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InfoManager Provides Another Option for System i OLAP

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

InfoManager is quite possibly the biggest System i business intelligence software vendor that you’ve never heard of. With about 300 customers around the world, the company has been quietly building a collection of business intelligence tools around its core online analytical processing (OLAP) engine, which runs on i5/OS, and a customer base to go along with it. Over the next few months, InfoManager plans updates to its Web-based dashboard, and is eyeing a Java rewrite for its OLAP engine.

InfoManager was founded 18 years ago in Finland, where the company served a growing base of customers using the AS/400, including

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Robot/LPAR Streamlines Tape Backups of Partitioned i5/OS Servers

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

Stymied at getting your tape drive to back up your i5/OS logical partitions in an automated fashion? For some System i shops with modest investments in tape drive technology, backing up multiple partitions with a single drive requires an operator to vary the connection on and off. With Help/Systems‘ software for managing i5/OS logical partitioning, called Robot/LPAR, tape drive connections can be moved logically among partitions, in the same manner as processor resources and memory.

Many System i shops have a difficult time backing up multiple i5/OS partitions with a single tape drive, says Tom Huntington, vice president of

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ROBObak Delivers Online Backups for Remote Offices

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

So headquarters has a screaming new LTO 4 tape library that backs up all your System i boxes, Windows servers, and Unix machines? That’s wonderful, but what about the remote offices, warehouses, and factories? What are you doing to protect critical data at those locations? Probably not much says Ron Roberts, chief executive of remote office/branch office (ROBO) software specialists ROBOdrs. The company hopes to change that with ROBObak, a relatively new multiplatform backup and recovery product that works across the wire.

ROBOdrs has been developing utilities for the ROBO sector of the marketplace since it was founded in

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Lotus Quickr Now Available from IBM

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

As expected, Lotus Quickr, the new content sharing program that links blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and other Web 2.0 sources of information to desktop applications such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office, became available at the end of June. With Quickr 8.0 now available, IBM hopes to gain traction in its quest to bring the benefits of Web 2.0-style collaboration to teams of business users.

The World Wide Web has evolved tremendously over the last few years. New approaches to browser technology, as embodied by AJAX, coupled with the popularization of content distribution systems such as wikis, blogs, RSS feeds,

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Oracle Incorporates Demantra Into J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

Oracle will make the Demantra demand management application part of J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne with the release of Demantra 7.1.1, the software giant announced last month.

Demantra is a supply chain planning application that helps companies predict demand, determine profitability of products, and manage complex global supply chains. Oracle announced its plans to acquire Demantra, a privately held company, for an undisclosed sum in May 2006.

With Demantra 7.1.1, which is available now, Oracle is making Demantra a preconfigured component of the Advanced Planning components of its EnterpriseOne and E-Business Suite ERP systems. Since Demantra uses the same demand and master

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Devon IT Offers SafeBook for Less Than $600

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

Devon IT has dropped the price of its thin client notebook computer, the SafeBook, and added new security features with the delivery of a new model last month.

Devon IT launched its SafeBook in October 2006 providing its customers with the portability benefits of notebook computing without succumbing to the security problems that notebooks can pose. Since it doesn’t have a hard drive and relies on the network to deliver all its data to the screen, the SafeBook effectively eliminates the potential for a lost or stolen notebook from becoming a security liability to the group issuing them.

Last month

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InfoPrint Solutions Company Celebrates Independence Day, Launches New Printer

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

As expected, the InfoPrint Solutions Company, the joint company created following the sale of IBM‘s printer business to business machine maker Ricoh, is now operating as an independent entity out of Boulder, Colorado, the company announced last month. The new group also announced the new InfoPrint Color 1767 printer last week.

In January, IBM revealed the sale of its printer unit to Ricoh for $725 million. As part of the deal, the two companies planned to jointly operate for three years the InfoPrint Solutions Company, the new name given to the IBM Printing Systems Division. During that

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MIMIX Plays the Backcourt at Wimbledon

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

While the outcome of the Wimbledon men’s final Sunday at The All England Lawn Tennis Club was undecided, there was one thing that was nearly a certainty: the availability of the AELTC’s i5/OS-based business information system, which was protected by the MIMIX high availability suite from Vision Solutions.

Vision says the AELTC implemented MIMIX to ensure the availability of its critical computer systems, including its ticket management system, ballot scanning, debentures, and System 21 financials, in the event of an emergency. The club replicated data between two System i Model 520s.

This isn’t the first time that the AELTC

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AdventureTech Gets On the MAP

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

AdventureTech Group, a developer of Web-enablement and communications software for the System i server, has joined Microsoft‘s Midrange Alliance Program (MAP), the software company announced recently.

Kansas City, Missouri-based AdventureTech has been attracting attention of late with iSafari, a collection of sockets-based tools for transforming green-screen 5250 applications into more modern-looking Web interfaces. The company has close to two dozen iSafari customers, including some government agencies in the Midwest, which are loathe to waste money.

Now, as a member of Microsoft’s MAP, AdventureTech will gain access to the marketing might of the world’s largest software company.

“AdventureTech is

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Wireshark Fixes iSeries ‘Wiretap’ Bug

July 10, 2007 Alex Woodie

A problem detecting iSeries network captures in the Wireshark network sniffer product has been fixed, according to the open source Wireshark group.

In 2006, users reported to Wireshark that there was a problem using Wireshark with iSeries “wiretaps.” Wireshark, which runs on Windows and Linux machines, would sometimes crash when reading iSeries capture files. That problem, among others, was fixed with the release of Wireshark version 0.99.6.

Wireshark says its eponymous software product (formerly known as Ethereal) is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. The software, which is free, supports practically all network protocols in use, including, apparently, protocols

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