The System i Rochester Roadshow is coming to Brighton at the end of October, courtesy of hosts COMMON UK and IBM, and our readers can attend for a bargain price.
26 September 2007

Also well worth a mention is ASNA’s one-day technical seminar on iSeries application modernisation in London on October 30. The purpose of this event is to present a live showcase demonstrating how, with ASNA’s technology, you can code with RPG in the .NET environment and also automate the transformation of current RPG applications to run in .NET
26 September 2007

Working with Premier Business Partner REAL Solutions, Flintshire County Council has consolidated 18 physical servers to logical partitions on two System i 570s, and added Linux partitions to the same systems to handle the file serving workload, according to a report from IBM.
26 September 2007

BOSaNOVA has launched a new security product, the Q3i, a secure tape drive with built-in encryption to protect stored data for the System i and other platforms.
26 September 2007

With a need to support branch offices in several European countries with high-performance two-tier banking software and create new infrastructure within the physical and power limits of an existing data centre, DnB NOR Group has implemented Financial Objects’ ibis s2 international banking software.
19 September 2007

Just a week after finally joining the OpenOffice group, as we reported last week iNEWSWire UK, IBM yesterday launched Lotus Symphony, its own suite of free desktop applications.
19 September 2007

The majority of European organisations have no firm plans for initiating greener data centres, according to a report released yesterday.
19 September 2007

Linoma Software has released Crypto Complete, a solution for protecting sensitive data on the System i with encryption technology and integrated key management. The new product features automated encryption of fields within System i database files.

Raz-Lee Security has made enhancements to its iSecurity System i security and compliance product suite.


12 September 2007

IBM has joined the OpenOffice community, it was announced on Monday. Although it has supported the open source rival to Microsoft’s ubiquitous Office suite for some time, this will mean that it will now actively contribute to the project that was founded by Sun Microsystems seven years ago and has that has attracted nearly 100 million downloads, according to its creators.
12 September 2007

A joint initiative between Premier Business Partner and System i tools vendor LANSA and Avnet Partner Solutions, IBM’s largest distributor, is intended to remove barriers to System i modernisation. Together with three UK Business Partners -- Campbell Lee, Northdoor and Quattro Consulting -- the consortium aims to give gives systems a new “Lease of Life”.
12 September 2007

The boffins at Big Blue have offered another of their tantalising glimpses into the future of computing with the announcement of two major feats in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules.

05 September 2007

A rejuvenated BOS -- Better Online Solutions  -- is back in the UK and mainland Europe. The company management has changed, new technologies have been acquired and new partners are joining. While System i is focused in the marketing plan, diversification strategies also figure prominently.

05 September 2007

Help/Systems has released Robot/SECURITY, a new i5/OS security monitoring and auditing package that combines five tools in one package.
05 September 2007