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  • MPG Helps to Size Boxes in a User-Based Pricing World

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    With the new user-based pricing scheme introduced this spring, sizing a new System i box has gotten a lot more complicated. For starters, while you may know exactly how many users need access to your i5/OS applications, how do you count how many concurrent user licenses you need? Also, how can you be sure the new entry-level 515, with its limitation on disks, can deliver the performance you need? A new release of Performance Navigator from Midrange Performance Group can answer these questions–and more!

    Performance Navigator, or PerfNav, is a Windows-based capacity planning tool for System i servers. The software

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  • Vision’s Product Plans Change Little Post Lakeview

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Vision Solutions‘s plans for its i5/OS high availability products have changed very little following the acquisition of Lakeview Technology two weeks ago. In the short-term, the company plans to “cross-pollinate” some of the successful features that mark its iTera HA, ORION, and MIMIX product lines. The long-term strategy is less clear at the moment, but one thing is certain: It will be influenced heavily by Vision’s relationship with IBM, which suddenly got a lot closer.

    If you’ve been around the enterprise IT space for a length of time, you’ve likely heard the horror stories about products and their

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  • Don’t Overlook Hardware-Based High Availability Alternatives

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    If you are a System i shop in the market for a high availability solution, you may want to consider a hardware-based solution. IBM offers several options, including solutions based on i5/OS clustering, iASPs, FlashCopy, the GlobalMirror and MetroMirror offering, and the System i Copy Services toolkit. While an external high availability setup may cost more than a software-based replication solution, it has the potential to be very reliable, as one former user of high availability software found out.

    Complexity and performance have been two of the biggest drawbacks commonly cited by users of OS/400 and i5/OS high availability solutions.

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  • Halcyon Boosts Spool File Manager, Company

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Halcyon Software unveiled a new version of its Spool File Manager this month that should eliminate much of the manual processing users previously had to perform to get reports into the format they wanted. The English software house also announced the hiring of a new channel manager, Sean Gallagher, who has been tasked with expanding the company’s presence around the world.

    Halcyon Software is an English software company that develops a line of systems management tools for the iSeries, as well as a line of tools for Windows servers. Halcyon has more than a dozen OS/400 systems management tools, which

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  • BCD’s WebSmart PHP Enters Beta

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    WebSmart PHP, BCD Software‘s new software for creating Web-based PHP applications that run on i5/OS and other platforms, is now available for download as a beta release, the company announced last week.

    BCD announced WebSmart PHP about two months ago during the 2007 COMMON conference held in Anaheim, California. At the time, BCD and its development partner, ExcelSystems, committed to delivering the product during June–a deadline that the company hit (a rarity in this industry).

    “This is great news as this much awaited multiman-year PHP Web application development tool project is now being put into the hands of the

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  • Trucking Firm Picks CCSS to Monitor iSeries

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Con-Way, the $4.2 billion logistics company headquartered in Northern California, has selected the QSystem Manager software from CCSS to keep an eye on its iSeries servers, the software company announced last week.

    The iSeries plays a critical role at Con-Way, a trucking company that was founded in 1928 in Portland, Oregon, and gradually spread east. The company relies on an OS/400-based transportation management system (TMS) that is very important to Con-Way’s meeting service level agreements (SLAs) with its customers, according to Stephen Wilks, senior system programmer/iSeries administrator with Con-Way.

    “If we encountered a significant problem on the iSeries and were

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  • Atempo’s i5/OS Backup Software Highlighted by IBM

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Atempo‘s backup software for i5/OS, called Time Navigator Enterprise Edition for System i, has received the “Built on IBM Express Advantage Offerings” validation from IBM, the software vendor announced last week.

    Time Navigator is a backup and recovery product that works with a variety of hosts and tape systems. The most exciting feature distinguishing Time Navigator is its “point in time” recovery feature, which enables the user to recover a system to any point in the past from a point-and-click GUI, making it very useful for recovering accidentally deleted files, in addition to crashed servers.

    Atempo’s director of

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  • System i Developer Announces Fall Conference

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    Buoyed by the success of its first RPG and DB2 Summit, System i Developer (SiD) will hold a second RPG and DB2 Summit October 2 through 4 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the group announced last week.

    SiD is a group made of up four System i educators, including Susan Gantner, Skip Marchesani, Jon Paris, and Paul Tuohy. The group’s first event, which was held in March in Las Vegas, was a success, says Gantner, a managing partner in SiD.

    “Feedback at the March conference indicated strong support for the Summit as a bi-annual event, even among those who can attend only

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  • Help/Systems Celebrates 25th Birthday

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    The AS/400 isn’t the only entity in the midrange celebrating a birthday these days. Help/Systems, the systems management tool vendor headquartered up in the North Star State, recently celebrated its 25th birthday.

    Janet Dryer, CEO of Help/Systems, attributes the company’s success to several factors. “First and foremost, a business must have customers,” she says in an e-mail announcement. “Our customers are a loyal bunch. Some of them have been with us since the System/38 days. And, the word of mouth of a happy customer is wonderful thing. Our customers are great evangelists for operations automation and business intelligence.

    “What

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  • Xangati Detects Application, Network Problems with New Appliances

    June 26, 2007 Alex Woodie

    A new company called Xangati this week launched its first product: a rapid problem identification (RPI) appliance designed to pinpoint the sources of application and network performance problems, so administrators can fix them before they affect worker productivity.

    Getting a good jump on application performance problems can make the difference between a fruitful interaction with the help desk and the beginning of a trouble-ticket nightmare. According to industry analysts at the Yankee Group, about 90 percent of the time spent troubleshooting network problems is used to identify and locate the sources of problems, completely dwarfing the time it takes

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