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Published on March 22, 2013

Naples, FL—March 15, 2013— Operating mainframes isn't cheap, so getting the most out of them is important. Some types of data, like plain text, compress very well: Occasionally files can be compressed to just five percent of their original size, requiring fewer expensive resources to…

Published on March 22, 2013

Your Unencrypted Data Is Not Safe Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption standard that is widely used today. Originally it was designed to be able to safely send private email correspondence, and it still excels at that. It has, however, also moved into wide…

Published on March 14, 2013

Naples, FL—January 3, 2013 Advanced Software Product Group's highly-regarded password-reset product ReACT has received some much-anticipated updates and enhancements, including a web interface for mobile devices, new language support, Google API integration, and more. ReACT—a password reset and recovery tool compatible with z/OS, Novell, Windows,…

Published on March 14, 2013

Naples, FL—January 3, 2013 Nothing is safe in today's ultra-connected world, when thieves in basements around the world are trying their best to get their hands on your sensitive data and send it to underground BBSes for prying eyes to see. That's what makes ASPG's…

Published on March 14, 2013

Naples, FL—January 3, 2013 In the high-stakes world of protecting data stored in IBM’s DB2 databases, any gains in efficiency and security are good things – and the latest release by Advanced Software Products Group (ASPG) of their Megacryption DB software brings just such gains…

Published on February 4, 2013

For many years McAfee has been a dominant player in the enterprise software market with its E-Business Server product, and hats off to them for a long and successful run. There's currently a major shift in the marketplace, though, with McAfee having stopped the sale…

Published on January 24, 2013

With Cloud computing a hot topic, do mainframes still matter to Enterprise IT departments? You bet. If you ask the average person on the street about mainframe computing, you know what you're generally going to get: Either a blank stare, or a description of a room-filling…