1st Periodical Test

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1. Republic of The Philippines
Laguna State Polytechnic University
1
st
Periodical Exam
Presented By:
Airel A. Atendido
Emman Paolo P. Nuñez
Anthony V. Caya

2. IT Relate News No.1
New VMware Infrastructure
3 Training Courses from
Global Knowledge
(September 3, 2008 )

3. The introductory course, "VMware Infrastructure 3:
Install and Configure v3.5," takes place over four days,
teaching students to install, configure, and manage
VMware Infrastructure 3. In the next four days, the follow-
on course, “VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure, and
Analyze v3.5,” shows experienced VMware Infrastructure
administrators how to investigate, perform scripted
installations, configure security and perform fault analysis.

Those who wish to enhance their skills in virtual
infrastructure without spending much time away from work
will find the “VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track v3.5”
their best choice. It combines the content from the Install
and Configure and Deploy, Secure, and Analyze courses.
This course takes place over five days with intensive,
extended-hours training. Students are taught to install,
manage, and use VMware ESX Server, VMware
VirtualCenter, VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMware
Consolidated Backup, VMware Converter, Storage VMotion,
and VMware Update Manager.

4. The new courses are most useful for system
administrators, systems engineers, and operators who
are responsible for deploying VMware technology
within an organization. Appropriate prerequisites to the
courses may include some experience in
administeringMicrosoft ( News - Alert) Windows or
Linux operating systems and a certain level of ease
with system administration when using command-line
interfaces. The three courses include topics on VMware
ESX Server 3.5 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.5. When
any one of the courses are successfully completed,
students are eligible for the VMware Certifed
Professional exam. The courses can be taken in
classrooms or as a private course.

5. Global Knowledge provides services through
training centers, private facilities, and the Internet to
give clients the choice of when, where, and how they
receive training programs and assorted learning
services. The company offers more than 700 courses
that range from foundational to specialized training and
certifications. Since its establishment in 1995, the
company employs more than 1,500 people across the
world and is based in Cary, N.C. Global Knowledge is
owned by Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe, which is
a New York-based investment firm.

6. IT Related News No.2
CA to Release Further
Enhancements for IBM
z/Architecture Based OS
(September 3, 2008 )

7. The enhancements to be released for mainframe
systems running z/OS include extensions that provide:
Analysis and resolution of application crashes using app
dumps generated; IPv6 support, C++ runtime compiler
support and additional features for remote printing; Additional
metrics and statistics for DB2 database management;
Improved database access and replication through optimized
SQL procedures; Improved control over the software
development lifecycle; Additional security features in the use
of LDAP directories.
The enhancement to be released for z/VSE, which is
generally used for smaller mainframes, improves tape data set
processing with support for hardware-based encryption and
automation of encrypted tape processing and tape ejection.
z/VM, which is a virtual machine (VM) operating system for
z/Architecture mainframes, gets extensions that help in
defining Linux guest VMs with greater ease. Storage allocation
for the VMs and certain z/VM directory administration tasks
have also been enhanced.

8. Mainframes have been making a comeback in
recent times, with many companies choosing to invest in
such a system owing to its cost effectiveness and
amenability towards centralized management and control.
Customers find that increasing the volume and complexity
of the workloads run on mainframes help to maximize the
returns obtained for the investment made on these
systems. Enhancements and extensions offered by
providers such as CA help organizations to achieve this
end.
“The mainframe is undergoing a major renaissance
as IT decision-makers recognize how its cost-effective and
energy-efficient scalability, reliability and security make it
the ideal platform to satisfy intensive business
requirements,” Mark Combs, senior vice president of CA’s
Mainframe Business Unit, was quoted as saying. “Our
latest enhancements demonstrate that CA continues to
deliver the solutions necessary to exploit the mainframe’s
full economic potential.”

9. IT Related News No.3
Intel Moves On Linux Land,
Acquires Opened Hand
(September 3, 2008 )

10. Intel's recent acquisition is one step further towards
supporting Linux: the development startup Opened Hand is now
the property of Intel and will become part of the latter's Moblin
mobile Linux project.
The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The London-based Opened Hand is best known for its work on
Clutter, a software library for creating OpenGL-based GUIs, and
Matchbox, an open source base environment for the X Window
System on embedded platforms with limited screen size and
system resources.
The company has also been working with Nokia and the
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization.
Moblin is an open source, optimized Linux software platform
designed for integration with Intel's Atom processors in Mobile
Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, and embedded systems. Intel
started the project last year.

11. At present time, there are seven project under
development:
Moblin Image Creator: a tool aimed at making mobile and
embedded development easier. It does this by enabling the quick
creation of platform-specific build environments and target file
systems, with customized contents chosen from a list of available
functional sets.
Kernel: platform-specific kernel patches and device drivers are
part of the kernel project, along with information on adding your
own patches and building a kernel.
UI Framework: the UI Framework project is focused on
the MID home screen interface and its underlying framework,
which is GTK-based and uses the Hildon application framework.
Customizability is a key aspect of the UI Framework project, with
a focus on easy reorganization and extension of the UI.
Power Management Policy: power management is a critical
aspect of Linux for mobile and consumer electronics devices. The
power policy management project is focused on extending and
enhancing existing Linux power management capabilities, and
providing a comprehensive, robust, and extensible power
management framework.

12. Browser: a full-featured browser is at the heart of
delivering an uncompromised Internet experience on mobile and
consumer electronics devices. The browser project focuses on
extending a Mozilla-based browser core with features such as a
simple, finger-driven UI and Hildon integration.
Multimedia: the multimedia project is home to multimedia
application development that supports audio and video playback
and photo viewing, along with content management through a
mobile-optimized interface. The multimedia application will
support either the Helix* or GStreamer* multimedia
frameworks.
Linux Connection Manager: the Linux Connection
Manager project provides a daemon for managing Internet
connections within embedded devices running the Linux
operating system. It is fully modular system that can be
extended through plug-ins, to support all kinds of wired or
wireless technologies.