Date: August 4, 2011
Title: Every Cloud Needs an SOA Lining: Architecting SOA for Cloud Success
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4)

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 A recent IDC Cloud survey revealed the top two technologies to support Cloud success were web services and SOA: "Given the flexibility, configurability, scalability, extensibility, and maintainability required of cloud services, SOA is currently the best architecture for ensuring that these needs are met."

Join us for this webinar to learn how to answer the following questions and more:

• Why does the infrastructure matter from a business perspective?
• What non-functional characteristics are important?
• How can your infrastructure deliver high RAS?
• How are mixed workload solutions handled?
• How can variability in workload demand be addressed?

Meet the Presenters:

Claus Jensen, STSM & Chief Architect SOA-BPM-EA

Claus Jensen is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the Business Process Optimization (BPO) Foundation team and Chief Architect for SOA-BPM-EA technical strategy, driving their alignment and integration both conceptually and practically. The BPO Foundation team has architectural responsibility for all of IBM's software products to ensure that they support the key principles of SOA, Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Agility from a client perspective. Prior to joining IBM in March 2008, Claus was Group Chief Architect, VP of Architecture and Business Development, in Danske Bank, a regional European bank. He was responsible for driving Danske Bank's SOA initiative and SOA center of excellence since its inception in 1999.  Claus holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University, Denmark. 

Date:  August 11, 2011
Topic: Securing and Connecting the Cloud: Insider Tips on Successful Cloud Adoption Strategies
Time:  11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4)

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Today’s organizations are rapidly adopting Cloud or SaaS applications due to the many potential benefits, such as reduced  costs in licensing and maintenance, as well as increased user adoption and IT agility. Yet factors such as security, integration, and user adoption are among many considerations which are key to a successful Cloud adoption models. In this webinar, you will hear from technology experts and learn how best practices, fit-for-purpose solutions and  trends in cloud computing can empower your organization to successfully adopt and deploy your Cloud strategy.

Meet the Presenters:

Ben Wen, WebSphere Connectivity and Integration Security Product Manager, IBM WebSphere

Ben Wen is a Product Manager in IBM Software Group’s WebSphere division. Ben is responsible for driving a cross-product security strategy in the Connectivity & Integration portfolio. Ben joined IBM from the DataPower Technology acquisition in 2005.  Ben brings over 18 years of sales, security, and business experience.  Ben is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the U.S. and has a degree in EECS from MIT.

Dan Moore,  Cast Iron/IBM Professional Services, Application and Integration Middleware Software, IBM

Dan Moore leads the IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW) Cast Iron delivery practice.  During the past several years, he has overseen Cast Iron integration at hundreds of clients.  He brings to this role over 20 years of experience building and leading global solutions delivery organizations for start-up companies and top-tier consulting organizations.   Prior to joining IBM, Dan held senior client service positions at Accenture, Avaya, Lockheed Martin and several SaaS/Cloud startup companies.

Diana Pan, Director of Technology at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC

Diana is responsible for the strategic direction, technical architecture and development of the applications that support the museum for both internal and external facing customers. She has over 15 years of experience and has helped engineer solutions in a variety of areas including eCommerce, content management, CRM, Internet applications and education products using a variety of technologies such as j2ee, IBM WebSphere Commerce, MQ Series, IBM DB2, Oracle, Sun LDAP, Google and Endeca search engines. Most recently, Diana is helping to define and implement the museum's overall technology strategy that will include cloud based solutions such as IBM CastIron and Salesforce. Diana holds a BS and MS from Columbia University.

Date:  August 25, 2011
Topic: Smart and Secure Hybrid Cloud Integration
Time:  11:00 AM EDT (GMT -4)

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As enterprises increasingly make use of cloud-based resources and applications, in the form of private clouds on-premise and public clouds off-premise, they are facing a variety of challenges to connecting resources and applications in clouds and traditional deployments. The Cast Iron product family is already addressing a number of those challenges today. In this session, we will discuss the many facets of Hybrid Cloud Integration and provide a snapshot of ongoing work to address them in an effort between WebSphere and Tivoli. Topics discussed will include policy-based workload provisioning, unified workload monitoring, data leakage prevention, high availability, cloud metering, cloud billing and client controlled cloud security.

Meet the Presenter:

Marc-Thomas Schmidt, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect SOA Connectivity, IBM

Marc-Thomas Schmidt is a Distinguished Engineer and has been working on IBM’s Business Integrations technologies for more than a decade, from workflow management systems to advanced message-oriented middleware to business process management technology. In his current role, he leads the work on technical architecture for IBM’s ESB technologies.