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IBM i costs significantly lower than rivals

IBM i 7.2 and Power Systems three-year IT costs are on ‘average 45% less than those of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, and 51% less than for x86 Linux servers and Oracle databases’ according to research published by International Technology Group. Findings in ‘IBM I on Power Systems for Midsize Businesses: minimizing […]

POODLE Security Vulnerability: How to Disable SSLv3 on IBM i

IBM recently published a security bulletin about an SSLv3 vulnerability called the Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) attack. This vulnerability could give a remote attacker plaintext access to what would otherwise be an encrypted SSL session. SSLv3 is enabled by default on the IBM HTTP Server, so we recommend disabling SSL and using […]

IBM i security key to preventing downtime and system outages

According to a report published by the International Technology Group (ITG), the IBM i provides significant total cost of ownership benefits to both large and mid-sized organisations – especially when it comes to cybersecurity and the protection of sensitive data. ‘IBM I on Power Systems for Enterprise Businesses’ compared a number of leading operating systems […]

Insider threat: former contractor charged with cyber crime

A former contractor working for Eaton Corporation, an American multinational power management company which provides solutions to manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power efficiently, safely and sustainably, has been charged by the FBI in Ohio with transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer. Arturas […]

Agenda: IBMi development, modernisation and mobilisation seminar

There is a little over a week before the IBM i development, modernisation and mobilisation seminar takes place in association with BCD Software and Quadrant Software, now Fresche Solutions, at Avnet’s new offices in Bracknell. The agenda for the event on Tuesday 25 November has been finalised and features a mixture of presentations and hands-on […]

IBMi modernisation and security seminar agendas

Details of the programme for the two IBM i seminars taking place at Avnet’s new offices in Bracknell have been released. On Tuesday 25 November 2014, the focus on is on IBM i modernisation, development and mobilisation (in association with BCD Software and Quadrant Software – now Fresche Solutions), with the focus switching to IBM […]

Automatically distribute IBM i spool files: new release of Catapult

If you are looking to automatically distribute IBM i spool files and PC reports reliably in multiple formats (including PDF and HTML), then Catapult is the tool for you. BCD Software, now Fresche Solutions, has released Catapult 7.10.0, which features a further improvement to how the Poller and Exodus51 subsystem work together. This enables you […]

Building mobile IBMi applications just got easier with Zend

Zend has announced a raft of new features and capabilities last week at the ZendCon conference for developing mobile applications with PHP, including updates for IBM i developers. Zend Studio 12 now includes support for three open source frameworks for building mobile and web applications: Apache Cordova, Ionic, AngularJS and a fully working and customisable […]

Why RESTful web services are the API you are looking for

Your database is in demand. Everyone needs access – core applications, customer utilities, mobile apps, business-to-business interfaces, reporting/dashboard tools – but you need to lock it down. You can’t have any old waif or stray sticking their nose in and poking around. So you need an API, a standard interface to the outside world and […]