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Volume 10, Number 12 -- March 23, 2010
Four Hundred Stuff is taking a hiatus next week. We will resume publishing on April 6.
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CoralTree Toolkit Streamlines CGIDEV2 Web App Development
by Alex Woodie

A UK company called CoralTree Systems is quietly building out its Renaissance Framework, an open source toolkit designed to help RPG developers create CGIDEV2-based Web applications that run under i/OS. Under development for four years, the toolkit generates Web 2.0 screens that feature all the reliability and security of their green-screen brethren, but without the skills and investment required to replicate enterprise-level functions on the Web. This month Coral Tree added support for jQuery, a popular collection of JavaScript libraries that expands the framework's functionality. READ MORE >

Info Builders Updates Dashboarding Solution
by Alex Woodie

Information Builders last week shipped a new release of its Performance Management Framework (PMF), a suite of software for developing and deploying Web-based dashboards, scorecards, and other analytical programs from i/OS and other servers. With version 5.2, IBI made it easier to customize dashboards, and added support for third-party content to create dashboard mash-ups with Web 2.0-style collaboration capabilities. This release also gets certified key risk indicators (KRIs) to go along with existing key performance indicators (KPIs). READ MORE >


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Unitrends Adds Cloud-Based Storage to Backup Offering
by Alex Woodie

Unitrends, a provider of backup and recovery appliances for i/OS and other platforms, last week announced the launch of Vault2Cloud, a new cloud-based storage service that gives customers another layer of data protection and disaster preparedness. With prices starting at less than $.50 per gigabyte, the new offering could be a low-cost way for existing customers to insulate themselves from the effects of a disaster. READ MORE >


HiT Bolsters Data Synchronization Tool
by Alex Woodie

HiT Software next quarter will begin delivery of DBMoto version 7, a new release of its database synchronization tool that supports DB2/400, Oracle, SQL Server, and other major RDBMSs. With version 7, HiT added a number of new management and auditing capabilities that should make it easier to replicate data among multiple databases, while support for DB2/400's minimized journal data capability should boost data replication performance in System i environments. READ MORE >




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LTO Tape Drives: More than 3 Million Served
by Alex Woodie

More than 3 million LTO Ultrium tape drives have shipped since the LTO-1 tape standard was first released nearly a decade ago, the consortium of companies behind the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format announced this week. The LTO syndicate expects demand for LTO gear to continue at a healthy pace. However, lower than expected performance capabilities of the latest LTO-5 spec, which was unveiled earlier this year, along with adoption of cloud storage alternatives, could dampen the LTO enthusiasm. READ MORE >


News Briefs and Product Shorts:

• Fly Doc, Fly: Esker Updates Online Mail and Fax Service

• Insurance Company Chooses Attunity for DB2/400-to-SQL Server Replication

• IBM and Assurant Unveil 'RAMP' for Intelligent CSR Call-Routing

• Vision Touts High Availability Install at Food Distributor

• Construction App from CGC Gets a Web Portal


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Four Hundred Guru
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A Good Use for Global Variables

Does An IPL Really Help Improve System Performance?

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TPM at The Register
Fake servers even less secure than real ones

Server makers prepping for Opteron 6100s

Windows Server to get dynamic memory with R2 SP1

IBM chops high-end Power6 server tags

VMware cuts entry vSphere prices

Cisco beefs up fixed port Ethernet switches

Novell, Ingres partner for appliances

AMD: OEMs primed for Opteron 6100s

IBM taps Red Hat KVM virt for dev cloud

SGI punts baby Xeon blade box

Intel wants vintage x64 servers on rubbish heap

Intel pushes workhorse Xeons to six cores

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CoralTree Toolkit Streamlines CGIDEV2 Web App Development

Info Builders Updates Dashboarding Solution

Unitrends Adds Cloud-Based Storage to Backup Offering

HiT Bolsters Data Synchronization Tool

LTO Tape Drives: More than 3 Million Served

News Briefs and Product Shorts:

Fly Doc, Fly: Esker Updates Online Mail and Fax Service . . . Insurance Company Chooses Attunity for DB2/400-to-SQL Server Replication . . . IBM and Assurant Unveil 'RAMP' for Intelligent CSR Call-Routing . . . Vision Touts High Availability Install at Food Distributor . . . Construction App from CGC Gets a Web Portal . . .


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