• IBM Releases Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 Beta

  June 3, 2008 Dan Burger

  The Public Beta 1 version of IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 became available May 30 with versions of the Notes 8.5 client for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Citrix, as well as, Domino 8.5 server for Windows (32- and 64-bit), AIX (32- and 64-bit), Linux, Solaris, and System i (now known as i). In terms of general functionality, users will see navigation improvements in the menus for mail, contacts, and to-do categories; the convenience of drag-and-drop between rich text fields in Notes documents (Windows only), Sametime Contacts names or groups to Notes name fields and rich text fields, or drag

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• BOSaNOVA Debuts Virtual Environment Thin Clients

  June 3, 2008 Dan Burger

  BOSaNOVA continued to expand its thin client product line by rolling out new XPe line of thin clients specifically designed for Citrix XenDesktop virtual environments. XenDesktop is Citrix’s solution for simplifying desktop computing by relieving many of the management headaches and reducing the costs associated with traditional desktop computing. The company claims cost reductions of up to 40 percent can be realized. The XPe thin clients are based on the Microsoft XP Professional operating system and include standard features such as TCP/IP TN5250e terminal emulation, an IE 6 (SP2) browser with Sun and Microsoft JVM, Macromedia Flash, and Adobe Acrobat

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• Guidelines for Surviving IBM System i Modernization Provided by LANSA

  June 3, 2008 Dan Burger

  The pressures that a constantly changing business environment place on an IT department are only increasing. Discovering ways to improve the cooperative efforts between executive management and information technology is on everyone’s to-do list. And at the top of many of those lists is a project titled Application Modernization. A majority of IT department leaders say they are in the planning phases of such a project or will be very soon. At the heart of the strategy are the existing dependable applications and a burning need to increase the productivity of end users. Determining how the modernization project meshes with

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• iQ4bis Adds Portal to BI Offering

  June 3, 2008 Alex Woodie

  iQ4bis Software has added a Web-based portal to its business intelligence suite, which runs on Windows but is commonly used by i OS (formerly i5/OS) shops. As part of the new iQ4bis Analysis 4.2 release announced last week, the Southern California software vendor is including a beta of the new iQ4bis Analysis Portal, which will provide quicker access to reports. iQ4bis develops a suite of business intelligence products aimed at small and midsize businesses, and enjoys a considerable installed based of i OS shops that prefer to use Windows to analyze their ERP data. Gaining quick and meaningful access to

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• Dun & Bradstreet Picks Raz-Lee to Secure i Servers

  June 3, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Dun & Bradstreet Picks Raz-Lee to Secure i Servers Dun & Bradstreet Singapore has picked Raz-Lee Security to provide security software for its i OS environment, the software vendor announced last week. The Singapore arm of the financial services giant is implementing Raz-Lee’s iSecurity Prevention and Compliance packs to help it secure and audit its IT systems. As one of the premiere providers of credit, bureau, marketing, purchasing, and receivables management services in the country of Singapore, Dun & Bradstreet’s IT systems provides a lucrative target for would-be criminals. To prevent hackers or inside users from gaining access to its

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• More Power Transitions Are on the Way

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The ink is not dry on the latest round of Power6-based Power Systems servers and IBM, its reseller and distributor partners, and soon its customers are already thinking about the next and final transitions coming to the converged Power Systems product line. Even though IBM has, for all practical purposes, merged the somewhat independent System i and System p server lines, they are still distinct in many ways. But apparently, according to my sources, that is going to change, once and for all, later this year. While many of us are happily unaware of many of the changes that

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• U.S. Drags Down Server Sales in Q1, But Weak Dollar Helps

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Depending on how you want to look at it, the United States both helped and hurt sales in the global server market in the first quarter of 2008, according to statistics compiled by the box counters at IDC. The jittery economy in the United States has caused companies large and small to pull back on server spending, but at the same time the weak dollar compared to currencies in overseas markets that are experiencing decent growth in server sales as their economies build up and are amplifying the revenues as those sales are booked back in the States for

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• Server Branding 101: Big Name, Big Game?

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For kicks and giggles a few weeks ago, I spent some time monkeying around on the three top search engines seeing how many pages out there on the Internet relating to various IBM server brands and operating systems were being indexed with those terms. As I fully admit, this is a thoroughly unscientific way to try to gauge the relative importance of brands, but it seems to me to be as valid as doing a random poll by telephone–and has the virtue of being done in a few minutes. Now, let’s compare all the big server brands and their vendors.

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• Java Compute Appliances Upgraded by Azul Systems

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Azul Systems, the maker of hardware appliances that have been specifically designed to run Java virtual machines that are offloaded from general purpose servers and their applications, has announced the third generation of its Java processors, the Vega-3. With this new chip, Azul is adding more cores to the chip and adding other tweaks to make its Compute Appliances even more appealing to IT shops running Java applications who are sick of paying high prices for servers just to run JVMs. The chip designers at Azul Systems have boosted the number of processor cores on the Vega family of

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• Survival of the Fittest: Ensuring IT Is Providing You with an Innovative Edge

  June 2, 2008 Paul Hollingsworth

  Seemingly it’s the old, old problem of how to have your cake and eat it. Chief information officers are being asked to ensure that IT is continuing to function efficiently, to comply with legislation and regulation, and to be secure against an ever-wider range of threats. They’re also expected to perform the usual upgrades, renewals and maintenance on legacy infrastructures, and to “manage” (as in maintain or reduce) IT budgets. But as if doing all of this were not enough, IT is now required to “innovate” to support businesses that are being fundamentally re-engineered for the new economy. All of

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