Simply Continuous Aims to Narrow 'Recovery Gap' with DR Solution
by Alex Woodie

Simply Continuous recently unveiled a new release of its online disaster recovery (DR) offering, Data Recovery Vault, that allows users to recover the most important data first. Called RecoverNow, the new offering gives users the tools to decide which data sets are the most crucial and should be restored first--an important issue in the first minutes following a disaster. The company, which has been offering its online DR offering since June, also supports OS/400 data through Laservault. READ MORE >

ManageEngine Adds i OS Support to Application Performance Tool
by Alex Woodie

ManageEngine, an Indian developer of systems management software, expanded its i OS repertoire last month with the launch of Applications Manager Release 9. Users of the new software can monitor applications and systems running on IBM i OS servers alongside a range of other operating systems, databases, application servers, and ERP systems. This provides organizations that use System i and Power Systems servers with a powerful solution for monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, trend analysis, and planning capacity in their heterogeneous IT environments. READ MORE >

User Activity Monitoring from PacketMotion to Support i OS
by Alex Woodie

System i shops that are concerned about the high level of access granted to systems administrators and others, but are hesitant to put controls in place for fear of slowing down transaction times, may want to consider trying out a new agent-less user activity monitoring (UAM) solution that is coming to the platform. PacketMotion recently rolled out support for TN3270 with its appliance-based UAM solution, called PacketSentry, and is close to beginning beta tests for a similar offering that will support the IBM i OS via TN5250. READ MORE >

Single-Platform, Technology-Focused Security Unwise Says Ex-IBMer Botz
by Dan Burger

Pat Botz sees security from the perspective of an entire IT environment. Looking for solutions from a platform-specific point of view is a stumbling block that trips many organizations that attempt to go at this issue from within their platform silos. 'When you start looking at where the security issues tend to be,' he says, 'they are at the seams where different applications, different platforms, and different networks meet. That is almost always because there is seldom one individual looking at security from an integrated point of view' READ MORE >