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  • Maintec Launches ‘Graveyard Shift’ Outsourcing Service

    June 7, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Here’s a fun little fact: When it’s night in the United States, it’s daytime in India. Maintec Technologies, which runs a server outsourcing operation in Bangalore, India, is using this discrepancy in the distribution of photons to launch its new Graveyard Shift Service. Under the new service, Maintec will monitor and manage the critical IBM i, z/OS, and AIX servers of American companies during tough-to-fill shifts, including the graveyard shift, holidays, and weekends.

    The global economic downturn has forced many companies to make due with less. For those running the data centers of mid-sized and large companies, that means

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  • CCSS Picked by Hospital Serving Mississippi’s ‘Golden Triangle’

    June 7, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Mississippi’s OCH Regional Medical Center has picked CCSS to provide IBM i systems management tools, the software company announced last month. The software will be employed in the management of critical information systems used by the hospital, which serves a seven-county area known as Mississippi’s Golden Triangle.

    Based in Starkville, the Oktibbeha County Hospital (OCH) Regional Medical Center serves a seven-county area of northeastern Mississippi known as the Golden Triangle. While the area is largely rural, the OCH Medical Center prides itself on being a progressive hospital. For example, many of its 100 staff physicians are board certified, according to

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  • MyEclipse Blue Edition 9.0 Offers RAD Alternative

    June 7, 2011 Alex Woodie

    Power Systems Java developers who are looking for an alternative to IBM‘s pricey Rational Application Developer (RAD) may want to take a look at the latest release of the MyEclipse Blue IDE from Genuitec. In May, Genuitec delivered the ninth version of MyEclipse, which supports HTML5, Java EE 6, and other technologies.

    Genuitec has been developing Java IDEs since it was founded in 1997. In 2003 it launched MyEclipse Blue, its most feature-rich IDE. MyEclipse Blue replicates many of the Java-development features in IBM’s RAD, including support for deployment of Java applications to IBM i and DB2/400. But,

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  • I, Cloud-i-us

    June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It is perhaps fitting to discuss the future of cloud computing on the IBM i platform on the same day that IT and consumer electronics darling Apple is expected to launch iCloud, its fourth iteration of online services for its various iMac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices. If anyone has dibs on the iCloud name, you would think it would be IBM with its iSeries, System i, and Power Systems-IBM i platforms. But Apple ponied up the $4.5 million to buy the iCloud name from its owner and beat IBM to the punch.

    Exactly what iCloud is–and isn’t–remains cloaked in

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  • STG to Buy IBS for $35 Million

    June 6, 2011 Alex Woodie

    The troubled ERP software company International Business Systems (IBS) is set to be acquired by Symphony Technology Group (STG), a private equity firm based in Silicon Valley. Under terms of the deal, STG will pay 217.5 million Swedish Kronor, or about $35 million, for all outstanding shares in IBS. The deal was announced mid May and is nearly certain to be approved by IBS shareholders by the end of June.

    IBS has been looking for a buyer on and off for the last 18 months. When the first go-round of talks failed last April, the board reacted by terminating Mike

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  • The Long and Short of Modernization

    June 6, 2011 Dan Burger

    Companies that take on application modernization projects almost always have a great notion. Many of those expectations have come up short. The quickest way frequently doesn’t deliver the hoped for objectives and what often is realized is that more effort than expected is required. Alison Butterill, IBM‘s application development offerings manager for Power Systems, has seen it play out many times. Taking care of the interface is the easy part, she points out, but she also offers advice to make back-end transformations much easier.

    The single biggest driver for modernizing applications continues to be users who don’t like the

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  • As I See It: The Improvement Industry

    June 6, 2011 Victor Rozek

    The moment humans started walking upright, someone was probably trying to improve their posture. In all likelihood there was a Cro-Magnon version of Tony Robbins, hairy, charismatic, with an enviously large cave, who made a living telling his fellow troglodytes how to evolve. Humans, it seems, have a self-improvement gene that, in spite of our best efforts, has unaccountably survived. That’s how we know never to stand under the back end of a woolly mammoth.

    The self-help field has a vexingly long history dating back almost as far as writing itself. Long before Egyptians twittered their way to regime change,

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  • Midrange Server Sales Spike Big Time in Q1

    June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The low-end of the server racket came out of the Great Recession first, followed by IBM mainframes and then a push for big Unix boxes as 2010 came to a close. And in the first quarter of 2011, it was the midrange server makers turn to rake in some money, according to the server box counters at IDC. And the rebound couldn’t have come soon enough for vendors, resellers, and customers alike. The latter have been eager to upgrade their systems, and the former have been egging them on for a year or two.

    IDC measures the factory revenue

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  • Intel’s AppUp Is A Cloudy Clone of IBM’s Smart Cube

    June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Just before The Four Hundred went on hiatus for the Memorial Day weekend, I took a briefing with the folks at Intel‘s Data Center Group about a new product/service called the AppUp Small Business Service on Hybrid Cloud that will probably give you that sense of déjà vu as I had.

    It borrows many of the concepts from the original AS/400 launch a zillion years ago and, more recently, from the Smart Cube appliances that IBM has stopped talking about.

    The genius of the AS/400–there are many very smart ideas in the system–was that the box launched with thousands

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  • COMMON Europe Extends Top i Concerns Survey To June 24

    June 6, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The Memorial Day holiday got in the way of the Top i Concerns survey being conducted by COMMON Europe, which had hoped to have a representative number of participants ahead of the holiday and its conference in Milan, Italy. But people were busy out there on the Intertubes, so Deshpande Ranga, vice president and events manager at COMMON Europe and the Top Concerns project lead, has extended the survey participation date to June 24.

    That’s the AS/400’s birthday week, people, so why not show a little spirit and help COMMON Europe out and participate in the survey?

    As the

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