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The One Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery--How to Ensure IT and Business Continuity
This white paper provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and business continuity--from understanding the concepts of disaster recovery and information availability to calculating the business impact of downtime and selecting the right software solution.
Readers can quickly match their specific optimum uptime objectives with the easiest and most cost-effective IT strategy.
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RPG Open Access and Rich Display Files
A native graphical user interface for RPG has been widely requested. And now, a solution has finally arrived with RPG OA and Profound UI's Rich Display Files.
Download this on-demand webinar to hear from Jon Paris and Alex Roytman, two of the most highly regarded experts on RPG modernization and Web development, as they explain the new RPG OA offering from IBM and how it works with Profound UI to modernize your applications.
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Arpeggio Introduces IBM i Security Monitoring Solutions
by Alex Woodie
Arpeggio Software last week unveiled SIFT-IT Free Edition, a new IBM i security monitoring utility that, as the name indicates, is free. The free edition of SIFT-IT automates the monitoring and review of IBM i security logs, while an enterprise version provides expanded log coverage, in addition to real-time notifications and technical support. SIFT-IT is the first product suite for Arpeggio, which was founded by the developers behind TrailBlazer Systems' ZMOD file transfer product. READ MORE >
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Lavastorm: An Analytic Power Tool for All Seasons
by Alex Woodie
The folks at MDS Lavastorm Analytics have created an analytic tool that defies easy description. On the one hand, Lavastorm is a lightweight ETL tool for cleaning and validating data. But it's also a graphical, drag-and-drop SQL editor. It provides classic reporting and dashboard functionality, but also detects fraud and other irregularities in billing systems. It's a cross-reference tool, and a business rules engine too. It slices and dices--and does just about everything but make julienne fries. But perhaps most surprising of all is it's commonly used in IBM i environments. READ MORE >
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iScan VIDEO DEMO & iDocs white papers >>
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Attachmate Masks IBM i, z/OS Data Within the Emulator
by Alex Woodie
Ensuring the security of information is the main driver behind Attachmate's latest terminal emulation software release. New features unveiled last week in Reflection 2011 R2, such as the capability to mask data on live screens and the capability to prevent users from logging on via unencrypted connections, are designed to prevent the unauthorized access of data from host systems, including IBM i and z/OS servers. READ MORE >
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IBM Rolls Out Security Analytics and Managed Service Offerings
by Alex Woodie
IBM last week unveiled a host of new security solutions aimed at helping customers stay on top of the complex and evolving security threat landscape. The new offerings include four new analytics tools that are available as subscriptions, and one managed security information and event management (managed SIEM) offering that uses on-site hardware and IBM know-how on the other end of the wire. READ MORE >
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Access IBM i data and objects from Linux and Windows Servers using PHP
Easycom for PHP (developed by AURA Equipments of France) provides the ability to run your PHP scripts on IBM i, Linux or Windows with a secure connection to IBM i data and objects.
Easycom Server can also provide all of the Zend i5_toolkit functionality without the complexity of running Zend and IBM HTTP on the IBM i.
For further information visit:
www.shieldadvanced.ca
or call 519-940-1192
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Reader Feedback and Insights
We value your feedback and insights. Feel free to send a letter to the editor. Letters may be printed, unless otherwise specified, and edited for clarity or length. READ MORE >
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Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
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