• Kisco Gives i OS Auditing Tool a Web Makeover

  July 21, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Kisco Information Systems customers can now audit for unauthorized or unexpected changes to i OS data files from the comfort of a Web browser interface with the latest release of iFileAudit . With iFileAudit Release 3, the product is no longer tied to the 5250 interface, a change that will be most helpful in setting up the product’s filtering mechanisms. Also, Kisco recently celebrated its 25th anniversary in the IBM midrange business. iFileAudit is a handy journaling tool launched several years ago by Kisco, a developer and provider of security, reporting, and communications tools based in Upstate New York. iFileAudit

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• CCSS Adds Syslog Support to QMessage Monitor

  July 21, 2009 Alex Woodie

  System i shops that rely on the QMessage Monitor from CCSS to automate the handling of System i messages can now export those messages to third-party products as a result of the recently announced support for the Syslog message format. This will give QMM customers the capability to use cross-platform security event and information management (SEIM) products to keep watch over their entire IT environment, among other uses. QMessage Monitor is a message management solution for single- and multi-site OS/400, i5/OS, and IBM i OS implementations. The software constantly watches a variety of system messages, logs, and journals so operators

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• i OS Security Vendors Tap nuBridges for Encryption and Tokenization

  July 21, 2009 Alex Woodie

  nuBridges has recently entered into partnerships with two i OS security vendors, Raz-Lee Security and Safestone Technologies, to provide those vendors’ i OS customers with encryption and tokenization solutions that, among other things, will help to satisfy PCI DSS requirements. The deals with Safestone and Raz-Lee involve nuBridges Protect, a Java-based encryption tool that works with System i and other server platforms. Much of the excitement appears to be over the Token Manager module that nuBridges launched in April at an initial cost of $50,000 per server. Tokenization is viewed as the next big thing in encryption. Instead of

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• Rimini Street Gets Equity Investment from Adams Street

  July 21, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Rimini Street, a third-party provider of software maintenance and support for JD Edwards and other enterprise software packages, last week announced that it has sold a portion of the rapidly growing company to Adams Street Partners, a private equity firm with nearly $20 billion under management. Rimini says it will use the money to expand in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Las Vegas-based Rimini Street says business has been booming lately. While the global recession has punished enterprise software companies by putting the kibosh on new ERP projects, the gloomy financial outlook has actually been a boon for third-party

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• Zobrist Offers Search-Friendly URLs for WebSphere Commerce

  July 21, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Zobrist Consulting, an expert in IBM WebSphere implementations on i OS and other platforms, recently announced a new service to make URLs from dynamically created Web pages more friendly to search engines. If you’re serious about selling stuff over the Web, chances are good you’re dynamically creating your Web pages against a central product database. After all, it’s practically a requirement for e-commerce Web sites with any kind of scalability. But one of the drawbacks of the dynamic approach is the resulting URL that accompanies dynamically generated pages. Instead of URLs that are understandable and resemble the English language

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• AIG-Israel Taps Raz-Lee for i OS Security Tool

  July 21, 2009 Alex Woodie

  AIG-Israel, an insurance company affiliated with the global financial services giant AIG, will be protecting its System i servers with the iSecurity software suite from Raz-Lee Security, the software vendor announced last week. iSecurity is a comprehensive collection of security tools for i5/OS and i OS environments that is composed of more than 15 modules that accomplish tasks ranging from exit point control and analysis of i OS’s audit journal to virus scanning and password enforcement. AIG-Israel chose Raz-Lee for i OS security tools as a result of its previous experience with Raz-Lee’s products and the recommendation of independent

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• Sundry Power Systems i Storage Announcements

  July 20, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Life has patterns, and Big Blue tends to be fairly regular. It’s July, so it is reasonable to expect some kind of Power Systems storage announcements. And indeed, last week IBM did make some tweaks to various storage products to bring the i 6.1 platform into the fold as a peer to other operating systems using some of its more sophisticated storage technologies. Last week, IBM announced support for i 6.1 with the XIV Storage System, the clustered disk arrays that Big Blue acquired when it bought the Israeli company called XIV, which was backed by one of EMC‘s

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• Servers Slammed in IBM’s Second Quarter

  July 20, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  With the entire server market in the tank right now thanks to the poor economy just about everywhere, you can understand why IBM didn’t really want to talk all that much about systems when it announced its financial results for the second quarter last Thursday after the market closed. The irony is, even as bad as IBM’s server sales were in the second quarter, it probably gained share in the key RISC and X64 server rackets. For the quarter ended on June 30, IBM’s overall sales worldwide dropped to $23.25 billion, down by 13.3 percent compared to the year-ago quarter

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• IBM Sunsets More Power Systems Features

  July 20, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Big Blue is cleaning house once again in the Power Systems product line. Or more precisely, in the products that were actually known as the iSeries and pSeries and then the System i and System p in the Power4 and Power5 generations. Get out your flashlight and your old paperwork, and maybe your bifocals if you sit at a computer screen too much like I do, because if you have Power4 or Power5 iron, you will need to see if you need to buy any of these vintage features, conversions, or activations before IBM stops selling them itself or through

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• As I See It: Injured Wing

  July 20, 2009 Victor Rozek

  About the only time I set foot in a shopping mall is during the holiday season–coincidentally the same time everyone else does. So it’s no surprise that as I circle the parking lot for the fifth time, looking for an empty space that isn’t there, my frustration mounts. I can almost feel the holiday spirit leaching out of every pore. But just when I’m ready to run over Santa and be done with it, the answer to my problem glares at me from the front of every row. There, in the primo spot, at the head of every line, as

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