| AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR ABOUT iNEWSWIRE UK SUBSCRIPTIONS A historic announcement and how to ensure that you continue to receive the iNEWSWire email newsletter in 2008. | |
| IBM releases “serious game” for tomorrow’s business professionals. IBM has launched Innov8, a video game designed to help university students and young professionals develop a combination of business and IT skills. | |
| NetManage upgrades entire product suite Application modernisation specialist NetManage has upgraded its entire product suite, including OnWeb Server, OnWeb for iSeries, OnWeb Web-to-Host, RUMBA, RUMBA FTP and ViewNow X Server. | |
| Everton is latest Premiership team to score with System i Everton FC is the latest Premiership football club to install IRIS Software4Sport’s System i-driven TALENT Sport stadium management solution. | |
| System i Academic Initiative continues to expand IBM’s System i Academic Initiative, announced in 2006 with the key intention of bringing new blood to the platform through forging partnerships with educational institutions and local businesses, is going from strength to strength. | |
| Tindirect sets up midrange hardware engineers service Tindirect has formalised its growing service area by launching a division called tinservices to meet the needs of a skills gap. | |
| IBM is server revenue top dog, but HP is No. 1 in terms of shipments IBM continued to lead the worldwide server market in terms of revenue in the third quarter according to the latest figures from Gartner. | |
| Aircraft engineer replaces Intel-based apps with System i and Lawson Lawson Software has secured a major contract for its M3 7.1 application suite to run on an i5 model 520, supplied by Business Partner Syan and replacing Intel-based systems. | |
| Are you ready for “cloud” computing? IBM has announced that it is to follow up its attempts to commercialise models such as utility and grid computing with a “cloud” computing initiative. | |
| Help/Systems builds web-based access into more Robot offerings Help/Systems has released Robot Browser Interface 2.0, its web browser-based interface for its System i system management solutions. | |
| System i suits Arcadia with WebFOCUS and DB2 Arcadia has improved business intelligence (BI) capabilities through utilising WebFOCUS and DB2 on its System i 570, according to a report from IBM. | |
| POWER-driven Blue Gene/L is still supercomputing top dog IBM’s POWER processor-driven Blue Gene/L supercomputer has set a new world record by topping the official TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list for the fourth year running. | |
| Mrc adds Web 2.0 capabilities to development tool Mrc has updated m-Power, its Java-based web-application development tool with a number of what it describes as Web 2.0 abilities. | |
| RPG web services reuse strategy delivers new e-commerce solution Looksoftware’s UK partner Simply Computing, working with its customer Alexandra plc, has delivered a new web-based procurement system driven in real-time by its RPG-based System i back-end. | |
| BCD revamps web application development tool System i application development tool provider Business Computer Design (BCD) yesterday revealed details of a new version of its WebSmart ILE web application development tool. BCD’s UK distributor is SoftLanding Europe. | |
| Bytware launches online System i security game System i systems management and security-focused company Bytware has created a viral marketing campaign designed to draw attention to PHP and security issues the open scripting language might bring to the System i world. | |
| Even large firms need to allow for risks, says IBM survey It is not just smaller businesses or even middle-ranking firms that are unprepared for disruption to their systems, according to a new survey from IBM. | |
| IBM revenues up, but System i sales fall IBM revealed its third quarter trading results last week and reported that its revenue from the System i had declined by 21% compared to the same period last year. | |
| Big Blue presses home its green data centre message IBM is continuing to focus on green computing. At this month’s Power and Cooling for Data Centres Summit 2007 conference in London, John Easton, senior consulting IT specialist and technical staff member, IBM systems & technology group infrastructure innovation, gave a presentation on energy efficiency in the data centre. | |
| Last call for the Rochester Roadshow This is the last call for our readers to take advantage of a special offer on the price of attending the Rochester Roadshow, which takes place at Brighton’s Old Ship Hotel on Tuesday, October 30, and Wednesday, October 31. | |
| Avnet takes over the UK System i channel Avnet has bought the enterprise infrastructure division (EID) of Magirus Group following approval from the European Commission, giving it a monopoly over System i hardware distribution in the UK. | |
| UK System i supremo to speak on platform’s future at Rochester Roadshow Mark Batchelor, IBM’s System i director for the UK, Ireland & South Africa, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker of this month’s Rochester Roadshow in Brighton. His topic will be the “Status of the System i marketplace and is my investment safe?”. | |
| EASY VIEW 8.0 exports and transfers files Help/Systems has released a new version of its System i database file display package, EASY VIEW 8.0. The updated version offers multiple options for exporting or transferring data. | |
| IBM webcast to address Domino 8 furore IBM has succumbed to pressure to explain its decision not to support the i5/OS version of DB2 to store Domino documents in Domino 8 and is due to host a webcast on the issue on Wednesday, November 14. | |
| IT Impact makes in mark in the warehouse A South Manchester System i specialist is helping firms get more out of their System 21 software. | |
| Vision Solutions upgrades Director systems management solution Vision Solutions has released a new version 7.0 of its Vision Director systems management solution aimed at the enterprise and SMB markets. | |
| Major UK System i solution provider is merged with financials specialist UK System i powerhouse Computer Software Group (CSG) has been merged with IRIS. As of Monday, October 1, the combined business became known as IRIS, with CSG’s System i-focused sport ticketing division now known as IRIS Software4Sport. | |
| Events 1: Rochester Roadshow comes to Brighton at a bargain price for our readers. 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. | |
| Events 2: ASNA explains how to code with RPG in .NET environment 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 | |
| County Council runs i5/OS, Linux and AIX on System i in huge consolidation project 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. | |
| BOSaNOVA announces new tape drive with built-in encryption 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. | |
| Norwegian bank’s London branch opts for System i and BladeCenter combo for major upgrade 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. | |
| Big Blue composes Symphony to take on MS Office 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. | |
| Most European data centres failing to “go green”, says survey The majority of European organisations have no firm plans for initiating greener data centres, according to a report released yesterday. | |
| Crypto Complete automates field encryption 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 announces new auditing, reporting and compliance capabilities Raz-Lee Security has made enhancements to its iSecurity System i security and compliance product suite. | |
| IBM to donate Notes code to Microsoft-busting OpenOffice 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. | |
| Industry consortium aims to remove “barrier” to System i modernisation 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”. | |
| IBM nanotechnology breakthrough offers glimpse of things to come 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. | |
| BOS bounces back in Britain and beyond 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. | |
| Robot/SECURITY launched for managing System i security policies. Help/Systems has released Robot/SECURITY, a new i5/OS security monitoring and auditing package that combines five tools in one package. | |
| Java and .NET neck-a-neck for SOA, says survey According to U.S. analyst Evans Data, the number of companies planning or executing service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments on a Java platform increased slightly during the last six months while those planning to build SOA implementations on .NET decreased by almost 20%. | |
| Northdoor launches System i modernisation service Northdoor, an IT consultancy and provider of solutions primarily to the financial services industry, has launched a System i legacy modernisation service in the UK and Ireland. The service is intended to enable firms to unlock additional value and extended life from System i applications. | |
| UK and Ireland shows signs of System i sales renaissance The UK and Ireland were System i sales hot spots in the second quarter of this year, according to analyst IDC. | |
| Zend widens PHP partnership with IBM beyond System i At LinuxWorld San Francisco earlier this month, Zend Technologies announced a broadening of its partnership with IBM intending to boost growth of production-ready PHP applications. | |
| Long-time System i stalwart snapped up by mainframe specialist ASNA, one of the oldest System i independent software vendors, has been bought by BluePhoenix Solutions, a software and services vendor with a history in the mainframe market. The letter of intent covering the merger of the two companies was announced by BluePhoenix at the beginning of August, a day after the publicly-held company reported its financial results for the second quarter. | |
| The System i switchboard Companies globally are lowering costs with ip telephony. But, hitherto, they’ve had to invest in several servers dedicated to running the technology. Now complexity has been taken out of the equation by running ip telephony on System i. Frank Booty analyses this new departure for the platform | |
| IBM previews V6R1, announces i570 with POWER6, MySQL for i5/OS, and DB2 Web Query Big Blue has previewed a key release of i5/OS -- V6R1 -- which is not expected until 2008 but which will feature significant new security, web services and virtualisation capabilities to help businesses get the most out of their IT operations. IBM has also announced the first System i offering to feature POWER6, the i570 to be available September 14 this year; MySQL for i5/OS and DB2 Web Query. | |
