• *noMAX Supports i OS Disk Encryption for HA

  January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Protection of valuable data is an important thing for a business. For many companies, it’s one of the main reasons why they chose the System i server in the first place. However, companies that relied on Maximum Availability‘s high availability software to protect their data from disasters and system outages could not take advantage of the new on-disk encryption capabilities that IBM delivered with i 6.1 last year. That changed last week, when MaxAv developed a new release of *noMAX that’s compatible with IBM encryption. New Zealand-based Maximum Availability has been selling its remote journaling-based high availability products since

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• Notes and Exchange Co-Exist Peacefully, Thanks to Quest

  January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Companies can use both Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange at the same time when they install Coexistence Manager for Notes, a new product unveiled by Quest Software last week. The software allows companies to use the e-mail and calendaring functions of both products indefinitely. Quest, the giant Windows utility developer, released Coexistence Manager for Notes last week primarily to help smooth customer transitions from IBM Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Exchange. The product enables employees to simultaneously use the e-mail, calendars, attachments, and document hyperlink functionality of both messaging systems, and is designed to be used with Quest’s Notes Migrator for

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• Pat Townsend to Help Encrypt Data on Google Mobile Phones

  January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Organizations looking for a way to manage the encryption of data on Google Android may soon be using software developed by Patrick Townsend Security Solutions, a company that has long provided security solutions for the IBM i OS platform, and who is now branching out to the broader computer market. Last week, Townsend Security announced that its forthcoming Alliance Key Manager offering will support encryption key retrieval from Google’s Android operating system. This will allow Alliance Key Manager, which Townsend Security will sell as an appliance, to act as the gatekeeper for data stored on Android devices. Townsend Security

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• PDF Takes Honors as Top Archive Format

  January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

  The humble PDF is the most popular document file format for archived data, concluded AIIM, an industry group that follows electronic storage technologies. Nine out of 10 respondents to an AIIM survey found that the PDF is emerging as the primary long-term medium, beating out Microsoft Office formats and that old standby, paper. A recent survey was undertaken by AIIM to find out what methods and technologies organizations are using for long-term storage of documents. AIIM has an extensive history in this market niche–it was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association, and today is known as the

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• Ricoh Launches New Color MFP

  January 20, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Ricoh Americas yesterday unveiled the Aficio MP C2030, a new color multifunction printer (MFP) that offers the higher end features found in other Ricoh MFPs, but, at $5,500, not the price, the company says. The new MP 2030 is built off the same MP C2050/C2550 platform that was released in December 2008. The laser printer can print, scan, copy, and fax, in black and white or color. Its black and white printing speed is 20 pages per minute at 600 dots per inch (DPI), a respectable speed for a workhorse office printer. Yet when called upon, it can also deliver

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• AS/400 LUG: Friends in High Places

  January 19, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  As members of the AS/400 and successor communities, you all exercise a certain amount of influence over IBM and its i platform, just by virtue of the checkbook that you, your CIOs, or the owners of your companies have in their desk drawers. This influence is, of course, distributed across the 200,000-plus i community. It is diffuse, even if it is bright. But the candle power of an organization called the AS/400 Large User Group is quite a bit higher, and focused like a laser beam on IBM and its i platform. Over the years, we’ve all heard about the

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• Global 2009 IT Spending Will be Up, Down, Forrester Says

  January 19, 2009 Alex Woodie

  Global IT spending will decline by 3 percent to $1.66 trillion this year when measured in U.S. dollars, according to Forrester Research. That’s the first time global IT spending has declined since 2002, the analyst group says. However, when Forrester prognosticators looked into the future using their special local-currency colored glasses, they found that IT spending will actually go up by just a hair, which is 2.5 percent. Since the value of money from different countries is always going up or going down relative to other currencies, smart people around the world decided they needed a stable way to

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• IBM Piles on the Patents, Promises to Publish Plenty

  January 19, 2009 Dan Burger

  Can anyone remember a time when IBM wasn’t the dominate technology company when it comes to patents? This is the 16th consecutive year that Big Blue has piled up more patents than any of its competitors. Sixteen years is a long time for anyone to stay on top of anything. IBM makes it look easy. It removed the element of suspense in this annual announcement a long time ago. No one asks “Who won?” It’s more like: “How many patents did they get this year?” In 2008, IBM was awarded 4,186 U.S. patents. No company has ever crossed the 4,000-patent

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• As I See It: Test of Character

  January 19, 2009 Victor Rozek

  A flock of wild turkeys regularly comes to the house, pressing their little wrinkled heads against the windows, hoping to persuade my wife to toss some corn their way. While they wait, they work the ground beneath the bird feeders, competing with the squirrels for what the birds knock down, tearing up the grass with their large clawed feet, and adorning our patio with whatever remains after turkeys digest corn, bugs, and bird food. They like it here. Too tough to be tasty to humans, too fast to be caught by most predators, they strut and gobble and make the

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• IBM Helps Partners Sell Software to Midrange Shops

  January 19, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Before the U.S. economy went into meltdown, and before we knew that it had been in recession for a year (well, we kinda all knew, but the recession wasn’t officially called until after the presidential election), the common thinking out there was that IT spending growth at small and medium businesses was going to be significantly higher than at larger enterprises, which spend lots more per company but which tend to tighten their belts first and tightly when the economy hits the skids. It is hard to say if the SMB space is going to be able to take

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