• Steve Will Keeps His i On The Prize

  January 21, 2013 Dan Burger

  Steve Will was in junior high school when Frank Soltis and a small group of Rochester, Minnesota-based brainiacs were rolling up their sleeves and burning the midnight oil while drawing the blueprints to what would become the Application System/400, the business computer that defined midrange computing. Soltis is an IBM legend–retired but still actively involved in representing IBM and the IBM i-Power Systems platform. Will is considered by many to be a modern day Soltis, but he is having none of it. Replacing a legend is never easy. And it’s not really fair to Will to ask him to carry

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• IBM Taps Ingram Micro, Tech Data To Peddle Power Systems, Storage

  January 21, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  It is not every week that the Power Systems platform gets big news that is not related to hardware or systems software that has the potential to shake up the competitive position of the Power business, but last week was one of them. We have been telling you about the Power7+ systems and how IBM is looking to better compete against X86 iron. In November, IBM put $4 billion on the table for partner financing to move more iron. And now, Big Blue is tapping Ingram Micro and Tech Data to broaden its channel sales for Power Systems and enterprise

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• Dell Wyse Unveils Thin Client of Last Resort

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Dell‘s Wyse group last week took the wraps off Project Ophelia, a new thin client computer that’s about the size of a USB memory stick. The device is designed to allow consumers and employees who don’t have a smartphone, tablet, or laptop to still access to their computing environments by plugging into monitors and keyboards they stumble across in the wild. Project Ophelia is the latest brainchild of Dell’s “cloud client computing” group, which is composed in part of the Wyse organization that the Round Rock, Texas, company bought last spring. The idea behind the project, which will

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• Raz-Lee Gains PureSystems Cert

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Raz-Lee Security last week announced that its iSecurity suite of security software has been certified to run on IBM‘s PureSystems. The Nanuet, New York, company also received certifications in Security Intelligence, Tivoli, and Power Systems. IBM last year launched its new PureSystems line of “expert-integrated” systems, which combine servers, storage, networking, virtualization, and management into a single box (sort of like a “magic box”). The PureSystems lineup consists of three servers, including PureFlex, PureApplication, and PureData. In addition to rethinking the hardware, IBM rethought how software will run on the systems. Instead of applications or tools, software is considered

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• Oracle Debuts StorageTek LTO 6 drives

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Oracle last week debuted new LTO 6 drives, as well as the capability to hook the new drives into StorageTek libraries via Fibre Channel. Oracle sells four StorageTek LTO 6 tape drives, full-height and half-height drives with either SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces. The drives can be implemented as stand-alone devices, or installed in an autoloader or tape library configuration. The drives can be used with the full range of supported servers, including those running IBM i, mainframe, Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems. LTO 6 drives offer a maximum data transfer rate of 160 MB/sec, up from 140 MB/sec

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• AURA Rolls Out New Database Connectors in Launcher/400

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  AURA Equipments has introduced three new database connectors for Launcher/400, an IBM i utility that enables users to output DB2 for i data in different formats. With the latest release of Launcher/400, the company now gives users the capability to pull data from Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases, in addition to DB2 for i. The new connectors enable Launcher/400 to reformat data sitting in Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in much the same way they have been used to transform data from DB2 for i into other formats, such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, or distribute them via

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• ARCAD Introduces Free Data Area Editor for RDp

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  ARCAD Software recently rolled out a new piece of freeware that might interest RPG programmers who use Rational Development for Power Systems (RDp). The new product, called Data Area Editor, provides a way for RDp users to edit data area objects within the Eclipse environment. According to ARCAD, the new Data Area Editor allows programmers to edit data area objects that belong to an IBM i project, or directly from the Remote Systems Explorer (RSE). The software supports the editing of character, decimal, and logical data area objects, and supports insert mode, fixed-size line editing, and search and replace functions.

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• Jitterbit Unveils New Version of Integration Tool

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Today marks the general availability of Jitterbit 5, a new version of the data and application integration toolset from commercial open source software vendor Jitterbit. The company says Version 5 will make it easier for customers to build, test, and deploy integration processes that connect front- and back-office applications, including popular ERP systems and cloud services. Jitterbit is a data and application integration tool that’s been used by more than 20,000 customers, according to the company. The product started out as an open source product in 2005, but in 2011 the Oakland, California, company moved away from its open

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• Linoma Bolsters MFT Product with Clustering, Load Balancing

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  Linoma Software has rolled out a new release of its managed file transfer (MFT) software that supports clustering across two or more MFT servers. GoAnywhere Services version 3.1 implements an “active-active” cluster that improves resiliency of MFT activities, while a new load balancing feature promises to give customers better performance when using multiple MFT servers with a gateway. In other news, Linoma is working on a new Android app expected next month. Developing a cluster-capable version of Linoma’s MFT product was a high priority, according to Bob Luebbe, chief architect of the Ashland, Nebraska, company. “We had lost a couple

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• RevSoft Signs Kantion as Global Distributor, Eyes US Expansion

  January 15, 2013 Alex Woodie

  RevSoft, an Australian developer of job schedulers and management tools for IBM i and other platforms, has signed a partnership deal with fellow Aussie firm Kantion IT to set up channels and sell RevSoft products around the world. Putting Kantion in charge of singing up resellers in international markets frees RevSoft to make a bigger push into the US market this year. Kantion IT managing director Richard Bryett knows a thing or two about IBM i management tools. From 2005 to 2011, Bryett sold Help/Systems products, first as a sales associate at eveLogic, and then as managing director of

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