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Mainframe Mindset

2008-08-13 21:18:17 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...mainframes means low growth, but IBM is still selling mainframes like hotcakes. IBM said its mainframe business rose 32% in the second quarter compared to overall sales growth of 13%. How many 1960s technologies are putting up these numbers in 2008? The reality is that what mainframes do, they do well. While some companies invest 8 figures in...
 
Tags: mainframe, mainframe security model, mainframe business, object resource, resource, subject, claim, web services gateway, security
 
 
 
 
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IBM boosts performance, energy efficiency of new mainframe

2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
IBMs next-generation mainframe unveiled Tuesday is 50% faster than its predecessor and can double performance for CPU-intensive jobs, while offering dramatic improvements in energy efficiency, according to Big Blue
 
Tags: energy efficiency, ibms next-generation mainframe, double performance, cpu-intensive jobs, dramatic improvements, tuesday, faster, predecessor, blue
 
 
 
 
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Attack unleashed for new Microsoft mainframe bug

2008-10-16 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Hackers have released code that could be used to take control of a server running Microsoft's Host Integration Server 2006, used to connect mainframe applications to Windows PCs
 
Tags: host integration server, server, connect mainframe applications, windows pcs, microsoft, control, code, hackers
 
 
 
 
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SSO Summit Day One Morning Session

2008-07-24 13:35:02 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...mainframe centric SSO protocols from the 80s and 90s, I am no expert in these areas and it was fascinating to see the way things vacillated between strength and weakness of SSO protocols A couple of points from the presentation The history of SSO is a story of extreme complexities, compromises, vulnerabilities and unintended consequences ...
 
Tags: sso, sso history talk, sso summit, mainframe sso, sso options, sso protocols, real world, real world lessons, authorization internal
 
 
 
 
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Your Companies Biggest Security Hole - What is the BGP-style Vuln Lurking in Software Security?

2008-09-05 08:31:58 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...mainframe for decades. Life is good, come in at 9 leave at 5, count the cash. Then some dotcommer comes along and tells you that you need to get online. What are you gonna do? Rewrite your whole system from scratch? Hard to make that case Nope what you'll do is build out a web farm to talk to the consumer, but then you will realize all of...
 
Tags: security, security hole, security protocols, business, business runs, business transaction backbone, improve security, message security, enforces authorization policy
 
 
 
 
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China's CERT Annual Security Report - 2007

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2008-04-21 02:34:07 by HASH0x8b2001c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...mainframe amounted to 6.23 million, of which China's mainland has 3.62 million IP addresses were implanted zombie mainframe procedures, and more than 10,000 outside the control server to China Host mainland control. Zombie networks primarily be used launch denial of service (DdoS) attacks, send spam, spread malicious code, as well as theft of...
 
Tags: china, internet infrastructure, chinese internet infrastructure, chinese, zombie network flow, zombie network, interestingly chinese, infrastructure, chinese underground economy
 
 
 
 
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The Real Migration Problem

2008-09-09 09:38:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...mainframe and onto distributed systems (which are no panacea but this company really did need to make the move). The core developers of the mainframe were actively hostile to change, as opposed to simply passive aggressive, which we expect. For example, if you asked about how a piece of functionality worked, say a report writer, the developer...
 
Tags: energy, clean-energy technologies, clean energy technology, drill, energy policy, technology, promote energy independence, trench deeper, mccain
 
 
 
 
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Systems programmers help people

2007-02-13 13:49:52 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...mainframe and a Wang 2200B), then self-taught myself APL and IBM/360 assembly language (paying for access at UR to an APL terminal, and editing object decks on the keypunch to save money while debugging assembly language programs My dinnermate at the banquet had had no such experience. So in choosing her major and concentration, she had to...
 
Tags: application programs, programs, system programmers, system, assembly language programs, people, major, computer science major, ibm360 assembly language
 
 
 
 
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Desk Checking

2008-04-03 13:28:52 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...mainframe. I discovered that my first APL programs actually worked. I tried my hand at IBM 360 assembly language programming, but debugging was expensive - each assemble/link/run cost over $2. So I started editing the binary object decks on a keypunch instead, reducing the cost of a link/run to something under 80 cents While I followed the...
 
Tags: code, fix code, desk, code faster, experiences, lost, parallel experiences, lost art, desk check
 
 
 
 
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Dense Computing = Less Security

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