• LTO Tape Drive Sales Increased 15 Percent in 2007

  June 24, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Total shipments of LTO drives increased 15 percent last year compared to 2006 and accounted for more than $883 million in sales, according to recent data released by IDC. The solid year of sales boosted LTO’s lead over other competing tape technologies, although 2007 was a good year for all midrange technologies, according to the group. The LTO Consortium was founded in 2000 when IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Seagate Technology‘s Certance division partnered on the first generation of LTO gear. IBM, HP, and Quantum (which acquired Certance in 2005), pushed the capacity and the speed of LTO

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• Hospital Supplier Installs VAI’s WebSphere-Based Portal

  June 22, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Seneca Medical, a medical surgical supply company in Ohio, has installed VAI‘s S2K Enterprise Portal software to deliver a fully functional requisitioning system over the Web. Seneca Medical is $350 million distributor of medical and dental supplies, office furniture, OTC products, paper products, pharmaceuticals, and sports medicine products. The company serves hospitals and doctor’s and dentist’s offices from warehouses in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The company previously had a Web site where customers could place orders and check on orders, but it was difficult to navigate, and generally left much to be desired, according to the companies.

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• Sysload Delivers Fine-Grain Monitoring for Virtual Servers

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Organizations concerned that the availability of critical applications is suffering as the result of hitting the physical performance limits of their virtualized servers may want to check out the SP-Analyst offering from the French company Sysload. With the capability to monitor a wide range of servers, including i OS machines, at one-second intervals, SP-Analyst may be a good solution for spotting sudden performance spikes in virtualized infrastructures, which other server monitoring offerings with longer sampling intervals may miss. Before virtualization become popular, it was common for industry standard servers to run at 10 or 20 percent of capacity. While

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• Adobe Eases Deployment with New Release of LiveCycle Suite

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Adobe Systems today is expected to ship a new release of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES), a collection of software aimed replacing paper-based processes with PDFs and other electronic forms of communication. With LiveCycle ES Update 1, the company is now including an enterprise content management (ECM) with the suite, which should speed the deployment of rich Internet applications based on Adobe’s Flash technology. New solution accelerators and support for three-dimensional PDFs for engineering documents round out this release. LiveCycle ES is Adobe’s integrated suite of J2EE software that blends electronic forms, process management, document security, and document generation, with the

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• PowerTech Updates i OS Log Management Software

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The PowerTech Group last week launched a new release of Interact, its log management software that converts i OS (formerly i5/OS) security events to the Syslog format, which can then be consumed by third-party security information and event management (SIEM) tools. With the launch of Interact 3.0, PowerTech added support for 25 additional security-related events tracked by the i OS. The update also brings more details for remedying i OS systems with regulations like PCI, CoBIT, and ISO. PowerTech officially launched Interact as a separate product in late 2007 to address the growing need to capture and tally System i

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• Help/Systems’ SEQUEL Gets More BI Tooling

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Help/Systems launched a new release of SEQUEL last week that will give users more reasons to use it as a business intelligence tool. With a new Gauge Wizard in SEQUEL version 9.0, adding graphical representations of data through speedometers and dials is a matter of making a few mouse clicks. Better integration with Help’s i OS-based job scheduler and Google Maps highlight this iterative release of the popular and multipurpose tool. SEQUEL has so many uses, it must be difficult at times for the folks at Help/Systems to figure out how to market it to potential users. The software, which

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• Varsity Teams with NGS for New BI Product

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Two i OS software vendors, Varsity Logistics and New Generation Software, are teaming up on a new product that will deliver targeted business intelligence and analytics to shippers and other logistics operators. The new product, which will be called ShipView Plus, is expected to ship later this summer. South San Francisco-based Varsity Logistics develops a collection of shipping applications that run only on the IBM i OS. The company’s ShipSoft and TMS suites helps automate a range of shipping tasks, including picking the best carrier, finding the best rate, printing the required documents, and tracking the package to arrival.

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• Professionally Speaking, Lotus Users Getting Better Connected

  June 17, 2008 Dan Burger

  Building on its strength of integrating Web-based business applications with Web 2.0 capabilities popular in social networking Web sites, IBM Lotus last week introduced a new version of its collaboration software called Connections 2.0. Among the new capabilities is an impressive user interface with greater functionality and a broader range of social services. IBM continues the open standards drum beat. This time REST and Atom are highlighted as important contrasts to similar proprietary offerings from Microsoft. “We see a lot of customers who want to get value from applications they are already using whether it is Excel or their

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• InfoPrint Solutions Introduces New Printers, AFP Options

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  The InfoPrint Solutions Company launched two new entry-level monochrome laser printers at the DRUPA printing conference last week in Düsseldorf, Germany. The company also highlighted enhancements for its InfoPrint 4100 industrial-strength printer. The new InfoPrint 75 and InfoPrint 100 continuous forms laser printers offer speeds of 115 pages per minute (PPM) and 154 PPM, respectively, and support print quality up to 600 dots per inch. The two printers support both PostScript and PCL data languages. Support for Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) is planned for 2009. InfoPrint Solutions says the InfoPrint 75 and 100 are ideal entry-level printers for companies

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• iSeries-to-Windows Conversion Successful at Admiral Beverage

  June 17, 2008 Alex Woodie

  When Admiral Beverage migrated its JD Edwards software from the iSeries to a Windows-based xSeries solution, it was left in a quandary over what to do with its ACOM Solutions document and payment management software, which also ran on the OS/400 server. The solution? Admiral found that the Windows versions of ACOM’s software ran just as well as the OS/400 version. Admiral Beverage is a Pepsi distributor that was founded in Wyoming in 1947. Since then, the company has grown tremendously, and now employs more than 1,200 people in 30 facilities across seven states. An iSeries-based JD Edwards ERP solution

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