Join us December 15 for a webcast on the SOA Policy actionable pattern implemented at IBM and how WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), WebSphere DataPower, and Tivoli ITCAM are all involved.

Here are the details:

Date: December 15, 2011
Title: IBM Policy & SLA Management and Monitoring at the Edge
Time: 11 am EST (GMT -5)

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Policy is a standard or guideline that can help your organization manage its service availability and performance management in a repeatable and best practices manner.  An SOA Policy actionable pattern has been implemented at IBM with WSRR for policy administration, WebSphere DataPower for policy enforcement, and Tivoli ITCAM for SOA for policy monitoring.  The speakers will explain the basics of the pattern including the automated integration between products.  They will also provide details around the policy implementation, and examples of policy usage for Service Availability and Performance Management.

Don't miss our June 2 webcast: Simplify Connectivity at the Edge of the Enterprise and Beyond with WebSphere DataPower.

Join us at 11:00 am EDT to hear Matt McLarty, WW Client Technical Leader - WebSphere Connectivity & Solution Architecture, discuss how DataPower appliances can save you time and money.

Here's an abstract:

Our world is becoming vastly more complex, yet many organizations struggle with basic connectivity. Success often depends on quickly, flexibly, and securely exposing information across a dynamic business network that extends to the edge of the enterprise.

In this webinar, learn how WebSphere DataPower Appliances simplify and extend connectivity at the edge of the enterprise. See how they save time and money by accelerating simplifying, securing, and governing your dynamic business networks.

With in-depth case studies from an assortment of companies and industries and coverage of the newest releases, see first-hand how DataPower Appliances can extend your existing infrastructure to the edge and beyond.

Click here to register.

Happy Friday!

The March 2011 edition of the Sphere Online Journal published last week.  Bruce Lynch, Editor and Publisher, discusses what the GWC will be doing at Impact next month.  We also had great contributions from our columists.  Dustin Amrhein discussed avoiding virtual image sprawl, and Andy Piper wrote about some of the trends for WebSphere in 2011 (particularly relevant if you're tuning in to our Lab Chat with Jerry Cuomo next week).

Our two technical articles in this month's edition are "XSLT Stylesheet Development, Administration and Testing Web Service for WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance using Eclipse IDE – All-in-One" by Purush Das and "Choosing the WebSphere Application Server ND topology that's right for your system — Achieving high stability for multiclient WebSphere applications" by Jamie Pope and Ying Ding.

Also, don't miss Nastel's whitepaper on how to predict application performance problems.

Click here to read the Sphere Online Journal.

 

Hi everyone,

We had a nice big audience for yesterday's webcast "Smarter Business Agility with WebSphere DataPower Appliances".  It's part of our IBM Hursley Comes to You webcast series.  The presentation was given by Bill Hines, who is the World-Wide Tech Sales Leader, DataPower and he talked about updates in the integration appliance world including appliances for XML acceleration, XML security, ESB implementation, low-latency MQ, B2B, and more.

If you missed the webcast, don't worry!  It's now available on demand.  You can listen to the replay and download the presentation from the GWC site. 

Stay tuned this week as I'll be announcing three more webcasts in the IBM Hursley Comes to You Series...

Celia