• Redefining Security the New Goal of Former i5/OS Security Architect

  January 9, 2008 Alex Woodie

  There’s a serious problem with the state of security in the IT industry, according to Pat Botz, former i5/OS security architect with IBM. The problem isn’t a lack of tools and technologies for implementing security. Instead, the root of the problem stems from a lack of leadership from business people, who have given too much responsibility to the technical experts. Botz recently left IBM to work on this problem with his new consulting company Group8 Security, which formally launches next week. To hear Botz talk about the state of computer security is a little bewildering. One goes into

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• Redefining Security the New Goal of Former i5/OS Security Architect

  January 9, 2008 Alex Woodie

  There’s a serious problem with the state of security in the IT industry, according to Pat Botz, former i5/OS security architect with IBM. The problem isn’t a lack of tools and technologies for implementing security. Instead, the root of the problem stems from a lack of leadership from business people, who have given too much responsibility to the technical experts. Botz recently left IBM to work on this problem with his new consulting company Group8 Security, which formally launches next week. To hear Botz talk about the state of computer security is a little bewildering. One goes into

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• Redefining Security the New Goal of Former i5/OS Security Architect

  January 9, 2008 Alex Woodie

  There’s a serious problem with the state of security in the IT industry, according to Pat Botz, former i5/OS security architect with IBM. The problem isn’t a lack of tools and technologies for implementing security. Instead, the root of the problem stems from a lack of leadership from business people, who have given too much responsibility to the technical experts. Botz recently left IBM to work on this problem with his new consulting company Group8 Security, which formally launches next week. To hear Botz talk about the state of computer security is a little bewildering. One goes into

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• Database Tool Maker Joins the System i Market

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  They say you learn something new every day. But when you have been in the AS/400, iSeries, and System i market for 6,732 days, as I have been, you don’t necessarily learn big new things every day. But when a vendor called Resolution Software, which makes database design and maintenance tools for other platforms, said last week that it was coming to the System i space, the company’s tools made me aware of database issues I had not really known existed before. The brilliance of the design of the System/38 and its progeny–the AS/400, the iSeries, and now the

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• MKS Swings to a Profit on Revenue Growth in Fiscal 2008 Second Quarter

  December 10, 2007 Dan Burger

  In its most recent round of quarterly financial reporting, the application lifecycle management (ALM) software company MKS scored a profitable second quarter for its fiscal year 2008. Revenue and income increased and new customers were added to the company’s installed base. For the first six months of its fiscal year, however, the company remains in the red. The following specific figures provide a comparison to the company’s second fiscal quarter of 2007 and begin with a revenue increase of 18 percent that amounted to a record $13.6 million. Net income rose from a $0.7 million loss one year ago to

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• Database Tool Maker Joins the System i Market

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  They say you learn something new every day. But when you have been in the AS/400, iSeries, and System i market for 6,732 days, as I have been, you don’t necessarily learn big new things every day. But when a vendor called Resolution Software, which makes database design and maintenance tools for other platforms, said last week that it was coming to the System i space, the company’s tools made me aware of database issues I had not really known existed before. The brilliance of the design of the System/38 and its progeny–the AS/400, the iSeries, and now the

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• State of the System i: Other Software Makers Weigh In

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As we wind down 2007 and get ready to take on 2008, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem. So for the past several months I have been talking to companies large and small in the ecosystem who peddle hardware, software, or a mix of the two to see how business has been in 2007, what they are hearing from i5/OS and OS/400 shops in terms of products and budgets, and what they expect their own businesses to do in 2008. The good news, at least as far as the

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• Asia/Pacific Region Bolsters Disk Array Sales in Q3

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The booming economies in the Asia/Pacific region are doing their part to help push up sales of external disk arrays, according to recent market statistics compiled by the analysts at Gartner, which just announced the stats for sales in the second quarter of 2007. On a worldwide basis, sales of external disk arrays in the third quarter rose by 3.4 percent to $3.86 billion, essentially mirroring the 3.3 percent growth, to $3.7 billion, that the industry attained during the second quarter of the year. In the third quarter, growth was largest in the Asia/Pacific region, up 22.7 percent compared

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• State of the System i: Other Software Makers Weigh In

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As we wind down 2007 and get ready to take on 2008, now is a good time to take stock of the state of the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem. So for the past several months I have been talking to companies large and small in the ecosystem who peddle hardware, software, or a mix of the two to see how business has been in 2007, what they are hearing from i5/OS and OS/400 shops in terms of products and budgets, and what they expect their own businesses to do in 2008. The good news, at least as far as the

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• IDC Says Server Buyers Weigh Economy and Power in Q3

  December 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Everybody, with the possible exception of the head bean counter at the company, likes shiny, new servers. New servers have more bandwidth to support larger workloads, which makes transaction volumes go up and response time go down; they also tend to be more energy efficient these days, which is a good thing. But whenever the economy is not roaring along, people get concerned and they do not want to shell out money for new iron. Right now, the economy is doing OK and the desire to have more powerful and efficient machines is offsetting the jitters among server buyers. Market

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