======================================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM - SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM AND IT INDUSTRY NEWS May 17, 2001 More headlines at: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid12,00.html ======================================================== SPONSORED BY: The Allied Group ======================================================== How much should my company invest in technology? Will these technologies scale to meet future business needs? How do I make technical determinations to meet my business requirements? The Allied Group's Strategic Technology Analysis can help you on your quest for the right answers. Together with VERITAS Software, The Allied Group provides clients with the continuous availability of business-critical information. Register today at http://www.go-allied.com/STA and receive a FREE PDF of our Strategic Technology Analysis. Learn how The Allied Group can help your company gain a competitive advantage through technology. ======================================================== LEAD STORY "NEC, Microsoft to jointly develop storage area network software" Sun wants to improve its presence in the storage market, so officials there may be interested in this news. Microsoft and NEC Corp. are hopping into the corporate bed to jointly develop software to connect SAN-related products like NEC's disk array and Windows operating system. The two companies will also work together to craft a tool to connect SQL Server 2000 with the NEC's iStorage products. SOURCE: AsiaBizTech http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/moren/130511 Read about Sun's most recent storage moves at http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0515sunstor.html. Sun is trying to take a bite out of those sultans of storage EMC. But EMC has some big news today. Read more at http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010517S0004. 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Just click on http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid12_tax281849,00.html. =============================================== OTHER SOLARIS AND INDUSTRY NEWS =============================================== [1.] "IBM to build supercomputer around its Power4 chip" [2.] "HP blames weak results on economy, internal issues" [3.] "Worm tries to attract the Feds' attention" [1.] "IBM to build supercomputer around its Power4 chip" IBM has announced the first hardware built around its next-generation Power4 chip, signing on to deliver one of the world's largest computing systems dedicated to finding answers about diseases such as Alzheimer's and the human form of "mad cow" disease. The Power4 can run either the AIX 5L version of Unix or Linux. SOURCE: IDG News http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO60638,00.html =============================================== [2.] "HP blames weak results on economy, internal issues" Sun's rival HP says a combination of the dull economy, a slowdown in its corporate IT business and internal sales and marketing issues is responsible for a 60% decline in pro-forma operating profits for Q2. This is HP's third consecutive weak showing. Total Unix server sales dipped 13%, with purchases of midrange machines dropping by nearly one-third compared with last year's quarter. SOURCE: ComputerWorld http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO60630,00.html =============================================== [3.] "Worm tries to attract the Feds' attention" A UK security software firm (Sophos) says there's a new variant on the Love Bug worm out there. VBS/LoveLet-CL, as it's called, creates two copies of itself on the user's hard drive using the file names command.vbs and WinVXD.vbs. The worm tries to send itself to every address in an infected Outlook user's address book in e-mails with the subject line "!!!". SOURCE: InfoWorld http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/17/010517hnsophos.xml =============================================== Did you know searchSolaris has three site experts currently taking questions on system security, Java and general Solaris administration? To post your questions, or to read answers to previous queries, go to http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/ateExperts/0,289622,sid12,00.html. ============================================ TAKE OUR LATEST POLL: Are you planning to fire up Sun Fire and convert your systems to the new line? To answer, go to http://www.searchSolaris.com/poll. ============================================ Have you seen our new "Word of the Week" feature! This week's word is "IPsec." To read an in-depth definition of this term, or to look at previous "Words of the Week," click on http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid12_tax285170,00.html. ============================================ LEARNING ZONE FEATURED BOOK OF THE WEEK ============================================ "Samba Unleashed," by Steve Litt Samba Unleashed shows you how to install, configure, and maintain Samba on a wide variety of platforms. You will learn practical, focused solutions and strategies so you can seamlessly get Samba working on your network. The main section of the book covers the topics every system administrator needs to know, including configuring custom file share, configuring custom printer share, using server side automation, Samba security, optimizing Samba performance, routed networks, and browsing. http://www.digitalguru.com/dgstore/product.asp?isbn=0672318628&ac_id=68 ====================================== SEARCHSOLARIS.COM WEB LINK OF THE DAY ====================================== "Pick the right RAID for you" This Q&A provides a good primer on the differences between RAID levels 0 through 5. We found this to be a good summary for those needing to learn or communicate with others about the nuances of redundant arrays of inexpensive/independent disks. (January 15, 1999) SOURCE: Planet IT http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/Storage/expert/PIT19990113S0013 ================ THE MISSING LINK ================ A look at an off-the-wall story from the Web... "Funny money equals more time" Money may not grow on trees, but it appears you can run some off in your basement with a PC, a quality printer and a scanner - but not without expecting to pay a stiff price if you're caught. The Secret Service has noticed a significant upturn in the circulation of counterfeit money and they've gotten downright proactive in fighting funny money makers. Anyone caught with equipment for manufacturing new bills or the paper they're printed on, faces 25% more prison time than past convictions brought, according to new guidelines issued by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The guidelines, which are the first to take into account a suspect's ability to counterfeit rather than the stash of bills they're circulating, don't take effect for six months. SOURCE: Wired http://www.wired.com/news/ipo/0,1350,43727,00.html ================================================= SOUND OFF! 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