HelpSystems has become one the largest independent software vendors in the IBM i marketplace, with tools spanning operations, security, backup, high availability, forms management, and capacity planning. A company representative recent sat down with IT Jungle at the recent COMMON PowerUp conference to talk about what’s new. HelpSystems didn’t have a single major product launch at the COMMON...

Acquisition enables organizations to protect information stored on Linux and Unix servers with identity and access management software

Fortra and Tango/04 combine to help organizations in Europe and Latin America with systems management, monitoring, and security solutions.

The recently acquired Halcyon Software solutions reduce the complexity and cost of monitoring, automating, and reporting on core applications and processes on IBM i, AIX, Linux, and Windows servers.

Despite all the IBM i security vendors that Fortra has bought over the years--and there have been at least five of them--the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption.