• Netential Launches an i Cloud Solution for JDE

  November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Netential, a U.K.-based managed service provider (MSP), this month launched Cloud 9, a new IBM i-based cloud offering for running production Oracle JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne workloads. Under Cloud 9, Netential and its data center partner, Blue Chip , will host, manage, and service customers’ development, test, or production JDE World and JDE EnterpriseOne ERP applications running in an IBM i environment. The World offering is supported up to version A9, and the pay-as-you-go price starts at £2.18 per hour, or about $3.40 per hour. The EnterpriseOne offering is supported up to version 9, and starts at £0.75

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• Velocity Ramps Up DR Services for Lawson, JDE, and Kronos Customers

  November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Velocity Technology Solutions rolled out new disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity options earlier this month geared toward getting customers’ critical ERP systems back up and running after a disaster even quicker than it could before. The remodeled DR services plan is based largely on Velocity’s recent acquisition of WTS, and is aimed specifically at customers of Oracle-JD Edwards, Infor-Lawson, and Kronos. Velocity is a growing managed services provider (MSP) that has been expanding lately into cloud computing and hosted DR services. In September, the New York City-based company, which has more than 20 years of

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• ‘No Scalability Limits’ Shown with Fiserv Power7 Benchmark

  November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

  A very impressive benchmark of Fiserv‘s IBM i-based Premiere core banking application was recently conducted at an IBM Innovation Center in San Mateo, California. The relatively low usage of Power7 resources during the test led the companies to conclude that “there’s no known limit to Premier’s scalability.” IBM and Fiserv loaded Premiere on a four-core Power Systems Model 750 platform equipped with solid state drives and rated for 24,000 CPW. In that configuration, Premier was able to support more than 5.1 million online transactions processing (OLTP) per hour (including customer and account inquiries), which is a record for the

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• Zend Studio 9 Hits the Gym and the Cloud

  November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

  A leaner, meaner version of Zend Studio is now available that will start up faster and consume fewer resources than it did before, thanks to new capabilities for turning off unneeded functions. Also, Zend Technologies has added new cloud connectors to the Eclipse-based development environment that makes it easier to run Zend Studio development workloads on a Zend cloud, or production workloads on an Amazon, Rackspace, or IBM cloud. It wouldn’t be fair to say that Zend Studio–which supports development of PHP applications for deployment on IBM i, Windows, Linux, and other platforms–had let itself go and

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• Connectria Launches Amazon S3 Cloud Clone

  November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

  The data center and cloud hosting company Connectria this month launched a new cloud storage solution that uses an API that’s compatible with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), enabling companies to move their Amazon S3 storage to Connectria without big changes to business processes–and possibly saving them money. Since it launched in 2006, Amazon S3 has become an extremely popular storage mechanism for entire websites, images, and computer backups. According to Amazon, at the end of June, S3 stored more than 449 billion objects and processed up to 290,000 requests per second. However, some people may not be comfortable with

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• Profound Announces Another RPG:OA First, Unveils RDi Plug-In

  November 29, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Using Profound Logic‘s RPG Open Access toolset is about to get easier. This month the company rolled out its new Eclipse plug-in that allows IBM i developers to access Profound UI functions within the comfort of Rational Developer for i (RDi). The announcement marks the latest in a series of RPG:OA-related firsts for Profound. RPG:OA, which IBM launched the in April 2010 under the official name of Rational Open Access: RPG Edition, was created to provide an RPG-centric mechanism for creating Web 2.0 screens, user interfaces for mobile devices, database connections, and integration points using XML and Web services

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• IBM Fights Performance Anxiety on Power Systems

  November 28, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you currently use the Performance Management iSeries service, IBM is replacing it with a new set of performance monitoring services that span both IBM i and AIX platforms. In announcement letter 611-050 from November 15, just after we went on Thanksgiving holiday hiatus at The Four Hundred, IBM replaced the different iSeries and pSeries services with a single, unified Performance Management for Power Systems service. The older Performance Management iSeries service, which was part of IBM’s umbrella Operational Support Services, are withdrawn immediately. IBM will support you with the new combined service until your existing contract term comes

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• Mainline Buys KgW For IBM, VMware Expertise

  November 28, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM system reseller Mainline Information Systems is expanding its reach in the United States with the acquisition of KgW & Company. Mainline, based in Tallahassee, Florida, is one of the largest resellers of IBM mainframes, Power Systems, and System x machines in the United States, and it also has a tidy business peddling Hewlett-Packard‘s X86-based ProLiant and Itanium-based Integrity and Superdome systems. Mainline was founded in 1989 by Rick Kearney in the wake of the AS/400 launch and was initially focused on IBM’s proprietary midrange platform. In the 1990s, Mainline became one of the largest resellers of IBM

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• Help/Systems Leads New Entries Into IBM i Solution Edition Program

  November 28, 2011 Alex Woodie

  A handful of new IBM i Solution Editions have been added to the program recently, bringing the total size of the North American program to 30. Among the vendors joining the regional program recently are Help/Systems, Agilysys, New Generation Software, and UNIT4 Coda. Also, the platform’s three major high availability software vendors–Vision Solutions, Maxava, and Trader’s–can now sell Solution Edition packages to customers all around the world. The IBM i Solution Edition program allows customers to save close to 50 percent off the combination of the list price of Power Systems servers

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• Tape Areal Density Growth To Outpace Disks and Flash?

  November 28, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  A lot of people want tapes and disks to die and flash to take over, but it looks like tape technology is not about to go gently into that night. And it is not just a matter of cost per gigabyte, but the density of the three different types of storage devices. Roger Luethy, a storage specialist at IBM Switzerland, posted a paper that storage techies Robert Fontana, Steven Hetzler, and Gary Decad of the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, published some time earlier this year that shows that maybe the 40 percent annual growth rate in areal

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