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IBM Unveils New Storage Products

February 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

IBM unleashed a torrent of new storage products last week. Big Blue had a little something for everyone, including new USB-connected tape drives for X64 servers, new policy-based data management features in its popular DR550 archiving array, a major upgrade to its high-end SAN switch, and significant enhancements to its N Series SAN arrays.

Half-Height LTO Drives

Leading things off is IBM’s new System Storage TS3100 and TS3200 “Express” lines of tape libraries, which can now be outfitted with half-height LTO 4 drives. These new tape libraries, which support up to 19.2 TB across 24 cartridge slots and two drives

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i5/OS Innovation Award Nominations Due February 29

February 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

Have you done anything particularly impressive with your System i machine lately? Or perhaps you know somebody who has? If so, you have exactly 10 days to submit a nomination for a 2008 i5/OS Innovation Award, which will be presented during the upcoming 2008 COMMON Annual Meeting and Expo in Nashville, Tennessee.

COMMON, which judges the contestants and puts on the ceremony with IBM, announced last week that five winners across three categories will be recognized during the fourth annual awards ceremony next month in Nashville. Two awards will be given out for the small and mid size business

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Touchtone Makes DB2/400 Tool an Eclipse Plug-In

February 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

System i developers can now utilize Touchtone‘s database application maintenance tool, called QuestView, from the comfort of their IBM-sanctioned, Eclipse-based development tool, whether it’s Rational Developer for System i (RDi) or WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc), the company announced last week.

QuestView is a programming utility that provides fast access to DB2/400 for the purpose of maintaining or debugging existing applications, quickly creating new interactive inquiry applications, or similar such activities. Traditionally accessed from a 5250 interface, the product provides single or multiple- record viewing, search and replace, undelete, JD Edwards data dictionary support, support for Unicode, hex

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S4i Taps Tallega for Information Capture

February 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

i5/OS document management software developer S4i Systems has formed a partnership with Tallega Software, which resells and implements scanners, imaging, and content management solutions, the companies announced recently.

S4i Systems helps System i shops modernize their forms and documents with S4i Express, its main offering. This document management system monitors System i print queues, processes the output with segmenting or bundling rules, converts it into PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, CSV, or plain text format, and then distributes it electronically (via e-mail, fax, FTP, or the Web), prints it, or archives it.

Thanks to its new deal with Tallega, S4i

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British Consultancy to Resell Centerfield Database Tools

February 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

CHH Consulting, a System i consultancy based in Manchester, England, will resell the HomeRun suite of DB2/400 database tools developed by Centerfield Technology, the companies announced recently.

CHH Consulting assists System i shops in England with several aspects of their chosen IT environment, including application modernization, security, virtualization, high availability, and systems management. For each of these areas, CHH provides the implementation expertise, while System i ISVs, such as Barsa Consulting Group, Bytware, Goering iSeries Solutions, and looksoftware, provide the software.

Now you can add Centerfield to that list. CHH chose Centerfield for its

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Attachmate Emulators Achieve FDCC Compliance

February 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

The Reflection and EXTRA! collection of emulators from Attachmate has achieved compliance with the Office of Management and Budget’s Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), a new standard that government agencies must adopt to ensure their Windows XP and Windows Vista desktops are configured securely.

The FDCC, in case you’re not aware, is a guideline created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that defines more than 700 specific settings in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Internet Explorer 7.0 that governmental agencies must use to properly secure their desktops. The initial deadline for FDCC compliance was February 1, but

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Group 1 Updates Data Integration Tool

February 19, 2008 Alex Woodie

Group 1 Software recently launched a new release of Sagent Data Flow, a product that provides extract, transform, and load (ETL) functionality, as well as some business intelligence features. With version 6.5, the Pitney-Bowes subsidiary has delivered a new graphical interface, in addition to other new features.

Sagent Data Flow is a suite of integration software that programmers and business analysts can use to access, integrate, and analyze data residing across a variety of applications, databases, or data file formats. The software is capable of performing tasks such as joining information from multiple data sources, transposing data sets, performing time-data

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IBM’s Battle Plan for i5/OS Blade Servers

February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Putting together a blade server strategy that will appeal to the i5/OS and OS/400 ecosystem is not as simple as getting a blade server into the field and making OS/400 and i5/OS run on a Power blade. If it were–and I will remind everyone that this is how Windows and Linux got blades, and eventually Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, too–then you would expect that OS/400 would have been on a blade server many years ago and the blade form factor would account for roughly 10 percent of revenues among i5/OS shops today, as it does for the server market at

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Sundry i5/OS V6R1 and System i Enhancements

February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Our coverage of the forthcoming i5/OS V6R1 operating system continues this week with a hodge-podge of smaller enhancements and features that were rolled up into the January 29 announcements. IBM has made a bunch of tweaks to DB2 for i5/OS, logical partitioning, performance measurement, peripheral support, and other areas that will probably not individually compel customers to upgrade, but add their collective weight to the stack of new features and it could break the camel’s checkbook open to do some spending in 2008.

I know we all mostly still call the integrated relational database inside OS/400 and i5/OS DB2/400, but

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IT Salary Increases Are Anemic in 2007, Says Dice Survey

February 18, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Dice, which is a Web site devoted to helping engineers and other technology experts get a job, recently put out its report casing how well or poorly professionals in the IT sector did in terms of salary and raises during 2007. And the short answer seems to be that, on average, pay raises were not anywhere near the increases that programmers and managers saw in 2006. That doesn’t mean that IT personnel are not in high demand, but that companies are being a bit stingy with the cash.

Dice surveyed more than 19,000 IT professionals to create the raw

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