• Computer Keyes Takes IFS Files Mobile

  May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Computer Keyes last week unveiled a new IBM i software product that will allow users to access IFS files from any Web browser, including those running on mobile devices. The product, called kLink, includes two separate mobile application servers, including one for the employees of an organization, and another one for its customers. The Internet is increasingly looking mobile. According to On Device Research, one in four Americans use mobile devices as their sole source of Internet access, and by 2015, more users will access the Internet from mobile devices than from PCs or other wireline channels, IDC says. With

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• SEQUEL Streamlines Reporting with New Script Views

  May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Business intelligence software vendor SEQUEL Software has made fairly extensive changes to how its ViewPoint client handles data with the introduction of a new objects, called script views. The new script views objects will not only simplify the steps required to complete common reporting functions–including displaying data on a dashboard, and emailing and printing–but provide a performance boost to complex data processing tasks as well. The enhancements were added to ViewPoint version 10.13.087, the latest release of the Windows-based client that is one of the main ways that users interact with SEQUEL, the flagship business intelligence and reporting system of

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• Worknet Tapped to Provide IBM i Processing for Credit Unions

  May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

  In the world of corporate credit unions, excitement is not necessarily a good thing. While regular banks take big exciting risks in search of big exciting profits, the not-for-profit credit unions seek the repeatable and the predictable. So when Core Network Processing (CNP) tapped Worknet to take over hosting and management of its core, IBM i-based application, it made its decision carefully, since it would effect nearly a fourth of the country’s 8,000 credit unions. CNP is a limited liability corporation (LLC) that was set up years ago by US Central to provide core, back-office data processing for a group

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• Vision Unveils New Entry-Level DR Solution for IBM i

  May 14, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Vision Solutions last week unveiled MIMIX DR, a new disaster recovery (DR) product designed to help eliminate data loss and speed the recovery of systems and applications following a disaster at smaller IBM i sites. MIMIX DR uses the same data and object replication capabilities that are found in the full MIMIX high availability (HA) offering. But MIMIX DR lacks the automated failover capabilities of MIMIX HA, and instead uses a manual failover process. Just like the full MIMIX HA product, MIMIX DR uses IBM remote journaling (RJ) technology to replicate all changes made to DB2/400 data and IBM i

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• Take COMMON Europe’s Top Concerns 2013 Survey

  May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It’s that time of the year again. If you have a suggestion for IBM or just a helpful suggestion on how it might improve the Power Systems platform running the IBM i operating systems, now is your chance to do something about it. For the past seven years, COMMON Europe has done its part to poll the IBM i user base and try to figure out what they are worried about. And now the eighth annual Top Concerns survey is open for you to speak your mind and help shape the future of this platform. The 2013 Top Concerns survey

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• Corus360 Builds Power Systems Cloud In Atlanta

  May 13, 2013 Dan Burger

  Corus360, an Atlanta, Georgia-based value added reseller (VAR) with a 30,000-square-foot data center, is expanding its services with an application hosting business for companies using IBM i, AIX, and Linux apps. It calls its new, on-demand, allocation of resources venture PowerCloud360. Companies looking to reduce IT capital expenditures and expenses are the target market. Behind the PowerCloud360 name is IBM Power Systems’ proven virtualization capabilities–virtualized processors, memory, network, and storage. Of course, disaster recovery and high availability are part of the design. More than likely it will be the biggest portion of the business. And in true, cloud-like fashion,

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• IBM Adds Power7+ Iron To Virtual Loaner Program

  May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you are a business partner who can’t get access to a new Power7+ machine but you want to compile and test your code on some shiny new iron, then IBM has a slice of iron it wants you to take for free. On April 24, the developerWorks web site aimed at application developers announced that the Virtual Loaner Program, a long-running service that Big Blue set up when it decided to go cloudy for developers instead of giving them cut-priced Power Systems on which to code their apps, had been updated with Power7+ machines. IBM does not say what

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• Salesforce.com Was The Top CRM Software Peddler In 2012

  May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Call it a sign of the times. According to the latest rankings available from IT market researcher Gartner, online and SaaSy software supplier Salesforce.com has blown by SAP to become the top supplier of customer relationship software in the world. The rankings from Gartner are based financial figures for the full 2012 year, and have Salesforce.com raking in $2.53 billion for its online, subscription-based CRM wares. That is an increase of 26 percent over the revenues that the company generated in 2011. Salesforce.com was by no means the only fast-growing CRM software supplier, so don’t get the wrong idea.

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• Arrow Boosts Sales And Profits For Enterprise Computing In Q1

  May 13, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Various IT suppliers have had a tough time in various parts of their businesses as 2013 has gotten rolling, but master electronics and IT distributor Arrow Electronics seems to be having an easier time than some of the upstream vendors whose products it peddles in the data center. In the first quarter ended in March, Arrow said that its overall sales contracted by 1 percent to $4.85 billion, mainly by a reduction in its electronic components business, which fell by 5 percent to $3.19 billion. Keeping that revenue coming in selling components came at a cost, however, and operating earnings

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• IT Hiring Growth Slows For Third Month In A Row

  May 13, 2013 Jenny Thomas

  We are not even to summer yet and the hopeful prognostications of 2013 being the year of the rebound in the IT jobs market is melting away faster than the winter snow. The good folks at Janco Associates, who keep a close eye on IT industry trends, are reporting slow growth in IT hiring for the third month in a row. It is human nature to start a new year with an optimistic outlook for the coming months, anticipating happy and prosperous times ahead. At the beginning of 2013 we were reporting on a IT job explosion in North

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