IBM Beefs Up iSeries Disk Arrays, I/O Options
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM has been hinting that it had some storage announcements in the works for the iSeries platform, and a number of them were made last Tuesday. The company has rolled out a new auxiliary write cache for its RAID 5 controllers to bolster the availability of the iSeries server, has created two disk bundles that makes mirroring easier and cheaper, added fatter disk drives, and made the pSeries variant of virtual I/O available on the iSeries box. READ MORE >

IBM Offers HMC-Less iSeries Linux Partitioning
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In addition to making several storage-related announcements last Tuesday for the iSeries line, IBM has also listened to its customers and developed a new way to create and manage Linux partitions on the iSeries without the need of the Hardware Management Console. The HMC is an external Linux-based management console that controls logical partitions on i5 and p5 Power-based servers. It costs several thousand dollars, and is something of a pain in the neck for small- and medium-sized businesses. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: The Princess and IP
by Hesh Wiener

Hans Christian Andersen, the fabulous Dane, was born 200 years ago, on April 2, 1805. Hans Christian Ørsted, another Dane, was nearly 28 at the time. His brother, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, was not quite 27. The elder Ørsted, a physicist, discovered electromagnetism; the younger, more interested in the humanities, settled for becoming Denmark's third prime minister. Andersen, in his way, had the gifts of both. His stories speak to the soul in words a child can understand; yet he also appreciated science: He knew in many ways what makes communications work. READ MORE >

IBM Comes Up Short in Q1 After March Fall Off
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM pulled a Carly Fiorina last Thursday and gave Wall Street something of a surprise as it closed its first quarter a bit lower than the street had expected. And that is why IBM also surprised the street by moving up its announcement of financial results from this week to Thursday--there's no sense in sitting on bad news, especially when you can run your numbers in the same news space as Sun Microsystems, which reported its financials that evening, too. READ MORE >

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Secunia Reports Potential OS/400 POP3 Vulnerability . . . Puppy 510 Power5 Server Can't Run OS/400 . . . IBM Tweaks SQL Features in i5/OS and DB2/400 . . . Middleware Market Up Modestly in 2004, Says Gartner . . . Microsoft Clears Last-Minute Hurdle, Completes Groove Networks Acquisition . . . Analyst Firm Says SMBs "Not Interested" in Linux . . . Azul Systems Taps IBM to Support Java Engines . . . READ MORE >

Correction: Subversion for OS/400 Uses FSFS, Not Berkeley DB Database

In the article "SoftLanding Goes Open Source with TurnOverSVN", we stated that Subversion stores its code repository in the open source Berkeley DB database. While it was true that until a year ago, the only code repository available for Subversion was based on Berkeley DB, in 2004, Subversion 1.1 introduced a new repository option that stores data in ordinary flat files using a custom format. It was the introduction of this new repository option, commonly known as FSFS, that paved the way for SoftLanding's port of Subversion to the OS/400 platform. With Subversion for OS/400, the source repository resides in the IFS using the FSFS file format. IT Jungle regrets the error. [Correction made 4/17/05.] READ MORE >

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