I recently graduated from Texas A&M and am working in the IT department of a large company. My co-workers keep telling me about an Aggie cabinet, but I am not sure what they are talking about. Are they just joking with me?
JT in IT
JT:
What is actually happening is they are making two jokes. The Middle Atlantic cabinets like the WRK, MRK, and ERK all come with a rear door as a standard. For the WRK and MRK especially, the cabinet frame comes open on both sides and in the front, with only a rear door. Sides and front doors are optional. However, since the rear door is standard, these cabinets have sometimes been called Aggie cabinets. An Aggie cabinet is open on three sides with a locking rear door, just to keep the honest people out.
So you see they are making an Aggie joke, but are also poking fun at the Middle Atlantic philosophy of always including a rear door, whether it is needed or not.
To be fair to Middle Atlantic, they do offer LRD versions (Less Rear Door) for full height WRK cabinets (44U), MRK cabinets (44U and some 40U), and all ERK cabinets.
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Over our 20 year history, ISC has been the target of hackers and denial of
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When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple’s programmers conference, he’s likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine’s interface in 30 years.
At the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Jobs will probably show off Leopard, a Mac OS X update due in October that he has promised contains “top secret” features. But perhaps the most important feature is one that has been overlooked by many Apple fans: a new set of tools for building program interfaces called Core Animation.
Core Animation will allow programmers to give their applications flashy, animated interfaces. Some developers think Core Animation is so important, it will usher in the biggest changes to computer interfaces since the original Mac shipped three decades ago.
“The revolution coming with Core Animation is akin to the one that came from the original Mac in 1984,” says Wil Shipley, developer of the personal media-cataloging application Delicious Library. “We’re going to see a whole new world of user-interface metaphors with Core Animation.”
Microsoft Corp. has purchased a small, privately held data management company and will use the technology to enhance its SQL Server database, Office and related business software, the company said Thursday.
Stratature Inc., a 16-person based company in Alpharetta, Ga., provides master data management (MDM) software called +EDM that manages a central repository of reference data that a disparate group of enterprise IT systems can access. Microsoft plans to deliver capabilities from Stratature’s software to business users through a combination of Microsoft Office on the front end and its SQL Server database on the back end.
Microsoft is promoting the latest version of its Office suite for business users as a collaboration platform, and a big part of this plan has been providing tighter integration with Office and other applications where users need to share data across business units. The company is especially interested in providing storage and management for the unstructured data that is becoming more prevalent in the enterprise, and is making this a key focus for the next version of SQL Server, code-named Katmai and recently named SQL Server 2008.
Over 75 percent of I.T. professionals and Managers say it matters, but two-fifths take little action. Even though many have experienced breaches into their databases, it doesn’t seem as though security is a priority for most.
While 78 percent of large companies say their databases are “critical” or “important” to their business, 40 percent of them don’t monitor databases for security purposes.
Those are the primary results of a Ponemon Institute research study released Thursday that surveyed 649 IT executives.
Ponemon’s report, titled “Database Security 2007: Threats and Priorities within IT Database Infrastructure” also indicates that 57 percent of the IT executives surveyed admitted their organizations haven’t taken “adequate measures” to protect against malicious insiders, and 55 percent acknowledged there had no “adequate measures” in place to prevent data loss.
Eighty percent of the surveyed IT executives said their organizations have more than 100 databases, primarily a multiplatform environment including Microsoft SQL, Oracle and IBM DB2.
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