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Kisco Maintains Session Integrity, Security with ScreenSafer/400

November 29, 2005 Alex Woodie

iSeries servers are used to maintain sensitive information. That should not surprise you. But you may not be aware that the majority of security breaches are the result of people inside the organization. It is at the confluence of these two facts that Kisco Information Systems offers ScreenSafer/400, a security-enabled 5250 screensaver. This month Kisco shipped a new version of ScreenSafer/400 that brings enhancements in the areas of support for long passwords and dealing with periods of extended inactivity.

When office workers at OS/400 shops leave their work spaces to attend a quick meeting, use the facilities, or grab a

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Ipedo Seeks to Bridge Web Services with Business Intelligence

November 29, 2005 Alex Woodie

As companies begin to adopt Web services and allow Web services to update their production databases, they’re finding a gap in the lineup when it comes to reporting tools that can access the data carried by Web services, according to Ipedo. The Silicon Valley startup says it has a solution to this problem with the latest release of its data integration software, XIP 4.1, which brings a new SQL-to-XML buffer called Web Services Tables.

Ipedo describes XIP as an Enterprise Information Integration (EII) product that leverages the tried and true (SQL-based access) with the new (XQuery-based access) to integrate

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Teamstudio Brings Domino Version Control to iSeries

November 15, 2005 Alex Woodie

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

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Lawson Unveils “Skip Upgrade” for iSeries Customers

November 15, 2005 Alex Woodie

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

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IBM Updates Virtualization Engine for Multiplatform Management

November 15, 2005 Alex Woodie

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

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IBM Unveils New Midrange Storage Systems

November 15, 2005 Alex Woodie

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

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Infor’s Owners Gobble Up Geac for $1 Billion

November 8, 2005 Alex Woodie

The equity group behind Infor yesterday announced a $1-billion plan to acquire Geac, a provider of ERP software for numerous platforms, including the iSeries. Golden Gate Capital, the private equity firm that has funded about a dozen Infor acquisitions over the last several years, plans to split Geac up into three components, with System21 and other ERP products going to Infor, and Geac’s industry specific and financial applications becoming two units of a newly created company.

Geac, you will remember, was on the leading edge of the wave of consolidation in the 1990s, when it acquired about 100 software

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RODIN Simplifies Maintenance of Data Warehouses

November 8, 2005 Alex Woodie

Keeping large data warehouses up-to-date with the latest data from production systems should be easier for iSeries shops running the new release of RODIN, an extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool from Coglin Mill. With RODIN V4R1M6, the company has introduced a new capability to identify just the files that have been changed since the last update, saving time and resources during nightly updates.

RODIN is a native OS/400 ETL tool designed specifically for building data warehouses (as well as data marts and operational data stores) on iSeries servers. The tool supports other databases besides DB2/400 as sources of

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Kisco Boosts Security in WebReport/400

November 8, 2005 Alex Woodie

Information access is a double-edged sword these days. On the one hand, companies should take advantage of the ubiquity of network access to route data from back-office servers to the field, where it can help drive business. On the other hand, new regulations require tighter security measures for sensitive applications and data. Kisco Information Systems is addressing both ends of the information access spectrum with a new version of WebReport/400.

WebReport/400 was initially designed as a way of liberating iSeries reports by eliminating the need to print and mail them to recipients. The product did this by monitoring iSeries output

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Wyse Takes Software-Oriented Thin Client Strategy to the Market

November 8, 2005 Dan Burger

Thin client devices have had a very attractive value proposition for a number of years. The secure feeling of having no data stored on the desktop, the ease of central management, the high degree of reliability, the cost-saving benefits relating to a modestly lower acquisition cost, a much more significantly reduced total cost of ownership–all of this would seem to put thin clients in a position of rampant growth, much to the dismay of salespeople who fill businesses with PCs.