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Corent, IBM and Amazon Web Services: Fast Tracking ISV Transformation to SaaS

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. Join us on Thursday, September 10 at 2pm est for the IBM webinar when your hosts, Scott Chate, Vice President of Products for Corent Technology, and Jamie Kinney, Business Development Manager, Strategic Alliances for Amazon Web Services, will show you how to fast track your SaaS transformation by offering solutions to the toughest SaaS enablement issues.

Also, listen to the developerWorks interview with Scott Chate, Vice President for Corent Technology, on YouTube.

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Workshop: Enabling applications for Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud compu

In this half-day seminar, we will present three major approaches for enabling multi-tenancy which differ in the degree of resource sharing and development complexity. We will also discuss the technical challenges to adopting the SaaS model, how IBM middleware can help address those challenges and how the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pre-loaded with IBM middleware can give you a low cost, scalable, pay-as-you-go model to meet your development and deployment needs. IBM announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to deliver IBM's market leading software to clients and developers. In addition to accessing software for development use and running it in the AWS EC2 environment, customers may be able to run their already purchased IBM software license on Amazon EC2. Please see the press release for additional information.

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Frank Gens' blog
- IDC’s New IT Cloud Services Forecast: 2009-2013
  Last year, we published IDC's first forecast of IT cloud services, focusing on enterprise adoption of public cloud services in five big IT categories through 2012. For the past several months, dozens of IDC analysts have collaborated to refine, deepen and extend our cloud services forecasts. In this post, we share this year's update of our top-level cloud services forecast, now extended through 2013. [The full forecast, including 2008 as well as 2010-2012, will be published shortly in IDC's Cloud Services: Global Overview subscription program.] The New Forecast Here is the new forecast, segmented by offering category, for 2009 and 2013:
  
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- Defining “Cloud Services” – an IDC update
  Last year, we published IDC's "cloud services" definition, as the foundation for our forecast of IT Cloud Services spending – and to inject IDC's point of view, as a rational market taxonomist, into a very crowded and confused debate about just what "the cloud" is all about. After a full year of discussion and debate among key IDC analysts, We've continued to refine our thinking about what defines cloud services, and what makes them new and important.and conversations with hundreds of leading IT users and suppliers, we've continued to refine our thinking about what defines cloud services, and what makes them new and important. The revised definition is very consistent with last year's definition, with improvements in two areas: 1) minor tweaking of cloud service "key attributes" to improve clarity, and 2) expansion of the definitional scope to accommodate both public and private cloud deployment models. [...read more...]
- Users See Cloud As an Alternative Financing Strategy
  Everyone knows that one of the top cloud services model benefits, according to users, is the ability to stream payments out over the offering's useful life, rather than paying the entire cost up-front. But I still found it intriguing when IDC colleague Jennifer Koppy recently presented additional data points that support the strong economic appeal of the cloud model. [...read more...]
- The Single Biggest Reason Public Clouds Will Dominate the Next Era of IT
  In the past year, I've had hundreds of conversations with client and press about the emerging cloud services model, and its impact on the IT industry. As you might imagine, more than a few folks question whether the cloud services model will really be as pervasive and transforming as its proponents argue. The skeptics point, legitimately, to the many remaining challenges of cloud services adoption, particularly around security, availability, performance, limited customization, lack of standards, etc. My response to the skeptics is very simple: within the next several years, none of those challenges will make a bit of difference to the vast majority of customers. [...read more...]
- Retailers Are Beginning to Investigate the Promise of Cloud Computing
  [This piece was contributed by Bob Parker, Group VP, Industry Insights, who oversees research at Global Retail Insights and Manufacturing Insights.]
  
  At a recent IDC conference on cloud computing, we were surprised at how well the retail industry was represented among the attendees. These attendees told us that their motives were investigative – they were there to learn, not to start buying. They also told us that their interest was in "private clouds" – using the technologies behind utility computing and public cloud offerings to operate their own cloud for provisioning, running, and managing their corporate applications. [...read more...]
Judith Hurwitz's blog
- Tectonic shifts: HP Plus 3Com versus Cisco Plus EMC
  Just when it looked clear where the markets were lining up around data center automation and cloud computing, things change. I guess that is what makes this industry so very interesting. The proposed acquisition by HP of 3Com is a direct challenge to Cisco’s network management franchise. However, the implications of this move go further [...]
- Is there a Twitter sneak attack in our future?
  Last year I wrote a post about what I called the Google Sneak attack. If you don’t feel like reading that post, I’ll make it simple for you. Google comes to market as a benign helpful little search engine that threatened no one. Fast forward a decade and Google now pulls in more ad revenue [...]
- Bureaucracy gone mad: when process gets in the way of service management
  I had two interesting discussions over the past few weeks; one with an IT manager and the other with Rhett Glause and Matt French from Service-Now. Both discussions related to the issue of managing service processes in a complex computing environments. Let me start with the IT manager. He is charged with taking his organization’s [...]
- Why all workloads don’t belong in the cloud
  I had an interesting conversation with a CIO the other day about cloud computing. He had a simple question: I have an relatively old application and I want to move it to the cloud. How do I do that? I suspect that we will see a flurry of activity over the coming year where this [...]
- Is cloud security really different than data center security?
  Almost every conversation I have had over the past year or so always comes back to security in the cloud. Is it really secure? Or we are thinking about implementing the cloud but we are worried about security. There are, of course, good reasons to plan a cloud security strategy. But in a sense, it [...]
IBM SaaS
- 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.

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	Description: Cloud computing for developers is your starting point for the latest IBM, developerWorks and general industry information on cloud computing. Discover why cloud computing is important, how to get started, and where to learn more about it.
	Objective: Cloud Computing is an emerging style of Information Technology infrastructure designed for rapid delivery of computing resources. There's a lot of buzz in the marketplace about cloud computing -- and a lot of confusion. The resources in this space will help distill fact from fiction.
	Audience: Developers, IT Managers, IT Architects, Academic
	Group type: Public
	Date created: 06 Jan 2009

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