• Townsend Gets VMware Certification for Encryption Key Manager

  July 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Townsend Security has achieved VMware Ready status for Alliance Key Manager, its encryption and key management product that works with all major operating systems, including IBM i. The certification should give Townsend customers the confidence to use hybrid deployment techniques for their key management software. Alliance Key Manager is a FIPS 140-2 certified encryption key management solution that is used to create, manage, and distribute 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit AES keys for any application or databases. Townsend provides sample code for implementing key retrieval routines into RPG, COBOL, .NET, C, and Java applications running across a range of operating systems,

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• Brooks Revs RPM to Bolster Production Printing

  July 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that print files through the latest release of Brooks Internet Software‘s Remote Print Manager (RPM) will benefit from higher load tolerances, more detailed logging, better scheduling, and the capability to allow third-party apps to control RPM processing and configuration, the Idaho Falls, Idaho, company announced this month. RPM is a Line Printer Daemon (LPD) print server that provides flexibility in the management and handling of the print output of IBM i, mainframe, HP3000, OpenVMS, Unix, and Linux servers. The Windows-based software is commonly used to convert print output from native formats, such as SCS or AFPDS, to more

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• Wayne Madden Hooks Up with iFD to Sell TEMBO Database Tools

  July 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Wayne Madden, the longtime publisher of Penton’s IBM i publications, will be working with inFORM Decisions to help it market and sell TEMBO Technology Lab‘s DDS-to-SQL database modernization tools for DB2/400, the Southern California company announced last week. Madden left Penton earlier this year after 23 years with Penton and Duke Communications, the News/400 publisher that Penton bought in 2000. In March, he formed a consulting company, called Madden Business Development. Madden will work with iFD through his consulting company to help sell TEMBO’s AO Foundation and other tools. TEMBO signed iFD as its master distributor for the

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• ERP Vendors Delivering Better Value, Nucleus Says

  July 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The era of the slow, apathetic ERP software vendor that peddles monolithic products that are difficult to upgrade may be coming to an end, according to a recent report from Nucleus Research, which finds ERP vendors are increasingly responding to user demands for more intuitive UIs and integrated mobile and analytic capabilities. In its ERP Technology Value Matrix for the first half of 2013, Nucleus detected a change taking place in the ERP market. Driven by customer demands to “break the re-implementation cycle” and shift to a more “incremental, value-building upgrade cycle,” the Boston, Massachusetts, firm says that ERP

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• Informatica Embeds PowerCenter into Zettaset’s Hadoop Software

  July 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Informatica has entered into an OEM agreement with Zettaset to provide its PowerCenter software with Zettaset’s Hadoop cluster management software. As part of the deal, Informatica’s PowerCenter Big Data Edition will be embedded into Zettaset’s Orchestrator Hadoop cluster management solution, which is designed to accelerate and simplify the Hadoop installation process, and provide on-going management and security capabilities. Getting data into and out of the Zettaset-managed Hadoop implementations will be easier with PowerCenter Big Data Edition managing the movements. PowerCenter is Informatica’s flagship data integration tool, and it supports a range of data sources, including IBM i and DB2/400. Informatica

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• Liaison Grows EDI VAN Services Business, Thanks to VAN Consolidator

  July 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Liaison Technologies helps organizations move and secure data with a range of tools and services. What you may not know is that Liaison has become the fourth largest provider of traditional EDI VAN services in the country. Liaison says that its partnership with NewEDI is responsible for much of the growth. NewEDI is a VAN services consolidator that buys excess VAN capacity from tier-one service providers. It then resells the capacity to smaller enterprises with lower EDI volumes, thereby enabling them to get top-tier EDI service levels at a discount of up to 50 percent, the company says. Some companies

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• What Is IBM Going To Do With Its Systems Business?

  July 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I don’t pull the intuition card very often, but in this case, I can feel it in my skinny little bones. Something is up at IBM, and I think we can expect to see some big changes in its systems business in the coming months. This is not just a hunch, but the reading of the executive tea leaves combined with a hunch and observations of IBM for over three decades now. You get a feel for when Big Blue is ripe for change if you have been doing this long enough, and we have a new CEO who

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• Infor Customers Are Really Happy With IBM i, Survey Finds

  July 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  A recent survey performed by Infor‘s EMEA group found a very high degree of satisfaction with the IBM i server platform. The survey, released on the 25th anniversary of the launch of the AS/400, finds a strong belief among users that the system is “future proof.” However, more than half of the users considered a lack of IBM i skills as a looming problem for themselves. Infor’s EMEA System i Survey 2013 puts into numbers the feelings toward the box expressed by more than 100 managers and high-level decision makers at organizations that use the IBM i server to

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• Sirius Scopes The IBM i Power Systems Market

  July 15, 2013 Dan Burger

  Stoked by Power7 and Power7+ server sales and growing interest in PureFlex pre-integrated infrastructure, storage developments, and the emergence of managed systems, Stan Staszak of Sirius Computer Solutions is a happy guy. Staszak, the director of Power Systems solutions at Sirius, describes 2013 at the halfway point as “one of the best years we’ve seen in a while.” He gives partial credit to the rebounding economy, but most of it to the price/performance of the Power7 and Power7+ product lines and an IBM Power Systems lineup on the rise. That’s not surprising for an executive in the IBM sales channel,

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• Mad Dog 21/21: Drones With Phones

  July 15, 2013 Hesh Wiener

  Cisco TelePresence is a software system that gives functionality and character to a robotic rolling plastic column dubbed Ava 500. Ava, ambulatory hardware from iRobot, is five and a half feet tall. It is packed with media transponders and features a display showing a remote operator’s head. Ava has plenty of company these days. Some roving devices bring doctors to distant patients. And back in computing country, both IBM and EMC are testing machines that patrol data centers. If this catches on, you might get a glass house robot yourself, or be replaced by one. Cisco-iRobot Ava 500:

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