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Systems Infrastructure Specialist [Storage]	01 November 2007
Systems Infrastructure Specialist [Storage] 3rd Line support My Market leading financial and Times top 100 client has an urgent requirement for a Storage Infrastructure Engineer. Based in Bracknell the ideal candidate will have a verity of Infrastructure and Storage skills including Experience with EMC Clariion [EMC Director, MCData or EMC Certification a real bonus], Veritas NetBackup, experience with network switches, Good working knowledge of Windows 2003 Server Active Directory, Exchange, Windows Scripting, , DFS, MS Clustering and VMWare. This challenging role will involve a verity of responsibilities including planning, designing, implementing and maintaining storage infrastructure and ensuring high levels of data quality and availability. Ensuring effective backup and restore solutions are in place, provide capacity planning and performance analysis. The successful candidate will also be involved in designing, implementing and maintaining all Production Server Infrastructure technologies and systems. Additional experience in a Production and Disaster Recovery environment, Capacity Planning within Enterprise Storage, good knowledge of server based security principles and Good working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange is very useful. This is a fantastic opportunity working with cutting edge technologies and running exciting projects, there is a great package and good career progression for the right candidate. Call now!
Principle Oracle DBA	29 October 2007
My client in the Public Sector is looking to recruit a Principal Oracle DBA for their site located in Manchester. You will be responsible for: Day to day management/supervision of a team of database specialists and participate in the overall management of the Data Management Team. To manage the diagnosis/resolution of very complex/disruptive faults & proactively put measures in place to avoid their reoccurrence. To define databases standards & ensure standards are followed. To manage the proactive monitoring of database maintenance & housekeeping activities. To provide specialist database knowledge in the implementation of new environments, approving the architectural design by ensuring it takes due consideration of the requirements for databases [eg Usage patterns, monitoring, Integrity, backup & recovery]. To lead a team of technically diverse specialists in fault investigation or project implementation activities, paying appropriate attention to meeting the needs of the business & technical standards. You will have extensive DBA experience and have a proven record of delivery of system implementations & success at achieving stability of complex Oracle environments. It is essential that you have worked in a similar environments/role and have an Oracle Database certification OR good, relevant experience. Any experience of Oracle 10g 3 tier environments and SQL server environments is desirable.
Principal SQL DBA	29 October 2007
My client in the Public Sector is looking to recruit a SQL Principal DBA for their site located in Manchester. You will be required to take responsibility for ensuring that SQL server databases are performing efficiently, maintained and upgraded in a timely manner. You will manage the diagnosis and resolution of very complex/disruptive faults & proactively put measures in place to avoid their reoccurrence, defining database standards and ensuring these are followed. You will also be required to provide specialist database knowledge in the implementation of new environments, approving the architectural design by ensuring it takes due consideration of the requirements for databases [eg usage patterns, monitoring, integrity, backup & recovery]. You will also supervise & co-ordinate the work of staff members & supplier resources ensuring all work is undertaken to quality and standards. You will be required to manage SQL server database centred faults within appropriate service levels. It is essential that you have proven experience/knowledge and a proficient use of SQL server databases and experience of data mapping & migration. Ideally you will have worked in a similar post within a complex organisation. Any experience of Oracle environments and experience of the i2 analytical tool is desirable as is experience of MS Project. You will also be required to participate in a call-out rota.
HP, IBM add to blade PC market	12 June 2007
(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. is sticking with processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in a new family of blade PCs designed to compete with offerings from IBM Corp. HP announced its BladeSystem bc2000 and bc2500 products on Monday, promising to reduce IT management costs and improve data security for corporate buyers by replacing traditional desktop and notebook PCs. Specialist blade manufacturers like ClearCube Technology Inc. and Wyse Technology Inc. also compete in this segment, as vendors see growing demand from businesses that struggle to balance security and compliance regulations with an increasingly dispersed and outsourced workforce. The new BladeSystems are the desktop version of HP's range of remote computing products. They fit between a blade server arrangement for workers with light computing needs and a blade workstation system for engineers and stock traders. In all three models, the user connects to a remote processor and data storage by accessing the office network with a desk-based access device such as a thin client. Since the main computing resources are located in a single, controlled data center, the corporate IT department can cut management costs by making hardware repairs and applying software patches remotely instead of visiting numerous workers at their desks. HP is selling the bc2000 for US$1,000 per unit when a company buys 10 of the machines. Although that is up to twice the price of a traditional desktop, the IT department can pay off the difference in 12 months of operation, said Tate Davis, CCI product manager for HP's consolidated client infrastructure group. IBM is chasing that same market with its HC10 blade and a TC10 thin client from its partner Devon IT Inc., both launched in May. IBM also targets midrange business users, but uses an Intel Corp. Core 2 Duo processor, 8G bytes of memory and 60G bytes of storage. In contrast, HP upgraded its previous blade PC -- the BladeSystem bc1500 -- by increasing the storage from 40G bytes to 80G bytes, the memory from 512M bytes to 1G byte, and the processor from an AMD Athlon 64 1500-series chip to Athlon 64 2100-series (for the bc2000) or dual-core Athlon 64 X2 (for the bc2500). The extra power meets user demands for a blade PC capable of running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista Business edition and its fast graphics handling, Davis said. "Customers say 'If we're going to do thousands of units for a wholesale desktop replacement, we need this thing to support Vista, we need a graphics look and feel equivalent to a desktop PC, and we need a little more processing power than the bc1500, our previous generation,'" Davis said. The bc1500 ran Windows XP Professional. HP says that power allows the bc2000 to outperform other blade computing designs, since it accesses those new processors over a dedicated link instead of through a "time-share" network where multiple users tap into a single blade computer. "The IT department is being asked to do more than keep the trains running on time," Davis said. "They also have to help the end user comply with disaster continuity and recovery, handle outsourcing and offshore jobs, and maintain high security and compliance with the data." The bc2000 is shipping now, with the bc2500 to follow by late July. Pricing for the bc2500 has not yet been announced.
Open-source firms MuleSource, Zmanda net extra funding	22 May 2007
(InfoWorld) - Two open-source companies had reason to celebrate Tuesday as each announced more venture capital funding to grow their businesses. MuleSource Inc., an open-source provider of infrastructure and integration software, raised $12.5 million in its Series B funding, adding to its initial $4 million round of investment from October. Meanwhile, open-source data backup and recovery specialist Zmanda Inc. attracted $8 million in its Series B funding, building on an earlier initial venture capital investment of $5 million. MuleSource plans to double its workforce from 25 to 50 employees during this year to increase the number of sales and support staff backing up its open-source enterprise service bus and integration software. The company will also set up a formal partner program. The startup hasn't used much of its initial funding and sees the extra capital as more of a cushion to go out and expand the market for its software, according to Dave Rosenberg, MuleSource CEO. With the increased funds under its belt, the company is better positioned to respond quickly to changes in the market or to potentially acquire a small open-source project, he said. MuleSource expects to release a beta version of its Mule 2.0 middleware in the third quarter, with new functionality including more enterprise clustering and improved support for repositories. The startup has more than 20 paying customers and over 1,000 enterprise production deployments of its software. While some customers are turning to MuleSource to replace custom software developed in-house, the company also finds itself competing regularly against Tibco Software Inc. and Oracle Corp. and sometimes BEA Systems Inc. Zmanda wants to expand sales and marketing and development staff to support the growing number of commercial enterprise open-source products it offers, according to Pete Childers, CEO of Zmanda. The company has about 30 staff, split evenly between its Sunnyvale, California, headquarters and its development and support operation in Pune, India. Zmanda is also keen to continue broadening its range of backup and recovery software to encompass more application-specific offerings. Microsoft Corp.'s recent saber-rattling moves against the open-source community may ironically end up as more of a rallying call than having a chilling effect on open-source adoption, according to MuleSource's Rosenberg. Last week, the software giant asserted that Linux and other open-source software infringe on 235 unspecified Microsoft patents and said its preference was to resolve any potential issues through licensing agreements, not in the courtroom. Just like The SCO Group Inc.'s intellectual-property (IP) litigation against IBM Corp., Novell Inc. and others united the open-source community and brought concerns about IP to the fore, Microsoft's latest salvos about patent infringement may have a similar effect, Rosenberg argues. "There are obvious advantages in open-source, but it's basically about solving a problem and being in control," he said. "I don't see how proprietary vendors let the customer be in control." Although some Microsoft executives are making overtures to the open-source community, the company's monopoly position guarantees "they want to crush everyone," he said. "Their goal is not a positive outcome for open source." By contrast, Zmanda's Childers describes himself as more of a "glass half full guy." He pointed to Microsoft's Open Source ISV Forum, which took place Monday in San Francisco and ran in association with the Open Source Business Conference in advance of that event occurring Tuesday and Wednesday in the same location. "Microsoft needs to reach out to the open-source community and seems to be doing so," Childers said. However, he added, "Open source is going to be successful with or without Microsoft or any other proprietary vendor. The FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt] spread by other proprietary vendors seems to bounce off open source." REFERENCES:Microsoft's patent claims jar open-source backers, May 17, 2007Microsoft patent claims hint at internal issues, May 14, 2007MuleSource targets open source ESB, Network World (US), Oct. 4, 2006Zmanda, Cleversafe debut open storage, Network World (US online), Aug. 15, 2006
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McAfee ushers in new CEO	06 March 2007
(InfoWorld) - McAfee introduced its newest chief executive on Feb. 5 in its latest step to rebuild the firm's leadership ranks after a 2006 stock options backdating probe that led to the departure of several top officials. The security applications vendor named David DeWalt, 42, a former executive with storage giant EMC, as its latest president and CEO. DeWalt is the fourth individual appointed to the top job at McAfee in only the last six years. The new CEO steps into the role that was being occupied on an interim basis by McAfee board member Dale Fuller, who will step down from the job on April 1, 2007, but will retain his role as one of the firm's directors. DeWalt was also named to McAfee's board. Fuller, who had only joined McAfee's board in Jan. 2006, was called upon to steer the company when its president, Kevin Weiss, was fired in October 2006 after it was discovered that he had engaged in options backdating. The scandal -- through which executives illegally pre-dated their stock options to maximize personal gains -- also led to the resignation of longtime McAfee chairman and CEO George Samenuk. Charles Robel, the former COO at venture firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, signed on as Samenuk's replacement as McAfee chairman. DeWalt joins McAfee at a time when the company has reached a crossroads not only in terms of management, but also regarding its future. While the software vendor has long held a leading role in the desktop security market, trailing only Symantec in the massive antivirus segment, market forces have led company leaders to reshape the firm through a long series of mergers and acquisitions. Over the last several years in particular, McAfee has aggressively expanded its holdings in the market for compliance automation applications and services, which are used by businesses to stay in line with federal regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Perhaps taking a page from Hewlett-Packard, which replaced colorful CEO Carly Fiorina with Mark Hurd -- a veteran of the stodgier data storage market at NCR -- McAfee clearly views DeWalt as someone who excels at management of both operations and business diversification. At EMC, DeWalt served as executive vice president and president of customer operations, including sales and services, and headed the company's software division, which the storage market leader has been pushing to grow aggressively. The executive came to EMC via its $1.7 billion buyout of Documentum in 2003, a deal which represented a strategic move by the firm to expand beyond its home turf in the storage space into the enterprise content management software arena. Immediately prior to the sale, as part of only a two-year tenure at Documentum, DeWalt is credited with leading the software company through 13 consecutive record quarters of financial performance, and he also worked previously at Oracle. "When I look at this company, I see no shortage of assets and a billion dollars in revenue as a pure play security vendor, which should give us a lot of potential opportunities," DeWalt said of McAfee "There's no debt, and the ledger is pretty positive. There were problems with the stock options, but the company has been getting stronger in a lot of intriguing areas such as compliance; we will be a top company worldwide when we come out at the other end." DeWalt specifically pointed to work done by CFO Eric Brown, who took on the additional responsibilities of COO in the wake of the stock scandal, as crucial to McAfee's recovery from the executive debacle.  The company said on March 2 that it plans to take an additional fourth-quarter stock options charge of roughly $1.8 million, lowering its net income by approximately $1.1 million, related to the backdating incident. The new CEO would not say whether or not McAfee will be more likely to become a buyer of smaller security companies or market itself as a potential acquisition to larger vendors but said that neither alternative is being ruled out. In the last year alone, a handful of security larger security technology makers have been swept up by larger infrastructure players, such as with IBM's acquisition of ISS for $1.3 billion. DeWalt's former employer EMC bought RSA Security for $2.1 billion in June 2006. While the executive said he was not planning to shop McAfee to potential buyers in his first days on the job, which officially begin on April 2, he said that the firm wouldn't rule out any possibilities until further exploring all of its options. DeWalt said he helped lead three different companies that have been acquired and that he's completed nearly 50 similar transactions from the buyer side. "These are all possibilities, I'm no stranger to the consolidation game -- mergers and acquisitions are a way of life, and the security space is one of the last not to go through that type of change," said DeWalt. "We could be the consolidator, or some larger companies could look at us as a pure-play security provider that they need. It's a good position to be in." Industry watchers observed that DeWalt is taking over at a time when McAfee must make some tough decisions about its future. While rival Symantec moved heavily into storage technologies via its massive acquisition of Veritas in 2004, McAfee has yet to stake as serious a claim with its roadmap, said Andrew Jaquith, an analyst with the Yankee Group. Pushing into the compliance sector is a good short-term bet for the firm, he said, but McAfee will need to define more far-ranging goals for where it aims to take its business tomorrow. "It all boils down to figuring out what McAfee wants to be when it grows up, even while it sharpens its existing message on anti-threat technologies," Jaquith said. "Symantec has clearly planted a flag in terms of becoming a broader systems management company; McAfee has stayed as more of a pure play -- they'll have to decide if they want to remain as a specialist, broaden through acquisitions, or become the security division of a bigger company." Jaquith, who said he isn't personally acquainted with DeWalt, indicated that the comparisons to HP's hiring of Hurd may be fair. He indicated that giving the impression of a more conservative leadership approach may have been part of the message the security company's directors wanted to send investors regarding the direction they would like to see the firm head in. If that is the case, said the analyst, it may have been a wise move considering the company's recent history of executive upheaval combined with ongoing shifts in the security market itself. "The hiring strikes as me as one way they may be looking to make security appear a little more boring, which is good, because boring means operations, and that's what customers are concerned about," Jaquith said.
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