Data encryption has taken on a much larger role in IT departments ever since the protection of sensitive and confidential information became a high priority for so many companies. We hear a lot of complaints about regulatory compliance, but without it your personal information is an easy target for those with criminal intentions. For many IBM i companies, the question is not about whether to encrypt data, it’s how to encrypt data. A good example is Bass & Associates P.C., a law firm providing national debt recovery services.

Financial institutions have really felt the heat of regulatory compliance. They handle

Fresh off its acquisition of Lawson Software, Infor has embarked on an international road show to proselytize about its software and its new “Infor10” brand. The name change, which debuted at its Infor Channel Partner Summit held in July, has been applied to all of its mainstream enterprise products–including four IBM i-based ERP suites–but not its newly acquired Lawson products.

So, what is Infor10? According to the company’s Infor10 webpage , the new name is an umbrella term that groups all of its current enterprise software, including ERP, CRM, EAM, HCM, business intelligence, and financial management applications. Infor10 has also

Bug Busters Software Engineering is shipping a new version of its IBM i high availability software, called Remote Software Facility (RSF). Version 9 brings several new features that should improve the running of an HA environment, including faster role swaps and more automation throughout the product. Bug Busters also included a new “change while active” capability that will reduce administrative downtime.

Bug Busters has been chasing the IBM i HA market for the last five years with RSF-HA, which debuted with RSF 7.3. Based on the core RSF product that the Seattle, Washington, company originally developed to help ISVs

Sometimes we all get tired of people telling us we can’t have it both ways. It has to be one or the other. A good example is the comparison between thin client and rich client. Thin client is popular because it’s convenient. Rich clients are a really graphical, really responsive interface. looksoftware believes they have narrowed the gap between those two with its introduction of lookserver 9.

This latest version of looksoftware’s server-based tool that delivers IBM i applications as HTML Web pages and published Web services has put its emphasis on being fast and easy and good looking. Is

Last week a federal judge threw out the $1.3 billion penalty that a jury awarded to Oracle in its TomorrowNow patent infringement case against SAP, and suggested Oracle accept $272 million, or the actual damages that Oracle proved in the case. Oracle says it plans to fight the decision in a bid to uphold the original damages, which means a new trial is likely.

The $1.3 billion verdict against Oracle was “grossly excessive,” U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton wrote in a ruling released last week. Hamilton, who issued a ruling in SAP’s appeal of the case in the U.S.

IBM‘s entry-level DS3500 Express storage array can now utilize solid state drives (SSDs), giving the array a speed boost for high performance application environments. Meanwhile, the addition of a new high-speed 900 GB 2.5-inch SAS drive and a 3TB 3.5-inch near line SAS drive gives customers more storage options for their growing data library.

The DS3500 Express is one of IBM’s lower end arrays. With the optional expansion enclosures (EXP3512 and EXP3524), the DS3500 can support up to 192 SAS drives of various types, speeds, and sizes, giving customers many TBs of storage. And with the capability to mix

Las Vegas Sands, a $6 billion collection of casino resorts around the world, has selected business intelligence (BI) software vendor SAS to help it gain more insight into the behavior and spending patterns of its patrons, and to ultimately boost profits. The company says the new SAS solution easily handles volumes of data that challenged its previous BI tools.

The Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVSC) owns three properties in Las Vegas, including The Venetian, The Palazzo, and the Sands Expo and Convention Center; three in Southeast Asia, including The Sands Macao, The Venetian Macao, and The Marina Bay Sands in

IBM i shops that have selected IntelliChief as their document and content management standard will soon be using IBM technology if they choose to use IntelliChief’s optical character recognition (OCR) software, called IntelliChief Capture Enterprise.

In early August, IntelliChief announced that it has entered into an agreement with IBM to use its OCR functionality with IntelliChief Capture Enterprise. OCR technology eliminates the need for humans to enter data by using scanners that read the data from fields in structured and semi-structured forms, as well as some unstructured sources, too.

“Offering IntelliChief customers full OCR capabilities enables them to accelerate document

Banking application provider Fiserv recently shipped a new release of Signature, a core banking system that runs on the IBM i server. With Signature version 11.1, Fiserv introduced several new features, including expanded commercial lending, a new pricing module, better visibility into customer accounts, and a new Web UI, among other enhancements.

Signature is one of two IBM i-based core banking systems from Fiserv. The other offering, called Premiere, was originally developed by ITI and is often positioned as Fiserv’s flagship core processing software. Signature (formerlynamed CBS, for Comprehensive Banking System) was previously developed by its CBS subsidiary, and sold

SunGard last week unveiled a new managed cloud-based DR service called Recover2Cloud that supports IBM i and other platforms. The new offering provides SunGard customers an Internet-based connection to the company’s data center resources, as well as access to SunGard experts.

SunGard is offering two options with Recover2Cloud. The first is Recover2Cloud for Vaulting, which offers a guaranteed recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 24 hours. The second is Recover2Cloud for Server Replication, which offers a guaranteed RTO of less than four hours. Recover2Cloud for Vaulting supports IBM i and other major operating systems, while Recover2Cloud for Server Replication