• Robot/LPAR Streamlines Tape Backups of Partitioned i5/OS Servers

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Stymied at getting your tape drive to back up your i5/OS logical partitions in an automated fashion? For some System i shops with modest investments in tape drive technology, backing up multiple partitions with a single drive requires an operator to vary the connection on and off. With Help/Systems‘ software for managing i5/OS logical partitioning, called Robot/LPAR, tape drive connections can be moved logically among partitions, in the same manner as processor resources and memory. Many System i shops have a difficult time backing up multiple i5/OS partitions with a single tape drive, says Tom Huntington, vice president of

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• ROBObak Delivers Online Backups for Remote Offices

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  So headquarters has a screaming new LTO 4 tape library that backs up all your System i boxes, Windows servers, and Unix machines? That’s wonderful, but what about the remote offices, warehouses, and factories? What are you doing to protect critical data at those locations? Probably not much says Ron Roberts, chief executive of remote office/branch office (ROBO) software specialists ROBOdrs. The company hopes to change that with ROBObak, a relatively new multiplatform backup and recovery product that works across the wire. ROBOdrs has been developing utilities for the ROBO sector of the marketplace since it was founded in

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• Lotus Quickr Now Available from IBM

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  As expected, Lotus Quickr, the new content sharing program that links blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and other Web 2.0 sources of information to desktop applications such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office, became available at the end of June. With Quickr 8.0 now available, IBM hopes to gain traction in its quest to bring the benefits of Web 2.0-style collaboration to teams of business users. The World Wide Web has evolved tremendously over the last few years. New approaches to browser technology, as embodied by AJAX, coupled with the popularization of content distribution systems such as wikis, blogs, RSS feeds,

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• Oracle Incorporates Demantra Into J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Oracle will make the Demantra demand management application part of J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne with the release of Demantra 7.1.1, the software giant announced last month. Demantra is a supply chain planning application that helps companies predict demand, determine profitability of products, and manage complex global supply chains. Oracle announced its plans to acquire Demantra, a privately held company, for an undisclosed sum in May 2006. With Demantra 7.1.1, which is available now, Oracle is making Demantra a preconfigured component of the Advanced Planning components of its EnterpriseOne and E-Business Suite ERP systems. Since Demantra uses the same demand and master

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• Devon IT Offers SafeBook for Less Than $600

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Devon IT has dropped the price of its thin client notebook computer, the SafeBook, and added new security features with the delivery of a new model last month. Devon IT launched its SafeBook in October 2006 providing its customers with the portability benefits of notebook computing without succumbing to the security problems that notebooks can pose. Since it doesn’t have a hard drive and relies on the network to deliver all its data to the screen, the SafeBook effectively eliminates the potential for a lost or stolen notebook from becoming a security liability to the group issuing them. Last month

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• InfoPrint Solutions Company Celebrates Independence Day, Launches New Printer

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  As expected, the InfoPrint Solutions Company, the joint company created following the sale of IBM‘s printer business to business machine maker Ricoh, is now operating as an independent entity out of Boulder, Colorado, the company announced last month. The new group also announced the new InfoPrint Color 1767 printer last week. In January, IBM revealed the sale of its printer unit to Ricoh for $725 million. As part of the deal, the two companies planned to jointly operate for three years the InfoPrint Solutions Company, the new name given to the IBM Printing Systems Division. During that

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• MIMIX Plays the Backcourt at Wimbledon

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  While the outcome of the Wimbledon men’s final Sunday at The All England Lawn Tennis Club was undecided, there was one thing that was nearly a certainty: the availability of the AELTC’s i5/OS-based business information system, which was protected by the MIMIX high availability suite from Vision Solutions. Vision says the AELTC implemented MIMIX to ensure the availability of its critical computer systems, including its ticket management system, ballot scanning, debentures, and System 21 financials, in the event of an emergency. The club replicated data between two System i Model 520s. This isn’t the first time that the AELTC

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• AdventureTech Gets On the MAP

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  AdventureTech Group, a developer of Web-enablement and communications software for the System i server, has joined Microsoft‘s Midrange Alliance Program (MAP), the software company announced recently. Kansas City, Missouri-based AdventureTech has been attracting attention of late with iSafari, a collection of sockets-based tools for transforming green-screen 5250 applications into more modern-looking Web interfaces. The company has close to two dozen iSafari customers, including some government agencies in the Midwest, which are loathe to waste money. Now, as a member of Microsoft’s MAP, AdventureTech will gain access to the marketing might of the world’s largest software company. “AdventureTech is

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• Wireshark Fixes iSeries ‘Wiretap’ Bug

  July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

  A problem detecting iSeries network captures in the Wireshark network sniffer product has been fixed, according to the open source Wireshark group. In 2006, users reported to Wireshark that there was a problem using Wireshark with iSeries “wiretaps.” Wireshark, which runs on Windows and Linux machines, would sometimes crash when reading iSeries capture files. That problem, among others, was fixed with the release of Wireshark version 0.99.6. Wireshark says its eponymous software product (formerly known as Ethereal) is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. The software, which is free, supports practically all network protocols in use, including, apparently, protocols

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• Small Form Factor Disks Go Mainstream, the System i Has Gone Fishin’

  July 9, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I am not that old, but I am old enough to remember a time when the AS/400 was always at the cutting-edge of storage technology innovations, whether one was talking about cache memory, main memory, disk drives, or tape drives. Those were the days, when IBM‘s Rochester labs were at the forefront of memory and disk technology, inventing the most dense memory chips and the most capacious disk drives in the IT sector. Nothing could make the current System i stand in such stark contrast with its peers in the server space and the attitude of the AS/400 Division

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