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Learn more about Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise, the easy-to-use job scheduling and server management tool for your Windows, UNIX, and Linux servers.
Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise uses a modern user interface to build an event-driven schedule, quickly and easily, across your systems for coordinated batch processing, cross-system monitoring, and true enterprise scheduling.
Follow this link for more information.
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An Auditor's View: Assessing IBM i Security Risks in 15 minutes
Wednesday, March 2, 10 am CT
Over the past eight years, PowerTech has compiled audit data trends from more than 1,500 servers into the annual "State of IBM i Security" study. Each year, we see many of the same vulnerabilities, suggesting that shops still aren't where they need to be.
Join this Webinar to learn the critical areas you should be auditing, including system values, network access, user profiles, and more.
Register today!
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Infor Has High Hopes for New S&OP Application
by Alex Woodie
Infor last week launched a new Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) application designed to improve the profitability of manufacturers, distributors, and companies in other industries by serving as a clearinghouse of supply chain-related data, and fostering better collaboration among decision makers in a supply chain. The software giant plans to sell the software, which has a Windows-based OLAP underpinning, into its existing customer base, including companies that use BPCS, MAPICS, System 21, and Baan, as well as competing ERP and SCM packages. READ MORE >
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At mindSHIFT, IBM i Hosting Options Abound
by Alex Woodie
There is a widely held view in the IBM i community that IBM's Power Systems server is without a doubt the best platform in the world for running a cloud computing operation. However, there seems to be few vendors actually doing this. One managed service provider (MSP) that's made the IBM i server a central component of its cloud operations is mindSHIFT Technologies, which upgraded its IBM i hosting options last year. READ MORE >
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Maxava offers a FREE download to
monitor your IBM i status
Maxava, a global leader in IBM i high availability (HA) software, offers you a FREE download of maxView Lite™, a smart and easy way to monitor your IBM i systems – anywhere, anytime.
Visit www.maxava.com for your copy of maxView Lite™ and monitor your i from:
- iPhone
- iPad
- Blackberry
- Android
- PC
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ASNA Wings™ is the fastest, easiest way to create a modern user interface for RPG programs.
Wings transforms green-screen display files to modern browser pages. Because Wings uses IBM's Rational Open Access RPG Edition, all program logic and file IO remain on the System i.
Wings can be learned very quickly with no heavy analysis required.
Wings is shipping today.
www.asna.com/wings
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nuBridges Unveils TaaS, a Hosted Data Tokenization Service
by Alex Woodie
nuBridges last week unveiled a new hosted version of its software that uses tokenization to protect sensitive data. The new offering, which is called nuBridges Protect Tokenization as a Service (TaaS), is being delivered with nuBridges' new business partner, Verizon Business. Customers who subscribe to the new service will get the benefit of tokenization for IBM i and other servers, but none of the burden of managing the tokenization environment. READ MORE >
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Qualys Launches Open Source Web App Firewall Project
by Alex Woodie
Qualys last week unveiled IronBee, a new open source Web application firewall (WAF) project. The goal of the project is to leverage the open source community to build a high performance WAF that can protect users against the latest security threats to Web applications. The software will feature a liberal license, and will be free to anybody. READ MORE >
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Integrate RPG, SQL and Excel for Maximum ROI
RPG2SQL Integrator closes the gap between applications running on different platforms by allowing all your databases and spreadsheets to talk to each other in real time.
Find out how your IBM i programs can read and write to databases like SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and MS Excel spreadsheets.
Visit our website
or call us at 1-888-RJS-SOFT to learn more.
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IBM Delivers Super Fast IPS
by Alex Woodie
IBM last week unveiled a new security appliance designed to thwart attempts to compromise networks, computers, and applications. Called the Security Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) GX7800, the key differentiator of the device is its purported capability to isolate threats at network speeds up to 20 gigabits per second, which IBM claims is almost twice as fast as competing IPSes. READ MORE >
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >
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Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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