Articles from Sine Nomine Associateshttps://sna.adrianana.com/https://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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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 GMT