|
Volume 5, Number 48 -- December 13, 2005
|
|
Four Hundred Stuff is going on holiday and will resume publishing on Tuesday, January 3, 2006.
|
|
|
Sponsored By
VISION SOLUTIONS
|
|
Are you managing your downtime effectively?
Managed Availability and Business Continuity center on the elimination of downtime or, at least, mitigating its impact on an organization.
Download Vision Solutions' white paper "Understanding Downtime" and explore common topics associated with downtime. Use the Annual Cost of Downtime Worksheet (included) to help calculate downtime costs relative to your business.
Download the white paper today at
www.visionsolutions.com
|
|
|
Sponsored By
POWERTECH
|
|
iSeries Security Study - 2005
An in-depth analysis of common iSeries security exposures.
IT Executives, system administrators and auditors now have a resource that explains iSeries security issues and how they relate to security compliance and regulatory demands.
PowerTech's study, compiled from data on over 180 systems, can help an organization quickly get to work on reducing the costs of compliance.
Click here to download the free whitepaper!
|
|
|
IBM Delivers Scaled-Down Content Manager for iSeries
by Alex Woodie
As it promised a year and a half ago, IBM has delivered a scaled-down content management system designed for small and medium-sized OS/400 shops. Beginning at a price of $6,900, users can get a centralized repository for storing and distributing documents, reports, e-mail, Web content, images, and other content with DB2 Content Manager Standard Edition version 8.3, a new product that IBM started shipping December 5. READ MORE >
|
|
DataMirror Updates High Availability and Data Replication Software
by Alex Woodie
North American IT managers are finally starting to take disaster recovery seriously, according to a new study from IT research firm Gartner. The Connecticut analyst group found a 650 percent increase in the number of IT managers backing up their data in the last year, either to a tape or to another disk through data replication. This is good news for high availability software providers, including DataMirror, which recently unveiled new releases of its iCluster and Transformation Server offerings. READ MORE >
|
|
|
Sponsored By
LAKEVIEW TECHNOLOGY
|
|
GET HIGH AVAILABILITY PLUS
HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
FREE White Paper
5 Truths of HA - Best Kept Secrets of
Maintaining a Switch-Ready Environment
MIMIX ha Lite's enhanced self-monitoring and self-healing features keep your HA environment ready to switch to eliminate planned downtime and protect against unplanned outages.
www.MIMIX.com/5truths
|
|
|
Arcad Adds Dashboard GUI to Lifecycle Management Suite
by Alex Woodie
One of the companies hoping to capture some of the forecasted increase in SOX solution spending next year is Arcad Software, a French developer of application lifecycle management (ALM) utilities for OS/400 applications. The company recently unveiled a new release of its integrated suite of tools, including a new graphical dashboard aimed at helping programmers and managers quickly determine the status of code remediation projects, new cross-reference capabilities, and improvements to its regression-testing tool. READ MORE >
|
|
Robot/CONSOLE Keeps an Eye on iSeries Processor Usage
by Alex Woodie
iSeries servers are expensive machines, no doubt about it. While you wouldn't think twice of operating a PC server at 10 percent capacity, the high cost of processor capacity on OS/400 servers is powerful incentive to stretch your CPW dollar as far as you can, without breaking it. A new release of Help/Systems' Robot/Console systems management tool adds new capabilities for helping OS/400 shops keep on top of their iSeries CPU usage, including watching for runaway jobs. READ MORE >
|
|
Sponsored By
AFFIRMATIVE COMPUTER
|
|
For tough production and warehouse environments, Affirmative introduces the industrial-strength YEStablet wireless thin client.
Featuring a magnesium alloy case and shock protection boot for industrial applications, the new YEStablet supports 5250 and 3270 emulation with built-in GUI and touch-screen keyboard.
The USB port supports barcode scanners and other data collection devices. Vehicle mount and wearable options are also available. Visit www.affirmative.net for more information.
|
|
|
|
News Briefs and Product Shorts
Trans World Slashes Backup Times with New OS/400 Server . . . Intentia Updates ERP Suite with New Features In Procurement, BI, Mobile Services . . . Rawlings Lets Best Buy 'Punch Out' With New LANSA App for Ariba . . . Geac to Focus on RFID with System21 Aurora Refresh in '06 . . . Software AG Supports the Standards with New Release of XML Middleware . . . No Documentation Yet for New Release of Documentation Tool . . . READ MORE >
|
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 >
|
|
Editor: Alex Woodie
Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik,
Shannon O'Donnell, Timothy Prickett Morgan
Publisher and Advertising Director: Jenny Thomas
Advertising Sales Representative: Kim Reed
|
|
|
|
Four Hundred Stuff
|
|
|
