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Today, we heard about Telecompute Integrated Systems Inc., a Toronto based company that just released a developer tool called Digital Stick. The tool is said to allow developers build portable databases to help business users access remote information.We’ve heard requests from managers for years, to build them a small-footprint database on their laptops, with just a subset of corporate data on it, so that in a presentation offsite, they can bring up the last quarter’s financial data and chart it. Can the Digital Stick be the answer to this age old request?
Telecompute claims that there is a database engine (called Digital Anchor) that runs in its own environment but accessible using standard SQL. The portable databases that developers can build are system-independent, making it compatible with any operating system, whether it is Unix, Linux, Windows or Mac OS.
With high capacity USB flash drives, it may be possible one day to maintain a portable database on a single USB drive. Whenever a business user wishes to access corporate data residing on a remote server, the user simply plugs in the USB drive and away they go.
The portable database contains all the essential tables necessary to synchronize with the corporate data model, but the structure of each table contains only the required fields. The data in these tables only act as keys and are used to access information from the corporate database. Without access to the corporate database, the data contained in these portable databases are not much use on its own, making it less vulnerable and a less concern to your security analysts.
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