• Storage Arrays Keep Selling Despite Server Slowdown In Q2

  September 17, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The need for more storage capacity in the data center is continuing to outpace the need for capacity, at least in terms of growth, according to the latest data from IDC. As The Four Hundred previously reported, the company reckons that the world consumed 2 million servers in the second quarter (down 3.6 percent) and drove $12.6 billion in revenues (down 4.8 percent). Disk arrays, by contrast, drive $8.1 billion in sales over the same three months, up 8 percent from the year-ago period, and total disk capacity shipped in those disk arrays hit an aggregate of 6,667

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• IBM To Stop Peddling Power6+ Processors Soon

  September 17, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  With the Power7+ processors and their related Power Systems machinery looming on the horizon sometime before the end of the year, according to IBM‘s top brass, it is no surprise that Big Blue is beginning the process of winding down sales of new Power6+ system boards and related peripherals. These machines are two generations back, and no vendor likes to sell more than one generation back even if they do support any old iron for many, many years in terms of running software and providing tech support. In announcement letter 912-815, IBM is telling customers to get out

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• Mad Dog 21/21: The Malady Of All Empires

  September 17, 2012 Hesh Wiener

  Here we are, more than five years after the debut of the iPhone, welcoming the fifth generation of this iconic product. Actually it’s more than iconic. Late last winter, Forbes pointed out that Apple’s iPhone business had become bigger than all of Microsoft. People like their iPhones a lot, and their Androids, too. They enjoy iPads and Kindles, and soon, perhaps, other tablets. Love for PCs? Not so much. In fact, it’s a tragedy. If the vendors and their suppliers want to survive, they ought to reflect on mythical Greeks, such as Narcissus and Echo and Nemesis. Just in case

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• PowerVM Outshines Other VMs In IBM-Backed Report

  September 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  There are many things that set PowerVM apart from other hypervisors on the market. For starters, the server virtualization products from VMware and Microsoft have a much, much bigger installed base than IBM‘s Power Systems hypervisor. But does that make them better? Not according to a recent report commissioned by IBM, which found that PowerVM is quicker to deploy, more stable at scale, requires fewer people to manage, costs less, consumes fewer resources, and delivers higher availability than the other leading brands. IBM hired Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. (SIL) to gather operational data from companies in various industries with the

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• Can My Power 520 Run IBM i 7.1, And Do It Well?

  September 17, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  We get a lot of questions here at IT Jungle, and we do our best to try to get you answers. With new Power7+ servers coming soon, IBM is getting ready to mothball Power6+ processor cards early next year (as we report on elsewhere in this issue), and i5/OS V5R4 support being ceased on September 30 next year, customers with older Power5 through Power6+ machinery have a lot to think about. One customer who contacted us recently is willing to ponder the jump from i5/OS V5R4 to IBM i 7.1, but none of the documentation that either he

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• Sirius Fluffs Up A Cloud For IBM i SMBs

  September 17, 2012 Dan Burger

  What Sirius Computer Solutions has learned in the managed services business, it hopes to apply to a new cloud services business the company has drawn up specifically for small to midsize IBM i shops. The targets in the sights of the shooters at Sirius are companies that find even the smallest Power 720 running IBM i much more than they need. Although the Power 720 is the volume leader among IBM i boxes, its performance and cost exceeds what many SMB customers can put to use, or what they want to pay. Sirius believes the cloud is the only way

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• Attunity: Moving Big Data for Dollars

  September 17, 2012 Alex Woodie

  A year after acquiring fellow data replication software vendor RepliWeb, Attunity is remaking itself as a provider of Big Data pumps. The company, which recently moved up from the pink sheets to trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market, excels at moving large amounts of data in a quick fashion. Thanks to its new partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a whole lot of data is going to go through the Attunity pump. IBM i shops may have heard of Attunity for its change data capture (CDC) software, called Attunity Stream. That product excelled at continuously pulling updates from source databases,

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• Terrible’s Casino Taps Agilysys for Inventory Management

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Terrible’s Hotel Casino in Las Vegas recently implemented the IBM i-based Stratton Warren System (SWS) application from Agilysys and soon expects to see improvements in the management of its inventory and procurement activities. SWS (formerly MMS400) is a suite of inventory management applications designed for large hotels and casino resorts that cater to tens of thousands of guests and manage relationships with hundreds of suppliers. The software, which runs exclusively on the IBM i operating system, is often deployed alongside other IBM i hospitality apps, including the Lodging Management System (LMS), which Agilysys also obtained in its 2003 acquisition of

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• Maxava Goes HTML5 with maxView

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Maxava yesterday announced that maxView, its Web-based console for monitoring and managing IBM i server and HA environments, has been rewritten in the latest HTML5 language, which the vendor says bolsters the product’s usability. Maxava develops three versions of maxView. There is maxView Lite, a free GUI console that shows the status of key IBM i server performance metrics, including CPU and ASP utilization, and WRKSYSSTS- and WRKSACTJOB-related information. maxView Monitor builds on this foundation and also displays information about the status of HA replication and failover readiness, but doesn’t allow users to actually manage the HA product. maxView Manager

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• mrc Bolsters Web UI, Launches Cloud Program for ISVs

  September 11, 2012 Alex Woodie

  Web application development tool maker mrc has upgraded the templates it uses to generate Web pages, resulting in pages that load faster, are easier to maintain, and will give users more flexibility going forward. The new templates will be available to software vendors who sign up for mrc’s new cloud enablement program. m-Power is a Web application development tool that uses a template-based approach to enable rapid delivery of new programs and functionality. After configuring new programs from pre-defined templates, m-Power generates Java code that runs on IBM i and all Java-enabled platforms. The Chicago, Illinois, company last week announced

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