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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 1:00pm EST

IBM iDataPlex Dynamic Performance & Energy Efficiency for Today's HPC and Web 2.0 Environments. Join us and learn how implementing technologies like the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series found in the IBM System x iDataPlex Solution can provide energy efficiency, extreme scalability, high density at the data center level and high performance from the Intel 5500 processor at an affordable price.

What are best practices for building installers for Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, IBM i, and more? Find out in this Webinar. Learn how to build a single project file that generates installers for every platform you target. Also see a demo of InstallAnywhere, the #1 installer tool for Java developers. Watch it now!

Virtual Show featuring the trends and innovations that are shaping the next generation of Data Management products. Chat with industry experts and IBM innovators about the evolution of traditional Data Management practices in the age of SOA, Web 2.0 and the continuing data explosion into new smarter practices and paradigms for managing information.

Join us for a look at MS Windows Server 2008 virtualization and discuss what to consider when planning for Hyper-V deployment. You will learn Benefits of server and workload consolidation with Hyper-V and what Intel processors are best to leverage.

Freedom OSS understands the energy and value of creativity. Our customer centric teams accurately translate your goals into Practical IT solutions that work. We call it Upstream Architecture™. It means our brain trust is right there working hand-in-hand with your most creative employees to address the most complex technology challenges and turn them into opportunities. In dynamic business environments, it's crucial for organizations to quickly embrace change. FreedomOSS architects combine our professional expertise with a practical approach, helping move your company into a new era of growth. Our skilled industry teams are available to address your most complex technology challenges and turn them into opportunities.

FreedomOSS is an international professional services firm with over 120 architects and engineers and offices across the United States and Eastern Europe. Freedom's staff has earned numerous awards for Technology Innovations , including JBoss SOA Innovation Awards, Red Hat Innovation Awards and Practical SOA Champion Award.

Max Yankelevich is responsible for Strategic Technology Direction and Business Development at Freedom OSS. Mr. Yankelevich is a seasoned Architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience in large scale, distributed applications, Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Integration. Prior to joining Freedom OSS, Mr. Yankelevich provided architectural guidance to Fortune 500 companies, such as JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, AIG, Deutsche Bank, ADP and Amerada Hess. Mr. Yankelevich holds a BA in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The events of the second half of 2008, where established financial institutions vanished overnight, have sent ripples through the entire fabric of the world’s economy. This means that nimble new competitors can seize both global and regional market opportunities that previously have been taken for granted by the established multinationals. Unfortunately, the traditional IT infrastructure, responsible for facilitating changes demanded by the business, often falls short of being able to do just that. Cloud Computing can help companies achieve their process changes faster – to gain greater speed to revenue, more cost effective operations, and bring more agility and scale. However, Cloud Computing must offer more business activities instead of merely technology services. As long as Cloud Computing needs developers to function, it will never reach its full potential.

Mr. Comas specializes in using business process management techniques to create innovative solutions to solve business problems. Mr. Comas is a 15 year veteran of the financial industry. Prior to Cordys, Mr. Comas was VP of Technology at JPMorgan Chase where his roles included IT Risk Management, Business and Chief Technical Architect. Mr. Comas earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.

RIA platforms increasingly offer an identical set of basic UI features, so how do you pick? Come and see a "short list" of capabilities that go beyond simply UI, and that a RIA platform should provide in order to be seriously considered. Rather than a fluff session about "scalability", "robustness", and the usual buzzwords, we will look at a series of concrete use cases that come up in the development of every RIA application, and the features that a RIA platform should provide to handle them. Find out what a next-generation RIA platform can do for you - and see one in action.

Charles Kendrick is CTO and Chief Architect at Isomorphic Software, which he co-founded in 2000 to pursue more powerful and flexible ways of building software via DHTML — today’s AJAX.

Charles is the architect of the SmartClient AJAX platform, technology which powers many of the world’s most sophisticated AJAX RIAs and is relied on in critical, high volume systems throughout the Fortune 500.

Prior to co-founding Isomorphic, Charles worked on a variety of enterprise and consumer applications and platforms in roles at HP, Siemens and several start-ups, where he collected and refined the best practices and patterns now found in SmartClient.

When not working, Charles can be found surfing, making unusual vodka infusions, or cooking with his fiancé. Charles is an alumnus of Stanford University, where he studied symbolic systems.

Successful virtual desktop rollouts can only be realized if user acceptance is equivalent to that of a local PC. Standardized virtual desktops must be ‘personalized’ on-demand by treating the user as another ‘layer’ of the desktop.....this is user environment management. You will learn about managing the most important component of the desktop – the user personality.

Jon Wallace is a Principal Technical Consultant for AppSense with over 10 years experience. Having begun his technical career with an ASP before moving to AppSense he has a rounded understanding from the end user, reseller and software company perspective. It is for this reason Jon runs a technical evangelism program to technically develop the AppSense channel and transfer this knowledge to them. Jon continues to work directly with end users in AppSense’s white glove accounts to help keep him up-to-date with the latest technologies.

The industry is buzzing about the promise of Rich Internet Applications and Cloud Computing. Although these new applications and method for implementing technology offer many advantages, they also compound underlying complexity, presenting new challenges for Web and application developers as well as IT professionals who are charged with developing, testing and delivering high-performing, highly-available applications.

On the Rich Internet Applications front, technologies such as AJAX and Flash deliver radically different user experiences based on rich interfaces, live data and instant feedback enabling the personalization and control users appreciate. At the same time, Cloud Computing is providing the industry a way to increase capacity and add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel or licensing new software.

As enterprises consider deploying next-generation applications and implementation models, they need to be aware of how Web performance will be impacted through increased complexity and dependence on the Web.

Being able to test and monitor Rich Internet Applications, especially as they are deployed in the cloud, will be critical to success. In this session, Ben Rushlo will examine discuss performance issues Web developers will face as they look to develop Rich Internet Applications and utilize Cloud Computing. Rushlo will cover how to combat these issues to minimize potential downfalls and ensure optimal performance through testing and monitoring.

Ben Rushlo, Sr. Consulting Manager at Keynote Systems is one of the world's leading Internet performance experts. Ben advises Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies in the Retail, Automotive, and Financial Services industries, helping to transform their global sites into high- performing, highly available Web assets that provide excellent customer experiences every time.

Before joining Keynote, Ben was a Senior Performance and Capacity Planning Engineer at American Express, where he served as a core member of the team that launched American Express on the Web.

With more than 10 years of experience in Internet and intranet technologies, Ben has expertise in Internet performance and performance tuning.

Ben is a frequent speaker at executive summits, industry symposiums in retail and financial services, and test and performance conferences and appeared on CNBC live broadcasts.

Data services are critical to the predominant and emerging architectures we're embracing for building new systems. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming a standard enterprise architecture and Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) is enabling organizations to pull together data from multiple sources and services. Cloud computing is an architecture that provides high-performance computing, massive data storage and scalability at commodity pricing.

With all modern computing architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before. Due to the vital role that data plays both in business and systems operations, database architectures, information specialists, data integration experts, and anyone responsible for data persistence in an organization are increasingly being called upon to contribute to their organization's SOA and other computing initiatives - whether or not this was intended at the onset.

In this presentation, we will review the technologies, best practices, and patterns that are shaping the way we utilize enterprise data for SOA, WOA and cloud computing.

Rob Steward is vice president of research and development for DataDirect Technologies. He is responsible for the development, strategy and oversight of the company's data connectivity products including the Shadow mainframe integration suite client software and the industry-leading Connect family of database drivers and data providers: Connect for ODBC, Connect for JDBC and Connect for ADO.NET. Additional product development responsibilities include DataDirect Sequelink, and DataDirect XQuery, as well as the management of DataDirect's Custom Engineering Development group.

Steward has spent more than 14 years developing database access middleware, including .NET data providers, ODBC drivers, JDBC drivers, and OLE DB providers. He has held a number of management and technical positions at DataDirect Technologies and serves on various standard committees. Earlier in his career, he worked as lead software engineer at Marconi Commerce Systems Inc. Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Come to this presentation and find out how BAE Systems leverages the AJAX capabilities of ICEfaces to deliver revolutionary, web-based solutions for Homeland Security. You will witness live demos of incidentOS, one of the most sophisticated AJAX-enabled applications ever developed. You will see AJAX taken to the max, and you will see how ICEfaces makes it achievable. Notably you will be introduced to key capabilities in ICEfaces like AJAX Push, and Portal Integration - both being fundamental to incidentOS. You will leave with a greater understanding of how ICEfaces can take your web application development to the next level, and you might just feel safer knowing technologies like incidentOS are helping secure the Homeland.

Stephen Maryka is CTO at ICEsoft Technologies Inc., and leads the ICEfaces open source project. He has been involved in Java-based AJAX techniques since 2003 - a time before the term "AJAX" was even coined. Prior to joining ICEsoft, Steve was co-founder of AudeSi Technologies where he served as VP of Technology and led Java product development for Internet appliances. After AudeSi was acquired by Wind River Systems in 2000, he served as a principle technologist there until joining ICEsoft.

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice for the desktop, and soon will likely be on your phone. Over the last 5 years, this open community has turned its attention to virtualization.This talk will discuss what has been achieved and what is under development, and most importantly why open source is critical when building integrated infrastructure solutions.

As Red Hat's Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, Stevens leads the strategic direction of the company's product and technology initiatives. Stevens manages the R&D organizations responsible for delivering Linux, Virtualization, Systems Management, Security, and Messaging/Grid.

Since joining Red Hat's senior management team in 2001, Stevens has been critical to the company's enterprise operating system, storage, and virtualization strategies. As CTO and VP Engineering, he manages the R&D organizations for Linux, Virtualization, Security, Messaging, and Systems Management.

Stevens received his B.S. in Computer Science at the University of New Hampshire and his M.S. in Computer Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He and his family reside in New Boston, New Hampshire.

Static HTML wireframes are no longer sufficient to prototype today's rich internet applications (RIAs) built on syndicated content, widgets, DOM manipulation, AJAX calls, and often a substantial amount of custom JavaScript.

What if you could build the user interface prototype in a matter of days or weeks without a single line of server-side code or even a datamodel? What if the business owner could not only play with this prototype, but also provide context specific feedback seamlessly while exploring the prototype? Finally, what if the prototype wasn't a prototype at all, but was the actual user-interface of the final product (zero throwaway code)... even if you haven't decided which server-side technology you want to use (Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl)?

Matthew Quinlan is vice president of community development at Appcelerator, an open source rich Internet application company. Quinlan has been programming continuously since 1981. He has focused on Web technologies since 1997, when he became chief architect of ValueAmerica.com, one of the first online retailers. As a professional consultant, Quinlan provided guidance on Web development, architecture and content management to Motorola, UPS, Sprint, Vanguard, Intel and dozens of other companies. He has taught courses on Java and J2EE and was a founding member of the JBoss evangelist team, where he spoke about open source software, Java/J2EE and Web application development at industry events and users groups around the country. Quinlan holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.