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  • Nine Startups Vie For IBM Global Entrepreneur Honors

    IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:24 am
    Technologies that enable skin cancer detection on a mobile device, help commuters avoid traffic, and deliver better shopping experiences will be on display next week at the IBM (NYSE: IBM) SmartCamp Global Finals competition for entrepreneurs. These are just a few of the innovative solutions from startups that are working with IBM to improve the life of citizens around the globe E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 13

    IBM Redbooks | Just Published
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 - JES3 internals and externals - JES3 initialization statements, JES3 SDSF - JES3 operator commands A major goal of operating systems is to process jobs while making the best use of system resources.

  • IBM Reports 2011 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results

    IBM Press Releases - Corporate - United States
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Fourth-Quarter 2011: * Diluted EPS: o GAAP: $4.62, up 11 percent; o Operating (non-GAAP): $4.71, up 11 percent; * Net income: o GAAP: $5.5 billion, up 4 percent; o Operating (non-GAAP): $5.6 billion, up 5 percent; * Gross profit margin: o GAAP: 49.9 percent, up 0.9 points; o Operating (non-GAAP): 50.2 percent, up 1.1 points; * Revenue of $29.5 billion, up 2 percent as reported, 1 percent adjusting for currency; * Software revenue up 9 percent; * Global Technology Services revenue up 3 percent; * Global Business Services revenue up 3 percent, 2 percent adjusting for currency; * Services…

  • IBM and NEC Team Up to Enable Industry Innovators Tervela and Selerity to Transform their Networks with OpenFlow

    IBM Press Releases - Software - United States
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:10 pm
    Leading innovators are adopting OpenFlow-based networking to transform their networks using a new solution provided by IBM and NEC Corporation of America (NEC). These leading organizations are deploying the IBM and NEC standards-based OpenFlow solution to power dynamic networks, manage massive amounts of information and deliver new services. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • MADE IN IBM LABS: New Silicon Probe Assists in Disease Diagnostics and Drug Discovery

    IBM Press Releases - Research - United States
    12 Jan 2012 | 9:31 pm
    IBM scientists have developed a flexible, non-contact microfluidic probe made from silicon that can aid researchers and pathologists to investigate critical tissue samples accurately for drug discovery and disease diagnostics. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this
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  • Nine Startups Vie For IBM Global Entrepreneur Honors

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:24 am
    Technologies that enable skin cancer detection on a mobile device, help commuters avoid traffic, and deliver better shopping experiences will be on display next week at the IBM (NYSE: IBM) SmartCamp Global Finals competition for entrepreneurs. These are just a few of the innovative solutions from startups that are working with IBM to improve the life of citizens around the globe E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • Las Vegas Metro Police Department Expands Public Safety Operations with IBM Crime Analytics Software

    24 Jan 2012 | 9:13 pm
    IBM today announced that it is working with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) to help improve the city's public safety and secure information sharing with the agency's regional partners. Used by more than 3,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S., IBM's i2 crime analytics software will enable LVMPD officers to accelerate their investigations by enabling them to make non-obvious connections based on information that was previously spread across the department. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • IBM to Help Rochester, Minn., Police Department Fight Crime

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:27 pm
    The Rochester Police Department will use advanced analytics software from IBM to mine, share and extract intelligence from critical data in order to improve police investigative and prevention programs. By identifying incident patterns the police department can forecast crime hot spots and proactively allocate resources accordingly. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • IBM and VELCO to Build Next Generation Communications Network for Vermont Energy Grid

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    At the 2012 DistribuTECH conference, IBM (NYSE:IBM) and the Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) today announced an agreement to build an intelligent fiber optic and Carrier Ethernet communications and control network across the State of Vermont. Spanning more than 1000 miles, this advanced fiber communications network will connect transmission substations to Vermont’s distribution utilities, delivering reliable electric service and the capabilities required for the state's future Smart Grid. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • IBM and NEC Team Up to Enable Industry Innovators Tervela and Selerity to Transform their Networks with OpenFlow

    23 Jan 2012 | 8:10 pm
    Leading innovators are adopting OpenFlow-based networking to transform their networks using a new solution provided by IBM and NEC Corporation of America (NEC). These leading organizations are deploying the IBM and NEC standards-based OpenFlow solution to power dynamic networks, manage massive amounts of information and deliver new services. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this
 
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    IBM Press Releases - Corporate - United States

  • IBM Reports 2011 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results

    19 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Fourth-Quarter 2011: * Diluted EPS: o GAAP: $4.62, up 11 percent; o Operating (non-GAAP): $4.71, up 11 percent; * Net income: o GAAP: $5.5 billion, up 4 percent; o Operating (non-GAAP): $5.6 billion, up 5 percent; * Gross profit margin: o GAAP: 49.9 percent, up 0.9 points; o Operating (non-GAAP): 50.2 percent, up 1.1 points; * Revenue of $29.5 billion, up 2 percent as reported, 1 percent adjusting for currency; * Software revenue up 9 percent; * Global Technology Services revenue up 3 percent; * Global Business Services revenue up 3 percent, 2 percent adjusting for currency; * Services…

  • IBM Continues India Expansion With New Branch in Visakhapatnam

    20 Dec 2011 | 5:30 am
    IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of a branch office in Visakhapatnam, South East India as part of the company's continued geographic expansion initiative to increase its presence in key growth markets. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • IBM Creates Smarter Cities Exploration Center in Collaboration with the University of Guadalajara in Mexico

    19 Dec 2011 | 11:29 pm
    IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the creation of a Smarter Cities Exploration Center in collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) in Mexico. Supported by technical and intellectual guidance of IBM's global research lab experts, the Center will be the first of its kind in Latin America, tasked with the mission to design solutions to tackle infrastructure challenges faced by Guadalajara and other cities around the world. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • BNP Paribas and IBM Extend Infrastructure Services Agreement for Six Years

    19 Dec 2011 | 11:22 pm
    BNP Paribas and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a six year agreement for management, support and maintenance services of BNP Paribas infrastructure through their joint venture BNP Paribas Partners for Innovation (BP2I) created in 2004. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • Jeopardy! Winnings Spur IBM and Scripps Research Institute Collaboration to Fight Against Malaria

    18 Nov 2011 | 5:00 am
    IBM's Watson computing system broke new ground earlier this year when it defeated two celebrated human competitors on the Jeopardy! game show. Now, The Scripps Research Institute is hoping to do something equally novel but more critical to human health with part of the prize money from that tournament: Find a cure for drug-resistant malaria. And it's asking for the public's help. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this
 
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    IBM Press Releases - Software - United States

  • IBM and NEC Team Up to Enable Industry Innovators Tervela and Selerity to Transform their Networks with OpenFlow

    23 Jan 2012 | 8:10 pm
    Leading innovators are adopting OpenFlow-based networking to transform their networks using a new solution provided by IBM and NEC Corporation of America (NEC). These leading organizations are deploying the IBM and NEC standards-based OpenFlow solution to power dynamic networks, manage massive amounts of information and deliver new services. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • Electrolux Enables a Social, Mobile Workforce with IBM Software

    15 Jan 2012 | 10:10 pm
    IBM today announced that Electrolux, a world leader in appliances, is using IBM social software to connect its workforce in 60 countries and encourage a deeper level of innovation and knowledge sharing. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • BodyMedia Selects IBM Software to Personalize Weight Loss Advice

    11 Jan 2012 | 1:12 am
    : IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced today that BodyMedia, Inc., a leader in wearable body monitors designed for health and wellness, is using IBM software to help consumers more easily achieve their weight-loss goals. Powered by IBM software, the new personalized feedback capabilities in the BodyMedia FIT body monitoring system now provide users with their own fitness coach. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • IBM to Acquire Green Hat

    3 Jan 2012 | 8:50 pm
    IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Green Hat, a leader in software quality and testing solutions for the cloud and other environments. Financial terms were not disclosed. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this

  • IBM Completes Acquisition of Cúram Software

    19 Dec 2011 | 8:00 pm
    IBM today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Cúram Software Ltd. The company expands IBM’s ability to help cities and governments serve citizens better by adopting more intelligent and efficient ways to assess needs, execute social programs, and maximize program results. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg this
 
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    IBM Research

  • Q&A with Giovanni Cherubini, IBM storage scientist

    23 Jan 2012 | 8:41 am
    Scientist at the IBM Research - Zurich Lab celebrates 25 years of serviceGiovanni Cherubini celebrates his 25th anniversary of service this month. He is a member of the Storage Technologies department, has been an IBM Master Inventor since 2009 and an IEEE Fellow since 2006. Hailing originally from Padua, Italy, Giovanni now has dual Italian and Swiss citizenship. He has over 80 publications in conference proceedings and peer-reviewed journals, in addition to 40 granted patents and some 20 pending patent applications. Q. Giovanni, congratulations on your 25th service anniversary. What brought…

  • IBM scientists meet Guinness

    18 Jan 2012 | 3:12 am
    An achievement made last year by IBM scientists can’t really compare with the largest collection of Charlie’s Angels memorabilia (5,569 items), the most body piercings in one session (3,900) or the longest cucumber on record (47 inches), all Guinness World Records, but IBM’s nanotech experts have attained a Guinness record of their own. Their feat: creating the smallest 3D map of the Earth.The map, produced on a tiny sliver of polymer, measures just 22 by 11 micrometers. To put that into perspective, 1000 copies of the map could fit within a single grain of salt.The Guinness World…

  • Inventors' Corner: #8,005,773 - System and method for cortical simulation

    17 Jan 2012 | 6:06 pm
    U.S. Patent #8,005,773 is for a "system and method for cortical simulation." The invention describes a method for developing a computerized brain simulation system that can mimic the cognitive systems and function of the cortex of the brain.IBM Researcher Dr. Dharmendra Modha talks to FastCompany about this Cognitive Computing work.

  • “Personalized medicine will be key in the future”

    13 Jan 2012 | 7:08 am
    Q&A with Govind KaigalaGovind Kaigala, scientist at IBM Research – Zurich since May of 2010, is a member of the team working on the microfluidic probe. Govind joined IBM after completing a post-doc at Stanford University and a PhD from the University of Alberta in Canada.Blog moderator: Congratulations on today’s publication in Lab on a Chip of your innovative proof-of-concept technology called the microfluidic probe. GK: Thanks, my co-authors and I are glad this paper has been accepted in Lab on a Chip.Q: This novel silicon probe could possibly become a very useful tool in disease…

  • Inventors' Corner: Patent #8,078,492 - Providing consumers with incentives for healthy eating habits

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:17 pm
    In this video, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member Michael Paolini describes this invention as a method, system and program that uses data analytics to provide electronic incentives for healthy eating.
 
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    balfes.net

  • FourSquare check-ins versus native applications

    Bob Balfe
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:17 am
    I have been playing with FourSquare for about four weeks now as many of my friends have probably seen the check-ins on Facebook and Twitter. I have even gone to the extent to checking out the API behind the scenes and it looks very clean and easy. The basis of the API is REST (REpresentational State Transfer). So integrating other commerce based products, tools, and sites should be a snap. Not many people in my area are using FourSquare but on a positive note there seem to be more and more people using it even in the past month. I am already a mayor in two places; not sure what that buys me…

  • Blog and video stats for 2011

    Bob Balfe
    3 Jan 2012 | 8:10 am
    I started keeping stats in 2010 and it looks like 2010 was a “better” year for hits and posts, most likely because I blogged a lot about Lotus and Eclipse stuff more (about twice as many posts) that year than 2011. This site generated 88,815 hits for the year in 2011 and 68,443 in 2010 (minus three months of logging statistics). The home page is by far the most active hit, probably because of my blog URL on all of my social site profiles (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). Title Views Home page 12,951 Window Builder for Eclipse – for SWT, RCP and SWING UI’s 1,628 Is GWT the…

  • 2011 – A year of change

    Bob Balfe
    31 Dec 2011 | 9:28 am
    2011 was an amazing year for me. Full of struggles, change, and excitement. Here are few of the highlights I had for the year (minus a few struggles): First year of be married to my wonderful wife, we now collectively have five kids in the house! I turned 40 this year, really starting to feel old in the mornings I changed career direction – moved out of Lotus and into Industry Solutions – having a great time, love the new job! Kim (my beautiful wife) got me a Harley for my 40th My daughter made Varsity cheer in football and basketball and is in 10th grade. My son Nathan was…

  • 12 Days of commerce: Flash Sales

    Bob Balfe
    22 Dec 2011 | 7:41 am
    In this demo I show how you can set up a flash sale in WebSphere Commerce. This mixes date and time driven promotions and web activities. The setup is a sale for a new Nike shirt will happen on Friday from noon to five where the shirt will be 20% off. The advertisement helps on the home page but you could also use remote widgets to advertise on other sites like Facebook and blogs.

  • 12 Days of commerce: Replace Logo in an extended Site

    Bob Balfe
    20 Dec 2011 | 8:27 am
    In this video I show how you can replace the default content for an eMarketing Spot in WebSphere Commerce. You can optionally use a web activity and change the logo based on rules but this approach shows how you can achieve a new logo by utilizing the default content field on the eSpot itself.
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    Ed Brill

  • Ryan Baxter: The Introduction of OpenSocial at Lotusphere

    Ed Brill
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Ryan Baxter is a developer on the Lotus Notes team and a contributor to IBM's efforts around Open Social 2.0. Earlier this week, he wrote a nice blog entry covering Notes and Open Social-based embedded experiences:One of the key uses of OpenSocial in Notes and Domino Social Edition and in Connections Next is embedded experiences.  For those of you that don't know, embedded experiences allows you to embed the "experience" you would get in one application, in a completley different application.  For example, it allows you to embed the experience from your favorite project management…

  • New book-IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader’s Guide

    Ed Brill
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:23 am
    Packt Publishing has just released another new Notes/Domino book: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide. The authors are IBMers Barry Rosen, Tim Speed, and Scott O'Keefe. This updates their earlier book on Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.1. IBM Lotus Domino software is a world class platform for critical business, collaboration, and messaging applications. With Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, IBM has once again provided business users with an intuitive, fully integrated platform to enhance each user's experience with business communications, while reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and…

  • Annual February Germany tour starts on the 6th

    Ed Brill
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    In what has become a nearly-annual tradition since 2005, I'll be in Germany in ten days, for Lotusphere Comes to You events in Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Frankfurt. Munich, 6/7 February - edcom nachlese. A great annual event and a special place in my heart. I'll present my Lotusphere session on Messaging and Collaboration, but also the Q&A afterwards with vowe's "Good German" is a highlight. Ron Sebastian kicks the event off as he has likewise for many years. Hamburg, 8 February - We4IT. I was approached early by We4IT, a partner that was one of the inspirations for IBM XWork…

  • Lotusphere 2012: Mobility

    Ed Brill
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:22 pm
    One of last week's announcements that I didn't quite get to on the blog was the plan to support Windows Phone with the upcoming release of Lotus Notes Traveler. Specifically, IBM called out the intention to support Nokia and HTC devices on Notes Traveler. Yes, this is a reversal from my previously-stated position that Windows Phone wasn't interesting in the enterprise and thus, we wouldn't be investing. What persuaded me was our partnership with Nokia, and relative newcomer to the dance HTC, and their plans around the Windows Phone platform. For Nokia, The Lumia devices are clearly aimed at…

  • IBM Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is now available

    Ed Brill
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:34 pm
    From the Lotus Symphony website: Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 is our latest release. There are many enhancements in this release including support for 1 million rows in spreadsheets, bubble charts and a new design for the home page.This will also likely be the last release of IBM's own fork of the OpenOffice codebase. Our energy from here is going into the Apache OpenOffice project, and we expect to distribute an "IBM edition" of Apache OpenOffice in the future. We have contributed the Lotus Symphony code into the OpenOffice project, along with human resource across development/product…
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    Notes Goddess

  • Take my Job - Please!

    Susan Bulloch
    12 Jan 2012 | 6:50 am
    For those of you headed down to Lotusphere, please come learn my job. I'm serious. My courageous and foolish colleague Todd Bailey agreed to help me ...

  • Of Lotusphere Sessions and Speakers

    Susan Bulloch
    24 Oct 2011 | 7:27 pm
    It's that time again. Time for many of you to think about making that step this year and going out on stage at Lotusphere. Time to see if your idea ...

  • Learn Notes C&S - in Barcelona or online

    Susan Bulloch
    16 Oct 2011 | 2:19 pm
    Once again this year, I'm fortunate enough to be speaking for the View in Europe. Next month, I'll be in Barcelona at AdminEurope. I hear there's an ...

  • Hanging up the Rolling Bag

    Susan Bulloch
    20 Aug 2011 | 3:28 pm
    I’ve been working in a new role at IBM for a little over a month. After a being on the road or on call pretty much every day for over 2 years, I basi ...

  • Get Social, Do Business - How do I do that?

    Susan Bulloch
    7 Apr 2011 | 12:03 pm
    So before, I mentioned that I'd be back asking for help with my job - and here I am. As I said before, we (IBM employees) are being asked to Get So ...
 
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  • Knowledge wins.

    kellys
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm
    Knowledge wins. Public library books are free, originally uploaded by Boston Public Library. I know. I am a sad and pathetic knowledge geek. Filed under: drivel

  • things that make your head explode

    kellys
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:39 pm
    I’ve come to the realization (again) that I’m not as evolved as I thought. I do display remarkable equanimity in most situations: I can wait patiently in a doctor’s office, even when they are really late. Getting cut off in traffic leaves me undisturbed. But the thing that immediately reverts me to cave woman status is…. opening packages. I start out with the best of intentions, I really do. I read the directions (usually); I look for the right way to open something (most of the time), and I attempt to follow the instructions (when I’ve bothered to read them).

  • cupcakes make everything better

    kellys
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:57 am
    Untitled, originally uploaded by » Zitona «. Truer words were never written on chalkboard. For my niece, who’s getting another set of ear tubes today. As the Boy went through his fair share of ear tubes in his day, I think hugs and cupcakes should be the order of the day…. ….for everyone! Filed under: drivel

  • not seasonally appropriate

    kellys
    21 Jan 2012 | 7:56 am
    It’s just that birds and flowers are a lot more fun to draw than snow. 4×6 index card (my new favorite canvas) with colored pencil. Filed under: art

  • peter was right

    kellys
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:53 pm
    the dog’s sofa, originally uploaded by kellypuffs. He got better. And he hasn’t learned a damn thing. Filed under: drivel
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    Adam Gartenberg’s Blog

  • One word? Analytics

    Adam Gartenberg
    9 Jan 2012 | 2:18 pm
    This piece by Marketplace's Bob Moon highlights what's top of mind for IBM's new CEO, Ginni Rometty (and it should be a familiar theme for those of you that read this blog regularly). Bob Moon: If Virginia Rometty had just one word for you about the next big thing, it might sound a bit reminiscent of that famous scene from "The Graduate." "The Graduate" clip: Just one word. Yes, sir? Are you listening? Yes I am. Plastics. That is so 1960s. Just ask IBM's incoming chief what she's focusing on. Are you listening? Virginia Rometty: Analytics. Yep. Virginia Rometty sees a bright future for her…

  • New Smarter Analytics ad: Smarter by the Second

    Adam Gartenberg
    3 Jan 2012 | 7:52 am
    IBM is starting the new year with some new advertising around Smarter Analytics, among other featured topics. You might have caught this spot during the Rose Bowl or Gator Bowl or some of the Sunday morning US news shows this week.  The IBMer featured is Simon Thomas, Business Analytics and Optimization Service Line Leader, and the ad uses examples from three different industries to demonstrate what's new in Smarter Analytics - and what can happen in an instant: "A second is a very long time.  Long enough for a train track in Taiwan to sense a malfunction and alert the operators.

  • IBM Business Analytics Helps Improve Customer Retention by Nearly 50 Percent at XO Communications

    Adam Gartenberg
    25 Oct 2011 | 12:52 pm
    Here's a great example of the tangible benefits companies can see by applying analytics to their business.  XO Communications has reduced customer churn rates by nearly 50%, largely through the use of IBM's predictive analytics software.   According to independent analyst firm Nucleus Research, XO recorded an 376 percent ROI in just 5 months, an average annual benefit of $3,819,200 million. (You can download the full case study here.) From the press release:   LAS VEGAS, N.V. - 25 Oct 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that XO Communications, a leading nationwide provider of…

  • New Netezza Appliances Helps Communications Services Providers

    Adam Gartenberg
    25 Oct 2011 | 12:44 pm
    You might not think about it often, there's a flip-side to the convenience that you and I receive from carrying around now-ubiquitous mobile devices.  As the number of Smartphones is expected to quadruple over the next 4 years, reaching 2 billion devices by 2015, the communication services providers (CSPs) that connect those devices and route all the data to and from them are being placed under more and more pressure to maintain service levels, offer new capabilities, and still maintain their profitability. To help them with that challenge, IBM today announced the IBM Netezza Network…

  • New IBM Software Helps Analyze The World’s Data For Healthcare Transformation

    Adam Gartenberg
    25 Oct 2011 | 12:38 pm
    If you attended this morning's general session at IOD (or caught it on Livestream), you would have heard several speakers talk about healthcare as a focus for the first real-world application for Watson. Today comes the announcement New IBM Software Helps Analyze The World's Data For Healthcare Transformationof new software to help the healthcare industry improve patient care and reduce costs by applying content analytics software similar to what's found in the Jeopardy-playing Watson. Seton Healthcare Family is the first client to adopt and use the technology, called IBM Content and…
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  • I've Moved! A new year, a new blog.

    Mac Guidera
    3 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm
    I'm moving this blog over to IBM Connections. Starting.....now!I've Moved! A new year, a new blog.

  • IBM Connections iPad app is now available!

    Mac Guidera
    31 Oct 2011 | 8:33 am
    The iTunes App Store has just been updated with the 3.1.0 version of the iOS mobile application for IBM Connections. This now includes a beautiful iPad interface and some great file updates, like round trip editing of documents,  adding email attachments to Files and support for 'Open In'.What's New in Version 3.1.0 • Universal app - new native iPad interface• Ability to upload documents to the IBM Connections server from other apps that support the "Open In..." feature of iOS - Upload email attachments directly to the IBM Connections server - Enables round trip editing of documents.

  • Updated Connections plug-ins for Notes

    Mac Guidera
    28 Jul 2011 | 10:29 am
    The Connections Files plug-in has been updated on the Business Solutions catalog. This bring with it support for Mac OS X. Two of my favorite features for this is the drag and drop support to the desktop and the ability to quickly search for files in Notes.Grab it here now!While you're at it, be sure to get ht latest Status Updates Notes plug-in and Microsoft Office add-ons.

  • Social Software Compliance

    Mac Guidera
    20 Jun 2011 | 5:26 pm
    Announced today, IBM Connections speeds adoption of social software, particularly in regulated industries, through a partnership with Actiance, archiving and compliance software specialists!As announced at Lotusphere this year, we have been working very closely together to deliver a solution to banking, insurance, government, heathcare and anyone interested in compliance and e-discovery of content created in Connections. Our partnership, brings the first in market, total solution that will allow all social content to be captured for audit purposes in real-time. Using the Connections…

  • Lotus Quickr Connectors Updated!

    Mac Guidera
    6 Jun 2011 | 3:01 pm
    It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Quickr Connectors now support Microsoft Windows 64bit and Office 2010. As promised at this year's Lotusphere, our development teams were hard at work on this one and I thank them for their great work and earlier than expected release.The updated installers are available on Fix Central as Quickr Connectors 8.5.0.1_HF7.
 
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  • emacs tip: getting lines numbered

    dirk husemann
    19 Jan 2012 | 4:09 am
    the other day i was coding a scala apply(array: Array[String}) method to instantiate an object from a CSV file. i ended up with something like this: apply(uuid = uuid, source = source, hostname = rewired(0), type = rewired(0), state = rewired(0), category = rewired(0), id = rewired(0), lifecycle = rewired(0), classification = rewired(0), ... flag = rewired(0)) there were about a 100 parameters to use. i wasn’t really too excited about having to change the rewired(0) to use the proper index by hand. so, here’s what i did: in emacs mark the region then invoke shell-command-on-region…

  • sbt10, webplugin, jetty, run-in-place: once more…

    dirk husemann
    22 Jul 2011 | 9:55 am
    it turns out that the sbt/web-plugin configuration i described in my last post is not quite cutting it. what we observed is that while changes to the contents of the webapp subtree were indeed effective immediately1 sbt commands like prepare-webapp and jetty-reload would sometimes work and sometimes just ignore us. so, back to digging around in the web-plugin sources and this is what we are now using: temporaryWarPath <<= (sourceDirectory in Runtime) / "webapp", // watch temporaryWarPath / WEB-INF / classes jettyScanDirs <<= (temporaryWarPath) { (target) => Seq(target…

  • sbt10, webplugin: running jetty from source tree

    dirk husemann
    4 Jul 2011 | 9:39 am
    the solution described below turns out to have its flaws and is not really recommended — have a look at the recently posted update for a better solution! simple build tool 0.7.5 comprised the jetty and webapp functionality — version 0.10.0 (sbt10) no longer does so, instead you have to pull in the sbt webplugin. one feature of sbt7.5′s webapp support that we used heavily was the ability to run jetty out of the source tree instead of the exploded temporary WAR file: Another possibility is to directly run the web application out of the the source web application path: override def…

  • scala, emacs, sbt 0.10.0, ensime

    dirk husemann
    28 Jun 2011 | 4:56 am
    i’m an ardent emacs user. for our current project we chose the scala language as our programming language along with lift as the web application framework. initially we used maven but have switched over to the simple build tool — sbt in short — about half a year ago, as we found that to be faster than maven and also offering more features (such as test-only, test-quick, etc). to get scala support in emacs i’ve been using ensime which cooperated really well with sbt. the sbt project recently made version 0.10.0 available — aka sbt10. switching from sbt7.5 to sbt10 is either…

  • getting thunderbird to use yyyy-MM-dd HH:MM date format

    dirk husemann
    13 Apr 2011 | 1:40 am
    thunderbird is a terrific mail application (“mail user agent” is the posh name, i believe). pretty much the only thing i don’t like about it though is its way of formatting the date and time and not providing a way of letting me configure the date format via preferences. it got bad enough that i recently spent a bit of time to figure out how get thunderbird to display date and time in yyyy-MM-dd HH:MM format — that is, 2011-04-13 20:34 instead of 04/13/2011 08:34pm or something similarly silly. the solution was hiding in a forum post on the ubuntu forum: by switching the…
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    Damien Katz

  • Couchbase Meetup at new HQ

    Damien Katz
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:33 pm
    Join us Thursday January 19 at 6:30 PM at our brand new Headquarters (aka Fort Awesome). Join and RSVP here.

  • Why Couchbase?

    Damien Katz
    10 Jan 2012 | 9:36 pm
    So apparently my last entry ruffled some feathers, so maybe I should explain why I think Couchbase is the future? Simple Fast Elastic. That's pretty much it. We make it very simple to get started, we are extremely fast (and getting faster), and we really are "web scale", with the ability to add and remove machines from a cluster to rapidly scale your capacity to your workload. The Membase product was very fast and scalable, but a bit too simple, with no reporting capability or cross-datacenter replication capability. The CouchDB product has a lot of features, but is too slow, unable to keep…

  • The Future of CouchDB

    Damien Katz
    4 Jan 2012 | 10:14 pm
    What's the future of CouchDB? It's Couchbase. Huh? So what about Apache CouchDB? Well, that's a great project. I founded it, coded the earliest versions almost completely myself, I've spent a huge amount of blood, sweat and tears on it. I'm very proud of it and the impact it's had. And now I, and the Couchbase team, are mostly moving on. It's not that we think CouchDB isn't awesome. It's that we are creating the successor to it: Couchbase Server. A product and project with similar capabilities and goals, but more faster, more scalable, more customer and developer focused. And definitely not…

  • Become a Distributed Database Expert (or just look like one)

    Damien Katz
    27 Sep 2011 | 4:54 pm
    At Couchbase we are looking for experienced hackers to help us build the fastest, most reliable distributed database on the planet. You don't need to a be expert already, but you should be ready to learn the ins and outs of distribute database systems, including: Distributed Systems Systems Resource Management: io (disk, network), cpu, memory usage Maximizing Throughput and Minimizing Latency Functional programming Systems Reliability Network Programming Profiling, Benchmarking and Optimization Cluster and Network Topology Replication and Logical Sync Distributed Data modeling Embedded and…

  • Re: Data sync

    Damien Katz
    24 Sep 2011 | 1:08 pm
    >On Sep 23, 2011, at 1:40 AM, XXXX XXXXX wrote: > >Hi Damien, > >Greeting from XXXXX XXXXXX; > >Im running a small company with history in the mobile enterprise space > >We are just about to get some seed funding to build sqllite sync >technology for mobile devices; > >I came across CouchBase extremely cool; > >We are planning to offer some of same features; > >Offline access >Smart sync >Bandwidth optimisation > >It would be good to get any advice or pointers you might have in >terms of building sync technology for mobile >…
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  • Thoughts from Lotusphere 2012: Lotus Notes Social Edition

    Per Henrik Lausten
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:26 am
    One of the highlights from Lotusphere 2012 was the accouncement of the next feature release of Lotus Notes called Lotus Notes Social Edition. Lotus Notes Social Edition features a new homepage with activity streams and embedded apps (embedded experiences) using open standards such as OpenSocial. From the Lotus Notes homepage a user can interact with an external application without leaving the home page (collaboratio in-context). Lotus iNotes (the web mail component for Lotus Notes) will also support activity streams and embedded apps. The new homepage looks similar to the activity streams in…

  • Thoughts from Lotusphere 2012: IBM Connections 4 (“Next”)

    Per Henrik Lausten
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:13 am
    At the Lotusphere 2012 Opening General Session (OGS) and throughout the conference IBM showed the next version of IBM Connections (to be called IBM Connections 4.0?). My first impression of the next release of IBM Connections is that it looks really, really great! Among many things it features exciting new elements such as activity streams, social mail and embedded apps (using open standards such as Activity Streams and OpenSocial gadgets). Embedded apps for activity streams can be created using e.g. XPages. An embedded app makes it possible for the user to take action directly from the…

  • My plans for Lotusphere 2012

    Per Henrik Lausten
    9 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
    This is how I look I am going to Lotusphere 2012 in Orlando - and I look forward to it! Here are some of the things I plan to do and attend: B.A.L.D. (Bloggers and friends Annual Lotusphere Dinner) on Saturday Business Development Day general session on Sunday Welcome Reception on Sunday evening Opening General Session on Monday morning UK Night on Monday (if I can fake a proper English accent - and get the necessary UKLUG sticker on my conference badge) IBM Nordic dinner on Tuesday evening OpenNTF booth duty on Tuesday and Wednesday at booth 516 The Lotusphere party at Sea World on Wednesday…

  • XPages Extension Library on OpenNTF updated to match Upgrade Pack 1

    Per Henrik Lausten
    17 Dec 2011 | 4:10 pm
    The XPages Extension Library project on OpenNTF was updated yesterday to version 853-20111215. This version matches the newly released Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1. If you want to use the OpenNTF version (and not Upgrade Pack 1) you can update your servers and clients using the update site method. You can find the installation instructions for the OpenNTF version and for Upgrade Pack 1 on the Lotus Notes and Domino Application Development wiki. Related posts: Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1: Great news for XPages XPages Web Analytics custom control on OpenNTF XPages SEO custom control on…

  • Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1: Great news for XPages

    Per Henrik Lausten
    14 Dec 2011 | 11:49 am
    Great news for XPages today: Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Upgrade Pack 1 has just been released. In short, Upgrade Pack 1 is an IBM supported version of the XPages Extension Library. This should help remove the fear of the Extension Library being open source that some customers have had, and thereby improve the adoption of XPages out there. Upgrade Pack 1 is available on Passport Advantage as part number CI5GIEN. Related posts: XPages Extension Library on OpenNTF updated to match Upgrade Pack 1 Great resources on XPages Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3 and IBM XWork Server 8.5.3 are here
 
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  • Farewell to the Old Me

    Maureen
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:59 am
    I'm a folkie, as far as music goes. And the Dar Williams song titled "Farewell to the Old Me" has been going through my head a lot lately. I have worked on Domino Designer since February of 1997, with the exception of a foray of a few years into Lotus Component Designer. Since that technology ultimately contributed to Domino Designer, it feels like a contiguous 15 year span of time on Designer. I have often called Designer my seventh child, and in many ways it is. I have watched it grow from a few menu items and some extra twisties in the navigator to an Eclipse based product of its own. I've…

  • Out of the Pink...

    Maureen
    28 Oct 2010 | 3:00 pm
    This month is of course breast cancer awareness month. Pink has been everywhere... Profile pictures, ribbons, etc. I have mixed emotions about this in the best of times - breast cancer is just one of many cancers, and I am uncomfortable with its more than equal airtime. Taking actions like changing the color of a profile picture, or posting a status "against" a particular cancer (is anyone for it?) just really doesn't make sense to me. I feel the same way about my "own" cancer - the one I survived (merkel cell carcinoma) - so I don't think it's a case of my picking "favorites."The counter…

  • That problems view...

    Maureen
    30 Jun 2010 | 10:42 am
    I recently heard from a user who said that it wasn't possible to filter the contents of the problems view, and realized that others may also not realize that this is configurable. If you click on the little arrow that is on the far right on the problems view's title bar, you get a drop down menu. If you choose "Configure contents" a dialog is shown, pictured below. If you check off one or both of errors and warnings, and then for the Scope setting, choose "On any element in same project," the problems view will only show the errors and/or warnings that apply to the selected project. This is…

  • the firsts become lasts

    Maureen
    5 Jun 2010 | 10:00 am
    Yesterday morning, as I have most mornings over the past 24 years, I woke a child up for school. Counting day care years, this has been my morning routine for 27 years. And I realized that it was the last time I'd do so... Our youngest had his last final in high school yesterday, and all that remains are things like graduation rehearsals (later in the day) and senior banquets, and of course, graduation.He'll be off to college in the fall, and will have to depend on his alarm clock instead of mom. And I will have to rely on his alarm clock, too, to provide the safety net I've been for…

  • home is where the memories are

    Maureen
    25 Apr 2010 | 5:13 pm
    I'm headed home to Buffalo for the weekend in a couple of weeks, and started thinking about what I wanted to revisit (besides my mom!) and what I wanted to reconnect with in my home town.There are a certain set of foods for which Buffalo is famous: Ted's Hot Dogs and Anderson's Roast Beef on Kummelweck, and of course I will be headed back to Boston with some Weber's horseradish mustard. But then I remembered a very special pub... One that my first boyfriend would bring me to, with old graffiti-covered wooden booths (I believe our initials are on them!), and delicious frozen drinks with "no…
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  • My plan for 2012

    nick
    1 Jan 2012 | 3:45 pm
    I had a plan last year. The intention was there, but the execution was lacking. This year will be different. Rather than some nebulous, but well intentioned, aphorism, here are some of things I intend to do this year in no particular order. Flickr 366 – a photo a day. I’ve tried and failed this before; I think I set the bar too high wanting a year of high quality photos. So, here are my rules: (at least) one photo taken everyday. Uploaded to Flickr as and when I can – no point stressing over not being near my laptop or an Internet connection at 11:59pm. I’d rather…

  • Arduino 1.0 and the MQTT Client

    nick
    1 Dec 2011 | 4:11 pm
    With the long-awaited release of Arduino 1.0, it is time to do a new release of the MQTT client. Aside from some internal updates needed due to API changes in 1.0, this client has the improved keep-alive handling that I mentioned back in May. As ever, links to the download on the project page.

  • Big Red (usb) Button

    nick
    4 Oct 2011 | 3:12 pm
    A few weeks ago, Ben was putting together a proof-of-concept for what turned into the MQTT powered video wall. He needed a button to trigger the publishing of an MQTT message. We happened to have a Staples Easy Button lying around that was ripe for the hacking. A short time spent with scalpel and soldering iron and I had a pair of wires sticking out the bottom of the button that could be plugged into an arduino; which was good enough for Ben’s demo. But then this week Dale was wanting a button to use as a part of a Watson talk next week. Rather than just hand him the button, an arduino…

  • 10 Years an IBMer

    nick
    3 Sep 2011 | 4:03 pm
    Before going to university, when asked what I wanted to do, I would glibly say I’d probably go do a Computer Science degree and end up working for IBM. This wasn’t my life’s dream, it was just the easy reply to the question. I don’t remember why I picked IBM – I guess it was a big company that surely did interesting and worthwhile things that people would have heard of. In my final year at uni, getting to stage when I had to think about a job, companies were starting to run recruitment events. Having collected all the free pens, desk toys and post-it pads from…

  • Interesting 2011

    nick
    19 Jun 2011 | 5:20 am
    Sandy Noble’s PolarGraph plotter in action at Interesting2011.
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  • Storwize V7000 and SVC Release 6.3.0.1 is available for download

    anthonyv
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:11 am
    The first update for Storwize V7000 and SVC release 6.3 is now available.   You will find it here for Storwize V7000 and here for SVC (note both links will require you to login to Fix Central with your IBM ID).    As usual the new release contains a combination of new features and fixes.  The new features are: New features in SVC 6.3.0.1 * Support for multi-session iSCSI host attachment * Language Support for Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional ChineseThere are also several fixes (with some variation…

  • Adoption strategies for Social Software :: Blog :: Headshift

    SalvadorGallardo
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:04 pm
    "People promoting social software internally are like entrepreneurs launching a product into a messy world. There’s no set paths that give you the best results. In time, as more organisations build a library of stories about how they became a Social Business"Here is the URL for this bookmark: http://www.headshift.com/our-blog/2011/07/25/adoption-strategies-for-social-software/

  • Last Year's Resolutions

    az990tony
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:29 pm
    My how time flies! The month is almost over, and people are asking if I plan to discuss my [New Years' Resolutions]. For those readers new to my blog, you can review the [resolutions I made in prior years]. I started blogging about my New Year's resolutions back in 2007 because IBM has a "black-out" period before it announces its year-end financial results, and I can't talk about IBM itself during that time. Two articles gave me some insight. Derek Silvers writes in his blog post [Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.] Here is an excerpt: "Tests done…

  • How social analytics can help solve workforce woes

    daryl_pereira
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    Social analytics was a big topic at Lotusphere 2012 and a theme underpinning the social business push. Social analytics can be applied across the board, whether it's exposing the ROI of social media marketing, measuring the interaction between teams across internal social networks or finding those with similar interests. A demo by Sadat Shami within the IBM Innovation Lab showed a very interesting use of social analytics within the HR function.  In this case, social data can be analyzed and interpreted using Cognos Consumer Insight to explain workforce behavior patterns (why engineers…

  • A smart example of how to maximize capacity and utilization

    allenkane
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:47 pm
    In the business 20 years ago, wheat markets would move a dime a day, and that was a big move," explains ConAgra President Bill Stoufer. "Today we move in 50 cents or a dollar range [in the same time period] and when you're dealing with that kind of volatility, 5 to 6 percent of our customers' prices moving each day, they demand more from us to help predict the future as we go forward." In this video, Stoufer explains the current environment and how IBM technology helped establish a predictive analytics system that allows the company to keep up with constantly changing prices in…
 
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  • New podcast – Games at Work

    Andy Piper
    17 Jan 2012 | 1:10 pm
    The undead corpse of @dogearnation, rising again as new Games at Work podcast! bit.ly/AtPY2Z Braaains... I mean: Gaaaames!— Mikael Haglund (@0xdeadbeef) January 15, 2012 I’ve  been podcasting fairly regularly for the past few years, primarily with my good friends Michael Martine and Michael Rowe over in Durham, NC on a weekly show called Dogear Nation. As I’ve travelled more, and as we’ve all got more busy, it became harder to keep that momentum up. I know I, for one, was tired and looking for some fresh inspiration. When we reached episode 200 last year, we announced…

  • Supporting the Free and Open Web

    Andy Piper
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am
    This site will go dark tomorrow (18th January 2012) as part of the worldwide protest against the proposed US Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA – currently shelved). These are misconceived and threatening to the free and open operation of the Internet – and they have far-reaching implications that go far beyond the shores of the United States (got to love asymmetric extradition…). They need to be stopped. Tagged: censorship, freedom, internet, law, online, open web, pipa, rights, sopa, stopsopa, usa

  • Makers. Creativity. Learning. LEGO FTW.

    Andy Piper
    16 Jan 2012 | 4:10 pm
    It began, as these things sometimes do, with a childhood passion. One of my earliest memories is of kneeling on the floor at the back of my bedroom making LEGO cars – it was in version 1.0 of my bedroom as I grew up, before new furniture and decoration. I must have been about 4, or 5. I had a castle, knights, some space stuff including base boards with little moulded “craters”… lots of fun as a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. I’d long known that many of my friends and colleagues have remained huge LEGO fans (Cerys has just blogged about…

  • WebSphere Message Broker version 8 is out!

    Andy Piper
    13 Dec 2011 | 11:02 am
    Hot on the heels of the latest goodness in WebSphere MQ, it’s the turn of IBM’s Enterprise Service Bus – WebSphere Message Broker – to get a major new update. WMB v8.0 was announced back in early October and has just arrived ready for  download in versions for distributed platforms, System z mainframes, and as a Hypervisor Edition for Linux and AIX (to be provisioned via the IBM Workload Deployer appliance). As I did with WMQ last month, I wanted to take a moment to break out and highlight some of the key things in this release that you may have missed from the…

  • When Blocking the Web… Stops Work Getting Done

    Andy Piper
    6 Dec 2011 | 11:16 am
    Interesting situation recently. As long-time readers know, I’ve been a big fan of the Stop Blocking campaign for a number of years, and I tend to find it frustrating when I come across blocked networks. Trust and empowerment make me feel great in my job. I’ve spent most of October and November travelling to speak with customers and present at a couple of conferences around Europe. In that time, I generally had very few problems with network access. On one occasion though, I realised just how tricky things are becoming, as “social” elements become increasingly baked in…
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  • Choosing a new Smartphone

    gpoul
    17 Jan 2012 | 1:21 pm
    Now that christmas is over I can now turn to more important aspects; like choosing a new smartphone :-) Turns out though, that choosing a new smartphone is not that easy. Given I still haven’t decided what to buy I at least wanted to write about what smartphones I looked at and what I did and didn’t like. If there are any inconsistencies, inaccuracies, or you have a recommendation on what to buy, please help me out by posting a comment. The following are essential smartphone capabilities that I need: Calling & Texting – it’s a phone, after all :-) Push e-Mail…

  • Set Virtual Host MIME Types with wsadmin

    gpoul
    5 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    Today one of my customers had the need to add new MIME types to a virtual host because some file types were not recognized correctly by IE8. I looked around and there was nothing in wsadminlib for doing this, so I came up with my own setVirtualHostMimeTypes.py. I’ve thought about a more open sharing of sample scripts for some time, given that our release process for wsadminlib isn’t very agile, but it never really materialized. Maybe the creation of this mercurial repository will motivate me to share a few more. It’s kind of a waste to have various customers reinvent the…

  • Understanding Big Data

    gpoul
    26 Dec 2011 | 9:27 am
    I just finished reading Understanding Big Data – Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data by Paul C. Zikopoulos, Chris Eaton, Dirk deRoos, Thomas Deutsch, and George Lapis. I think the book was distributed to everyone in Software Group Austria and while we also certainly have exciting technology in our WebSphere part of the SWG business I must say I’m now very excited about the opportunity Big Data offers. The book starts with explaining the business challenges Big Data can help address and then talks about the technical solutions, toolkits, and capabilities IBM…

  • WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Beta

    gpoul
    20 Dec 2011 | 2:35 am
    Our WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Beta is now available. It includes the liberty profile and we also made a beta of Rational Application Developer V8.5 available so you can test our new development environment together with the runtime. You can find all of these on our WebSphere Early Programs Download Site. If you download and test those new beta versions, please don’t forget to send us your feedback!

  • A brief note on object mortality

    gpoul
    20 Nov 2011 | 8:08 am
    Joe Duffy ends his post about object mortality with: After saying all of this, I hope it is just amusing trivia. I’m sure nobody is writing finalizers these days anyway. I especially recommend to also look at the comments on that post and if you found that interesting, you might also want to read our Java development team’s take on finalizers.
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  • Linux survey finds growth at Microsoft’s expense & old perceptions lingering

    Savio Rodrigues
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:50 am
    After over a decade of Linux vendors attempting to grow into the enterprise and Red Hat, the poster child for Linux, approaching $1 billion in annual revenue, it’s easy to presume that Linux is pervasive in the enterprise. It is, but, as the Linux Foundation’s enterprise survey finds, there are still some barriers to overcome. Additionally, the survey presents new data showing Windows, not Unix, as the primary operating system for migrations to Linux. The Linux Foundation recently released the results of a survey with 428 IT professionals from organizations with 500 or more…

  • The growing use of appliances in your datacenter

    Savio Rodrigues
    6 Jan 2012 | 3:42 am
    It’s only a matter of time until the consumerization of IT bleeds over from your non-IT employees into your IT department. While this may sound far fetched, iPad like systems, such as appliances or workload optimized systems, are already finding a foothold in your IT datacenter, and it’s not about to stop. Consumerization of IT is here to stay As InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman explains, the consumerization of IT is in full force with employees choosing hardware and software that best meets their needs without regard for corporate IT standards. The trend started well before…

  • Mozilla’s 3 bold bets to keep the web open

    Savio Rodrigues
    23 Dec 2011 | 3:15 am
    While a renewed search deal between Google and Mozilla is welcome news to millions of Firefox users, Mozilla has three big ideas for 2012 and beyond that will see it competing much more with Google, Facebook and Apple. Here’s why you should be cheering Mozilla on. Biting the hand that feeds it? As InfoWorld’s Woody Leonhard writes, it was in Google’s best interests to prevent Microsoft’s Bing from becoming the default search provider in Firefox. As much as Mozilla relies on Google for 80 percent plus of its revenue, so too does Google rely on the search traffic from…

  • VMware Cloud Foundry fork takes on Microsoft Azure

    Savio Rodrigues
    16 Dec 2011 | 3:22 am
    With Microsoft’s Windows Azure striving for greater relevance and adoption, a relatively unknown vendor, Tier 3, is providing a cloud alternative for Microsoft .NET applications. Tier 3 is using VMware’s open source code as the basis of its offering, which opens the door for direct competition amongst VMware and Microsoft for .NET cloud workloads in the future. Tier 3′s .NET play Colleague J. Peter Bruzzese recently provided an update on new pricing, open source support and a free trial of Windows Azure. Support for Node.js and Apache Hadoop for Azure are sure to attract the…

  • The Kindle Fire may be just what Apple & Microsoft ordered

    Savio Rodrigues
    25 Nov 2011 | 3:01 am
    With the holiday season upon us, and tablets at the top of many gift lists, it’s all but certain that millions of new users will get exposed to an open source based Android Tablet. By all accounts, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is expected to leapfrog into, at least, number two position in the tablet market. While this would appear to be good news for Android tablets and the Android OS, it may actually be exactly what Apple and Microsoft had asked for Christmas (or any other holiday these companies choose to celebrate). Great price and Amazon content versus clunky user experience I’m…
 
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  • Port Forwarding

    Sam Ruby
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:21 am
    Problem: I’m not always at the machine that is VPN’ed into work. Solution: place the following into /etc/network/if-up.d/sametime-forwarder: #!/bin/sh # # redirect Sametime's port 1533 to messaging.ibm.com # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # turns on forwarding iptables -F -t nat # Flush existing translation tables iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 1533 -j DNAT --to 9.17.136.77:1533 iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE

  • AWDwR updated for Rails 3.2

    Sam Ruby
    20 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am
    P P David Heinemeier Hansson: there’s a brand new 3.2-compatible version of Agile Web Development with Rails. This time, the release of Rails 3.2 and the release of the eBook were coordinated.

  • The President’s challenge

    Sam Ruby
    17 Jan 2012 | 9:36 am
    SOPA Nat Torkington: Don’t wait for the time machine, because we’re never going to invent something that returns you to 1965 when copying was hard and you could treat the customer’s convenience with contempt. Take action.

  • Bootstrapping Debian Unstable

    Sam Ruby
    4 Jan 2012 | 2:10 pm
    It turns out that the following is all it takes to install Debian Unstable in a chroot jail under Ubuntu, and then to log into that jail as root: apt-get install debootstrap schroot mkdir /tmp/unstable debootstrap unstable /tmp/unstable chroot /tmp/unstable There are a few things that need cleaning up, however, starting with locales: apt-get install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales Once there, select en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 both to be installed, and as the default locale. The following will eliminate a number of other warnings you may see: echo "none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0" >>…

  • Ubuntu vs Ruby

    Sam Ruby
    24 Dec 2011 | 3:06 pm
    If Ubuntu 12.04 if a LTS release, and Ruby 1.8.7 goes out of support in June of 2013, then why is the default still 1.8.7? Ruby 1.9.2 was released in 2010. Ruby 1.9.3 was released in October of this year.
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  • Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012 Highlights – Back to Basics of Conferences! #ls12 #ibmconnect

    Luis Suarez
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:31 pm
    As more and more blog posts are starting to come along sharing further insights on some of the major highlights from the recent IBM Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012 events held last week in Orlando, Florida, I guess it’s now time for me to start sharing my two cents on what both events were like, what I learned, what I thought were some pretty interesting developments and happenings, as well as a bunch of other tidbits that I think would prove useful to share over here in this blog. So over the course of the next few days, perhaps couple of weeks, and in between other blog entries here…

  • Time Flies When You Are Having Fun – Happy IBM Anniversary!

    Luis Suarez
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    Whoahh! Who would have thought about that, eh? Here is this English Language and English Literature BA just going through one of those milestones difficult to achieve in today’s current time and age. Who would have thought that on January 20th 1997 I would start working for IBM and that 15 years later I would still be there having a blast loving what I love doing: working smarter, not necessarily harder, with plenty of people as passionate as I am for everything related to knowledge sharing, collaboration, communities, learning and social networking, and aiming at doing, or, at least,…

  • The Tribulations of Business Travelling with Delta Airlines

    Luis Suarez
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am
    Now that Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012 are both behind us, and what a truly amazing experience that was altogether!, it’s time for me to come back to the blog and resume those regular blogging activities as before, once again. Lots to share and lots more to talk about! However, and before I get things going covering some of the major highlights from both events and what I learned from them, I would want to put together this blog entry to share with you folks one of those incredibly depressing and horrifying experiences one can get exposed to when doing business travelling: being…

  • IBM Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2011 – The Agendas #ls12 #ibmconnect

    Luis Suarez
    15 Jan 2012 | 9:50 am
    You can surely feel the vibe and the excitement building up nicely over the last few hours. I’m already in Orlando, Florida, having had a really good night sleep and plenty of rest, probably the last one of the week!, once the Lotusphere mayhem breaks loose and chaos unleashes with no remedy and I can already see lots of buzz and people getting excited about what’s to come over the next few days. So I thought that perhaps for the potential last blog post from yours truly for a short while over here, while I get to enjoy plenty of offline social networking, it would be a good thing…

  • IBM Lotusphere and CONNECT 2012 – Here We Go Again! #ls12 #IBMConnect

    Luis Suarez
    14 Jan 2012 | 10:59 pm
    Yesterday was my last vacation day and today, once again, to kick off another exciting year ahead of living social, and a few other things, I am sure!, I am on the road again on what means my first business trip of the year, with plenty more to come along over the next few months! And like every year, it is time for that yearly pilgrimage to what, to me, is *the* main IBM event of events on the topics of Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing and Social Business and, specially, this time around more than ever. Of course, I am talking about the IBM Lotusphere 2012 event, which this time around, also…
 
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  • Storwize V7000 and SVC Release 6.3.0.1 is available for download

    anthonyv
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:11 am
    The first update for Storwize V7000 and SVC release 6.3 is now available.   You will find it here for Storwize V7000 and here for SVC (note both links will require you to login to Fix Central with your IBM ID).    As usual the new release contains a combination of new features and fixes.  The new features are: New features in SVC 6.3.0.1 * Support for multi-session iSCSI host attachment * Language Support for Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional ChineseThere are also several fixes (with some variation…

  • Adoption strategies for Social Software :: Blog :: Headshift

    SalvadorGallardo
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:04 pm
    "People promoting social software internally are like entrepreneurs launching a product into a messy world. There’s no set paths that give you the best results. In time, as more organisations build a library of stories about how they became a Social Business"Here is the URL for this bookmark: http://www.headshift.com/our-blog/2011/07/25/adoption-strategies-for-social-software/

  • Last Year's Resolutions

    az990tony
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:29 pm
    My how time flies! The month is almost over, and people are asking if I plan to discuss my [New Years' Resolutions]. For those readers new to my blog, you can review the [resolutions I made in prior years]. I started blogging about my New Year's resolutions back in 2007 because IBM has a "black-out" period before it announces its year-end financial results, and I can't talk about IBM itself during that time. Two articles gave me some insight. Derek Silvers writes in his blog post [Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.] Here is an excerpt: "Tests done…

  • How social analytics can help solve workforce woes

    daryl_pereira
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    Social analytics was a big topic at Lotusphere 2012 and a theme underpinning the social business push. Social analytics can be applied across the board, whether it's exposing the ROI of social media marketing, measuring the interaction between teams across internal social networks or finding those with similar interests. A demo by Sadat Shami within the IBM Innovation Lab showed a very interesting use of social analytics within the HR function.  In this case, social data can be analyzed and interpreted using Cognos Consumer Insight to explain workforce behavior patterns (why engineers…

  • A smart example of how to maximize capacity and utilization

    allenkane
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:47 pm
    In the business 20 years ago, wheat markets would move a dime a day, and that was a big move," explains ConAgra President Bill Stoufer. "Today we move in 50 cents or a dollar range [in the same time period] and when you're dealing with that kind of volatility, 5 to 6 percent of our customers' prices moving each day, they demand more from us to help predict the future as we go forward." In this video, Stoufer explains the current environment and how IBM technology helped establish a predictive analytics system that allows the company to keep up with constantly changing prices in…
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    Scott on Security

  • Another really good description of SOPA and PIPA

    Scott Wilson
    19 Jan 2012 | 4:16 pm
    The Khan Academy has a really good video that explains what SOPA and PIPA are about, including why these policies represent a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality.Thanks to the Khan Academy for the content.

  • The myth of 4G

    Scott Wilson
    19 Jan 2012 | 3:07 pm
    There are no 4G networks anywhere in the world.But if you believe what AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon are saying on television, they're already here and you can get a 4G phone today! There's a great article on CNN Money describing the state of the art.The ITU defines 4G as a network capable of download speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps). As you can see, that ain't what we're getting...Not surprisingly, the promise of 4G is more marketing hype than reality. The providers are actually rolling out 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), with plans to eventually migrate to LTE Advanced in the…

  • Best explanation of SOPA and PIPA I've heard

    Scott Wilson
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:33 pm
    Mitchell Baker of The Mozilla Foundation posted a really good analogy to help folks understand SOPA and PIPA. It's great.Assume there's a corner store in your neighborhood that rents movies. But the movie industry believes that some or even all of the videos in that store are unauthorized copies, so that they're not being paid when people watch their movies. What should be done?SOPA/PIPA do not aim at the people trying to get to the store, or even the store itself. The solution under the proposed bills is to make it as difficult as possible to find or interact with the store:Maps showing the…

  • Tips to improve security monitoring

    Scott Wilson
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:22 pm
    I recently read a DarkReading article entitled "Five Principles To Improve Your Security Monitoring", but was disappointed at the lack of specificity in these recommendations. So that you don't have to read the whole thing, the principles are:Know yourselfKnow the terrainKnow where to defendKnow the enemyMeasure security, not workUh, OK? This sounds more like something from "The Art of War" than it does IT Security advice. Admittedly, that's what the article is going for; and it does have more detail accompanying these bullet points. I think a bit more explicit advice work better:Take…

  • The dangers of defensive cyberweapons

    Scott Wilson
    5 Jan 2012 | 8:41 am
    Recently, the team at Project Honeynet tweeted a link to news about Fujitsu's contract to develop a weaponized program used for cyberdefense. This isn't unheard of, but this news is interesting because of Fujitsus' program's ability to backtrack malware to its source and [supposedly] cripple it. In other words, the program "has the ability to disable the attacking program and collect relevant information".This is an interesting development, and the Project Honeynet team's tweet asked if anyone had thoughts. Well, my thoughts immediately focused on the potential abuse of such an application.
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  • AD106, AD111 and AD114 slides posted

    Stephan H Wissel
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:35 pm
    Now available on Slideshare: AD106 - IBM Lotus Domino XPages anywhere - Write them once, See them Everywhere AD111 - The X Path: Practical guide to taking your IBM Lotus Notes applications to Domino XPages AD114 - Don't be afraid of curly brackets reloaded - even more JavaScript for LotusScript Developers There are a few more. Enjoy!

  • Lotussphere Session evaluations

    Stephan H Wissel
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    With AD106, AD111 and AD114 my colleagues and I delivered 3 development sessions. I always find it difficult to strike the right balance, so different levels of audience can benefit from them. Hunter, Viktor and I spend a lot of time discussing, creating, revising and starting over when we prepared for the sessions. It seems we were well accepted. Here are the ratings and comments: AD106 - IBM Lotus Domino XPages anywhere - Write them once, See them Everywhere: 97.5% good & excellent ratings for quality and content and 90.0% good & excellent ratings for quality and effectiveness of…

  • AD111 - What's your investment in Notes Applications?

    Stephan H Wissel
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:28 am
    One of the items in our AD111 presentation that got a lot of attention was the CoCoMo II analysis of existing Notes applications. I'll explain what it is and how to run your own analysis: CoCoMo stands for COnstructive COst MOdel, first published in 1981 by Dr. Barry Boehm of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering of the University of Southern California and later refined in version 2 (you can read all about it on their website). In a nutshell: If you know how much lines of code you need, how complex the task is and how experienced your developers as a team are, then CoCoMo II can…

  • Give your web applications a speedboost and HTML5 compatibility boost in Internet Explorer

    Stephan H Wissel
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:02 am
    With the accelerating emergence of mobile devices HTML5 takes centre stage. While the first round of the "browser wars 2.0" was all about speed, the second round is about HTML5 compatibility and behaviour. With the dominance of Android and iOS in the mobile market Microsoft's Internet Explorer isn't the gold standard for browsers anymore, the test results rather show IE as trying to catch up. Furthermore, since it isn't a standard if it doesn't allow for divergent interpretation, Microsoft implements HTML5 features different than the rest, creating a headache for developers. The irony in the…

  • Lotusphere announcements (The OGS)

    Stephan H Wissel
    16 Jan 2012 | 8:07 am
    Starting Lotusphere with a Geek Band was quite enjoyable. Alistair opened the session going directly to to the most burning of questions: Who's the speaker: Entering the stage Michael J. Fox got standing ovations. This response to people lamenting about problems is "There was a lady who had a baby in a tree, what have you got?" Alistair's key message: "Get social, make more Money!". Getting there requires collective intelligence, rethink, reinvent and transform businesses. The product announcements confirmed that IBM is deprecating the Lotus brand in favour of a stronger emphasis on the core…
 
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    Irving Wladawsky-Berger

  • Information, Money and Related Subjects

    IWB
    30 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    “Money, it is conventional to argue, is a medium of exchange, which has the advantage of eliminating inefficiencies of barter; a unit of account which facilitates valuation and calculation; and a store of value which allows economic transactions to be conducted over long periods as well as geographical distances,” writes Harvard historian Niall Ferguson in The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World.  For a long time, money was embodied in precious metals like gold and silver.  The earliest known gold coins were produced in Lydia, in what is now Western Turkey about…

  • Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation

    IWB
    23 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Through the years, I have been intrigued by the number of once powerful companies that are no longer around.  Darwinian principles seem to apply in business as much as in biology.  When technology and market environments go through major changes, as is certainly the case today, previously successful business strategies will no longer work, no matter how much you try to fix them.  Companies that are unable or unwilling to adapt to the changes in such a Darwinian climate will become marginalized or extinct. It is not hard to understand how I come to this somewhat fatalistic…

  • The Legend of Apple and Xerox PARC and the Truth About Innovation

    IWB
    16 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Every December for the last few years, NY Times OpEd columnist David Brooks picks the best magazine essays of the year.  He describes his choices in two of his columns, with links to the essays in their online version.  I generally really like his selections.  One of his choices this year is a New Yorker article by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell - Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation.Gladwell is a great storyteller.  He uses Steve Jobs’ legendary 1979 visit to Xerox PARC as the springboard for his reflections on the nature of…

  • The US Economy in 2012 - Two Big Problems, Two Ready Solutions

    IWB
    9 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    What should the US do in 2012 to address its tough economic problems?  We will hear many answers to this question through this presidential election year.  Many will be based on ideological conviction and/or political opportunism.  They will likely not lead to any kind of workable solutions.  But some will be more pragmatic and might perhaps stand a chance.The January 1 Sunday Business section of the NY Times asked six economists to give their best advice for 2012 on a variety of issues.  Among them was Christina Romer, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and…

  • Scale and Complex Systemic Innovation

    IWB
    2 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    The year end issue of The Economist includes a provocative column - Big and clever: Why large firms are often more inventive than small ones.  The column addresses a fundamental question that those studying innovation have been wrestling with for years:  “Are big companies the best catalysts of innovation, or are small ones better?”The column is based on a recent study - Scale and Innovation in Today’s Economy - by Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist of the Progressive Policy Institute.  “Conventional wisdom these days says that small is better when it comes to…
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    IBM developerWorks : Information Management : Articles

  • Designing a database for multi-tenancy on the cloud

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Learn some considerations that new software as a service (SaaS) vendors need to take into account when developing applications or modifying existing ones to enable them for multi-tenancy on the cloud. The article discusses the considerations only from a database perspective -- specifically, from an IBM DB2 perspective. Six cases or methods are described.

  • Optimize InfoSphere DataStage jobs with Netezza Connector using InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    In this article, learn how to use a DatgaStage extension called InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization to rewrite a DataStage job to enhance performance by sharing or redistributing the processing load among Infosphere DataStage and the source and target databases. Special emphasis has been given to features unique to Netezza Connector, including Action Column, Unique Key Column for update support, and Temporary Work Table. The article also discusses additional features available in the InfoSphere Information Server V8.7 release, including the Filter stage, and multiple output links of…

  • Leveraging pureXML in a Flex microblogging application, Part 1: Enabling Web services with DB2 pureXML

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.

  • System versus SQL name - Part 1

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    When executing SQL statements you can run them either using System or SQL Naming. The System Naming conventions follow the traditional methods used on IBM i systems such as library support. The SQL Naming mode on the other hand is defined in the SQL Standard and used by all other databases. When asking what is the difference between SQL and System Naming, you will normally get the answer, schema and object are either separated with a slash or a period. However there are many more differences especially with regard to the access authority and ownership of database objects created either using…

  • Security and deployment best practices for InfoSphere Information Server Packs for SAP applications, Part 1: A security primer

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    This article shows you how to deploy the SAP side components of the IBM InfoSphere Information Server DataStage Packs for SAP Applications. It explains the various stage types and gives an overview of the relevant installation and security administration concepts.
 
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    IBM developerWorks : Java technology

  • Deploy a J2EE app with TSAM extensions

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) 7.2.2 introduces the extension, a set of TSAM software components that can implement a new IT service automation solution (known as a service definition) or add capabilities to existing service definitions. In this article, the authors define a scenario in which the desired result is to securely deploy a three-tiered enterprise application (in this case J2EE) to the cloud. They demonstrate how to set up and provision extensions in TSAM as the first step to accomplishing this task.

  • Java development 2.0: Securing Java application data for cloud computing

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Data security is a serious concern for organizations considering cloud adoption, but in many cases it needn't be. In this installment of Java development 2.0, learn how to use private-key encryption and the Advanced Encryption Standard to secure sensitive application data for the cloud. You'll also get a quick tutorial on encryption strategy, which is important for maximizing the efficiency of conditional searches on distributed cloud datastores.

  • Customize container-managed security with AuthenticRoast

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    AuthenticRoast is an open source project that works with the Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers (JSR 196) to let you develop custom authentication modules for use with container-managed, declarative security. Joe Sam Shirah shows how AuthenticRoast can minimize configuration impact on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) containers and greatly reduce coding effort for custom security requirements. A downloadable WAR with demonstration code is provided.

  • Passing data objects between CICS Java environments: Part 2: Techniques for passing Java data objects

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Java is becoming a popular programming language for CICS applications. CICS provides multiple Java environments, each with its own strengths, so passing data objects between the different CICS Java environments is an important topic. This three-part article series gives you the details. Part 2 uses an example Java class to show you how to pass Java data objects between applications running in a CICS-pooled JVM, an Axis2-based JVM, a CICS Dynamic Scripting environment, and a CICS OSGi-based JVM.

  • Using RichFaces with JSF 2

    10 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    RichFaces, like most other rich/Ajax component frameworks designed for use with JavaServer Faces (JSF), was extensively revamped for compatibility with the significant changes in JSF 2. Joe Sam Shirah examines changed and new RichFaces 4.1 components that provide the same functionality he demonstrated in "An introduction to RichFaces" with version 3.1. He also updates the setup requirements for using RichFaces with JSF.
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    IBM developerWorks : Linux

  • Linux for Window systems administrators, Part 1: Managing and monitoring the extended file system

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Windows and Linux use different file system architectures. Fortunately, your Windows experience can put you on the fast track to being comfortable managing and monitoring the Linux extended file systems. This article helps you learn your way around the extended disk file system family on Linux.

  • Scripting KVM with Python, Part 2: Add a GUI to manage KVM with libvirt and Python

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Further explore how to use Python to create scripts for managing virtual machines using KVM. Learn how to add a GUI to expand on the simple status and display tool.

  • Firewall uptime and security with iptables

    4 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Iptables is the standard Linux firewall application. It is easy to configure and maintain while powerful enough to provide the control expected from a high-end appliance. Learn how to get started with iptables, recover from common issues, and simulate a small-office usage scenario.

  • Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments): Performance tuning

    20 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    In preparation for taking the Linux Professional Institute Certification exam LPI-302 for systems administrators, learn how to measure Samba performance and make Samba work faster.

  • Elevate cloud security with privilege delegation

    14 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    In this article, the author discusses the needs that drive migration of data centers into the cloud, details the role of virtualization in both public and private cloud infrastructures, and outlines the security and compliance implications of cloud computing in order to provide insight into the protection of sensitive data in the cloud through "administrative access" and "privileged delegation."
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    IBM developerWorks : Open source

  • Casting spells with ImageMagick

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    ImageMagick is a suite of open source tools for creating, editing, and converting bitmap images. The advanced developer can leverage its many capabilities to produce quality, professional bitmap images, and other artwork for display on websites, in marketing brochures, and anywhere the artistic mood may strike. Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, ImageMagick can be freely used, copied, modified, and distributed in both open and proprietary applications.

  • Leveraging pureXML in a Flex microblogging application, Part 1: Enabling Web services with DB2 pureXML

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.

  • Scripting KVM with Python, Part 2: Add a GUI to manage KVM with libvirt and Python

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Further explore how to use Python to create scripts for managing virtual machines using KVM. Learn how to add a GUI to expand on the simple status and display tool.

  • Customize container-managed security with AuthenticRoast

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    AuthenticRoast is an open source project that works with the Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers (JSR 196) to let you develop custom authentication modules for use with container-managed, declarative security. Joe Sam Shirah shows how AuthenticRoast can minimize configuration impact on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) containers and greatly reduce coding effort for custom security requirements. A downloadable WAR with demonstration code is provided.

  • Store datasets directly in shared memory with PHP

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Learn about shared memory and how to use it in web applications as a data storage option, benefiting from high speed, reliability, and data exchange with other applications. Provided examples show how it may help solve common problems in web application development.
 
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    IBM developerWorks : Rational : Articles

  • Combine Rational Change and ClearCase for seamless change and configuration management

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    This article covers the configuration of the Rational Change for ClearCase Interface and using Rational Change and Rational ClearCase together for change and configuration management. It highlights how Rational Change integrates with Rational ClearCase to track the implementation of change requests. It is intended for readers who have an intermediate level of knowledge of Rational Change and Rational ClearCase.

  • Successful code reuse with code-centric development and modeling

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Modeling is an essential step in the process of analyzing existing code so that you can make decisions about what gets reused. When you understand the overall architecture of the code, building your products into a complete product line engineering (PLE) workflow becomes much easier to do and to maintain. You need to understand how the code fits together, how you could best use it in the future, and which parts you might want to modify. The main reasons to analyze code are for documentation, reuse, modification, or maintenance. This article explains the keys to successful reuse and how to…

  • Top 5 tips for using agile in mission critical systems development

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    By definition, the cost of failure in mission-critical products is very high. Applying agile methods to the development of the software and systems that run them can help prevent the defects that lead to failure. Agile development methods can improve product quality, reduce costs and the time to market, and increase the predictability of their outcomes. However, it takes some fine-tuning of agile methods so that they make sense for these complex and rigorous projects. Agile governance, dynamic planning, test-driven development, incremental development and effective risk management are the…

  • Five tips for assembling successful Disciplined Agile Delivery teams

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    "Disciplined Agile Delivery" (DAD) is a set of practices advanced by IBM to help larger software development teams be as successful with agile development as smaller teams. DAD isn't just another agile method; instead, it offers a hybrid framework that combines the best guidance from a variety of existing and proven agile practices. DAD also supplements common agile methods with enterprise guidance. As a result, it can help organizations with project teams of more than 20 people get the most out of agile development methodologies. When you form teams for DAD, there are a number…

  • Strategies for performing with agility

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The first declaration of the Agile Manifesto is "individuals and interactions over processes and tools," yet this fundamental tenant seems to get lost on many agile projects. Highly capable people guided by fundamental principles of agility are more important than any tools, technology or overly-specific processes and best practices. This article provides tips for executives, development managers, and agile team leads to strike the balance of structure and freedom so they can reap the rewards of high performance teamwork and more successful agile projects.
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    IBM developerWorks : Tivoli : Articles

  • Deploy a J2EE app with TSAM extensions

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) 7.2.2 introduces the extension, a set of TSAM software components that can implement a new IT service automation solution (known as a service definition) or add capabilities to existing service definitions. In this article, the authors define a scenario in which the desired result is to securely deploy a three-tiered enterprise application (in this case J2EE) to the cloud. They demonstrate how to set up and provision extensions in TSAM as the first step to accomplishing this task.

  • Extended Insight in WebSphere Application Server environments

    8 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS V5.1.0 allows end-to-end database transaction response time monitoring for WebSphere Application Server applications with its Extended Insight feature. This capability provides insight into the transaction and SQL statement response-time metrics of a database application throughout all layers of the software stack; from the time that the SQL is issued in the application and through the network and database server. Support is available for WebSphere Application database applications in the form of additional time-spent metrics for the…

  • Establish a system to build custom virtual cloud images

    7 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    Virtual images allow users to freeze-dry preferred software environments and deliver them to users in a rapid and consistent manner: As a result, companies are turning to virtual images as a means to improve software delivery within their data centers. As they make greater use of virtual images, challenges are emerging -- such as determining how much content to put into a single image and how best to construct these images. The authors discuss these challenges and introduce the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool (ICCT), freely available for download, that addresses many of these…

  • Why software quality assurance and IT security need to work together

    4 Oct 2011 | 1:00 am
    This article describes a new approach to security, with the software development and software quality assurance teams working together to be exponentially more effective. It explains how quality assurance processes can help IT be more secure and how IT security can help secure the test environment more efficiently. Readers will also learn how to incorporate security testing better into the software development life cycle.

  • DB2 Tools corner: New data sharing group support in IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS

    8 Sep 2011 | 1:00 am
    IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS has added support for data sharing group displays. You can now display CPU times, CPU percentages, object data set names that are used by a thread, and locking conflict resource names for remote members of a data sharing group.
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    IBM developerWorks : Web development

  • Comment lines: Choosing the right web content management delivery solution

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The IBM Web Content Manager software offers different solutions for delivering web content to your users . This article explains all the solutions available and why you would chose each.

  • WebSphere proxy server routing capabilities in a secured environment

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    This article discusses the various routing capabilities of the WebSphere proxy server, which is a feature of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. Multiple configuration scenarios are presented, along with background information, setup instructions and tips to help you achieve success routing content using proxy server features in a secured environment.

  • Measure UI performance on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The author debuts a framework for IBM SmartCloud Enterprise that lets you establish an automated, UI performance-measuring system that engages Fiddler, a web debugging proxy. This article explains the framework, Fiddler, the performance metrics that are captured by the system, and how they are important to UI performance measurement.

  • Use the jQuery Mobile API for fine-grained custom control

    10 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The jQuery Mobile framework is a quick and easy way to create mobile websites. However, you might not know that the framework has a decent API that you can use to extend the basic functionality. This article provides an overview of some of the most useful features in the API and gives you working code examples throughout.

  • Publishing XML data in HTML and PDF using a single XSLT stylesheet

    3 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Learn how to publish XML documents in HTML and PDF using the css2xslfo utility.
 
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    IBM developerWorks : XML

  • Using JDBC to extract data into XML

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    XML is best suited to storing data, so it's inevitable that at some point someone will ask you to pull information from a database and manipulate it as though it were XML. This tutorial will teach you to access a database using JDBC and use SQL to pull information, which you will then use to build an XML Document using a predetermined mapping.

  • Leveraging pureXML in a Flex microblogging application, Part 1: Enabling Web services with DB2 pureXML

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.

  • Explore QTI in depth

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification is a widely used standard for marking up questions and other learning material. Look at the response and result processing for a QTI item and learn what happens when a user answers a question.

  • Publishing XML data in HTML and PDF using a single XSLT stylesheet

    3 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Learn how to publish XML documents in HTML and PDF using the css2xslfo utility.

  • XML data mining, Part 2: Mining XML association rules

    13 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    In Part 2 of this series, learn about mining association rules from XML documents. Mining association rules from XML documents is different from mining rules from relational data. Information can be structured differently in XML because of the language's flexibility and hierarchical organization. This article also introduces the notion of dynamic association rules. You'll explore an approach to mining XML association rules when the underlying XML documents change without a full re-run of the association rules discovery algorithm.
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    IBM Redbooks | BladeCenter

  • IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric Solutions 2nd Edition

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 - Covering both IBM Virtual Fabric Mode and Switch Independent Mode - Concepts and benefits of virtual NICs (vNICs) - Step-by-step instructions for how to create various vNIC solutions The deployment of server virtualization technologies in data centers requires significant efforts in providing sufficient network I/O bandwidth to satisfy the demand of virtualized applications and services.

  • IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager

    20 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 - Introducing the IBM zEnterprise ensemble and the Unified Resource Manager - Planning for and implementing ensemble components with zManager - Operating and managing an ensemble with Unified Resource Manager The zEnterprise System is the first system of its kind.

  • IBM CloudBurst on System x

    11 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 - Cloud computing overview - CloudBurst hardware and software - CloudBurst administration and upgrade scenarios This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives an overview of Cloud solutions, followed by detailed information and usage scenarios for IBM CloudBurst® in a System x® environment.

  • Integrated Management Module (IMM) Support on IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers

    27 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 This document lists which IBM® System x® and BladeCenter® servers support the Integrated Management Module (IMM) service processor.

  • Set Up Security and Integration with the DataPower XI50z for zEnterprise

    20 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 - Bridge the gap between mainframe and distributed with DataPower XI50z - Learn to implement the zEnterprise ensemble network - Use XI50z to connect with WMQ, CICS, IMS, and DB2 This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses the new IBM WebSphere® DataPower® Integration Appliance XI50 for zEnterprise™ that bridges the gap between mainframe and distributed.
 
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    IBM Redbooks | IBM System i™

  • Configuring ISDM in a Power Systems Cloud

    26 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 - Detailed installation steps of ISDM - Detailed cloud resource installation instructions - Point and click deployment of AIX Managing IT systems is difficult.

  • IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 - Provides managing and monitoring best practices focused on virtualization - Covers AIX, IBM i, and Linux for Power virtual I/O clients - Includes Virtual I/O Server 2.2 enhancements IBM® PowerVM™ virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5™-, POWER5+™,POWER6® and POWER7™-based systems.

  • IBM PowerVM Getting Started Guide

    16 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redpaper, last updated: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 - Step by step virtualization configuration from scratch to the first partition - IVM, HMC, and SDMC examples - Advanced configurations included IBM® PowerVM™ virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5™-, POWER5+™,POWER6™ and POWER7™-based systems.

  • IBM i 7.1 Technical Overview with Technology Refresh Updates

    23 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 - Boost efficiency with enriched virtualization and storage integration - Use enhanced database functions and new application development tools - Benefit from centralized system management and perfomance tooling This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces a technical overview of the new features, functions, and enhancements available in IBM i 7.1.

  • PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i Cookbook

    18 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 - Take advantage of PowerHA to configure and manage high availability - Find guidance on planning and implementing PowerHA - Benefit from latest PowerHA solution enhancements IBM® PowerHA™ SystemMirror for i is the IBM high availability disk-based clustering solution for the IBM i 7.1 operating system.
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    IBM Redbooks | IBM System p™

  • Configuring ISDM in a Power Systems Cloud

    26 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 - Detailed installation steps of ISDM - Detailed cloud resource installation instructions - Point and click deployment of AIX Managing IT systems is difficult.

  • IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 - Provides managing and monitoring best practices focused on virtualization - Covers AIX, IBM i, and Linux for Power virtual I/O clients - Includes Virtual I/O Server 2.2 enhancements IBM® PowerVM™ virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5™-, POWER5+™,POWER6® and POWER7™-based systems.

  • IBM PowerVM Getting Started Guide

    16 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redpaper, last updated: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 - Step by step virtualization configuration from scratch to the first partition - IVM, HMC, and SDMC examples - Advanced configurations included IBM® PowerVM™ virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5™-, POWER5+™,POWER6™ and POWER7™-based systems.

  • Power Systems Enterprise Servers with PowerVM Virtualization and RAS

    15 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 - Unleash the IBM Power Systems virtualization features - Understand reliability, availability, and serviceability - Learn about various deployment case scenarios This IBM® Redbooks® publication illustrates implementation, testing, and helpful scenarios with IBM Power® Systems 780 and 795 using the comprehensive set of the Power virtualization features.

  • IBM Power 770 and 780 (9117-MMC, 9179-MHC) Technical Overview and Introduction

    9 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 - Features the 9117-MMC and 9179-MHC based on the latest POWER7 processor technology - Describes MaxCore and TurboCore for redefining performance - Discusses Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 770 (9117-MMC) and Power 780 (9179-MHC) servers supporting IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems.
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    IBM Redbooks | IBM System Storage

  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.2: Monitored Computer Storage Space Reports

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 - Learn how Tivoli Storage Productivity Center monitors storage space - Implement Monitored Computer Storage Space reports - Troubleshoot Monitored Computer Storage Space This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes in detail the Monitored Computer Storage Space reports available in Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2.

  • IBM System Storage DS8000 Easy Tier

    18 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 - Smart monitoring three-tier support - Intra-tier and cross-tier performance management - Automated subvolume data relocation and rebalancing This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the concepts and functions of IBM System Storage® Easy Tier® and explains its practical use with the IBM System Storage DS8700 and the IBM System Storage DS8800 systems.

  • Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 V6.3

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 - Discover the exciting latest addition to the IBM virtualization family - Get familiar with the leading edge intuitive GUI - See how simple IBM virtualization really is Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance, all integrated into a compact, modular design that is offered at a competitive, midrange price.

  • Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V6.3

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 - Install, use, and troubleshoot the SAN Volume Controller - Become familiar with the exciting new GUI - Learn how to use the Easy Tier function This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Version 6.3.0.

  • XIV Storage System: Host Attachment and Interoperabilty

    16 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 - Integrate with DB2, VMware ESX, Microsoft HyperV, SAP - Get operating system specifics for host side tuning - Use with IBM i, SONAS,N series and ProtecTIER This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information for attaching the XIV® Storage System to various host operating system platforms, or for using the XIV storage with databases and other storage oriented application software.
 
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    IBM Redbooks | IBM System x™

  • IBM CloudBurst on System x

    11 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 - Cloud computing overview - CloudBurst hardware and software - CloudBurst administration and upgrade scenarios This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives an overview of Cloud solutions, followed by detailed information and usage scenarios for IBM CloudBurst® in a System x® environment.

  • Integrated Management Module (IMM) Support on IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers

    27 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 This document lists which IBM® System x® and BladeCenter® servers support the Integrated Management Module (IMM) service processor.

  • Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter for IBM System x

    27 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter for IBM® System x® features a robust, standards-based 10GBase-T adapter in a low-profile PCI Express® form factor.

  • IBM Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud: Implementation Guide

    24 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 - Understand the components of IBM Reference Configuration - Set up and configure the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track solution - Follow preferred practices for implementing the solution The IBM® Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud provides businesses an affordable, interoperable, reliable, and industry-leading virtualization solution.

  • IBM Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud: Deployment Guide

    24 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 - Understand the components of the IBM Reference Configuration - Configure an approved Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track solution - Follow preferred practices to create the solution The IBM® Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud is a comprehensive, ready-to-use, easy-to-manage, high performance, and ultra-reliable computing solution using Microsoft Hyper-V.
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    IBM Redbooks | IBM System z™

  • ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 13

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 - JES3 internals and externals - JES3 initialization statements, JES3 SDSF - JES3 operator commands A major goal of operating systems is to process jobs while making the best use of system resources.

  • Implementation of Popular Business Solutions with CICS Tools

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 IBM® CICS® Transaction Server (TS) is the IBM general-purpose transaction processing software for IBM z/OS® meeting the transaction-processing needs of both large and small enterprises.

  • zFS Reorganization Tool

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 - Installing the reorganization tool - Using the reorganization tool - Reorganization tool REXX execs ZFSREORG is a tool for reorganizing and restructuring zFS compatibility mode aggregates.

  • IBM CICS System Management: New Features in Version 4.2

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) is the IBM® general-purpose transaction processing software for z/OS®.

  • IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager

    20 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 - Introducing the IBM zEnterprise ensemble and the Unified Resource Manager - Planning for and implementing ensemble components with zManager - Operating and managing an ensemble with Unified Resource Manager The zEnterprise System is the first system of its kind.
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    IBM Redbooks | Information Management software

  • Advanced Case Management with IBM Case Manager Version 5.1

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 Case management challenges require insight, responsiveness, and collaboration.

  • Implementing an InfoSphere Optim Data Growth Solution

    9 Nov 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 - Understanding the InfoSphere Optim Data Growth solution architectures - Implementing InfoSphere Optim Data Growth solutions - Managing data growth with flexibility Today, organizations face tremendous challenges with data explosion and information governance.

  • IBM IMS Version 12 Technical Overview

    25 Oct 2011 | 8:30 am
    Redbook, published: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 - Explore the new features and functions of IMS 12 - Understand advantages and applicability of IMS 12 - Plan for installation of or migration to IMS 12 IBM® Information Management System (IMS™) provides leadership in performance, reliability, and security to help you implement the most strategic and critical enterprise applications.

  • Value Realization from Efficient Software Deployment

    21 Oct 2011 | 8:30 am
    Redbook, published: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 - Value realization - Methods, tools, and assets - Best practices Many companies have a complex process for purchasing software that is required by IT projects, or better, by the business.

  • Metadata Management with IBM InfoSphere Information Server

    18 Oct 2011 | 8:30 am
    Redbook, published: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 - Information governance and metadata management - Typical information integration implementation process - InfoSphere Information Server modules and components What do you know about your data? And how do you know what you know about your data? Information governance initiatives address corporate concerns about the quality and reliability of information in planning and decision-making processes.
 
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    IBM Redbooks | Linux

  • Advanced networking concepts applied using Linux on System z

    19 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 - Understand z/VM failover concepts - Build a pratical network solution using Linux on System z - Configure routers and switches for redundancy This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes important networking concepts as well as industry standards that are used to support high availability on IBM System z®.

  • Linux on IBM System z: Performance Measurement and Tuning

    27 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 - Understanding Linux performance on System z - z/VM performance concepts - Tuning z/VM Linux guests This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses performance measurement and tuning for Linux for System z®.

  • IBM Power 770 and 780 (9117-MMC, 9179-MHC) Technical Overview and Introduction

    9 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 - Features the 9117-MMC and 9179-MHC based on the latest POWER7 processor technology - Describes MaxCore and TurboCore for redefining performance - Discusses Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 770 (9117-MMC) and Power 780 (9179-MHC) servers supporting IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems.

  • IBM Power 720 and 740 (8202-E4C, 8205-E6C) Technical Overview and Introduction

    1 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 - Features the 8202-E4C and 8205-E6C based on the latest POWER7 processor technology - Discusses reduced power requirements with power-saving functions - Describes leading midrange performance This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 720 and Power 740 servers supporting AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems.

  • IBM Informix Flexible Grid: Extending Data Availability

    23 Jun 2011 | 8:30 am
    Redbook, published: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 - Dynamic configuration and faster performance with Flexible Grid - Less and easier administration and higher availability - Load balancing and failover strategies In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we focus on, and provide an overview of, the high availability and Enterprise Replication features of IBM Informix® 11.70.
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    IBM Redbooks | Lotus

  • Lotus Domino Development Best Practices

    16 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 IBM® Lotus® and IBM Redbooks® publications have partnered to create wiki content that discusses the best practices of developing Lotus Domino® applications.

  • Customizing IBM Connections 3.0.1

    3 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 IBM® Lotus® and IBM Redbooks® publications have partnered to create wiki content that explains how to customize, develop, and extend IBM Connections 3.0.1.

  • Building a Sample Website Using IBM Web Content Manager 7.0

    16 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 IBM® Lotus and IBM Redbooks® have partnered to show you how a fictitious company uses IBM Web Content Manager to build their website.

  • Using IBM Social Business to Take Your Business Relationships to the Next Level: A Game Changer for Small, Medium, and Large Business

    5 Apr 2011 | 8:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 - Learn how to deepen customer relationships and why - Understand how today’s technology is the basis for a social business - Explore ways in which technology helps create a social business IBM® defines Social Business as a business that embraces networks of people to create business value.

  • IBM Midmarket Software Buying and Selling Guide

    12 Jul 2010 | 8:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 - A guide to software that is designed, developed, and priced specifically for small and midsized businesses - One place for vital information about IBM midmarket software - Learn about software that helps your business be more efficient, productive, and profitable The IBM® Midmarket Software Buying and Selling Guide is tailored specifically to help the management and IT staff of small and midsized businesses evaluate how the IBM midmarket portfolio can provide simple and cost-effective solutions to common business problems.
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    IBM Redbooks | Infrastructure Solutions

  • IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager

    20 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 - Introducing the IBM zEnterprise ensemble and the Unified Resource Manager - Planning for and implementing ensemble components with zManager - Operating and managing an ensemble with Unified Resource Manager The zEnterprise System is the first system of its kind.

  • FICON Planning and Implementation Guide

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 - Topologies, concepts, and terminology - Planning, implementation, and migration guidance - Realistic examples and scenarios This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers the planning, implementation, and management of IBM System z® FICON® environments.

  • A Guide to Authentication Services in IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redpaper, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-on introduces a new level of security, authentication and automation experience to business enterprise users on their desktop applications.

  • Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 V6.3

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 - Discover the exciting latest addition to the IBM virtualization family - Get familiar with the leading edge intuitive GUI - See how simple IBM virtualization really is Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance, all integrated into a compact, modular design that is offered at a competitive, midrange price.

  • Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V6.3

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 - Install, use, and troubleshoot the SAN Volume Controller - Become familiar with the exciting new GUI - Learn how to use the Easy Tier function This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Version 6.3.0.
 
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    IBM Redbooks | Tivoli

  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.2: Monitored Computer Storage Space Reports

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 - Learn how Tivoli Storage Productivity Center monitors storage space - Implement Monitored Computer Storage Space reports - Troubleshoot Monitored Computer Storage Space This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes in detail the Monitored Computer Storage Space reports available in Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2.

  • A Guide to Authentication Services in IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redpaper, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-on introduces a new level of security, authentication and automation experience to business enterprise users on their desktop applications.

  • IBM CloudBurst on System x

    11 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 - Cloud computing overview - CloudBurst hardware and software - CloudBurst administration and upgrade scenarios This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives an overview of Cloud solutions, followed by detailed information and usage scenarios for IBM CloudBurst® in a System x® environment.

  • IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 Release Guide

    30 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 - Master the new capabilities of the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center - Integrate XIV and Storwize V7000 for storage resource management - Optimize your environment with Storage Tier reports IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V4.2 is a feature-rich storage management software suite.

  • Configuring Strong Authentication with IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On

    15 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 - Details on external authentication factors for smartcards, Mobile ActiveCode, and RFID cards - Details on biometric authentication for fingerprint recognition - Hands-on details on complete configuration IBM® Tivoli® Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On automates sign-on and access to enterprise applications, eliminating the need to remember and manage user names and passwords.
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    IBM Redbooks | WebSphere

  • IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) 7.5 Performance Tuning and Best Practices

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redpaper, last updated: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 - Learn valuable tips for tuning - Get the latest best practices - Try the example settings This IBM® Redpaper publication was produced by the IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) performance team.

  • IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Introduction and Technical Overview

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration enables companies to integrate applications, regardless of whether the applications are located on-premise or in public or private clouds.

  • IBM Workload Deployer: Pattern based application and middleware deployments in a private cloud

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 - Use IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool for customization - Deploy customized virtual applications to a private cloud - Deploy customized virtual systems to a private cloud IBM® Workload Deployer provides a solution to creating, deploying, and managing workloads in an on-premise or private cloud.

  • WebSphere Transaction Cluster Facility

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 - Build optimized and scalable transaction processing solutions - Understand the limits of the relational model for transaction processing - Discover the business and IT benefits of IBM WTCF As with many companies, you likely have an IT environment that includes multiple, diverse technology platforms, applications, and assets.

  • Getting Started with IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

    11 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Redbook, published: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 - Learn how to integrate applications, both on-premise and in the cloud - Learn about WebSphere Cast Iron Integration Solution technology - Design, build, and manage integration solutions Cloud computing provides companies with many capabilities to meet their business needs but can also mean that a hybrid architecture is created that includes on-premise systems and the cloud.
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    IBM Redbooks | IBM System x™

  • IBM CloudBurst on System x

    11 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Draft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 - Cloud computing overview - CloudBurst hardware and software - CloudBurst administration and upgrade scenarios This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives an overview of Cloud solutions, followed by detailed information and usage scenarios for IBM CloudBurst® in a System x® environment.

  • Integrated Management Module (IMM) Support on IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers

    27 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 This document lists which IBM® System x® and BladeCenter® servers support the Integrated Management Module (IMM) service processor.

  • Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter for IBM System x

    27 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Web Doc, published: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 Broadcom NetXtreme II Dual Port 10GBase-T Adapter for IBM® System x® features a robust, standards-based 10GBase-T adapter in a low-profile PCI Express® form factor.

  • IBM Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud: Implementation Guide

    24 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 - Understand the components of IBM Reference Configuration - Set up and configure the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track solution - Follow preferred practices for implementing the solution The IBM® Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud provides businesses an affordable, interoperable, reliable, and industry-leading virtualization solution.

  • IBM Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud: Deployment Guide

    24 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am
    Redpaper, published: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 - Understand the components of the IBM Reference Configuration - Configure an approved Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track solution - Follow preferred practices to create the solution The IBM® Reference Configuration for Microsoft Private Cloud is a comprehensive, ready-to-use, easy-to-manage, high performance, and ultra-reliable computing solution using Microsoft Hyper-V.
 
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    Interface | matters

  • The Oatmeal Does UI

    Chris Blatnick
    4 Jan 2012 | 7:02 am
    Unless you are a little squeamish about bad language, you should check out the latest offering from The Oatmeal: "How to make your shopping cart suck less".  While he uses some blue humor, there are very valid UI design points that he points out, not only for shopping carts, but for form design in general.  It's worth a few minutes of your time...and funny too!

  • Don't Assume...Your UI Should Help Guide, Not Hinder

    Chris Blatnick
    2 Mar 2010 | 7:08 pm
    Today I was working with an internal system. I was filling out a web-based form and got to a required field in which I could not enter any data. It was rather annoying and at the time I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I knew I was probably working on one too many things at once, so I left it to come back and try to figure it out later. Sure enough I did, but even on second glance it wasn't obvious. The sad thing was, I had filled out this form once before and had the same problem, but because some time had passed, I had forgotten all about it!Here's what it looked like.Since you are…

  • See All Of Your Facebook Friends

    Chris Blatnick
    11 Feb 2010 | 7:33 pm
    Just a quick public service message for you Facebook users out there. Most people have received the new user interface by now. I only just received it myself, so I haven't lived with it long enough to render judgment. However, one of the things I noticed right away (besides the fact that they broke the Blackberry app for a few days...grrrr) was that I was not seeing all of my friends' status updates. So, after remembering what they did last time, I checked and indeed they throttled back the number of friends appearing in the feed to 250. I'm not sure if those 250 are random or somehow…

  • The WildFire Is Spreading...And It's Hot! Update Your Status Across Multiple Networks From Lotus Notes!

    Chris Blatnick
    12 Jan 2010 | 4:57 pm
    A new OpenNTF project hit the ground running today and it is hot! I installed it this morning and think it's a great piece of work. The project is WildFire, a Lotus Notes 8.5 sidebar application that allows the user to update status messages across a ton of different social platforms. Networks supported in this initial release include Facebook, Twitter, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections and many more! While this type of client for allowing simultaneous updates of your micro-conversations is not new, the implementation, interface and integration with the Notes client is top notch. Installation…

  • Folder Name Issue Causing Java UI Rendering Problem In Notes 8 Mail File

    Chris Blatnick
    8 Jan 2010 | 3:54 pm
    I was working with one of my customers and was told about an interesting problem. They are currently in the process of upgrading to Notes 8.5.1 and so far, most of the client upgrades have been nice and smooth. One user had an unusual issue that was causing a bit of angst. After being upgraded and getting the new mail template, most of his folders were not visible in the UI. Here's what it looked like. Notice anything odd?A quick check using File - Go To confirmed that the folders were indeed still in the database. However, this was the only way the user could navigate to these folders.
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