Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Extreme CRM Makeover with SugarCRM; A Linux distro for malware analysis

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Extreme CRM Makeover with SugarCRM
Alan Shimel: SugarCRM is the "general contractor" supplying the CRM that will makeover American Bancard. Read More


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Crash Course in UNIX Privileges
UNIX root privileges make is easy for someone to change ownership of files, bind well-know TCP/IP ports, kills running processes and more. The poor granularity of super-user security makes organizations extremely vulnerability to careless and malicious errors. See how to truly protect your infrastructure. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat

Proven Scalability For SAS 9.2
Learn how enterprises are realizing this faster and with less risk with the scalability of SAS 9.2 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on NEC's Intel Xeon processor. Learn More Now

A Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis
Julie Bort: A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Read More

Open Source Business Models Become More Attractive
Amy Vernon: Kenneth Bosung had joined OpenGeo. Bosung had spent his entire career thus far with proprietary software companies. Read More

MapQuest Takes a Walk on the Open Side
Alan Shimel: Last week AOLs MapQuest announced an open sourced powered version of MapQuest. It is powered by OpenStreetmap.org, the free wiki world map. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP

HP Business Value of EVA Storage Virtualization
This Edison Group report is an independent assessment of the architecture and business benefits of HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA). Learn how EVA enables access to the storage in a single array by numerous hosts, tiered storage within the array to different types of drives and better performance than non-virtualized systems. Read Now.

Open Network Podcast: Is Multi-Tenant A Must For Cloud Based Open Source
Alan Shimel: This week Mitchell Ashley and I are joined by Dave Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud. We talk about open source and the multi-tenant cloud. Read More

U.K. government could drop Microsoft for Linux
Amy Vernon: Among the dozens of staff-submitted ideas for the British government to save money are two that suggest dumping Microsoft and moving to Linux and OpenOffice. Read More

The open source robot, Qbo
Alan Shimel: But while robots on the assembly line have caught on, they are hardly the cute R2D2 types we crave. Francisco Paz hopes to change that, with Qbo. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP

Implementing Tiered Storage:
IDC: Enterprises that are investigating deploying a tiered storage architecture should consider using an external services provider to assist with the migration. Of critical importance is the ability to offer a range of services from the initial planning all the way through to ongoing support and management. Read Now

IBM, EU partner on open source projects
Amy Vernon: IBM and the European Union are partnering on two projects that, in the end, aim to make government run more smoothly and businesses able to collaborate on web-based services. Read More

Zenoss net management tool watches over Cisco UCS
Julie Bort: Zenoss has updated its popular open core network monitoring tool to cover Cisco's one-year-old Unified Computing System (UCS). Read More

Spotify Linux app goes live
Online music streaming provider Spotify has announced a native application for Linux operating systems. Read More

Droid X Debuts July 15; Expect Instant Hit
The immediate future looks bright for Motorola's new Droid X smartphone, which is scheduled for release Thursday, July 15 on Verizon Wireless' 3G network. Read More

Nokia boosts Java development for Symbian 3 phones
Developers gain open source runtime under terms of Symbian Foundation's Eclipse Public License Read More



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Robocop ran DOS
Virtually no sci-fi or action flick these days is complete without a computer scene showing a few screens of mysterious scrolling text and a 3D wire-frame model. But where does this vaguely tech-looking stuff come from? Well, more often than not, it comes from a Website, app, or startup screen from the real world at the time the movie was made. Read on for some of the most unexpected tech cameos in movies.

Top Russian spy ring technology screw-ups
Alleged Russian spies arrested last month in cities around the United States seemed to be lacking in spycraft and in urgent need of some IT expertise, based on some of the gaffes they made. They also used some technologies effectively. Here is a summary of their efforts as revealed in court filings against them.

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