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Seamus Quinn
IBM reported some relatively robust end-of-year results last
week and said that revenues from what it calls its "converged System p
products" were down by 14% in the last quarter of 2009 compared to the
year before.
As is usual nowadays, Big Blue did not reveal the Power i numbers
hidden within this figure. But iNEWSWire UK can offer some
insight to how the i fared last year courtesy of analysts Gartner and
IDC.
For instance, according to Gartner, the Power i platform performed
extremely well in the UK in the third quarter of 2009. Gartner says that
sales of Power Systems specifically running IBM i OS in EMEA declined by
just 5.2% compared to the same period last year and in the UK sales
actually grew by a hefty 40%. And while sales of Power Systems as a
whole in EMEA were down by 14.0% in Q309, in the UK they grew by
10.4%.
While it won't release complete end-of-year estimates until next
month, IDC has rolled together the figures for the first three quarters
of 2009. Again, the UK was a bright spot for Power i revenues,
increasing by 31% year-on-year to $36M.
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Seamus Quinn
Health food chain Holland & Barrett has installed i-attached
chip-and-PIN card payment systems in over 500 UK shops.
Every store has its own model 170 running the EFT/400 card payment
solution from Colwyn Bay-based 3X
Software. EFT/400's chip-and-PIN module allows pinpads to connect
directly to each 170. The 170s are all linked to two mirrored 810s at
Holland & Barrett's head office in Burton-on-Trent for payment card
authorisation and settlement.
3X Software's Dave Jones says: "Their requirement was for a payment
transaction to be processed in under twelve seconds from card insertion
through PIN entry, authorisation at the acquiring bank and then card
removal, and we were able to provide a solution which completed in under
eight seconds while still utilising their current hardware."
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Seamus Quinn
Entertainment media distributor Cinram Logistics UK has been
road-testing a new high availability monitoring solution from
Gillingham-based CCSS.
CCSS has developed monitors for its QSystem Monitor (QSM) software
designed to work specifically with Vision Solution's MIMIX offering.
Cinram Logistics is Europe's biggest operator of its kind and operates a
MIMIX-based replication environment between two distribution centres in
the UK, each housing a model 520.
Cinram Logistic's main Aylesbury site covers four acres and employs
over 400 people. Its i-powered global distribution system supplies order
processing, warehousing, shipping, invoicing and returns processing
services to film studios, record labels, publishers and software
companies. It distributes DVDs, CDs (and other formats) to around 18,000
outlets throughout the UK and Eire.
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