With our 7.2.2 release we enhanced our extensibility model. What does this mean for you? private and public cloud service providers can extend their solution by adding extensions to their environment.  For example they may want support for specific network or storage use cases. You will see extensions appear over the next weeks and months on the ISM library . ISVs, SIs, customers and IBMers can contribute to the extension community by building and uploading their accelerators. How you build Tivoli Service Automation Manager extension is... [More]

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IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud V1.1.0 delivers an entry-level cloud solution to fulfill demand for rapid deployment of virtual machines (VM) and associated server images in high-volume or low-volume environments. It enables VM deployment and low-touch characteristics for businesses to provide cloud services within dynamically changing environments. IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud V1.1.0 capabilities for high-scale, low-touch VM deployment allows enterprises and cloud service providers to give their users fast and flexible... [More]

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  The IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud 1.1.0 customer interaction program has just concluded.  The program ran throughout the development phase of the product. Participants interacted with the development team via demo sessions and design reviews, and provided valuable feedback on the product's capability.   Some participants engaged further in the beta program to try out the product in house and share their feedback and experience with the development team during this hands on experience. IBM will continue this flexible customer... [More]

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We are looking for customers and business partners who are interested in participating in a Beta program for Tivoli zEnterprise Monitoring and Discovery.  The Beta program provides participants with the opportunity to get an early look at this future product capability with new problem solving capabilities for the IBM zEnterprise platform and provide feedback directly to the Development team.    There will be 2 options offered to Beta program participants: Participants can download Beta code from a web site and install it in their own test... [More]

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If you are interested in IBM Service Agility Accelerator, if you would like to discuss technical topics related the product, join our forum. Users with all experience levels are invited to contribute. All information is for community discussion and should not be considered IBM support.    If you would like to easily access information related to IBM Service Agility Accelerator for cloud, visit our wiki  

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Today IBM announced new SmartCloud Foundation capabilities to help organizations realize the potential of cloud computing. Watch the replay of the IBM SmartCloud launch webcast , to learn more about how the new announcements, including IBM SmartCloud Provisioning (delivered by IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud ), can help customers move beyond virtualization to more advanced cloud deployments.  

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As a quick update in connection with the blog entry How extensions expand the reach of your Tivoli Service Automation Manager and IBM Service Delivery Manager solution : With the most recent additions, there are now several extensions available for Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) which you might find useful for extending your TSAM solution: Tivoli Service Automation Manager Extension for Load Balancer - which updates/adds offerings to provision and configure an F5 Load Balancer device Tivoli Service Automation Manager Extension for... [More]

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Particularly interesting to customers who are running a cloud solution based on Tivoli Service Automation Manager 7.2.1: Fixpack 5 for Tivoli Service Automation Manager 7.2.1 is now available for download from IBM Support Fix Central . This is an important quality fixpack which also contains performance improvements, for example in the area of IBM Tivoli Monitoring support.

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Tivoli Service Automation Manager – Network Extensions development are pleased to announce the release of two extensions: IBM® Tivoli® Service Automation Manager - Extension for Juniper SRX Firewall, and, IBM® Tivoli® Service Automation Manager - Extension for F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer   These network extensions deliver out-of-the-box automation in infrastructure cloud services for configuring security access (Firewall) and scalability and redundancy (Load Balancer).   IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager - Extension for Juniper SRX Firewall  ... [More]

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IBM SmartCloud Provisioning (previously known as IBM Service Agility Accelerator for Cloud) fully embraces the transparent development philosophy. Starting from today, you can join our open beta program. This Program is intended to raise awareness of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning with the widest possible audience and provide a feedback mechanism to let you tell us what you like about the product, and what we could improve. The code is downloadable from... [More]

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 The 2011 IBM Cloud Computing Technical Symposium will take place November 28-30, 2011, at Darmstadt, Germany. Attending this event is a smart and efficient way to catch up on key messages and up to date technical content in just 3 compact days. The symposium agenda offers a choice of more than 150 knowledge-packed technical sessions and hands-on training.  

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