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IN THIS ISSUE: [ ] 102829) GRID ESCALATES AS IT INVESTMENT PRIORITY [ ] 102834) IBM: OPEN SOURCE IS KEY FOR INNOVATION, INTEGRATION [ ] 102830) GridTalk: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH UD'S PAUL KIRCHOFF [ ] 740089) GRIDToday 2004 GRID SECURITY - STRATEGIES ADDRESSING BREACHED OR FAILED GRIDS www.gridtoday.com SPECIAL FEATURES =========================================================== [ ] 102828) WINNERS OF 'ON THE ROAD TO A GIGABIT' AWARDS ANNOUNCED The On the Road to a Gigabit awards showcase the pioneering ideas of today's visionaries and the promise of tomorrow's Internet, as well as highlight the technologies paving the road to a gigabit world. [ ] 102829) GRID ESCALATES AS IT INVESTMENT PRIORITY New survey results show that Grid computing has emerged as the sixth highest IT investment priority for 2004, ahead of Web services, ERP, telecommunications, CRM and outsourcing. [ ] 102830) GridTalk: AN AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH UD'S PAUL KIRCHOFF By Marc Strassman Paul Kirchoff is vice president of marketing and business development at United Devices, a leading company in the Grid computing space. In this Jan. 21 interview, he starts off the GridTalk interview series with a general and wide-ranging discussions of Grid computing. [ ] 102831) NORTH AMERICAN IPv6 TASK FORCE KICKS OFF NEXT PHASE OF Moonv6 Moonv6 phase II will continue to provide the North American market with strong validation for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), through demonstrating IPv6's effectiveness under operative conditions, and ultimately launch a native IPv6 backbone available for peering from anywhere in the world. [ ] 102832) THIS WEEK'S BRIEF ANALYSES OF RECENT GRIDtoday NEWS ITEMS By Rolf McClellan Following are brief evaluations of recent news stories from GRIDtoday. Rolf McClellan has nearly 20 years of experience in the network and computer industry. [ ] 102833) DEFINING A CONCEPT FOR EXTENDING RNFS SERVICES By K.S.Venkatram This article will describe the specification that extends effectiveness in working with remote file systems. We will look at basic interfaces and platforms known to enable file systems across various mappings and connection points. [ ] 102834) IBM: OPEN SOURCE IS KEY FOR INNOVATION, INTEGRATION IBM's vice president of Technology and Strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, is arguing that the next phase of innovative technology greatly depends on the adoption rate of open source software. [ ] 740090) Intel Outlines How Architectural Innovation Will Reshape The Information Age SYSTEMS/ENTERPRISE ========================================================= [ ] 102835) AT&T WebService CONNECT LEVERAGES UBIQUITY OF WEB AT&T WebService Connect leverages the ubiquity of the Web to help companies and government agencies easily and securely connect, create, share and manage business processes and applications with their suppliers and customers. [ ] 102836) IBM ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR GERMAN D-GRID INITIATIVE The initiative, which was presented by German science minister Edelgard Bulmahn, has been formed to build a nationwide Grid infrastructure across the whole of Germany. [ ] 102837) DMTF, BLADE SYSTEMS ALLIANCE ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT Under the agreement, the two organizations will work to help strengthen and speed the implementation of DMTF's server management and utility computing standards using the DMTF's Common Information Model. [ ] 102838) LINDOWS ADDS P2P SERVERS TO CORPORATE INFRASTRUCTURE By utilizing a P2P architecture, bandwidth rates are greatly reduced. In addition to the bandwidth savings, hosting infrastructure (servers, firewalls, routers, etc.) can be postponed or even eliminated. [ ] 102839) ORACLE ASSURES LOCAL CUSTOMERS OF SMOOTH MIGRATION TO 10g Oracle has worked with industry storage leaders such as EMC, Hitachi, HP, Network Appliance and Xiotech to enable ASM to work seamlessly with their network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) offerings. [ ] 102840) CITY OF CAMBRIDGE BOOSTS IT OUTPUT WITH UTILITY COMPUTING Cambridge, Mass., has slashed the time it takes to identify and cope with problematic database transactions by 92 percent after enlisting VERITAS Indepth for SQL Server application performance management software in its PeopleSoft implementation. [ ] 102841) VOLTAIRE SECURES $15 MILLION IN FUNDING Baker Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and new investor Vertex Venture Capital led the oversubscribed round. Existing investors Platinum Venture Capital, Tamir Fishman Ventures and The Challenge Fund also participated. [ ] 740091 ) Sun Microsystems Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing: Life Sciences SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS ==================================================== [ ] 102842) BDO SEIDMAN SELECTS CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND Corio Applications on Demand is a service that delivers enterprise applications from leading independent software vendors. Customers "pay-as- you-go" and avoid expensive upfront project and infrastructure costs. [ ] 102843) SEAGULL EXPANDS MAINFRAME INTEGRATION OPTIONS WITH VIASERV The ViaSQL product line, which will be marketed by Seagull Software worldwide as LegaSuite products, offers direct SQL access to both relational and non-relational data sources for z/OS, OS/390 and VSE environments, including DB2, VSAM, SQL/DS, IMS, DL/1, IDMS, Datacom, Adabas, Sequential and more. [ ] 102844) TSUNAMI RESEARCH ANNOUNCES HiveCreator 2.0 By linking groups of dedicated commodity-class computers into a self-healing, self-organizing and self-managing application fabric, HiveCreator allows enterprises to deploy their mission-critical applications in a manner that is simultaneously highly reliable and extremely scalable. BREAKING NEWS ============================================================= SECURITY [ ] 102845) BMC, RSA To Provide Comprehensive Access Management Solution [ ] 102846) Forum Systems Awarded DoD-PKI Certification [ ] 102847) Kasten Chase Releases Assurency CipherShare 3.0 [ ] 102848) SecureD Announces Managed Service Provider Alliance Program [ ] 102849) DynaTraX Excites Convention Goers At IBM Innovation Forum PLATFORMS [ ] 102850) HP Targets Growing Markets With Ultra-dense Blade [ ] 102851) RLX Announces Support For Intel Xeon Processors [ ] 102852) Samsung Joins Alliance With IBM, Chartered, Infineon [ ] 102853) 3UP Systems Announces First Ultra-Dense Blade Server NETWORKING [ ] 102854) GigaBeam Offers Fiber Alternative Technology [ ] 102855) Hexago Migration Broker Wins IPv6 Ready Logo [ ] 102856) Industry Leaders Announce Initiative To Create Mobile TLD [ ] 102857) Mysticom, Siemon Extend 10 GbE For Data Center Applications [ ] 102858) Opal-RT Technologies Introduces SignalWire [ ] 740073 ) CALL FOR SPEAKERS GRID TODAY 2004 (Gt04) -- the first major conference and exhibition to focus on the emerging market for commercial business applications of Grid computing, has issued a Call for Speakers We are looking for high-level speakers from commercial organizations to speak on applications and implementation of Grid computing http://www.gridtoday.com STORAGE [ ] 102859) Dell Server Storage Configurations Maximize Resources [ ] 102860) Exanet, KPG Enter Into Agreement For Distribution Of ExaStore OPERATING SYSTEMS & MIDDLEWARE [ ] 102861) Candle Introduces PathWAI Performance Optimization Solutions [ ] 102862) IBM, Dassault Syst•mes Reinforce Partnership [ ] 102863) Java Community Process Gets Transparency, Flexibility Boost [ ] 102864) Meiosys Leads Multi-Million Dollar European Project [ ] 102865) Opsware Introduces Automated Asset Discovery, Tracking [ ] 102866) Japanese Linux Distributor, IP Telecom, Joins OSDL [ ] 102867) Pukka Software Releases VirtualAD For Active Directories [ ] 102868) Topspin Server Switch Enables Diskless Servers [ ] 102869) VERITAS, BearingPoint To Offer New App Performance Services GENERAL [ ] 102870) AMI Showcases BIOS, IPMI, KVM Over IP Blade Technologies [ ] 102871) Grid Computing: Revolutionizing IT Methods QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== [ ] 102838) "Most content companies view P2P as evil, but there are phenomenal commercial applications." -- Michael Robertson, CEO, Lindows Inc JOB BANK =================================================================== This Week's Career Opportunities From: *denotes new listings [ ] 710) Bycast Inc, CCLRC e-Science Centre, General Electric, HP, Indiana University, Institute for Scientific Research, MCNC, The Ohio State University, NEC Europe, Osaka University, Platform (2), Tech-X Corp, United Devices (3), University of Nebraska, University of West England, Whitestein Technologies [ ] 711) Job Bank Rates and Regulations CONFERENCE CALENDAR ======================================================== GRIDtoday is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations: The Globus Project Developing Fundamental Technologies for Computational Grids http://www.globus.org Global Grid Forum Leading the global standardization effort for Grid computing www.ggf.org [ ] 700) Conferences & Seminars GRIDtoday INFORMATION ====================================================== [ ] 701) Subscriptions & Removals [ ] 702) About GRIDtoday [ ] 703) Index of Back Issues [ ] 706) FAQ / Contact Information [ ] 707) Submitting Letters and Articles [ ] 709) Advertising Opportunities _____________________________________________________________________ | | | Full background information on all sponsoring companies | | Firms marked with an * have updated their info in the last 30 days | | | | | | [ ] 921) SGI [ ] 934) Hewlett-Packard | | [ ] 527) Intel [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | | | | | | | For sponsorship information contact: Gridads@Gridtoday.com | |_____________________________________________________________________| GRIDtoday welcomes bylined comments for publication. 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