• High Liner Ops for Hosted High Availability from DSC

  October 18, 2011 Alex Woodie

  High Liner Foods, a Nova Scotia processor of frozen seafood, has tapped Data Storage Corp. (DSC) to protect its data and its applications. The company will utilize two forms of protection, including DSC’s hosted high availability setup as well as a data vaulting solution. High Liner Foods, which reported revenue of $576 million Canadian ($570 million USD) during its fiscal 2010, is one of North America’s largest seafood processing operations. The company sources finfish and shellfish from all over the world, processes them, and stores them for distribution to restaurants and retail outlets across the U.S. and Canada. The company

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• S4i Updates Document Capture Software

  October 18, 2011 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that use the latest release of Desktop Capture that S4i Systems announced last week will gain the capability to automatically scan and input more types of documents into their content management systems. Desktop Capture is a Windows program designed to streamline the acquisition of documents into a content management system (CMS) or document management and workflow system. The software, which S4i Systems unveiled a year ago, can capture documents from a variety of sources, including scanners (for paper-based documents), or e-mail inboxes and file systems (for electronic documents). Desktop Capture is particularly well-suited to help customers

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• Notes and Domino Gets New Social Networking Features with Version 8.5.3

  October 18, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Companies adopting the version 8.5.3 release of IBM‘s Lotus Notes and Domino will get a free license to the Files and Profiles features of IBM’s increasingly pervasive social networking software, called IBM Connections. The new release also brings enhancements to email and calendars, and new features in areas of mobile computing and virtualization support. IBM has been building social networking capabilities into its Lotus Notes and Domino products for some time. There is Engage, the Web-based collaboration feature of the hosted version of Lotus Notes and Domino, called LotusLive, that enables workers to get together in forums, participate in

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• Jacada Refreshes Web-Enablement Software for IBM i and z/OS

  October 18, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Call centers that require access to IBM i and z/OS systems may be interested in the latest release of Jacada Web-enablement software, Jacada Interface Server 9.0. The vendor, which today focuses exclusively on providing solutions that simplify the screens and workflows used by customer service representatives in call centers, says JIS 9.0 provides updated support for the latest host operating systems, Web application servers, and Web browsers. Jacada has focused on providing call center solutions for the last eight years. The vendor, which was the first vendor to provide screen-scraping technology to AS/400 shops more than 15 years ago when

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• Gamma Partners with Taylored for Integrated Time Clocks

  October 18, 2011 Alex Woodie

  Gamma Software, a developer of accounting and human resources software for the IBM i OS, has hooked up with the IBM i consultancy startup Taylored Software, the companies announced last month. The two companies have worked together to create a direct interface between Taylored’s new NetShift time clock system and the GammaSoft Executive Suite. Typically, when two or more IT vendors are involved with the same customer, you can count on there being a bit of work involved to get those products to talk to each other. It just goes without saying that the system integrators will get

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• MPG Launches Web Interface for IBM i Performance Metrics

  October 18, 2011 Alex Woodie

  The IBM i server performance experts at Midrange Performance Group have created a new product that displays key IBM i performance metrics such as CPU, disk, and memory consumption in a graphical user interface. Called EXPO (short for Executive Performance Overview), the new offering uses color-coded graphics to quickly show managers how their IBM i server is running, and allows them to drill down into more detailed performance data to get to the root of potential problems. MPG has been showing IBM i performance data in a Web browser for a few years now. According to MPG’s Randy Watson, the

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• New Xcase Release Propels DDS-to-SQL Migrations

  October 18, 2011 Dan Burger

  If you think IBM DB2 database modernization is a time-consuming, money-gobbling adventure into the unknown, you’re right. But that’s the correct answer only if you try to wade through it while depending on manual procedures. Automation will save time and money, as it always does when the alternative is dependent on heavy manual labor. That’s exactly why Resolution Software designed and is selling Xcase Modernize-DB, which last week became generally available in version 9.1. Databases at typical IBM i shops are like roadkill. The older they are, the more likely they are to smell. If you’re around them all the

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• SAP Software Sales Spike 28 Percent In Q3

  October 17, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  German application software giant SAP is rolling in it again, just like rival Oracle has been since the Great Recession ended. The “it” I am referring to is not legal issues, but rather money. And SAP has so much of it now it decided to release preliminary results for the third quarter ended in September. In the quarter, SAP posted at 28 percent increase in software sales, to €841 million, and software and software-related services sales (is that a German language construct or what?) posted a 16 percent increase to €2.69 billion. Total revenues rose by 14 percent to €3.41

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• IBM Promotes Easy SSD Tiering With DS8000 Deal

  October 17, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Hierarchical storage management is not a new concept, but it sure does keep getting new names as the years roll by. IBM‘s high-end DS8800 disk arrays, announced a year ago, sport a hierarchical storage management feature called Easy Tier, which was used to move frequently used data from slower disks to faster ones in the array automatically to boost overall system throughput. The DS8800, and other IBM systems and disk arrays as well, now sport solid state drives (SSDs) as well as disk drives, and IBM wants customers to take SSDs for a spin (er, well, not really I

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• Slow But Steady Growth for Data Centers Through 2015

  October 17, 2011 Jenny Thomas

  Once again, in contrast to the current economy in the U.S. at least, the analysts at Gartner are predicting an increase in worldwide data center hardware spending, projecting a total of $98.9 billion in 2011, which is up 12.7 percent from 2010 spending of $87.8 billion. The Gartner gurus go on to forecast that data center hardware spending will reach $106.4 billion in 2012, and surpass $126.2 billion in 2015. Even though Gartner’s finest are saying growth will continue in the world’s data centers through 2015, it looks like it will see a slowdown after the spike in 2011. A

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