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  • QlikTech Adapts In-Memory Analytics for External Big Data

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    QlikTech made its mark in the business intelligence field by simplifying the BI experience and delivering results quickly from an in-memory associative database. But with the advent of “big data,” the company’s total reliance on in-memory technology was challenged. Last week, the company unveiled a new Direct Discovery mode that allows customers to process large data sets stored externally on disk, while keeping the associative data model in tact.

    QlikTech has ridden the in-memory wave quite successfully over the last decade. While its big BI competitors like Oracle, SAP, and IBM have developed or acquired in-memory database technologies

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  • SAP Sends HANA to the Cloud

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    SAP last week announced HANA Cloud, a cloud version of its in-memory database that can be used to power cloud applications developed in Java or its NetWeaver technology. SAP also unveiled a hosted version of HANA that lives on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and will allow customers to quickly spin up HANA to run small workloads or for testing proof of concepts.

    HANA was on full display last week at the SAP TechEd 2012 shindig in Las Vegas, Nevada. The popular in-memory database system, which can be used for both transactional and analytical workloads, is less than two

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  • Kisco Sends IBM i Reports to Google Drive Cloud Service

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Kisco Information Systems last week announced an update to WebReport/i that allows IBM i shops to send their reports and spool files directly to Google Drive, a new cloud storage and synchronization service that competes with Dropbox. The new feature will be useful for IBM i shops looking to expand their report distribution.

    WebReport/i is an IBM i utility that automates the conversion and distribution of raw spool files from IBM i applications. The software can convert spool files to PDF, HTML, TIF, RTF, XLS, or CSV formats, and then distribute them via email, fax, FTP, or the Web.

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  • LogRhythm Goes Multi-Dimensional in Security Analysis

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Cyber criminals are getting more clever by the day, and so can the good guys with products like the new SIEM (security information and event management) solution unveiled by LogRhythm last week. The Boulder, Colorado, company claims that its solution is the first multi-dimensional security database capable of tackling “big data”-sized troves of information.

    LogRhythm’s SIEM product, which is also called LogRhythm, gathers security-related data from many sources (including IBM i logs), and mixes it in an attempt to tease real and actionable information out of the noise. Like other products in the SIEM class, LogRhythm has sought a competitive

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  • Attachmate Excited with Combination of Reflection and Windows 7

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Attachmate yesterday unveiled Reflection 2011 R3, a new release of its terminal emulation suite for accessing IBM mainframe, IBM i, Unix, and Hewlett-Packard NonStop hosts. The new release is certified to run Windows 8, which will become available later this week. But Attachmate expects more customers to run the software on Windows 7, as businesses upgrade from Windows XP.

    Windows 8 brings a spiffy new user experience that’s designed to work the same whether the user is running a PC, a tablet, or a phone. However, Windows 8 is not expected to be widely adopted in the enterprise for some

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  • UK Firm Signs On to Resell looksoftware Modernization Tools

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Astech, an IT consultancy based in central England, has signed a partnership agreement with IBM i application modernization tool vendor looksoftware to resell look’s software across the U.K.

    Astech specializes in providing IBM i and Microsoft expertise to private companies and government institutions in the U.K. The company says that its blend of IBM i and .NET programming skills enables it to take on client projects involving Web and mobile extensions to IBM i applications.

    Some of those Web and mobile projects will now bare the mark of looksoftware, the Australian developer of IBM i modernization tools. Looksoftware has

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  • UNICOM Nabs Versant for Object-Oriented Databases

    October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

    UNICOM expanded into the object oriented database data realm this month when it announced plans to buy Versant, a publicly traded developer of several object-oriented databases, for about $32 million.

    Founded in 1988 as Object Sciences Corp., Versant was an early proponent of object oriented databases, which store data as objects. Object database management systems (ODBMS) bring performance advantages over relational database management systems (RDBMS) in powering applications that are written in object oriented languages and require storing of complex objects.

    Versant’s first product was the Versant Object Database (VOD), which began to gain steam in the early 1990s

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  • PowerVM, IBM i Enhancements Mean Better Power Systems Clouds

    October 22, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    We’re still chewing through the October 3 Power Systems announcements from IBM, and this week we will drill down into some of the cloud-related tweaks that Big Blue made to the IBM i operating system with the Technology Refresh 5 update as well as in the PowerVM hypervisor and System Director VMControl tools that comprise the server virtualization underpinnings of a Power-based cloud–whether or not you use IBM’s SmartCloud Entry control freak to orchestrate that cloud.

    We told you all about the update to SmartCloud Entry V2.4, which finally supports the IBM i operating system, in last week’s issue

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  • Tough Slogging In Q3 For IBM, Like Everyone Else

    October 22, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM is always bragging about how good it is to have annuity-like businesses that pay out, month after month, and in discussing the company’s results for the third quarter last week, the company’s chief financial officer, Mark Loughridge, reminded everyone that more than half of IBM’s sales and about 60 percent of its profits come from these areas, which include mainframe software licenses and services contracts. That other half of the revenue stream can be tough, and that other 40 percent of the profits is not a given, as the financial results for the quarter in September showed.

    As happened

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  • Help/Systems Buys CCSS For Systems Management Expertise

    October 22, 2012 Alex Woodie

    Help/Systems last week bought CCSS, the developer of systems monitoring and performance management tools for the IBM i server. Minnesota-based Help/Systems plans to keep all CCSS employees and its offices in North Carolina, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and run the company as a completely separate entity, representatives with CCSS and Help/Systems say.

    Ray Wright founded CCSS and built it into a successful business developing, selling, and supporting IBM i systems monitoring and management tools. The company’s three products–QSystem Monitor, QMessage Monitor, and QRemote Control–help companies and cloud service firms run their IBM i servers in a more efficient

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