• LogLogic 4.0: A View to a Log

  April 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  LogLogic has overhauled its cross-platform log monitoring and reporting solution, called LogLogic. With LogLogic version 4.0, the company has added a new engine for processing data from logs and queues and added the capability for users to consume reports generated from that data via the Web, among other new features. LogLogic sells rack-mounted X86 servers preloaded with its log management and reporting software. The San Jose, California, company sells two appliances: a frontline LX series that collects log data from a range of platforms and applications, generates reports from short-term data, and performs real-time alerting and access control; and the

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• Raz-Lee Signs BOSaNOVA to Resell Security Software

  April 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  BOSaNOVA is getting the security bug. Once focused primarily on System i terminals and emulation, the company broke into the security business with the introduction of its Q3 data encryption appliance earlier this year. Now, BOSaNOVA is hooking up with Raz-Lee Security in a new partnership to sell Raz-Lee’s i5/OS security software, the companies announced last week. As part of the deal, BOSaNOVA will resell iSecurity, Raz-Lee’s suite of security software for i5/OS. iSecurity is composed of 13 related products providing network security, audits, antivirus, password management, user profile management, and security assessment capabilities, through green screens or a Java-based

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• Ericom Supports Windows Vista with PowerTerm WebConnect

  April 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Terminal emulation software developer Ericom last week announced the general availability of PowerTerm WebConnect 5.5.1, a new release of its Web-based emulation software that adds support for Microsoft‘s Windows Vista clients, among other new features benefiting Windows terminal environments. Ericom is unique among terminal emulation software vendors in that users can access traditional hosts, such as iSeries, mainframes, VMS, and Unix machines, as well as Windows servers from the same product: PowerTerm WebConnect Enterprise. In this respect, Ericom competes with traditional terminal emulation vendors, as well as with Citrix and Microsoft for Windows Terminal Services emulation, which gives it

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• EXTOL’s New ‘EDI Appliance’ Based on System i Express Model 515

  April 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  As IBM unveiled the new System i Express models 515 and 525 “Windows killers” last week, EDI software developer EXTOL capitalized on the announcement with the introduction of a new EDI appliance, which is based on the new low-end System i Express Model 515. As the communication method used to transmit orders in industrial supply chains, EDI is a critical business application. If the capability to send, receive, and process EDI messages is reduced, it will likely have a substantial impact on the user’s business. This is one argument for putting EDI workloads on the i5/OS server, which is marked

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• SOAs Are Being Implemented at Large Companies, Evans Data Says

  April 17, 2007 Alex Woodie

  You’ve undoubtedly heard of services oriented architecture (SOA), the new “loosely coupled” Web services development model that is sweeping the IT nation. While there have been boatloads of hype surrounding SOA, it also appears that the SOA technique is finding its share of participants, according to a new Evans Data survey that finds that enterprise-level SOA deployments will double over the next two years. According to a survey of more than 300 developers at enterprise-size companies, nearly 25 percent of organizations already have an SOA in place. What’s more, over the next 24 months, another 28 percent of respondents plan

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• IBM Goes After Windows with User-Priced System i Servers

  April 16, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  After years and years of complaints that IBM has not done enough to make the AS/400, iSeries, and System i5 lines more competitive with Windows on X86 and then X64 boxes, Big Blue has now codified a new set of entry i5 servers based on its Power5+ processors that is sold on a per-user basis instead of as a system with a set price tag. By shifting to user-based pricing, IBM hopes to be able to make a more compelling case that an i5 hardware and software stack is competitive with a Windows-X64 stack. It will take a few weeks

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• IBM Upgrades High-End System i5 Servers

  April 16, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The rumor mill panned out on this one. Two months ago, I told you that I was hearing that IBM was considering upgrading its high-end System i5 595 server with its fastest Power5+ processors, and that has indeed come to pass. In addition to upgrading the i5 595 processors, the company has also tweaked its i5/OS pricing on the midrange i5 550 and 570 servers as well as on the 595 box to make it more amenable and economical to use i5/OS as an application serving platform. The move to the 2.3 GHz cores in the Power5+ multichip module is

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• Wheeling and Dealing to Move System i Iron

  April 16, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Last week was IBM‘s semi-annual i5/OS and OS/400 platform announcement, and that means it is time to tell a new story about the platform with a new set of products, which Big Blue did with its new user-priced System i 515 and 525 servers. It also means, as Yogi Barra once said, déjà vu all over again, as the company trotted out its traditional two-step rebate deal to try to encourage customers to buy an i5 520 or i5 550 machine now rather than wait until later. The AS/400 and iSeries to System i5 Trade-In Promotion is an oldie,

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• System i and the Web: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

  April 16, 2007 Amit Ben-Zvi

  Which server should have been first, and should continue to be, the predominant server for Web integration? The System i, of course. It is, after all, business applications that need to get to the Web so the functions they perform can be viewed, interacted with, and integrated with other business functions, customers, and suppliers. For a host of reasons, though, the applications that run on the Application System introduced by IBM in 1988, have, until now, had a tenuous relationship at best with the technology that brings business functionality to the Internet. Where have we been? On an island. Where

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• IBM Executives’ iSociety Chat: Direct Sales and a Developer Price Point

  April 16, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As part of the user-priced System i 515 and 525 announcement festivities last week, Jim Herring, director of System i products and business operations, and Ian Jarman, System i product manager, hosted a chat with the iSociety user organization last Thursday. The consensus among Herring, Jarman, and presumably other IBMers is that the new products were well received by the market, and they conveyed that message in the chat. If you were unable to participate (as I was not last week), you can read a transcript of the chat that is posted in the iSociety site. If you don’t have

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