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- Novell updates Orchestrator
- Novell's Joe Wagner and Richard Whitehead caught up with me after a whirlwind trip to San Francisco for Linuxworld. They wanted to bring me up to date on Novell ZENworks Orchestrator.As you might remember, I chatted with Novell back in April (see Novell's Orchestrator) for a post on that conversation....
- Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Novell Inc., Orchestrator, Cassatt Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
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- Building the ecosystem: Citrix and Platform Computing
- David Roussain of Citrix and Peter Dyer of Platform Computing brought me up to speed on how the two companies are working together to provide a highly managable, agile computing environment based upon virtual machines supported by Citrix XenServer and Platform Computing's VM Orchestrator 4.0. ...
- Tags: Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Platform Computing Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Conversation with Platform Computing's Songnian Zhou
- Platform Computing has been a player in virtual processing and management software for virtualized resources since 1992. Platform LSF has been the company's flagship product since those early days. It has found a home in electronics, financial services, government, life sciences, manufacturing and oil/gas. I've been following them since I...
- Tags: Environment, Platform Computing Inc., Grid Environment, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor?
- Novell just announced an agreement to acquire PlateSpin, one of the players in the management of virtualized resources segment of the virtualization software market for $205 Million see Sorting out the different layers of virtualization for more information on this market segment. One would have to wonder why Novell made...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Platform Computing VM Orchestrator
- Although I've tracked Platform Computing for well over a decade, I don't get the chance to speak with them all that much. A short while ago, I had the opportunity to chat with Peter Dye, Product Manager of VM Orcestrator VMO. Although our discussion ranged from Platform's history, where it...
- Tags: Product, Platform Computing Inc., Productivity, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Automating McAfee ePO: Practical Ways to Use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 to Save Time and Improve Compliance
- This paper describes some of the most beneficial ways to apply new McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ePO 4.0 workflow automation and management tools. These new ePO capabilities will help to eliminate errors, save precious administration time, and speed decision-making. Using three typical user scenarios - McAfee point product deployment, virus outbreak,...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Compliance, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Workforce Management, Management, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-10-01
- News to know: PC satisfaction; Nokia batteries; VMware IPO; Flash VOIP
- Notable headlines:Customer satisfaction down among PC buyers.Nokia announces product advisory for BL-5C battery.AP: VMware prices IPO at $29.Ed Bott: The Vista RAM puzzle: Is 2GB enough?Larry Dignan: Classmates files for $125 million IPO.Ryan Stewart: Flash based VOIP is finally here.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Shared Source licenses are now in...
- Tags: VoIP, Nokia Corp., PC, aQuantive Inc., Battery, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, IPO, Web Design, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Technology Shakedown: McAfee's A/V software runs amok on Windows Vista's tray
- Technology Shakedown: McAfee's A/V software runs amok on Windows Vista's trayGiven your previous problems with this kit...... you might be best re-installing with different software (like a different A/V) and whilst I don't approve of the Linux idiots around here (Move to Linux! Move to Linux! (repeat [i]ad nauseum[/i])) I'm...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, A/V, McAfee Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, AVG, McAffe, software
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- Patch Watch: Critical updates from Adobe, Cisco, Symantec, McAfee
- Patch Tuesday is no longer an exclusive Microsoft event. Slowly but surely, it's beginning to look like more and more big-name software vendors are piggybacking on Microsoft's scheduled patch day to roll out critical software fixes.This week, in addition to Microsoft's six bulletins, computer users should also pay attention to...
- Tags: Open source, Microsoft, McAfee, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Cisco, Browsers, Botnets, Apple, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Rootkits, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Dune Technologies Orchestration for VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server
- Stefan Hochuli Paychère, Founder & CTO, of Dunes Technologies, spent a few moments speaking with my colleague, Roger Sakowski, and I to help us understand his company's products, VS-O and VD-O. Dunes appears to be working from the point of view that a revolutionary change is occurring in the industry...
- Tags: Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Virtualization and Green Computing
- "Green computing" seems to be seems to be the up and coming thing for suppliers offering virtualization software as well as management software for virtualized environments. It's a topic that has come up over and over again in my discussions with suppliers recently.What is "green computing" you ask? It appears...
- Tags: Consumer use of Virtualization, Green Computing, Managing virtualized environments, virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- More on the MacBook Pro browser exploit
- If you havent been following the hack of the Safari Web browser on a MacBook Pro there are some details that you should know.First, as I reported on Wednesday the attack is not native to the Macintosh. The flaw actually lies in the way Apples QuickTime Media Player works with...
- Tags: Hack, MacBook Pro, Security
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Novell's Orchestrator
- Novell's OrchestratorPythonJust a small clarification -- ZENworks Orchestrator itself is written in Java, but Python is used for the job definiton language JDL to create built-in components and extensions.Thanks!I appreciate the correction. Thanks!Dan K
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Novell Orchestrator, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- Novell's Orchestrator
- As I mentioned in my post, Overview of Novells views on virtualization and again in my post, Conversations with Cassatt and Marathon, Thoughts on Novell and Red Hat, Novell appears to be focusing a great deal of attention on managing virtualized environments not just the tools of virtualization themselves. Along...
- Tags: virtualization, Managing virtualized environments
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- IE7 set for release in just a few weeks
- IE7 set for release in just a few weeksMy guess is too little, too lateWhile I'm a MS fan, the delay of IE7 from IE6 was fatally too long for me. I switched to Firefox and will likely never look back. I think MS made a HUGE blunder by allowing...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-07
- McAfee Accidently Fixes EPO
- Last Friday McAfee had to apologize to its customers because six months ago they "inadvertently repaired the flaw after an engineer made other changes to its software" according to its chief security architect, John Viega. The flaw was in McAfee's popular ePolicy Orchestrator but effects the corporate Anti-Virus...
- Tags: flaw, McAfee Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-17
- Automated Provisioning Using IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator and Enterprise Workload Manager
- IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager dynamically provisions, and deprovisions, server instances. It does so based on the end-to-end service-level achievement provided by the IBM Enterprise WorkLoad Manager EWLM and orchestrated coordinated by IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator. This paper explains how the integration of EWLM and Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator can proficiently and...
- Tags: Provisioning, IBM Corp.
- White papers 2006-02-01
- On Demand Provisioning of Portal Servers in a Clustered Environment, Part 2: Create an Automation Package by Customizing Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator
- The Advanced Design and Technology team uses IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator to create a solution that automatically performs all the required steps to leverage data center assets to replicate portal servers, and to expand and shrink portal server clusters based on demand. This paper outlines how you can design and...
- Tags: Provisioning, IBM Corp., Automation, Portal Server, Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- White papers 2005-11-29
- Provisioning J2EE Applications With IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator and IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
- This paper presents a simplified customer environment in which a case study is demonstrated for provisioning servers to a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application cluster environment for use by customers. This paper focuses on the tasks required for planning, implementing, and configuring all components of IBM Tivoli Intelligent...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Network, Provisioning, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM Corp., Application Servers, Middleware, J2Ee, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2005-10-31
- On Demand Provisioning of Portal Servers in a Clustered Environment, Part 1: Build an Automated Solution Using IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator
- This paper introduces the reader to the requirements for replicating WebSphere Portal Server Portal Server instances for building server farms, testing centers, and a development environment. The reader will also learn about automation workflows for creating a dynamic cluster of middleware servers and how to automate the management of software...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Provisioning, Server, IBM Corp., Portal Server, Portals, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software
- White papers 2005-09-27
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