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Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn't it time we all got real?Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. Places where IT and the business are so tightly aligned you can barely tell the two apart. Where corporate leaders understand that IT is a strategic asset and support it as such
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Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, the man behind the Samba file server and self-confessed TCP packet molester talks with Dahna McConnachie about Samba and some of his other favourite pastimes. He also discusses the recent deal that Microsoft signed to release previously secret code and data to the Samba project. Tridge will be speaking more about clustered Samba at the upcoming linux.conf.au.
Microsoft signed an agreement late December to release previously secret code and data to the Samba and the open source community. What will this mean for Samba, and how much will it speed up development time why/why not?
This should help speed up development of Samba quite a lot. It is very time consuming to work out all the details of a new area of these protocols by hand using protocol analysis off the wire, so being able to instead just read a set of docs is a big time saver!
How much will the agreement result in the increased interoperability between Windows and Linux/Unix?
For the sections of the protocols we already implement, Samba already has quite good interoperability. Where it will make more of a difference is allowing us to expand into new areas where we previously lacked features that Windows servers have. For example in the area of Active Directory replication, and remote indexing.
How much difference will it make to your work?
I'm expecting it will make a big difference! It will take years to implement all the new stuff we found out about in these documents though. It is nearly 15,000 pages of very technical documentation, and just reading it takes a very long time!
Can you elaborate a little on what your linux.conf.au talk will be about?
With the addition of CTDB, Samba can now be setup as the most scalable NAS solution available. I've been working on this for a couple of years, and talked about an early prototype last year, but it now has reached the stage where it is ready for production use, and we have some large production customers using clustered Samba for real work.
With clustered Samba you have the opportunity to replace dozens or even hundreds of traditional large NAS boxes with a single cluster, which makes management of huge data sets much easier.
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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. - +
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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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