• Indigo Launches IBM i-Based Warehouse Management System

  March 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The English software firm Indigo Software Ltd. this week will launch Indigo WMS for IBM i, a new warehouse management system designed to automate many aspects of running a warehouse. Indigo says its new solution brings time-saving features out of the box, including wireless integration and voice-enabled picking, and will integrate easily with popular IBM i-based ERP systems. Indigo has been developing custom IBM i software packages for European customers for 33 years. The company has an extensive history with the old JBA System21 product, which was widely deployed in the UK and is currently owned by Infor. Indigo

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• Liaison Adopts KMIP with Encryption Key Manager

  March 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Liaison Technologies last week unveiled a new version of Key Manager, its encryption key management solution that’s part of its overall Liaison Protect suite. Key Manager 3.0 delivers support for key management interoperability protocol (KMIP), an emerging standard that helps ensure the proper functioning of encryption keys in multi-vendor environments. Liaison Protect Key Manager is an encryption key management product designed to automate the tasks involved with creating, using, maintaining, and retiring encryption keys. The software is a part of Liaison’s over-arching data security suite, called Liaison Protect, which also includes a data encryption solution and a tokenization solution, both

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• Vision Juices IBM i Performance in DB Replication Tool

  March 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  The latest release of Vision Solutions‘ Double-Take Share database replication tool will yield higher throughput when replicating changes from DB2 for i databases. According to Vision, IBM i shops running Double-Take Share version 5.1 will see performance increases of up to 30 percent. Additional enhancements for IBM i are targeted at high transaction environments. Double-Take Share (formerly MIMIX Replicate1) is a cross-platform database replication tool designed to move large amounts of data from one database to another in real time. The product is often used in business intelligence environments, where it moves data from production machines to a data

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• EVault Revs Backup Appliances, Drops Prices

  March 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  EVault last week began shipments of a new generation of dedicated backup appliances that feature upgraded hardware and EVault’s version 7 software. The new boxes are not only faster, but they consume 30 percent less power. Thanks to an upgrade to latest EVault 7 software, the device provides customers with better resilience through support for tertiary backups. And the company has also dropped the price of the appliances by 33 percent. EVault sells two backup devices: the Plug-n-Protect device, which scales from 3 TB to 24 TB and is designed to hold full backups, and the Express Recovery Appliance, which

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• Symtrax Delivers Mobile Interface for Document Management Suite

  March 19, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Symtrax last week unveiled a new release of its Compleo document management suite that gives customers the capability to monitor document production from any Web browser, including those on smart phones and tablets. The new Web interface in version 5.4 will also allow users to perform some limited management tasks within Compleo, like restarting a batch distribution of PDF invoices via email, or remotely switching MICR check printing runs to a backup printer when the primary printer goes down. Compleo is a suite of output management tools that is well-established in the IBM i community. The software offers a range

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• IBM Social Business Message: Productivity Gains, Cultural Change

  March 18, 2013 Dan Burger

  If you’ve been watching IBM promote social business, you’ve probably noticed the volume and frequency has been turned up. If you’ve seen IBM i chief architect Steve Will or read his blog, you know he’s a big time social evangelist. Back in January, there was an event called Connect 2013–the rebranding of Lotusphere that had to be done after the Lotus brand was wiped from the new product slate. In the past several years, it has become a social media lovefest. Ten days ago, in an interview with Forbes, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty ranked the social network as

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• Work Smarter, Not Harder–Unless Told To Do Both

  March 18, 2013 Dan Burger

  From one extreme to the other. Last week the came the news that Ginny Rometty, IBM‘s CEO, banked more than $16 million in compensation for her work guiding Big Blue in 2012. Rometty is an exceptional achiever. IBM grooms exceptional achievers. The company is good at that and the rewards, as you can see, are generous. At the same time, we got a glimpse of what it means to be on the fast track and how it feels to be treated like human capital. You either make money for the company or you’re something that costs the company. Rometty,

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• IBM Lab To Show Off Software Goodies to CEOs, CMOs, And CFOs

  March 18, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IT vendors are always trying to impress CEOs and their CIO and CMO underlings because in the world of industrial giants, deals get done at the top-level, not at the bottom-level. Forget for a second that most revolutions in technology were either the wholesale creation of a new market, or came from grassroots movements that were never aimed at toppling incumbent technologies but ended up doing so for organic, rather than central planning, reasons. And thus, IBM‘s own marketeers are still stuck in this old world, where having advertisements and story placements in the New York Times and the

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• IDC Says Server Sales Up As Shipments Go Down In Q4

  March 18, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There has never been one server business, but rather many. Each new wave of technology that has come out over the past five decades is lingering on, in upgraded form, as new system architectures are introduced and enter the market like a tidal wave, toppling down what used to be conventional architectures. Sometimes, those conventional architectures become the waves, as happed with a spike in IBM mainframe sales in the final quarter of 2012. According to the box counters at IDC, System z mainframe sales (including a base z/OS operating system on newly shipped or upgraded machines) were up

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• Reader Feedback On Sundry Recent Stories

  March 18, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Feedback on Entry Power7+ Servers: Counting The Costs Of CPUs, IBM i, And SWMA Hey, TPM: You hit the head on the nail with the article on Power 7+ pricing. As you know, we perform hundreds of capacity plans and on the low end it is always the same questions we are trying to answer. 1. Do I need more than eight disk arms for performance? I would say that in 95 percent of the cases, the anwser is yes, which means the 710, 730, and the four-core 720 are not an option. 2. We also answer the question of:

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