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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
- 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. - 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
- Cloud Computing in the Land of the Rising Sun
I just got back from a week in Toyko. My trip was actually quite the experience, the first time I've gotten the chance to visit Japan. I was there in part to attend CloudCamp Tokyo as well as an action packed week of meetings. Other then 7 days of sushi, which got old pretty fast, I had an amazing time.read more - The Character of Cloud Computing
Here's an important reminder for cloud service providers: character counts.
Ethics, Values, and Trust are table stakes – for anyone who wants to succeed in business long term – but especially for cloud service providers.
As a cloud customer, I am not simply buying/renting your hardware and software. I am grafting my company onto yours. We are intermingling our corporate DNA. I am loading my databases on your disk drives. I am modifying my internal processes to map to your services.read more - Go East for Cloud Computing Expansion
In the story, I also noticed that Amazon also put out a new software development kit for .NET and support for private content in Amazon CloudFront – the company’s content delivery service. This is the kind of support that enables, say, a website that sells digital products, to restrict downloadable merchandise to paying customers.
I like to hear about the development of support services that make companies feel more secure about doing business on the cloud. We have enough examples of security breaches, outages and other cloud snags that make consumers and businesses jittery. And, of course, I think supplemental services for website owners, such as website transaction monitoring and incidence notifications, go a long way to increasing a sense of security.read more - Get Off the Rails and Onto the Cloud
About 10 years ago, a quiet bunch of IT revolutionaries, tired of expensive, complicated operating systems and the resources needed to support them, created a new breed of network management software and network monitoring systems. Pioneers like Solarwinds, Groundwork, Zoho (Adventnet), Hyperic and others offered 80-90% of the services of the big four at only 20% of the cost. They brought network and systems monitoring to the rest of us. These companies are faring well, as I write this. For example, Solarwinds, which recently issued an IPO, according to Gartner, has a market capitalization of $1.5 billion, on sales of $93 million. This is feeding a frenzy of interest by investors and those looking to acquire profit makers – defying the current recession.read more - ILM Was Cloud Computing Buzzword de Jour A Few Years Ago
Disclaimer, warning, be advised, heads up, disclosure, this post is partially for fun so take it that way.
Remember ILM, that is, Information Lifecycle Management among other meanings.
It was a popular buzzword de jour a few years ago similar to how cloud is being tossed around lately, or in the recent past, virtualization, clusters, grids and SOA among others.
One of the challenges with ILM besides its overuse and thus confusion was what it meant, after all was or is it a product, process, paradigm or something else?
That depends of course on who you talk to and their view or definition.
For some, ILM was a new name for archiving, or storage and data tiering, or data management, or hierarchical storage management (HSM) or system managed storage (SMS) and software managed storage (SMS) among others.
So where is ILM today?
Better yet, what does ILM stand for?
Well here are a few thoughts; some are oldies but goodies, some new, some just for fun.
ILM = I Like Marketing or Its a Lot of Marketing or Its a Lot of Money
ILM = It Losts its Meaning or Its a Lot of Meetings
ILM = Information Loves Magnetic media or I Love Magnetic media
ILM = IBM Loves Mainframes or Intel Loves Memory
ILM = Infrastructure Lifecycle Management or iPods/iPhones Like Macintosh
Then there are many other variations of xLM where I is replaced with X (similar to XaaS) where X is any letter you want or need for a particular purpose or message theme. For example, how about replacing X with an A for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), or a B for Buzzword or Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM), C for Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) and D for Document or Data Lifecycle Management (DLM). There are many others including Hardware Lifecycle Management (HLM), Product or Program Lifecycle Management (PLM) not to mention Server, Storage or Security Lifecycle Management (SLM).
While ILM or xLM specific product and marketing buzz for the most part has subsided, perhaps it is about time to reappear to give current buzzwords such as cloud a bread or rest. After all, ILM and xLM as buzzwords should be well rested after their break at the Buzzword Rest Spa (BRS) perhaps located on someday isle. You know about someday isle dont you? Its that place of dreams, a visionary place to be visited in the future.
There are already signs of the impending rested, rejuvenated and re branded appearance of ILM in the form of automated tiering, intelligent storage and data management, file virtualization, policy managed server and storage among others.
Ok, nuf fun for now, time to get back to work.
Cheers gs
Greg Schulz - StorageIO, Author "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC) read more
- O'Reilly Radar
- Four short links: 26 November 2009
1 in 3 Schools -- visual exploration of education data is the latest BERG project, and they've found a new application for a cute visualization and they're calling the result Chernoff Schools. Recommended reading for those interested in visualization or education. The Robots Podcast -- self-explanatory. (via So Where's My Robot?) Dive Into HTML 5 (Mark Pilgrim) -- absolutely... - Four short links: 25 November 2009
Copyright, Findability, and Other Ideas from NDF (Julie Starr) -- A newspaper industry guru attended the National Digital Forum where Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums talk about their digital issues, where she discovered that newspapers and GLAMs have a lot in common. This and more in today's Four Short Links. - Velocity 2010: Fast By Default
We're entering our third year of Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference. Velocity 2010 will be June 22-24, 2010 in Santa Clara, CA. It's going to be another incredible year. Steve Souders & I have set a new theme this year, "Fast by Default". We want the broader Velocity community & to adopt it as a shared mission & mantra. The reason for this is simple. - Four short links: 24 November 2009
English Shellcode (PDF) -- paper presented at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, showing how to encode arbitrary x86 shell code (the payload in a malware or other attack that elevates privileges and pwns your machine) as something that looks, at first glance, to be English text. Impressive piece of work. This and more in today's Four Short Links. - More that sociologist Erving Goffman could tell us about social networking and Internet identity
After
posting some thoughts
a month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, The
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, I heard from a reader who
urged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, Frame
Analysis (Harper Colophon, 1974). This blog presents the thoughts
that came to mind as I made my way through that long and rambling
work. Although the Internet tends to strip away the external
meanings Goffman recorded, we still bring our real-life frameworks
into online interactions.
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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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 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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