Sine Nomine Associates is proud to announce that our SNA- NJE/IP bridge technology now supports open systems (Linux, Solaris and AIX) and Windows in IPv4 and IPv6 environments providing bi-directional communications capability.

Sine Nomine Associates was proud to sponsor a student this summer as part of the Brazil Scientific Mobility Summer Internship program.

Our intern spent his summer doing research and development on the OpenAFS source code, preparing the code for IPv6 functionality. The existing code base assumes socket addresses are 32-bit.  Over the summer, our intern updated the code base to be IPv4/IPv6 neutral. 

At the 2014 Ohio Linux Fest, Sine Nomine Associates Principal Engineer Mike Meffie presented Building a Private Data Cloud with OpenAFS, a valuable session on how organizations can construct a private data cloud using freely available open source solutions, in this case, OpenAFS.

Sine Nomine Associates (SNA) congratulates the OpenAFS project for establishing a legal entity, The OpenAFS Foundation, Inc., in order “to nurture and evolve the OpenAFS technology, to foster the OpenAFS community of experts, and to attract and increase the community of OpenAFS users” in the future.

In an entry on his blog, Sine Nomine Associates principle engineer Neale Ferguson celebrates the 50th anniversary of the announcement of the IBM System/360 aka "The Mainframe".

To read the entire article, visit http://butmostlyaboutcats.blogspot.com/2014/03/mainframe-memories.html

Submitted by Katherine Courtney on Thu, 12/26/2013 - 12:50

In the tradition of releasing something nifty to the community as a holiday gift (the subject line is the historical reference to the annual posting of such gifts to the venerable VMSHARE conference from long, long ago), SNA is pleased to provide two gifts to the community for 2013.

Gift #1: SWAPGEN version 1310

This version of SWAPGEN provides a few new features that people have asked for.

Sine Nomine Associates CEO Dr. Margarete Ziemer has announced that the company will be a Silver Sponsor for the European AFS and Kerberos Workshop at CERN on March 26-28, 2014.

According to the OpenAFS website:

The conference will examine the development outlook for AFS and Kerberos implementations, highlight current projects and offer space to proposals and new ideas. Also, sites will be able to present their AFS and Kerberos activities in site reports.

The conference will address themes such as: