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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Security Pioneer Barry Schrager
In 1978, Schrager formed SKK Inc. to develop a security software product that would meet all of the requirements of the SHARE project and establish the first standards for mainframe security. That product, ACF2, was the world’s first commercially successful mainframe security system. Under Schrager’s leadership, SKK also developed the first security product for the IBM VM operating system, ACF2/VM, and the first operating system auditing product, Examine/MVS. In 1986, with 2,700 customers and more than 60 percent market share, SKK was sold to UCCEL. Shortly thereafter, UCCEL was acquired by Computer Associates, which markets the SKK products today under the names CA-ACF2, CA-ACF2/VM and CA-Examine.

posted by OttoKee  # 7:17 PM

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Despicable Me's Big Blue Base
IBM says it has collaborated with Illumination Entertainment to help it meet the massive production requirements involved in creating its latest computer-animated 3-D feature film, "Despicable Me," which premiered at theaters this past weekend. With today's increased emphasis on animation and visual effects, the digital rendering process has become a competitive differentiator and critical production capability for studios of all sizes. The process involves literally hundreds of thousands of individual images that are created by hand and rendered through digital animation to effectively build each individual frame of the film, all of which requires intensive computing power. For "Despicable Me," the animation process generated 142 terabytes of data — an amount roughly equivalent to the traffic generated by over 118 million active MySpace users or 250,000 streams of 25 million songs. Illumination tapped IBM and its Paris-based Business Partner Serviware to build a server farm based on IBM's iDataPlex system. Overall, the installation included 6,500 processor cores.

posted by OttoKee  # 10:08 PM

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