• GroundWork Monitor 5.3 Ready for Testing

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  GroundWork last week announced the pre-release of GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 5.3, a new version of the company’s open source systems management software that works with all major operating systems, including IBM i. With version 5.3, the company is bringing together the latest releases of many of the open source components that make up its GroundWork suite, and threatening the hegemony of the Big Four. GroundWork is a San Francisco-based developer of open source systems management software. The company relies on a community of experts and enthusiasts–including the popular Ganglia, Nagios, NeDi, and Cacti open source projects–to

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• Tideway Betas New Release of Application Dependency Mapping Software

  November 18, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Curious about what undiscovered IT assets might be lurking in your data center, and what relationship they have with the systems you work with everyday? Tideway Systems, a provider of application dependency mapping (ADM) software, yesterday announced the beta for Foundation Community Edition, a new product aimed at helping small and mid size shops better understand their systems. Tideway’s Foundation series automatically provides data center discovery capabilities to help customers create an inventory of all the servers, applications, and network nodes in their IT environments, as well as mapping inter-system dependencies and relationships. The software helps administrators pinpoint weaknesses

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• Jinfonet Boosts Performance of Reporting Tool

  November 13, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Jinfonet Software yesterday announced the general availability JReport 9, a new version of the Java-based business intelligence tool that’s designed to integrate directly into Web applications. Improvements to JReport’s memory utilization have boosted its performance by at least 40 percent, according to Jinfonet, while enhancements to its user interface, support for JSR168, and several dozen other new features round out the release. JReport is a lightweight suite of business intelligence tools used by some of the largest companies in the world, including Bank of America and Deutsch Bank. The software runs on any Java-based Web application server, and is typically

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• When the Taxman Cometh, Independent Systems Is There

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Another national election came and went last week, leading to the election of new leaders and the passage of new laws. While the promise of change from President-elect Barack Obama made the biggest headlines, businesses around the country should not overlook the many tax increases (or even decreases) approved at the state, county, city, and special-district level. Hand coding these changes directly into an ERP or accounting system can be a daunting task, but thanks to Independent Systems, System i shops can automate the calculations and remittance, and keep the taxman at bay. Independent Systems, which was bought by

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• SpoolFlex 4.2 Gives Customers More Control Over i Output

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  It will be easier to produce highly tailored Excel spreadsheets loaded with i5/OS data using the latest release of the SpoolFlex output management system unveiled by DRV Technologies last week. SpoolFlex 4.2 brings new options for specifying how i5/OS data will appear when converted to the XLS format, including font, size, justification, and even color highlighting of rows and cells. The new release also makes it easier to configure SpoolFlex’s e-mail distribution feature on System i servers. SpoolFlex is a mature and stable product designed to help System i shops reduce their dependency on printers and paper output by grabbing

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• Informatica Seeds Data Integration Cloud, Sees Pay Off

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Informatica is having success selling data integration tools and services to customers and providers of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing services. Last week the Silicon Valley outfit revealed that more than 10 percent of its OEM partners are cloud computing providers. The company also unveiled its latest cloud-based offering for Salesforce.com customers, and launched a new training and certification program around the data quality discipline. Informatica is one of the leading providers of what used to be known as extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools. ETL tools have gradually morphed into a new class of data integration

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• Brainware Teams with Fujitsu on Document Capture Solution

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Brainware, a young company that makes document scanning and content management software, has partnered with Fujitsu to sell pre-integrated data capture solutions based on Fujitsu’s scanning hardware and Brainware’s software, the companies announced last week. Brainware was founded in 2006 following a management buyout of a subsidiary of SER Systems, a German developer of enterprise content management and call center software. Today, the company has its U.S. headquarters in Virginia and offices in several European countries. Brainware claims that more than $100 million have been invested in its core “neural network” classification and search technology, also called Brainware,

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• Wavelink Secures RF Connections with WPA

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Wavelink, a developer of software for mobile devices, rolled out a new product last week that ensures only authorized users can connect mobile devices to corporate radio frequency (RF) networks. Called the Avalanche Certificate Manager, the new product will help prevent hackers from stealing corporate assets from rouge devices, while giving companies the user-level customization they need. The danger posed by wireless LANs and RF networks hit home earlier this year when it was revealed that hackers broke into a major retailer’s servers by logging through unprotected wireless networks, a technique that’s become known as “war driving.” To protect

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• Two System i Log Management Webinars Scheduled for Tomorrow

  November 11, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Partners PowerTech and LogRhythm are teaming up this Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. ET to offer two free Webinars on System i log management for financial institutions. The IBM i operating system possesses a mature and comprehensive log management capability that exceeds the functions of many of its peer OSes. Unfortunately, it speaks a different language than most other platforms, requiring a bit of work to integrate it with the rest of the network. For many shops, this integration is achieved with a cross platform security information event management (SEIM) platform, which captures and normalizes logs from a

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• Lawson Fast Tracks Security Software for S3

  November 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Lawson Software last week rolled out a new solution, called Lawson Security FastTrack, aimed at speeding the implementation of its security offering for its S3 suite of ERP software, Lawson Security 9.0. Security FastTrack combines an implementation methodology with pre-built content to reduce the time it takes to implement Lawson Security to as little as six weeks, the company claims. The offering was developed by security experts, and includes a preconfigured and customizable set of task-based security classes, processes, templates, training modules, and tools. Lawson Security implements a role-based, rule-based object oriented security system. The software is based on Lawson

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