We are excited to congratulate Kurt Acker and Neale Ferguson on being chosen as IBM Champions for the three years in a row!
IBM Champions are selected from among technology experts in order to share their knowledge. From the program website:
Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in open-source development and support, is pleased to announce that our company’s owner and CEO, Margarete Ziemer, has published the lead article for the Enterprise Executive issue 6-2022. In it, she summarized the pattern that emerged from having engaged in enterprise consulting for more than two decades, and from helping to mitigate or even to resolve CIO’s most critical challenges. She argues that those challenges are ubiquitous and independent from the enterprises’ core business lines.
Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in open-source development and support, is pleased to announce the OpenAFS development release team’s Holiday gift for OpenAFS users: OpenAFS 1.8.9 - Maintenance release is now available for download. This release brings performance and reliability enhancements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 6.0) and recent FreeBSD releases, as well as a number of bug fixes.
OpenAFS 1.8.9pre1 is the first beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS. It brings performance and reliability improvements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline kernel (currently 5.19) and recent FreeBSD releases as well as a number of bug fixes.
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This year at the VM Workshop Kurt Acker became a Knight of VM.
Kurt had the following to say about becoming a Knight:
The Flexible AFS Backup System (FABS) is a suite of tools and daemons
for managing backups for an AFS cell. FABS does not directly backup data
to long-term storage, but acts as a bridge between AFS and an existing
plain-file backup system. This approach allows FABS to integrate AFS
data into existing backup infrastructure regardless of backup software,
and avoids using vendor-specific APIs. FABS is freely available under a
permissive free software license, and commercial support is available
We enjoyed the company of the professionals at the 2022 OpenAFS workshop this year.
The 2022 workshop presentations will be available on this on the AFS Technologies Website.
Join us on June 12 - 14, 2023 for the 2023 AFS Technologies Workshop.
Call for Presentations Deadline: April 18, 2023