Ingres Corporation, pioneers of the breakthrough analytic database, VectorWise, has introduced SkySafe, SkyInsight and SkyArchive managed services for application development, analysis and archiving.

Officials with Ingres Corporation said that SkySafe enables Ingres to develop future services such as those that bridge private and public clouds and enable partners to add more services.

“Technologies for enterprise data management are evolving quickly, and in speaking with a broad range of customers and prospects, we heard they are looking for data management services that are available on-demand with inherent security,” said Terry Garnett, CEO of Ingres, in a statement.

Garnett said that SkySafe is available today as a managed service to accelerate the creation of new cloud-based applications.

He said that in addition, SkyInsight and SkyArchive offer cloud-based data analysis and optional data storage. These will be supplemented by additional services from partners.

Company officials said that SkySafe is an enterprise-grade cloud-based service that enables companies to develop and run applications securely without traditional administrative overhead.

According to company officials, SkySafe manages all structured data in one repository whether it is real-time, transactional or analytical, allowing users to seamlessly toggle between analytical and transactional business processes, thereby negating the need for multiple specialized databases.

It also leverages Ingres’ proven track record in securing sensitive deployments including those of national security. SkySafe includes encryption, role separation as well as fine-grained auditing.  

“Our research among CIOs identified a real need for complete services built on an elastic database platform,” said M.R. Rangaswami, founder of Sand Hill Group.

“SkySafe is unique in extending cloud elasticity to the platform layer and I expect this offering to be compelling to organizations looking to build applications in the cloud,” said Rangaswami.

Company officials said that SkyInsight, which is built on the world’s fastest database for reporting, is a cloud-based interactive reporting and analysis service that enables companies to drive business insight from data at blazing speeds without the typical overhead associated with data analysis projects.  

“There is great need for analytics in the cloud where you have volumes of data that require a phenomenal amount of computing in seconds,” said Richard Daley, CEO at Pentaho. “

Daley said that this is where the elasticity that the cloud brings is paramount. Ingres uniquely makes this elasticity accessible through its record breaking database, VectorWise, providing speed and scale to ad hoc reporting and analysis.

SkyArchive, company officials said, is a cost-effective cloud-based data archiving solution which enables companies to address the challenge of rising volumes of data at a dramatically reduced cost.