• TMW Systems Taps Profound Logic for Web Expertise

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  TMW Systems is gearing up to launch new “Web editions” of its various IBM i-based trucking applications, and Profound Logic is right there alongside it. Profound last week announced that the new Web Editions of the Innovative, TL2000, and TMT Fleet Maintenance products that TMW will launch at the TransForum 2013 conference were developed using its Web development and modernization tools. As part of the development process for the new applications, TMW Systems (now owned by Trimble) engaged Profound in creating a custom conversion theme using the Profound UI. To that end, developers were able to transform traditional 5250

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• L.K. Bennett Ditches Tape for Asigra’s Online Backup

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  UK-based luxury brand L.K. Bennett has replaced its tape-based backup system with Asigra online backup service and an onsite backup appliance from Cisco. L.K. Bennett has developed a reputation for selling high-end luxury shoes, clothing, handbags, and other accessories. Since being founded in 1990, the privately held company has found success, and now counts more than 174 retail outlets around the globe. Supporting this company is a complex IT environment consisting of physical and virtual servers from IBM, HP, and Dell connected over a multi-protocol label-switching (MPLS) network. Up until recently, the privately held company relied on tape drives

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• Attunity Looks to Bolster Replication Speed Over Slow Lines

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Attunity says the “TurboStream DX” data transfer engine in its newly released Replicate 3.0 software can deliver high replication speed from databases located in remote geographies or connected via low-bandwidth network lines. TurboStream DX is designed specifically for use in wide area network (WAN) data transfers, especially those involving big databases and data warehouses located in the cloud or remote areas, where high-speed networks are not available. It’s particularly well suited to satellite-based network connections, the company says. All data sent via the TurboStreamDX engine (the product also includes the TurboStream CDC engine) is encrypted. The new feature in Replicate

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• Liaison Enables More Flexibility in Tokenization Solution

  September 24, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Customers who adopt the latest format-preserving tokenization software from Liaison Technologies will have more flexibility to adapt tokens to different types of data they want to encrypt, the company announced this month. Liaison sells an all-inclusive data security product called Liaison Protect that includes encryption, tokenization, and encryption key management for a range of platforms, including IBM i, Windows, Linux, and Unix. Most organizations are probably familiar with the types of encryption solutions that are available on the market. What makes Liaison Protect unique is that it also includes tokenization, which refers to the process of replacing sensitive data in

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• The Possibilities With IBM i Entry Systems Sporting Power8

  September 23, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  At the end of August, IBM‘s top techies from the Austin Power processor development labs showed off the features and functions of the forthcoming 12-core Power8 chip at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. As The Four Hundred pointed out in its coverage of the divulged specifications at the time, this processor will pack a serious punch. Perhaps way too much for most entry IBM i shops, in fact. Or, perhaps not. Depending on how you want to make use of the substantial performance that Big Blue intends to cram into the Power8 chip, which is up and

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• PureSystems Anyone?

  September 23, 2013 Dan Burger

  IBM introduced the PureSystems in April 2012. It was a big deal and it still is. IBM is certain this is the system to converge all systems, with infrastructure in a box–PureFlex–as the solution to the huge business knot caused by IT redundancies. Instead of each platform requiring its own infrastructure, this is one infrastructure for all and all for one. In the past year and a half, the successes have mostly piled up on the X86 side as a server consolidation play, but IBM i shops are in this game, too. I wouldn’t go so far as to say

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• IBM i Jobs: Having What It Takes To Get Hired

  September 23, 2013 Dan Burger

  The job market for IBM midrange professionals fluctuates somewhere between contrary and crotchety. The same could be said about many of the pros who are inside and outside the workforce. One thing for certain is that this job market is changing and the people who want to get jobs or keep jobs have to change with it. Resistance, as we all know from watching Star Trek, is futile. A friend of mine, Bob Langieri, is dialed into the IBM i job market in the greater Los Angeles area. He’s been a one-man employment service specializing in career placement for

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• As I See It: In Search of the Technology-Free Vacation

  September 23, 2013 Victor Rozek

  Just before we headed off on vacation, my wife, who never strays far from computerized devices, made a bold, unprecedented suggestion. “Let’s also have a vacation from technology.” I was pleased but dubious. Like Charlton Heston, who planned to have his gun pried from his cold, dead hands, I sort of figured the wife would leave this world clutching her smartphone. But her reasoning, she explained, was economic, not an unexpected lack of interest in all things with screens. We planned to go to Washington (the state) to visit the in-laws, and then on to Canada to visit the Rockies.

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• IBM i To Ride The Coattails Of Linux On Power

  September 23, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I have said it before, and I will say it again. And probably again after that. Anything that makes the Power Systems business stronger lets the IBM i platform live a lot longer. And it is with that spirit that we should all greet IBM‘s announcement last week that it will be pumping $1 billion in investments in the Linux operating system running on Power processors. It is always hard to tease out details on such big pronouncements from any vendor, but Jim Wasko, who is director of the Linux Technology Center in IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, says

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• Reader Feedback On One Power 750 Matches Two Xeon Servers On SAP BW Test

  September 23, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  You write: “The database IBM tested had 500 million records, which could fit into a machine with 32 cores; I am guessing here, but it would probably take a 64-core machine to do 1 billion records as HP tested with its pair of ProLiant DL580 G7 servers.” What does the number of DB records have to do with the number of cores required? I’m not aware of any correlation between the two. Perhaps you were thinking of a correlation between DB records and RAM (only applies to in-memory databases; not IBM i). “The HANA database has data compression and columnar

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