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Volume 7, Number 12 -- March 27, 2007
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IBM and 3Com Unveil New Collaboration Solution for System i
by Alex Woodie

If you've been following Microsoft for the last few years, you would have witnessed the software giant executing its unified communication strategy to deliver a next-generation collaboration solution that provides a platform for integrating voice, video, e-mail, and IM, of which the upcoming release of Office Communication Server 2007 is a major part. Not to be outdone, IBM and 3Com yesterday unveiled their own Lotus-based offering, called System i Integrated Collaboration, to challenge Windows supremacy in the emerging market for unified communication systems.READ MORE >

Centerfield Aims to Ease iSeries SQL Management with AutoDBA
by Alex Woodie

The calendar reads spring, which means the snow is melting, grass is growing, and the sounds of baseball will soon emanate from diamonds across the country. It's also a time of renewal at Centerfield Technology, the DB2/400 performance tool developer from the friendly confines of Rochester, Minnesota. Spring training is starting for the latest addition to Centerfield's roster: an autonomic SQL performance tool called AutoDBA that should give IT admins with average skills the capability to put up Barry Bonds-like numbers. READ MORE >


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MaxAv Updates System i High Availability Software
by Alex Woodie

Maximum Availability this month began shipping a major new release of its *noMAX suite of high availability software for System i servers. With the new release, dubbed vnR1, MaxAv has concentrated on adding more autonomic capabilities to the product, to allow it to more quickly recover from problems such as out-of-synch conditions. A slew of newly supported data types, new interfaces, and improvement in auditing further signals the maturation of this product. READ MORE >


NGS Boosts BI Offerings for System i
by Alex Woodie

System i shops looking to build new Web-based dashboard applications may want to take a look at the latest offerings unveiled by New Generation Software this month. NGS has delivered a new release of its flagship IQ Server and a new release of its Business Performance Dashboard that should make it easier for System i shops to deliver graphical dashboard views of their DB2/400 data, without the level of data massaging that it once required.READ MORE >




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News Briefs and Product Shorts:

CCSS Adds DASD Monitoring to QSystem Monitor V12 . . . KMR Taps looksoftware to Modernize i5/OS Apps . . . VAI-EXTOL Integration Benefits Customers . . . 'BI for the Warehouse Guy' Unveiled by ICS and Q4bis . . . Disaster Recovery in a Truck Unveiled by IBM, Cisco . . . Informatica Tackles SaaS Data Integration Issues with SaaS Offering . . .


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 >


 
Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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The Linux Beacon
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The Feeds and Speeds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Transaction Processing Council Launches TPC-E Benchmark

Mad Dog 21/21: The China Spin Drone

Big Iron
Flex-ES And IBM: Can They Bend? Are They Broken?

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

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The Windows Observer
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Disaster Recovery in a Truck Unveiled by IBM, Cisco

Gateway Adds Entry Opteron Tower Server, Windows NAS Arrays

The Unix Guardian
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
IBM and 3Com Unveil New Collaboration Solution for System i

Centerfield Aims to Ease iSeries SQL Management with AutoDBA

MaxAv Updates System i High Availability Software

NGS Boosts BI Offerings for System i

News Briefs and Product Shorts:


CCSS Adds DASD Monitoring to QSystem Monitor V12 . . . KMR Taps looksoftware to Modernize i5/OS Apps . . . VAI-EXTOL Integration Benefits Customers . . . 'BI for the Warehouse Guy' Unveiled by ICS and Q4bis . . . Disaster Recovery in a Truck Unveiled by IBM, Cisco . . . Informatica Tackles SaaS Data Integration Issues with SaaS Offering . . .


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