Jim Moling from the Financial Management Service of the U.S. Treasury Department presented "Cloning in a Mainframe Environment" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC based mainframe user group.

Yvonne DeMeritt, a Senior Sustaining Engineer at Computer Associates Inc., presented "CA Products for z/VM – Old Dogs with New Tricks" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area mainframe user group.

Richard Lewis of IBM Corporation presented "z/VM Platform Update: Advancing the Art of Virtualization with z/VM Version 5 Release 4" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area z/VM user group. Richard has kindly shared his presentation slides for download here.

Position Description:
The AFS team of Sine Nomine Associates provides OpenAFS support and development services for customers of various industry sectors and sizes. Our AFS engineers are in direct contact with our customers’ technical staff, and work together in a strongly team-oriented manner. Engineers take ownership of support and/or development issues, and follow through from initiation to delivery. The Senior AFS Engineer will analyze customer problems, isolate causes, and develop fixes suitable to be included in OpenAFS. The Senior Engineer will also be responsible for designing and implementing feature development for OpenAFS as called upon by customers and Sine Nomine Associates plans. The AFS Engineer may also be called upon to assist Sales in developing scopes for potential work, and validating time and task estimates for proposals.

Position Description:
The AFS team of Sine Nomine Associates provides OpenAFS support and development services for customers of various industry sectors and sizes. Our engineers are in direct contact with our customers’ technical staff, and work together in a strongly team-oriented manner. Engineers take ownership of support and development issues, and follow through from initiation to delivery. The Senior Windows Systems Developer will analyze customer problems, isolate causes, and develop fixes suitable to be included in OpenAFS. The Senior Windows Systems Developer may also be called upon to assist Sales in developing scopes for potential work, and validating time and task estimates for proposals.

The system images for build 95 of OpenSolaris for System z are available for download from http://distribution.sinenomine.net/opensolaris. Three packaging choices are available: VMARC, AWSTAPE and a DVD image.

Position Description:
The AFS team of Sine Nomine Associates provides OpenAFS support and development services for customers of various industry sectors and sizes. Our AFS engineers are in direct contact with our customers’ technical staff, and work together in a strongly team-oriented manner. Engineers take ownership of support and/or development tasks as assigned, and follow through from initiation to delivery.