SkyView Partners introduced a new OS/400 security service last week called SkyView OnCall, designed to make it easier for iSeries shops to comply with certain provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other new industry regulations. Instead of guessing at what auditors might require for SOX compliance, the Seattle-area company says, companies are better off outsourcing that job to SkyView and its team of OS/400 security experts, who have a good idea of what auditors may expect.

“What we’ve seen with SOX audits is a moving target,” says SkyView cofounder John Vanderwall. “The idea of SOX compliance is interesting. Comply with

To simplify storing data for different areas of their business, iSeries shops are increasingly turning to independent auxiliary storage pools, several sources have said. In support of this trend, DataMirror recently started shipping a new release of its OS/400 clustering application, iCluster Version 2.1, which offers full support for mirroring of iASPs, as well as improved monitoring and autonomic functions.

The iCluster is DataMirror’s flagship high availability offering for iSeries shops. While the company also offers its older High Availability suite, the iCluster product, which is based on OS/400 cluster services and its integrated heartbeat monitoring and automated failovers, now

MKS today launched a new version of its cross-platform suite of change management software, called MKS Integrity Suite 2005. The suite includes updates to the OS/400 and open systems change management components, Implementer and Source Integrity, as well as major enhancements to the Windows-based Integrity Manager component, which gains the new Requirements 2005 plug-in and a new Management Dashboard view to help users comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX, has been a major catalyst for sales of Implementer and Source Integrity, says Ellyn Winters-Robinson, vice president of marketing for MKS. However, while sales have been good,

When IBM rolled out Notes/Domino R6, the software gained new compression and acceleration capabilities to give Notes users better response times and to speed database transfers. That wasn’t good news for Stampede Technologies, which built its business on providing compression and acceleration for Notes/Domino with its TurboGold product. At Lotusphere last week, Stampede rolled out a new release of TurboGold that regains its edge in Notes/Domino R6 compression and acceleration.

TurboGold Enterprise Edition 3.0 is the newest generation of real-time compression and acceleration solutions for Notes clients and Domino servers from Stampede. Several new technologies make their TurboGold debut