Contact Information:
IBM contact: Richard Niles
IBM email: rniles@us.ibm.com
Upcoming Meetings:
Platform-as-a-Service and Automated DevOps with IBM Workload Deployer: Lessons Learned in the Field
Meeting Date: May16th, 2012
Meeting Time: 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Meeting Location:
IBM (Sterling Commerce facility)
4600 Lakehurst Court Building 1
Dublin, OH 43016
Presentation Room
Presenter: George Knoll
Abstract:
Does it take your organization weeks or months to turn around requests for new pre-production environments of your middleware platforms? Have you ever been on a crit-sit, Sev 1 system outage conference bridge at 2 AM on a Sunday trying to replicate a configuration-drifted production system error in a triage environment? Did your recent private cloud implementation result in over deployment of software licenses and a painful entitlement audit? If any of these sound familiar, this session is for you.
IBM Premier Business Partner Haddon Hill Group will discuss lessons learned and best practices in realizing Platform-as-a-Service for middleware infrastructure based on their field implementation experience with IBM Workload Deployer (formerly WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance) over the past three years.
Topics will include:
- What is the IBM Workload Deployer (IWD) appliance and how is it related to Platform-as-a-Service and Private Cloud
- How does IWD work across ESX, PowerVM, and z/VM hypervisors
- What types of middleware infrastructures have affinity for IWD-based deployment/management?
- How can you use IWD, Rational Automation Framework, and the MidVision
- Connectivity Extension to manage config consistency in cloud deployments
- How are platform migrations related to PaaS initiatives
- How can I virtualize non-IBM parts of my middleware topologies
- IWD demo.
Philip Schaadt- For the last few years, Phil Schaadt has focused on realizing SOA Governance as well as policy driven, enterprise SOA by implementing IBM WebSphere products to deliver value at very large and federated organizations in healthcare and finance. He has been the overall solution architect for complex integrations including: building private clouds, deployments of IWD, WSRR supporting SOA governance processes, infrastructure as a service, as well as integration and deployments of DataPower, XC-10, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Decision Server, WebSphere ESB and Message Broker. His prior professional experience includes General Manager of Technology Strategy, Architecture, Standards and Technology Consulting at Bank of America. Vice President for Consulting Services & Technology Research in the commercial unit of TRW Systems Integration Group where he managed advanced technology engagements for many of the world's largest financial services, telco, transportation and healthcare companies. He has a BS and graduate studies in Physics, University of Illinois and an MBA in International Finance from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
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