Vision Moves Product and Business Plans Forward
by Alex Woodie

Officials at Vision Solutions, the largest provider of high availability software for IBM Power Systems servers, shared some details of their product plans during an interview with IT Jungle last week. Despite the challenges of molding a cohesive business out of three previously separate entities, executives say customers have stuck with Vision and are bullish on the company and its capability to continue developing its products. READ MORE >

CYBRA Goes for i's Funny Bone with 2K, the 2,000 Year Old Programmer
by Alex Woodie

As the chief executive officer of barcode and RFID software developer CYBRA, Harold Brand knows that enterprise software is no laughing matter. At the same time, the New Yorker is realizing that humor can be an effective advertising tool to break through the clutter and reach potential customers with his product. To that end, CYBRA today officially launched its new advertising campaign featuring 2K, the 2,000-year-old programmer. READ MORE >

Virtual Server Sprawl Reeled In with Tideway Foundation 7.1
by Alex Woodie

The proliferation of virtual servers is giving administrators great flexibility in how they deploy new servers and applications. However, because it's so easy to do, the growth of virtual servers is also putting additional strain on the IT management process and adding a degree of risk that previously wasn't there. Tideway Systems, a developer of application dependency mapping (ADM) software, promises to shed greater light on virtual servers and their affect on other applications with this week's launch of Foundation 7.1. READ MORE >

Aldon's Lifecycle Management Suite Ready for RDi
by Dan Burger

With the introduction of i 6.1 (formerly known as i5/OS V6R1) IBM repackaged the application development toolset for the System i platform courtesy of the Rational software development division. So it's good-bye WebSphere Development Studio Client 7.0 (WDSc) and WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition 7.0 (WDSc AE) and hello Rational Development for i 6.1. It's not like WDSc just disappears. IBM will support those products until the spring of 2010. However, there is a transition in progress and it includes software vendors that supported WDSc. READ MORE >