Stories about: iSeries

It wasn't supposed to be this way: Last week, IBM gave the AS/400 a new lease on life. At the Common 2008 user group meeting in the US, IBM announced that its venerable minicomputer hardware is being merged with its Unix product line, once called the RS/6000. Result: The system formerly known as the AS/400 just got cheaper, more modern -- and harder to kill.

The Sheppard Industries Group is rolling out an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to support its operations throughout Australasia.

One week after completing its acquisition of Cognos, IBM Wednesday said it was ready with new product offerings that integrate some of its technologies with the business intelligence vendor's Cognos 8 software.

After a fire completely destroyed its IT centre earlier this year, fresh produce retailer Harris Farm, decided to deploy a disaster recovery solution.

Those in search of eternal life need look no further than the computer industry. Here, last gasps are rarely taken, as aging systems crank away in back rooms across the U.S., not unlike 1970s reruns on Nickelodeon's TV Land. So while it may not be exactly easy for Novell NetWare engineers and OS/2 administrators to find employers who require their services, it's very difficult to declare these skills -- or any computer skill, really -- dead.

MySQL and IBM announced Wednesday that users of the latter's System i hardware line will be able to run the MySQL open-source database on the midrange servers.

IBM's System i computers -- formerly known as the AS/400 and iSeries servers -- have long enjoyed a reputation for rock-solid reliability. But poor security practices by those who manage these systems are making them dangerously vulnerable to compromise, according to a recent study.

Despite rolling out new, interactive technologies and experiencing a 43 percent increase in online traffic, the US Open reduced the number of servers it needed to power its Web site from 60 to nine during the 14-day event this year.

Financial information management company Baycorp Advantage has chosen IBM over CSC to manage its mainframe and Unix infrastructure in a move to a selective IT sourcing strategy.

When Oracle executives in January publicly described the vendor's Fusion project to create a new suite of enterprise applications as halfway done, they were referring to the completion of the smaller middleware piece of the massive multibillion dollar project, according to the man in charge of that undertaking. Much work remains to be done on the larger applications piece of Fusion.

Tyre manufacturer and subsidiary of global giant Goodyear, South Pacific Tyres (SPT), has installed auditing and reporting software to ensure it is Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.