On-Demand Webinar
Getting Started with Document Management: Levels of Capture
What do you do with documents that enter your organization? Watch the webinar to find the right level of document capture for you.
On-Demand Webinar
Turbocharge Your ERP with Integrated Document Management
Tired of having your documents stored across multiple systems? Watch this webinar to learn how you can integrate your ERP with a document management system to manage all of your documents in one spot.
Article
How To Maintain Your Data Integrity
By Robin Tatam on Tue, 03/21/2017
File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) helps ensure that your critical and sensitive data is viewed and changed only by authorized personnel through approved channels. Candidates for FIM include application files containing sensitive data, such as personnel or financial data, and server configuration files.
Blog
Compare Powertech Encryption for IBM i to IBM's Cryptographic APIs for Encrypting Database Fields
By Bob Luebbe on Fri, 03/17/2017
If your organization is thinking about using (or is using) IBM's Cryptographic APIs (e.g. QC3ENCDT, Qc3EncryptData) for encrypting database fields, then this article is for you.
Article
Advantages of Powertech Encryption for IBM i Over the Complexities and Risks of Disk Encryption
By Bob Luebbe on Fri, 03/17/2017
Disk drive encryption may help you comply with PCI DSS, but you must follow strict requirements. Additionally, relying solely on disk drive encryption for data protection has serious potential risks that you should be aware of.
Blog
How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management
By Per Bauer on Fri, 03/17/2017
Capacity Management Strategies
If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’).
Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice...
Guide
DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On
Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Blog
Capacity Planning
By Per Bauer on Tue, 03/14/2017
Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning.
Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with.
Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime?...
Blog
How “Smash and Grab” Compromises IBM i
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
During an audit a few years ago, I revealed to the client’s security team that corporate payroll information on every employee, including the CEO, was being archived in an output queue (called PAYROLL) for weeks at a time. Due to poor configuration, this information was accessible to every employee.
Blog
Database Transaction Log Management
Mon, 03/06/2017
Don't let database transaction logs weigh you down. Find out how to preserve data integrity and consume less disk space.
Case Study
Hershey Entertainment Quickly Encrypts Credit Card Data with Powertech Encryption for IBM i
Hershey Entertainment & Resorts is a privately held company located in the tourist center of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and has entertainment, resort and commercial divisions. Earlier this year, Hershey learned that because the entertainment and resort operations accept credit cards for payment, they needed the information stored by their box office ticketing and reservations applications to be...
Case Study
Field-level Encryption Helps Retail Chain Achieve PCI Compliance
Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores, a retail travel stop chain with over 210 locations in 34 U.S. states, processes approximately 200,000 credit card transactions on a daily basis. Needing to meet PCI standards, Love’s found in Powertech Encryption for IBM i a product to encrypt credit card numbers in a way that would satisfy PCI compliance auditors.
“We need to be able to access credit card...
Blog
How to Choose a Capacity Planning Tool
By Per Bauer on Tue, 02/28/2017
Looking for a capacity planning tool? Find out how to choose a tool that will be the most accurate.
On-Demand Webinar
An Introduction to PCI Compliance on IBM Power Systems
By Robin Tatam
Complying with the PCI standard is a normal part of doing business in today’s credit-centric world. But, PCI applies to multiple platforms. The challenge becomes how to map the general PCI requirements to a specific platform, such as IBM i. And, more importantly, how can you maintain—and prove—compliance?
Case Study
Appvion Improves Customer Satisfaction with a Digital Document Repository
Appvion, Inc. manufactures paper—thermal, carbonless, security, inkjet, digital specialty and colored papers. But this Appleton, Wisconsin-based company had a problem when it came to digital documents in their customer web portal. Their existing system just wasn’t up to snuff. It was time to make a change.
...
Guide
Download “Identity & Access Management for IBM i”
Insiders are responsible for 34 percent of data breaches—and insiders are also the most difficult threat to control control on IBM i. You can't lock them out completely because your IBM i users need at least some level of access to do their jobs.
So, how do you ensure users have only the access they need without overburdening IT with manual processes that...
Article
Using NFS with Webdocs – iSeries
Tue, 01/24/2017
Webdocs – iSeries references the documents it stores by an IFS (Integrated File System) path. There is, however, no requirement that the IFS path refer to a file system on local disk. In fact, for many Webdocs iSeries implementations, it is advantageous to store some or all of the documents from Webdocs on remote file systems that are shared using NFS (Network File System) and mounted into the IFS...