Vendors Offer OS/400 Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
by Alex Woodie

How can you be sure that your data is tamper proof? And if somebody does tamper with it, how will you be able to tell? These are the key issues facing OS/400 shops in complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, one of many new laws affecting the way companies manage and store their data. These are also areas in which iSeries software vendors, like Global Software and Electronic Storage Corp., are providing new solutions. READ MORE >

New WORM Technology Makes Its Way to the iSeries
by Alex Woodie

New federal laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are creating demand for storage technology known as write once, read many (WORM), which helps to ensure the integrity of data. WORM technology has traditionally been delivered on the OS/400 platform via expensive optical disks, and there will be a new WORM-capable optical drive available with OS/400 V5R3. But increasingly, tape vendors, such as Sony, are responding to the call of the WORM with cost-effective, tape-based WORM solutions. READ MORE >

Bankers Will Soon Savor the Java of RIO
by Robert Boyd

Datapro banks on the Caribbean and Latin America for business. As an IBM software vendor and banking software developer, Datapro sold 22 new turnkey iSeries-based systems in 1999 to replace those developed by other vendors and users that didn't meet Y2K standards. Having sold between 12 and 15 new systems annually in previous years, the year 2000 was a boon for Datapro, but the last several years haven't been as kind. READ MORE >

Bug Busters Adds Broadcast Option for OS/400 Object Distribution
by Alex Woodie

Object distribution in large AS/400 and iSeries networks should be dramatically accelerated with the latest release of Bug Busters Software Engineering's Remote Software Facility. RSF 7.1 borrows a page from the peer-to-peer (P2P) networking handbook with a new broadcasting feature called Relay Distribution, which allows the work of distributing OS/400 objects to be spread across the computers in a network, instead of requiring a central server to process updates one by one. READ MORE >

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Corrections

The article "MKS Addresses SarBox Transparency with Implementer 5.5" has been corrected since it was first published. MKS Integrity Manager was incorrectly called Source Integrity Manager. Also, the company's SCM for distributed systems, MKS Source Integrity Enterprise, was erroneously labeled as an SCM for Java and C++ development on Windows and Unix systems. In fact, it supports many more languages than just Java and C++. Guild Companies regrets the errors. [Corrections made 3/25/04.]

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