• Bug Busters Debuts Record-Level Mirroring Solution

  January 9, 2007 Alex Woodie

  While the number of established OS/400 high availability software providers has been declining lately due to industry consolidation (re: iTera, OS Solutions, and Vision Solutions), that hasn’t stopped new players, such as Bug Busters Software Engineering of Seattle, Washington, from entering the market. Last week, Bug Busters announced the GA of RSF 8.0, the latest release of its flagship utility, which gained a new record-level mirroring capability that is key to high availability replication. Bug Buster’s RSF traditionally served as an application lifecycle management tool, not part of a disaster recovery or high availability solution. For years, RSF has helped

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• GeneXus to Bring Major Changes to IDE with ‘Rocha’

  January 9, 2007 Alex Woodie

  ARTech is moving forward on a rewrite of GeneXus, its fourth-generation language (4GL) development environment, and should be ready to announce its availability later this year, company officials recently told IT Jungle. GeneXus version 10, which goes by the codename “Rocha,” will be a complete rewrite of the IDE, and bring features such as a process modeler, an integrated portal, and pattern-based development to iSeries developers using the tool. GeneXus is an advanced IDE that’s used by thousands of OS/400 and Windows developers around the world since it was first introduced nearly 20 years ago. ARTech, which is headquartered

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• Linoma Cuts Encrypted Backup Time by 50 Percent

  January 9, 2007 Alex Woodie

  iSeries shops will save time when encrypting their backups when they use Transfer Anywhere version 1.9, a new release of the multi-function (and multi-platform) utility unveiled by Linoma Software last month. The new release will perform encrypted backups and restores up to 50 percent faster than before, according to Linoma, an iSeries utility developer based in Ashland, Nebraska. What’s more, encrypted backups now occupy less disk space, according to the company. This is good news for any iSeries shop looking to add an extra layer of protection to their regular backups by using encryption. The new release also brings support

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• Adobe Picks NetManage for Application Adapters

  January 9, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Adobe Systems has entered into an OEM agreement with NetManage for a series of Java-based adapters for integrating back-office applications, the companies announced last month. The agreement calls for Adobe to distribute all of its Java-based NetManage Librados adapters as part of LiveCycle, Adobe’s electronic document management systems and a key component of its Intelligent Document Platform initiative. All testing has been completed, and the companies are standing behind the combination of LiveCycle and Librados for capturing business information in real-time without requiring the user to have in-depth knowledge of the system. At last count, NetManage was selling about

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• BOSaNOVA Upgrades Tablet Speeds, Cuts Price

  January 9, 2007 Alex Woodie

  BOSaNOVA last month unveiled two new Windows-based thin client tablet computers that offer more storage and processing power compared to previous models. The new 360XP and 360CE BOS tablets also got price reductions compared to their predecessors. BOSaNOVA started shipping Windows-based tablets a little over two years ago, when it introduced the Windows CE-based 8375 Wireless Tablet and the 8368 Wireless Tablet, which ran the Windows XP Embedded operating system. With 8-inch color touch-screen displays, integrated wireless LAN, a 5250 emulator, and a weight around two pounds, the handy little thin clients were destined to connect mobile employees to iSeries

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• CCSS Opens Southeast Asian Subsidiary

  January 9, 2007 Alex Woodie

  CCSS, a developer of iSeries systems management software, has created a subsidiary in the Philippines to service the growing Southeast Asia region, the company announced last month. CCSS (Asia), as the new concern is called, will be directed by Edward Felicen E. Soro. Southeast Asia has experienced considerable economic growth over the last several years. According to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the 10 member countries–including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam–averaged a 6.3 percent increase in output (as measured by GDP) in 2004, and trade between its members and the

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• Global Signs Terillium to Resell Spreadsheet Server

  January 9, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Terillium, one of Oracle‘s top resellers, is now reselling the Spreadsheet Server and other products from Global Software, the companies announced last month. As part of the deal, Cincinnati, Ohio-based Terillium will resell the J.D. Edwards and Oracle E-Business Suite versions of Global’s Spreadsheet Server application, as well as its Budget Manager and Executive DASH software. Terillium will have the rights to sell and license these products throughout North America. The decision to bring Terillium into the Global fold was not an easy one, according to Spencer Kupferman, vice president of corporate affairs for the Raleigh, North

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• IBM’s System i Priorities for 2007

  January 8, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As the holiday season approached last December, two key people at IBM‘s System i division took some time out of their schedules to talk about the technology and marketing areas that they would focus on in 2007 with the i5/OS platform. Many of the priorities that Big Blue has for the platform have been talked about in 2006, such as Voice Over IP telephony and the PHP language running on the platform. But these key IBMers did offer some more insight as well as an initial reaction to my own suggestion that IBM fully embrace user-based capacity pricing for

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• Arrow Buys Agilysys’ IT Distribution Business for $485 Million

  January 8, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The consolidation in the server and storage distribution business continues apace in 2007 as Arrow Electronics announced last week that it would pay $485 million in cash to buy the KeyLink Systems Group distribution business from rival Agilysys. With this deal, Arrow positions itself to better compete against Avnet, its remaining big rival in the enterprise server, storage, and software distribution business. Both Arrow and Avnet have been doing acquisitions in recent months to build up their IT distributorships. Both Arrow and Avnet also have strong partnerships with the two biggest server makers, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, and

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• Uncle Sam Pushes Energy Star Ratings for Servers

  January 8, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Whenever the government gets involved in a problem, then we know we are in big trouble and that it is probably a worse situation than we imagined. Just as the year was ended, two events in the political arena in the United States indicated that the problem of energy consumption in the data center is, well, heating up. While the entry of the government and its regulations is not generally perceived as a good thing by many people, in this case, some government regulation and encouragement is just what the data center manager ordered. The first event occurred on December

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