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Corent, IBM and Amazon Web Services: Fast Tracking ISV Transformation to SaaS
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Find out how Corent’s SaaS-Suite, Amazon Web Services and IBM meet the challenges of transforming your stand alone software to cloud-compatible SaaS.
Hear how to fast track your SaaS transformation by offering solutions to the toughest SaaS enablement issues from Scott Chate, Vice President of Products for Corent Technology, and Jamie Kinney, Business Development Manager, Strategic Alliances for Amazon Web Services.
Or if you prefer, you can dowload the webinar pdf.
Also, listen to the developerWorks interview with Scott Chate, Vice President for Corent Technology, on YouTube.
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Explore Perl, Apache, Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and SimpleDB
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Read this five-part series to understand how to use the Perl programming language with cloud services on AWS. Part 1 helps you understand the benefits and drawbacks of using Amazon's S3 and SimpleDB for Web site building. Then in Part 2 see how to upload a file into S3 from a Web page through an HTML form to minimize the load on the server and Part 3 shows how to upload images via a list of URLs in a table and manage images and comments. Part 4 walks through the full site's code base. And the series ends with Part 5 examining the full mod_perl site's templates, including one for indexing, three for uploading (general, S3 forms, and URL additions), one for image and comment browsing, and one to browse comments recursively for an image (or threading down).
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- 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
- Webcast: In SaaS we trust? - 18 Nov 2009
Learn how Iron Mountain's hosted digital document repository solution enables companies to access, distribute, and manage essential business records more quickly, easily and securely in a variety of formats via the Web. - Webcast: BlackBerry or iPhone CRM for your salesforce made easy - 17 Nov 2009
Let IBM Business Partner iEnterprises and their customer MAPP Construction demonstrate CRM solutions that help get your contacts, opportunities, customer service tickets and other important information on your BlackBerry or iPhone smart phones in a quick and affordable way. - 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. - Register for the Cloud Futures conference and receive a US$200 voucher from IBM
Register for the Cloud Futures: Cloud Computing for Software Vendors '09 conference in San Jose, California, on 7-8 Dec 2009, and receive a US$200 voucher from IBM. - 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
- Government Cloud Economics
In the The Economics of Cloud Computing, Gwen Morton and Ted Alford have published an EXCELLENT economic evaluation of the federal government's push to cloud computing. Anyone interested in this market should definitely read it, analyse it, and believe it !! The conclusion acknowledges the value of cloud computing, but also offers these practical considerations: - It will take, on average, 18-24 months for most agencies to redirect funding to support this transition, given the budget process.
- Some up-front investment will be required, even for agencies seeking to take advantage of public cloud options.
- Implementations may take several years, depending on the size of the agency and the complexity of the cloud model it selects (i.e., public, private, or hybrid).
- It could take as long as 4 years for the accumulated savings from agency investments in cloud computing to offset the initial investment costs; this timeframe could be longer if implementations are improperly planned or inefficiently executed.
Final recommendations are: - OMB, GSA, and other organizations, such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), should provide timely, well-coordinated support-in the form of necessary standards, guidance, policy decisions, and issue resolution-to ensure agencies have the necessary tools to efficiently plan and carry out migrations to cloud environments. As the length of the migration period increases, the potential economic benefits of the migration decrease.
- OMB and GSA should seek to identify those agencies with the highest near-term IT costs and expedite their migration to the cloud.
- To encourage steady progress, OMB should establish a combination of incentives and disincentives; e.g., consider allowing agencies to retain a small percentage of any savings realized from cloud computing for investments in future initiatives. To monitor progress and heighten transparency and accountability, OMB could incorporate cloud-related metrics into the new government-wide IT dashboard.
- Agencies should consider which of the high-level scenarios described in this article best suits their needs, with the understanding that regardless of scenario chosen, proper planning and efficient execution are critical success factors from an economic perspective.
- Given the significant impact of scale efficiencies, agencies selecting a private cloud approach should fully explore the potential for interdepartmental and interagency collaboration and investment (consistent with emerging OMB and GSA guidance). This, in effect, leads to the fourth cloud deployment model-the community cloud. A community cloud is a collaboration between private cloud operators to share resources and services.
- Agencies should identify the aspects of their current IT workload that can be transitioned to the cloud in the near term to yield "early wins" to help build momentum and support for the migration to cloud computing.
Definitely a must read !!
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 read more - Government IT & Cloud Computing: Themes for Discussion
A little over a week ago I put out a request to my readers to help me with my meeting with Vivek Kundra. The response has been awesome!Thank you for your suggestions and recommendations, both public and private. Below, in purely random order, are just some of the comments I've received. If you want to add your voice to the choir, I'll be taking comments through Tuesday evening, May 26th. During my meeting, I will definitely highlight this dialog and will also leave a listing of all comments for Mr. Kundra's review.read more - Booz Allen Hamilton Lays Out Path To Cloud
Now that cloud computing is seen as a viable technology for the government marketplace, management consulting leader Booz Allen Hamilton is now providing cloud transition guidance. In his article "Cloud Computing: A Transition Methodology", BAH Principal Rod Fontecilla offers a two phased approach for those interested in exploring this option.read more - GovCloud Is Coming: My Meeting with Mr. Vivek Kundra
Earlier this week I had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to have a private meeting with Mr. Vivek Kundra. Although my time with him and Mr. Gary Washington (OMB/Egov &IT Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio Manager) was short, their focus and mission were perfectly clear.read more - Vivek Kundra: "Engage the American People in their Daily Digital Lives"
Today I attended a very impressive talk by the Federal CIO, Mr. Vivek Kundra at a Northern Virginia Technology Council Public Policy event. His open and "matter of fact" approach to explaining the coming government IT transformation was focused and direct.read more
- O'Reilly Radar
- Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age - Part Three
The myth of personal empowerment takes root amidst a massive loss of personal control. Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation (customers are in control, the internet fosters democracy, social technologies propagate truth etc.) that tend to obscure the fact that never before have we handed so much personal information over in exchange for so little in... - Four short links: 6 November 2009
Red Laser -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is here and it's $1.99 on the App Store. This and more in today's Four Short Links. - Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age - Part Two
This gem from Whimsley makes the point - with extensive statistical modeling supporting the argument - that our algorithm-obsessed, long tail merchants are actually depleting the overall choice pool despite the fact that as individuals we may be experiencing a sense of more choice through recommendations engines. "Online merchants such as Amazon, iTunes and Netflix may stock more items than your local book, CD, or video store, but they are no friend to "niche culture". Internet sharing mechanisms such as YouTube and Google PageRank, which distil the clicks of millions of people into recommendations, may also be promoting an online monoculture." - Four short links: 5 November 2009
Heat Maps in R -- We used financial data here because it's easier to access than the airline data, but it's actually a pretty interesting way of looking at a financial time series. Weekend and holiday effects are a bit more obvious, and it's a bit like being able to see the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly closes all... - Twitter Approval Matrix - October 2009
This is the fifth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of October and different sources such as tweetsentiment.com, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received help from Joe Fernandez the CEO of Klout.com. Joe continues to provide some great 'hard' data that allowed me to better place more items on the grid this month. A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter.
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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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- 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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 This three part series covers how programming language and interface options vary across the cloud computing providers, how to create a hybrid cloud application and the governance and security considerations for cloud computing. | |
 IBM, cloud computing, and universities.
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- 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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