In the i community, EGL's biggest strength may be simply that EGL does i better than anyone, and that makes it the integration technology of choice.

Written by Joe Pluta

Over the past couple of years, I've talked quite a bit about Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) and its capabilities as a business development language. I started out as a skeptic, but I gradually came to admire the philosophy of the tool: let the business application developer focus on the business, not the technical minutiae. In today's article, I'll explain how that philosophy allows you to leverage your most important and valuable asset: your business developers.

Outsourced virtualized recovery services provide an excellent opportunity for businesses to secure aggressive RTO at a manageable price.

Written by Peter Briggs

Note:  This article is based on SafeData's white paper titled "Best Bets for iSeries Rapid Recovery with Virtualization," which is available as a free download from the MC Press White Paper Center. 

In a difficult economy, one of the challenges for business owners is to secure the right backup and disaster recovery solution--one that fully protects their business from costly downtime and disruption, while preserving precious financial and staff resources. There are many IBM iSeries recovery options available, but not all of them are right for every business. Many of the solutions that meet the most aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs) may be too expensive for your business. Yet the most inexpensive solutions may put your business at risk of downtime.