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It's 11 p.m., Do You Know Where Your Queries Are?
Date: 10/07/2008
Object-relational mappers such as Hibernate, LINQ, and Rail's ActiveRecord can greatly simplify creating database-backed web applications. These tools do such a good job of abstracting the database, that is possible to create very complex web applications without ever considering the database at all!. Unfortunately, ignorance is not always bliss. When naively programmed, seemingly trivial application code can cause inefficient queries at best, and scalability and concurrency nightmares at worst. This talk will show that while ORM's provide tremendous power and speed, it is still very important to know what is going underneath the comfortable abstraction layer the ORM provides. Examples will include identifying client-side joins, concurrency problems, and scalability issues. read more
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Web 3.0 and the Age of Intelligence
Date: 10/07/2008
Often called the Semantic or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0 brings a level of artificial intelligence to transform the Internet from a searchable catalog to a personal guide that can reason in a human-like fashion and provide users with more services and options for social networks. This session will map out the world of Web 3.0, exploring the unique benefits for end users, as well as opportunities for businesses. Using specific examples, Jon Doyle will demonstrate how Web 3.0 will change the way users interact with the web ¬ from planning and booking an entire vacation to automatically scheduling doctor's appointments based on personal preferences.read more
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The Cooperative-Web - A Reference Implementation: IBM OpusUna
Date: 10/07/2008
Web applications are accessible on smart phone, TV, desktop, your home office or in your conference room. They have become common decision aids for our personal and business meetings. Situational Applications provide rich information and data visualization aids for decision-oriented meetings. The Cooperative Web reflects those situational applications that provide mediated collaboration as well as real-time streaming high-definition video. read more
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Terracotta Extends Value of Java Clustering Solution
Date: 10/06/2008
Terracotta has announced the latest version of their open source Java clustering solution, Terracotta version 2.7. The new version builds on the adoption of Terracotta in specific vertical markets and applications such as reservation systems, online gaming, and information portals. In addition, it offers extended support for the Spring framework and Glassfish application server, and delivers enhanced scalability, performance, and operational visibility. read more
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Infragistics Announces NetAdvantage for JSF
Date: 10/02/2008
Infragistics has announced the immediate availability of Infragistics NetAdvantage for JSF 2008 Volume 2, a complete set of pre-built, quality-tested components based on JavaServer Faces that allows developers to create Java UIs. With these AJAX-enabled components, developers can leverage the power of JSF to build and deliver high-performance, robust Web 2.0 applications. read more
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Perspectives on the Value of Open Source
Date: 10/01/2008
Recently, I have had the opportunity to work with a number of clients on their strategy to leverage the advantages that open source can achieve across their IT organizations. I found the major motivator and attention getter for open source adoption is the promise to cut costs; but increasingly, interests now include ways open source can provide control and enable agility.read more
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InterSystems Introduces DeepSee
Date: 10/01/2008
Responding to the growing demand for business intelligence (BI) capabilities that enable real-time decision-making for operational business processes, InterSystems Corporation has announced InterSystems DeepSee embedded real-time BI software. DeepSee aims to broaden the use of BI to decision makers at all organization levels driving more effective day-to-day execution across the enterprise.read more
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Greenplum Combines SQL & MapReduce
Date: 09/25/2008
Greenplum, the grandest of the open source-based databases, whose massively parallel shared-nothing architecture supports petabyte data warehousing on cost-effective general-purpose hardware and promises linear scalability on thousands of processors, has pushed out its latest cut, rev 3.2, making it the first commercial database, the company says, to include MapReduce, the parallel computing technique pioneered by Goggle and copied by Yahoo’s Hadoop for analyzing the web. read more
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Using Spring as an Object Container
Date: 09/11/2008
When you work with open source ESBs, you can use other tools and frameworks to help you solve common problems. Spring is one of the tools that extends the basic functionality of the ESBs Mule and ServiceMix and makes solving integration problems a lot easier. Spring is a component framework that makes it easy to work with Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs).read more
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Sun Microsystems Strikes Multi-Million Dollar Deal with ERP Software Company
Date: 09/09/2008
Sun Microsystems has announced the addition of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor Stésud to a growing list of customers that have adopted and deployed Sun's open source MySQL database and GlassFish application server software. This Belgium-based enterprise company joins Australian online travel pioneer Wotif.com and hundreds of other companies that now rely on MySQL and GlassFish as a lower-cost, higher-performance alternative to traditional database and application server software. read more
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Former CEO Sanjay Kumar Fingers CA Founder Charles Wang
Date: 09/08/2008
From his cell in a federal prison in New Jersey, former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar has pointed an accusing finger at CA founder Charles Wang and said that Wang was the real author of the $2.2 billion accounting fraud that sent Kumar to jail for 12 years and nearly destroyed the company.read more
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Stepping Out of the Sandbox
Date: 08/28/2008
An applet, a Java program that runs in a browser, often has to access the client resources. However, the security manager prevents an applet from accessing client resources. To access client resources, the applet has to have the proper permission. With this permission the applet can then access the client system resources by way of the security manager.read more
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The Role of Event-Driven Architecture in Business Applications
Date: 08/28/2008
Three-letter acronyms (TLAs) are hardly new in Information Technology: EAI, ESB, SOA, BPM, BAM, ETL, MDM; the list goes on and on. This article is about yet another three-letter acronym, EDA, which stands for Event-Driven Architecture. EDA is not a brand new technology, but rather a proven paradigm in system-level programs, war and military simulator applications, gaming, and other areas. EDA has started to shape how general-purpose business applications are architected.read more
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Google, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Date: 08/24/2008
New England-based Egenera has opened a West Coast office in Santa Clara, California, saying it’s a growing market. Google.com, Google’s philanthropic arm, intends to put upwards of $10 million in steam-producing geothermal energy that circulates water through hot rocks to lower the cost of electricity from renewable sources. Google thinks it could be the energy equivalent of a killer app. The money is going to AltaRock Energy Inc in Sausalito and Potter Drilling Inc in Redwood City. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allan’s VC arm Vulcan Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Advanced Technology Ventures are piling on the AltaRock deal. Google’s selfish motivation is the cost of its data centers.read more
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Cloud Computing Salesforce.com Announces Record Fiscal 2Q Results
Date: 08/20/2008
Salesforce.com recently reported second-quarter net income of $10 million, or 8 cents a share, in line with the mean 8-cent estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. During the year earlier, earnings were $3.74 million, or 3 cents a share. The latest results include about $19 million in stock-based compensation and $1.3 million in amortization of purchased intangibles related to previously announced acquisitions. Revenue for the period ended July 31 rose to $263.1 million from $176.6 million last year. Analysts were looking for revenue of $260.6 million.
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Comcast Works with Intel: Java-based 'Widget Channel'
Date: 08/20/2008
Comcast Corporation the nation's provider of entertainment, information and communications, announced that they are working with Intel Corporation to bring Internet Protocol (IP) based applications to the television experience set using a new technology co-developed by Intel and called the Widget Channel framework.
This technology is an open software development framework that enables the ability to combine Internet-based applications with a TV experience through a widget-based user interface that can be easily accessed while watching television programs. The Widget Channel framework's graphical user interface will let consumers click an onscreen widget to access and view a variety of Internet-based applications or content such as weather updates, news, games, and other -interactive applications on their TV.
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Java, Standards, and Free Software in Europe
Date: 08/20/2008
Government intervention and direction has long been critical to the development of the computer industry. The Internet, after all, was derived from the ARPANET, developed in the early 1970s from a U.S. government-sponsored research project by the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Today local, national, and supranational governments from Latin America to the United States to Europe continue to influence the development of our industry.read more
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Java SpringSource Partners with Carahsoft
Date: 08/20/2008
SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, and a provider of infrastructure software, announced a strategic partnership with Carahsoft Technology Corporation, a government IT solutions provider. Under the terms of the partnership, Carahsoft will resell SpringSource products and services to the public sector for the first time. SpringSource Enterprise and Application Platform software offerings, as well as commercial support offerings around Apache Tomcat and other Apache technologies, will be offered under numerous contract programs, including the Federal GSA. read more
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Maximizing Java Performance with Bespoke Programming
Date: 08/20/2008
Commercial systems are developed with a huge range of performance requirements and we are concerned in this article with the small number of systems where absolute maximum performance is demanded either in terms of execution speed or available memory. We'll discuss the role of bespoke implementation and show that writing programs that utilize novel data structures and new algorithms designed with knowledge of the specific problem context is a necessary complement to the generic components and automatic optimizations offered by compilers and modern JVMs to maximize performance.read more
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Active Power Selected by Java Sun Microsystems
Date: 08/19/2008
Active Power, Inc., inventor and manufacturer of energy-efficient critical power systems in the world, announced it has sold and shipped one of its CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) 1200 kVA system to Sun Microsystems. The flywheel based UPS system will provide power protection and conditioning for Sun’s Broomfield, Colo. based data center facility.
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Virtual Machines Are Not Free
Date: 08/17/2008
Organizations are rapidly consolidating multiple physical servers to virtual environments. There is no debating the cost savings and operational benefits of virtualization. The issues that are now arising as virtualization continues to proliferate are rooted in management and how organizations can gain cost visibility and recover the costs of their virtualization projects. As a result, corporate finance and IT functionalities are moving ever closer together.read more
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Sun Releases Lightweight UI Toolkit for Java Apps
Date: 08/15/2008
Sun has released a new development kit aimed at mobile software developers.
The toolkit will allow developers to create user interfaces for Java-based mobile phone applications. The package is being made available for download by the company under the title 'Light-weight UI Toolkit' or LWUIT.
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Wuala Uses Java to Make Online Storage Social
Date: 08/14/2008
First there was the failure of MediaMax/TheLinkUp, which was based on the idea of pairing online storage with social networking. In its wake comes Wuala, a new service from Zurich-based Caleido that pairs a similar plan with some unique technologies and capabilities.read more
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Critical Java Bugs in Nokia Phones?
Date: 08/14/2008
A pair of critical vulnerabilities in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java technology for mobile devices could be used by hackers to surreptitiously make calls, record conversations and access information on Nokia Series 40 cell phones, a Polish researcher said.read more
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Hershey Selects Skyway Software to Deliver Java App
Date: 08/14/2008
Skyway Software, the experts in simplifying software delivery, recently entered into a relationship with The Hershey Company. The Hershey Company markets such iconic brands as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, and Ice Breakers and is the largest North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and sugar confectionery products, with annual revenues of nearly $5 billion and more than 13,000 employees worldwide.read more
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Aladdin Secures Intellectual Property of Java-Based Applications
Date: 08/13/2008
Aladdin Knowledge Systems, an information security specialist in authentication, software DRM and content security, announced the release of Aladdin HASP SRMv 3.50, adding automatic file wrapping for Java applications, enhanced security and ease-of-use to Aladdin's award-winning, fully-integrated hardware- and software-based copy protection and licensing solution. read more
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Despite Code Glitch, Sprint Pushes Java for Instinct
Date: 08/13/2008
The Instinct smartphone will gain a wide range of new software as the result of a contest for Java programmers, despite a behind-the-scenes dispute about standards compliance. Co-developed with Samsung, the Instinct is positioned as Sprint’s answer to the Apple iPhone, exclusively sold by rival AT&T in the United States. Unlike software for the iPhone, new programs for the Instinct do not require Sprint’s certification.
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SourceLabs Releases Tool for Linux & Java Troubleshooting
Date: 08/13/2008
SourceLabs, the company innovating support and search technology for open source software, released SourceLabs' Self-Support Tools with hardware recognition and advanced tagging. The new features represent a substantial expansion to the company's Support Suite technologies that enable engineers and IT professionals to quickly discover issues and find solutions for open source software. read more
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The SYS-CON Media Annual Readers' Choice Awards Program: Frequently Asked Questions
Date: 08/12/2008
The SYS-CON Media Annual Readers' Choice Awards program is a carefully orchestrated user-centric process in which SYS-CON Readers are able each year to nominate and/or vote for the products, services, and applications that they feel are most deserving in the numerous key categories that our team of experts choose each year. Here in the form of an FAQ are the answers to some questions we commonly receive on the Readers' Choice awards.
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ESRI and i-cubed's Launch of DataDoors for ArcGIS Advances User Acquisition of National and International Imagery Data
Date: 08/12/2008
Aerial and satellite imagery, topographic maps, and terrain data available from ESRI's ArcGIS Online Services can now be accessed and purchased via the Web application DataDoors for ArcGIS. Developed by ESRI business partner i-cubed, the application enables geographic information system (GIS) users to select, order, and acquire a variety of raster data, available online, for offline usage in their GIS projects.read more
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Skyway Software & Atomikos Partner in Java EE App
Date: 08/11/2008
Skyway Software announces a strategic partnership with Atomikos, a firm monitoring transaction processing (TP) activities in today’s software development and delivery activities. read more
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Coverity Introduces Software Readiness Manager for Java
Date: 08/11/2008
Coverity, Inc. announced the availability of Coverity Software Readiness Manager for Java. The product allows development managers, release managers and executives to objectively assess the release readiness of their critical code by combining essential data from multiple sources including Prevent, Coverity's static analysis product. Software Readiness Manager helps development teams deliver high-integrity code that successfully meets quality standards to align product development with business goals.
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How Can Java Developers Stay Relevant?
Date: 08/11/2008
With the rapid evolution that Java and open source frameworks have made since the release of J2EE, enterprise Java IT seems to be producing too many Java dinosaurs. Developers, technical managers, or architects who no longer pursue their technical skills don't understand the evolution of JEE in comparison to J2EE, persistence frameworks, IOC frameworks, Web frameworks, or Web 2.0 and its effects on enterprise Java. Yet decisions are made based on out-of-date J2EE experience. read more
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Java T-Mobile to Create App Store for 'Everyone'
Date: 08/11/2008
T-Mobile has confirmed in the US that it is working with developers to create an Apple like App Store for all, not just some of its handsets. read more
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Desktop Java Editorial: Management – The Final Frontier
Date: 08/07/2008
The finest programmer I've ever worked with told me recently that she was giving up coding altogether. The reason – a succession of inept and incompetent managers had just destroyed her faith in software development. Recounting her experiences over the past couple of years, she categorized management personalities into certain traits.read more
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Real-Time Java Aonix Supports VxWorks
Date: 08/06/2008
Aonix, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java developers, announces the release of PERC Ultra 5.1 cross development and target support on Wind River's VxWorks 6.6 real-time operating system and Wind River Workbench development suite. With more than 1 million field systems in markets such as aerospace, defense, telecommunications, industrial control and robotics, PERC Ultra well suits the broad real-time market leadership of VxWorks. These joint solutions will enable developers to take advantage of Java language capabilities while ensuring that critical deterministic behavior requirements can still be met. read more
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Eurotech Delivers Java-Based Software Framework
Date: 08/06/2008
Eurotech Inc., a provider of application-ready embedded computer systems, launches the Eurotech Software Framework (ESF) middleware solution, based on service oriented architecture and implemented using IBM Equinox. ESF brings a low cost modular approach to application development by using a mature and scalable Java-based software framework. read more
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Diagnosing Performance Issues in Production Java Applications
Date: 08/05/2008
Java developers use a variety of tools to diagnose performance problems. These tools provide deep visibility into an application's runtime behavior, including an in-depth view into problem areas with exact line numbers and object values. However, these tools have traditionally been limited to development environments. read more
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DevExpress Channel is Now Broadcasting Product Training Videos and Live Interviews
Date: 08/05/2008
DevExpress is proud to announce the newest addition to its web properties - the DevExpress Channel – broadcasting at tv.devexpress.com. The DevExpress Channel offers our software development community access to over 100 product training videos and dozens of one on one interviews. read more
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Sun Eclipsed by Economy
Date: 08/05/2008
If Sun hadn’t done that one-for-four reverse stock split in November and turned its $5 stock into a $20 stock, it would now be a $2 stock. Instead, it’s a $9 stock, down more than 50%. And things don’t look like they’re gonna get much better. So it’s going to peel off another billion of that fortune it’s still got in the bank and buy back more stock.
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Cloud Computing - Game Changing?
Date: 08/02/2008
Anything as a Service (XaaX) is potentially game-changing technology that could reshape IT. Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com have the most mature offerings. Other companies like IBM, AT&T, and Verizon are jumping on the ‘cloud’ bandwagon. Will it attract large number of customers? I think IT executives of large organizations will stay on the sidelines and will decide not to enter the cloud now, during its infancy.read more
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JavaFX Can Help Java Developers to Build and Deploy RIAs
Date: 07/31/2008
"Only the Java platform is pervasive enough to allow developers to build and deploy RIAs across desktops and browsers on more than 800 million PCs, as well as billions of mobile phones and devices," said Ken Wallich, VP of JavaFX at Sun. "JavaFX builds upon this foundation to deliver immersive and rich presentation capabilities to the existing Java platform,” he declared.
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VirtualLogix Introduces Carrier Grade Virtualization
Date: 07/28/2008
VirtualLogix announced Carrier Grade Virtualization, a solution that meets the performance, security, serviceability and availability needs of next generation, multicore-based carrier grade systems. VirtualLogix Carrier Grade Virtualization reduces the cost and complexity of maintaining carrier grade properties in edge and core network elements such as IP Multimedia System (IMS) nodes. As a result, networking and telecommunication original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can now reuse existing investments in their carrier grade systems while gaining the benefits of using VirtualLogix VLX real-time virtualization software. These benefits include faster adoption of multicore architectures and consolidation of hardware, reduced bill of materials, increased availability, improved time to market, and more efficient designs as a result.read more
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TRANGO Hypervisor Demonstrates Secure Platform Virtualization on TI OMAP3430 Processor
Date: 07/28/2008
TRANGO Virtual Processors delivers isolation and portability of operating systems and drivers on the TI OMAP 3 platform. The TRANGO Hypervisor offers a broad choice of operating system (OS) and real-time operating system (RTOS) including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, uC-OSII, uITRON and other proprietary RTOS, while the OMAP 3 platform, based on ARM Cortex-A8 processor, offers up to 3X performance gain over ARM11 based processors. The combination delivers isolation, flexibility and cost optimization benefits to the design of today's convergent wireless devices.read more
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TRANGO Virtual Processors Announces Secure Virtualization for Operating Systems
Date: 07/28/2008
TRANGO Virtual Processors announced that it has added support for the uITRON RTOS to the growing list of operating systems.hosted by the TRANGO Hypervisor. TRANGO's secure isolation, robust protection of critical data and services, and the company's steadfast commitment to providing the thinnest, lightest hypervisor in the commercial marketplace makes this a compelling solution for applications such as multifunction printers, medical equipment, cell phones, and set top boxes.read more
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What Does the Future Hold for the Java Language?
Date: 07/26/2008
Before Java I was a Smalltalk guy. I remember switching from one language to the other and the tipping point that you reach when you've mastered the new language and how many months it takes, not to mention the years, to do really good design and know-how, which patterns to apply and how to avoid mistakes, understand performance issues, and so forth.read more
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Rating JRuby, Jython, and Groovy on the Java Platform
Date: 07/25/2008
Open source software, while not synonymous with Java, may often be seamlessly integrated with Java code to produce a versatile synthesis that makes developers' lives much easier. In recent years, developers have taken some open source dynamic languages, commonly referred to as 'scripting languages,' and adapted them to the more mainstream Java platform.read more
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Trustware Releases New Version Of Desktop Virtualization Security Software
Date: 07/25/2008
Trustware unveiled a new version of its powerful security software application, BufferZone Pro 3.0. With close to 2 million installations worldwide, BufferZone has become the de-facto standard for browser and application based virtualization security. By creating a 'buffer zone' between the Internet and the users' local PC environment, consumers can browse the Web, chat on IM, open email attachments, download files and other confidential information - all without the fear of malware attacks.read more
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General Dynamics to Deliver Trusted Virtualization Environment
Date: 07/25/2008
General Dynamics C4 Systems has selected the OptiPlex 755 desktop by Dell as the computer hardware to host its Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE), a High Assurance Platform (HAP)-compliant workstation intended for classified work by government users. The workstation enables individuals to use a single computer workstation to securely access information and applications from multiple networks, at different classification levels, as opposed to limiting a computer to a single security level.read more
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Tripwire ConfigCheck Now Assesses VMware ESX 3.0 Hypervisor Virtualization Configurations to Improve Security
Date: 07/25/2008
Tripwire announced the availability of Tripwire ConfigCheck for VMware ESX 3.0. Tripwire ConfigCheck is a free utility that assesses configuration settings for VMware ESX 3.0 and 3.5 hypervisors, determines potential configuration risks, and provides prescriptive remediation advice so that administrators can ensure greater security.read more
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