OS/400 shops looking to outsource their network and server security monitoring may want to check out Counterpane Internet Security, a managed security service provider (MSSP) that introduced a new OS/400 monitoring agent with the launch of Enterprise Protection Suite 2.0 last month. Inclusion of OS/400 event logs provides another piece in the security puzzle that Counterpane’s security analysts are trying to put together for its customers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Founded in Silicon Valley six years ago by noted cryptologist Bruce Schneier, Counterpane today is one of a growing number of MSSPs that are taking

Users of the eServer i5 got a new supplier of main memory last week when GST announced it has entered the business. GST’s new line of IBM clone memory for i5, p5, and pSeries servers is available in 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB, and 8 GB capacities, and ranges in price from $550 to $7,375, which is exactly half the price that IBM is charging.

GST’s memory products consists of 208-pin dual inline memory modules (DIMMs) that are fully plug-compatible and equivalent to IBM’s memory products. It is selling two versions for the eServer i5s, one that works with

Informatica today began shipping the first of three new planned versions of its PowerCenter product, an extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool used for building data warehouses and other IT projects that require moving massive amounts of data among various systems, including iSeries. The Advanced Edition brings new metadata and analysis features, and will be followed with new PowerCenter releases in the falls of 2005 and 2006 as part of an 18-month product roadmap Informatica unveiled last week.

PowerCenter’s ETL capability forms the basis many different projects at IT shops, including business intelligence, data synchronization, data migration, consolidation, and gaining

Linoma Software last week announced a new release of Transfer Anywhere, a versatile data distribution engine that runs on OS/400 and Windows servers. With Transfer Anywhere version 1.5.1, Linoma has improved the security of encrypted transfers by encoding digital signatures. It has also added new options for automating data transfers on AS/400, iSeries, and i5 servers.

Transfer Anywhere is a flexible Java program that can do the job of several point products, including converting, compressing, encrypting, and distributing files among OS/400, Windows, Linux, and Macintosh clients. It’s an ideal tool for OS/400 and Windows shops that need a secure and