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August 2, 2007

Videos from COMMON, Tenth Installment: Steve Finnes

Steve Finnes, IBM Rochester's business continuity product offering manager, talks about Secure Perspective, IBM's new licensed program product that will set security configurations to an organization's policies and create compliance reports.

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Videos from COMMON, Ninth Installment: Mike Russo

Mike Russo, IBM's System i telephony manager, describes the 3Com VoIP solution and how it differs from Internet solutions like Skype and Vonnage by using an organization's private network and creating possibilities for integration with other applications.

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Videos from COMMON, Eighth Installment: Terry Gulet

Terry Gulet of Key Information Systems relates how his company worked with IBM and 3Com to create a VoIP solution for the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising that saved money, improved operations, was fault tolerant, and allowed for growth and future enhancements.

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July 17, 2007

Videos from COMMON, Seventh Installment: Jim Dillard

Jim Dillard of Zend briefs Bob about the reception of PHP on the System i, ISV initiatives, the Zend PHP innovation contest, and the importance of the System i MySQL announcement.

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Videos from COMMON, Sixth Installment: Jim Buck

Instructor Jim Buck discusses IBM's Education Initiative that helps schools with System i education including access to System i's and placement help for students.

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Videos from COMMON, Fifth Installment: Carol Woodbury

Carol Woodbury of Skyview Partners talks about IBM's new Secure Perspective and Skyview's Policy Minder natural-language-based security policy tools.

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July 9, 2007

Videos from COMMON, Third Installment: Randy Dufault

Randy Dufault, COMMON president, describes the changes COMMON has made to its conference schedule and how the new Fall Event will be structured.

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June 26, 2007

Videos from COMMON, Second installment: Duncan Kenzie, Elaine Lennox

Duncan Kenzie, BCD's chief technical officer of product development, talks about WebSmart PHP, a new extension of WebSmart ILE that acts as a framework on top of Zend Core's APIs.

Elaine Lennox, in charge of IBM's System i marketing, talks about what she's excited about: the System i academic initiative, the new entry boxes and user-based pricing, mySQL, and the VIP program.

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June 13, 2007

Videos from COMMON, First installment: Mark Shearer, Richard J. Schoen, Martin Pladgeman

System iNetwork ventured into video reporting at this year's COMMON conference. We asked industry expert Bob Cozzi to sit down and chat with key IBMers and also a few vendors at the COMMON Expo who had major new product announcements.

This first video features Mark Shearer, IBM's System i general manager, who looks back at the most interesting changes in his two-and-a-half-year tenure (VIP Program, new entry-level boxes, academic initiative) and forward on what customers can expect in the future (hardware innovation, new customers through a focus on business applications).

The second video features Richard J. Schoen of RJS who briefs Bob on two new products: iPDF and iForms. iPDF converts RPG to PDF, and iForms is a forms design and reports generator.

The third video features Martin Pladgeman of BOSaNOVA who discusses Q3, a new backup encryption appliance that sits between a System i host and a tape drive and encrypts on the fly using two soft keys and one hardware chip key.

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