• SkyView Security Now Monitoring Vision Portal

  July 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  Prominent high availability vendor Vision Solutions has teamed with SkyView Partners, an influential player in the IBM midrange security arena, to tighten the screws on Vision’s portal offering and place more control and manageability within the view of one console. The integration takes place on Vision Solutions Portal (VSP), a single, browser-based, point of control for monitoring and managing alerts and notifications on Power Systems servers running IBM i as well as AIX through Vision’s MIMIX Global, which manages MIMIX clusters and hybrid IBM i disk-based clustering environments. It is also integrated into Vision’s iOptimize system utilization console on

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• Big Blue Puts Out New Hardware PTF Group For IBM i 6.1 And 7.1

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Here’s a puzzler that we haven’t been able to sort out. There are two new hardware group PTFs that IBM put out last week that are not part of its Technology Refresh cycle and that don’t seem to be tied to cumulative releases of the IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 operating systems, either. The PTF group is SF99705 for IBM i 7.1 (PDF) and SF99605 for IBM i 6.1 (PDF), and as best as we can tell here at IT Jungle, the PTF patches include firmware and Microsoft patches for drivers and licensed internal code that lives at the

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• IBM Rolls Out Lab Services For PureSystems Integration

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Starting next month, the techies from the various divisions of IBM‘s Systems and Technology Group are going to be peddling yet another bunch of services to help customers integrate their existing systems with new PureSystems modular gear. In announcement letter 612-027, you’ll find the IBM Systems Lab Services is offering what it calls ServiceUnits for premium, remote, and local services, all of which are designed to help customers adopt new technologies and integrate them with their existing systems. In this case, IBM is offering QuickStart services for PureFlex Standard, Express, and Enterprise Editions (those are varying degrees of

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• IBM Should Buy Mellanox Before HP Or Cisco Does

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Maybe IBM should have bought Mellanox Technologies as well as Blade Network Technologies back in the fall of 2010. Or perhaps just after Mellanox ate rival-partner Voltaire that November and positioned itself to be a player in both Ethernet and InfiniBand switches and adapter cards. Intel is certainly hot to trot to own chip designers who make network switch and router chips as well as silicon and full adapters for servers that allow them to link to switches, and IBM would do well to get more serious about networking than just buying up Ethernet switch maker Blade Network, itself a

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• As I See It: To Serve, To Strive, And Not To Yield

  July 23, 2012 Victor Rozek

  She arrived at the dining room as she always did, carrying a baby doll. The woman, like the doll she clutched, was damaged; her appearance shabby, her demeanor distant. She waited her turn in line, acknowledged a greeting from the doorman with a slight nod of her head, and shuffled in looking about for a place to sit. . . . Stephen Covey, he of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, died last week of complications from a bicycle accident. At age 79, he lost control of his bike on a steep hill. Happily, one of his habits

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• Another Look At .NET Apps Accessing IBM i

  July 23, 2012 Dan Burger

  Beauty and ease of multi-platform integration are in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes it’s the same vision. For instance, if you are a Microsoft .NET application developer and you are able to grab data residing on the DB2 for i database with the greatest of ease, it’s a beautiful thing. But it’s certainly no guarantee. Subject matter experts like Craig Pelkie and Derek Maciak find people lost in this integration wilderness on a pretty regular basis. Not everyone is happy with the .NET and IBM i matchup. I wrote an article on this topic about six weeks ago, and

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• Big Blue Cranks Up The Profit Engine In Q2

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  You have to hand it to IBM. The major economies that used to lead the global economic engine are having a bit of trouble with the growth markets coming on, and being that International is in fact the company’s first name and Business is its middle name, you would expect for Big Blue to not worry about where it makes its sales or even if sales grow so long as profits do. And that is exactly what the company has focused on and accomplished in the second quarter. In the quarter ended in June, IBM’s revenues took a $1

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• IBM Gives Killer Power System Deals Down Under

  July 23, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you are looking to buy a Power 720 or 750 server based on the current Power7 processors and your company happens to be located in either Australia or New Zealand, then IBM has a deal that you are probably going to want to take a look at and maybe not even refuse. Maybe IBM will start wheeling and dealing up here in the Northern Hemisphere soon, too, ahead of the Power7+ launch. As you all know, the vast majority of customers who run IBM i on modern Power Systems machines find that a single-socket Power 720 is sufficient for

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• SAP Pre-Announces Record Q2 Revenues

  July 16, 2012 Dan Burger

  Infor with its shopping list of IBM i-centric ERP businesses earns more than SAP in this niche. Thanks to its JD Edwards business, so does Oracle. But SAP is still the biggest of those fish in the ocean, it has thousands of IBM i installations, and its quarterly financial reports are eagerly awaited by the stock market mongers. And once again, SAP is eager to show off its record catch. Let’s begin by noting this was the company’s best revenue-generating Q2 in history. A currency-adjusted 19 percent gain in software revenues put a snap in SAP’s step to the

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• Ultrium Tape Drive Makers Ready LTO 6 Units

  July 16, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The Linear Tape Out (LTO) Consortium managed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Quantum started selling LTO 6 licenses last June, and now the first tape drives based on the spec are about to hit the market. According to a statement put out by the consortium, the first LTO 6 drives will hit the market in August, with the ability to store up to 6.25 TB of compressed data on a cartridge, double of the LTO 5 cartridge, with data transfer rates of up to 400 MB/sec on compressed data, a 42.9 per cent boost over LTO 5. If you

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