According to one of the website in India, Dell has confirmed that some of its PowerEdge server motherboards have been shipped to customers with embedded spyware.

According to Dell, the damage is limited to replacement motherboards for four Dell server products – PowerEdge R310, PowerEdge R410, PowerEdge R510 and PowerEdge T410. However, the exact malware type, and how it managed its way onto the motherboards is still not clear.

“As part of Dell’s quality process, we have identified a potential issue with our service mother board stock, like the one you received for your PowerEdge R410, and are taking preventative action with our customers accordingly. The potential issue involves a small number of PowerEdge server motherboards sent out through service dispatches that may contain malware. This malware code has been detected on the embedded server management firmware as you indicated.”

“We take matters of information security very seriously and believe that any impact to a customer’s information security is unlikely. To date we have received no customer reports related to data security. Systems running non-Windows operating systems are not vulnerable to this malware and this issue is not present on motherboards shipped new with PowerEdge systems.”

“We have assembled a customer list and are directly contacting customers like you through a call campaign. On the call, you should be provided a phone number to call if you have additional questions.”

Virtualization and cloud computing – that’s the current buzzwords, they describe the most important platform in the next-generation enterprise datacenter. And just as you’re interested in how to deploy this model for the best possible business benefits, you need the right security to protect your investments.

Recently, Trend Micro partnered with VMware, the leader in cloud infrastructure, in order to bring our expertise to the security challenges of a virtualized datacenter. So if you’re planning to deploy virtualized desktops and servers, private cloud, and public cloud computing, we’ll be here to explain how Deep Security, our new security architecture for the VMware environment, safeguards your data – and more.

Date:
June 22, 2010

Time:
9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Venue:
Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside
(Adjacent to Putrajaya International Convention Centre)
No. 2, Jalan P5/5, Presint 5, Putrajaya

Speaker Profile:
Ian Koay
Ian koay is the Technical Consultant of Trend Micro Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Ian has 8 years experience in the IT Industry where he started off as a IT Consultant focusing on Education and banking sector.

Ian has obtained various certifications such as the HP Accredited Presales Consultant (SWD and BCS), Microsoft Certified Professional, Trend Micro Certified Security Engineer (TCSE) and I am also a certified with ITIL v3 certification.

Ong Kok Leong
Mr. Ong Kok Leong has more than 18 years experience in the ICT industry. During his career, Mr. Ong has worked for both local and multinational ICT companies and has built an extensive network of technical expertise and customer contacts.

He started his career in 1991, providing hardware support and software development. In 1996, he joined Dell to develop and deploy their system integration processes. By 2000, he was promoted to Dell’s Call Center to coach and lead the inside sales team for enterprise businesses and had traveled extensively from 2003 in South Asia to provide Infrastructure Solutions Consulting (Server, Storage, Networking, Backup, BC/DR, Database, etc). In 2005, he joined Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) to focus on Storage Solutions and in 2007, he was hired as the first employee of VMware Malaysia.

With his wide background, Mr. Ong is able to draw upon his experiences from software development, systems integration to ICT infrastructure management to provide an out-of-the box holistic view of the latest trends in ICT infrastructure and management.

Please contact Tammy at +603-9282 3300 or email to tammy @ apaccomm dot com for registration.

Be the lucky attendee to win a 32” Panasonic LCD TV when you come to the briefing. See you there!

Martin said: First impressions using a Dell Streak are very positive. As I use Mac, this is the first Dell product I ever use. At 5 inches it’s big but still fits in your pocket. Dell has adapted Android to the larger dimensions and the whole experience is more comfortable. Forget about the m in your URL, you can browse normally. The 5 MP camera is great for videos an pictures, it comes with edit software. On the negative it uses an unusual charging cable and the power button is too close to the camera button. Will be even better with Froyo. It is the biggest smartphone but it is thin and light, much smaller than an iPad.

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Together with the joint efforts of MAMPU and its Open Source arm, OSCC, the MSC MOSC2010 will be a content driven platform consisting of three tracks that caters for the most relevant parties of the Open Source world: developers, the Open Source community and the businesses sector.

Malaysia Open Source Conference

Date: 29th of June to 1st of July 2010.
Venue: Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Who should attend?

• Business executives from local and foreign companies
• Open Source developers, communities, inventors, evangelist, researchers, strategist
• Government officers
• Students, general public

Come join us at the MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010! You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

About
The Malaysian Open Source Developer’s Club or in short known as OSDC.my is a community based club open for all enthusiastic Open Source developers and users across Malaysia, to share their thought, knowledge and experience and leverage the Open Source idea to public.

Please visit MSC MOSC2010 – http://conf.oss.my/ for more details.

Malaysia & LONDON International consulting firm BroadGroup, together with the Malaysian Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) which directs and oversees Malaysia’s National ICT (Information & Communication Technology) Initiative has announced the launch of the first international summit for data centres. The event will take place in Kuala Lumpur 29-30 September 2010.

Data Centres Malaysia Summit 2010 will include a special focus on regional and international enterprise customers of data centres and their outsourcing needs as emerging private clouds, new technologies and market shift impact across the sector.

Date:
29-30 September 2010

Venue:
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Jalan Sultan Ismail
Kuala Lumpur 50250
Malaysia

Agenda:

Day 1:
OFFICIAL OPENING
OPENING KEYNOTE
SESSION 1 – MALAYSIA AS A DATA CENTRE LOCATION – RESULTS OF INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROGRAMME
SESSION 2 – MALAYSIA DATA CENTRE LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE
SESSION 3 – DATA CENTRE INVESTMENT AND OUTSOURCING
SESSION 4 – GOVERNMENT AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THEIR DATA CENTRES
SESSION 5 – MANAGED SERVICES FOR FINANCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS [Data Centre User Requirements]
SESSION 6 – FIBRE AND CONNECTIVITY
SESSION 7 – DATA CENTRE SECURITY
SESSION 8 – DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO STORAGE AND CDN STRATEGIES

Day 2:
SESSION 9 – PRIVATE CLOUD AND THE IMPACT ON DATA CENTRES
SESSION 10 – REDUCING DATA CENTRE POWER COSTS
SESSION 11 – SUSTAINABILITY AND GREEN IN THE DATA CENTRE
SESSION 12 – CONTAINERIZATION OF THE DATA CENTRE
Workshop
Future Data Centre Design

Check out more details here and register today!

Ten things you should try after installing Chrome 5 beta:

1. Google Chrome remembers zoom settings for each domain. Go to http://www.malaysiakini.com, zoom using Ctrl+ or Ctrl-, close the tab and reopen it. You will get the same zoom setting as previously.

2. Remove individual items from the history. Go to the History tab (Ctrl+H), click on “Edit items”, select the pages you want to remove and click on “Remove selected pages”. For me, I would prefer delete all history instead of individual item from the history.

3. The new bookmark manager is an HTML page that opens in a new tab. It looks better than the previous manager and it has the advantage that extensions will be able to add new features.

4. Synchronize themes and preferences, in addition to bookmarks.

5. Google Chrome includes Adobe’s Flash plug-in. Open a site that uses Flash, right-click on a Flash object and select “About Adobe Flash”. You should be able to see the message “You have version 10,1,53,22 installed”.

6. You can disable individual plug-ins. Go to chrome://plugins/ and disable the plug-ins you don’t need.

7. Extensions in incognito mode. Chrome disables all extensions in incognito mode, but you can manually enable some of them from the Extensions page.

8. Native geolocation. The previous Chrome versions used the Google Gears implementation, but Google Chrome now supports HTML5 geolocation, so that more web applications can easily find your location. Go to Google Maps, click on the small circle above the Street View logo and you’ll see an infobar: “maps.google.com wants to track your location”.

9. Manual translation. Now you can disable the auto-translation feature and still be able to use the built-in translator. Even if you disable the Google Translate integration from Settings/Under the hood, you can still right-click on a page and select “Translate to English”.

10. Reorder extension buttons. You can change the order of the buttons installed by Google Chrome extensions using drag & drop and even hide some of the buttons.

Read more detail about the Google Chrome 5 Beta here.

So what is the sizes of data center consider big or large? According to Datacenterknowledge, these large data center fortresses range between 400,000 and 1.1 million square feet. And The World Top 10 Largest Data Centers(up to dated) are:

10. The SuperNAP, Las Vegas (Switch Communications)
9A and 9B. Microsoft Data Centers in Quincy Washington and San Antonio
8. CH1, Elk Grove Village, Ill. (DuPont Fabros)
7. Phoenix ONE, Phoenix (i/o Data Centers)
6. Microsoft Dublin (Microsoft)
5. Container Data Center, Chicago (Microsoft)
4. NGD Europe, Newport Wales (Next Generation Data)
3. The NAP of the Americas, Miami (Terremark)
2. Metro Technology Center, Atlanta (Quality Technology)
1. 350 East Cermak / Lakeside Technology Center (Digital Realty)

Check out more detail at here.

Part 1:
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Part 2:
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Part 3:
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/294516586/SMS_2003_video_training.part3.rar

Part 4:
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/294519281/SMS_2003_video_training.part4.rar

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