FHS Volume: 13 Archives

The New Math of DRaaS

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

In the last several years, a whole new spectrum of possibilities has opened up for disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) in the midrange. The combination of inexpensive virtual tape libraries (VTLs), online backup to the cloud, and the managed service provider (MSP) business model puts in place the building blocks for vendors in the IBM i market to offer fully integrated DRaaS with 24-hour recovery time objectives (RTOs) for prices starting at $1,000 per month.

In the past, if a company wanted a full service DRaaS, they would call on IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS) or Sungard

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CM First Strengthens Mobile App Story for IBM i

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

CM First Group is looking to make it easier for IBM i shops to create compelling mobile apps with the latest release of its CM WebClient add-on for CA Plex tools. With support for the latest OSes from Microsoft and Blackberry, the latest iOS themes from Apple, and native device integration with Apache Cordova, generating mobile front-ends for backend IBM i apps is less scary than ever.

“CM First knows how intimidating mobile can be to a company just beginning the journey,” says Christoph Heinrich, the CEO of CM First, in a press release. “CM First developers felt

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Surround Tech Takes .NET Development Further for IBM i Shops

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

Surround Technologies last week unveiled Accelerator for .NET Version 4.3, the latest release of its .NET-based application framework that for rapidly developing Web, Windows, and mobile front-ends for new or existing applications running on IBM i. Surround Tech bolstered its wizard and code-generation capabilities with this release, and also unveiled a beta of a new query tool.

Accelerator for .NET includes a set of prebuilt components and wizard-driven code generators that plug into Microsoft‘s Visual Studio development environment. Surround Tech’s software has traditionally been heavily focused on bridging the gap between existing business logic residing in DB2/400 with Microsoft’s

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m-Power Gets Responsive with Screen Design

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

As a high-powered business executive, you expect to access the same application from multiple devices without any issues. However, requiring developers to maintain multiple versions of an application for PCs, Web browsers, smartphones, and tablets would be a giant waste of your awesome powers. With the latest release of its m-Power application development tool, mrc adopted the concept of responsive design, enabling the same GUI to automatically adapt to all of your varied devices.

If only business cards could automatically adjust from portrait to landscape mode.

From the perspective of a master of the universe, the concept of responsive design

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A Big Blue Cloud of Clouds

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

IBM last week announced that is brainiacs in research have come up with new cloud storage software that provides a simple way to migrate data across multiple clouds, while keeping it confidential and secure.

According to IBM, companies want to move their applications to the cloud but are scared off by poor security and reliability, and the utterly horrifying specter of vendor lock-in. The solution, according to IBM, is its patent-pending “cloud of clouds” approach.

In the Big Blue cloud of clouds, organizations can “invoke the resilience of separate clouds to offer stronger protection against service outages and data loss

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IBM i Options for Open Source E-Commerce

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

When it comes to powering e-commerce Web sites on the IBM i platform, there are a handful of options that will set you back hundreds of thousands of dollars. For those looking to take the open source route, there is Magento, a PHP-based ecommerce framework that’s owned by EBay.

Magento is an open source e-commerce Web application that launched in 2008. Like other open source products that have been successfully commercialized, Magento relies on a core group of developers to develop basic functionality, and taps into a larger network of developers for add-on capabilities.

Magento itself doesn’t run

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Gamma Soft to Feed DB2/400 Data to NuoDB

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

Gamma Soft recently announced it has formed a partnership with NewSQL database startup NuoDB to provide data integration capabilities. The partnership will see Gamma’s data integration software serving DB2/400 data, among others, into NuoDB’s database in a real-time manner.

NuoDB is one of the more promising startups chasing the sudden interest in, and demand for, so-called “NewSQL” databases that have been built from the ground up to handle huge data volumes and a variety of data types in a way that would cause the schema to break in a traditional SQL database. What makes NuoDB interesting is how its distributed

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Demystifying AIX Monitoring for IBM i Hacks

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

It’s getting tougher for IBM i professionals to pretend that AIX isn’t there. Every year, it seems, more of IBM‘s system software for Power Systems servers runs either in AIX or PASE, the AIX runtime for IBM i. However, for many IBM i admins, AIX is an enigma that’s wrapped in mystery and shrouded in a riddle. Halcyon Software recently published a best practices guide for AIX monitoring that’s aimed at getting past the Unix gibberish and laying out the issues in plain English that regular IBM i types can understand.

The biggest AIX concern of IBM i shops

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iPad App Integrates with Salesforce.com, IBM i

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

The Casey Group last month launched Sales Navigator, a new business application that allows users to access their Salesforce.com data from the comfort of an iPad.

Sales Navigator makes it easier for sales forces to access contacts, calendars, and customer location data that’s stored in their Salesforce.com environment running in the cloud. The iPad application is designed to enable sales personnel to access and organize large contact lists, plan daily sales routes, and improve customer relationships.

Users can plan their upcoming day with the software, and view leads and contacts on a map. It also allows users to log customer

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InsightSoftware.com Revs JD Edwards Reporting Tool

December 10, 2013 Alex Woodie

CFOs and finance managers at JD Edwards shops who need budgeting software may want to take a look at InsightSoftware.com, which yesterday unveiled a new release of InsightUnlimited, its flagship business intelligence software for JD Edwards.

Headquartered in Ireland, InsightSoftware.com specializes in developing business intelligence software for Oracle‘s E Business Suite and the World and EntepriseOne editions of JD Edwards. The update unveiled yesterday is focused on the budgeting aspect of InsightUnlimited, one of three components of the suite, which also includes reporting and reconciler components.

With this release, users can now define budget details by inserting rows

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