Get the experts' perspectives on the critical issues of security, reliability, interoperability and management of evolving systems in this five-part podcast series. Podcast episodes are available either as individual downloads or via RSS subscription.

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Podcast Series

Episode 1:Security and Software Evaluation with Dr. Khaled El-Emam
Episode 2:The Advantages of Windows Server in the Academic Environment
Episode 3:Interoperability - A Review of Mixed IT Environments
Episode 4:Common Criteria Certification and the Security Development Lifecycle
Episode 5:Reliability and Management of Evolving Systems

Episode 1: Security and Software Evaluation with Dr. Khaled
El-Emam

Podcast date: May 23, 2006

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Dr. El-Emam, author of The ROI from Software Quality, shares insight into security and quality issues drawn from his research in quality evaluation and improvement. Dr. El Emam was ranked as the world's top systems and software engineer in 2003 and 2004 by the Journal of Systems and Software.

Supporting Resources
Support materials from Dr. El-Emam's book The ROI from Software Quality

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Episode 2: The Advantages of Windows Server in the Academic
Environment

Podcast date: May 30, 2006

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Brad Biehn, Director of Information Systems for Manitoba's Louis Riel School Division, discusses the determining factors leading to his organization's evaluation of Linux and Windows Server - and the reliability and security benefits they have experienced.

Supporting Resources
Article:Evaluating IT Reliability: School Board Makes the Grade
White Paper:Understanding Reliability of Evolving Systems
Case Study:Louis Riel School Division

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Episode 3: Interoperability - A Review of Mixed IT Environments

Podcast date: June 4, 2006

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Microsoft IT Professional Advisor Barnaby Jeans reviews mixed IT environments and provides details about how the Port 25 Web site will share the activities of its internal Linux laboratories, which replicate the environments used by customers who combine Microsoft and open-source software.

Supporting Resources
Article:Open Standards: The Key to Addressing Interoperability
White Paper:Jupiter Research's Interoperability Report
Web Site:Port 25: Open Source Software Lab @ Microsoft

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Episode 4: Common Criteria Certification and the Security
Development Lifecycle

Podcast date: June 13, 2006

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Microsoft Canada's Chief Security Advisor Steven Lloyd details how the recent Common Criteria Certification of Windows-based platform products, combined with Microsoft's focus on the Security Development Lifecycle, offers customers a greater level of assurance in product security and quality.

Supporting Resources
Article:The Patch Test: How Today's IT Platforms Stack Up
White Paper:Wipro Technologies' The Total Cost of Security Patch Management study

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Episode 5: Reliability and Management of Evolving
Systems

Podcast date: June 13, 2006

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Darren Massel, Senior Platform Strategy Manager at Microsoft Canada and Don Reece from Pembina Trails School Division discuss the reliability and manageability differences between Microsoft Windows- and Linux-based solutions, and why Pembina Trails chose Windows Server when the division was created.

Supporting Resources
Article:From Unix To Windows: IT Managers Looking For Nimbler Servers
White Paper:Yankee Group's 2005 North American Linux and Windows TCO Comparison Report

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What is a podcast?

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