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News Briefs and Product Shorts
Cracking down on unlicensed use of OS/400, Windows, and Linux applications is the subject of a
recently announced product enhancement from Rainbow
Technologies' Rainbow eSecurity group. Last week the Irvine, California, software company
announced that its Sentinel security system is now able to monitor and control Windows and Linux
application running under OS/400 V4R5 or later. Supported Sentinel systems include SentinelLM 7.1.1, the
central license manager application designed for developers, and various Sentinel hardware security tokens,
which plug into USB ports on PC workstations and are used to monitor and restrict access to applications.
SentinelLM supports various types of commonly used licensing agreements.
There is another happy user of Stampede
Technologies' compression and acceleration software for speeding the connection between remote
Lotus Notes clients and the central Domino server, the Dayton, Ohio, company announced last week. The
60 salespeople at Hydrite Chemical of Brookfield,
Wisconsin, were frustrated with the iSeries-based Lotus Notes database. It would commonly take from one
to two hours to replicate a single 8-10 MB database, and since the employees were replicating up to 30
databases per person everyday, the amount of time wasted on replicating databases was just too great. After
installing Stampede's TurboGold acceleration software, the time it took to replicate a database dropped to
about 15 to 20 minutes per database, a 500 percent improvement, Stampede says. In addition to giving its
sales force more time to do their job instead of waiting around for the computers to work, the TurboGold
install reduced Hydrite's telecom bill by 50 percent, Stampede says.
LXI last week announced that Tape Tracker 3.5
includes new container management functionality. Tape Tracker helps companies keep track of their
backup tapes for a range of platforms by keeping a consolidated tape database. The new container
management functionality adds to Tape Tracker's capability to track tapes by location or slot and provides
an automated management and control system for packing and unpacking tape containers. Tape Tracker 3.5
also features enhanced vaulting, for improving the process of managing tape movement to off-site
locations, and recovery reporting, for providing a centralized list of all tape information from all of the
supported tape backup generation systems, including LXI's MMS for OS/400, IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager, Hewlett-Parckard's Omniback, Legato Systems' NetWorker, and VERITAS Software's NetBackup. In other LXI news, the company
also announced that it has formed a partnership with Computer
Associates for CA's BrightStor Enterprise Backup, a cross-platform network backup and restoration
utility that supports all major platforms, including OS/400, and allows users to manage their backup
activities from a centralized location. As part of the agreement, LXI will begin reselling BrightStor
Enterprise Backup and probably integrate it with its own storage offerings such as Tape Tracker and MMS
for OS/400 and several others that target the Unix realm.
Two weeks ago, Symantec announced it is
developing a firewall that will run in an iSeries Linux logical partition. Since IBM killed its own Firewall for OS/400 over a year ago, this has been
one of the major gaps in the OS/400 application stack, and is also one of the reasons IBM was so bent on
tweaking the operating system and the PowerPC hardware to support Linux, where there are many firewalls
to choose from. The Enterprise Firewall for iSeries will be based on the Enterprise Firewalls Symantec
ships for Windows and Solaris, and will be a "hardened" version of the Red Hat Linux 7.1 distribution. Symantec is calling it a "hardened"
firewall because it has closed up potential security vulnerabilities inherent with the open-source Linux
kernel, and because the firewall will sit in its own private logical partition on OS/400, restricting its
interaction with other applications. Symantec says the software will be available in the second half of the
year. For the complete story, read The Four Hundred's report.
Courion less than month ago announced the availability of
the Password Management Module for OS/400, a piece of client software that allowed PasswordCourior to
extend password reset and synchronization capabilities into the iSeries world. Now Courion is announcing
that Office Depot is moving ahead with a
PasswordCourier implementation that offers its employees self-service password capabilities across a
number of platforms, including OS/390 RACF, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and, now, OS/400. In fact,
Office Depot is the first customer to use the new OS/400 Password Management Module, Courion
says.
You've read about how the rugged and dependable iSeries version of the Segway Human Transporter, the first
self-balancing, battery-powered transportation machine, will revolutionize travel as we know it. Today,
you'll learn how the iSeries moniker is bringing new meaning to high-fidelity audio equipment. Last week,
Benwin unveiled--and we're not making this up--"the
launch of its most anticipated multimedia speaker to date," called the iSeries. The iSeries line features three models that range
in power output from 6.6 watts to 24 watts, and in MSRP from $19.99 to $59.99. When the new line of
iSeries becomes generally available next month, it is sure to forever change the way we think about
computer speakers.
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