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Gartner looks at major trends
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No IT Assets
By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets, a trend driven by such technologies as cloud computing, virtualization and employees using their personal PCs on their corporate networks. The need for hardware ownership won't go away, but some of it will shift to third parties.
The Cloud in India
By 2012, 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators will be India-centric IT companies, which are leveraging their positions to expand into other sectors, including in R&D projects in such areas as cloud computing.
Global Transactions
By 2014, more than 3 billion people worldwide will be able to conduct banking and other transactions through mobile or Internet technology, as more emerging markets are seeing rapid growth in mobile and Internet technology while there continues to be advances in mobile payment, commerce and banking.
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Test an IBM product in a sandbox environment
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Quickly experience and evaluate some of our latest solutions in a "tinker, test, and try" cloud environment. No downloading, installation or configuration is necessary -- simply log in to the IBM Sandbox to get connected. In this environment, you can:
Explore IBM's SOA Middleware via the SOA Sandbox Cloud
Get hands-on experience with the IBM SOA middleware portfolio in a risk-free, cloud environment available 24x7 at no cost.
Evaluate solutions for IBM z applications
Discover how to create Web 2.0 and SOA-oriented applications for IBM z. You'll see how easy it is to exploit the business value of your exisiting COBOL and PL/I code while becoming more productive at daily mainframe development, maintenance and support tasks.
Experience modernizing and deploying IBM i applications
Learn how to create modern, SOA and Web 2.0 applications for IBM i using existing RPG applications and development skills. You'll see how easy it is to improve the effectiveness of your traditional RPG and COBOL development, maintenance, and support processes.
* Note that you will have four hours per session registration and you can register as many times as you like.
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- Cloud Computing Use Cases: Read the cloud computing use case whitepaper. Authored by cloud consumers and cloud vendors committed to keeping cloud computing open.
- Alltop Cloud News: Helping you answer the question, “What’s happening in cloud computing?”
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 IBM can offer you real, hands-on experience in implementing cloud technology and services | |
- SaaS partner program overview: Get help from IBM to enable, deliver, and market your hosted application solutions
- SaaS demo series: Learn how IBM technologies can help you deliver secure and customizable multi-tenant applications
- SaaSpace.com: Collaborative venue for companies who offer Software as a Service applications or are interested in learning more about the SaaS software model
- SaaS Showcase: Worldwide online directory of business partner solutions delivered in a SaaS model on IBM infrastructure
- SaaS Business Partner News/RSS feed: The latest news and updates regarding Software as a Service (SaaS) from IBM PartnerWorld
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IBM business partners develop cloud services through our sandbox
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Start with our new pre-configured SaaS stack featuring WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and DB2 Express C running on Linux, and use the features and support of the Virtual Loaner Program, including the save and restore capability that allows you to continue testing at a later time.
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- IBM SaaS Business Partners
- Software pricing options for SaaS providers
Since we know that flexibility is critical to our ISV Business Partners, IBM provides you with three ways to acquire the software needed to run your service. - SaaS Business Partner community newsletter - November 2009 issue available
We've been very busy working with you, our Business Partners, as you work to adopt Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing into your business models. Read the current newsletter issue to learn more about SaaS and its future from business and technical leaders. - New SaaS Enablement Network entry: GNi
GNi is a premier provider of hosted infrastructure solutions. By providing extensive infrastructure as a service, GNi focuses on the performance requirements associated with delivering online applications. GNi gives customers the control to quickly customize, scale, and provision their infrastructure configuration, security, and routing. - New SaaS Enablement Network entry: Claritas Solutions
For over ten years, Claritas Solutions has provided fully managed hosting solutions on securely connected infrastructures. They are ideally positioned to work with ISVs in the design and facilitation of world class IBM SaaS platforms. - YouTube: IBM Business Partner, Corent Technology, shares how their SaaS-Suite solution leverages IBM middleware with Amazon Web Services
IBM developerWorks' Scott Laningham interviews Scott Chate of Corent Technology, Inc., an IBM Business Partner, about his company's use of IBM middleware offered through Amazon Web Services.
- Cloud Computing Magazine
- Gear6 Memcached Service for the Cloud Now Available on GoGrid
Gear6, a provider of Memcached solutions, and GoGrid, a Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider, on Tuesday rolled out Gear6 Cloud Cache for the GoGrid Cloud. This on-demand service allows GoGrid customers to take advantage of Gear6's robust, commercial-grade Memcached offering to speed up, scale out and ensure uptime for their web services and applications.read more - Objectivity Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo East
SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, a leading provider of scalable database management solutions for mission-critical, real-time and distributed applications, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.read more - Larry May Gag But Oracle Talks Cloud Computing Anyway
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who gets queasy at the mere mention of cloud computing, may not have the sea legs for the company’s next voyage. It’s going on a 50-stop road show touting – you guessed it – cloud computing Oracle-style to developers and system administrators. The focus should be on private clouds and how to move current IT environments there. It may even touch on how to use public cloud options such as Amazon although it jettisoned Sun’s Amazon-like Open Cloud and with it Sun’s cloud CTO Lew Tucker.read more - Terracotta and Eucalyptus to Drive Scaling in Private Cloud Environments
Terracotta and Eucalyptus Systems have together come up with an integrated open source solution for private cloud that they say will maximize data scalability and application performance. The companies claim that their partnership is aimed at helping enterprises get a better handle on challenges related to the elastic provisioning of compute clouds on existing data center infrastructure. The joint solution specifically targets the problem that companies face due to the inability of the data layer to scale at the same rate as the compute layer. The combo stack is intended for large-scale businesses to provision private clouds on the Eucalyptus cloud platform .read more - Terracotta & Eucalyptus Take Rain Out of the Cloud
Terracotta, the high-availability infrastructure software for Java apps, and Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private cloud platform, have joined up in the name of an open source solution that maximizes data scalability and application performance in a private cloud environment.
They'll tighten the integration between their widgetry and do joint sales and marketing.
Their combo is supposed to let large-scale enterprises provision private clouds on Eucalyptus' Amazon-compatible private cloud platform and capitalize on the cloud's elasticity, latency and flexibility.read more
- O'Reilly Radar
- Google Buzz re-invents Gmail
Social networks get all the attention, but email remains an important information console for many. That's why the introduction of Google Buzz is so noteworthy. It adds the power of asymmetric following to Gmail's interface. - Ignite, Syndicated Events, and Social Media Marketing
As we approach Global Ignite Week, a collection of Ignite events around the world during the first week of March, I can't help but think about the future of conferences, one of O'Reilly's major businesses. Here are some of the things we're learning from Ignite.
People love the rapid-fire format. - Four short links: 9 February 2010
Track DC -- informative drill-down report from Washington DC government about the different departments. (via Sunlight Labs blog). Errors in Scientific Software -- a 1994 study of scientific software that found inconsistent interfaces (1 in 7 for Fortran, 1 in 37 for C) and poor use of arithmetic such that significant figures declined from 6sf in the data to 1sf in the result. This and more in today's Four Short Links. - Flickr Photos In Google Street View
Google Maps has added more user photos to its Street View (above). Now the Yahoo-owned Flickr is joining the Google-owned Panoramio and Picasa photo sites as a supplier of alternative street views. GeoBloggers reported it earlier today and also noted that the photos are available in the Panoramio 3D view... - Four Steps to Gov 2.0: A Guide for Agencies
What Does the World Look Like When the Work of Government is Driven by the People? Gov 2.0 has a lot of definitions, but in observing the exciting breadth of projects currently being built, it feels a little like the Blind Men and the Elephant, where everyone defines it based on their first hand experience, but not from a holistic...
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Cloud services for your virtual infrastructure
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Learn about PaaS platforms. Get an introduction to AppScale architecture. Explore how to use AppScale to run Google App Engine applications using your own clusters or on virtualized infrastructures, such as Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus.
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Automating the construction of applications and application environments
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Look at how you can achieve and benefit from a rapid and repeatable means for delivering applications, application environments and process automation by leveraging a combination of the new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance with IBM Rational Build Forge and IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere. The simple integration described in this article helps you take advantage of key strengths of each product and achieve a consistent, repeatable flow that constructs and initializes application environments with no user intervention.
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Cloud Computing Central on my developerWorks
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Join this group of individuals interested and involved in the "next big thing" - cloud computing. We'll be discussing and sharing what we're doing around cloud computing, saas, and related topics. Feel free to invite others to join! The more we share, the faster the clouds will grow.
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 IBM, cloud computing, and universities.
Learn about IBM cloud computing initiatives that are already underway at universities around the globe | |
 LotusLive offers a variety of software as a service (SaaS) solutions for your business ranging from e-mail and Web conferencing, to an integrated suite of collaboration solutions in a security rich environment. | |
- IBM LotusLive Engage: An integrated suite of Web collaboration & business networking solutions: online meeting service, store & share capabilities, instant messaging & more
- IBM LotusLive Connections: A collaboration environment that includes profiles, activities, forms, store and share capabilities, instant messaging service and more
- IBM LotusLive Meetings: Full-featured, online meetings with integrated Web, voice and video conferencing
- IBM LotusLive Events: Online Event management service that includes LotusLive Meeting plus registration, promotion, postevent follow up tools and more
- IBM LotusLive iNotes: Web mail managed by IBM in a multi-tenant environment and integrated with LotusLive environment
- IBM LotusLive Notes: Time-tested & proven Lotus Notes e-mail hosted for you by IBM. A simple way to provide industry leading online email solutions for your business
- LotusLive Connections Unveiled, Wins Award at Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Lotus not only unveils the SaaS version of their social computing solution, LotusLive Connections, but also take home an award for it.
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