• IT Shops Consume 2 Million LTO Tape Drives

  September 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The Linear Tape-Out (LTO) tape format created by Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and a former division of Seagate Technology now owned by Quantum continues to take the data center by storm, pushing aside other tape formats and demonstrating once again the value of standards in creating a dominate technology. LTO tape drives first went into production in September 2000, and since that time, more than two million LTO tape drives, which bear the name Ultrium, have been sold. To date, over 80 million Ultrium tape cartridges have been sold. A year ago, the companies behind the LTO spec and the

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• European Developers Embrace C#, AJAX

  September 10, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Evans Data spends all of its time trying to figure out what developers are thinking. They ask what technologies developers like and dislike, what they are using and what they plan to use, and what other issues affect the application development cycle. The latest Evans Data poll of programmers in Europe shows that usage of C#, Microsoft‘s analog to Java for its .NET environment, and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), are on the rise. In its latest survey of developers in EMEA, Evans Data found that the usage of C# has increased among the shops it polls for its

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• .NET Apps, WebSphere Portal, and Linux Servers in the Same Sandbox

  September 10, 2007 Dan Burger

  Interoperability may be the most used word in an IT industry that was built on proprietary systems. It’s the ultimate insult to be labeled proprietary–the equivalent of inflexible. The scarlet letter is “P.” So it may come as a surprise to many who keep a keen watch on interoperability issues that the IT department of a large hospital, which uses Microsoft .NET as its application development environment, is deploying an IBM WebSphere Portal on Linux servers. The pieces of this puzzle have fit together quite nicely so far for Bart Sijnave, the chief information officer at Belgium’s University Hospital of

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• SugarCRM Delivers ‘Landmark’ Release

  September 5, 2007 Alex Woodie

  It’s been an eventful few years for SugarCRM, the company behind the development of the open source customer relationship management application. From its beginning as a project on Sourceforge three years ago to its current state as a quickly growing, venture-funded Silicon Valley corporation, the company is accustomed to moving fast. Now SugarCRM is delivering version 5.0 of its eponymous package, a landmark release that company officials hope propels them onto the larger enterprise software stage. In late August, the company announced that the first beta of SugarCRM Community Edition 5.0, the free version of the open source program,

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• Automating Database Encryption Expands Linoma’s Portfolio

  September 4, 2007 Dan Burger

  Everyone seems to completely comprehend the importance of data encryption. The loss of sensitive data, whether it pertains to customers, employees, or trade secrets, can put a lot of folks in a world of hurt. So why, then, are so few organizations doing it? Probably the biggest obstacle has been the difficult and time-consuming encryption implementation process. Linoma Software hopes to lower that hurdle with the introduction of its new product called Crypto Complete. Linoma has been developing encryption tools for several years. It has products, such as Transfer Anywhere, that make use of various encryption technologies, such as the

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• Services a Priority at ASNA after Merger with BluePhoenix

  September 4, 2007 Dan Burger

  When mainframe application modernization/migration software vendor BluePhoenix Solutions decided to expand to the IBM OS/400 and i5/OS market, it found a willing partner in ASNA, a company with more than 25 years in the midrange. For BluePhoenix, which announced the completion of the ASNA merger August 17, it gains RPG-to.NET technology, a trusted brand, an experienced workforce, and a base of customers from which it can work. The upside for ASNA is much deeper pockets with which to build the services side of its business. Anne Ferguson, the owner and president of ASNA, explained the BluePhoenix merger with her

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• The Data Quality Inflection Point

  September 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Got data quality issues? If you’re like many businesses that have struggled with the exponential growth of data over the last few years, you have a fair share of bad data hiding across your servers. But that shouldn’t relegate you to living in the gray world of questionable data, argues Arvind Parthasarathi, a senior director of solutions at data management tool vendor Informatica. In fact, we find ourselves currently at an inflection point that allows us to take control and turn the data quality problem around, Parthasarathi explains in this Q&A. Alex Woodie: Do you get the sense that

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• Global Supports Infor ERP XA and SyteLine with Spreadsheet Server

  September 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Global Software recently added support for Infor‘s SyteLine and ERP XA (formerly MAPICS) applications with Spreadsheet Server, its Windows-based application that allows users to interact with data housed in their ERP systems from the comforts of Excel spreadsheets. Global Software previously supported a range of OS/400- and i5/OS-based ERP systems with Spreadsheet Server, including J.D. Edwards, BPCS, Lawson, Infinium, and Jack Henry, as well as PeopleSoft Enterprise ERP systems. Now, the Raleigh, North Carolina, company is branching out to support the extensive MAPICS and SyteLine user bases with the launch of a new product, called Spreadsheet Server

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• New ESB from iWay Deploys on J2EE App Servers

  September 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  iWay Software is shipping a new enterprise service bus (ESB) that can be deployed from any Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server. The updated ESB, called the iWay Service Manager, is part of the new suite of integration tools called iWay 2007 that the company announced last week. ESBs are becoming increasingly popular in the corporate data center because of the crucial role they perform as a foundational tool for building service oriented architectures (SOAs) and for stringing together Web services and other application integration protocols. With its historical focus on enterprise application integration and building adapters and connectors,

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• Sterling Gives Peek at Next Release of Gentran

  September 4, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Sterling Commerce will focus on boosting business integration capability for certain horizontal industries with the next release of its Gentran Integration Server, which is slated for general availability next month. With GIS version 4.3, the Ma Bell subsidiary plans to add support for the B2B exchange standards adopted by several industries, including the Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX), Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX), Open Applications Group (OAGi), and the Global Upstream Supply Initiative (GUSI). “Standards are a critical component of our customers’ integration strategies because they must have the flexibility to interoperate with all trading partners across various industries and

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