• LogRhythm Goes Multi-Dimensional in Security Analysis

  October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Cyber criminals are getting more clever by the day, and so can the good guys with products like the new SIEM (security information and event management) solution unveiled by LogRhythm last week. The Boulder, Colorado, company claims that its solution is the first multi-dimensional security database capable of tackling “big data”-sized troves of information. LogRhythm’s SIEM product, which is also called LogRhythm, gathers security-related data from many sources (including IBM i logs), and mixes it in an attempt to tease real and actionable information out of the noise. Like other products in the SIEM class, LogRhythm has sought a competitive

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• Kisco Sends IBM i Reports to Google Drive Cloud Service

  October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Kisco Information Systems last week announced an update to WebReport/i that allows IBM i shops to send their reports and spool files directly to Google Drive, a new cloud storage and synchronization service that competes with Dropbox. The new feature will be useful for IBM i shops looking to expand their report distribution. WebReport/i is an IBM i utility that automates the conversion and distribution of raw spool files from IBM i applications. The software can convert spool files to PDF, HTML, TIF, RTF, XLS, or CSV formats, and then distribute them via email, fax, FTP, or the Web.

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• SAP Sends HANA to the Cloud

  October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

  SAP last week announced HANA Cloud, a cloud version of its in-memory database that can be used to power cloud applications developed in Java or its NetWeaver technology. SAP also unveiled a hosted version of HANA that lives on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and will allow customers to quickly spin up HANA to run small workloads or for testing proof of concepts. HANA was on full display last week at the SAP TechEd 2012 shindig in Las Vegas, Nevada. The popular in-memory database system, which can be used for both transactional and analytical workloads, is less than two

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• QlikTech Adapts In-Memory Analytics for External Big Data

  October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

  QlikTech made its mark in the business intelligence field by simplifying the BI experience and delivering results quickly from an in-memory associative database. But with the advent of “big data,” the company’s total reliance on in-memory technology was challenged. Last week, the company unveiled a new Direct Discovery mode that allows customers to process large data sets stored externally on disk, while keeping the associative data model in tact. QlikTech has ridden the in-memory wave quite successfully over the last decade. While its big BI competitors like Oracle, SAP, and IBM have developed or acquired in-memory database technologies

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• Lavastorm Adopts R for Better Big Data Understanding

  October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Among the slew of software vendors that for some reason chose last week to make big data announcements was Lavastorm Analytics, the developer of the versatile Lavastorm Analytics Platform. The company unveiled a new R Analytics Pack that enables the open source R statistical analysis programming language to work within the Lavastorm product. The company says the combination of R and Lavastorm’s visual approach of discovering and understanding data and processes will ease the challenges presented by “big data.” The Lavastorm Analytics Platform offers an impressive array of features that spans reporting, ETL, SQL editing, cross referencing, data cleansing,

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• Single Sign-On Service Cuts Costs, Complexity

  October 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  The realization of how costly it is to manage user IDs, passwords, and authentication policies can be a shocking experience. If you actually look into this, hanging a “Danger! High Voltage!” sign outside the IT department may be a good idea. Many companies are looking for places where costs can be cut with IT efficiencies, and an examination in this area might earn you some extra credit. It begins with a technology you may have heard of before: single sign-on. You may not know it, but you already own the technology that enables single sign-on. It’s built into your IBM

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• Raz-Lee Tracks IBM i PTFs, Ships Password Reset Product

  October 23, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that struggle to keep track of IBM i PTFs manually may be interested in the new automated PTF tracking function unveiled by Raz-Lee Security last week. The company’s Change Tracker software can now track all PTF “apply” and “remove” actions in the IBM i environment, and report on the status of any PTF and all related objects. In other news, the Nanuet, New York-based company announced the release of Password Reset for IBM i. Change Tracker, which Raz-Lee launched earlier this year at the COMMON show at Disneyland, tracks changes made to production code at the source and

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• Manta’s IBM i COBOL Training Trifecta

  October 22, 2012 Jenny Thomas

  Earlier this year, Bill Hansen, president of Manta Technologies realized a long-time goal: the introduction of a COBOL training series. According to Hansen, COBOL was the one training course customers consistently asked for over the years, so he is pleased to announce the rollout of Manta’s third COBOL course in the curriculum: COBOL Input Programming. “The pleasant surprise is the people who were asking for COBOL training have turned out to be customers already,” said Hansen. “As courses are coming out, I am seeing them being gobbled up by the COBOL shops.” Manta has already introduced two COBOL training

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• SAP And JD Edwards Support Floats Spinnaker’s Boat

  October 22, 2012 Dan Burger

  The third-party maintenance business continues to be a rose garden for the likes of Spinnaker Support, where Oracle‘s JD Edwards software customers and SAP software customers are happy to have maintenance alternatives. Last week, Spinnaker indicated revenues at the company increased 80 percent and sales bookings were up 154 percent during the first three quarters of 2012. Because Spinnaker is a private company, it releases financial reports as it wants rather than according to the financial reporting guidelines that public companies adhere to (more or less). Two weeks ago, Rimini Street, another private company enjoying success primarily

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• Manhattan Associates Posts Revenue Gains For Three Quarters

  October 22, 2012 Dan Burger

  An increase in licensing revenue is a pretty good indicator of how well a software company is performing. So when you see that Manhattan Associates has jumped that number from $37.7 million in the first nine months of 2011 to $47.1 million in the same period here in 2012, the supply chain management experts in Atlanta, Georgia, should be pretty happy with the veritable economic feast. A 20 percent bump is a worthy achievement, especially in an era where it is not uncommon to see software companies relying on services to be the sole bread winner. In the third quarter

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