Maximum Availability Shakes Up Business Plan
by Alex Woodie

It can be a very tough business competing in the global i5/OS high availability software market. One company that's learned some lessons is Maximum Availability, which launched its *noMAX product around the turn of the millennium. While the New Zealand company initially intended to wage an air war by relying on the Internet to sell, service, and support its product, it's increasingly finding that nothing beats boots on the ground. The company's vice president of marketing and sales, Andrew Mansfield, recently discussed the company's changes with IT Jungle. READ MORE >

SEA Delivers Web and Mobile Consoles for absMessage
by Alex Woodie

One can never be too rich, too thin, or too young, as an old saying goes. When it comes to systems management tools for the i5/OS server, perhaps one can never have too many ways to interact with and control the server. One vendor embracing this concept is Software Engineering of America, a developer of tools for System i and System z servers, which recently introduced two new interfaces for absMessage, its message management utility for i5/OS servers, bringing the total number of product interfaces to four. READ MORE >

Aldon Boosts Identity Tracking in ALM Tool
by Alex Woodie

Aldon simultaneously strengthened and streamlined the authentication process for its change management tools last month with the introduction of a new identity access management (IAM) component. By automatically tracking which objects a given person can access and what they can do with them, the new IAM component should make life easier for Aldon's customers, as well as the auditors trying to gauge their compliance.READ MORE >

Quadrant Bolsters FastFax with Dynamic Line Allocation
by Alex Woodie

Users don't have to worry about missing incoming fax orders during hectic workdays thanks to the new "dynamic line allocation" feature in FastFax/Enterprise version 4.7.2, which was announced this week by Quadrant Software. With dynamic line allocation, FastFax/Enterprise automatically takes fax lines normally assigned for outgoing faxes and uses them for incoming faxes.READ MORE >