansion of Cloud Computing. According to Progress, "To make this possible, the Progress OpenEdge Enterprise RDBMS now supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). TDE encrypts data on disk, whether the data is in the database, a backup, or a binary dump, and stays encrypted throughout its lifecycle."

Read more: Data Privacy Solution for OpenEdge SaaS Platform

Progress has announced that Norman "Bud" R. Robertson, the company’s senior vice president, finance and administration, and chief financial officer (CFO), plans to retire this year. In 1996, Robertson joined Progress Software as its CFO. He will stay in his current role until his successor is in place and might still provide transition support after that.

Read more: CFO of Progress to Retire This Year

Progress Software was placed in the Visionary Quadrant of the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring authored by Will Cappelli, February 18, 2010. The Progress® Actional® platform delivers comprehensive operational and business visibility, root cause analysis, policy-based auditing, compliance, and control of services in a heterogeneous IT environment.

Read more: Progress in Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring

Progress has released the Progress® Sonic® Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 8.0, combining the benefits of open standards with the feature-rich tooling native to the Progress Sonic products. According to Progress, "The new release leverages open development standards, further improves its patented continuous availability architecture, and better supports lightweight deployments in addition to multi-site, high-transaction environments."

Read more: Sonic 8.0 Supports Event-Driven Integration