Security

Raz-Lee Announces New Security Module

Raz-Lee Security, Inc., releases Authority on Demand, a new module for iSecurity, a suite of products that offers protection at the exit point, firewall, user, object, and logon levels for the System i. Authority on Demand allocates special authorities as needed, while tightening the controls over the allocation of these special authorities by using logging and reporting facilities. Raz-Lee offers a free 30-day trial of Prevention Pack at its website. Raz-Lee Security, Inc. 888-729-5334. razlee.com.

Backup and Recovery

BakBone Offers Free Version of Backup Solution

BakBone Software presents a free-use edition of its flagship data protection product, NetVault: Backup. The free version of the backup software, available for Red Hat Linux users, is designed to define, manage, and monitor jobs across the heterogeneous environments of SMBs. The free version of the solution includes 30 predefined reports that users can modify, view dynamically, run conditionally, or schedule. Users can also take advantage of 500 GB of available storage. The upgraded version lets users access application plug-in modules, NDMP support, tape drives, and tape library slots. BakBone Software. 877-939-2663. bakbone.com.

Performance

Original Software Releases New Version of Testing Solution

Original Software announces the availability of TestBench for iSeries Version 6.3, which reduces the risk of undetected errors and lets testers quickly and accurately identify faults within reports. The Report Compare component lets customers evaluate a new report update alongside a previously validated baseline version, ensuring that when a program change is made, the clients can instantly tell whether there has been any adverse impact to the report. Through TestBench for iSeries, System i users can anonymously extract data from live systems to a test environment, neutralizing the risk of testing on live data by no longer exposing real customer details and high security risk items to the live testing process. Original Software. +44 1256 338 689. origsoft.com.

Security

LogRhythm, PowerTech Deliver Realtime Log, Security Event Management

LogRhythm and The PowerTech Group, Inc., announce a partnership to provide log and security event management for the System i. The integration of LogRhythm's log and event management system with PowerTech Interact delivers realtime visibility into and management of system, device, application, database, and network log data. The LogRhythm-PowerTech solution lets organizations centrally collect, analyze, correlate, and manage realtime security events from their System i platforms with log data from other sources in their network. PowerTech Interact gathers security events from the audit journal, operating system, and network and forwards them in realtime via syslog to the LogRhythm system for analysis, correlation, alerting, reporting, and archiving. The integrated LogRhythm-PowerTech solution is available immediately. LogRhythm. 303-413-8745. logrhythm.com. The PowerTech Group, Inc. 800-915-7700. powertech.com.

Querying and Reporting

Evergreen Updates Report-Handling Utility

Evergreen Interactive Systems unveils iSeries Report Downloader 11.0, a new version of its report-handling utility for the System i. The company has updated version 11.0 of the iSeries Report Downloader with features specifically recommended by users, including improved security with RSA encryption and support for i 5.0 security. The solution also is compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 and provides improved performance and fault tolerance. Evergreen Interactive Systems. 888-821-8218. evergreeninteractive.com.

Systems Management

S4i Polishes Latest Release of Charting Tool for 6.1

S4i Systems, Inc. updates DASD-Plus Chart, a snap-in module for S4i DASD-Plus, a System i-based disk management tool with diagnostic, cleanup, analytical, and reporting functionality. DASD-Plus Chart turns survey data into reports and charts. The upgrade (version 1.05) introduces interactive tutorials that give users quick-start instructions on how to use the product. It also offers new charting capabilities in the form of 3D, pie, and bar styles, as well as chart customization features such as font appearances and border, outline, and gridline controls. A new pie chart segmentation explosion feature lets users extract a segment from the rest of the pie.

Users can also facilitate string-based searching when selecting surveys, objects, or other criteria from a server. DASD-Plus and DASD-Plus Chart have been enhanced to take advantage of features in IBM i 6.1 as well. S4i Systems. 224-388-6715. s4isystems.com.

Web Application Development

BCD Enhances Web Application Development Tool

Business Computer Design (BCD) enhances WebSmart PHP, a PHP web application development tool for IBM i, to bolster developer productivity, leverage existing RPG programs, and make it easier to work in environments with multiple database or server platforms. Version 2.0 offers a new wizard that eliminates the need to code the many required lines of PHP to call existing PRG programs. The wizard also guides developers by prompting them for the program name, library, and parameters and generates the PHP code. Business Computer Design. 630-986-0800. bcdsoftware.com.

E-commerce

Touchtone Corporation Enhances CRM Solution

Touchtone Corporation, which develops native software for the IBM i, updates Wintouch CRM Version 7.0.0.7. New features include the ability to view all one-click reports in one place, see single scrollable lists, and add fields to activities. The enhanced version also boasts latitude and longitude listings, a simplified toolbar, an improved template builder, default template settings, and an open dashboard on startup. Wintouch uses a Java applet for easy browser access from the Internet or from a company's internal network. The product's database and server components are native to the System i, facilitating seamless integration with ERP/MRP and key line-of-business applications and providing robust CRM functionality on the same platform that runs customers' main applications. Touchtone Corporation. 800-786-8663. touchtonecorp.com.

Document Management

RJS Partners with Google to Sell Search Appliance

RJS Software Systems partners with Google to offer Google's line of search-appliance products. The agreement lets RJS integrate the Google Mini and Google Search Appliance technologies into RJS's WebDocs software, which lets System i and other users scan and electronically manage documents and files from within a web-based application. This combination provides users with a content management solution that offers advanced search engine technology with secure document capture, storage, and routing options. The appliances sit behind an organization's firewall and use Google's search engine technology to search across a company's computers, databases, and networks. RJS Software Systems. 888-757-7638. rjssoftware.com. Google. 650-253-0000. google.com.

High Availability

SafeData Launches Managed HA Services

SafeData launches its Managed High Availability Services to provide organizations with constant monitoring, problem resolution, audits, and scheduled switch tests. SafeData can manage an HA environment in the customer network or through its subscription service or one of its data centers. With either option, SafeData offers automated monitoring of the HA environment as well as manual daily and weekly monitoring and incident management services. The company also provides auditing services. Additionally, SafeData helps clients perform role-swap tests. And in the event of a disaster, SafeData will perform necessary failover procedures. SafeData. 877-734-5866. safedata.net.

Database

Apatar Connects with Analytic Database

Apatar, which provides open-source tools for data integration, connects with the Vertica Analytic Database, a high-performance, grid-based, column-oriented database management system used for analytics and business intelligence. The new connector lets developers and business users migrate data between Vertica and third-party applications without any custom coding, and it also lets them filter, validate, and cleanse the data. Users of IBM i and DB2 can integrate data stored within DB2 with the Vertica Analytic Database. They also can transfer data stored in DB2 before entering Vertica and improve the quality of corporate/customer data stored in DB2 prior to the transfer. The drag-and-drop approach helps business administrators save time on data integration/synchronization. Apatar, Inc. 213-784-4915. Apatar.com.

Systems Management

StoredIQ Enhances Support for Platform

StoredIQ enhances its support for the EMC Documentum platform, a repository for document management. StoredIQ's appliance now offers the ability to locate and insert unstructured information as records into the most current version of EMC Documentum and place those records under litigation hold, leveraging Documentum's Retention Policy Services. With this improvement, StoredIQ provides a solution for e-discovery, information governance, and risk management across disparate systems. The product, which supports Unix and Linux, manages the functional intersection of records management, e-discovery, and storage management. Companies can use it to index, search, tag, move, or copy content to and from Documentum servers. StoredIQ. 512-334-3101. storediq.com.

Business Intelligence

NGS Adds New Module to BI Solution

New Generation Software (NGS) adds a new module, IQ Connexion, to its IBM i-based NGS-IQ business intelligence and enterprise reporting solution. IQ Connexion lets i clients extract and work with data stored in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Postgre SQL, and IBM DB2 databases on other platforms. With the IQ Connexion component, NGS-IQ users can develop queries, reports, dashboards, spreadsheets, OLAP models, web reports, and other forms of output from data while working on the i. The combination of NGS-IQ and IQ Connexion may also simplify cross-platform data integration and the maintenance of a DB2-based data warehouse on the i. New Generation Software. 800-824-1220. ngsi.com.

Systems Management

Atempo Upgrades Archival Solution

Atempo improves its protection and archival solution, Time Navigator. Time Navigator is a secure data protection and archival solution for heterogeneous environments. It supports Linux, among other OSes, and offers database and application support. With this latest version, 4.2, users can take advantage of a simplified installation wizard, a storage device auto-discovery tool, a configuration assistant, and an enhanced logs and alarms interface. In addition, Time Navigator 4.2 adds support for Sharepoint 2007 and Novell iFolder 3. Atempo. 650-494-2600. atempo.com.