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  • Devon Introduces New Appliance for Secure Remote Access

    November 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

    Devon IT recently launched NTAVO 5.0 Appliance, a new IBM eServer-based device designed to provide remote users with secure and easy-to-use access to applications running on OS/400, mainframe, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers. As a main application proxy, the NTAVO Appliance has advantages over other remote access techniques, such as virtual private networks and Citrix, the company claims.

    Devon IT’s NTAVO Appliances are rack-mountable, Linux-based IBM xSeries servers (or IBM eServer BladeCenter systems on the high-end model) that use Tarantella‘s remote access technology to provide thin clients with secure access to host applications. On the back end, the

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  • Pat Townsend Launches Stand-Alone AES/400 Encryption Solution

    November 30, 2004 Alex Woodie

    Patrick Townsend & Associates is now shipping Alliance AES/400, a data security utility that provides an OS/400 implementation of the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. Previously provided as an optional component of Pat Townsend’s FTP Manager product, AES/400 has been broken out as a stand-alone utility to give OS/400 shops an easy way to encrypt their sensitive DB2/400 and IFS fields and files, and to share encrypted files with Windows clients.

    If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: the OS/400 server, out of the box, is one of the most computer secure platforms in use.

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  • PGM Provides Springboard for iSeries Web Development

    November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

    With the array of development technologies and techniques, it can be difficult for OS/400 shops to get started developing a Web application. Is Java or .NET the better language choice? Should you write an application from scratch or attempt to put a Web face on old apps? PGM Systems is trying to simplify these tough decisions for iSeries developers and get them started in Java, SQL, and Struts programming with a new Web application code generator and framework called iStart.

    Massachusetts-based PGM Systems first released its iStart Web Application Generator in March 2004. The product is the result of work

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  • Startup Delivers Database Tools for OS/400 HA Environments

    November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

    One of the challenges of running an OS/400 high availability environment is ensuring that data and objects are always in synch. If you let them get out of synch, it exposes your business to the possibility of downtime and can take hours to track down and fix. Two former employees of an HA software vendor recently founded Shane Software to provide graphical tools to help administrators ensure that their HA environment is in synch, and track down and fix the problem if it’s not.

    Shane Software is an IBM business partner located near Irvine, California. The company was founded in

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  • Expand’s New Data Acceleration Technology Proves Fast in Tests

    November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

    Researchers at Expand Networks have come up with a new WAN compression algorithm called Data Transfer Acceleration (DTA) that can achieve compression rates of up to 20-1. That figure is the result of a test that Expand commissioned Tolly Group to perform against the company’s two main competitors for WAN compression appliances, Packeteer and Peribit, the results of which were announced yesterday.

    Expand paid Tolly, an independent organization that specializes in testing network equipment, to benchmark a pair of Expand Accelerator 4820 devices, running at Version 5.03, against two Packeteer PacketShaper 2500 Version 6.2.1 devices and two Perebit Sequence

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  • Linoma Offers PGP Studio with Data Transfer Tool

    November 16, 2004 Alex Woodie

    Linoma Software is shipping a new release of its secure data transfer tool for OS/400 and Windows systems. With Transfer Anywhere Version 1.5, Linoma is now including a free copy of the Windows-based studio it built to maintain the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption keys (which would normally cost $495 per seat), among other new capabilities.

    Transfer Anywhere is a versatile Java program that can do the job of several point products, including distributing, retrieving, converting, compressing, encrypting, and signing data and files. It lets users pull specific data sets out of their DB2/400, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server 2000,

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  • Unleash the Borg: OS/400 Gets Autonomic Tooling

    November 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

    Your dream of building an army of self-aware, self-healing iSeries servers is drawing nigh: IBM recently added key autonomic runtime capabilities to its prized OS/400 server. With the release of Autonomic Toolkit 2.0, IBM added OS/400 and Solaris to the list of operating systems that support the development of autonomic systems that can automatically take action to counter specific problems and events.

    IBM launched its autonomic computing initiative several years ago as an integral component of its on-demand strategy to deliver computing as a utility. The goal of this initiative is to build self-reactive computer systems that automatically adapt to

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  • TeamQuest Brings Capacity Planning Tool to OS/400 Server

    November 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

    TeamQuest announced last week that it is supporting OS/400 and z/OS servers with the latest release of its capacity planning tool and supporting software suite, Performance Software 9.2. With the announcement, TeamQuest becomes the only vendor to provide capacity planning and performance analysis capabilities across IBM‘s entire eServer line, and it supports other major platforms as well.

    Since it was spun off from mainframe maker Unisys, in 1991, TeamQuest has always focused on providing performance analysis and capacity planning software. The company, based in Clear Lake, Iowa, brings in about $20 million a year and counts about 400

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  • No More Coding for EAI? DAM Right, Says Magic

    November 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

    Magic Software recently launched a new release of its iBOLT enterprise application integration (EAI) suite that, the company claims, virtually eliminates the need for people to write code to connect applications. The secret to the elimination of programming in iBOLT 2.0 is something called Directly Accessible Methods (DAM), which, Magic says, allows integration architects to plug components together from the comfort of a graphical interface. The company also announced its most recent financial results and a new partnership with SAP.

    Getting enterprise applications on different platforms to talk to each other has never been easy. Lots of money has

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  • Symantec Adds Regulatory Compliance to Security Management Tool

    November 9, 2004 Alex Woodie

    Companies looking to get a handle on their Sarbanes-Oxley Act or Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requirements may want to check out new capabilities available in Symantec‘s Enterprise Security Manager Version 6.1, which started shipping in late October. The latest release of ESM, which supports OS/400 and other major platforms, features 75 pre-configured policy assessment templates for helping users understand what they need to do to comply with new regulations.

    Symantec Enterprise Security Manager is a security policy compliance program that provides centralized and automated analysis of organizations’ servers, databases, applications, networks, and security controls. The software performs more than 3,000 security

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