• French Logistics Firm Taps CCSS for Server Monitoring

  September 18, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Geodis, Europe’s fourth-largest logistics provider, has adopted systems management software from CCSS to help it operate its IBM i environment. The French firm’s replacement of homegrown monitoring programs with QSystem Monitor and QMessage Monitor has enabled it to deliver better service and reliability with its IBM i servers, CCSS reports. Geodis is a 30,000-person logistics services provider that operates around the globe. The company’s European trucking division, Geodis BM, maintains a data center in Mery, France, that is responsible for operating and supporting the transportation and warehouse management systems that are used by about 5,000 employees across its own division

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• Real Vision Bolsters Mobile App with Useful New Features

  September 18, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Real Vision Software, the developer of the Real Vision Imaging (RVI) content management application for the IBM i OS, has added several new features to its mobile app. The new features tie into RVI running on the IBM i server, and will help field workers make better use of their Apple‘s iOS devices as they service customer accounts. The company has also unveiled versions of the mobile app that run on Android and Windows Mobile 7. In an August posting to the RVI blog, Real Vision Software revealed four new features for its RVI Apple app, which

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• Linoma Goes ‘Virtual’ with GoAnywhere Services 3.0

  September 18, 2012 Alex Woodie

  The managed file transfer (MFT) features are coming fast and furiously for Linoma Software these days. Just a few weeks after releasing GoAnywhere Services version 2.8, the company this week is expected to announce the general availability of version 3.0, which adds new features such as support for virtual folders, network file shares, and sending invitations to other users to use the product. Linoma also announced that the entire GoAnywhere suite has been certified for Windows Server 2012. Linoma is making significant changes in how users interact with the GoAnywhere Services product with version 3.0–and, perhaps more importantly, how administrators

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• Zend Expects Biggest PHP Confab Yet with ZendCon ’12

  September 18, 2012 Alex Woodie

  The PHP world will descend upon Santa Clara, California, next month for the eigth annual ZendCon conference, hosted by Zend Technologies. Zend anticipates its biggest show yet, with close to 1,000 attendees expected to hear about the latest enhancements to the language by PHP gurus, and to learn about the latest product updates, such as Zend Framework 2. There will also be a strong IBM i contingent at the show, with separate sessions and events. Zend officials recently briefed IT Jungle on what the show will hold for all attendees, and also what’s in store for the 200 or

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• EVault Delivers Backup Flexibility with Release 7

  September 18, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that use EVault‘s online backup and recovery service are now able to keep replicas of their data in more places as part of new product architecture launched last week with EVault 7. Specifically, EVault overcame technical limitations that kept customers from keeping copies of their data on site, while also storing copies with EVault or a service provider partner. EVault 7 also brings a new social media-type user interface aimed at boosting collaboration. In the disaster recovery business, it’s absolutely impetrative to have geographically distributed copies of your data. The folks at EVault obviously realize this. After all,

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• IDSync Comes to IBM i from Trucking World

  September 18, 2012 Alex Woodie

  One of the new software vendors you might have seen at IBM i conferences this year is InnerApps, the Ohio-based developer of an identity management solution called Identity Syncronizer. The company, which was spun off from an IT services firm with experience in the IBM i trucking software world, is ramping up the visibility of IDSync, which allows companies to extend the power of their Microsoft Active Directory software to manage identities and employee access to non-Windows computing resources. InnerApps was founded in 2010 as a subsidiary of Tranztec Solutions, an IT services and hosting firm that is

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• IBM Redbook Helps Out With PowerVM

  September 17, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Hot off the presses! If you are trying to get your brain wrapped around the PowerVM hypervisor for dicing and slicing IBM late last week just published a new authoritative Redbook on the virty beast. You can see a draft of the Redbook, called IBM PowerVM Best Practices, which was put out on September 14 and which is due to be finalized in November of this year. Presumably with updates for the new versions of the hypervisor with tweaks to support the new Power7+ systems that are due in the next couple of weeks if my server-sense is correct.

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• IT Industry Leads Job Cutting In The U.S.

  September 17, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Not only does automation help companies reduce their payrolls, the relentless competition among IT and telecom equipment and service suppliers and the drive to ever-higher profit levels is causing them to shed workers instead of adding them. So says the head-hunters and employment analysts at Challenger, Gray, and Christmas. In its most recent report, Challenger said that employers in the United States who actually make their job cuts known (as required when they hit a certain level in states that require filings) said they were going to shed 32,239 workers in August, the most recent data available. The level

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• Big Data Is The Big Winner At The U.S. Open

  September 17, 2012 Jenny Thomas

  Andy Murray and Serena Williams may have dominated the courts at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, during the recent 2012 U.S. Open, but behind the scenes, the real action was being served up by IBM. Sure, it’s easy for the average fan to get distracted by the tennis action, but to Big Blue, each serve, volley, and point is more than just an exciting play between athletes. To IBM, that action is big data. “Big data is impacting so many aspects of sporting events, that it’s no longer a stretch to say

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• IBM Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is On Storwize Data Compression

  September 17, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The Storwize V7000 disk arrays are at the heart of the new Flex System modular systems announced by IBM back in April, featuring converged Power and X86 server nodes, integrated versions of the V7000 arrays, and integrated switching. The arrays can also be attached to plain vanilla Power Systems boxes running IBM i, AIX, or Linux and are the important midrange of IBM’s storage lineup. So when IBM says Storwize arrays can compress files like crazy and thereby save IT shops money, customers want to believe it. To demonstrate its commitment to its compression algorithms (or rather, the ones it

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