• BOSaNOVA Taps Leostream for Virtualization Partnership

  February 17, 2009 Alex Woodie

  System i shops using BOSaNOVA‘s terminal emulators will soon find another piece of software residing in the package: the Connection Broker from Leostream. The OEM deal announced by the companies last week is intended to make it easier for BOSaNOVA customers to manage their virtual desktop infrastructures, or VDIs. BOSaNOVA kicked off its VDI initiative less than a year ago after rolling out its first round of virtualized thin clients. By preloading Citrix Systems‘ XenDesktop virtualization software on its Windows and Linux thin clients, BOSaNOVA hoped to help streamline the provisioning and management of thin client infrastructures,

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• Stay-Linked Partners with Pragma for SSH Server

  February 17, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Stay-Linked, a developer of terminal emulation software for thin client computers, has teamed up with Pragma Systems to deliver Telnet and SSH (Secure Shell) servers to Stay-Linked customers. As part of the licensing deal with Pragma, Stay-Linked customers who buy 20 or more licenses for the thin client emulator will receive a free license for Pragma’s Windows-based SSH and Telnet server software from Stay-Linked. The license covers Pragma software running on servers with up to eight CPUs, as well as the first year of maintenance. All told, the deal is worth $1,400, Stay-Linked says. “Pairing Stay-Linked with Telnet or

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• Linoma Refines Data Distribution Tasks with GoAnywhere 2.0

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Linoma Software recently announced and shipped a new version of its data distribution tool for i5/OS, Windows, Linux, and Unix servers. With GoAnywhere 2.0, Linoma has bolstered the browser-based product’s capability to integrate into Windows and open systems environments. It also buoyed the interface with Web 2.0-style attributes, added more automation, and generally refined the product to give customers more control over their data distribution tasks. Linoma has been in the secure data distribution business for some time. Its first product, the Java-based Transfer Anywhere tool, which debuted in 2002, found success with companies looking to automate the movement of

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• DB2 Web Query Goes Multiplatform

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Information Builders and IBM announced last week that they are collaborating to build an adapter that allows the DB2 Web Query for i business intelligence product to process data from non-DB2/400 databases. The first database adapter, expected later this year from Info Builders, will target SQL Server, with more database adapters expected in the future. DB2 Web Query is a special version of Information Builder’s WebFOCUS software that IBM announced almost two years ago. The software enables users to write queries for the DB2 for i (DB2/400) database and view the results in a Web browser. It’s designed primarily to

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• GroundWork Revs Performance of Monitoring Tool

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  In the enterprise systems management arena, where 10,000 devices or more are continuously monitored for the slightest hiccup, performance is king. To that end, enterprise-level customers of GroundWork Open Source‘s new GroundWork Monitor version 5.3 release, unveiled today, will gain a 50 percent performance boost compared to previous versions. In addition to higher throughput, the new release brings security fixes, new operational reports, scheduling enhancements, and a new patch and update notification system. From its headquarters in San Francisco, GroundWork Open Source is trying to do for enterprise-level systems management what Red Hat, MySQL, and JBoss have

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• InstallAnywhere 2009 Looks to Smooth Java App Installs

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Software installations are notoriously fickle. Incompatible runtimes, missing drivers, non-existent libraries, and other common situations conspire to reject new programs on a fairly regular basis, causing time and productivity loss for the customer and a backlash against the software developer. Acresso, the software startup that owns the InstallShield franchise, last week unveiled a new release of the multiplatform version of the product, called InstallAnywhere 2009, that aims to thwart installation imps, particularly in Java environments. Acresso was formed on April 1, 2008, following the acquisition of the business software unit of Macrovision by Thoma Cressey Bravo, the private

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• New Address Correction Software from WorksRight is Suite

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  You’ve probably seen it before: Somebody forgets to mark your company’s correct suite number on a letter or package, but it makes it to you anyway. Usually, this is the result of an astute postal carrier who knows his route like the back of his hand. But other pieces of mail may not be so lucky. Now, AS/400 shops can ensure their mail has the correct suite number by utilizing WorksRight Software‘s mailing software, which was recently enhanced with the U.S. Postal Service’s SuiteLink technology. The USPS estimates that nearly 1.8 billion pieces of mail are annually sent to

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• System i: The New Choice of a Fashion-Conscious Generation

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  The System i might not be widely regarded as fashionable. After all, other business computer platforms look a lot better in a tux than the old black box. But based on the experience of Elie Tahari, the System i is an excellent choice for fashion-conscious clothing designers–especially those that value good decision making and lean supply chains. Elie Tahari is a designer of upscale clothing that can be found in Sak’s Fifth Avenue. It also operates its own chain of stores in some of the fashion world’s hottest locales, including New York, Miami, Las Vegas, and Milan. Like many companies

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• SafeNet’s Crypto Appliance Plugs Into SOA

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Software developers who are wondering how they’re going to incorporate encryption into their service oriented architectures (SOAs) may want to check out SafeNet. Last week, the Baltimore, Maryland, company announced that its hardware-based cryptographic appliances can now integrate into their SOAs using a standard XML-based Web service interface. SafeNet has been in the IT security business for the last 25 years and has sold more than 75,000 hardware security modules (HSMs), which it claims is more than any other vendor. These HSMs handle a variety of security tasks, including VPNs, encryption key managers, and disk and database encryption engines.

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• Hitachi Updates Identity Management Software

  February 10, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Hitachi ID Systems, which used to be M-Tech Systems, last week unveiled Hitachi ID Management Suite 6.0, a new version of its cross-platform suite of identity management and password synchronization software. Hitachi ID Management Suite is a collection of four components, including Identity Manager (ID-Synch), Group Manager (ID-Access), Access Certifier (ID-Certify) and Org Manager (ID-Org). The products address many aspects of identity management across major platforms such as Windows, Unix, mainframe, and System i, including user provisioning, managing groups of users, and password synchronization and single sign-on. The company also sells Privileged PW Manager (ID-Archive), but it’s not a

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