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  • Knowledge Is Power When Assessing Your IBM i Legacy

    October 29, 2012 Alex Woodie

    The IBM i platform can be both a blessing and a curse to you, the IBM i customer. While its integrated nature and reliability insulates you from tasks and expenses commonly faced by users of mainstream platforms, the “black box” and its longevity also tends to mask problems that may be lurking in your RPG code. So it’s not surprising that when you evaluate how to modernize your IT system, the lack of visibility into the inner workings of your system can lead to fear, panic, and, ultimately, uninformed decisions.

    It is interesting to note how the IBM i platform’s

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  • Thanks For The (Higher Priced) Memories?

    October 29, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM likes to talk sometimes about the convergence of the System i product line (running what was then i5/OS) and the System p product line as a relatively recent development, and dates the official name change to Power Systems back in April 2008. But we have longer memories than that here at The Four Hundred and we know that the first converged server was actually a “Northstar” server that came out in 1997 and that the convergence plans date from before then.

    I have nothing against convergence, even though I have been annoyed over the past decade and a half

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  • UNICOM Nabs Versant for Object-Oriented Databases

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    UNICOM expanded into the object oriented database data realm this month when it announced plans to buy Versant, a publicly traded developer of several object-oriented databases, for about $32 million.

    Founded in 1988 as Object Sciences Corp., Versant was an early proponent of object oriented databases, which store data as objects. Object database management systems (ODBMS) bring performance advantages over relational database management systems (RDBMS) in powering applications that are written in object oriented languages and require storing of complex objects.

    Versant’s first product was the Versant Object Database (VOD), which began to gain steam in the early 1990s

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  • UK Firm Signs On to Resell looksoftware Modernization Tools

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Astech, an IT consultancy based in central England, has signed a partnership agreement with IBM i application modernization tool vendor looksoftware to resell look’s software across the U.K.

    Astech specializes in providing IBM i and Microsoft expertise to private companies and government institutions in the U.K. The company says that its blend of IBM i and .NET programming skills enables it to take on client projects involving Web and mobile extensions to IBM i applications.

    Some of those Web and mobile projects will now bare the mark of looksoftware, the Australian developer of IBM i modernization tools. Looksoftware has

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  • Attachmate Excited with Combination of Reflection and Windows 7

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Attachmate yesterday unveiled Reflection 2011 R3, a new release of its terminal emulation suite for accessing IBM mainframe, IBM i, Unix, and Hewlett-Packard NonStop hosts. The new release is certified to run Windows 8, which will become available later this week. But Attachmate expects more customers to run the software on Windows 7, as businesses upgrade from Windows XP.

    Windows 8 brings a spiffy new user experience that’s designed to work the same whether the user is running a PC, a tablet, or a phone. However, Windows 8 is not expected to be widely adopted in the enterprise for some

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  • LogRhythm Goes Multi-Dimensional in Security Analysis

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Cyber criminals are getting more clever by the day, and so can the good guys with products like the new SIEM (security information and event management) solution unveiled by LogRhythm last week. The Boulder, Colorado, company claims that its solution is the first multi-dimensional security database capable of tackling “big data”-sized troves of information.

    LogRhythm’s SIEM product, which is also called LogRhythm, gathers security-related data from many sources (including IBM i logs), and mixes it in an attempt to tease real and actionable information out of the noise. Like other products in the SIEM class, LogRhythm has sought a competitive

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  • Kisco Sends IBM i Reports to Google Drive Cloud Service

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Kisco Information Systems last week announced an update to WebReport/i that allows IBM i shops to send their reports and spool files directly to Google Drive, a new cloud storage and synchronization service that competes with Dropbox. The new feature will be useful for IBM i shops looking to expand their report distribution.

    WebReport/i is an IBM i utility that automates the conversion and distribution of raw spool files from IBM i applications. The software can convert spool files to PDF, HTML, TIF, RTF, XLS, or CSV formats, and then distribute them via email, fax, FTP, or the Web.

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  • SAP Sends HANA to the Cloud

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    SAP last week announced HANA Cloud, a cloud version of its in-memory database that can be used to power cloud applications developed in Java or its NetWeaver technology. SAP also unveiled a hosted version of HANA that lives on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and will allow customers to quickly spin up HANA to run small workloads or for testing proof of concepts.

    HANA was on full display last week at the SAP TechEd 2012 shindig in Las Vegas, Nevada. The popular in-memory database system, which can be used for both transactional and analytical workloads, is less than two

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  • QlikTech Adapts In-Memory Analytics for External Big Data

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    QlikTech made its mark in the business intelligence field by simplifying the BI experience and delivering results quickly from an in-memory associative database. But with the advent of “big data,” the company’s total reliance on in-memory technology was challenged. Last week, the company unveiled a new Direct Discovery mode that allows customers to process large data sets stored externally on disk, while keeping the associative data model in tact.

    QlikTech has ridden the in-memory wave quite successfully over the last decade. While its big BI competitors like Oracle, SAP, and IBM have developed or acquired in-memory database technologies

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  • Lavastorm Adopts R for Better Big Data Understanding

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Among the slew of software vendors that for some reason chose last week to make big data announcements was Lavastorm Analytics, the developer of the versatile Lavastorm Analytics Platform. The company unveiled a new R Analytics Pack that enables the open source R statistical analysis programming language to work within the Lavastorm product. The company says the combination of R and Lavastorm’s visual approach of discovering and understanding data and processes will ease the challenges presented by “big data.”

    The Lavastorm Analytics Platform offers an impressive array of features that spans reporting, ETL, SQL editing, cross referencing, data cleansing,

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