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As your business becomes more collaborative and global, the risks to your company’s trade secrets rise proportionally. Fortunately, there are new strategies to protect the data that allows you to competeThe call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network - +
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Study after study indicates that agile methodologies produce better results in software development and project management. So why have so few CIOs adopted them?Farm Credit Services of America doesn't sound like an organization that courts controversy. The cooperative association makes loans to more than 66,000 farmers and cattle ranchers in the US Midwest so that they can buy cows and pigs and tractors and backhoes. Its main reason for existence - providing $US11 billion of operating capital and real estate financing to those who feed America - is as homey as the images of corn fields, gently rolling green pastures and rugged, resolute farmers that adorn its marketing materials - +
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As IBM and Sun Microsystems laid out a new agreement to have more IBM x86 servers and blades run on Solaris, the two companies were already looking ahead to another partnership, which could see IBM mainframes support the Sun operating system.
The tie-up between IBM's x86 servers and Sun's operating system is likely the first of several such relationships, according to Bill Zeitler, senior vice president of IBM's systems and technology group. "This could hopefully be the beginning of what could be a stronger collaboration between our two firms," he said Thursday during a conference call. "There are a large number of customers interested in Solaris on the mainframe," Zeitler added.
Although there's nothing formal in place yet, IBM is interested in actively collaborating with research and engineering firm Sine Nomine Associates to move OpenSolaris, the open-source version of Solaris, to IBM's System z mainframe, Zeitler said.
In a blog posting on its Web site, Sine Nomine said it welcomed IBM's interest in the project, which the company, with headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, has been working on since July 2006.
"We'd love to see Solaris running on the mainframe," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun. "We'd love to make it happen." The tenor of the agreement announced on Thursday is that for both Sun and IBM "our eyes are wide open and we're interested in serving more customers," he added.
As teams from IBM and Sun work closely together on optimizing and testing Solaris on IBM's System x and BladeCenter servers, Zeitler expects they'll find more and more areas to collaborate on.
The IBM executive wouldn't speculate on what might happen with IBM's System p servers, which use its Power processor, and Solaris. However, he did add, "It's something I'd like to see; it certainly makes sense." The open-source community has already ported OpenSolaris to IBM's Power chip.
Back in January, Sun Chairman Scott McNealy said he'd like to see Solaris running on Power, with or without IBM's help. McNealy was speaking just after Sun signed a major alliance with chip giant Intel and he said he'd welcome a similar arrangement with IBM.
The agreement with Intel enabled Sun to once more begin selling servers based on Intel's processors, while the chip vendor committed to evangelizing Solaris. Sun abandoned Intel as a chip supplier several years ago in favor of rival processor vendor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Sun also makes its own Sparc and UltraSparc chips.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
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This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
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Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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