• LANSA Adds E-Commerce to LongRange Mobile App

  April 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  LANSA last week unveiled Commerce Edition Mobile, a new tool that speeds the creation and deployment of e-commerce enabled mobile applications that can be served from the IBM i platform. The new offering, which was announced at the COMMON conference, combines parts of its LongRange mobile application and LANSA Commerce Edition, and will be available this summer. The company also announced a new release of its core LongRange offering. Commerce Edition Mobile provides a pre-developed framework on which to build a complete e-commerce storefront that can be delivered as a mobile application. The software runs on the IBM i server,

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• S4i Takes Document Management to the Cloud

  April 16, 2013 Dan Burger

  S4i Systems‘ decision to market its electronic document management system on a subscription basis looks like a well-timed strategy. At the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition last week, there was plenty of talk about hosted services, software as a service, cloud computing, multi-platform reality, and data centers ready to help IBM midrange customers move workloads off-premise. S4i is handling some of this on its own server and has partnered with Baseline Data Services for most of it. Electronic document management from this IBM i software vendor goes by the name of S4i Express. It consists of modules for document

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• NGS, Baseline Put BI and Reporting in the Cloud

  April 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  How does business intelligence and reporting for $125 per user per month sound to you? That’s the starting price for a subscription to NGS-IQ Cloud, the new cloud-hosted business intelligence and reporting solution that New Generation Software and Baseline Data Services unveiled at the COMMON show in Austin, Texas, last week. Intrepid Four Hundred Stuff readers noticed that NGS has been advertising NGS-IQ Cloud for several months. The company was trying to drum up some interest for the new offering ahead of its official launch this month at COMMON. The NGS-IQ Cloud is now up and running and accepting applications

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• Zend Server 6 for IBM i Goes GA

  April 16, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Zend Technologies is now shipping Zend Server 6 for IBM i, the newest version of its PHP stack for IBM i environments. As expected, version 6 introduces new ways for IT teams to resolve problems with PHP applications, and works with the mobile interface generation capabilities in Zend Studio 10. The company also introduced new packaging for its IBM i PHP products, delivered a new Web services framework for Zend Server, and launched a new Mobile Smart Start program. The core capabilities that Zend delivered with Zend Server 6 for IBM i and Zend Studio 10 haven’t changed since we

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• More Details On That PS702 Blade Deal For MSPs

  April 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Last week, I told you that IBM was giving managed service providers the special utility-priced licenses for IBM i 6.1 and AIX 6.1, similar to the per-core pricing it announced for IBM i 7.1 and AIX 7.1 last October. IBM also mentioned last week that it was adding the PS702 blade server was being added to a discount program for MSPs, but didn’t say what the terms of the deals were. In announcement letter 313-030. IBM clarified the situation on the minimum amount of dough that MSPs have to blow on PS702 blades and what their discount will be.

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• IBM Can’t Be Serious About Selling Used IBM i Systems

  April 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you are poking around the IBM website, looking for cheap second-hand equipment to run older releases of the IBM i operating system, you might think you are in some kind of a time warp. But fear not, it is not you. It is Big Blue. Check out the two machines that IBM Global Financing is selling as refurbished systems: These are exactly the same two machines offered up in January 2011, with the same i5/OS V5R4 software at exactly the same prices. These System i 520 machines were ridiculously priced back then, and I said so at the

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• IBM Revises Another Power Systems Trade-In Deal

  April 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The IBM online announcement system likes to play a game of cat and mouse with all of us, and sometimes there is an announcement of a new product or a change in a deal with a certain date on it, but damned if I never saw it when I looked through the announcement summaries, which I do pretty religiously on Tuesday and then double-check again late Friday night as The Four Hundred goes to press. But, once again, IBM snuck another one by me. In announcement letter 313-022, updating a deal trade-in rebate deal that was last changed in

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• CIOs Move With Caution On New IT Hiring

  April 15, 2013 Jenny Thomas

  Up, down, up, down. It’s not just the latest data on job numbers that might make you feel a little queasy, it’s also the way those numbers have fluctuated since the beginning of 2013. And it looks like we’re in for another gut-busting drop. In February we reported on a job explosion in North America with news of a spike in the number of new jobs for IT professionals in the first month of 2013. By March, the outlook was decidedly less peppy when we told you about slower than anticipated growth of 5,700 new jobs in February from a

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• Power Systems Marketing VP Sees Big Data Bulls Eye

  April 15, 2013 Dan Burger

  The new role of data in modern business is on the mind of IBM‘s vice president of marketing for Power Systems Zarina Stanford. Transactional data has lost none of its importance, but the need to analyze data quickly is where the business value is today and organizations are already capitalizing on analytics. “Think about IBM i,” Stanford says. “The core is cognitive computing–sorting through information from DB2 and piecing it together.” Big data means big value to this marketing executive and she sees IBM i on Power Systems as playing an important role in the industries where the demand

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• IBM To Pump $1 Billion Into Flash Storage

  April 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Big Blue likes to throw its billions around to show that it is an IT big shot, and when IBM uses the “B” word, you know that it is pretty serious about something. Usually it is dividends and share buybacks, but sometimes it is when the company sees an unstoppable force, like the $1 billion investment in Linux in the wake of the dot-com bust, or when it sees it needs to grease the wheels of commerce, as with the $4 billion in financing for partners that the company made available late last year. The next hot area that IBM

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