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Seamus Quinn
UK Power i hardware distributor Avnet Technology Solutions and ERP
giant Infor have joined the
iManifest movement in EMEA.
The iManifest EMEA pressure group was founded in July by LANSA EMEA
general manager Martin Fincham in response to the work of the original
iManifest organisation in Japan. Like the Japanese group of 71 i-centric
vendors, iManifest EMEA seeks to fly the flag for the Power i platform
independently of IBM. The aim is to show the business world the depth of
vendor support the platform enjoys, dispel legacy-type myths and hammer
home its strengths.
Explaining why his firm has joined, Anthony Greenhalgh, Avnet's
business unit director for IBM systems, says: "As the sole distributor
of System i in the UK, Avnet is keen to support channel initiatives
whose objective is to promote the value of the i platform."
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Seamus Quinn
IBM i 6.1.1 hit the streets last week as Big Blue announced
support for an expanded range of storage hardware, a mid-price SAS disk
controller, new VIOS options, solid-sate disk enhancements and more.
Some new features simply bring the i up to speed with its AIX
counterpart. However, the mini-release of OS i and the other
announcements that went with it have been received fairly well by
industry insiders. One highlight, according to Power Consulting's Richard
Field, is a new mid-size (and therefore mid-price) 380MB Cache SAS Disk
Controller for 12X PCIe I/O drawers and Power6 system units.
He says: "Previously, the choice for a disk adapter for the latest
SAS disk drives, standard in the Power6/6+ servers and widely adopted in
expansion unit disks too, was either a controller intended to support
external SAS Tape which did not contain the cache to drive disks
adequately, or the 'jumbo-cache' disk controllers which are over the top
for many small to mid-size installations and also are very expensive --
£10,000-plus.
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Seamus Quinn
Power i users can still go to the social software business
ball, even without a direct port of the latest 2.5 version of its Lotus
Connections application, says IBM.
Although IBM issued a statement of intent to run Connections on
OS/400 when the social software debuted in 2007, it now says there are
no plans for a native i port. That's not to say that i users can't
benefit from its many features which include micro-blogging,
community/wiki creation and sophisticated file sharing, says IBM's vice
president of social software, Jeff Schick.
Schick points out that the new 2.5 version of Connections runs on
Windows, different flavours of Linux, AIX, and supports Oracle, SQL
Server as well as DB2. It can plug into SharePoint, Outlook, Notes and
Sametime and has portlets built for SAP and BEA and WebSphere Portal.
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Seamus Quinn
Linoma Software's
GoAnywhere file transfer solution has been validated to run on the Power
p and System z and mrc has
given its m-Power application modernisation tool a new graphical
interface.
Linoma worked with IBM's appropriately named Chiphopper programme to
verify that GoAnywhere operates on Linux and AIX operating systems for
the Power p as well as Linux on the System z mainframe without any
adverse effects to functionality or performance.
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