Thar she blows! With SSL VPN's increasingly garnering attention from security admins, Microsoft's investment in Whale Communications last year may very well pay off. InfoWorld Contributor Keith Schultz recently got his hands on Microsoft's Internet Application Gateway 2007 SSL VPN, built around Whale's technology, and lo, IAG demonstrated near-perfect end-point inspection (as long as you're running Windows and I Thar she blows! With SSL VPN’s increasingly garnering attention from security admins, Microsoft’s investment in Whale Communications last year may very well pay off. InfoWorld Contributor Keith Schultz recently got his hands on Microsoft’s Internet Application Gateway 2007 SSL VPN, built around Whale’s technology, and lo, IAG demonstrated near-perfect end-point inspection (as long as you’re running Windows and IE), as well as a robust policy engine and plenty of predefined applications. Time Machine, Vista-style: Given the hype around Mac OS X 10.5’s Time Machine backup feature, Enterprise Desktop Blogger Randall Kennedy decided see how well Vista’s tools fare with real-time backups. Unfortunately, it didn’t go very well: “Vista Backup had excluded large swaths of my critical data files … while picking up all sorts of unrelated junk.” He didn’t give up there on MS tools, but I shan’t give it all away. Check out the saga for yourself!Flipping the script: Down in the Database Underground, Sean McCown has made an exciting discovery: He can use his beloved PrimalScript not only to package scripts as .EXEs for end-users; he can do the same for the database scripts that he sends to the production manager. The approach ensures that scripts are run in the proper order without a hitch. Neat and tidy! DBAs, rejoice. Technology Industry