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Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:56 PM/EST
I've just returned from the Emerald City (Oracle's Redwood Shores HQ) where I was given a demo of the latest version of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control, Release 4. After reviewing Oracle Database 11g I felt it was time to take a look at Grid Control R4, released in November 2007. I was just able to scratch the surface of the Oracle ecosystem manager in the over 3 hours of demonstration time. My basic takeaway is that database and system administrators should definitely get the basic Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control R4 product, which is available at no extra license cost with most Oracle products. I'll take a closer look at the add-on management packs that Oracle charges for when I take a full look at the product. In most respects, the basic shape of Grid Control R4 is comprehensive systems and application management. The three-tier architecture uses agents...
Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:06 PM/EST
Today I learned a bit more about the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance from Pinkesh Shah, senior director of product management for policy compliance and risk management. From the conversation I picked up on two important concepts that will likely be a recurring theme for security in 2008. The first is deeper integration of the products that make up McAfee's security suite and more integration through partnerships, which is where the McAfee SIA (Security Innovation Alliance) comes in. The second is security infrastructure consolidation. In 2008 I'm planning on a closer look at McAfee's SIA, which is similar to Check Point's Opsec program. One of the compelling things about an integration program is the obvious benefit of being able to integrate competitive products into the McAfee infrastructure. SIA was launched in Oct. 2007, so the first half of 2008 will be a critical time to watch what happens with the offering....
Friday, December 14, 2007 6:55 PM/EST
In my upcoming review of nCircle's Device Profiler 3000 (DP3000), I was reminded of how much overlap there is between compliance regulations. In a nutshell, the DP3000 is a scanning engine (it uses Nmap, for example) that collects configuration data from servers, network devices and applications and then forwards that information back to the central console called the Compliance Configuration Manager. (This product is the result of nCircle's acquisition of Cambia in May 2007.) The data collected by the DP3000 is concentrated at the CCM and then spit out in the form of reports, dashboards and monitors that show what's changing in the IT environment and what impact that's having on compliance posture. Reports issued by the product enable an IT staff to make sure out-of-compliance objects are prioritized and brought back into compliance while the senior IT staff gets big-picture reports that provide an overall idea of how the...
Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:33 PM/EST
Daylight Saving Time resources index: (Feel free to let me know of useful DST links: cameron dot sturdevant shift-2 ziffdavisenterprise.com) Shops that use Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002 and 2003 should download the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook. The Sun Developer Network DST IBM DST Microsoft provides a labor-intensive set of instructions for manipulating the registry in Windows 2000 Server to accommodate DST 2007. Unofficial Windows 2000 DST time patch from IntelliNavigator's IntelliAdmin. Cisco DST Juniper DST Hewlett-Packard Nortel (Nortel customers are probably used to this, but having to log in for DST notes seems a bit pedantic.) Not the official site, but interesting just the same for VMware. Most of the VMware discussion forums give the perfectly reasonable advice of treating virtual systems exactly as you would physical systems. VMwarewolf addressed the question of dealing with a VMware ESX server. Some interesting time zone references: A...
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