Wow, the last 24 hours has been…interesting…here at Store and Forward. Friday night I noticed all of my blog posts after October 2009 had disappeared! My hosting provider’s front page lists daily backups as one of their services so I contacted them and asked for a restore. After the restore, the site looked exactly the [...]
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Wrapping up IMPACT 2009
May 8th, 2009 No Comments
Well, this is the last day of IMPACT. It’s always lightly attended as many folks take Friday as a travel day. I have one more session this morning though. It’s the WMQ ESE introduction. Overall the WMQ security sessions were well attended. Even the small rooms were large, compared to past conferences, so my feeling [...]
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The Deep Queue – Episode #10: Cash in on mortgaged risk!
May 2nd, 2009 No Comments
No, that’s not mortgage risk. Someone’s already done that and look where it got us. No,I’m talking about mortgaged risk – the act of saving time or money by accepting risk that is hard to measure but easy to hide or ignore. The risk is essentially a mortgage on your future. A hidden cost that [...]
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Schedule for IMPACT
April 28th, 2009 No Comments
This post is really more for me than anyone else. I’ll be at IMPACT 2009 next week and need a handy place to track my schedule. Sunday: 16:00 – 17:00 Premium Support Welcome Reception Venetian’s Orchid Restaurant Monday: 11:00 – 12:15 TMC-1054A Basic WMQ Security Delfino 4101B Tuesday: 07:15 – 08:15 Breakfast meeting w/customer [...]
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Slides for PCI Knowledgebase webinar posted
April 13th, 2009 3 Comments
Join me Wednesday April 15th @ Noon Eastern for a webinar hosted by the fine folks at PCI Knowledgebase.com on the topic of WebSphere MQ for QSA’s. Register for the webinar at this link. The slides have been posted here.
Tags: Events · News · PCI PCI-DSS · WebSphere MQ · WebSphere MQ Security · WMQ · WMQ Security
developerWorks live chat on WMQ
January 15th, 2009 No Comments
developerWorks is hosting a live text chat at Noon Eastern US time on January 22nd on the topic of WMQ Best Practices. The panel will include some folks from the WebSphere MQ online community that you may know: Chris Frank, Peter Potkay and myself. If you have any questions about WebSphere MQ that you haven’t [...]
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See you in Barcelona!
August 1st, 2008 3 Comments
I just found out my travel has been approved for IBM’s Transaction & Messaging Technical Conference coming up this November in Barcelona! I seem to have inherited ownership of the High Availability presentation which I certainly do not mind. I am also expanding the WebSphere MQ Security presentation into separate Basic and an Advanced sessions. [...]
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No MQ presentation at Defcon this year
July 8th, 2008 No Comments
I’ve been keeping an eye on the Defcon speakers and schedule to see if any new WMQ presentations would be announced this year. I know that Martyn Ruks who presented last year has a new WMQ security white paper and I was expecting him to be slotted in the schedule again this year. But the [...]
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