The Social Experience

IBM announced a new set of online resources and roadmaps to prepare students for jobs of the future. Six new offerings will be available on the IBM Academic Initiative, providing students no-charge access to a host of tutorials, forums, games and other resources. The resources will cover topics such as database technology, Web 2.0, and enterprise systems - hot areas in 21st century computing. You can click here to reach the landing page, which will guide you to the respective offerings.

Few communities in Facebook which could be of interest:

Facebook community for DB2

Facebook community for Mainframe

Facebook community for Project Zero

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An excellent redbook is shaping up on WBSF. As usual with all IBM Redbooks, it comes with complete information on WBSF right from the challenges business face to integration with other key middleware products. Click here to have a look at the draft and let the team know of your feedback. In fact, 4 of my colleagues (who are Fabric experts) from ISL, have contributed to it.

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IMPACT, the flagship IBM WebSphere event is in full swing in LV this week. All days seeing some great new announcements/offerings/sessions. This time there is Social Impact, a media aggregator to get all the of blogging/twitter about this event into one page.

Last weekend I was in Vizag, along with three of my other colleagues to conduct the IBM Technology Day (ITD) at the College of Engineering(Autonomous), Andhra University. ITD is an initiative under the IBM's University Relations division. The objective being to introduce/update the young technologists on the latest happenings in Technology (in general) and the related tools/products from IBM (in particular). The event saw an audience of 300+ at the opening function, which was held at the spacious auditorium.

After a 20 mins inauguration function, the event was opened by the Rector of the University. We then started by giving an overview of IBM in India and then splitting into two parallel tracks, one on EDA by Subhrajith B and another on Bio-Informatics by Dr Senthivel. This is the first time that we are conudcting a track on Bio-Informatics at the ITD. I've got sometime to move around the campus, catch-up w/ my professors from the EEE dept.

Post lunch we started off with Cell Architecture, followed by an introduction to Autonomic Computing, by Suresh B. Then Suresh slipped into the role of quiz master and conducted a quiz, w/ some gifts (T-shirts) for the right answers. After a quick break for tea/snacks, I continued on SOA and Web-services and the close-out program. It was a great moment for me to be in the campus after a gap of six long years, since my graduation from the same college. I look forward to organize the same event next year. I'm posting here some of the pictures from the event.



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IBM Support Assistant (ISA) V3.0.2 is now available. Getting new product plug-ins (customizable features) and tools is now faster than ever. With this update and the 140+ product plug-ins, customers will be more productive in their efforts to find answers and resolve problems quickly and easily.

How to get the latest version
There are two easy ways to get this latest update to ISA:

• If you already have ISA installed, start the application and click on the Updater tab, then click on Upgrades. You will see "IBM Support Assistant" V3.0.2 available. Simply click on the available features and click on Install.


• If you do not currently have IBM Support Assistant installed, download the latest version from our website, http://www.ibm.com/software/support/isa

The ISA team would love to hear from you about your ISA experience, so feel free to click on the Feedback link within ISA.



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You’re interested in cloud computing but you’ve got to have more information before making a commitment. What is it? What technologies enable cloud computing? How do I integrate cloud with my on-premise applications? How complex is this integration?

Find answers to these questions and more by joining us on September 7th @ 11:00 AM EST to kick-off a 4-week series of events to learn how cloud computing with WebSphere emerging technologies can drive greater operational efficiency and flexibility in your business. Events will include webcasts, educational podcasts, and a mini online Jam Session. Mark your calendar now to hear IBM cloud experts from around the world discuss the coolest, most cutting-edge cloud and virtualization technologies from IBM WebSphere. Register to Attend the Kick-Off Webcast NOW!

Visit the campaign landing page to see a complete list of speakers, dates and times and event registration links.

IBM IMPACT 2007 - the first annual Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and WebSphere global conference. And it will all take place from May 20-25 in Orlando, Florida. IBM IMPACT 2007, is the not-to-be-missed event that will deliver a year’s worth of SOA education in one short week. The video to the right is an invitation to the event from Sandy Carter, IBM's VP for, SOA & WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing

Impact 2007 will address a broad set of needs and interests by offering you three tracks to choose from:

• Technical - For the IT technical practitioner that designs, builds, and implements solutions, this role-based track offers over 325 unique sessions and hands-on labs.
• IT Executive - For CTO's, VP's of IT, and Chief Architects, this track will show you how to gain competitive advantage with actionable education and cutting edge insight into the latest technologies.
• Business Leader - A two day track (May 21-22) designed for CEO's, CFO's, CIO's and non-IT VP's and Directors, will feature industry/sector specific sessions.

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IBM was one of the sponsors at the IIIT, Hyderabad's Felicity, a three day (Feb 23 - Feb 25) event which happened in the sprawling IIIT's campus. It boasts of very high profile neighbors like ISB, CMC, Central University, Infosys, Microsoft. I got an opportunity to conduct the Tech workshop covering: Middleware and IBM's Middleware portfolio. Intro to Open Standards/Open Source and then detail how one can contribute to open source projects.

A colleague from the SOA Solution Center, Hyderabad talked on Open Source solutions from IBM.

We had to move to a bigger hall for the workshop as the initially planned location was housefull and we are expecting more. We (my self and my colleague) were really surprised at the large turnout, since it was Sunday and also the final day of the event. The workshop went on really well with very active participation from the students, who are under grads, post grads and some pursuing PhD. All were really interested in knowing the open source licensing part, how companies make money from open source software and of course, how to get an internship at IBM. At the end of the workshop, we presented some goodies to the winners of the paper presentations, and to few smart guys from the audience.[Read More]

 Couple of more links for WTC 2010 in Bangalore, India.

Refer to this Social flyer for this years IMPACT in LV from April 29 to May 4.

WebSphere Technical conference is being held for the first time across Asia Pacific this year. This conference will deliver deep technical content targeted at architects, developers, integrators and administrators by offering lectures and hands-on labs that focus on the best practices and practical skills required. Attendees can take tests at a reduced rate or without charge. The tracks across WehSphere and SOA are:

WebSphere Architecture	WebSphere Application Server	WebSphere Development	WebSphere Integration and Connectivity
WebSphere Portal and Collaboration	Security and Management	Messaging

and the dates are:

Aug 6-9, Bangalore	Oct 9-12, Singapore
Oct 15-18, Sydeny	Oct 22-25, Beijing

Click here to register.

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I'm talking on few topics at the upcoming SOA Entry Points and Lifecycle Briefing. I'll be at Bangalore and Delhi locations. If you're in this part of the world and would like to hear more on the entry points of SOA, this is a must attend one day event. This event also covers an overview of SOMA, IBM's SOA Methodology.

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