Impact 2011 Recap
Recap of Impact 2011: Tales from the Global WebSphere Community Room
We were very busy in our Global WebSphere Community Room at Impact 2011 again this year, but we still managed to have a lot of fun. Nearly 3,000 of the 8,000 Impact attendees were either existing GWC members or requested to become a member of the GWC, with nearly 500 people joining the community during the week of Impact 2011. The community membership is now over 10,000 members and on track to exceed 11,000 members when we mark our first anniversary on May 3rd, 2011.
During Impact many GWC members received fun prizes as part of the “Spin It to Win It” game. Prizes included Astronaut Ice Cream — a favorite — coffee, GWC pen sets, Starbucks gift cards, and a few Kindles, JVC Headphones, and Flip Video Cameras.
Our professional photographer took almost 3,000 photos of our members, some of whom donned some fairly elaborate hats and props to get in the GWC spirit. And of course, don't forget the buttons! We had many more fun WebSphere slogan buttons this year, the most popular of which was "What happens in MQ stays in MQ".
Thanks to everyone who visited the Global WebSphere Community Room and a warm welcome to our hundreds of new members! We look forward to your contributions on the site over the next year and to seeing you all at Impact 2012!
GWC Prize Winners at Impact 2011
Congratulations to the following GWC members! They were all prize winners at Impact 2011!
- Kummy Doraiswamy: JVC Noise Canceling Headphones from Spin It to Win It prize wheel
- Jan Keimel: Flip Video Camera from Spin It to Win It prize wheel
- Nitin Kehair: Kindle from Spin It to Win It prize wheel
- Premnath Rengasamy: Flip Video Camera from Spin It to Win It prize wheel
- Chris Sanchez: Kindle from Spin It to Win It prize wheel
- Erik Solingere: $50 gift card for winning the GWC Daily Blogger Contest
- David Brakoniecki: $50 gift card for winning the GWC Daily New Member Drawing
- Franz Bandner: $50 gift card for winning the GWC Daily New Member Drawing
- Sunil Kumar: $50 gift card for winning the GWC Daily Blogger Contest
- Teresa Maines: $50 gift card for winning the GWC New Member Drawing
- Kishor Phadnis: $50 gift card for winning the GWC Daily Blogger Contest
Global WebSphere Community Customer Recognition Awards
This year at Impact 2011, the Global WebSphere Community (GWC) in conjunction with IBM WebSphere Business Partners presented GWC Customer Recognition Awards to four enterprises that over the past year have deployed WebSphere technology to make measurable, demonstrable improvements in Business Process Management, Private Cloud Implementation, SOA Integration and Connectivity, Legacy Modernization and Service Enablement, and/or Empowering Line of Business with Business and Event Rules Management. Click here to read more about the profiles of our four customer award winners — Premier Inc., KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, cars.com, and TELUS.
The GWC Customer Recognition Awards winners along with representatives from the nominating Business Partners joined the Client Reference "ACE" Award Winners for recognition in a special evening champagne toast during the Impact 2011 event in Las Vegas. Congratulations to all of our winners!
GWC Blog Posts About Impact
Read what your fellow GWC members had to say about Impact in their blogs:
Impact 2011 Client Reference "ACE" Award Winners
The WebSphere Client Reference team announced the winners for the first Awarding Client Excellence (ACE) Awards at Impact 2011. The winners were selected for their success stories across these three categories:
Agility: Recognizes improved responsiveness to change as well as overall business process speed.
Winners: HUK-COBURG, Lincoln Trust, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Transformation: Recognizes significant business results, turnaround or business process redesign for enhanced corporate-wide collaboration, communication, responsiveness or other process improvement.
Winners: First Citizens Bank, The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, WorkSafe Victoria
Innovation: Recognizes unique and creative use of a technology to further extend its usability, lifetime and reach.
Winners: American Well, Irish Dairy Board, Lockheed Martin
ACE Awards recipients were invited to participate in activities such as an exclusive 
dinner with Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP and Group Executive Software & Systems at Lavo located in the Venetian Palazzo Hotel; an “Hour with the Press” (in one of our Press Roundtables or a 1:1 interview); a client testimonial video and an ACE Awards reception party in the Client Reference Lounge (shown in the picture to the right).
They also received a crystal award commemorating their achievement and were offered reserved seating at Tuesday’s main tent where the ACE Award winners were showcased.
Congratulations to all these ACE Award winners!
WUG News and Updates
Upcoming WUG Meetings:
Upcoming GWC Events:
The GWC Announces the Re-Launch of the Singapore WebSphere User Group
We are pleased to announce the re-launch of the Singapore WebSphere User Group. This user group is open for membership to business partners, customers, and IBMers who would like to come together to learn about WebSphere technology and share experiences and learn from others. If you have any questions about the Singapore WebSphere User Group, please contact new group owner Ben Thompson or group moderator Alan Lim.
To join the Singapore WUG, you must be a member of the Global WebSphere Community. If you are not already a member, you can sign up for your free account by visiting www.websphereusergroup.org and clicking on the Sign Up link in the upper right-hand corner. After you have signed up, go to the Singapore WUG page and click the Join This Group link under the group profile picture on the right (you must be logged in to your GWC account to complete this step).
Global WebSphere Community May Monthly Focus: Drive Agility and Savings with Integration
Date: May 12, 2011
Topic: The Next Evolution of the ESB for Healthcare
Time: 11:00 am EDT
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As many hospitals and healthcare institutions move towards integration of their Electronic Medical Records (EMR), many are seeking to integrate existing clinical applications to ensure that data is captured and stored within the patient records both for immediate observation and later review and analysis.
WebSphere Message Broker helps clinical IT providers address this need. Join Leif Davidsen as he discusses how you can deliver better integration in healthcare environments with:
- Time-saving pre-built patterns and connectivity for clinical applications that leverage industry standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7).
- Extensive message logging and reporting to allow operational management of clinical applications.
- Universal ESB capabilities to enable flexible and extensible connectivity between many types of applications running in the healthcare environment or beyond.
Date: May 26, 2011
Topic: Building a Reliable, Cost Effective Messaging Foundation
Time: 12:00 am EDT
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Join Brian Cope as he discusses how IBM WebSphere MQ helps your business build the reliable cost effective Unmatched Messaging Foundation. Learn how to:
- Architect stable environments with High Availability
- Decrease your cost of ownership through simplicity
- Provide reliable Web Services with auditability
- Extend your base messaging to deliver:
- Industry level security
- File transfer capabilities
- Access information from the edge
- Implement low-latency messaging
Save the Date: May 18 Lab Chat with Host Greg Truty, IBM Distinguished Engineer, WebSphere Web Services, REST, and Mobile Architecture
Date: May 18, 2011
Topic: How is Mobile Computing Affecting Your Enterprise Strategy?
Time: 11:00 AM EDT
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Mobile Smartphones and tablets are changing the way that we work in a dramatic fashion. Gartner predicts by 2013, over ½ of the web interactions will be from mobile devices. Users now have the technical capability and are being conditioned to operate in an always-connected fashion. How are enterprises coping with this phenomenon? Where should enterprises begin trying to decide how to target not just their consumers, but allow their employees to benefit from this trend? What is WebSphere doing to help facilitate this shift in the marketplace?
Highlights from the April Blogs:
Recap: Lab Chat with Jason McGee: Application-Centric Cloud Computing
For our second GWC Lab Chat, Jason McGee discussed the evolution of IBM cloud computing and the latest advances in this area. Learn how IBM allows you to create a private cloud where you can deploy and manage your application workloads in a shared, self-service environment. Jason discussed details on recently announced capabilities that provide the user with advanced middleware- and application-optimized cloud capabilities. The discussion included everything from deploying simple images where the user configures and manages the system, to creating a model of a complete solution that is deployed, configured and managed automatically end-to-end.
Click here to watch the webcast replay and download the presentation.
Recap: The Global WebSphere Community April Monthly Focus: Take Innovation to the Edge
Topic: WebSphere Application Accelerator for Public Networks (WAXPN)
Presenter: Steve Hellin, Executive IT Architect, IBM
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In February, IBM announced a new product offering, WebSphere Application Accelerator for Public Networks. This product is based on technology collaboration with Akamai Technologies, and represents the next phase of the Akamai Ready partnership announced in 2010 at IBM's IMPACT conference. Please join us to learn how the solution can help your business or organization improve performance, availability, scalability, and security of global WebSphere-based business applications. You will understand the key value the solution brings by ensuring a positive experience for application end-users.
Topic: Delivering Innovative Applications Faster and More Effectively: Updates from Impact 2011
Presenter: Rob High, IBM Fellow and Chief SOA Architect, IBM
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Robert H. High Jr., IBM Fellow and BPSO Foundation Chief Software Architect, will talk about the latest WebSphere Application Infrastructure offerings and how they can help you efficiently deliver applications and services. He will discuss how you can:
- Virtualize, optimize and automate workloads with batch processing
- Support business critical applications demanding high scalability and immediate response with elastic caching, and
- Deliver and scale new services leveraging private clouds
Interested in Becoming a GWC Business Partner?
The Global WebSphere Community reaches tens of thousands of WebSphere professionals every month – the GWC Partner Program allows companies to get their message to decision makers in the community that they may otherwise not have the opportunity to reach. “When we want to send a targeted message specifically to people working in the WebSphere platform, the GWC Partner Program makes that happen for us”, says XebiaLabs CEO Coert Baart, a recent GWC Partner Program participant. He added, “A recent email sent to the community on our behalf resulted in dozens of new leads overnight.”
The GWC Partner Program delivers value far beyond simple advertising. They work as an advisor helping partners choose the right mix of sponsored articles, white papers and webinars that are likely to deliver the desired outcome to partners in terms of brand recognition and lead generation.
To learn how the GWC Business Partner Program can help you deliver targeted messages to WebSphere professionals, contact Scott Treggiari at scott.treggiari@wispubs.com or 1-781-751-8734.
Impact 2011 sponsors and exhibitors are eligible to get a 25% discount off their GWC Business Partner Program. For more information about exhibiting at Impact 2011 being held April 10-15, 2011 in Las Vegas, please contact Pari Lasch at 312-541-0567 ext. 654 or via e-mail at pari@corcexpo.com.
News on the Web
SOA Software's Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower
SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower is unique in its ability to manage services, define and distribute policy, and collect and display monitoring data for clusters of DataPower appliances. It allows customers to implement and enforce consistent, uniform policies throughout their infrastructure, providing visibility into enterprise service usage, performance, and availability from network edge to application.
Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower allows customers to:
- Leverage DataPower as part of a unified governance automation solution
- Centrally define policies and apply them to services distributed across multiple DataPower appliances
- Manage a cluster of DataPower appliances as a single entity
- Gain visibility into service and appliance performance, individual messages, and business transactions from a single administration console
IBM, Solarflare and Arista Ultra Low Latency Market Data Test Results
Solarflare recently completed benchmark testing with Arista Networks and IBM. This multi-vendor testing achieved ultra low mean latencies with record breaking low jitter (standard deviations of the latency) results.
The solution stack for this report consisted of the following components:
- Solarflare SFN5122F 10GbE adapter
- Solarflare OpenOnload Application Acceleration Middleware
- Arista Networks 7100 Series 10GbE switch
- IBM® WebSphere® MQ Low Latency Messaging v2.4.0.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server AS 5.5<
- Intel Xeon CPU E5530 @ 2.40GHz
- IBM® x3550 M2 Model 7946-E2U
The ultra-low latency, cut-through switching functionality of the Arista 7100 Series switch and its dynamic buffer allocation of packet memory, enables the switch to deliver the lowest possible latency without any compromise of its ability to manage congestion. In the Arista switch architecture, each switching ASIC provides on-chip packet buffers that are dynamically allocated to the ports that need buffer memory during congestion. When congestion occurs, each port can use the dynamic memory to store packets, until the congestion clears. The dynamic allocation of packet memory results in efficient use of memory resources because memory is only shared across congested ports, resulting in the lowest levels of application level jitter.
For the STAC M2 test, Solarflare’s OpenOnload application acceleration middleware was used in combination with the low latency Solarflare SFN5122F 10GbE server adapter to enable full operating system bypass, which dramatically reduces host processing overheads and enables high transaction rates, while substantially reducing application latency with very low jitter. Solarflare’s OpenOnload library was configured to enable the application threads to run without contention with each other, and without requiring any interrupt processing or other interaction with the kernel active on the dedicated core. These techniques implemented in Solarflare’s OpenOnload enabled the system to be entirely vertically separated on CPU cores, avoiding any application level crosstalk. The server systems were also tuned so that all interrupts and background processing tasks were run on a single dedicated CPU core.
According to the policies of STAC, the specific results may not be disclosed publicly. A complete 89-page benchmark report has been made available to banks, trading firms and other end-user members of the STAC Benchmark Council with access to the STAC Vault™ (http://www.stacresearch.com/vault).
New Blog: Good Decision!
A decision management blog dedicated to improving the timing and quality of operational decision making for better business outcomes. It features a bi-weekly drip of thoughtful opinion, insights and education related to the practice of decision management from people who are actually doing the work.
Two New Product Exercises Added to the SOA Sandbox
Visit the IBM SOA Sandbox to gain valuable hands-on experience using IBM SOA and BPM software. The following exercises were added recently:
Business Process Management in Action:
Use WebSphere Lombardi Edition to model and run business processes in a visual, code-free environment.
Configure MQ Resources for Point-to-Point Messaging:
Learn how to use WebSphere MQ to simplify the configuration of a point-to-point scenario for sending and validating message data.
The SOA Sandbox is a cloud offering that provides a dedicated, hosted environment with IBM products already installed just for you. Click here to check out our full list of exercises (28 and counting).
Education and Certification
Business Agility Study
This Business Agility study surveyed companies in the financial, insurance and healthcare industries. Download this white paper to gain greater insights into these industry leading companies and understand how they realized greater agility to achieve success.
The Global WebSphere Community Announces Exclusive, No Charge Education: IBM CloudBurst Appliance Video Course
IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance speeds application deployment to cloud and virtualization environments. This education video, based on five online lectures and five online demonstrations, provides in-depth information about the 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.
This video training teaches networking and storage requirements for implementing an ESX and Power VM cloud environment, how to configure cloud resources such as hypervisors and IP groups on the appliance as well as how to create, deploy and monitor virtual systems created from predefined patterns. Additionally you’ll learn resource management procedures for both virtual systems and the CloudBurst Appliance.
View the IBM Cloudburst Appliance Video Education Course Now!
WebSphere Portal 7 Classes from IBM Lotus Education
All new classes from Lotus Education to help you skill up for delivering exceptional web experiences. Select from IBM WebSphere Portal System Administration or Application Development course(s)and register today.
Visit the WebSphere Portal Training website for all Portal curriculum, course descriptions, availability and registration information.
Lotus Teams with WebSphere to Release a NEW Portal Certification
This certification is the first of its kind in the Lotus brand in that it transcends the typical product divisions associated with IBM Certifications by recognizing skills developed using another brand's technology, in this case WebSphere Application Server.
To achieve this certification, an individual needs to obtain certification in Portal 7 System Administration and then take the applicable WebSphere test. View details here.
Education Offerings on WebSphere Portal
Lotus Education offers a broad spectrum of technical training to help organizations more fully realize the benefits of successfully integrating applications and content into a comprehensive portal solution. Build or acquire key technical skills with courses available from Lotus Education. Whether your learning style is traditional classroom, instructor-led online or self-paced virtual classes online, IBM Lotus Education is your training source. Take a look at our current offerings, visit our Education website and register today for the classes you need to further develop your WebSphere Portal and related software skills.
IBM WebSphere Portal System Administration
Instructor-led Classroom Courses
WPL80 Exploring new features in WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration for Windows
WPL90 Exploring new features in WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration for Linux
WPL81 Administration and Installation of IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 on Windows
WPL91 Administration and Installation of IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 on Linux
WPL82 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Windows
WPL92 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Linux
Self-Paced Courses
WPP80 Exploring New Features in WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration for Windows (SPVC)
WPP90 Exploring New Features in WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration for Linux (SPVC)
WPP81 Administration and Installation of IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 on Windows (SPVC)
WPP91 Administration and Installation of IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 on Linux (SPVC)
WPP82 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Linux (SPVC)
WPP92 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Linux (SPVC)
IBM WebSphere Portal Application Development
Instructor-led Classroom Courses
WPL50 Exploring New Features in IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Application Development
WPL51 Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0
WPL82 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Windows
WPL92 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Linux
Self-Paced Courses
WPP50 Exploring New Features in IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Application Development (SPVC)
WPP51 Developing Applications for IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 (SPVC)
WPP82 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Windows (SPVC)
WPP92 Essential WebSphere Portal 7.0 Administration skills for Developers on Linux (SPVC)
Courses are still available for WebSphere Portal 6.0 and 6.1.
Education Offerings on WebSphere Portal Family Products
See what's currently available and new for training on IBM's WebSphere Portal Family Products. Register for new courses in IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 7.0 and Developing Websites with IBM Lotus Web Content Management 7.0. For full details and to register for courses visit the Lotus Education webpage dedicated to WebSphere Portal Family Products training.
New Certification — Developing Websites Using IBM Lotus Web Content Management 7.0
Lotus certification is pleased to announce the availability of the Web Content Management exam: "Developing Websites Using IBM Lotus Web Content Management 7.0".
This exam permits certification in Lotus Web Content Management 7.0, earning the new professional certification title: "IBM Certified Application Developer - Lotus Web Content Management 7.0" Read full details here.
Exams and Certifications for WebSphere Portal 7.0
For WebSphere Portal exam and certification information, review the Lotus Certification Public Site under News and Announcements. Enhance your personal brand and earn your professional certification. Here's what's available for IBM WebSphere Portal and Portal family product certification:
IBM Certified Solution Developer - WebSphere Portlet Factory 7.0
IBM Certified Application Developer - WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.1.5
IBM Certified Solution Developer - WebSphere Portal 7.0
IBM Certified Solution Developer - IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1
IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Portal 7.0
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1
IBM Certified Advanced System Administrator - WebSphere Portal 7.0
Discounts and Promotions on WebSphere Portal Exams
IBM Lotus Certification offers a variety of discounts and promotions to help you save money while earning your professional certification status. Here are the discount programs currently available:
- IBM Software Certification Days are back — 50% off all IBM Software Group Certification tests at a location near you
- Attend a Conference and Get Certified — Check out the latest technical events for Lotus Professionals where certification is offered at deeply discounted prices.
- Pick Two: Healthy Savings on Portal 7 Core Exams — With the release of the Portal 7.0 System Administration tests, Lotus Certification is offering two core exams for the price of one. Find out how to take advantage of this offer today.
- IBM Lotus Certification Train and Certify — All Portal 7 courses which have a corresponding exam have now been added to this offer. Enroll in any participating course today and enjoy 50% off the corresponding Lotus Certification Exam
- 2011 IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference - Americas — One free Lotus or Portal certification test will be offered to all attendees (formerly the Portal Excellence Conference) in May of 2011.
To learn more about each of these discount offers, please visit the Lotus Certification site," Discounts and Offers" and follow the links to each individual offer.
Upcoming Webcasts, Seminars, and Events
Don't miss these events:
May 8 – 12: Interop Las Vegas
IBM Speaker: Rich Lechner
Event Detail: Learn about the latest innovations at the Interop Conference—including virtualization, mobility, cloud computing and data center advances—and get up to speed on how to leverage new technologies to increase productivity and improve collaboration in your enterprise.
May 16 – 19: IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011 — Orlando FL
On May 16 – 19 IBM clients, Business Partners and peer IBM web experience professionals will come together at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel in Orlando, Florida for the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011. If you've not yet registered for the Conference, register today as this is an experience not to miss. Last year this event achieved record attendance! This year's conference will once again feature a Business Impact Program and a robust Technology Program track, continuing its delivery of the latest web experience platform updates, technical directions, and proven business strategies along with a rich variety of customer case studies on how customers have delivered and achieved their exceptional web experience. The event sessions and hands-on labs will offer industry-leading integration capabilities, best practices and networking opportunities to provide the technical education and expert insights needed to successfully deliver exceptional web experiences that drive better business outcomes.
New in 2011, attendees will learn about the IBM Social Business Initiative. Social networks and technologies are pervasive in our day-to-day lives, but how are these technologies applicable and relevant to the business world? Attendees will learn how to capitalize on the rise of social networks and technologies to foster meaningful relationships with new prospects and deepen relationships with existing customers. They'll learn the value of social networks and technologies to transform the way they interact and transact with customers over the web, enabling them to outperform their competition. The current Conference Agenda and Directory are now available on the Overview page of the event website. There are over 100 unique sessions to choose from. Register now for the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference! Hope to see you in Orlando!
Access Now! Smarter Systems Virtual Event On-Demand
As the amount of data continues to grow, IT departments need to be more agile. Organizations in all industry segments are taking advantage of IBM's economical and efficient approach to integrated systems to handle their transactional and analytical workloads. Today's IT solutions require systems that can quickly and dynamically respond to changing needs. Sign up for this virtual event to hear how IBM can help you get past speeds, feeds, and misleads and into smarter systems for better decision-making.
- Attend the keynote presentation and hear from an IBM client and independent industry analyst as they share their perspective on Smarter Systems
- View the top eight presentations from the live Global Smarter Systems Tour
- Chat in-person with IBM Smarter Systems experts
- Experience key sessions on-demand…at your leisure
Register Now
May 22 – 24: ACORD LOMA — Insurance Systems Forum 2011
San Diego, California
IBM Sponsoring
Event Details: The 2011 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum is your window onto the future of insurance and technology.
Hear new ideas and fresh perspectives from industry leaders. See innovative solutions to pressing problems. Network with others who share your interests.
See what the future holds and how you can gain competitive advantage at the 2011 Forum.
May 23 – 26: TM Forum Management World Dublin 2011
IBM Speakers: Anthony Behan, Christian Carlson, Denis Kennelly, Piyush Sarwal, Frank Sommer
Event Details: TM Forum's Management World is the meeting place of the industry, providing an open forum to discuss and debate the challenges of today and the opportunities of tomorrow.
Every device, every innovation, every business today relies on communications. To grow, our industry must undergo a revolution: one focused on the transformation from service provider, to innovative service enabler. Management World 2011 lifts the covers off this revolution, unwrapping the who, what and how of communications innovation enabling the digital economy.
The Conference features three Forums comprised of six Summits that tackle these critical areas of change: driving innovation into your business to deliver new growth; establishing the agile IT and operations you need to support those innovative new business models; and how to bill for it all while delivering the experience your customers demand.
May 26: San Francisco ISV CloudCamp
IBM is sponsoring with a speaker
Event Details: CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
May 28: Lagos, Nigeria CloudCamp
IBM is sponsoring with a speaker
Event Details: CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged you to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
Don't miss these upcoming webcasts:
Now Available: IBM TechChat Series for Monthly Online Chat with IBM Experts
The IBM TechChat Series provides IT professionals and practitioners with an opportunity to chat online “live” with IBM experts worldwide, in three different time zones. Each TechChat is scheduled for 30 minutes monthly between April–Nov. 2011 and features built-in translation so users can chat freely and easily without a language barrier between them. A one-time registration for one or more chats is available at www.ibm.com/smarter/techchats, where users also can submit a question to experts in advance of the TechChat.
May 18: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Business Process Management on System z
Dates: 18 May 2011
Times: 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 p.m. GMT, 4:00 p.m. British
Location: Online
Type: Webcast
Join us for this webcast which will focus on the different objectives of Business Process Management on System z, the way business activities can be streamlined, existing applications can be complemented and extended and real time visibility can be achieved, and all of this using BPM on zEnterprise.
5 Small Scale IT Projects for Big Time Business Results Webcast Series: How to Pilot Your Way to Greater Business Agility and Near
Term ROI
This Webcast series features five proven IT projects for greater business agility and flexibility, designed to deliver faster ROI by taking a practical and incremental approach to implementation.
Each project:
- Targets a key initiative where IT can expand its business impact as a value creator and cost cutter — process improvement; operational decision-making; business connections; cloud and virtualization; build, deploy and manage applications.
- Provides assurance of a successful initial implementation with actual business results; establishing the proper infrastructure for expansion and preventing wrong and costly redesign and changes down the line.
Register to watch one or all 5 of the IT projects and if you miss the live date, you can watch to on demand replays.
Free Upcoming April 2011 WebSphere Support Technical Exchange Webcasts
The Upcoming links will work for two days past the presentation. A week after the webcast, an audio replay of the exchange will be available on the Previous Webcast tab on the WebSphere Technical Exchange home page.
Participation is easy and free — no registration required.
Date: April 28, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Events-Based Messaging Monitoring in WebSphere Message Broker V7
Presenter: Rao Nanduri
Presenter Title: Staff Software Engineer
Abstract: Message flows can be configured for monitoring transactions and auditing and business processes via monitoring events. This presentation discusses some of the intricacies of its implementation in different scenarios within WebSphere Message Broker V7.
Date: May 3, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Troubleshooting People Resolution in WebSphere Process Server
Presenter: Pratima Ahuja
Presenter Title: L2 Support Engineer, Business Process Choreographer
Abstract: People Resolution is a widely used function within Business Process Choreographer. This presentation focuses on providing troubleshooting and design guidelines to customers to help them effectively use this feature.
Date: May 4, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: CL/Supersession Top 10 Issues and Solutions
Presenter: Sue DeMarrais, Tom LaRocco, Wayne Winsor
Presenter Title: Advisory Software Engineer
Abstract: This session discusses many of the most active Supersession issues and solutions, the use of the CL/Supersession Support Portal to find the most current maintenance, manuals and to locate technotes, and a list of items needed to use IMS version 10 and later.
Date: May 5, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Ask the Experts - Debug Tool for z/OS
Presenter: Bill Myjak, Randy Kraemer, Randy Campbell, Jayson Liu, Seana Hogan, Jesse Jackson, Ken Edwards & Flora Batca
Presenter Title: Debug Tool Support Engineer, Debug Tool Development Engineer, Debug Tool Development Engineer, Debug Tool Support Engineer, Debug Tool Development Engineer, Debug Tool Development Engineer, Debug Tool Development Manager, Software Support Manager
Abstract: This Ask the Experts session provides customers with an open forum to ask a panel of Debug Tool experts questions on general Debug Tool for z/OS regarding configuration and troubleshooting.
Date: May 10, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Overview of Logging in WebSphere Lombardi Edition
Presenter: Evan Slate
Presenter Title: L2 Support Engineer
Abstract: This presentation covers several aspects of logging in WebSphere Lombardi Edition, including log file locations, what information is written in the various logs, and how to configure logging in order to troubleshoot a specific problem or to have as little impact as possible on a production environment.
Date: May 17, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Setting up Security for CICS Configuration Manager
Presenter: Satish Tanna
Presenter Title: Senior IT Specialist, Technical Specialist for CICS z/OS Tools
Abstract: This session covers topics related to setting up CICS Configuration Manager (CM) security including the use of passtickets and the use of secure socket layer to connect to the CICS CM server. The presentation also discusses considerations with respect to using an external security manager such as RACF to control access to the CICS resource definitions.
Date: May 18, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: Great Expectations - Working with the WebSphere MQ z/OS L2 Support Team
Presenter: Rick Armstrong, Douglas Bender, Blanche Ishida, Beverly Kingsley, Kenneth Langhorne, Mark Womack, Greg Woods & Zigman Zulkowski
Presenter Title: WebSphere MQ z/OS Level 2 Customer Support
Abstract: This is the first in a series of topics presented by the WebSphere MQ z/OS support team. This presentation contains an overview of common MustGather technotes, documentation requests and a few best practices to assist you with diagnosing WebSphere MQ related issues. This session is intended for anyone supporting WebSphere MQ running on the z/OS platform.
Date: May 19, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: WebSphere Lombardi Edition - Developing for Performance and Scalability
Presenter: David Parish
Presenter Title: Level 2 Support Engineer, WebSphere Lombardi Edition
Abstract: This presentation teaches you how to write WebSphere Lombardi Edition (WLE) applications that perform and scale at or beyond your business requirements. Topics of discussion include development techniques, anti-patterns and diagnostic tools.
Date: May 24, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: TCP Packet Tracing - Part 1
Presenter: Robert L Boretti Jr & Marvin Knight
Presenter Title: Advisory Software Engineer, Advisory Software Engineer
Abstract: This presentation provides an overview of the available TCP packet capture tools and examples showing how to enable them to capture TCP traffic. Information is provided on how to read and interpret these captures using Wireshark. Breakdown of TCP communication is also discussed.
Date: May 25, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: IBM Session Manager for z/OS - Best Practices for Monitoring and Configuring Storage Usage
Presenter: Bill Bulfin
Presenter Title: Senior Software Engineer, CICS Tools US Level 2 Support
Abstract: This WebSphere Technical Exchange highlights some of the best practices for monitoring and configuring storage usage for IBM Session Manager for z/OS.
Date: May 26, 2011
Time: 11 AM EDT (GMT-4)
Title: TCP Packet Tracing - Part 2
Presenter: Robert L Boretti Jr & Marvin Knight
Presenter Title: Advisory Software Engineer, Advisory Software Engineer
Abstract: This presentation outlines detailed debugging steps needed to correlate TCP traffic with the web server's plug-in log (http_plugin.log). Useful display filter and search strings are also shared. In addition, the session also discusses instructions on how to decrypt SSL TCP traffic.
