The WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment version 5.0 (WAS ND) provides an infrastructure for you to centrally administer multiple WAS servers, resources, and other elements of your topology. Your managed topology can include support for clustered servers with workload management and failover. WAS ND's support for centrally administering topologies provides significant benefits for both large-scale and small-scale topologies. This article provides tips to help you better exploit the administrative capabilities of WAS ND. We discuss options for deciding on the scope of your topology, and advice on administering the topology. If you are planning or administering a topology based on WAS ND (or WAS Enterprise), these tips, which are based on lab experiences with large ND deployments, should be helpful. Tips for Planning CellsApplications and the resources the... (more)

Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo

Red Hat is a  trusted open source provider.  Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training, and consulting services worldwide to help enterprises take full advantage of the value of open source technology. For more information, please visit www.redhat.com/                   Red Hat CTO Delivers Virtualization Keynote Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote entitled "The Future of the Virtual Enterprise" at SYS-CON's  Virtualization Conferenc... (more)

SOA Project Planning Aspects

The architectural consideration of SOA in the preceding chapter offers advice on what directions to choose and how to define the strategic goals for an SOA project. This chapter takes the next step toward execution by focusing on how to plan an SOA project. The topics in this chapter constitute the best practices we have uncovered for forming a project office (see Section 4.1), how to define the phases of SOA adoption, the need for and mechanisms of SOA governance, and finally, the various project roles and how they interact with each other. This is not intended to be a complete template for a project plan, nor do we intend to show the optimal organizational structure for the parties involved in SOA projects. Based on our vigorous experience with different clients in various industries around the world, we are fully aware that there is no one-size-fits-all solution... (more)

IBM Technology Brings Business Analytics to Legal Decision Making

ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new IBM eDiscovery software with advanced analytics features to help clients gain better insight and understanding into their information, while helping to minimize legal discovery costs and improve legal strategy decisions. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) New features in IBM InfoSphere eDiscovery Manager and IBM InfoSphere eDiscovery Analyzer include enhanced early case assessment functionality, extended support for additional types of electronically stored information (ESI) content, and open application programming interfaces (APIs) for partner solution integration. Together, these capabilities accelerate organizational agility in responding to litigation, regulatory, and freedom of information requests, while streamlining the integration of eDiscovery... (more)

TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com Announces Official Best of VMworld 2009 Award Winners

The editors of TechTarget Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TTGT) SearchServerVirtualization.com™ have announced the winners of the Best of VMworld 2009 Awards, selected from more than 175 product entrants at the VMworld 2009 conference being held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and sponsored by VMware Inc . For the third straight year, TechTarget has been the official media partner for the VMworld Awards. Their independent team of judges consisting of experts and editors from SearchServerVirtualization.com and its sister sites, SearchVMware.com™ and SearchVirtualDesktop.com™, reviewed and evaluated the products according to innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use. The awards span eight categories: business continuity and data protection; security and virtualization; virtualization management; hardware for virtualization; desktop virtualization;... (more)

Saba Announces First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Results

Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier provider of people management software and services, today reported financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2009. First Quarter Results Fiscal first quarter revenue was $25.8 million, up 2%, compared to $25.3 million in the same period of the prior year. License and OnDemand revenues from sales of the company’s unified people management solutions during the quarter were $11.0 million, an increase of 39% from the first quarter of the prior fiscal year. Reflecting the favorable mix of increased product revenues and lower professional services revenue, gross margin improved to 65% in the first quarter of fiscal 2010. In the quarter, recurring revenues, license updates and product support revenue and OnDemand revenue, accounted for over 54% of the company’s total revenues. GAAP net earnings for the first quarter i... (more)

Sify Reports Revenues of $ 38.28 Million for the Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2009-10

CHENNAI, India, October 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Sify Technologies Limited (Nasdaq National Markets: SIFY), a leader in Enterprise and Consumer Internet Services in India with global delivery capabilities, announced today its consolidated unaudited results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2009-10. Performance Highlights: - Revenues for the quarter were $ 38.28 million, 17 % higher than in the same quarter of the previous year, and 12% higher than the preceding quarter. - Enterprise services registered strong growth from data centre, managed voice and systems integration services. International services revenues also registered strong growth. Consumer services revenues were lower than previous quarters, with the focus on making the businesses profitable, before growing subscribers and revenues. - Net Loss fo... (more)

IBM Business Report Recognizes Improved Investment Environment in Germany

BERLIN, January 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Germany is continuously improving in international business location rankings, according to a new country report by IBM Global Business Services. The "Global Location Trends" study marks a considerable increase in foreign direct investment for Germany. Reasons cited included moderate wage growth rates in recent years, tax reductions and the general improvement of economic conditions. The report names the solar energy industry in Eastern Germany as an example of Germany's clear quality advantage. Germany managed to considerably improve its competitive position in 2008 despite the significant decrease in investments worldwide. The country also benefitted from the tendency of companies to increasingly seek stable and reliable investment locations. According to the study, 26,700 jobs were created in 2008 through 709 foreign investment... (more)

IntelliMagic Balance -- First Optimization Solution for z/OS Data Migration That Improves Storage Hardware Efficiency

IntelliMagic announces IntelliMagic Balance as the first volume migration optimization solution for z/OS environments. IntelliMagic Balance is used during the implementation planning phase of a storage migration. It calculates the optimal layout of volumes across the new storage resources. Moving data to new storage hardware using IntelliMagic Balance will significantly impact the Return on Investment (ROI) of storage hardware. Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer, CEO of IntelliMagic, says: “If you distribute the volumes intelligently over the RAID array groups such that all array groups are used more or less equally, this can easily translate to a 30% higher throughput potential compared to manual, non-optimized placement.” Improved balance will also result in better service levels as the risk of creating I/O performance hotspots is minimized. If data placement is optimized th... (more)

NetEx Co-Hosts Live Meeting Webinar With IBM Tivoli Storage Software

MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- (Marketwire) -- 01/20/12 -- NetEx®, a leading company providing a WAN optimization virtual appliance solution, today announced that it is co-hosting a Microsoft Office Live Meeting webinar with IBM Tivoli Storage Software addressing the acceleration of disaster recovery via a complementary solution from the two companies at 1 p.m. EST January 25. The "Accelerating DR with Tivoli Storage Management and HyperIP" event discusses the new replication features in Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3 that enable a disaster recovery solution for a company's TSM-managed infrastructure and how NetEx's HyperIP WAN Optimization Virtual Appliance can accelerate those efforts by getting LAN-like speeds over a WAN to reduce the replication window from hours to minutes. Presenters include Rich Vining, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Tivoli Storage Software, and Steve Th... (more)

Acrolinx Appoints Markus Juhr-DeBenedetti as CEO

BERLIN -- (Marketwire) -- 03/16/12 -- Acrolinx, the leader in content quality software, announced today the appointment of Markus Juhr-DeBenedetti as Chief Executive Officer. Andrew Bredenkamp, Founder, assumes the role of President and will continue driving product innovation and serving customers. Markus joined Acrolinx in March of 2011 as Chief Operating Officer. He has extensive experience in the technology industry, including multiple executive management roles spanning more than twenty years. Most recently, he served as EVP Global Field Operations for Crossgate AG (acquired by SAP AG) and held operational management roles at Chordiant Software (acquired by Pegasystems). In each case, he led these firms through global expansion and hyper-growth. "Markus offers a wealth of experience leading technology companies to success, and he brings a strong commitment to our... (more)