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© The 5th Wave, www.the5thwave.com MoM attendees Three things need to be determined before venturing out into the cloud. 1. Companies first need to figure out what cloud services might give value to them, they then need to learn how to write applications that run in the cloud, and finally they need to decide whether they should build their own private clouds or hook up to an existing cloud. There are several pure cloud providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc.) that eliminate even the need to build an internal cloud. 8 Léo Lefebvre 2. At the end of the day we need to look in our crystal ball to determine if cloud computing is the right fit for us. As systems evolve and more people become empowered via the Internet, applications and systems need to be able to scale to unknown proportions. It is quite conceivable that your application reaches a point where the hardware will fail to scale to meet demand when put to the test, making us scramble for solutions. By having the cloud providers scramble it gives us more time to be heroes. 3. As an added incentive IBM offers “trial getting started sessions” on many of their popular products. The purposes of these sessions are basically “try before you buy”. Sandra had included details of one such session for the IBM WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance in the handouts. If you think you’d like to try it out, please contact Sandra for the next available offering. You can reach her by telephone at (905) 316-3735 or via email at sandra.weir@ca.ibm.com . If nothing else, there is a myriad of choices in this relatively new way of thinking of applications, data, and deployment. Frankly I welcome cloud computing as another option in our arsenal of tools. It allows us to concentrate on the application instead of worrying if it can scale to meet demand. The next layer of abstraction has been defined in the computing paradigm. On behalf of The Toronto Users Group for Power Systems, I would like to thank Sandra Weir for her wonderful presentation and helping bring clarity to the clouds, and also for her assistance in preparing this review. T�G Nick Tom Mavroidis President NTM Consulting Incorporated tmavroidis@ntm.net No stranger to the IBM midrange platform, Tom Mavroidis started out programming on the System/34 back in 1982 after completing post graduate studies at Herzing Institutes. Over the next 27 years he has stayed “True Blue” by continuing to support the midrange platform up to the current IBM Power Systems. An avid programmer and Web designer, he has custom designed several websites with a DB2/400 data backend and Linux frontend which continue to be used today. He is a firm advocate of the Open Source initiative and favors PHP as the language of choice on the Web. Tom is currently President of NTM Consulting Incorporated of Markham where his duties involve managing several data centers in the Greater Toronto area. He has taught Linux Networking at the Seneca@York campus, sat on the Seneca@york steering committee, and continues to be Director of Technology for the Greek Community of Toronto. TORONTO USERS GROUP for Power Systems – January 2010
AGENDA AGENDA AT A GLANCE Time Event 12:30 Registration & coffee 1:00 Introduction by host George Farr and Steve Hikida 1:15 TUG welcome by Mark Buchner 1:30 Rational Strategy by Hayden Lindsay, Craig Johnson, Karen Hunt, and Danny Mace 2:30 Details on Rational Developer for Power & Rational Team Concert for Power 3:00 Intermission / MoM & Networking (complimentary buffet) 3:30 IBM Power Systems 4:30 Demos 6:00 Wrap-up Attention TUG Members: TORONTO USERS GROUP for Power Systems – January 2010 TUG MoM — FEBRUARY 17, 2010 “We cannot say very much at this time, but the event co-hosted by TUG and IBM at the IBM Toronto Software Laboratory on Wednesday February 17, 2010 is sure to be exciting! This event will cover the latest and greatest information for doing application development on your Power systems. Speakers will include our IBM Power executive team, development team, as well as Subject Matter Experts on various technical topics. Details and registration to follow and will be posted close to the event date on the TUG website. Don’t miss this informative event. Get your 2010 off to a quick start by getting all the latest information on Power Application Development tools and compilers.” — George N. Farr, IBM Power World Wide Segment Leader REGISTER ONLINE Please register in advance at www.tug.ca/t_agenda.html Table of Contents 9 Send your suggestions for future topics to: leo@tug.ca
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