Sysload Delivers Fine-Grain Monitoring for Virtual Servers
by Alex Woodie

Organizations concerned that the availability of critical applications is suffering as the result of hitting the physical performance limits of their virtualized servers may want to check out the SP-Analyst offering from the French company Sysload. With the capability to monitor a wide range of servers, including i OS machines, at one-second intervals, SP-Analyst may be a good solution for spotting sudden performance spikes in virtualized infrastructures, which other server monitoring offerings with longer sampling intervals may miss. READ MORE >

Adobe Eases Deployment with New Release of LiveCycle Suite
by Alex Woodie

Adobe Systems today is expected to ship a new release of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES), a collection of software aimed replacing paper-based processes with PDFs and other electronic forms of communication. With LiveCycle ES Update 1, the company is now including an enterprise content management (ECM) with the suite, which should speed the deployment of rich Internet applications based on Adobe's Flash technology. New solution accelerators and support for three-dimensional PDFs for engineering documents round out this release. READ MORE >

PowerTech Updates i OS Log Management Software
by Alex Woodie

The PowerTech Group last week launched a new release of Interact, its log management software that converts i OS (formerly i5/OS) security events to the Syslog format, which can then be consumed by third-party security information and event management (SIEM) tools. With the launch of Interact 3.0, PowerTech added support for 25 additional security-related events tracked by the i OS. The update also brings more details for remedying i OS systems with regulations like PCI, CoBIT, and ISO. READ MORE >

Help/Systems' SEQUEL Gets More BI Tooling
by Alex Woodie

Help/Systems launched a new release of SEQUEL last week that will give users more reasons to use it as a business intelligence tool. With a new Gauge Wizard in SEQUEL version 9.0, adding graphical representations of data through speedometers and dials is a matter of making a few mouse clicks. Better integration with Help's i OS-based job scheduler and Google Maps highlight this iterative release of the popular and multipurpose tool. READ MORE >