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IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights 1. TOP STORIES - Featured Topic: Web-enabling VSAM - FalconStor to provide network storage for major IT facility - Tivoli plants seeds of autonomic computing in its platform - Expert deconstructs the cracking of 64-bit key 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Search390.com research: New white papers section - Poll: Will you be expanding your current IT staff? - User experience: Share your story and win! - The Missing Link: Tech firm calls N.Y. billboard home __________________________________________________________________ SPONSORED BY: Sun Microsystems FREE CASE STUDY -- TRANSAMERICA REDUCES MAINFRAME COSTS 50%! Have your sites set on reducing costs? Follow Transamerica Life Canada through the migration of its acquired insurance program from an outsourced mainframe to an in-house Sun environment using Sun Mainframe Rehosting Software and Tools. Click here for the three part series. http://search390.com/r/0,,6482,00.htm?sunmicrosystems __________________________________________________________________ LEAD STORY SEARCH390.COM FEATURED TOPIC | Web-enabling VSAM Decades before the World Wide Web was invented for network-accessible information, there was VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) for file management. Today, viewing VSAM files on the Web can pose a challenge. See this week's Featured Topic for help. For the full Featured Topic, click: http://search390.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid10_gci854040,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= OTHER HEADLINES The headlines below and others are available on our news page. >> Full Stories: http://www.search390.com/news/ FALCONSTOR TO PROVIDE NETWORK STORAGE FOR MAJOR IT FACILITY | News: Web Host Industry Review FalconStor said that National Computer Systems Pte Ltd., (NCS), which operates one of the largest mainframe sites in Singapore, has picked IPStor to provide high data availability, disaster recovery and storage to its data center and outsourcing customers. TIVOLI PLANTS SEEDS OF AUTONOMIC COMPUTING IN ITS PLATFORM | News: SearchSystemsManagement.com IBM has released a flurry of new tools and enhancements to its far-reaching Tivoli systems management platform. The common thread in all of them are capabilities for autonomic computing, a concept that even Big Blue says may take a while to catch on. http://www.searchsystemsmanagement.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid20_gci855888,00.html EXPERT DECONSTRUCTS 64-BIT KEY CRACKING | News: SearchSecurity.com PGP Corp. CTO Jon Callas explains the method used to break RSA Security's RC5-64 cipher. He also outlines the impact on enterprises and talks about whether you should be making the leap to 128-bit keys, or higher. http://www.searchsecurity.com/qna/0,289202,sid14_gci855800,00.html ___________________________________________________________________ ::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NEW WHITE PAPERS SECTION | Search390.com Looking for technical information and how-to's? Visit Search390.com's new white papers section for research in ten different categories, including database management, storage, Web services and operating systems. Download a white paper today. http://search390.techtarget.com/whitepapers/0,,sid10,00.html FYI: Each week, we'll be adding new papers to the site, so be on the lookout. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR POLL | Search390.com Will you be expanding your current IT staff within the next six months? >> CLICK to post your response: http://search390.techtarget.com/poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= USER EXPERIENCE | Share your story and win! Help build the new User Experience section on Search390.com. Find out how to use your greatest IT triumphs to help your fellow mainframers -- and win a prize at the same time! >> CLICK for more information: http://search390.techtarget.com/content/0,290959,sid10_gci852128,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | Livin' on the ledge: Tech firm calls N.Y. billboard home A California-based company is on the cutting ledge of Web conferencing technology. Yes, ledge. PlaceWare Inc. has placed a few employees in a highly visible "office" -- along the ledge of a billboard that overlooks New York's Times Square. A publicity stunt? Of course. Will it make you look? Oh yeah. Source: SearchCIO.com http://www.searchCIO.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci856111,00.html ___________________________________________________________________ ****************** SEARCH390.COM CONTACTS ************************* BJ RAMA, Site Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send in your original articles and best practices. 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