PHP and JavaScript Come Together in Zend Studio 8
by Alex Woodie

Peanut butter and jelly. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Some things are just better together. And with last month's release of the first beta for Zend Studio 8, Zend Technologies is making the case that JavaScript, the foremost client-side scripting language, and PHP, the popular server-side scripting language, should be developed together, in the same IDE, where they can harmoniously interact, to the betterment of society--not to mention the Web development project at hand. READ MORE >

SafeStone Taps RSA for SIEM Expertise
by Alex Woodie

Safestone Technologies has long been a partner of RSA Security and used the security giant's expertise in authentication to bolster the environments of its IBM System i customers. With this month's update to Safestone's security software, the vendors have strengthened the partnership with an IBM i connection to RSA's security information and event management (SIEM) system. READ MORE >

SkyView Gets Tough on User Profiles
by Alex Woodie

Hackers get all the glory, but statistics show a company is more likely to suffer a security-related loss at the hands of an employee. To that end, a new release of SkyView Partners' security and compliance product should make it easier for System i shops to establish and maintain a good internal security posture when it comes to their users and user profiles. Policy Minder version 1.5, which debuts next month, includes new features aimed at identifying user profiles that are unnecessarily lax. READ MORE >

Profound Updates I/O Handler for RPG Open Access
by Alex Woodie

The developers at Profound Logic have been busy this summer with Profound UI, Profound's graphical user interface development tool that uses IBM's new Rational Open Access RPG Edition technology. The product, which is the first commercially available I/O handler that uses the RPG Open Access technology, has been updated several times since its initial release in the spring. READ MORE >