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System i NEWS UK archive from May 2007
Typex wins community support award at COMMON Europe.

Things at the Newcastle offices of Typex Group have been hectic since Big Blue announced it had teamed up with 3Com to deliver IP Telephony (IPT) on the System i late last year. And last week, Typex won an award for System i innovation from COMMON Europe and IBM for community services.
30 May 2007


Lax password security means one-in-three IT workers snoop on confidential data

The parlous state of internal IT security was highlighted yesterday with the publication of a survey that revealed that one in three tech workers admits to using special privileges to peek at colleagues’ confidential data.
30 May 2007


New System p reveals shape of things to come for System i

In a joint London/New York launch on Monday, IBM provided an insight into the future of the System i when it unveiled a new model of its sister server, the System p 570.
23 May 2007


Insurance companies choose Profound Logic modernisation tool

Ansvar, an ethical general insurance company specialising in insuring non-profit organisations, and Fortis Insurance in Eastleigh, part of the Fortis Group, have selected Profound Logic’s rapid web development system RPGsp supplied by Logicmate of London to run on their System i installations.
23 May 2007


QMessage Monitor enhancements ease SOX storage issues and provide audit trail

Gillingham-based CCSS says that enhancements to its QMessage Monitor solution now provide users with a range of commands to combat the storage and management challenges that come with Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance.
23 May 2007


Bsafe/Enterprise Security 5.5 includes compliance functions

Bsafe Information Systems has released version 5.5 of its Bsafe/Enterprise Security software for System i with enhanced functionality for compliance with SOX, HIPAA, Basel-II and other mandates.
16 May 2007


Common Europe Congress day pass winners announced

Last week, the IBM CUA/Common UK teamed up with iNEWSWire UK for a competition to win two free day passes to the System i event of the year, the 2007 Common Europe Congress at The Tower Hotel in London next week, May 19-22.
16 May 2007


Secure Trust Bank beefs up its archives

British bank Secure Trust Bank plc has switched its existing basic electronic archive system to the MultiArchive integrated document management (IDM) infrastructure from Multi-Support running on a System i model 520.
16 May 2007


Win a day pass to the Common Europe Congress with iNEWSWire UK!

The IBM CUA/Common UK has teamed up with iNEWSWire UK to offer the chance to win free day passes to the System i event of the year to two of our lucky readers.
11 May 2007


Paper manufacturer shows off benefits of System i/System x consolidation

IBM has recently revealed the details of a UK project that shows off the capabilities offered by System i and System x consolidation.
11 May 2007


System i support for MySQL linked to adoption of PHP

In addition to the latest set of System i announcements, IBM last week announced a joint technology and reseller agreement to bring support for the MySQL open source database to the platform.
11 May 2007


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