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IDC OPINION
Enterprises are entering a phase of deep technological changes, as challenging macroeconomic conditions and shrinking IT budgets force a rethink of the way IT infrastructure works and the adoption of new strategies to optimize increasingly scarce resources. Initially deployed simply as a fix to consolidate sprawling physical servers and contain hardware CapEx, virtualization has found its place at the core of innovation in the datacenter, solving a range of issues spanning from energy waste and compatibility problems with legacy applications, to high availability and ease of management.

Server virtualization does not come without a few challenges. Top of the list is the ability of IT administrators to manage IT infrastructure resources in an integrated fashion across server, storage, networking, applications, and virtual machines. Recent IDC surveys highlighted key requirements for virtualization infrastructure, include solid, optimized hardware infrastructure, perhaps based on blade servers, adequate I/O settings, and above all the correct management tools.

Fujitsu addresses those needs with its dynamic infrastructure strategy. This offering materializes what IDC believes to be a key trend in datacenters: the convergence of servers (particularly blades), storage, networking, and virtualization. In this model, Fujitsu's system management suite, ServerView, plays a central role, in particular its ServerView Resource Coordinator VE (RCVE), the tool to harmonize the management of physical and virtual environments.

RCVE is designed to bring together the capabilities and information included in the pure virtualization management environments with those stemming from hardware monitoring and balancing tools. Through the RCVE console, administrators can remotely control x86 servers, visualize the physical and virtual infrastructure, gain direct access on virtual machines and execute basic live migrations, set up affordable high availability systems and execute automated physical server deployment. continue reading...

Out-of-date BS2000 printers
Mechanical printers
Numerous BS2000 customers are still using mechanical printers that have reached the MEK90 status.

LIP printers
The LP65 printers support the LIP data stream. This data stream is not developed any more, and no new printer is able to support it. The main LIP printer is the 3365. This protocol has also been supported by the PageStream printers PS55, PS75 and PS158. For the comparisons, we will consider a speed of 55 to 158 pages/minute.

HP printers
The most used printers are the “HP” (High Performance) laser printers from Océ. The HP data stream is a frozen technology. It is however still supported, up to now, by the SRA controller running on Océ Production printers, as an alternative to the modern AFP/IPDS data stream, but the printer must be re-booted to switch from a mode to the other one. The support of HP will how-ever be removed from the controller relatively soon.

Spool & Print products overview
Several printing products are (or have been) used on BS2000/OSD: continue reading...

• Local Spool This usually concerns the devices locally attached to the host by CT2 or CTS (Escon). Such a connection provides a very high reliability. For local printing, the user does not specify the printer to be used, but rather the required features (data stream, resources ...). The device selection results from the scheduling parameters and algorithm. All 333x and 334x printers belong to the local Spool with a speed equivalent to 15 – 60 pages/min. The LIP and HP printers also belong to this category. The HP printers have a speed ranging from 50 to 1000 pages/min. Let us remark that neither the LIP, nor the HP printers can be considered as a candidate for replacing the mechanical printers; in contrary, they both belong to a frozen technology, and also need a replacement strategy. Last but not least the LAN printer 9045 (see RSO), connected to an SX server (or SR2000), with a speed equivalent to 15-50 pages/min, is also supported by local Spool, via Line Printer emulation in X2000 (resp. SINIX2000).

With the dramatic increase in volume of sensitive and confidential information in electronic form, various government sponsored security regulations tie together the security and integrity of technological systems and processes. Security technology has become critically important as various organizations and businesses use their electronic systems to comply with government regulations. Recent laws and initiatives include:

• HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Financial Accounting)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Finance)
• Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 (Food and Drugs)
• ISO 15408, also known as, Common Criteria Certification

In response to these regulations, Konica Minolta has taken a lead role in developing and implementing security-based information technologies in Multi-Function office machines. Ever since the introduction of the first Konica Minolta MFP, Konica Minolta has strived to develop and implement technologies that safeguard the confidentiality of electronic documents.

With the growing popularity of connected Office Machines, people in various industries will increasingly look to MFPs as an efficient and cost effective method of distributing, storing and receiving sensitive electronic information. Security measures for Konica Minolta MFPs can easily be adopted for use in the wide range of industries where electronic document security is important. This requirement will grow more relevant as the trend towards electronic storage and maintenance of sensitive information continues. Whether installed in a small office as a workgroup device or in a large hospital as a departmental workhorse, Konica Minolta MFPs can provide you with the security, reliability and stability that security professionals demand and require. To date the only official security based certification standard for digital office products is an international standard generally known as Common Criteria. The official international designation for this security standard is ISO 15408. To date there are many Konica Minolta models that have achieved ISO 15408 EAL 3 (Common Criteria) certification: continue reading...

Introduction

The Canon imagePROGRAF series is equipped with a disk erase feature that erases print jobs sent to the printer from the printer's hard disk. This feature completely erases data sent to the printer, such as classified data and private information, so that it is not leaked to third parties. Generally, data written to hard disks on computers or printers is not completely erased when the memory is deleted or initialized in the usual way. You can use data recovery software to recover deleted data and retrieve information. This is precisely why reventing data recovery and completely deleting data is so important.

The disk erase feature included with the Canon imagePROGRAF series responds to the need for an increased level of security.

Disk Erase Features

The disk erase feature included with the Canon imagePROGRAF has the following 3 modes.

Secure Erase Mode
This is the highest level of erasure. It meets to U.S. Department of Defense requirements (DoD 5220-22.M) for the erasure of disk media.

Data stored on the printer's hard disk is overwritten multiple times and then checked after the final overwrite. This makes hard disk analysis used during disk recovery impossible, preventing data recovery. For more information, see "5 How Secure Erasure Mode Works".

Secure Quick Erase Mode
In this mode, data stored on the printer's hard disk is overwritten once with random data. This prevents data from being recovered using software. This mode erases data quicker than Secure Erase Mode. continue reading...