REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 19, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced new academic institutions and medical schools that are adopting Microsoft Office 365 for education, the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service, to improve communication and collaboration across campuses while helping meet security, privacy and other regulatory requirements as mandated by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Duke University, Emory University, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Iowa and University of Washington chose Office 365 after a consortium of leading technology, legal and compliance experts from the academic, public and private sector worked closely with Microsoft to develop a business associate agreement (BAA) to address HIPAA requirements. These institutions and medical schools represent 188,000 additional students, faculty and staff that are using the cloud productivity service. As a result of the collaborative efforts, Microsoft now offers the most comprehensive agreement available to HIPAA-covered entities that manage electronic-protected health information.

Considerations for Moving to the Cloud

Many universities seeking to consolidate resources and save money in their infrastructure and email storage businesses need to combine the benefits of moving to the cloud with assurances around how data is secured and accessed from the cloud. As such, Duke University led a consortium of universities, which included the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa, to find an industry technology partner to help them navigate the current regulatory environment and provide a solution with robust security features that could help prevent data breaches and keep the universities’ sensitive data private in the cloud. Duke will be rolling out Office 365 to all students, faculty and staff to provide the opportunity for cost savings and more effective collaboration across the university and health system.

“A robust, reliable and secure email system is vital to the daily operations of the university and health system,” said Tracy Futhey, vice president of Information Technology and chief information officer, Duke University. “Moving to the Microsoft cloud environment will enable us to achieve greater efficiency and ensure that our users will have the level of protection necessary to keep Duke’s data private, including guaranteeing that our data servers would stay in the U.S.”

Although the federal HIPAA law in large part applies to health organizations that need to protect patient data, education institutions must also adhere to the same HIPAA regulations if school data systems store students’ records that include protected health information. In addition to the medical schools, university hospitals, research departments, school counseling centers and athletic departments are just a few examples of places on campus that store information about students’ physical and mental health. Human resources and benefits departments may also be governed by HIPAA, as they are likely privy to information about healthcare claims that employees are filing.

Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) and Jefferson Medical College, one of the oldest academic medical centers in the United States, were the first academic customers to sign the Office 365 BAA agreement, with more than 5,300 faculty and staff, including 900 practicing clinicians. The combination of research, teaching and clinical staff presented a unique challenge in TJU’s quest to move to the cloud and simultaneously maintain strong privacy protections for its constituents.

“A key deciding factor for TJU was that Office 365 helps enable us to be HIPAA compliant. With Google, we would have never have known where our intellectual property and records were stored,” said Doug Herrick, chief information officer, Thomas Jefferson University. “Microsoft had the willingness to understand our business and be transparent about how it handles security and privacy, which meets the demands of a real enterprise.”

“U.S. healthcare information spans numerous industries and agencies. This makes it essential that we work with healthcare providers and our customers to protect healthcare consumers’ and students’ data, and it all starts with making sure our products are built from the ground up with privacy by design,” said Cameron Evans, chief technology officer, U.S. Education, Microsoft. “Our collaboration with some of the most prominent academic institutions in the country has allowed us to meet the biggest compliance challenges our customers face and ensure that our cloud services offer unprecedented privacy and security capabilities to students, patients and businesses alike.”

Office 365 is the first and only major cloud business productivity service to address the rigors of the federal government’s HIPAA requirements. Microsoft offers a complete range of public, private and hybrid cloud solutions that support covered healthcare entities’ compliance needs. Rather than using separate cloud vendors for productivity, collaboration, application hosting, data storage and relationship management, Microsoft’s customers can consolidate on one cloud, with one infrastructure partner with a common security and privacy framework that is specifically tailored to help meet the compliance needs of healthcare-covered entities.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 18, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today commemorated its 30th Employee Giving Campaign and announced that U.S. employees raised $1 billion in cash since 1983 for approximately 31,000 nonprofits and community organizations around the world. CEO Steve Ballmer announced the milestone during a special town hall event at the Microsoft Redmond campus, which included Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Washington State Gov. Chris Gregoire.

Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer October 17, 2012 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman and Founder Bill Gates commemorated Microsoft’s 30th Employee Giving Campaign during a special town hall event today and announced that Microsoft employees have raised $1 billion in cash since 1983 for more than 31,000 nonprofits and community organizations in the U.S. and around the world. Redmond, Wash. — Oct. 18, 2012.

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“Today, I’m thrilled to announce that since our Employee Giving Campaign started in 1983, Microsoft employees have donated a total of $1 billion to more than 31,000 nonprofits around the world,” Ballmer said. “I’m incredibly proud of our employees, and this is truly a time to celebrate, not just because we’ve raised a record amount of funds, but also because together with our nonprofit partners, we have impacted and improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.”

“From its earliest days, Microsoft employees have been involved in their communities and have helped contribute to their vitality and growth,” Gates said. “Thirty years and $1 billion later, that impact can be felt around the world. The company and its employees have much to be proud of at this remarkable milestone and, I know, will continue to make a positive impact in the years ahead.”

To mark the occasion, Microsoft announced a $25,000 grant to the top four organizations that have received the most funding from Microsoft employees during the span of the campaign: United Way of King County, World Vision International, Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation and the American National Red Cross.

Microsoft Employee Giving Program

Each year, Microsoft matches employee volunteer time at $17 per hour and dollar-for-dollar charitable contributions to all eligible nonprofits up to $12,000 per employee. When the Microsoft giving program began in 1983, approximately 200 employees raised $17,000 for nonprofits. Today, more than 35,000 employees, or approximately 65 percent of Microsoft’s total U.S. workforce, participate, and the company predicts its employees will raise more than $100 million in 2012 for global nonprofits.

“The impact of all that giving is almost incalculable, and the statistics don’t even begin to tell the whole story,” said Jon Fine, CEO, United Way of King County. “Microsoft has created a culture of generosity that has radiated so far into the community. The standard of giving and volunteering by Microsoft employees has raised the bar and influences so many others here and around the world.”

Gregoire attended the event and proclaimed October 2012 as the Microsoft 30th Employee Giving Campaign Month. “The amount of time and money contributed by Microsoft employees is beyond impressive. Given the sheer range and number of organizations that receive its support, it is no exaggeration to say that the Microsoft Employee Giving Campaign has become an indispensable program, serving Washingtonians and people around the country,” Gregoire said.

About the Microsoft Employee Giving Campaign

Microsoft’s annual Employee Giving Campaign is a year-round effort, but there’s a special focus every October on the Redmond campus and in offices around the U.S. It is an opportunity for employees to combine their energy, generosity and creativity to raise money for nonprofit organizations and causes locally, nationally and globally. Beyond the direct donation of time and money to nonprofits, an army of Microsoft employee volunteers plans and executes the monthlong campaign through activities, including a 5K run, an online auction and an “underground” car show.

“Year over year, Microsoft employees have increased their generosity of time, talent and resources, which has led to the continuous growth of the Give Campaign during the past three decades,” said Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel, Microsoft. “As our campaign has grown, we’ve been honored to stand alongside a long list of nonprofit partners and support their invaluable service to communities around the world.”

A Passion for Giving — Employee Stories

Elisa and Greg Graceffo, both Microsoft employees, became involved with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Northwest Chapter, where Elisa currently sits on the Board of Directors, soon after their oldest daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The chapter’s annual fundraising event is Nordstrom Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes, a walk-run that attracts more than 10,000 local participants and raises close to $1.5 million every year. Together, they formed a team, and during the past four years, the couple has raised more than $60,000 for diabetes research as a result of individual donations, including from Microsoft contributors and the Microsoft matching program.

Microsoft employee Alice Kupcik is on the board of directors for the Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots, a nonprofit organization in Oaxaca, Mexico, that supports the education of children and young adults from impoverished and indigenous families. Kupcik became involved with the organization during her first trip to Oaxaca in 2007, when she visited the facilities and learned more about the work they do in the community. On her next visit in 2009, she sponsored the education of two young women, and she joined the board of directors in 2010. Kupcik helps with fundraising initiatives and is in the process of obtaining software for the schools through Microsoft’s software donation program in Mexico.

Microsoft Total Giving by the Numbers

• Microsoft employees have donated $1 billion, inclusive of the corporate match, since 1983.

• Microsoft employees in the U.S. have volunteered more than 2 million hours of their time to causes they care about since the company began a volunteer match program in 2005.

• Since 1983, Microsoft and its employees have provided more than $6.5 billion in cash, services and software to nonprofits around the world through localized, company-sponsored giving and volunteer campaigns. This includes in-kind donations.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://www.microsoft.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/news/contactpr.mspx.

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Paris, France - October 17th, 2012

DALIBO is proud to announce the release of version 2.1 of pgBadger, the new PostgreSQL log analyzer. pgBadger is built for speed with fully detailed reports from your PostgreSQL log file. It's a single and small Perl script that aims to replace and to outperform the old PHP script pgFouine.

pgBadger 2.1 allows more flexibility

pgBadger is back with a new release and some long-awaited features:

• you can now use a custom log_line_prefix (see below)
• you can provide log files compressed with gzip, bzip2 or zip tools
• you can use log_duration instead of log_min_duration_statement

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This new release comes with some bugfixes and many improvements such as :

• Huge overhaul of the cvslog format parsing for better performance
• New syslog-ng parser
• Better handling of empty graphs and tables
• Handling of autovacuum launcher messages
• Report of configuration changes

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For the complete list of changes, please checkout the release note on https://github.com/dalibo/pgbadger/blob/master/ChangeLog

All pgBadger users should upgrade as soon as possible.

How to use the new --prefix parameter ?

With pgBadger 2.1, you don't need to modify the log__line_prefix parameter in the postgresql.conf file. Instead you can use the --prefix option to describe your log_line_prefix to pgBadger.

For instance, you can run the following command line:

perl pgbadger --prefix '%m %u@%d %p %r %a : ' postgresql.log

However, if you are using the stderr output, you will need to log at least the timestamp (%t), the PID (%p) and the session/line number (%l).

Links & Credits

DALIBO would like to thank the developers who submitted patches and the users who reported bugs and feature requests, especially Philip Freeman, Casey Allen Shobe and Vincent Laborie. pgBadger is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches using the GitHub tools or directly on our mailing list.

Links :

• Download : https://github.com/dalibo/pgbadger/downloads
• Mailing List : https://listes.dalibo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pgbagder

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About pgBadger :

pgBagder is a new generation log analyzer for PostgreSQL, created by Gilles Darold, also author of ora2pg migration tool. pgBadger is a fast and easy tool to analyze your SQL traffic and create HTML5 reports with dynamics graphs. pgBadger is the perfect tool to understand the behavior of your PostgreSQL server and identify which SQL queries need to be optimized.

Docs, Download & Demo at http://dalibo.github.com/pgbadger/

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About DALIBO :

DALIBO is the leading PostgreSQL company in France, providing support, trainings and consulting to its customers since 2005. The company contributes to the PostgreSQL community in various ways, including : code, articles, translations, free conferences and workshops

Check out DALIBO's open source projects at http://dalibo.github.com