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Software firms team up to ‘unlock the desktop’
By Marie Boran
and give them choice. “Customers are an email and calendar programme
demanding a Microsoft-less PC, and much like Outlook from Microsoft
we have responded with our reliable, Office, as well as an embedded browser
secure Linux solution through our top in the form of Mozilla’s open source
TECHNOLOGY companies IBM, channel partners worldwide, building Firefox.
Novell, Canonical and Red Hat, which on the success we’ve seen in eastern Roger Levy, senior vice-president
offer an alternative to the Microsoft Europe and other markets,” said Scott and general manager of Open
PC, have spotted what they see as its Crenshaw, vice-president of the Platform Solutions at Novell, claims
Achilles heel: the current Vista oper- Platform Business Unit at Red Hat. the combination of IBM’s OCCS and
ating system. The four companies are working Novell’s SUSE Linux enterprise desk-
“The slow adoption of Vista among together to develop a pre-loaded PC top leads to “dramatically lower costs
businesses and budget-conscious CIOs, that will carry IBM software, as well compared to Vista”.
coupled with the proven success of a as the Linux operating system from Whereas these tools and operating
new type of Microsoft-free PC in Canonical (Ununtu), Novell (Suse) systems were already available for
every region, provides an extraordi- and Red Hat. businesses, they were never bundled
nary window of opportunity for The IBM open collaboration client together like this before. Lou
Linux,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice- solution (OCCS) will provide the Esposito, president and chief infor-
president for IBM Lotus Software. middleware by carrying several prod- mation officer of Stradasoft, which
IBM said it plans to “unlock the ucts for both the desktop and server, distributes IBM middleware, said this
desktop” to save customers money including IBM Lotus Notes, which is integration is essential.
Irish Stock Exchange secures
systems from spyware
By John Kennedy
The initial deployment was an
instant success, with spam email
reduced dramatically within days.
Users were able to review spam quar-
THE Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) has antines and release valid messages
deployed an email and website security when appropriate, reducing the
system that will guarantee the flow of reliance on IT staff.
information free from the intrusion of Following the successful implemen-
spam or spyware. tation of the IronPort email security
In recent years, the venerable insti- devices, the ISE engaged with Calyx to
tution – which was founded in 1793 – look into the deployment of new web
had been inundated with spam, which would be the best solution to resolve security devices to replace its existing
accounted for 90pc of its inbound email. the ISE’s spam problem,” said Tim solutions.
The Calyx Group won the contract to Quan of Calyx Security. A key requirement was reverse
install the security infrastructure, “IronPort C100 devices stop the proxy look-ups for web traffic. The ISE
which includes an IronPort C100 appli- spam messages at the gateway, even also required a reputation filter on a
ance that provides anti-spam, anti- before they enter the network.” web proxy, which would be able to
virus and anti-spyware capabilities. Accurate Reputation Filtering was a cache and also deal with viruses,
The ISE required a new spam solu- key aspect of the IronPort deployment. phishing and spyware attacks.
tion that was capable of being self- The IronPort devices can accurately “We now have two single devices,
managed and easy to administer, determine which messages are not which have replaced multiple devices
compared to the existing solutions that good by reputation and can confidently in previous solutions,” explained David
were in place. “Following a number of drop the connections having used over Garrett, IT operations manager at the
very successful installations on sites in 100 parameters to assure the email is ISE. “This has provided savings both
Ireland, we were confident IronPort legitimate. from a cost and time perspective.”
16 Knowledge Ireland September 2008
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