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  • Pat Townsend Turns to Managed Services

    March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

    Patrick Townsend & Associates launched a new program last week aimed at selling its log management and encryption software to managed service providers (MSPs), who in turn will help manage organizations’ System i, Unix, Linux, and Windows servers.

    Regulations like PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA are leading organizations to collect and analyze logs from their servers and network devices more than ever, says Pat Townsend, president of the Olympia, Washington, company.

    “If they have the right tools, MSPs can perform this service more economically and more securely than most companies can do internally. That’s where we come in,” he says. “MSPs

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  • ACOM Ready for i5/OS V6R1

    March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

    i5/OS V6R1 shipped last week, and ACOM Solutions is one of the software vendors supporting the new operating system. ACOM last week said its EZPayManager/400 and EZeDOCS/400 product suites have been tested, and no problems were encountered.

    Not all vendors have had an easy time supporting i5/OS V6R1, which officially became available on Friday. An informal survey of i5/OS software vendors last month revealed that some software vendors had not completed the program conversion process required to run under the new operating system, while others expected to complete the process later this year.

    Apparently, ACOM was not one of the

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  • Mainline in Outsourcing Deal with BPOMS

    March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

    IBM server reseller Mainline Information Systems has hooked up with business process outsourcer BPO Management Services to provide full-service outsourcing of System i, System z, and Intel servers, the companies announced last week.

    With Mainline supplying the IBM hardware connection and technical services, and BPOMS’ IT Infrastructure and Outsourcing (ITO) Services division supplying more technical services as well as data center facilities, the two vendors aim to attract mid market companies that want to completely outsource their servers or just co-locate them in a larger facility.

    “By partnering with Mainline, BPOMS can now offer its services to a broad new

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  • NGS Expands Excel-Based Reporting

    March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

    Accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) data stored in New Generation Software‘s Concert Series financial software can now be accessed via Excel using its ConcertPro data access utility, the software company announced last week. Previously, only general ledger (GL) data was accessible with ConcertPro.

    While NGS is best known for its line of i5/OS-based business intelligence software, the Sacramento, California, company also develops and sells an integrated financial package that runs on the IBM System i. Called the Concert Series Financial Management System, the suite includes applications for managing AP, AR, GL, payroll, and human resources activities at

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  • Binary Tree Introduces ‘Virtual’ Training for Domino, Exchange

    March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

    Software and services provider Binary Tree is partnering with The Asentus Group and GrokWorx Software to deliver virtual training in IBM Lotus Notes 8 and Microsoft Exchange 2007 migrations and deployments, the company announced last week.

    Organizations that participate in Binary Tree’s new training regimen will get hands-on work with the vendor’s Common Migration Tool (CMT) product line, which provides analysis and assistance for migrations to Microsoft Exchange, migrations to Lotus Notes, and will soon offer migrations to Google.

    The first two CMT products that will be covered in the training classes include CMT Universal, a Notes-to-Exchange migration solution that’s

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  • Unitek’s ERP Gets a Web Interface, Thanks to Profound’s RPGsp

    March 25, 2008 Alex Woodie

    For over a year, Portuguese ERP software developer Unitek searched for a way to create a Web-based front-end to go along with its RPG-based ERP system, called e-XXX. The software company had been burned when it went down the .NET road, and it wasn’t looking to relive that experience. Caution turned to cheers, however, following the success Unitek had with Profound Logic‘s Web development tool, called RPG Smart Pages (RPGsp).

    After running into stability and performance limitations with the .NET experience, Unitek decided to take a native System i approach to Web development. “We wanted a solution that would

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  • Recession Alert: IBM Gooses System i Maintenance Prices

    March 24, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Well, IBM doesn’t do it very often, but last week it raised the monthly and annual maintenance on AS/400 and iSeries servers and related auxiliary expansion boxes and peripherals associated with the vintage OS/400 servers that populate its vast installed base. The OS/400 server platforms out there in the world were not the only machines affected. Vintage RS/6000 and pSeries, System/390 and zSeries, and other Netfinity and xSeries platforms also had increased maintenance charges. So did various older models of IBM’s tape and disk products.

    If you want to check your own product numbers against those IBM raised maintenance fees

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  • i5/OS V6R1 Ships, And Shops Begin to Move

    March 24, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    As we go to press with this issue of The Four Hundred, IBM has just begun, on March 21, shipping i5/OS V6R1 operating system for its System i server line and for a relatively minor number of System p shops that run AIX and i5/OS side by side in logical partitions. And if history is any guide, it has probably been a long weekend for a number of intrepid iSeries and System i shops who spent the weekend doing an upgrade to the new operating system.

    Of course, it is not just end users who need to get their

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  • Global Services Offers i5/OS V6R1 Migration Help

    March 24, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It isn’t very often that an OS/400 or i5/OS upgrade has involved big changes in the microcode underneath what users and programmers see as that operating system, at least not changes that affect compiled applications. One of the brilliant things about the AS/400 architecture is the way it kept applications from talking directly to the iron–what we would today call virtualization–and thereby allowing applications compiled for one set of software and hardware to appear to run on radically different software and hardware in the future.

    The move from System/38s to AS/400s in 1988 with OS/400 V1R1 and the move from

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  • Disk Array Capacity and Sales Still Growing at Historical Rates

    March 24, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    There may be a lot of things that are slowing down in the information technology sector or among businesses in general, but enterprise-class data storage is not one of them. In fact, according to recent reports from IDC, sales of disk storage systems kept humming along at historical rates in the fourth quarter of 2007 despite some of the turbulence in certain sectors of the global economy in various geographical areas.

    In many ways, the disk array market is as complex as that of the systems that they plug into to feed them the data they need to do

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