From Pete's Desk:.

Productivity and Savings

To our clients and friends,

Our most recent Key Webinar on Scriptura XBOS document generation tools is in line with Key's focus on offering tools and solutions that provide productivity gains as well as savings to the bottom line of the IT budget. Scriptura does this with an ingenious method for developing business output that users without programming expertise can learn and own.

Other software and service offerings that Key provides to boost productivity and save money include:

• Marathon FTvirtual Server 6.1 fault tolerant software
  
• Princeton Softech's Relational Tools
  
• Skyview Partners iSeries Security
  
• TSM Reports for Tivoli Storage Manager

We have one remaining KEY Webinar this year on October 20th that expands upon our July Webinar topic of secure archiving with IBM's TotalStorage DR550. This time we will highlight email archiving using the DR550 and Symantec software. We have had the opportunity to see the DR550 in action and will bring you live reports on how it is succeeding in the field.

For a listing of Key's coming events, see the Calendar section of Key's Web site.

Yours in success,

Pete Elliot
Director of Marketing
pelliot@keyinfo.com
818.737.2804
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Next Webinar on October 20 - IBM DR550 Compliant Archiving:.

Data & Email Archiving for Strong Compliance and Fast Performance

Presenters: Alan Stuart, Chief Strategist/Business Line Exec at IBM; David Campbell, Product Marketing Manager at Symantec

Our October Key Webinar will show how compliant archiving can improve security, availability and performance of a wide variety of applications. It is designed for professionals interested in disk-focused compliance issues at Unix, Windows, OS/400, OS/390 and z/OS installations.

Participants will learn how IBM's new TotalStorage DR550 solutions support mandated compliance requirements for data retention. The DR550 provides a central point of storage and control for both regulated and non-regulated data. Using WORM disk technology, the DR550 offers ease of use, new lower-priced configuration options and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) using tiered storage management to impose policy-based rules for managing data retention, access, and deletions.

Alan Stuart, Chief Strategist/Business Line Executive for IBM, will describe how the DR550 supports compliance with government and industry mandates, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), HIPAA, SEC 17a-4, FDA Part 11, DoD 5015.2. Stuart will also explain how to enforce mandated archiving rules for application data, emails, instant messaging and faxes. David Campbell, Product Marketing Manager for Symantec, will discuss archiving and seamless retrieval of email records on the DR550 using the Symantec Enterprise Vault.

Audience

• CIOs, DBAs, IT Directors, Operations Managers, Compliance and Security Officers
  
• Organizations in regulated industries running Unix, Windows, OS/400, OS/390 and z/OS
  
• Anyone requiring 500 GB or more of cost-effective compliant archiving
  

Issues Addressed

• Latest storage compliance issues
  
• IBM's DR550 lower-cost, compliance-ready archive solution
  
• WORM disk technology to protect data
  
• How the DR550 uniquely addresses HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC 17a-4, FDA Part 11, DoD 5015.2 and other regulations
  
• Rules for archiving application data, confidential email, instant messaging, fax and other regulated records
  
• Archiving Just-In-Case data
  
• Simplifying the management of emails
  
• Giving seamless access archived files and emails
  
• How to dramatically lower storage TCO

Schedule

• This October 20th Key Webinar runs from 11am to noon, Pacific Time

Register here.

September Webinar Report - Dynamic Document Generation:.

Live Demo of Scriptura XBOS Document Generation Solution

Presenters: Ron Deardorff, North American Technical Support Manager for Scriptura XBOS at Inventive Designers; Terry Boulais, Director of Business Development at Key; Jason Lau, Scriptura Specialist at Key; Tom Beggs, Director of IT, OIA Global Logistics

Our September KEY Webinar showed how to dynamically generate all types of business output, including documents, forms, PDFs and reports, using Scriptura XBOS. A team of professionals from Key and Inventive Designers demonstrated how IT professionals and end-users can easily create complex documents using this cross-platform Java-based solution that includes iSeries and supports XML and JDBC data sources.

Attendees learned how easy it is to generate and maintain business output with Scriptura XBOS. This one solution has reduced the TCO for document development and maintenance at companies like OIA Global Logistics where Tom Beggs serves as Director of IT. Beggs shared his firm's experience with Scriptura XBOS during this Key Webinar.

To see the full article, click here.

Scriptura Interview with Ken Akren on Document Design and Generation:.

Ken Akren is Director of Business Development at Inventive Designers, the developers of Scriptura XBOS that supports easy generation of business output. Akren provided Key's INsights staff with an in-depth interview covering many aspects of this innovative product.

INsights: Does Scriptura require IBM WebSphere?
Akren: No. Scriptura can be integrated into any Java-based (J2EE 1.4-compliant) Web Application Server, including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss and the like.

INsights: On which platforms does the Scriptura Server run?
Akren: Any platform with Java 1.4.2.

To see the full article, click here.

Spotlight on Key Talent:.

Rene Lapid, System Architect

Rene Lapid has been architecting IBM solutions since 1999. Key INsights recently talked with Lapid about his expertise and areas of interest.

INsights: Where did you work prior to joining Key?
Lapid: I joined Think Tank Systems in Southern California in 1999. Prior to joining Think Tank, I held IT management positions at KPC HealthCare, Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital, MedPartners and Friendly Hills HealthCare Network.

INsights: What are your areas of expertise?
Lapid: I have extensive background on the pSeries, the xSeries, and working with IBM's storage products. This includes product functionality and the technology behind the functionality.

INsights: What special experience do you bring to Key's clients?
Lapid: My experience as both a manager in IT organizations and working for multiple premier IBM business partners has allowed me to develop approaches and methodologies that enable me to provide clients with a combination of technical consulting, solution architecture recommendations and detailed project management to get the effort done successfully and on time and on budget.

INsights: What will you be working on with Key's clients?
Lapid: Here at Key, I plan to focus on IBM enterprise and SMB organizations in Southern California, where I can use my specialization in the IBM pSeries/i5, the xSeries and IBM TotalStorage solutions to help solve their IT challenges.

Rene Lapid can be reached at rlapid@keyinfo.com.

Compliance for the iSeries:.

Carol Woodbury's Lessons on Compliance: Lesson 2 - Compliance with What?

With all the laws, regulations and standards facing businesses today, a key question becomes, "What does this mean for my iSeries system under OS400?" Carol Woodbury, former IBM chief security architect, iSeries security expert, and a founder of SkyView Partners, tackles complex compliance issues for iSeries users in a series of lessons on compliance appearing in INsights. Lesson 1 in our April '05 issue titled "What is Compliance?" covered the general definition of compliance and why laws and regulations mandating compliance are required. The first lesson can be accessed at the following link: carol woodbury's compliance series. Lesson 2 presents information on laws with which your company may need to comply. The second lesson can be accessed at the following link here: carol woodbury's compliance series Lesson 2

Our thanks to John Vanderwall, CEO & Co-founder of SkyView Partners, for furnishing this material. Look for additional lessons on compliance for iSeries users in future issues of INsights.

Princeton Softech on Data Privacy:.

Techniques for De-Identifying Test Data

Worldwide data privacy legislation reflects common themes, as companies strive to protect the confidentiality of personal data and avoid severe penalties. Governments are taking a proactive role in responding to the need to protect data privacy and prevent personal information from being misused. These new compliance laws apply equally to protecting privacy in application production and testing environments, which presents many challenges to IT.

From a business perspective, companies have focused on the burdens and costs of regulatory compliance. However, as more companies realize that by protecting customer privacy they can build confidence and loyalty, protecting data privacy is becoming an important competitive advantage that reinforces sound business practices. Princeton Softech's technology offers a variety of methods for ensuring privacy associated with testing. De-identifying test data adds a layer of data privacy and helps to reduce the cost of regulatory compliance. Key specialists can demonstrate these capabilities. For more information, click here to access the article Data Privacy and Techniques for De-Identifying Test Data.

Key Offers:.

For more information about these offers from Key, please contact your Key representative or Allen Shahdadi at ashahdadi@keyinfo.com.

TSM Health-Check Service
Analysis of your current Tivoli Storage Management environment to better take advantage of all TSM capabilities and support backup growth projections. Storage pool management and best practices in data management policies are also covered. The result is specific recommendations designed to optimize the manner in which TSM is being used.
Cost: price based on requirements
Expires: November 30, 2005

Data Archiving Assessment
Analysis of the current IT environment to determine the business rules for data governance. The result is a specific data archiving strategy tailored to the client's own needs.
Cost: none
Expires: November 30, 2005

Blade Server Evaluation
Online planning session with qualified Key systems analyst assessing potential benefits and costs of using a blade server for consolidation of applications and servers.
Cost: none
Expires: October 31, 2005

Server Consolidation Assessment
Onsite analysis to identify and assess consolidation areas and prepare formal findings, hardware specs and migration strategy.
Cost: none
Expires: October 31, 2005

Risk Assessor
Security assessment and remediation software with support services from Key.
Cost: 10% discount on software (priced by CPU); discounted services package.
Expires: October 31, 2005

Reader Feedback:.

We value your ideas and comments. Please send your thoughts to Pete Elliot at pelliot@keyinfo.com or call him at 1.818.737.2804.

Publisher:.

Key Information Systems, Inc., a Premier Business Partner with IBM for five years, is headquartered in Woodland Hills, CA. Founded in 1995, the company provides system integration services, corporate infrastructure architecture for business continuity, storage, and e-business solutions. The company is a leading provider of IBM eServer solutions for the i5/iSeries, p5/pSeries, xSeries and OpenPower servers, and supports the i5OS, OS400, AIX, Unix, NT, and Linux operating system platforms. IBM storage products supported include IBM TotalStorage DS8100 SAN, DR 550, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, LTO tape solutions, Tivoli, plus TSRM for storage virtualization and management. High Availability and Fault Tolerant solutions are backed up with a complete range of professional services including education, critical assessments, installation, maintenance, and financing. All these computer resources are available at Key's Business Partner Innovation Center at 22120 Clarendon Street, Suite 100, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA. For more information, visit the company online, or call 1.877.442.3249, or email info@keyinfo.com.

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