A new release of the Content Manager OnDemand for i software was unveiled as part of IBM‘s April 13 i/OS 7.1 announcement. The new 7.1 release of CMOD includes new PDF and AFP functionality, as well as the capability to access CMOD content from FileNet P8, Big Blue’s flagship content management system (CMS), which doesn’t run on i/OS. IBM also unveiled discounts for customers migrating from CMOD and Content Manager for iSeries to FileNet or other Unix-based CMSes.

CMOD, as IBM calls Content Manager OnDemand for i, is used by organizations that need to capture, index, store, and distribute

Patrick Townsend Security Solutions demonstrated why it calls itself “the encryption company” last week when it because the first and only vendor to receive certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for a DB2/400 encryption solution. The NIST certification, combined with its support and deep technical understanding of the new automated encryption facilities that IBM introduced with i/OS 7.1 gives the company a solid leadership position in the i/OS security business.

John Earl, who became CEO of PTSS last year after leaving PowerTech, says achieving NIST compliance for Alliance AES Encryption for System i on i5/OS V5R4,

Developers at mrc have been hard at work the last few months, and the results show with several new capabilities added to the company’s flagship m-Power development tool, which is used to generate Web applications for i/OS and other platforms. Among the enhancements are better record filtering, improved control of user input, and a new performance analysis tool. And at the COMMON show yesterday, the company announced support for pivot tables.

Chicago-based mrc eschews the traditional “big bang” approach for releasing new functionality to customers, and instead trickles out enhancements and fixes via its Web site on a nearly continuous

Achieving and maintaining PCI compliance is one of the most important tasks for IT professionals working for companies in the retail industry. However, when it comes to the System i platform, PCI terms and requirements often don’t match up well with i/OS security concepts. Companies can get aid to overcome this PCI hurdle by using a power tool designed specifically for the platform, such as the new PCI Accelerator Package unveiled last month by Bsafe Information Systems.

Bsafe’s new PCI Accelerator Package is a set of pre-defined reports and alerts aimed at helping System i users speed up their

Aldon this week unveiled a new release of Community Manager, it’s all-in-one application for managing IT assets and tasks from business, technical, and operational point-of-views. With CM version 9.5, Aldon introduces the capability to run the software as a 64-bit application, which will bring performance benefits on today’s X64 servers. Aldon also streamlined CM’s workflow, tightened up its service level management, and made other enhancements.

Community Manager is a Windows application designed to help the IT departments of medium-size and large companies automate their activities within a single, industry-standard framework. In addition to providing an automated workflow to streamline common

Companies that do business in the states of Nevada, Massachusetts, and Washington are some of the first to come under the jurisdiction of new data security laws that require the use of encryption. Backup data that leaves the data center for the purpose of disaster recovery is a big concern for these companies, and SafeData, which provides options for on-site and cloud-based back up, says it can provide the necessary level of encryption for System i shops.

Washington is the latest state to enact a data security and payment card law covering companies that do business with citizens in

An upcoming release of Unitrends disk-to-disk (D2D) backup appliances will feature new data deduplication technologies that should allow customers to cram more data into each device. Unitrends, which offers support for i/OS with backup appliances, says the “adaptive” deduplication technology in its upcoming Release 5 eliminates much of the overhead and management that other vendors’ deduplication schemes require.

Unitrends sells X64-based backup and archive appliances that collect data from agents that deploy to i/OS, Windows, Unix, and Linux servers. The company, which also offers cloud storage, says its SATA-equipped appliances help to simplify its customers’ backup, recovery, and archive workloads

Datawatch last week unveiled a new release of Monarch Data Pump Pro, an enterprise data integration tool designed to work with the company’s flagship data mining and business intelligence tool. With version 10.5, the company has added several new capabilities designed to help customers in high-volume production settings, including Web services integration, better tracing and logging, and a new Web browser management console.

Datawatch is a different sort of business intelligence software company. Instead of building an information infrastructure from scratch, the company’s tools are designed to mine existing reports to ascertain relevant information. The company’s patented technology can then

ACOM Solutions last week unveiled a new release of EZContent Manager (EZCM), its Windows-based content management and workflow solution that organizations can use to adopt paper-less processing. New features in version 3.1 should make it easier for users to see items within the workflow that require their attention. This release also brings close integration with Sage accounting systems.

ACOM bills EZCM as an affordable content management offering that organizations–including a good number of System i shops, who are the product’s primarily users–can use to not only help eliminate paper-based processes, but drive greater efficiency by enabling employees to collaborate in

Zend Technologies last week unveiled a new release of its Zend Studio development environment. New code tracing capabilities added in Zend Studio 7.2 work in tandem with Zend Server (which was recently made available on the i/OS platform) to make it easier for developers to find and fix performance problems in PHP applications.

Prior to version 7.2, addressing performance problems from Zend Studio could be a hit and miss affair. It was often a tedious task to reproduce the production environment to recreate problems found in PHP applications.

Now, thanks to the new capability in Zend Studio 7.2 to capture