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IBM, RightScale and Wavemaker
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IBM Cloud Quickstart: Accelerating your path to cloud computing
Learn how the IBM Cloud Quickstart Roadmap can accelerate your cloud development. Based on IBM best practices leveraging WebSphere Application Server and DB2 and best-of-breed components from WaveMaker and RightScale, the IBM Cloud Quickstart Roadmap makes it fast and easy for anyone to build scalable cloud applications.
Register here:
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for additional details read the joint annouce on PRWeb
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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: IBM Tivoli Monitoring now available on Amazon EC2 - 15 Dec 2009
If you are moving, or considering moving, software applications to the cloud and are wondering how you can effectively monitor and manage your application performance environment, join product and technical experts from IBM Tivoli Monitoring for this webcast. - 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. - 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.
- Cloud Computing Magazine
- Google’s New Web Operators: Its Own DNS
Remember the image of the Ma Bell telephone operator, red nails, lipstick and counting the minutes until her next cigarette break, sitting on a stool, amid a line of fellow operators, plugging cables into a main switch board to connect a caller in New York with somebody in California?
Well, you might say that that old image is akin to today’s Domain Name System, or DNS. The tech is what ISPs use to convert easy-to-remember domain names — into the unique Internet Protocol (IP) numbers — that computers use to communicate with one another.read more - Virtualization Expo Call for Papers Deadline December 15
Delegates will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure that all attendees leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization in their own corporate datacenter, on the desktop, and elsewhere. If you wish to submit a speaking proposal for the 8th Virtualization Expo, April 19–21, 2010, then you can do so right hereread more - Cloud Expo New York Call for Papers Deadline December 15
Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.read more - File Virtualization… The short primer
George Crump over at Storage Switzerland has a pretty good introductory primer to File/NAS Virtualization. George and I haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but that’s no surprise, I’m one of those people that wants analysts to prove they’re working on solid ground, and he’s an analyst. Both being type A personalities just guarantees that once in a while we’ll get a little sparky. This time though, he’s got a good intro written up, and though he doesn’t come out and mention it, the standalone, heterogeneous solution he talks about as the second type is pretty much what our ARX series products are all about. The only thing he missed that I think it is imperative to clearly delineate in any storage virtualization solution primer is that NAS/File Virtualization does not suffer from the horrid “my virtualization box went down, how to find my data” problem that SAN virtualization largely failed because of. With File Virtualization you are still saving the file with the name that the user typed in, it just might be on a different NAS or share than the user thinks – you’re masking where, not what. I know that some vendor’s NAS solutions used an indexing scheme that masked what and where, I presume those have all improved or gone the way of the dodo (though I haven’t looked in a while… If I find some when I look over the next few months, I’ll let you know. If I do find any still extant, I’ll leave the ridiculing to others though, since those in the File/NAS virtualization space are our competitors ;-)). The other thing that made me a throw up a little in the back of my throat was his use of the dread phrase “ILM” (Information Lifecycle Management). I shudder when our marketing organization uses it too. ILM had such a huge hype curve that it was doomed to fail when reality showed that its most useful bits were easier merged into other applications and appliances than implemented as stand-alone solutions. ILM products like dedupe and tiering have survived, but this functionality is also merged into existing products. The reason stand-alone products still live is because they are heterogeneous and offer a more data-center wide strategy than the one NAS box you have doing these functions for itself and ignoring all the other NAS your organization owns. So I prefer some other terminology for tiering and rule-based movement, both of which the ARX does smashingly well (how smashingly well you ask? Watch this space, I’m working up a series). But in essence the tiering bit being associated with ILM is fair, ILM or HSM is where its roots lie anyway. I just think that as early as 2004 some smart people were pointing to the rebound problem and trying to slow the hype curve before it reached the clouds. Sound familiar? Yeah, it happens a lot – XML, Java, SOA, Cloud… All got their share of over-hype, but most found a home. ILM was a group of related ideas and while large chunks found a home in products like ARX, it did not really survive as a single field of technology. So I don’t use it unless I’m talking about other people’s writing. The biggest problem I see with File/NAS virtualization is one of education – most people don’t fully understand what they can hope to gain from it. Since I’m doing my bit to educate people on the issues (find a full list of my file virtualization articles on my DevCentral “About the Team” page or by searching for “Don MacVittie Virtualization” on Ulitzer), I’m happy to point to Mr. Crump’s article as a good starting point for those of you who are still trying to figure out why you’d bother implementing File virtualization in your organization. Meanwhile, I’m cooking up that series, expect to hear more from me in the near future – maybe even an “unboxing” video of an ARX, depending upon how mine is packaged when it comes. Until then, read on, and enjoy our increasingly virtual world! Don. Fun with full disclosure. I’m an employee of F5 Networks, producer of the ARX family of products, file virtualization solutions. If you think that is enough to make me say good things about the product line, I suspect that you don’t know me very well… (Picture is By Ian Wilson, released via Wikipedia under Creative Commons license. Click the image to be taken to the picture in its original context)  read more - Why Grid Computing Makes Economic Sense
With IT - just like other corporate departments - under the gun from senior management to centralize and reap economies of scale, distributed systems seem the dream answer to cost-cutting directives from above. To be sum it all up, distributed systems offer an attractive solution - centralized control along with dispersed physical assets and overhead. In a recent article I read, the author put it just right: "The relentlessly increasing cost and complexity of maintaining IT departments and infrastructure makes on-tap computing power very attractive to modern enterprises." But beyond this simple cost-efficiency based explanation of the benefits of cloud computing for businesses, here are five reasons to make the switch.read more
- O'Reilly Radar
- Four short links: 4 December 2009
Readability -- bookmarklet that takes the crap out of a web page, resizes, and reformats so it's easier to read. Doesn't work for all sites, but it's a hellishly interesting idea. An In-Depth Look at Pivot, Microsoft's Newest Data Visualization Tool (TechCrunch) -- When turned on, Pivot can also make sense of your own browsing history (if you are... - The Lessons We Don't Learn
In my Twitter stream today, Sylvia Martinez (@smartinez) retweeted a link to Seymour Papert's 1980 paper written for a Presidential commission that proposed that we provide a computer for every child in America. Long before One Laptop Per Child, Papert saw that computers should not be an "auxiliary" aid to learning but "fundamental" to changing how we learn. He understood that the computer by changing education could change our culture for the better. After thirty years, Papert's call for action is still fresh today. - Google Android: on Inevitability, the Dawn of Mobile, and the Missing Leg
If for no other reason than the 'Anyone but Apple' crowd needs an alternative, there is an 'inevitability' meme associated with Google's Android initiative. But, is their success in the market really inevitable? Over a year after Android's launch, the jury is still out. - Four short links: 3 December 2009
How Robber Barons Hijacked the Victorian Internet (ArsTechnica) -- cautionary tale of the exploitation of a monopoly. Once installed as the dominant proprietor of the nation's telegraph system, public trust in the confidentiality of Western Union transmissions evaporated. Gould "scanned the telegraph, or manipulated it, as an open book to the secrets of all the marts," Josephson wrote. - Good News: The Daily Me is a stop on the way to richer discussion
Surveys show us cocooning ourselves in worlds of
information that reinforce our existing prejudices. It's not enough to
read opposing viewpoints because our assumptions and interpretive
lenses differ. When we get tired of power plays, we'll start
communicating.
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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.
Learn about IBM cloud computing initiatives that are already underway at universities around the globe | |
 IBM can offer you real, hands-on experience in implementing cloud technology and services | |
 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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