Are you looking for a way to spend time at your leisure to try out a few of IBM products or maybe all you need to do is ask a few questions.   Well now is your chance because IBM is having a two day “Open House” Infrastructure Technology Jam in your area.  You'll have a chance to come try one or all the following products whenever you can fit it into your schedule.  You can also come the first day and come back next day if you feel you didn't get enough information.   If you have one hour or two or three, it doesn't matter, drop into the Jam at any time to select lab sessions of interest and/or engage IBM architects and specialists in a whiteboard session..

Technologies to explore include:

-    WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance: A hardware appliance that provides access to WebSphere virtual images and patterns for easily, quickly and repeatedly creating application environments that can be securely deployed and managed in a private cloud.
-    WebSphere Virtual Enterprise: Increase flexibility and agility to ensure business process integrity, improve service and application performance, and better manage application health.
-    WebSphere Extreme Scale: Provides distributed object caching essential for elastic scalability and next-generation cloud environments. It processes massive volumes of transactions with extreme efficiency and linear scalability.
-    WebSphere Application Server: Software for SOA environments that enables dynamic, interconnected business processes, and delivers highly effective application infrastructures for all business situations.
-    Tivoli Composite Application Manager Server: Provides the capability for system administrators to view the health of Web applications and servers.  Also provides the capability to drill down into diagnostic information for specific application requests to identify the root cause of problems.
-    Tivoli Access Manager:  Provides user authentication, authorization and Web SSO for security policies the protect web applications and web services.
-    Rational Application Framework for WebSphere (RAFW): Automation framework for administering and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM WebSphere Process Server.
-    Rational Build Forge: Multi-platform automation framework supporting a full range of deployment activities across both mainframe and distributed platforms.

Location:  IBM 11301 Burnet Road, Bldg 101, Austin, Texas
Date: October 19th  – October 20th
9am to 5pm (both days)
Register by sending an email to ffarokh@us.ibm.com and let us know the day you will drop by and the time.  
Thank you for your interest in IBM Solutions and please address any product questions to: ffarokh@us.ibm.com