• Raz-Lee Tracks IBM i PTFs, Ships Password Reset Product

  October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that struggle to keep track of IBM i PTFs manually may be interested in the new automated PTF tracking function unveiled by Raz-Lee Security last week. The company’s Change Tracker software can now track all PTF “apply” and “remove” actions in the IBM i environment, and report on the status of any PTF and all related objects. In other news, the Nanuet, New York-based company announced the release of Password Reset for IBM i. Change Tracker, which Raz-Lee launched earlier this year at the COMMON show at Disneyland, tracks changes made to production code at the source and

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• Single Sign-On Service Cuts Costs, Complexity

  October 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  The realization of how costly it is to manage user IDs, passwords, and authentication policies can be a shocking experience. If you actually look into this, hanging a “Danger! High Voltage!” sign outside the IT department may be a good idea. Many companies are looking for places where costs can be cut with IT efficiencies, and an examination in this area might earn you some extra credit. It begins with a technology you may have heard of before: single sign-on. You may not know it, but you already own the technology that enables single sign-on. It’s built into your IBM

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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