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IBM's Impact on LANs

IT Toolbox

Particularly in the areas of microcomputers, LANs, and enterprise networking, IBM's insistence that its customers remain "pure blue" ran against both the economic and technological developments set in motion before 1990.

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Remembering IBM LAN Server Part 2

IT Toolbox

Notwithstanding its heritage, LAN Server 4.0 would incorporate some relatively strong enterprise-wide services, including support for the Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), a graphical user interface, and extended peer services.

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO Business Intelligence

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Data is no longer just used by analysts and data scientists,” says Dinesh Nirmal, general manager of AI and automation at IBM Data.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

One of those new technologies in the Enterprise Data Center space is what I call Infrastructure Orchestration (others term it fabric computing or unified computing ). Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.).

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Fountainhead: Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

Fountainhead

Usually the local network had state too – ensuring that the IP and MAC address of the motherboard were attached to switches and LANs in a particular way. It can be done (IBM’s done it in zSeries for years), it will be in the PCIe standard; but it will be a long time coming in the cheap-at-all-costs PCIe peripherals world.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. I started to do that, this is the mid-area between everybody running IBM stuff into the custom computer. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Bug Bounty Hunters

ForAllSecure

In this episode, Stok talks about his beginnings in enterprise security and his transition into the top tier of bug bounty hunters. I started to do that, this is the mid-area between everybody running IBM stuff into the custom computer. But did you know there’s an elite group of bug bounty hunters that travel the world?