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  • Recall Lets Customers Track the Movement of Their Tapes

    March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

    IT shops that are concerned about the chain of custody of their backup tapes after they’re sent off site may be interested in a new tape tracking solution unveiled recently by Recall.

    The Georgia company, which stores physical and digital assets for more than 80,000 companies at 300 temperature-controlled “operations centers” around the world, this month unveiled ReQuest Web, a new app that allows customers to track the custody of their backup tapes through a Web portal.

    ReQuest Web tells customers the location of their tapes or other media, and also displays proof-of-service signatures for tracking purposes. Customers can

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  • ASG Updates Job Scheduler

    March 20, 2012 Alex Woodie

    ASG Software Solutions last week unveiled ASG-Zena 3.1, a new release of its multi-platform workload automation utility, which supports the IBM i environment.

    The new release of the job scheduler brings several enhancements that the vendor says will improve workload automation tasks. A new graphical process whiteboard will provide a handy way to visualize process flows, minimize redundant definitions, and provide more flexible scheduling of machine resources.

    Zena 3.1 also gets better support for VMware environments. Specifically, the new release will automatically provision the required VMware resources as part of the job execution task. This was also listed as an

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  • Wanted: Power 745 M3 For IBM i SMBs

    March 19, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Call it a case of server envy. While I think IBM has the right server design for small and medium businesses that employ its workhorse IBM i operating system and database double whammy, it has unfortunately put the wrong processor in that machine. I am, of course, talking about Intel‘s long-awaited “Sandy Bridge-EP” Xeon E5-2600 processor, which debuted two weeks ago and started shipping in System x machines last Friday.

    The Xeon E5-2600 processors, also known by their internal code-name “Jaketown,” are designed for two-socket servers in the same power class as the Power 740 machine in the Power

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  • What Is A Used 520-Class Machine Worth?

    March 19, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    I must be getting old, there’s no doubt about that. And perhaps my memory is not as good as it used to be. But I thought something was funny when I looked on the IBM Global Financing’s refurbished equipment site to check out what second-hand Power Systems machines running earlier versions of the i5/OS V5R4 operating system cost. With i5/OS V5R4 being mothballed in September 2013, it seemed pretty relevant to see what Big Blue was charging for gear that ran V5R4 and that could also possibly run IBM i 6.1 or 7.1.

    The used equipment market has always been

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  • IBM Looks Back At 2011 And Forward To 2015

    March 19, 2012 Alex Woodie

    One hundred was IBM‘s lucky number for 2011. For starters, last year was the 100th year that Big Blue has been in business. The company also got back to the $100 billion revenue mark for the first time since the economy imploded in 2008. In its recently released annual report, IBM discusses how it intends to replicate the market success that IBM had in 2011, and keep it going through 2015.

    In her introductory letter to shareholders, new IBM CEO Ginni Rometty touted IBM’s recent success. She threw out a lot of numbers that undoubtedly impress stock analysts,

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  • As I See It: No, It’s Not Painless

    March 19, 2012 Victor Rozek

    In the hierarchy of bad work days, having a colleague hurl herself out of a fourth story window ranks right up there near the top. Though thankfully rare, workplace suicide is on the rise, a reflection of mounting desperation as, for many, economic options run out. A single telecommunications company in France (the former employer of the fourth floor flyer) had a horrific, mind-boggling string of 23 employee suicides. The company had been busy restructuring–a pallid euphemism for discarding workers–and apparently forgot it was altering lives as well as spreadsheets.

    Back home, where compassion and corporation have become all but

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  • COMMON Turning Up the Value

    March 19, 2012 Dan Burger

    Whenever you think about the community of IBM i users who are not only advocates of the IBM midrange platform, but are also advocating training and education that keeps up with technology, the COMMON user group comes to mind. COMMON has had its ups and downs and has had to make adjustments, just like the individuals and the companies in the community have to. In about six weeks COMMON will host its annual conference. The organization’s president, Pete Massiello, promises it will once again showcase the positive turnaround.

    Registrations are exceeding what was on the books for the 2011 conference

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  • Townsend Security CEO John Earl Steps Down

    March 19, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Last week, security software vendor Townsend Security said that John Earl, the company’s president and CEO for nearly three years and a beloved and well-known OS/400 and IBM security expert, had to step down for health reasons from those positions.

    Many of you know Earl from his years at PowerTech and all of the work he has done for COMMON and other local user groups over the years, and it goes without saying that Earl is one of the most important and influential people in our IBM i community. This is why he ended up running Townsend Security.

    Patrick Townsend,

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  • Quadrant And Mainline Seal Partner Deal

    March 19, 2012 Dan Burger

    Quadrant Software, makers of document management and fax products for IBM i and other platforms, and Mainline Information Systems, one of the largest resellers of IBM Power Systems, mainframes, and System x machines in the United States, have a new partnership. Mainline gains a product line that fits in well with the infrastructure its customers have in place and that will meet customer needs relating to business process issues, productivity, improved efficiencies and lower costs. Quadrant benefits by gaining access to a new and quite large customer base that has come to trust the Mainline name and way

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  • Obama Encourages Engineering Students To Stay With It

    March 19, 2012 Jenny Thomas

    Getting an engineering degree is hard. The work involved in obtaining one is not to be taken lightly, but the rewards awaiting graduates are worth the effort required. That was the consensus among panel members at a live Facebook Webcast last week, which was held in conjunction with the launch of Stay With It, an online resource to support engineering students in an effort to increase the number of engineering graduates from U.S. universities and colleges.

    The Stay With It program is the result of an initiative from the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, in partnership with Intel,

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