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Oracle Solaris 11 and PCI DSS
Meeting PCI DSS Compliance with Oracle Solaris 11
18 May 2013
"This paper provides guidance to IT professionals who are implementing Oracle Solaris 11 within their Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) and to the Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) assessing those environments. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to all organizations that store, process, or transmit cardholder data. This includes entities such as merchants, service providers, payment gateways, data centers, and outsourced service providers.
This guidance is not intended as an in-depth technical assessment of Oracle Solaris 11 or an installation guide, but rather an analysis of its ability to meet and support the PCI DSS requirements. In evaluation of Oracle Solaris 11 and its security capabilities, Coalfire has determined that it is fully capable of supporting PCI DSS compliance.
The Oracle Solaris 11 features highlighted within this document specifically address PCI DSS compliance; however, the same basic tenets can be used for meeting other regulatory environment standards such as the GrammLeachBliley Act (GLBA), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)."
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E-Book Oracle's SPARC Systems: What Customers Say
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18 May 2013
Oracle SPARC servers and engineered systems deliver record-breaking performance, unrivaled reliability and dramatically lower data center costs. But don't take our word for it read the success stories of Oracle SPARC customers worldwide.
Download your exclusive copy of Oracle's SPARC Systems: What Customers Say, and learn how you can:
- Simplify IT infrastructures and gain world-record levels of performance
- Reduce costs with powerful, built-in virtualization tools
- Take advantage of unique on-chip security and unmatched reliability
- Invest with absolute confidence with the SPARC/Solaris binary compatibility guarantee
Discover the global SPARC server revolution. Download your free copy of Oracle's SPARC Systems: What Customers Say today.
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Posted in section SPARC
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Making drawings with Oracle hardware components
Oracle-Servers.zip
18 May 2013
Kemer Thompson writes, "For those of you who like to (or need to) create architectural drawings with reasonable renditions of components and all the requisite connections, you are probably already aware of Microsoft Visio, or for those of you who prefer Macs (such as myself), Omnigraffle Pro. Did you know that we have an open repository with a growing selection of components on VisioCafe? We just updated this Tuesday night, adding stencils of Oracles new SPARC T5 and SPARC M5 servers. You will find them in the zip bundle Oracle-Servers.
We have also added Visio templates for Oracle's Exadata Database Machines. In case you didnt know the difference between stencils and templates, templates provide a more powerful (and efficient) representation that allows you to reorganize the racks to match your actual configuration..."
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Posted in section Sun Hardware
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illumos and the 2013 Google Summer of Code
third year of participation
18 May 2013
The illumos project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2013 Google Summer of Code (this marks our third year of participation in GSoC). The illumos project is a community-driven open source operating system development project derived from the former OpenSolaris project. Google's Summer of Code program promotes student involvement in open source communities by sponsoring summer internships for students to work on projects like illumos. Members of the illumos community (including Nexenta and Joyent) support this program by offering experienced staff members willing to mentor student projects.
If you might like to apply for one of these internships, or just want to learn more about our involvement in this program, please see the illumos GSoC page. OpenIndiana is also participating, under the illumos umbrella.
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Posted in section Illumos
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LibreOffice 4.0.3
For Windows, OS X and Linux,
18 May 2013
The Document Foundation (TDF) has released LibreOffice 4.0.3, for Windows, OS X and Linux, the third minor release of LibreOffice 4.0 family. OS X Intel packages are now signed by The Document Foundation, to pass OS X Gatekeeper security without user intervention.
In the meantime, another large migration to LibreOffice has been announced, as the government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has just begun the switch to free software of desktop PCs and expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated by the end of 2013. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source including LibreOffice will help save 30 million Euro per year.
Community is growing too. After the success of the LibreOffice Impress Sprint in Germany, it is now the turn of the first LibreOffice Bay Area Meetup. It will take place on May 11, 2013 starting at 2pm in the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California. Bjoern Michaelsen will be there for some good Q&A, and most importantly for some hands-on work on how to get involved in the project, with Simon Phipps keynoting about 'Foundations and Empires'.
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Posted in section LibreOffice
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