Vision Cuts Downtime Associated with HA Replication
by Alex Woodie

A problem with high availability replication on the iSeries has been the need to periodically restart the servers to reset the journal sequence numbers. This problem is mostly relegated to very large iSeries shops, which, unfortunately, is exactly the type of customer with the most to lose from downtime. Vision Solutions will soon be shipping a new release of its Orion high availability software that eliminates this downtime requirement through support for IBM's *MAXOPT3 feature in OS/400, among other enhancements. READ MORE >

Cabinet Maker Finds a Silver Lining in SOX
by Alex Woodie

When the RPG programmers at MasterBrand Cabinets realized they would need to scale back their access to quality assurance and production environments to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, they weren't exactly thrilled about it. "There were some agitated developers when we went through this change," says William Storey, corporate IT compliance officer for the $2 billion cabinet maker. "They were saying, 'How am I going to do my job if I lose control?'" As it turns out, the upside of SOX, including a change management system from Aldon, outweighed the downside. READ MORE >

Proginet Adds OS/400 Support to File Transfer Suite
by Alex Woodie

Organizations that need to transfer large amounts of data securely have a plethora of options. However, when speed, security, and cross-platform compatibility are issues, an organization would be wise to check out the array managed file transfer solutions that exist on the market. Proginet, a New York company selling such a solution in its flagship CyberFusion Integration Suite, recently announced that this product now supports OS/400. READ MORE >

RingCentral Provides Virtualization for Phone Calls
by Alex Woodie

Despite the advent of new forms of digital communication like e-mail, instant messaging, and text messaging, the good old telephone is still a critical component of modern businesses. While many companies are hashing out their voice over IP strategies, one Silicon Valley firm, RingCentral, has developed a telephony offering that lays a veil of virtualization upon both analog and digital phone connections to provide what its CEO calls "on-demand hosted virtual PBX." READ MORE >