MC Press Online - June 23, 2008 Vol 3 Issue 11

T.L. Ashford is “The Labeling Answer”® for the System i.
Ashford's Barcode400 has been the dependable choice for the industry since 1983. With Barcode400's newly enhanced Graphic Designer no “green screen” interaction is needed for label design. New features include: AFP/HP-compatible printing, easy-to-use graphics import tool, test print to desktop printer, simple font download tool, updated drivers and format listing reports. Even compliance labeling is made easy with design templates. Call 800-541-4893 to order a FREE DEMO CD or visit us at T.L. Ashford & Associates.
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Feature Article - Application Software

Logical or Hardware Replication: Which Is Right for You?

Replication is available in two generic flavors, hardware-level and logical. Yum. But which should you choose? It all depends. Or you can have it all.

By Bill Hammond

Replication is a familiar thread in the modern information technology infrastructure fabric. It serves a number of purposes, including the following:

•· Provide for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) by creating real-time or near real-time replicas of production databases, files, system values, and applications. This is probably the most prominent replication use but certainly not the only one.

•· Integrate applications at the data level by sharing information among application databases.

•· Stock data warehouses and data marts by copying data into them from operational databases.

•· Improve load balancing by creating a secondary data store that can support read-only operations. Depending on the type of replication ...
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Feature Article - Analysis

Rochester Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of AS/400

The event presents an opportunity for reflecting on the success of a unique platform and gives rise to the question of whether it will last another decade--or perhaps longer.

By Chris Smith

IBM workers in Rochester, Minnesota, and their guests from COMMON will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the AS/400 today, a milestone that begs the question of whether the venerable architecture that so steadfastly outlasted most of IBM's early competitors will be around for another decade or longer.