• Wheelabrator to Cut Waste with Paperless Solution from Quadrant

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Houston, Texas-based Wheelabrator Technologies knows something about waste. For 30 years, the Waste Management subsidiary has been converting household trash into billions of kilowatt-hours of clean, renewable energy. Now, the JD Edwards World customer is looking to Quadrant Software and its paperless process management (PPM) solutions to help it get rid of another source of waste–paperwork–and implement more efficient paperless business processes. By the end of the month, Wheelabrator expects to complete its implementation of several Quadrant products, including IntelliChief, Formtastic, and FastFax, that should help the company reduce its use of paper and be more productive with business documents

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• S4i Systems Goes SOA with Doc Management

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  It will be easier to interface S4i Systems‘ i5/OS-based document management software, called S4i Express, with third-party applications now that the company has adopted service oriented architecture (SOA) standards. Meanwhile, the company also announced that it’s been accepted into IBM‘s SOA Specialty Business Partner initiative, providing assurance that S4i Express’ SOA interfaces adhere to industry standards. S4i Express helps reduce users’ reliance on pre-printed forms while transitioning them to paperless business processes. The software monitors System i print queues, processes the output using report-segmenting or -bundling rules, converts it into PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, CSV, or plain text

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• New i5 Offering from TurboChef to Speed Batch Runs

  March 11, 2008 Alex Woodie

  Looking for a little extra power to speed those long-running batch jobs? Sick and tired of waiting for the batch to be over? Then you might be a good candidate for the latest in TurboChef Technologies‘ i-series product line, the i5, which is currently under development at TurboChef headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. TurboChef is currently developing a new line of i-series “speed cook batch ovens” to go along with its other successful products, including the High h Batch, the C3, and the Tornado, which features speeds up to 12 times faster than conventional equipment. But these speeds will be

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• IBM Readies Big Power6 Boxes, New X64 Servers

  March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM may be mostly a services and software company, but most of the services and software it sells are still, despite all the changes in the IT industry in the past three decades, driven by its own server platforms and the operating systems that IBM creates for them. So in that regard, if you think of services as the extra goodies you used to get when you spent 10 or 100 times as much for a server than you do today and if you think of software as the stuff that used to come with the hardware more or less

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• System i Security: Lots of Room for Improvement

  March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  System i security software supplier PowerTech hosted its first iNSIGHT 2008 security and compliance conference in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and one of the main events at the show was the fifth annual State of System i Security report that the company put together to give people an understanding of the real security issues that real AS/400, iSeries, and System i shops are coping with in their production environments. As my first grade teacher explained in my report cards, there is lots of room for improvement and you just need to apply yourself. The data behind the 2008

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• Server Virtualization and Consolidation Require More Resiliency

  March 10, 2008 Bill Hammond

  Server consolidation will be a top priority for many IT departments in the coming year. In a recent research study conducted by Gartner, 61 percent of the companies polled were already paring their server count, and 28 percent were planning to do so in the near future. The back story on consolidation is interesting. Life often smacks of irony and the renewed interest in centralization is certainly ironic for those of us who know the history of mainframes and minicomputers. Starting with IBM’s 1400 series machines in 1960, mainstream computing topologies were centralized. When Datapoint launched the minicomputer it

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• Thermometer Money: Changing a Business Partner Paradigm

  March 10, 2008 Doug Mewmaw

  Living in Chicago, the cold hard winter weather tends to take its toll on my family. Recently my family was really sick with all of us experiencing a high temperature. During this recent bout with the flu, I started to chuckle as I was in line at our local Walgreen’s buying a thermometer. Why was I laughing? Because this would be the fifth thermometer I have purchased in the last five years! For some reason, my family can’t seem to have the discipline to put the thermometer back in the medicine cabinet. As someone that is responsible for the family

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• Arrow Buys French Midrange Distributor

  March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IT hardware and software giant Arrow Electronics continues to benefit from the desire by smaller and often regional IT distributors to get out of peddling basic infrastructure and move up the stack to selling solutions. Last week, Arrow increased its presence in Europe, particularly among small and medium businesses, with the acquisition of the Logix subsidiary of Groupe Open. In doing so, Groupe Open will focus on its IT services businesses and leave the value-added reselling and distribution to others. The acquisition of the Logix subsidiary of Groupe Open follows two years of acquisitions by Arrow and its remaining

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• Search Engine Scanning: The System i Wins a Few Deals

  March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The Internet is a wonderful thing in so many ways. One of them is that the Internet is somewhat self-aware, and if you tell it to look for certain patterns, it can find them. I did a trolling through some search engines last week, and ran across a few deals involving the System i that were woven in between all the references to content generated by IT Jungle’s writers. These deals are probably more representative of the kinds of sales that IBM and its business partners do every week than the big deals that make the trade press from time

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• Tango/04 Looks Ahead to 2008 as It Attains Record Results in 2007

  March 10, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Systems management software maker Tango/04 Computing Group, has spent a lot of time and energy moving beyond its Spanish home market and expanding its product line beyond systems management to broader security auditing and business service management, and that strategy has provided the Barcelona, Spain, company revenue growth and profits for the past several years. And according to Raúl Cristián Aguirre, president and chief executive officer at Tango/04, 2007 was a very good year, indeed. Of course, Tango/04 is a privately held company–and one that has its share of private equity and other companies sniffing around for an acquisition

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