12-08-04
Corporate Technologies
CTO Demonstrates DTRACE at Solaris 10 Developer Day Conference
11-01-04
Corporate Technologies'
CTO Comments on New Data Storage Trends for Business Week Readers
10-07-04
Corporate Technologies
CTO to speak at 2004 e-Financial WorldExpo
07-21-04
Corporate Technologies
CTO to present at Software Development Conference and Expo
03-31-04
Corporate Technologies
CTO to teach at annual Unsenix LISA conference
03-31-04
Corporate Technologies
CTO to teach at USENIX annual technical conference in Boston
Corporate Technologies CTO Demonstrates DTRACE at Solaris 10 Developer Day Conference
Hartford, Connecticut - Thu, Dec 8, 2004
Corporate Technologies' CTO, Peter Baer Galvin, was a featured presenter at today's Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 Developer Day conference. Galvin delivered an in-depth demonstration of DTRACE (Dynamic Tracing)--a powerful tool that is available with Solaris 10. Attending the session were more than 40 developers interested in taking a deep dive into the technology and representing leading area organizations such as The Hartford, Cigna, MassMutual, UConn, Skidmore, GE, CSC, and Raytheon. Galvin was applauded by the attendees for his subject matter, expertise, and presentation skills.
Galvin is an internationally recognized expert on operating systems. He has been Chief Technologist at Corporate Technologies since 1995. In this role, he is responsible for architecting and managing the implementation of many complex Web and enterprise computing solutions for hundreds of our clients. Galvin is also responsible for evaluating emerging systems and security technologies for potential inclusion in our solution set. He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide on the topics of systems management, security and performance.
Peter is a contributing editor for SysAdmin Magazine and also the co-author of Operating Systems Concepts, a textbook used at many universities. Previously, Peter was Systems Manager for Brown University's Computer Science department. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Wesleyan University and a MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
About Corporate Technologies
Corporate Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of cost-effective and reliable infrastructure hardware, software and professional services in the areas of storage, networks, security, servers and data integration. Corporate Technologies is a top partner of best-of-breed vendors, including Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle, Cisco, Network Appliance, StorageTek, and 3PAR. Its annual million-dollar investment in R&D and the company's Technology Interoperability Lab allow Corporate Technologies to continually evaluate current and emerging technologies. Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey. Corporate Technologies serves the financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, wholesale/distribution, publishing and manufacturing industries. More information can be obtained at http://www.cptech.com or by calling (800) 926.9020.
Contact
Scott D. MacMillan
Corporate Technologies, Inc.
smacmillan@cptech.com
(800) 926.9020, ext. 175
Corporate Technologies' CTO Comments on New Data Storage Trends for Business Week Readers
Burlington, Massachusetts - Mon, Nov 1, 2004
Corporate Technologies' Chief Technology Officer, Peter Baer Galvin was a key participant in Business Week's special data storage series. Galvin was quoted extensively in the November 1 article entitled Storage: Creating Trusted Data Solutions. The article describes how the ability to efficiently and cost-effectively store, protect, and retrieve corporate information has become critical to today's companies.
"Storage issues, formerly a technology decision made by IT departments," reports Business Week, "are now being influenced by business decision makers, up to the executive level. Not surprisingly, technologists and executives have differing approaches-which can breed conflict in creating a cross-enterprise storage strategy."
The Business Week article cites several key findings of the Corporate Technologies Data Storage Outlook: 2004 research study as confirmation of current storage trends. "For example, in the recent in-depth survey of 49 senior IT decision makers conducted by Corporate Technologies, Inc., the majority of respondents said that increasing storage capacity is one of their top concerns. The report also reveals that most companies have no plans to increase their storage staffing to accommodate this increased capacity."
Commenting on these findings, CTO Peter Baer Galvin says in the article, "There is a big disconnect there. Often company spending plans do not sync up with the realities of their storage requirements."
The Business Week article goes on to call IP storage, based on network use of TCP/IP the protocol language of the Internet, the hottest new storage technology. As evidence, the news weekly cites Corporate Technologies' study data that shows 44% of respondents are already using IP storage and 52% plan to deploy additional IP storage in the next 12 months.
The article concludes, "Galvin of Corporate Technologies sees a struggle between what business executives want and what IT decision makes can afford to buy with the budget they have. The solution is to openly discuss the company's business goals and how IT can use storage to meet them."
"Not many companies have an architectural direction
established for storage,' Galvin says. 'This is a mistake. Thinking strategically
about an asset as valuable as storage is the only way to ensure companies
get the protection they need at a cost they can afford."
Peter Baer Galvin is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, a Burlington,
MA systems integrator and VAR. Previously, Peter and was the Systems Manager
for Brown University's Computer Science Department. He has written articles
for Byte and other magazines. He wrote the Pete's Wicked World and Pete's Super
Systems columns at SunWorld Magazine. He is currently contributing editor for
SysAdmin Magazine, where he manages the Solaris Corner.
About Corporate Technologies
Corporate Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of cost-effective and reliable infrastructure hardware, software and professional services in the areas of storage, networks, security, servers and data integration. Corporate Technologies is a top partner of best-of-breed vendors, including Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle, Cisco, Network Appliance, StorageTek, and 3PAR. Its annual million-dollar investment in R&D and the company's Technology Interoperability Lab allow Corporate Technologies to continually evaluate current and emerging technologies. Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey. Corporate Technologies serves the financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, wholesale/distribution, publishing and manufacturing industries. More information can be obtained at http://www.cptech.com or by calling (800) 926.9020.
Contact
Scott D. MacMillan
Corporate Technologies, Inc.
smacmillan@cptech.com
(800) 926.9020, ext. 175
Corporate Technologies CTO to speak at 2004 e-Financial WorldExpo
Burlington, Massachusetts - Thu, Oct 7, 2004
Corporate Technologies' Chief Technology Officer, Peter
Baer Galvin will speak at 2004 e-Financial WorldExpo, being held November
18-19 in Toronto, Canada. Galvin's presentation will be on Thursday November
19th.
Peter Baer Galvin will speak about next generation security products. Managers
of IT security infrastructure lead complicated lives. Between monitoring systems
and networks for security problems, trying to keep viruses signatures updated,
and trying to improve security, they must fight for security budget. And just
when everything seems under control, a bug in an application lets the bad guys
in. Fortunately, help is on the way. Hundreds of security start-ups are creating
new security solutions, in the areas of intrusion detection, anti-spam, application
firewalls, anomaly detection, secure communication, and authentication.
Peter Baer Galvin is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, a Burlington,
MA systems integrator and VAR. Previously, Peter and was the Systems Manager
for Brown University's Computer Science Department. He has written articles
for Byte and other magazines. He wrote the Pete's Wicked World and Pete's Super
Systems columns at SunWorld Magazine. He is currently contributing editor for
SysAdmin Magazine, where he manages the Solaris Corner.
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About Corporate Technologies
Corporate Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of cost-effective and reliable infrastructure hardware, software and professional services in the areas of storage, networks, security, servers and data integration. Corporate Technologies is a top partner of best-of-breed vendors, including Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle, Cisco, Network Appliance, StorageTek, and 3PAR. Its annual million-dollar investment in R&D and the company's Technology Interoperability Lab allow Corporate Technologies to continually evaluate current and emerging technologies. Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey. Corporate Technologies serves the financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, wholesale/distribution, publishing and manufacturing industries. More information can be obtained at http://www.cptech.com or by calling (800) 926.9020.
Contact
Scott D. MacMillan
Corporate Technologies, Inc.
smacmillan@cptech.com
(800) 926.9020, ext. 175
Corporate Technologies CTO to present at Software Development Conference and Expo
Burlington, Massachusetts - Wed, Jul 21, 2004
Peter Baer Galvin to give two talks at Software Development Conference and Expo in Boston, September 20-23rd, 2004. The first talk is titled "New Security Features in Solaris 10". The second is "Surveying the Current Computer Security Landscape." Software Development Conference and Expo delivers what's new in the development world while providing extensive coverage of core technologies and methodologies. Details can be found at http://www.sdexpo.com.
About Corporate Technologies
Corporate Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of cost-effective and reliable infrastructure hardware, software and professional services in the areas of storage, networks, security, servers and data integration. Corporate Technologies is a top partner of best-of-breed vendors, including Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle, Cisco, Network Appliance, StorageTek, and 3PAR. Its annual million-dollar investment in R&D and the company's Technology Interoperability Lab allow Corporate Technologies to continually evaluate current and emerging technologies. Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey. Corporate Technologies serves the financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, wholesale/distribution, publishing and manufacturing industries. More information can be obtained at http://www.cptech.com or by calling (800) 926.9020.
Contact
Scott D. MacMillan
Corporate Technologies, Inc.
smacmillan@cptech.com
(800) 926.9020, ext. 175
Corporate Technologies CTO to teach at annual Unsenix LISA conference
Burlington, Massachusetts - Wed, Mar 31, 2004
Peter Galvin will teach an "Advanced Topics in Solaris Administration" tutorial at the Usenix LISA conference. For more information see http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/
About Corporate Technologies
Corporate Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of cost-effective and reliable infrastructure hardware, software and professional services in the areas of storage, networks, security, servers and data integration. Corporate Technologies is a top partner of best-of-breed vendors, including Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle, Cisco, Network Appliance, StorageTek, and 3PAR. Its annual million-dollar investment in R&D and the company's Technology Interoperability Lab allow Corporate Technologies to continually evaluate current and emerging technologies. Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey. Corporate Technologies serves the financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, wholesale/distribution, publishing and manufacturing industries. More information can be obtained at http://www.cptech.com or by calling (800) 926.9020.
Contact
Scott D. MacMillan
Corporate Technologies, Inc.
smacmillan@cptech.com
(800) 926.9020, ext. 175
Corporate Technologies CTO to teach at USENIX annual technical conference in Boston
Burlington, Massachusetts - Wed, Mar 31, 2004
Peter Galvin will be teaching 'Advanced Topics in Solaris Administration' at the USENIX annual technical conference in Boston, MA during the week of June 27, 2004. For more information see http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/.
About Corporate Technologies
Corporate Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of cost-effective and reliable infrastructure hardware, software and professional services in the areas of storage, networks, security, servers and data integration. Corporate Technologies is a top partner of best-of-breed vendors, including Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle, Cisco, Network Appliance, StorageTek, and 3PAR. Its annual million-dollar investment in R&D and the company's Technology Interoperability Lab allow Corporate Technologies to continually evaluate current and emerging technologies. Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey. Corporate Technologies serves the financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, wholesale/distribution, publishing and manufacturing industries. More information can be obtained at http://www.cptech.com or by calling (800) 926.9020.
Contact
Scott D. MacMillan
Corporate Technologies, Inc.
smacmillan@cptech.com
(800) 926.9020, ext. 175
Corporate Technologies given exclusive rights to sell Sun's New Pre-Integrated Cluster Solution for Bioinformatics
New Sun Fire™ Starter Cluster for Bioinformatics Combines Industry-Leading Hardware and Third-Party Software to Help
Burlington, Massachusetts - Mon, Mar 29, 2004
BOSTON, BIO-IT WORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO, March 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — To help customers save time and money in deploying an entry-level bioinformatics solution, Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW - News) and its iForceSM partners for life sciences are delivering the pre-integrated Sun Fire™ Starter Cluster for Bioinformatics. The Starter Cluster is designed to meet the specific computational needs of small labs, hospitals, Clinical Research Organizations and clinics, without the high IT investment and cost-of-management traditionally associated with a bioinformatics solution. Because it comes ready to run out of the box, the complete solution is designed to enable the bench scientist to perform bioinformatics analytics without the dependency on an IT staff.
"Customers have been asking for an entry-level cluster solution that is ready to deploy, easy to manage and priced affordably for a small lab environment," said Rick Lytel, PhD, CTO of physical and life sciences at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The Starter Cluster provides them the basic bioinformatics hardware and software to meet their research needs, at a lower total cost of acquisition and ownership than previously available."
The Sun Fire Starter Cluster for Bioinformatics is a powerful 4 node (8 CPU) x86 cluster of Sun Fire V60x and V65x servers, in a small rack designed for operation in any space-constrained environment. The 19-inch rack on rollers is designed to fit under a lab bench, and it uses standard room electrical power outlets without requiring climate-controlled conditions. Initially available for the Linux OS on the Intel Xeon architecture, the solution is expected to be offered on the Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z server for both the Linux and Solaris™ x86 Operating Systems in summer 2004.
The Starter Cluster ships assembled, pre-tested and pre-loaded with the Linux or Solaris OS, Message Passing Interface (MPI), N1™ Grid Engine resource management and INCOGEN VIBE (Visual Integrated Bioinformatics Environment) software. The VIBE application for scientific workflow management allows users to manage workflows in an analysis pipeline using a straightforward drag-and-drop interface, integrated with N1™ Grid Engine. The BioBox CD of public algorithms, optimized for Solaris and Linux operating systems, is expected to ship with the bundle by summer 2004. Sun plans to include additional life science applications and public codecs as part of the bundled solution in the future.
Because the Sun Fire Starter Cluster for Bioinformatics is built on an open, scalable architecture, it's designed to grow as data loads require. Customers can incorporate the cluster into an existing IT environment, link it with other Starter Clusters, or expand to a full 32 nodes with the Sun Fire V60x Compute Grid rack system. Storage can also be added as necessary.
Pricing and Availability
The Sun Fire Starter Cluster for Bioinformatics is priced
below $22,000 U.S. and is available now in North America through the Sun
Customer Ready Systems (CRS) program, which integrates Sun and complementary
third-party hardware and software products into pre-tested solutions based
on customer specifications. The Starter Cluster will also be distributed
or supported by select iForce partners, including Corporate Technologies,
Helio Solutions and The BioTeam. Worldwide availability of the Starter Cluster
is expected in summer 2004.
About Corporate Technologies
Corporate Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of cost-effective and reliable infrastructure hardware, software and professional services in the areas of storage, networks, security, servers and data integration. Corporate Technologies is a top partner of best-of-breed vendors, including Sun Microsystems, VERITAS, Hitachi Data Systems, Oracle, Cisco, Network Appliance, StorageTek, and 3PAR. Its annual million-dollar investment in R&D and the company's Technology Interoperability Lab allow Corporate Technologies to continually evaluate current and emerging technologies. Founded in 1994, Corporate Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey. Corporate Technologies serves the financial services, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, wholesale/distribution, publishing and manufacturing industries. More information can be obtained at http://www.cptech.com or by calling (800) 926.9020.
Contact
Scott D. MacMillan
Corporate Technologies, Inc.
smacmillan@cptech.com
(800) 926.9020, ext. 175