News & Press from Sine Nomine Associateshttps://sna.adrianana.com/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/2026-openafs-workshop-cancelled/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/2026-openafs-workshop-cancelled/The OpenAFS Foundation Board have cancelled the 2026 OpenAFS Workshop. Please check the Foundation website for updates from the Foundation; we intend to publish slide-decks for the OpenAFS…Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs-1-8-16-is-available/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs-1-8-16-is-available/The OpenAFS maintainers are happy to announce the availability of OpenAFS 1.8.16. Source files can be accessed via the web at: https://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.8.16.html or via AFS at:…Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs-1-8-16pre1-is-available/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs-1-8-16pre1-is-available/11-April-2026 – OpenAFS 1.8.16pre1 is available! The OpenAFS maintainers are happy to announce the availability of OpenAFS 1.8.16pre1. Source files can be accessed via the web at:…Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs-accepted-as-mentoring-organization-for-google-summer-of-code-2026/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs-accepted-as-mentoring-organization-for-google-summer-of-code-2026/Sine Nomine Associates are thrilled to announce that the OpenAFS project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026! This is a fantastic opportunity for us…Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs1-8-15-beta/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2026/openafs1-8-15-beta/08-January-2026 – OpenAFS 1.8.15pre1 – First beta for the next stable release for UNIX/Linux OpenAFS 1.8.15pre1 is the first beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS for UNIX/Linux systems. It…Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/openafs-1-8-14-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/openafs-1-8-14-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux/OpenAFS 1.8.14 is the next release in the current stable series of OpenAFS releases for UNIX/Linux systems. It brings numerous improvements, including support for newer Linux mainline kernels…Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/openafs-1-8-14-pre1/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/openafs-1-8-14-pre1/OpenAFS 1.8.14pre1 is the first beta for the next stable release of OpenAFS for UNIX/Linux systems. It brings numerous improvements, including support for newer Linux mainline kernels (currently up…Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/david-e-boyes-cto/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/david-e-boyes-cto/August 24, 1965 – September 9, 2025 Beloved teacher, husband, and friend. With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of David Boyes, who left us on September 9, 2025, at the age of 60. A dedicated…Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/end-of-life-for-openafs-1-6-x-31-december-2025/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/end-of-life-for-openafs-1-6-x-31-december-2025/OpenAFS 1.8.0 was released in April 2018, and in the intervening time the efforts of the OpenAFS community have come to focus on the 1.8 series. This change in focus is highlighted by noting that…Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/openafs-google-summer-of-code-2025/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/openafs-google-summer-of-code-2025/We are thrilled to announce that the OpenAFS project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025! This is a fantastic opportunity for us to engage with…Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/media-news-openafs-1-8-13-2/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/media-news-openafs-1-8-13-2/The OpenAFS maintainers are happy to announce the availability of OpenAFS 1.8.13.2. Source files can be accessed via the web at: https://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.8.13.2.html or via AFS at:…Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/next-hillgang-meeting-march-13-2025/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2025/next-hillgang-meeting-march-13-2025/Hillgang, the Washington DC DCVM and Linux Users’ Group, has announced its upcoming meeting to be held on March 13, 2025 from 9:00 am to 2pm EST at the IBM Innovation Studio: 600 14th St NW 2nd FL…Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/openafs-1-8-12-2/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/openafs-1-8-12-2/The OpenAFS team has a new release as of 10/24/2024. OpenAFS 1.8.12.2 is the next release in the current stable series of OpenAFS releases for UNIX/Linux systems. It brings support for newer Linux…Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/openafs-maintainers-are-happy-to-announce-the-availability-of-openafs-1-8-12-1/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/openafs-maintainers-are-happy-to-announce-the-availability-of-openafs-1-8-12-1/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in open-source development and support, is pleased to announce the OpenAFS development release team’s availability of OpenAFS 1.8.12.1 – Maintenance release is…Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/margarete-ziemers-article-most-wanted-meaningful-interactions-at-work-and-anywhere-else-published-in-enterprise-executive/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/margarete-ziemers-article-most-wanted-meaningful-interactions-at-work-and-anywhere-else-published-in-enterprise-executive/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, PhD, published another article for the…Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/openafs-workshop-2024/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/openafs-workshop-2024/We hope you will join the AFS Technologies Workshop event June 10 – 11, 2024. – The AFS Technologies Workshop is an annual gathering of operators, developers, and enthusiasts of the AFS distributed…Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/vm-workshop-2024-at-virginia-commonwealth-university/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/vm-workshop-2024-at-virginia-commonwealth-university/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc. are pleased to once again be a sponsor for the VMworkshop 2024. You can find all the information on the link below and we hope to see you there.…Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/margarete-ziemers-article-changing-times-demand-changing-leaders-ready-to-level-up-published-in-enterprise-executive/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/margarete-ziemers-article-changing-times-demand-changing-leaders-ready-to-level-up-published-in-enterprise-executive/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, PhD, published another article for the…Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/next-hillgang-meeting-april-18-2024/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2024/next-hillgang-meeting-april-18-2024/Hillgang, the Washington DC DCVM and Linux Users’ Group, has announced its upcoming meeting to be held on April 18, 2024 from 8am to 1pm EST at the Braodcomm/VMWare: 12100 Sunset Hills Rd, 4th…Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/margarete-ziemers-article-is-your-head-in-the-clouds-published-in-enterprise-executive/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/margarete-ziemers-article-is-your-head-in-the-clouds-published-in-enterprise-executive/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, PhD, published another article for the…Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/now-available-ssh-v2-scp-and-sftp-utilities-for-z-vse-and-vse-systems/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/now-available-ssh-v2-scp-and-sftp-utilities-for-z-vse-and-vse-systems/Sine Nomine Associates, in partnership with Barnard Software Inc., is pleased to announce the availability of SSH v2, SCP and SFTP utilities for z/VSE and VSE systems. The commands provide the…Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/next-hillgang-meeting-july-26-2023/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/next-hillgang-meeting-july-26-2023/Hillgang, the Washington DC DCVM and Linux Users’ Group, has announced its upcoming meeting to be held on July 26, 2023 from 8am to 1pm EST at the Courtyard Marriott Dulles Airport in Herndon, VA.…Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/afs-technologies-workshop-2023/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/afs-technologies-workshop-2023/We hope you will join the AFS Technologies Workshop event June 12 – 14, 2023. – The AFS Technologies Workshop https://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw23/ is an annual gathering of operators, developers,…Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/vm-workshop-2023-at-ohio-state-university/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/vm-workshop-2023-at-ohio-state-university/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc. are pleased to once again be a sponsor for the VMworkshop 2023. You can find all the information on the link below and we hope to see you there.…Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/margarete-ziemers-article-dear-cio-will-you-make-or-break-your-company-published-in-enterprise-executive/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/margarete-ziemers-article-dear-cio-will-you-make-or-break-your-company-published-in-enterprise-executive/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, PhD, published another article for the…Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/triple-ibm-champions-neale-ferguson-and-kurt-acker/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/triple-ibm-champions-neale-ferguson-and-kurt-acker/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…Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/margarete-ziemers-article-three-mindsets-for-rising-to-security-challenges-published-in-enterprise-executive/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2023/margarete-ziemers-article-three-mindsets-for-rising-to-security-challenges-published-in-enterprise-executive/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, PhD, published another article for the…Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/margarete-ziemers-article-on-ubiquitous-cio-challenges-published-in-enterprise-executive/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/margarete-ziemers-article-on-ubiquitous-cio-challenges-published-in-enterprise-executive/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…Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/openafs-1-8-9-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux-available-now/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/openafs-1-8-9-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux-available-now/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 –…Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/openafs-1-8-9pre1-first-beta-for-the-next-stable-release-for-unix-linux/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/openafs-1-8-9pre1-first-beta-for-the-next-stable-release-for-unix-linux/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…Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/fabs/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/fabs/The Flexible AFS Backup System (FABS) is a suite of tools and daemonsfor managing backups for an AFS cell. FABS does not directly backup datato long-term storage, but acts as a bridge between AFS…Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/kurt-acker-knight-of-vm/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/kurt-acker-knight-of-vm/This year at the VM Workshop Kurt Acker became a Knight of VM. Kurt had the following to say about becoming a Knight: I was beyond humbled, by the knighthood bestowed to me from the Order of the…Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/2022-afs-workshop-presentations-now-available/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/2022-afs-workshop-presentations-now-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 –…Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/2022-afs-technologies-workshop-is-virtual/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/2022-afs-technologies-workshop-is-virtual/The 2022 AFS Technologies Workshop will be a three day Virtual Workshops held from 10:00am to 4: 00 pm Eastern time on June 14, 15, and 16, 2022. For more information visit…Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/vm-workshop-2022-at-binghamton-university/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/vm-workshop-2022-at-binghamton-university/The VM Workshop committee is happy to announce that the 2022 VM Workshop will be an in person event at Binghamton University. The Workshop will take place June 16-18 2022. For more information…Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/almalinux-beta-9-now-available-with-s390x/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/almalinux-beta-9-now-available-with-s390x/AlmaLinux is a CentOS alternative. In this beta, Sine Nomine Associates contributed a new addition to their family: s390x. Neale Ferguson, SNA’s Principal Engineer, has been testing it over the last…Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/congratulations-to-kurt-acker-and-neale-ferguson-on-being-named-2022-ibm-champions/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/congratulations-to-kurt-acker-and-neale-ferguson-on-being-named-2022-ibm-champions/We are excited to congratulate Kurt Acker and Neale Ferguson on being chosen as IBM Champions for the second year in a row! IBM Champions are selected from among technology experts in order to share…Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/sine-nomine-associates-ceo-e-margarete-ziemer-is-a-finalist-for-northern-virginia-wit-award/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2022/sine-nomine-associates-ceo-e-margarete-ziemer-is-a-finalist-for-northern-virginia-wit-award/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., proudly announces that our CEO, Dr. E. Margarete Ziemer, has been selected as a finalist for the Washington D.C. region 23rd annual Women in Technology Leadership Award…Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/openafs-1-8-8-1-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/openafs-1-8-8-1-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux/OpenAFS 1.8.8.1 is the next release in the current stable series of OpenAFS releases for UNIX/Linux systems. It adds support for current Linux mainline kernels (5.14, 5.15 and likely the upcoming…Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-announces-net-6-0-is-now-supported-on-ibm-z-and-linuxone/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-announces-net-6-0-is-now-supported-on-ibm-z-and-linuxone/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in open-source development and support, is pleased to announce a joint effort of Sine Nomine Associates, IBM, Microsoft, and RedHat, as well as the .NET and…Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/net-to-z-article-by-our-neale-ferguson-published-in-enterprise-tech-journal-this-month/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/net-to-z-article-by-our-neale-ferguson-published-in-enterprise-tech-journal-this-month/Our Principal Engineer, Neale Ferguson, has been working with IBM Z for 40 years and Linux for over 25 years. In his published article in the Enterprise Tech Journal issue 5 2021, he describes the…Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/registration-now-open-for-ohio-linuxfest-december-3-4-2021-in-columbus-ohio/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/registration-now-open-for-ohio-linuxfest-december-3-4-2021-in-columbus-ohio/The OLF Conference Committee is proud to announce that it will hold its 19th annual event in Columbus, Ohio on December 3 and 4, 2021. OLF welcomes all Free and Open Source Software professionals,…Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-ceo-e-margarete-ziemer-nominated-for-northern-virginia-wit-award/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-ceo-e-margarete-ziemer-nominated-for-northern-virginia-wit-award/We are proud to announce that our CEO and Co-Founder Margarete Ziemer has been nominated for the annual Washington D.C. Area WIT (Women In Technology) Leadership Awards program honors. The award…Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/hillgang-meeting-november-4th-2021/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/hillgang-meeting-november-4th-2021/Hillgang, the Washington DC DCVM and Linux Users’ Group, has announced its upcoming meeting to be held virtually November 4, 2021 from 10am to 3pm EST. Among those presenting will be Sine Nomine…Tue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sna-engineers-contribute-to-openafs-ansible-collection/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sna-engineers-contribute-to-openafs-ansible-collection/Sine Nomine Associates Principle Engineer Michael Meffie reports that his team has created a collection for OpenAFS Ansible. According to the Ansible Collection website…Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/bruns-pak-receives-sna-digital-engineering-excellence-award/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/bruns-pak-receives-sna-digital-engineering-excellence-award/We are proud to announce that BRUNS-PAK has been selected to receive our Sine Nomine Associates, Inc. 2021 Digital Engineering Excellence Award. As an industry-leading firm that focuses on…Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-inc-announces-partnership-with-the-almalinux-os-foundation/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-inc-announces-partnership-with-the-almalinux-os-foundation/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in Open Source development and support, is pleased to announce a new gold level partnership with the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. We are looking forward to working…Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/openafs-maintenance-release-1-8-8-available/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/openafs-maintenance-release-1-8-8-available/The OpenAFS Release Team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenAFS version 1.8.8 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via the web at: http://www.openafs.org/release/1.8.8/ or via…Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/vm-workshop-2021-presentations-available-online/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/vm-workshop-2021-presentations-available-online/Many of the speakers from the 2021 virtual edition of the VM Workshop, held June 10-11, 2021, have kindly provided their presentation materials in electronic format so attendees may download them…Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/2021-vm-workshop-will-be-virtual/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/2021-vm-workshop-will-be-virtual/Due to continued strict COVID-19 guidelines at The Ohio State University, the committee has cancelled the in-person 2021 VM Workshop. In its place, they are planning a multi-day virtual Workshop and…Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/2021-afs-technologies-workshop/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/2021-afs-technologies-workshop/The 2021 AFS Technologies Workshop will be three half-day Virtual Workshops held from 10:00am to 2:30pm Eastern time on June 14, 15, and 16, 2021. According to the workshop website: The AFS…Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sna-engineers-kurt-acker-and-neale-ferguson-named-ibm-champions/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sna-engineers-kurt-acker-and-neale-ferguson-named-ibm-champions/Kurt Acker and Neale Ferguson were chosen for the year 2021. IBM Champions are selected from among technology experts in order to share their knowledge. From the program website: The IBM Champions…Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-pre-release-openafs-package-for-macos-big-sur/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2021/sine-nomine-associates-pre-release-openafs-package-for-macos-big-sur/As part of the ongoing efforts to import security and reliability of macOS, Apple has asked developers to transition products from Kernel Extensions to System Extensions. System Extensions allow…Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/open-source-world-to-take-place-february-9-12-2021-in-miami-beach/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/open-source-world-to-take-place-february-9-12-2021-in-miami-beach/Open Source World has been scheduled to take place February 9-12, 2021 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, A partial agenda is available online. From the Open Source World website: Open Source…Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/openafs-1-9-0-development-release-for-unix-linux/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/openafs-1-9-0-development-release-for-unix-linux/On October 2, 2020, OpenAFS announced the development release of OpenAFS 1.9.0 for UNIX/Linux. According to the article, “OpenAFS 1.9.0 is the first in a series of OpenAFS development releases…Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/see-snas-ad-in-this-months-enterprise-tech-journal/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/see-snas-ad-in-this-months-enterprise-tech-journal/Sine Nomine Associates has recently published an ad in Enterprise Tech Journal entitled Enhancing Scalability, Reliability, Security and Afforability on Mainframes and Beyond is the Focus of Sine…Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/20th-anniversary-of-the-openafs-project/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/20th-anniversary-of-the-openafs-project/Twenty years ago, on October 31, 2000, the OpenAFS project was born by a small group of individuals at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University)–its corpus owing to the generosity of IBM, which cast forth a…Mon, 14 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/2020-virtual-vm-workshop-recordings-now-available/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/2020-virtual-vm-workshop-recordings-now-available/The VM Workshop Planning Committee would like to thank the nearly 300 attendees that participated in our virtual event. We hope that you found it of value and would ask that you take a short 3…Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/29-june-2020-openafs-1-8-6-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/29-june-2020-openafs-1-8-6-maintenance-release-for-unix-linux/OpenAFS 1.8.6 is the next in the current stable series of OpenAFS releases for UNIX/Linux systems. It brings performance improvements, improved diagnostics, support for the latest Linux mainline…Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/sine-nomine-associates-inc-announces-advanced-design-completion/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2020/sine-nomine-associates-inc-announces-advanced-design-completion/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in open source development and support, proudly announces their Creative Support Services and NOC Design team’s completion of an Advanced Integrated Operations…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/nje-ip-v2-with-smnp-support-now-available/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/nje-ip-v2-with-smnp-support-now-available/NJE/IP V2 allows files, interactive messages, and print jobs to be transmitted and received from open systems and Windows workstations/servers as if they came from a peer IBM system. NJE/IP V2…Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/sine-nomine-associates-inc-announces-openafs-management-tool-cellcc/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/sine-nomine-associates-inc-announces-openafs-management-tool-cellcc/Sine Nomine Associates, Inc., a leader in Open Source development and support, proudly announces the release of CellCC (“cell carbon-copy”), a set of tools and daemons to help IT System…Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/sine-nomine-associates-inc-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/sine-nomine-associates-inc-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary/Dr. E. Margarete Ziemer, CEO and co-founder, explains: “Founded in 1999, the company was conceived as a research and development engineering firm which transforms emerging technology into practical…Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/vm-workshop-award/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/vm-workshop-award/Sine Nomine Associates was presented with a Charter Sponsorship Award at the recent 2019 VM Workshop held June 27-29, 2019. We are honored to support this important event. (View the presentations at…Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/sna-engineer-neale-ferguson-aids-technical-blogger/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2019/sna-engineer-neale-ferguson-aids-technical-blogger/In a 2018 article by technical writer and blogger Jim Porell entitled “Porting an Enterprise App to System z – my experience. Part 2 of 4: The Good,” Sine Nomine Associates and Neale Ferguson were…Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/openafs-foundation-receives-sna-donation/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/openafs-foundation-receives-sna-donation/CEO E. Margarete Ziemer announced this week that Sine Nomine Associates has donated $10,000 to the OpenAFS Foundation. The Foundation reported that this was the largest donation it has received that…Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/trivial-authentication-bypass-in-libssh-leaves-servers-wide-open/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/trivial-authentication-bypass-in-libssh-leaves-servers-wide-open/On October 17, 2018 Slashdot posted news that an authentication bypass in Libssh leaves servers open for hacking. ‘Ars Technica reported: “a four-year-old bug in the Secure Shell implementation…Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/sna-helps-nurture-next-generation-of-engineers/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/sna-helps-nurture-next-generation-of-engineers/The Missouri University Lab for Educational Games (MULE) is sponsoring a student programming competition, using the C# language and many 3D content creation tools in the Unity game engine. Sine…Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/consider-a-career-in-mainframes/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2018/consider-a-career-in-mainframes/The mainframe is a dinosaur, right? Not so says Cameron Seay, Assistant Professor at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. In a lecture, posted on YouTube, Seay gives reasons why…Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2017/andrew-file-system-featured-in-network-world-article/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2017/andrew-file-system-featured-in-network-world-article/In “You really should know what the Andrew File System is,” a recent article for Network World, News Editor Bob Brown concludes that “AFS is indeed worth knowing about as a foundational technology…Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2017/neale-ferguson-interviewed-by-jeffrey-frey-for-the-i-am-a-mainframer-interview-series/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2017/neale-ferguson-interviewed-by-jeffrey-frey-for-the-i-am-a-mainframer-interview-series/In their sixth episode of our “I Am A Mainframer Interview Series,” Jeffrey Frey, of the Open Mainframe Project, interviews Sine Nomine engineer Neale Ferguson. A full recording of the interview as…Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2017/andrew-file-system-afs-creators-receive-acm-software-system-award/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2017/andrew-file-system-afs-creators-receive-acm-software-system-award/Congratulations to the Open AFS creators Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael L. Kazar, Robert N. Sidebotham, David A. Nichols, Michael J. West, John H. Howard, Alfred Z. Spector and Sherri M. Nichols,…Mon, 22 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sine-nomine-associates-joins-open-mainframe-project/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sine-nomine-associates-joins-open-mainframe-project/The British IT industry publication, The Register, recently reported on IBM’s announcement of 2016 development goals for the Open Mainframe Project. The announcement was made at the 2016 IBM…Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/open-source-software-alive-and-well-on-the-mainframe-in-mongodb/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/open-source-software-alive-and-well-on-the-mainframe-in-mongodb/Much of the public believes that the mainframe is a dinosaur stuck in the “Mad Men” days, but programs such as MongoDB, which supports Linux on the mainframe, proves them wrong. A recent article,…Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sine-nomine-associates-projects-on-openafs-github/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sine-nomine-associates-projects-on-openafs-github/Sine Nomine Associates is a proud contributor to the OpenAFS project’s GitHub, the repository of tools, scripts, and code available to the public that makes working with AFS a bit simpler at times.…Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/software-tools-available/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/software-tools-available/Sine Nomine makes many software tools available to the public. These includes OpenAFS tools, Mono, ClefOS, NJE Bridge and Swapgen. The tools can be downloaded from http://download.sinenomine.net.Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sine-nomine-associates-releases-spark-container-for-linux-on-system-z/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sine-nomine-associates-releases-spark-container-for-linux-on-system-z/Neale Ferguson, of Sine Nomine Associates, reports that, as part of an ongoing research project, he has released a Spark container for Linux on System z. IBM announced new support for Spark March…Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sna-engineer-neale-ferguson-quoted-on-open-mainframe-project/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sna-engineer-neale-ferguson-quoted-on-open-mainframe-project/“Linux on the mainframe has come a long way since it was released as patches in 1999. It has evolved from an adjunct to an organization’s IT environment to being front-and-centre,” said Sine Nomine…Fri, 13 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/availability-of-updated-openafs-client-installer-for-macos-announced/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/availability-of-updated-openafs-client-installer-for-macos-announced/Sine Nomine Associates is proud to provide availability of an updated version of our signed OpenAFS MacOS 10 client installer. As with the previously announced version, this is provided as a…Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sna-included-in-ibm-list-of-software-developers-supporting-z-os-v2-2/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2016/sna-included-in-ibm-list-of-software-developers-supporting-z-os-v2-2/IBM recently published a list of software developers indicating that they support z/OS V2.2. Sine Nomine Associates is included in the list providing support for NJE/IP Bridge as of September 1,…Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2015/introducing-clefos/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2015/introducing-clefos/Recently Sine Nomine Associates engineer Neale Ferguson had the opportunity to introduce ClefOS (Commercial-grade Linux on Enterprise Foundations Operating System) to users of Linux on System z. The…Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2015/sna-alumnus-partner-in-kpcb-edge/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2015/sna-alumnus-partner-in-kpcb-edge/Former Sine Nomine Associates employee Roneil Rumburg has partnered with Anjney Midha and Ruby Lee in KPCB Edge, a new company with “a team of builders, investing in seed stage founders working on…Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2015/lxfmt-version-2-3-available-for-download/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2015/lxfmt-version-2-3-available-for-download/Sine Nomine is proud to announce version 2.3 of LXFMT is available for download. This version is a substantial rework of how disk geometry handling and volume formatting occurs, which should adapt…Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/nje-ip-bridge-news/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/nje-ip-bridge-news/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…Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/sine-nomine-associates-sponsors-brazil-scientific-mobility-summer-intern/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/sine-nomine-associates-sponsors-brazil-scientific-mobility-summer-intern/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…Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/building-a-private-data-cloud-with-openafs/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/building-a-private-data-cloud-with-openafs/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…Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/sine-nomine-associates-congratulations-to-openafs-on-the-creation-of-the-openafs-foundation/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/sine-nomine-associates-congratulations-to-openafs-on-the-creation-of-the-openafs-foundation/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…Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/mainframe-memories-50th-anniversary-of-ibm-system-360-the-mainframe/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/mainframe-memories-50th-anniversary-of-ibm-system-360-the-mainframe/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…Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/memo-xmasgift/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2014/memo-xmasgift/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…Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2013/sine-nomine-associates-to-sponsor-afs-and-kerberos-workshop-at-cern/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2013/sine-nomine-associates-to-sponsor-afs-and-kerberos-workshop-at-cern/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…Thu, 26 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2013/sna-engineers-bring-smiles-to-turkish-classroom/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2013/sna-engineers-bring-smiles-to-turkish-classroom/At the end of a two-week assignment in Istanbul, Turkey, a Sine Nomine Associates engineering team found itself in a quandary: What to do with a scanner/printer purchased for the job, but too large…Fri, 20 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2008/sine-nomine-associates-announces-debian-ssl-server-enabler/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2008/sine-nomine-associates-announces-debian-ssl-server-enabler/Debian SSL Server Enabler is a preconfigured mainframe Linux system, developed by Sine Nomine Associates and offered for free download, that enables the use of the IBM VM SSL code shipped with z/VM…Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2008/sine-nomine-associates-announces-system-vinit-capabilities-for-vm/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2008/sine-nomine-associates-announces-system-vinit-capabilities-for-vm/Sine Nomine Associates is pleased to announce the availability of a BETA TEST version of SysVInit for VM, a utility package that brings UNIX-like startup scripting to the VM operating system. To…Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://sna.adrianana.com/news/2008/suses-system-z/https://sna.adrianana.com/news/2008/suses-system-z/Novell Inc. has announced the release of the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for System z, which is a pre-built mainframe Linux server that makes it easier for businesses to evaluate…Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT