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Quadrant Software Pledges Support to iManifest Initiative

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:18:53 -0700

Quadrant Software, a developer of paperless process management solutions for IBM i systems, has joined the iManifest initiative in the U.S. and pledged its support. Chris Maxcer has covered iManifest a lot lately in...

Hardware Encryption Thumb Drives: Very James Bond and Very Handy for IT Shops and Users

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:28:53 -0700

Guest Post by Mel Beckman, System iNEWS senior technical editor I've been a fan of USB thumb-drive encryption for a long time, and in recent years the best form of that encryption is hardware-based, employing...

ProData Supports iManifest in US and Abroad

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:01:29 -0700

ProData Computer Services has announced its support for the iManifest initiatives in both EMEA and the United States. As an IBM independent software vendor (ISV) for nearly thirty years, ProData has participated in many programs...

Virtual Tape Appliance Makes Deploying Storage Virtualization Easy

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:38:40 -0700

When it comes to storage, virtualization is becoming increasingly feasible, as Mel Beckman explains in "Storage Area Networks Virtualize Disk." To get a feel for how things are trending in this area, I recently spoke...

Riehl Signs On with Cilasoft Security Solutions

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:23:41 -0700

Dan Riehl, the founder and former President of the PowerTech Group, has signed on to become the head of U.S. Operations for Cilasoft Security Solutions. Not long after PowerTech was acquired by Help/Systems in late...

Product/Vendor News Roundup for the Security and Availability Beats

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:52:01 -0700

Even though business slows down a bit in the summer, I've still received a few newsy items from some IBM i security and availability companies . . . Vision Solutions Announces Addition of New Partners...

Partnership Brings Encryption to Security Solution

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:22:58 -0700

Safestone announces a business partnership with nuBridges that expands Safestone's security offerings and provides its customers with tools for meeting compliance standards for mandates such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)...

Profound Logic Seeks Beta Testers for New Enterprise Portal for IBM i Apps

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:35:24 -0700

Profound Logic Software is finalizing a new enterprise portal product for IBM i and offering a beta program to get feedback on it. The portal, called Atrium, focuses on securely tying multiple applications together into...

Credit Card Tokenization: Put All Your Data Eggs in One Basket—and Watch That Basket

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:27:54 -0700

I was on a call recently with Gartner, Inc., analyst John Pescatore to learn about credit card tokenization. Pescatore, who specializes in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), encryption related to PCI DSS,...

IBM i Shops: Too Many People Have Too Much Access to Too Much Info

Wed, 27 May 2009 10:29:13 -0700

I spoke with Philip Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software, recently and got some information that you can use to help you help your company tighten its security belt. Programmers beware: You may be making a...

IBM Power Systems Try-Before-You-Buy Offer

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:53:37 -0700

IBM is offering a no-cost 60-day trial of the Power Systems 520 server running either IBM AIX, IBM i, or Linux. According to the IBM web page that contains the offer, here's how the program...

MPG, CCSS Create Marketing Alliance to Benefit IBM i Customers

Mon, 11 May 2009 11:50:31 -0700

Midrange Performance Group, Inc. (MPG), and CCSS USA Corp. have announced a marketing alliance to better serve the requirements of their IBM i system monitoring and capacity planning customers. CCSS develops QMessage Monitor, QSystem Monitor,...

iFusion.net Protects Yet Uses IBM i Data for Mixed App Dev

Mon, 04 May 2009 09:25:59 -0700

At COMMON Reno, LANSA rolled out one of the company's more significant new products--iFusion.net. Its overall design comes with some particularly compelling propositions for IBM i-focused companies that find themselves shouting over widening chasms of...

BCD Releases New Versions, Expands Features in its IBM i Product Line

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:16:21 -0700

Business Computer Design (BCD) is one of the vendors at COMMON Reno that announced it continues to invest in its IBM i product line. BCD made sweeping enhancements to many of the components that form...

Raz-Lee Enhances IBM i Security Solution's GUI

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:16:29 -0700

I got a chance to meet Raz-Lee Security Inc.'s husband-and-wife team of Shmuel and Milka Zailer on the expo floor during COMMON. Shmuel is the company's CEO/CTO, and Milka is its CFO/COO. Not only did...