GDCM Seeks to 'Defrag' the Data Center for Higher Efficiency
by Alex Woodie

Earth Week has come and gone, hopefully leaving behind a desire to consume less and generally be more 'green.' For operators of large data centers, cutting electricity consumption can not only gain you environmental kudos, but it can also save millions of dollars a year. That's the goal of a little-known software company called GDCM, which is currently ramping up North American sales of nlyte, a Windows application that enables users to model their use of electricity, cooling, network capacity, and space, and predict when they will run out. READ MORE >

Bsafe Updates Security Tools for i OS
by Alex Woodie

Bsafe Information Systems issued a major new release of Bsafe Enterprise Security, its integrated suite of security software for IBM's i operating system (formerly i5/OS), at the COMMON conference in Tennessee last month. With version 5.6, Bsafe has introduced several new features that will make the security and audit processes faster and less painful, including new ways to replicate i OS security settings among multiple partitions or boxes, a new centralized reporting module, and better support for Windows in the auditing tool. READ MORE >

GeneXus Brings Web 2.0 Home with Version X
by Alex Woodie

System i shops that use the GeneXus development environment from aRtech were given a clear path to Web 2.0 yesterday when the company announced the release to manufacturing of GeneXus X, the 10th version of the popular 4GL tool. Now that two and a half years of development and testing are over, organizations can start taking advantage of the software to develop new applications using the latest Web 2.0 technology, or even retrofit older apps with the new screen style. READ MORE >

Terminix Overcomes Hurdle to New B2B System, Thanks to LANSA
by Alex Woodie

When executives at Terminix hatched a new plan to drum up business through third-party companies, it made the company's IT department a little buggy at first. The plan called for the new partners to include Terminix' fees in the bills they send out to customers, but manually integrating the various billing systems at play presented a potential problem, especially as the program ramps. Instead, Terminix found the needed level of automation in Composer, a new business process workflow tool from LANSA. READ MORE >