10 years of virtualized directories

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	10 years of virtualized directories In May 2001 this newsletter took a number of looks at the form and structure of directory storage from traditional x.500-style hierarchical structures (which later were, incorrectly, called "LDAP directories") through to relational database management systems (RDBMS) used to store directory data. Read More WHITE PAPER: Belden Wire Converged Solutions for Healthcare Infrastructures Healthcare management is increasingly using converged infrastructures to minimize costs. This white paper discusses the role of a converged infrastructure and how it ensures the bandwidth and signal performance for running multiple patient care applications and medical systems. Read More In this Issue Researchers crack Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Digg audio captchas U.S. international cyberspace policy sounds good; will be hard to implement NASA will use not-so-new technology for next spacecraft Microsoft online chief: I would never log into a Chromebook Researcher blasts Siemens for downplaying SCADA threat Dimension Data finds vulnerabilities on Cisco devices Check Point's new security blades cut both ways Everything's a scam ... or so it seems How to stop your executives from being harpooned WHITE PAPER: IBM Distributed Virtualization Management from Big Iron Many enterprises started virtualization efforts to reap the benefits of consolidating their distributed infrastructure. This consolidation, however, has not ended datacenter infrastructure heterogeneity since enterprises seem intent on acquiring different virtualization platforms as well as heterogeneous hardware platforms. Read Now Researchers crack Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Digg audio captchas Researchers have figured out how to to crack captchas, making it possible to launch automated attacks against sites such as Microsoft, eBay and Digg where opening phony accounts could be turned into cash. Read More U.S. international cyberspace policy sounds good; will be hard to implement The ambitious new U.S. strategy for securing the Internet sets critical goals that may be hard to put into practice, experts say, because some of them conflict and pose seemingly insurmountable technical problems. Read More NASA will use not-so-new technology for next spacecraft NASA today said it will base a new spacecraft capable of carrying humans into low-earth orbit and beyond on existing technology developed for the now defunct Constellation system. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Benefits of an ITIL Help Desk in the Cloud You can implement help desk processes based on ITIL easily with reduced up-front costs and automatic upgrades. Used by more than 72,500 companies worldwide, the Force.com platform is the most widely used Cloud platform in the world. Read More Microsoft online chief: I would never log into a Chromebook Surprise! A Microsoft executive doesn't like Google products. Read More Researcher blasts Siemens for downplaying SCADA threat The security researcher who last week voluntarily canceled a talk on critical vulnerabilities in Siemens' industrial control systems took the German giant to task for downplaying the problem Read More Dimension Data finds vulnerabilities on Cisco devices Large numbers of companies using Cisco network equipment are still vulnerable to a single security vulnerability flaw nearly two years after a patch was issued, an analysis of network scans by Dimension Data for its 2011 Network Barometer Report has found. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle A Technical Overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine Discover how to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable, incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection with this unique commercial solution. Learn more. Check Point's new security blades cut both ways If you're in the market for endpoint protection, Check Point's new R80 Unified Endpoint Security Management product shows promise. Read More Everything's a scam ... or so it seems An editor at Salon recently wrote an excruciatingly candid account of her having been snookered by an Internet scam. Read More How to stop your executives from being harpooned 'Whaling' is a growing security threat that uses personalized phishing techniques to get your most sensitive data and access to your key networks Read More
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