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Meet the new members

Corbel Solutions
Corbel Solutions specializes in selling new and remarketed enterprise hardware and networking solutions from HP, Sun, IBM and Cisco. We have certified technicians at our test facility that test and configure systems to your specifications. Corbel Solutions also specializes in asset recovery and purchasing of surplus equipment from leasing companies and our customer base. We are a top resource to buy, sell, lease and rent new and pre-owned IT equipment worldwide.

Clint Adams - President
Joe Parker – Vice President
206.575.2661 x107
[email protected]
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IBM

IBM adds iSeries support to WebSphere Dashboard Framework
IBM announced that the WebSphere Dashboard Framework, a tool for creating composite application screens that are delivered as Web-based dashboards, is soon to gain support for i5/OS V5R4 running on the iSeries server, in addition to the mainframe running Linux. The WebSphere Dashboard Framework is an extension of IBM's WebSphere Portlet Factory that's designed to allow developers to rapidly build and deploy pattern-based interfaces to existing business processes. Once these dashboards are deployed, employees and other users are able to record transactions, update customer information, or make other changes to applications residing on a bevy of back-end servers directly from within their Web browser, which IBM says should make them more efficient at their jobs.
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Leasing

HP Financial names Hayden to lead global HR team
HP Financial Services announced that Marguerite (Meg) Hayden has been named the company's director - global human resources. In this role Hayden will report to president and CEO Irv Rothman. Hayden leads a worldwide team of human resource professionals focused on driving business performance. In addition, she directs the company's talent management and organizational effectiveness initiatives, with an emphasis on leadership development, strategic workforce planning and change management. With more than two decades of experience in learning and organizational development, Hayden joined HP Financial Services in 2004 as a senior manager and team leader for learning and organization effectiveness. Most recently she's led the company's workforce planning framework that ties together business, financial and people strategies to achieve competitive advantages for HP. Before joining HP she served as a director in the human resources/learning organizations for AT&T and Prudential, and as vice president of corporate training and development for Morgan Stanley (Dean Witter). She also led her own organizational effectiveness consulting business.
Visit www.hp.com/hpfinancialservices.
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Market

SMBs to spend 16% more on security and storage this year
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the United States will close the year by spending about US$240 billion on beefing up their IT and telecom infrastructure and applications, up 16% over all of 2006. A quarter of that will be devoted to IT services such as consulting, software support, IT management, computing and network support. Another quarter will be spent on telecom services, including cell phone service, IP centrex, local and long-distance telephony, pager services and WAN. This comes from the latest study from Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. The study also found that medium businesses (companies between 100 and 999 employees) in the US show a high level of sophistication when it comes to IT and telecom and are in “Wave III” of technology development. This involves leveraging their strong infrastructure to connect outside the enterprise, to suppliers and resellers. Small businesses in the US are also slowly following their larger counterparts by connecting and extending their network. SBs in the US are investing their storage budgets on hardware devices, principally for SAN (server-attached storage). On the other hand, MBs are using their storage resources on services required to support their data storage needs.
Visit www.ami-partners.com
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Moves, adds & changes

Quest to acquire Passgo Technologies
Applications and database management company Quest Software has entered into an agreement to acquire identity and access management firm PassGo Technologies. According to Quest, the acquisition is expected to enhance its existing user authorization and authentication products, enabling users to effectively manage and control access to multi-platform environments like Microsoft's Active directory, Unix, IBM zSeries, and iSeries systems. The company said that PassGo's chief executive John Rainford will join Quest Software as the vice president of PassGo products. The deal closure is expected to be in early 2008. Quest software recently acquired Provision Networks to make its foray into the virtualization space. In June 2007, its acquired system lifecycle management software firm Scriptlogic for $90m to strengthen its presence in the small- and medium sized business market.
Visit www.quest.com.
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Printers

Xerox opens $24 million ink factory
Xerox Corporation opened a state-of-the art automated ink manufacturing plant to serve growing demand for its proprietary solid ink color printers as more businesses convert from black-and-white to color printing. The $24 million factory fills 10,000 square feet of previously unused space on the company’s campus outside of Portland, Ore., and expands Xerox’s production of solid ink by 10 times. The new plant will produce Xerox’s latest generation of solid ink, which first became available in September when Xerox launched its Phaser 8860 color printer and the Phaser 8860MFP color multifunction printer. Nearly five years in development, the new crayon-like ink sticks have been developed to last longer than ever before. When comparing the cost of the device and the ink, printing on the Phaser 8860 is two times less expensive than using equivalent laser printers from other manufacturers. The ink sticks also produce 90 percent less waste than comparable color laser products and were designed to melt at a lower temperature, reducing energy consumption by 14 percent.
Visit www.xerox.com.
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Security

IBM approves iSeries AS/400's information security solution from Above Security
IBM approved Above Security's CSC2 application as an auditing engine for the log monitoring and information security incident management of the iSeries (AS/400) mainframe.  Above Security, helped by one of its customers and by IBM, released the
CSC2 application, a solution allowing the support of various controls imposed by norms such as Sarbannes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA & Basel II. On every specific interval, CSC2 logs in the databases of the AS/400 and then centralizes, pre-analyzes, compresses and presents the audit information in a centralized and in a normalized fashion.  CSC2 can generate alert and automated action based on events observed within the audit repository to prevent fraud, attack and hacking and to support prompt investigation and troubleshooting.
Visit www.ibm.com or www.abovesecurity.com.
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Software

Profound Logic gives Web access to DB2/400 with iData
Ever wished you could access and edit your DB2/400 records directly from a Web browser? If so, perhaps you should check out iData, a new tool recently introduced by Profound Logic. The use of AJAX and other Web 2.0 techniques provides a fast and intuitive way to access the database, according to Profound. And while the iData beta is focused primarily on database editing, it will soon expand to include other capabilities, such as querying and reporting, Web form creation and Web application development. The initial goal of iData was to create a database editing tool that was easier and more intuitive to use than the green-screen database utilities available to System i programmers and power users. The product's Web 2.0-style interface works much like Microsoft Excel, enabling users to move, resize or eliminate columns to get the right view of their DB2/400 data.
Visit www.profoundlogic.com.
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