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Cloud computing enables organizations to rethink IT and reinvent the way they do business. IBM® tech talk series for cloud computing is an array of technical deep dive webcasts primarily intended for ISV, developers, and architects focused on cloud computing. Through these LotusLive interactive sessions, hear from the IBM technical experts on the latest IBM Cloud technologies and solutions. Don't miss this opportunity to get expert advice and suggestions on your cloud project.
IBM has integrated components to create the Industry Application Platform image and made it available on Amazon’s EC2 and IBM’s SmartCloud services. The image includes WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Express-C and WebSphere MQ, and is configured to execute on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
Not only are businesses investing in the cloud, but it's become even more established in the technical landscape, according to the 2011 IBM Global Tech Trends Report.
IBM Smart Business Development and Test Cloud helps you assess, plan, design and implement a flexible development and testing private cloud environment to help save capital and operating costs as well as reduce test cycle times, complexity and risks.
If you want to discuss cloud concepts with IT experts and technology practitioners. If you need to find answers to simple or complex cloud computing challenges. If you have experience and answers to share when it comes to harnessing the power of cloud computing. Then you want to participate in developerWorks, a professional, social-software-driven network (as well as a unified set of community tools) that will help you connect, share, and collaborate with the range of IT professionals who have a stake in cloud computing.
With the IBM SmartCloud Simulator you will experience how easy it is to use the IBM SmartCloud. This interactive tour through the IBM SmartCloud will show you several ways that you can use and manage this exciting product to provide your business the IT resources you need to your unique workloads.
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is an agile cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments, well suited for development and test activities and other dynamic workloads. Ideal for both IT and application development teams, the IBM SmartCloud delivers cloud-based services, systems and software to meet the needs of your business. Please fill in the information below, so we can schedule a demo with you. An IBM representative will contact you within 24 hours.
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise is an agile cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments, well suited for development and test activities and other dynamic workloads. Ideal for both IT and application development teams, the IBM SmartCloud delivers cloud-based services, systems and software to meet the needs of your business.
Use IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10 on the cloud. Cognos Business Intelligence 10 lets you explore any data, in any combination and over any time period with a broad range of analytics capabilities.
Use IBM Mashup Center V2.0 on the cloud. Develop your applications using IBM Mashup Center, an enterprise mashup platform enabling the rapid creation, sharing, and discovery of reusable application building blocks (widgets, feeds, mashups) that can be easily assembled into new applications or leveraged within existing applications - with the governance and security IT requires.
Develop your applications on the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise using Collaborative Lifecycle Management, which enables your team to avoid the pitfalls of working in silos with broken communication, resulting in project delays, low quality and budget overruns.
Use WebSphere sMash on the cloud. Develop your applications on the cloud using WebSphere sMash. WebSphere sMash enables developers to quickly build and execute agile, Web 2.0-based applications that help businesses be more responsive, flexible and cost-effective.
Use Tivoli Monitoring on the cloud. Tivoli Monitoring software helps you optimize IT infrastructure performance and availability. Use this system monitoring software to manage operating systems, databases and servers in distributed and host environments.
What if you could start from zero and have a ready-to-use application deployed in a private or public cloud in less than a day? What if you could discuss requirements with an end user over coffee, implement a solution in a sandbox, handshake it with the originator, and deploy it to production, all in 15 minutes? In this article, the authors explain how point-and-click PaaS technology changes your cloud development and deployment dynamics and show you when it might be a better choice for development than the traditional methods.
IBM Workload Deployer is a cloud management appliance that delivers a patterns-based approach to deploying and managing application environments in the cloud. From the perspective of a user, deploying meaningful application environments implies the ability to customize to meet their specific requirements. With that need in mind, IBM Workload Deployer provides a number of facilities that address a wide range of customization needs. This article will focus on the customization capabilities presented to users for the new virtual application deployment model.
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise provides a dynamic way to customize cloud images. You can transfer parameters on the fly to the instance creation process to create your final customized image. When your image is shared among a group or promoted to be public, users of your image will provide parameters to create their own instances by the Portal or an API. But you want to make certain that users are creating the instances properly and are providing the correct input. In this article, the authors introduce a set of rules you can use when parameterizing an image, including regular expressions, known patterns, CompoundRules, and metaphor-based validation.
Enterprise users are not bound to one mobile device to access a cloud service: A user can choose to enroll more than one mobile device to an enterprise server for better device access flexibility. This flexibility makes having corporate security policy more critical than ever. To help you understand security for mobile device access to the cloud, the author illuminates the service delivery model view and the device view of the environment and presents service delivery model scenarios with checklists.
IBM Business Partner solutions extend the value of the IBM SmartCloud. Learn more about the different capabilities offered on the IBM Cloud.
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Listen to dW postcast interviews with Todd Watson from IBM; Lisa Kamm and Alex Cook from Google; Cloud Computing Use Case Project participants Robert Syputa, Senior Strategy Analyst and Partner with Maravedis, and Dirk Nicol, Program Director for Emerging technology at IBM; Josh Elman from Facebook and others.