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Insurance Firm Uses Virtualization to Streamline Server Provisioning, Drive Agility: In business since 1917, today Alecta is the largest occupational pension provider in Sweden. The company's data center, located at headquarters in Stockholm, houses more than 100 older, underutilized servers. Alecta's IT staff deployed a Microsoft virtualization solution to improve hardware utilization, streamline server provisioning, and increase agility in responding...; Tags: Server Provisioning, Streamline, Provisioning, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Alecta, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management; Case studies 2008-02-01
IDC Excerpt: Worldwide Server Provisioning Software, 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares: The content of this excerpt is taken directly from the IDC Market Analysis Report, Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2006-2010 Forecast and 2005 Vendor Shares, by Stephen Elliot. According to IDC market data based on detailed company-level revenue analysis as of August 17, the server provisioning software market grew to $277...; Tags: Server Provisioning, Opsware Inc., Server, International Data Corp.; White papers 2006-09-01
The Business Value of Dual-Use DR: An Executive Overview of the Disaster Recovery Capability of Veritas Provisioning Manager: Veritas Provisioning Manager is a leading automated server provisioning solution that has had great success when deployed and used to build servers within a local area data center environment. As Provisioning Manager has become more widely used, customers are discovering a growing number of ways to realize value from its...; Tags: Server Provisioning, VERITAS Software Corp., Provisioning, Veritas Provisioning Manager, Disaster Recovery, Data Management; White papers 2006-09-01
Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2004 Vendor Shares: The server provisioning market continues to grow as IT organizations drive down costs associated with server consolidation and standardize on processes for server management. This paper identifies the server provisioning market leaders and is a follow-on study to the previously published Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2005-2009 Forecast. IBM is the...; Tags: Server Provisioning, IBM Corp., International Data Group, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2005-06-01
Siebel Systems: Measuring Business Value From Rapid Server Provisioning: With a large, complex, and constantly innovating product portfolio, managing and supporting the test and product demonstration environment is a business-critical activity for Siebel Systems, Inc. Siebel turned to Symantec Corporation for a solution based on Veritas OpForce software not only to streamline its server provisioning process but to develop...; Tags: Server Provisioning, VERITAS OpForce, Environment, Siebel Systems Inc., Servers, Hardware; Case studies

Credit Suisse Group Optimizes Resources With an Automated Server Provisioning Solution From Symantec: Credit Suisse Group is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. With business-critical applications residing on more than 1,000 Sun UNIX-based servers, server provisioning was a time-consuming endeavor for Credit Suisse Group. The problem was particularly acute for the development and engineering environment, with provisioning taking as long...; Tags: Server Provisioning, Credit Suisse First Boston, Symantec Corp., Servers, Hardware; Case studies
Making the Call for an Automated Server Provisioning Solution From Symantec: When installing or upgrading global telecommunication solutions for its customers, LogicaCMG relied on a variety of slow and complex installation methodologies. Seeking to shorten time to market while improving operating efficiencies, LogicaCMG selected VERITAS OpForce software from Symantec to automate server provisioning and to provide Web-based remote management of its...; Tags: Server Provisioning, Symantec Corp., Solution, LogicaCMG, Server, Security; Case studies
Up-and-Coming Hosting Provider Reduces Server Purposing Time by 95 Percent: Xiolink administrators are meticulous about provisioning the Microsoft Windows-based servers they use to support their dedicated hosted services customers. But that devotion to quality was taking a lot of time - between 12 and 18 hours per server, to be precise - and Xiolink officials wanted to find a way...; Tags: Server Provisioning, Microsoft Corp., Servers, Hardware; Case studies

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2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel.": July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...; Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac: I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-24
|)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit: [Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...; Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution: There's only one official way to get "legitimate" software for the iPhone 2.0 and iPod touch – via Apple's included App Store. The much-heralded service offers almost 1,000 free and paid application in numerous categories and has been well publicized over the last week. I recently had...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Identifier, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Attack code published for DNS flaw: The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....; Tags: Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-23
MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release: Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Another student hacks another police website: Oh the fun. Once again, another police website has been hacked by a student, showing that even the police aren't safe from all crimes. This is another link in the long chain of attacks over the years from egotistical teenagers trying to get a kick out of life without sticking...; Tags: Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-23
McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position: Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...; Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP: I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...; Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers: From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...; Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-22
RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug: Just a quick note to update a story I wrote last week on an unpatched remote execution vulnerability affecting BlackBerry business users: Research in Motion RIM has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. ...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Evil tech administrators: Evil tech administratorsEvil Tech Admin'sI've work at a few places where some of the Admin's I worked with were a bit on the sneeky side. So As a admin I made sure there was a back door incase one fo these admins tried to pull the same stunt. Its happened...; Tags: NETWORKING, Recruitment & Selection, administrator, network; Discussion threads 2008-07-22