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TechnicalCounsel(SM) News -- Volume 7 Number 2</td>
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The TechnicalCounsel(sm) News -- December 2010<br />
<br />
Volume 7 Number 2 December 2010<br />
Dear Friends and Colleagues,<br />
<br />
Welcome to the December issue of The TechnicalCounsel(sm) News,<br />
our consulting practice's quarterly newsletter. We hope that everyone has a<br />
happy and safe New Year's season. <br />
<br />
In this issue:<br />
<br />
- Using OpenVMS Technologies to Build an Agile Computing Base presented at <br />
Connect 2010 OpenVMS BootCamp<br />
- 2010 Trenton Computer Festival and Professional Conference presentations <br />
available<br />
- The OpenVMS Consultant explores continuous rightsizing, leveraging F$PARSE, <br />
and hierarchically customizing SYLOGIN processing<br />
- Ruminations - An IT Blog explores diverse issues of technical and general <br />
interest<br />
<br />
<br />
Using OpenVMS Technologies to Build an Agile Computing Base presented at <br />
Connect 2010 OpenVMS BootCamp<br />
<br />
As part of the 2010 Connect OpenVMS BootCamp, Mr. Gezelter presented Using<br />
OpenVMS Technololgies to Build an Agile Computing Base on September 14,<br />
2010 in Nashua, New Hampshire. An encore of this presentation was done two<br />
days later on September 16, 2010. <br />
<br />
Cloud computing is often discussed these days. Cloud computing may be<br />
freshly coined, but its principles have a long history. Managed properly,<br />
OpenVMS clusters are effectively a "cloud." OpenVMS clusters, when<br />
configured correctly, and with some members provisioned as fractional<br />
virtual machines, agilely enable continuous rightsizing, increasing the<br />
already impressive flexibility of OpenVMS to a new level. This increased<br />
flexibility and improved efficiency improves overall availability and<br />
reduces operating and capital costs. <br />
<br />
We understand that many who would have liked to attend the BootCamp were<br />
unable to fit this event into their schedule. As a contribution to the<br />
entire OpenVMS community, we are making the audio tracks from these<br />
presentations available to the entire OpenVMS community. <br />
<br />
The complete abstract of this talk and information about the presentation,<br />
including MP3 audio tracks for both presentations, can be found at: <br />
<br />
http://www.rlgsc.com/openvms-bootcamp/2010/agile-openvms.html<br />
<br />
<br />
2010 Trenton Computer Festival and Professional Conference presentations <br />
available<br />
<br />
Mr. Gezelter did three presentations at the 2010 Trenton Computer Fair and<br />
associated Professional Conference on April 23-24, 2010. <br />
<br />
He presented Square Pegs/Round Holes: Toolset Strengths and Weaknesses, IT<br />
and Ethics: Guidelines for Professionals, and Disposable Virtual Machines;<br />
each of which draws on his experiences dealing with client problems in the<br />
information technology sphere. <br />
<br />
The complete abstracts of these talks and information about each<br />
presentation, including the slide sets for all three presentations, can be<br />
found via: <br />
<br />
http://www.rlgsc.com/trentoncomputerfestival/2010/index.html<br />
<br />
<br />
The OpenVMS Consultant explores continuous rightsizing, leveraging F$PARSE,<br />
and hierarchically customizing SYLOGIN processing<br />
<br />
The OpenVMS Consultant, Mr. Gezelter's column on OpenVMS.org, continues to<br />
explore topics of interest to OpenVMS users and managers, exploring<br />
OpenVMS' rich suite of functionality. This embracive functionality provides<br />
significant opportunities to leverage inherent OpenVMS capabilities to<br />
streamline costs, both in the hardware context and in terms of software<br />
complexity. Some installments cover standard functionality that is often<br />
not fully understood, other installments explore using facilities in<br />
innovative ways. <br />
<br />
Recent installments in the column have discussed continuous rightsizing;<br />
using F$PARSE to implement standard OpenVMS filename defaulting<br />
within command files; and a variety of ways to leverage the<br />
SYLOGIN facility - implementing and debugging system, group-wide,<br />
and applications-specific login extensions without the need to alter user's<br />
individual LOGIN.COxM files. <br />
<br />
Future entries will explore other topics within the OpenVMS universe. The<br />
entire series can be accessed at:<br />
<br />
http://www.openvms.org/Gezelter<br />
<br />
<br />
Ruminations - An IT Blog explores diverse issues of technical and general <br />
interest<br />
<br />
Ruminations - An IT Blog continues to explore general IT issues with<br />
broader implications. Recent entries have examined a variety of topics,<br />
some directly IT-related, and others applicable to security and processes.<br />
Recent articles have addressed a wide range of topics, all of which have<br />
interesting implications. <br />
<br />
Topics have included the recent changes in Transportation Security Agency<br />
(TSA) search procedures, and their implications for public safety; the<br />
challenges of information flow in today's online world where capabilities<br />
previously the province of nation states are now available gratis online;<br />
whether the Google Streetview capturing of unencrypted Wi-Fi data was a<br />
privacy issue (or should we be more concerned about far less identifiable<br />
parties); covert emplacement of GPS recorders without warrants and the<br />
privacy implications of the information recorded by those devices; the use<br />
and creation of disposable virtual machines; and the business implications<br />
of greatly expanded transactional reporting enacted by the US Congress, a<br />
subject that is of particular import for corporate IT staffs; and how<br />
inexpensive hosting accounts can be utilized as a "data serving cloud" to<br />
improve the performance of in-house web applications. <br />
<br />
All entries in Ruminations - An IT Blog can be accessed via the blog's home<br />
page at: <br />
<br />
http://www.rlgsc.com/blog/ruminations/ruminations.html<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
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http://www.rlgsc.com/newsletters/2010-december.html. <br />
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