Top Stories 1. Microsoft Revises Sender ID After AOL Concerns 2. Problems with Early eServer i5s Plague Customers, Partners     COMPUTERWIRE  Computergram     October 26, 2004     © COMPUTERWIRE, 2004 Page of In Today's Issue...   Top Stories 1.   Microsoft Revises Sender ID After AOL Concerns 2.   Problems with Early eServer i5s Plague Customers, Partners Daily IT News, Comment and Analysis Computergram is published by ComputerWire US Editorial Offices Tel:  +1 415 543 4980 European Editorial Offices Tel:  +44 (0)20 7675 7000 Web:  www.computerwire.com Sales Enquiries:  sales@computerwire.com Editor & Bureau Chief Deputy Bureau Chief Chief Reporter Financial Editor Financial Reporter Research Director Contributors Joe Fay Kevin Murphy Gavin Clarke Brian White Tom Jowitt Kevin White Matthew Aslett, Tony Cripps, Angela Eager, Samad Masood, Nick Mayes, John O'Brien, Patrick O'Brien, Tim Prickett Morgan, Madan Sheina, Tim Stammers, Jason Stamper No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any, means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of ComputerWire. ©Copyright 2004 ComputerWire 1. Microsoft Revises Sender ID After AOL Concerns By Kevin Murphy Microsoft Corp has rewritten its Sender ID e-mail sender authorization specification, and amended related patent applications, to take into account the concerns of the open source software community and rival America Online Inc. ... Companies claim Sender ID will reduce the amount of worms and phishing attacks that are received by email. But they stress that simply confirming that the server that sent the email matches the domain its claims to come from does not do anything to stop spam, unless combined with other filters and reputation services. 2. Problems with Early eServer i5s Plague Customers, Partners By Timothy Prickett Morgan Any new technology causes problems, but if the iSeries Nation "Sound Off" session at COMMON's fall user conference in Toronto last week was any indication, the May launch of the eServer i5 machines, the i5/OS operating system, and a new implementation of virtualization features caused customers serious headaches. ... The feature 2757 cards are among the highest-performing RAID5 disk controllers that IBM sells, with 235MB of write cache memory (with data compression turned on, this cache memory turns effectively into a 757MB cache). It is an Ultra3 SCSI controller that supports a RAID5 set with a minimum of three drives, expandable to 18 drives, and up to four SCSI buses, which run at 160MB/sec, compared with 80MB/sec of prior cards. If you have one, get this utility and run it now.