January 2008

• Killer Club Tech - Data Structures: Let the Compiler Do the Work * Single Sign-on — It’s So Cool and So Easy
• An Absence of Trust - Building trust between the business and IT is the best way to ensure the company's success. Strong trust results in high-performance projects, breakthrough competitiveness, and excellent outcomes. Consider these ideas for fostering trust in your company.
• Hot New Products -
• Is Your Organization at Risk? - Wise System i shops identify and assess risks as they write disaster recovery plans. To recognize threats is to thwart them. Here’s how to prevent your strategies from going awry.
• Pseudo Journaling: A New Planning Tool - The new Pseudo Journaling tool lets you get a sense of the impact that journaling will have your system -- before you make the leap. You no longer have to just jump blindly and then react to what happens. Know before you leap.
• The Keys to Tape Encryption - Do you back up your data to tape? Where do you store those tapes? If someone were to get ahold of a tape could they access your data? You cannot take the chance that your backup tapes can be accessed by unauthorized users. Here's everything you need to know about tape encryption.
• Web Apps Make Every Enterprise a Software Company - When you start producing apps for the web, you’re not just competing with other companies in your market. Your customers will compare you to every other web site and web app they’ve seen. That means it’s time to start thinking like a software company.
• High Availability on the Budget Plan - If you need data and object replication to support business resilience but don’t have a large high-availability budget, Bug Busters Software Engineering, Inc.’s Remote Software Facility can be an answer.
• Dr. I Doctor (January 2008) - Dr. I Doctor explains how to prevent inadvertent self-inflicted UDP DoS attacks, and describes how to take full advantage of System i Gigabit Ethernet.
• Industry Observer - Online Aggravation * Security Is Central * Who’s Telecommuting Now? * The Changing Face of Online Advertising * Build It Yourself
• IASP: Building Block for HA - An IASP is a collection of disks that can be brought online or offline independently of the rest of the disk storage in an i5/OS partition. IASPs also give you access to a variety of high availability solutions.
• Managing a Virtual Environment - With Virtualization Manager 1.2, you can find and monitor your virtual servers, create and edit new virtual servers, relocate and clone them, and even make the virtual servers highly available. Read on to learn how.
• Distribution Applications Product Roundup - Many companies serve as intermediaries between manufacturers and retailers, and as such are part of the distribution chain for products and services. These 31 applications for System i serve enterprises in the distribution market.
• Tips for Programming and Development, Part 2 - We had too many tips for one issue. These tips on Groovy, SQL, and WDSc are sure to improve your workday.
• War of the Wireless Worlds - People looking for "everywhere" connectivity to the Internet have two choices. If you ask Sean, he'll tell you that one's hot and one's not.
• Get Data from MS SQL Server 2005 on Your i5 - Access your SQL Server data from your i5 using JDBC, and invoke the Java program from a CL program. The concept is as simple as using any other JDBC driver to access data; you just need to set up the correct environment on your i5.
• 10 Cool PHP Things You Can Run on Your System i - The System i community has access to an incredibly diverse body of PHP programming tools, code packages, and even full-fledged applications. How cool is that?
• Sharks or Margaritas? Exploring the App-Dev Solution Decision - Are small development teams better off buying an application-development tool instead of trying to learn newer languages and techniques? Will it take a shark to force programmers to stop treading water?
• IBM Announcements -
• f.y.iSystem - Two Minutes with RPG Expert Paul Tuohy; IT Spending Trends Show Hardware Down, Software Up; News in Brief:
• The Essential Guide to Backdoors, Bugs, Trojans, Tunnels, and Tricksters - Hackers are attacking your network on multiple new fronts: via backdoors, software defects, malware, new pathways, and novel approaches to social engineering. Learn about these new attacks and how to protect against them.
• Are You Prepared for a Disaster Recovery? - Disaster recovery planning is a necessity when it comes to protecting the future of your business. When creating your plan, make sure you plan for the five "W" questions: Why, What, When, Where, and Who.
• Out of the Box Tuning: Performance Tuning Basics - You wouldn't change the oil in your car while you are driving it, so why tune your System i on the fly? Before you try to improve your System i's performance, map out goals and develop a plan. Part one of this series outlines performance-tuning basics.
• Feedback - Defense of the System i; BI Choices
• Getting Started with the Spring Framework - Spring is a full-featured, open-source Java application framework that offers a huge array of features. Learn who should be using the Spring Framework and why, as well as how to get started working with its most popular features.