Officials at Vision Solutions, the largest provider of high availability software for IBM Power Systems servers, shared some details of their product plans during an interview with IT Jungle last week. Despite the challenges of molding a cohesive business out of three previously separate entities, executives say customers have stuck with Vision and are bullish on the company and its capability to continue developing its products.

The last year has been quite eventful for Vision, the Southern California company that cornered the market for i5/OS high availability solutions last June with its acquisition of rival Lakeview Technologies. In addition

As the chief executive officer of barcode and RFID software developer CYBRA, Harold Brand knows that enterprise software is no laughing matter. At the same time, the New Yorker is realizing that humor can be an effective advertising tool to break through the clutter and reach potential customers with his product. To that end, CYBRA today officially launched its new advertising campaign featuring 2K, the 2,000-year-old programmer.

Dedicated YouTube aficionados may have already seen one of the CYBRA videos featuring 2K, the wise-cracking, hip-hop dancing 2,000-year-old programmer, and Auto-ID, the young bearded dude with all the right answers to

The proliferation of virtual servers is giving administrators great flexibility in how they deploy new servers and applications. However, because it’s so easy to do, the growth of virtual servers is also putting additional strain on the IT management process and adding a degree of risk that previously wasn’t there. Tideway Systems, a developer of application dependency mapping (ADM) software, promises to shed greater light on virtual servers and their affect on other applications with this week’s launch of Foundation 7.1.

Since it was founded in 2003, Tideway has been pushing its brand of ADM software as a way

With the introduction of i 6.1 (formerly known as i5/OS V6R1) IBM repackaged the application development toolset for the System i platform courtesy of the Rational software development division. So it’s good-bye WebSphere Development Studio Client 7.0 (WDSc) and WebSphere Development Studio Client Advanced Edition 7.0 (WDSc AE) and hello Rational Development for i 6.1. It’s not like WDSc just disappears. IBM will support those products until the spring of 2010. However, there is a transition in progress and it includes software vendors that supported WDSc.

For instance, Aldon announced last week that its application lifecycle management (ALM) software is

Varsity Logistics last week debuted a new shipping solution geared specifically toward Oracle JD Edwards World environments. The new offering, called ShipSoft YourWorld, features Varsity’s native shipping software for the IBM i operating system preconfigured for JDE World environments, with pricing geared toward small and mid size businesses.

From its headquarters in South San Francisco, California, Varsity Logistics develops and supports a collection of shipping applications that run only on the IBM i OS. Whether the customer needs a solution for shipping dozens of parcels through UPS, heavy-duty freight by rail or ship, or less than truckload (LTL) carriers, Varsity’s

VAI is tapping the route delivery expertise of UPS Logistics Technologies, a business unit of UPS, to help drive efficiency into the distribution activities of its ERP customers, the companies announced last week. The integration was accomplished by opening VAI’s S2K software to UPS’ tactical daily routing tool, called the Roadnet Transportation Suite.

With its fleet of 80,000 trucks that deliver more than 15 million packages a day, UPS is highly regarded for its logistics prowess. In 2004, the company squeezed even more efficiency from its global operations by using Roadnet to generate delivery routes that to minimize left

Customers that license Accpac ERP from Sage Software now get SageCRM as part of the deal, Sage announced last week. Sage calls the combination of SageCRM with the new Accpac version 5.5, which run on Windows and i OS (formerly i5/OS), the new Extended Enterprise suite offering, and claims it gives customers the tools needed to automate their back-office as well as their front-office operations.

The Canadian software company has integrated SageCRM’s sales, marketing, and customer service functionality into its Accpac ERP suite with the release of Accpac version 5.5. The integration will improve the decision making capabilities of Accpac

Monza Imports, an Australian company that distributes motorcycle and bicycle clothing and accessories to retail stores in Australia, has adopted Lawson Software‘s QuickStep Fashion, a preconfigured version of its M3 ERP system, to manage its operations, the software company announced last week.

If you’re a bicycle or motorcycle rider in Australia, and you go into a store and buy Rock Shox forks, Dunlop tires, or Oakley sunglasses, chances are good that Monza Imports brought the goods into the country, stored them in its warehouse, and then delivered them to the store.

The Melbourne-based company has been growing quickly lately,

Bally Technologies, a developer of gaming machines and casino management software, will install document management software from Quadrant Software to transition certain paper-based business processes from its System i-based ERP system into paperless processes, the software vendor announced last week.

From its headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bally Technologies is well positioned to serve the multi-billion dollar gambling industry with its collection of slot machines and gaming management systems. Much of Bally’s management software runs on i OS (formerly i5/OS), the gaming industry’s preferred server.

Bally knows a good thing when it sees it, and so it, too, runs its

Despite a 15 percent decline in new security vulnerability disclosures during the second half of 2007, cybercriminals continued to successfully mine the Internet for profit, primarily by planting Trojan horses and other pieces of malicious code that steal people’s identities and perform other works of unpleasantness. These are the conclusions of Microsoft‘s latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR), which it released at the Infosecurity Europe 2008 conference in London yesterday.

Since late 2006, Microsoft has been collecting security-related data it pulls from 450 million computers around the world–perhaps yours–and compiling it into a comprehensive view of IT security, with a