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  • 2005-04-14:

    PKI in the News
    Diffie: Infrastructure a disaster in the making

    Part 2: Diffie, now chief security officer, vice president and a fellow at Sun Microsystems, explains why Windows' spread into critical infrastructure is dangerous and how use of elliptical curve cryptography will grow with the proliferation of smaller, integrated mobile devices.
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    PKI in the News
    Hellman: Authentication at every access point

    Part 1: Hellman, now professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University, explains why phishing is one of the biggest threats we face, why strong authentication is needed at every access point and why security add-ons won't do much to ease the threats of cyberspace.
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    2005-03-29:

    RMS in the News
    Patricia Seybold Group Identifies Liquid Machines as Leader in the Enterprise Rights Management Market

    "Liquid Machines' Solutions for Managing Digital Rights on Electronic Desktops: Tracking How Customers and Business Partners are Distributing Content across the Web" (Patricia Seybold Group - March 2005) discusses the suitability of Liquid Machines ERM products to the growing enterprise need for a rights-management solution that can protect their sensitive and high-value documents, prevent information leakage, and eliminate potential violation of compliance regulations. The report identifies many key differentiators of Liquid Machines ERM solutions' including its Policy Droplet? control, technology superiority in the area of policy enforcement and persistence, and strategic partnership with Microsoft® to extend Windows® Rights Management Services.
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    2005-03-27:

    VS and VPC in the News
    Virtual-Server Face-Off

    The year 2004 might very well become known as the year of virtualization. Initially, IT pros recognized the value of virtualization technologies in test and demo environments. However, with the advent of ever more powerful systems coupled with continued improvements in virtual machine (VM) technologies, virtualization has since become a production-level technology that enables server consolidation.
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    IdM in the News
    Microsoft Preps Move on ID Management

    Observers say Microsoft's intent is to centralize some identity services and make it easier to deploy its identity platform by reducing the amount of integration end users must do and giving developers one point where they can tie their applications to the identity platform.
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    PKI in the News
    RSA Security Solutions Adopted for PSP (PlayStation®Portable)

    i-Newswire, 2005-03-25 - RSA Security Inc. ( Nasdaq: RSAS ) announced today that it has licensed RSA BSAFE® Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL ) and public key infrastructure ( PKI ) products to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ( SCEI ), to provide a secure interactive environment for software title developers and publishers creating game titles for its new PSPTM ( PlayStation®Portable ) handheld entertainment system.
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April 13, 2005

Microsoft's Virtualization Support Policies Updated

Today Microsoft published three new Knowledgebase articles that are significant to those who are using, or are thinking about using virtualization technologies.
The first of these articles, Microsoft Virtual Server Support Policy (897613) lays out Microsoft's support policies for Windows Server System software running in Virtual server virtual machines. This article basically states that all Windows Server System software is supported in a Virtual Server environment with the exception of the software listed in the second of the three articles. In addition, this article points to several server consolidation Solution Accelerators (including the one that one of my TechEd sessions is based on).
The second article, Windows Server System software not supported within a Microsoft Virtual Server environment (897614) lists the Windows Server System software that is not currently supported in a Virtual Server environment. the list is surprisingly short, with only 5 items on the list, and one of those, Certificate Services, is actually supported given Windows Server SP1 .
The final article, Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software (897615) supersedes articles 273508 and 320220 and updates and clarifies the support policy for virtual environments such as VMWare.

Posted by Paul Adare at April 13, 2005 07:15 PM

Comments

Hi Paul,

Sorry we didn´t meet in Orlando. As a HOL proctor I´ve been very busy and I had no time to go to your sessions. BTW, TechEd was grand, I loved it.
A student asked me about the licensing options for SQL Server on a Virtual Server environment with multiple processors. Do you have an idea how it works ? Thanks and all the best. Rogerio Melo

Posted by: Rogerio Melo at June 28, 2005 08:45 AM