2011 IBM WebSphere Events:
- The Venetian, Las Vegas, April 10-15th, 2011
IBM WebSphere Portal Excellence Conference 2011
- Buena Vista Palace Hotel in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, May 16-19, 2011
Cheers from the team at OpenLogix.
Archive for the ‘WebSphere’ category
2011 WebSphere Conference dates announced
August 9th, 2010Videos from Impact 2010
May 24th, 2010Hello All, if you missed the wonderful WebSphere Impact 2010 conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas, here is your chance to view some of the Key Note sessions and other related videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/ibmimpact
Cheers,
Steve Lokam
IBM Acquires CastIron Systems
May 10th, 2010I always thought of CastIron Systems as an appliance based integration model. It was.. until they changed their strategy a little bit. I guess, part of their strategy is still based on appliances.
In anycase, I dont understand why IBM bought them. If it is for integration appliances, they already have DataPower, which is doing very good. IBM says that integrating with cloud based applications using CastIron would be easy. But, it is not like we cannot integrate SalesForce.com or other cloud apps using existing middleware like WebSphere that IBM already has.
It could just be a customer acquisition, since they bring a lot of customer base and over 10 years of experience with them? Well, let’s see. I know for sure there is some overlap between DataPower and CastIron and also with the existing WebSphere Middleware.
Cheers,
Steve Lokam
Impact 2010 was a great Success!
May 10th, 2010Thanks to all our customers new and existing for making the IBM Impact 2010 conference a great success.
We appreciate everyone for coming over to booth to say Hello. It was nice meeting you as always. This year’s Impact conference was bigger than ever for IBM as well as for us in terms of the new customers that we met and to meet all our existing customers at this event.
This was our fourth Impact conference and we are glad to show the commitment to our WebSphere Customers and our Business partner IBM.
It was good to learn more about the Lombardi (IBM’s acquisition in January) products and to see how IBM is integrating these products into the IBM portfolio. And now, we have to see how the CastIron acquisition is going to pan out.
Meet us at your local “Impact Comes to your City” Event.
Cheers,
Steve
WebSphere Business Services Fabric (WBSF) or the SOA Fabric
April 26th, 2007Been busy with a new baby at home. U know the sleepless night and stuff. Did not get a chance to post any articles recently.
Anyway, lately have been hearing again a lot about SOBAs (refer to my previous post on SOBAs). IBM is showing some heat again in this space with it recent acquisition of Webify and by branding it as part of their Flagship brand WebSphere. IBM’s WebSphere® Business Services Fabric (WBSF – formerly the SOA Fabric from Webify), is the new name for the acquired product SOA Fabric from Webify. WBSF provides a complete process integration solution with SOA governance added to that. Using the WBSF, common business services can be used across multiple business processes across the enterpise, which enables IT to deliver solutions that can dynamically provide customized content based on the business context of the services in use.
BTW, you are in luck if you are in Insurance Industry or if you are in the Healthcare industry – as you can take advantage of WBSF’s pre-built industry SOA content. These industry specific content packs are only avaialble for these two industries and they are building more soon, I guess. The content in these packs include various industry specific commonly used business services & SOA models to make it easy for interoperability among IT systems & partners; to facilitate SOA reuse and to achieve industry standards compliance like HIPAA and ACORD.
Cheers,
Steve Lokam
