CYBRA Finds the 'Edge' for Native i5/OS RFID Software
by Alex Woodie

CYBRA last week unveiled EdgeMagic, a new edge server product designed to enable i5/OS shops to incorporate radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking technology into their own applications. Due out this summer with support for J.D. Edwards and VAI's S2K, EdgeMagic is expected to be the first and only native i5/OS RFID server product on the market. READ MORE >

Lakeview Adds More Autonomics to MIMIX
by Alex Woodie

In a perfect world, high availability would be completely automated, and System i servers would fail over to backup machines without any input from operators. Obviously, we don't live in a perfect world, and failovers are often fraught with uncertainty. Just the same, while fully automated failovers are still largely a pipe dream, there is the potential for autonomic technologies to take some of the fear out of hitting the "go" button during failovers, which is the tact that Lakeview Technology is taking with the just-released MIMIX version 5. READ MORE >

Thoughts on the Coexistence of Full Test Automation and Manual Testing
by Colin Armitage

Automated software testing solutions have been around for more than 20 years but successful implementations are few and far between. Most organizations continue to execute the majority of their testing manually. Industry analysts peg market proliferation at just five percent, with 30 percent being the most extreme estimate. One reason for this damning failure is that users were promised that test automation could address 100 percent of their quality assurance requirements, but bitter experience has shown that total success was far more elusive. READ MORE >

Help/Systems Boosts Graphics with Robot/NETWORK V10
by Alex Woodie

While it's nice to have utilities to help you manage a stand-alone System i server, systems management tools really start paying dividends when there's more than one server to manage. That is where Robot/NETWORK from Help/Systems comes into play. With the latest version of Robot/NETWORK, the company has developed a new graphical user interface (GUI) to make it even easier to track the goings-on of multiple System i servers. READ MORE >