Regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA are spurring companies to lock down their IT environments in a variety of ways, including controls on development processes. Until now, most of the change management focus has been on so-called “traditional” environments, to the detriment of Lotus Notes and Domino. But that is starting to change, according to Domino experts at Teamstudio, which last week unveiled new support for OS/400- and AIX-based Domino servers with its two tools for managing changes to Domino databases, Snapper and CIAO!

Snapper and CIAO! are two components of Teamstudio Edition 22, a collection of nine client- and

Lawson Software formally announced its “skip upgrade” program that allows its iSeries customers to upgrade from older versions of the ERP system directly to the latest version of Lawson’s software. Yesterday’s announcement means that the 400 or so iSeries customers on an older release will be able to bypass an intermediate step and go straight to the latest, greatest version 8.1, thereby saving time and money during the implementation process.

For many years, Lawson’s iSeries customers have had to wait many months or years before Lawson offered support for OS/400 with its newest ERP system releases. This delay was a

Part of IBM‘s Systems Agenda is making it easier to manage groups of disparate servers, and one of the key deliverables in this area is Big Blue’s Virtualization Engine technology. IBM last week announced updates to several Virtualization Engine technologies, including new capabilities for managing zSeries and pSeries servers from Virtualization Engine consoles, new workload management algorithms, and a new tool for visualizing the inter-dependencies of applications, even if they’re not running on the same platform.

While many virtualization offerings on the market today enable a user to carve up a big multiprocessor box into a bunch of partitions

IBM last week unveiled two new network storage servers designed to help small and mid size businesses consolidate their storage. The N5000 range of devices can be equipped with Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives, can be clustered for high availability, and support multiple operating systems, including Windows, Unix, and Linux. The devices also support Linux and AIX partitions running on iSeries servers, but not i5/OS.

IBM’s new N5000 line of storage servers are aimed at customers requiring a network attached storage (NAS) solution for powering disaster recovery and disk-to-disk backups at small data centers and remote regional offices. “The