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urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-97050e2c-bec8-4274-a3ee-4432f0a1f4bc IBM Software Community - Tags - smartcloud The IBM Software blog promotes thoughtful discussions and perspectives on how software is changing the way we live and do business. 8 2016-02-09T16:10:54-05:00 IBM Connections - Blogs urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-293ae7a3-1be5-4bd6-9889-9f03085feae9 Reinvent processes for mobile and innovate with cloud Mary Forlenza email@example.com 270001BN8C active bcde08b8-816c-42a8-aa37-5f1ce02470a9 Comment Entries Likes 2013-08-08T14:26:19-04:00 2013-08-08T14:26:19-04:00

 By Craig Riegelhaupt, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Business Process Management and Operational Decision Management

 In 2011, IBM conducted over 3,000 CIO interviews and 99 percent of these CIO's who had mandates to transform their business wanted to create better processes. The IBM Global CIO Study confirmed that process reinvention is a top priority. Since then, technologies like big data, cloud, mobile and social business increasingly have changed the way work gets done. These forces require processes to become:

 Instant: At internet speed

 Seamless: Interconnected and ubiquitous

 Insightful: Targeted and relevant

 Forrester Research forecasts that companies will spend about $900 million on mobile process reinvention services in 2013 and up to $2.7 billion in 2014.1 To succeed, you will need to transform your view of process improvement by keeping mobile in mind from the beginning. With mobile as the central tenet, you can reinvent business operations to enable greater customer-centricity, while increasing the efficiency and optimization of end-to-end processes.

 In a mobile enterprise, processes must be:

 Mobile-Aware: Be context-aware to engage with all process participants anywhere and anytime

 Mobile-Specific: Capture mobile data to enrich and optimize processes improvement

 Mobile-Centric: Engage in mobile processing of human services to change how employees interact with the enterprise

 With mobile, you need to engage all process participants anywhere and anytime to ensure timely success of critical operations. You also need to be able to accelerate development of customer-ready mobile experiences. By reinventing business processes for mobile, you will make processes instant, seamless and insightful. IBM recommended this approach to process reinvention at the IBM Impact 2013 Global Conference, and announced mobile capabilities to help organizations transform and optimize their processes and become mobile-aware, mobile-specific and mobile-centric. These announcements integrate BPM and ODM solutions with the IBM MobileFirst portfolio as follows:

 IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Worklight Bundling: Gain access to non-production use of IBM Worklight Enterprise Edition to develop customized mobile process applications

 IBM Operational Decision Manager Mobile Support: Manage business policies and regulations in real-time via mobile applications, leveraging a RESTful API that allows IBM Worklight developers to embed and invoke business rules

 IBM Integration Bus Mobile Integration with IBM Worklight: Extend data from back-end systems to mobile devices with push notifications and patterns for IBM Worklight

 One of the largest academic teaching hospitals in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Ottawa Hospital, wanted to improve its patient focus for optimal care and safety. At the same time, the number of patients with complex symptoms was growing and so were advancements in treatments. The way that delivery teams managed care was a largely manual and un-orchestrated process that varied by individual. The hospital needed to ensure patient care data was available across the whole care team and across unconnected systems and a broad range of communication channels.

 Using business process management and operational decision management software from IBM, the hospital reviewed best practices, and then modeled them to make its processes more predictable and easier to execute. The IBM solution integrates with existing hospital IT systems and enables users to interact through web browsers and mobile devices.

 The care management platform improves coordination of and visibility into changing patient and hospital conditions. Now practitioners spend less time chasing information and more time delivering care to the patients. The new system helps doctors collaborate and spend more time doing rounds at the bedside. For example, one doctor noticed a patient's behavioral changes at the end of a four-day period, and just prior to the patient's discharge, leading to the life-saving discovery of a brain tumor. Learn more by watching the video or reading the case study.

 Cloud: Scaling IT resources for faster innovation

 Just throwing technology at today's complex business issues is not enough. IT budgets are diminishing, and technology cannot scale fast enough to meet today's complexity. Most organizations understand the immense potential the cloud holds for quickly scaling their IT resources to meet the fluctuating demands of their consumers and the marketplace. While this ability to quickly scale was a key reason for cloud, and remains a basic benefit of its adoption, the ability to quickly innovate has become the driving force forward. Gartner ranks Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) as the fastest growing cloud segment with 47 percent annual growth.2

 As an innovator and leader in cloud computing for more than 45 years, IBM announced at Impact 2013 its BPaaS solution, IBM Business Process Manager on Cloud, plus IBM Business Process Manager Application Patterns and IBM Operational Decision Manager Application Patterns.

 IBM Business Process Manager on Cloud is a fully managed business process management (BPM) environment in the IBM SmartCloud. It provides the full benefits of the market-leading IBM Business Process Manager as a cloud-based Platform as a Service. With this PaaS, an organization can obtain a comprehensive BPM suite with flexible pricing and enterprise-level security to accelerate their process management adoption and ultimately their customer success.

 In addition, IBM announced IBM Business Process Manager Application Patterns, which are pre-defined configurations of IBM Business Process Manager optimized to run in an IBM PureApplication™ System. Each pattern captures proven best practices for a highly available, production-ready BPM environment in an easily deployable form. The release of the Business Process Manager Application Pattern V8.5 adds new elastic scaling policies that can be leveraged to automatically detect when the configuration capacity should be increased to meet increasing demands on a process application. IBM Business Process Manager Application Pattern includes the same BPM capabilities as delivered in IBM Business Process Manager Advanced V8.5.

 IBM also announced IBM Operational Decision Manager Application Patterns. Each pattern contains a comprehensive set of collaborative, role-based capabilities that enables you to model, simulate, execute, rapidly change, monitor and optimize core business decisions that can be deployed onto the IBM PureApplication System through IBM Workload Deployer or PureApplication System. These Patterns are designed to accelerate the setup and management of complex, highly available IBM Operational Decision Manager configurations that are pre-optimized for production use, enabling organizations to focus critical resources more on value-add activities and less on installation, configuration and management. IBM Operational Decision Manager helps improve the management, productivity and governance of your operational decision management projects, and provides the same capabilities as delivered in IBM Operational Decision Management V8.5.

 There is no arguing about the challenges and opportunities that big data, cloud, mobile and social business technologies bring forward. But what is not well understood is how to deal with the challenges, and capture the opportunities, that these shifts present. Instant, seamless and insightful process reinvention, like that provided through IBM Business Process Manager mobile and cloud technologies, offers the visibility and transparency into business operations that can help your organization become agile enough to leverage these forces and accelerate innovation.

 "Embrace Mobile Engagement As A Catalyst To Drive Process Change," Forrester Research, 2013

 "Gartner Says Service-Led Solutions Will Displace Traditional Sourcing Approaches Through 2015," Gartner Press Release, March 2013

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 By Craig Riegelhaupt, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Business Process Management and Operational Decision Management In 2011, IBM conducted over 3,000 CIO interviews and 99 percent of these CIO's who had mandates to transform... 1 0 8065 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-97050e2c-bec8-4274-a3ee-4432f0a1f4bc IBM Software Community 2016-02-09T16:10:54-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-0da4b904-c039-4e24-b54e-ced2a8f4d49e A smarter way to secure your cloud Melissa Stevens email@example.com 270005B76W active bcde08b8-816c-42a8-aa37-5f1ce02470a9 Comment Entries Likes 2012-10-26T09:51:20-04:00 2012-10-26T09:52:32-04:00
This post was contributed by Darren Argyle, World Wide Security Solutions Market Leader for IBM Security. Connect with Darren on Twitter @D_Argyle.

It's been over a week since I attended IBM InterConnect in Singapore, and with some great customer feedback still ringing in my ears, I thought it timely to provide some reflective thoughts.

For the most part I was sharing my days and evenings with our valued customers from the region, either in the 'meet the expert' sessions, hosting them in the evening or sitting in with them in the 'hot topic' sessions (Defending Against Cyber Threats with Security Intelligence) that Brendan Hannigan (IBM GM Security Systems division) was leading. Mitigating new attacks from cyber-criminals, hacktivists, espionage, & disgruntled insiders dominated client discussions, and in an evolving multiple-perimeter environment, and particularly when using cloud computing, being confident that your data is safe becomes an even greater challenge.

The business benefits of cloud are well documented, reduced costs and increased flexibility, but many still fear taking those first steps toward optimizing their IT because of concerns about security. These concerns reminded me of the early days of outsourcing, a perceived loss of control and visibility of their enterprise systems, however with agreed security controls and operational security governance in place, outsourcing vendors, such as IBM, have been able to demonstrate a level of control that clients and auditors find satisfactory. At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services, so it's easy to see where these concerns come from. For private/hybrid clouds in particular, it's especially important that the security solution technologies are scalable, integrated and intelligent to protect against new threats, regain visibility and demonstrate compliance with activity monitoring and security intelligence.

EXA Corporation was in attendance at IBM InterConnect, and their experience provides us with an excellent case study for securing private/hybrid cloud. EXA has multiple offices across Japan and was faced with the challenge of how to best manage various servers located in each office, while also providing secure access and defending the enterprise from attacks. Working with IBM they embarked on a risk based security approach to cloud computing and built a secure hybrid private cloud. They were able to integrate proprietary and external data centers as one virtual data center and by deploying federated identity manager software they were able make it transparent to users. This mechanism has unified the management of user information, enabled the single sign-on based on a single ID, improved the customer experience and usability of the system, and created a secure authentication environment. See full case study here.

Moreover, in a 'meet the expert' session I was hosting on cloud security, a similar discussion started with a CISO from an Indian organization; they were looking to build a private cloud to improve SAP service delivery speed and quality to their distributed business units across India. The CISO was particularly concerned about defending against the increasing cyber attacks that were highly publicized during 2011 and the first half of 2012 (see IBM X-Force Reports 2011/2012) and was curious as to what additional security controls he'd need to consider for cloud. Having quickly established that he'd already gained support from his senior executive team and security was already embedded into the design phase of this new project, his organization was well on its way to a successful outcome. So, we talked about the next set of priorities and I offered some advice based on the approach we have taken with other customers, using the IBM security framework as a reference point to show how security solutions need to integrate and enable security intelligence, to stay ahead of the threat and be protected against the latest sophisticated attacks (learn more in the IBM Cloud Security Solutions brief)

When securing cloud there is no one size fits all, so building a cloud strategy roadmap with security at its heart and using a proven security framework as a reference point (including - people, data, applications and infrastructure), you have transparency of the risks and appreciation of the accelerated value that can be gained from using the cloud. In today's multi-perimeter environments corporate data is stored in so many places, making sure that data is safe and can be accessed securely is now a business priority when competing on a world stage. The media headlines about a business should be about growth and profitability, not being a victim of a security breach and causing shareholder confidence to drop. A "secure" cloud environment provides the opportunity for business to innovate with confidence, be more agile and be faster to market.

Please engage with me directly for further discussion on twitter @D_Argyle, also see IBM SmartCloud Security video.

 This post was contributed by Darren Argyle, World Wide Security Solutions Market Leader for IBM Security. Connect with Darren on Twitter @D_Argyle . It's been over a week since I attended IBM InterConnect in Singapore, and with some great... 0 0 4889 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-97050e2c-bec8-4274-a3ee-4432f0a1f4bc IBM Software Community 2016-02-09T16:10:54-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-cf45d5dc-4b8c-4c72-b4a0-4f64bd5fc7b5 Smarter Cloud Management: Look, Ma, No Hands! Wes Simonds email@example.com 120000EFD6 active bcde08b8-816c-42a8-aa37-5f1ce02470a9 Comment Entries Likes 2012-05-22T14:20:10-04:00 2012-05-23T08:45:48-04:00
My cousin's wife told me recently that they wanted to buy a house, but weren't sure they could justify such a huge investment in such a doubtful economy.

So I told her this: 'Buy a few square feet. Take a few weeks, try them out and see what you think. If you like 'em, buy some more square feet. Then a whole room. Then a whole floor. Eventually, maybe, you'll have your dream house.'

Of course, this was just a joke. But most of the time I think it's actually very good advice, because it's very easy to apply and it applies to so many different circumstances.

It certainly applies to physical fitness, where trying to accomplish too much, too soon will just burn you out, or put you in the hospital, instead of make you fitter. It also applies to marriage; getting engaged on the second date is generally not considered a love-life best practice.

Much the same kind of thinking applies rather naturally in IT. It shows up, for instance, in the form of kernel-based operating systems like Linux and all modern versions of Windows. The kernel represents a solid initial foundation that handles core tasks like memory management, to which any number of logical capabilities can be (and are) added to form the complete OS.

And these same sorts of ideas apply on a far larger scale in the context of cloud computing, I think. Because organizations can't know with perfect accuracy in advance how best to develop and utilize cloud for their own particular circumstances, it's probably wise for them not to think of and develop clouds as a monolithic entity -- a thing they have to roll out perfectly and completely on day one -- but rather as a foundation to which they can add new capabilities over time.

If I had to guess, in fact, I would say that it was exactly this reasoning that led IBM to give SmartCloud Foundation that title. It's meant as the initial 'cloud kernel' on top of which you can then subsequently add new layers, new capabilities, that match your business requirements, just as Linux developers add Linux services, all of which run on top of the Linux kernel.

Why manage the cloud when the cloud can manage itself?
As it happens, I prefer certainty to doubt. So rather than just keep guessing about IBM's nomenclatural logic, I decided to ask an expert: Marco Sebastiani, Product Manager for IBM Service Delivery Manager and Cloud Solutions.

Sebastiani not only confirmed my interpretation, but ran with it in what I thought was a pretty cool direction.

'You can think of cloud management software almost as a set of nested Russian dolls' he said. 'Practically any cloud is going to need to be able to do things like create virtual servers, and track key assets, automatically. That basic functionality corresponds to the innermost Russian doll. We address that with SmartCloud Foundation's entry cloud solution, which does provisioning and image lifecycle management. But then, once you have that set up, you can easily add more capabilities over time: bigger dolls. Every larger doll, in turn, leverages the capabilities of the smaller ones. And the cloud intelligently and automatically orchestrates all of its capabilities based on business policies.'

So, to pursue this analogy, what's the next doll up from SmartCloud Foundation?

The answer, it seems, is IBM Service Delivery Manager -- a set of capabilities, delivered as a pre-integrated software stack, that can help organizations leverage clouds to do even more, and create more value, in areas where they typically really need more value.

'The idea of this solution,' said Sebastiani, 'is to simplify, accelerate and automate service fulfillment. It minimizes the amount of manual work IT has to put into the cloud by making the cloud much more self-governing and self-optimizing. So suppose you're an employee who wants a new service in the cloud. Instead of having to submit a request to IT to create that service, employees can just ask the cloud itself to do it. And, by orchestrating key tasks in logical ways, that's just what the cloud will then do. In this way, service management becomes much easier to pursue because services running in the cloud basically manage themselves, cradle-to-grave.'

This fits Sebastiani's analogy rather well, too. Return to the idea of Russian dolls for a minute, remembering that the innermost cloud doll does provisioning and monitoring of virtual servers.

What IBM Service Delivery Manager does, in turn, is build bigger dolls on top of that, automatically leveraging those functions over time, in ways that fulfill business requirements, while also adding entirely new capabilities that add entirely new value.

End-to-end optimization of the complete service lifecycle
This solution, for instance, includes an intuitive portal interface available via any standard Web browser. This, in essence, is the front-end needed to create new services that will run in the cloud.

Using it, one can basically instruct the cloud: 'This is what I'd like to do, this is when I'm going to need to be able to do it and this is how important it will be to the business.'

Then the cloud basically does the rest -- ensuring that new virtual servers are created and eliminated on time, provisioned using the right server images, and that this entire process doesn't conflict with or compromise existing services unacceptably. (If that sounds like 'automatic IT governance' to you, you're pretty close to the mark.)

To do that, of course, the cloud needs to be able to allocate critical resources fluidly and dynamically -- resources like processing power, memory, storage and even network bandwidth. This capability, too, is provided by Service Delivery Manager. It is continually aware of the available resources, discovers new resources when they are added to the general pool and doles out resources when and where they're needed. Then, when the demand level falls, the cloud pulls those resources back to the pool, or directly assigns them to another service that happens to need them at that point.

Also worth noting is the fact that all of that happens far more quickly and efficiently than it would if it were overseen by human talent. So, because fewer resources are wasted, fewer are needed in the first place -- a major cost-saving opportunity for the organization, which can now get by on less total processing power, memory, storage and bandwidth than it would have thought possible before the cloud.

Real-time monitoring is another major capability. Service Delivery Manager continually tracks the health and performance level of both virtual and physical resources -- a critically important function given how incredibly dynamic a cloud can be. So let us imagine that a given node (physical host) fails due to a toasted logic board; Service Delivery Manager will automatically notice and report that issue, leading to a quick and accurate failover of the associated service to a different, much healthier node.

Cost-tracking is yet another major strength of this solution. Given the intensely shared and interconnected nature of a cloud, where so much is happening automatically, you might expect it'd be difficult figuring out the costs created by different cloud services and systems -- and business teams and projects that use the cloud. And normally you'd be right.

'Service Delivery Manager changes all that,' said Sebastiani. 'It gives you granular insight into exactly how costs are trending in all those different ways -- in as much or as little detail as you need. So if you're using your cloud in a public model, it can tell you exactly how much to charge your customers for their particular cloud utilization, even though all customers are using the same hardware. Or if you have a strictly private cloud, it will tell you how much you should charge back to different groups. This way, it creates the kind of insight that over time can help, or encourage, those divisions to try to keep their costs down.'

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Guest blogger Wes Simonds worked in IT for seven years before becoming a technology writer on topics including virtualization, cloud computing and service management. He lives in sunny Austin, Texas and believes Mexican food should always be served with queso.
 My cousin's wife told me recently that they wanted to buy a house, but weren't sure they could justify such a huge investment in such a doubtful economy. So I told her this: 'Buy a few square feet. Take a few weeks, try them out and see what you think.... 0 0 6619 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-97050e2c-bec8-4274-a3ee-4432f0a1f4bc IBM Software Community 2016-02-09T16:10:54-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-de9d2818-60ef-4704-aadd-4370127b2c88 What, me worry? How to enjoy the full promise of cloud computing Wes Simonds email@example.com 120000EFD6 active bcde08b8-816c-42a8-aa37-5f1ce02470a9 Comment Entries Likes 2012-05-08T07:53:58-04:00 2012-05-08T07:53:58-04:00 Every retail manager is familiar with the idea of the Return Browser. By this I mean the guy who keeps coming back to check out something he obviously likes -- a car, a guitar, a flat-panel TV -- but just... can't... quite... justify. A similar situation seems to me to apply inside certain organizations as they ponder moving to cloud architectures.

They're familiar with the cloud story: Faster service delivery! Smart resource allocation! Increased focus on strategies, not technical details! Minimum waste, maximum business value!

But still they ponder.

It's an understandable doubt they feel. The promise of cloud computing is, they are afraid, not going to be realized in reality -- at least in their case.

They correctly see that a cloud is going to be a much more dynamic infrastructure, meaning in part that it will be harder to predict exactly what it will do in any given context. You need to think through all the major ramifications very carefully before making such a deep commitment. (And if you happen to see a parallel to marriage here, I won't tell you you're wrong).

This, I think, is a big part of what makes IBM SmartCloud Provisioning and IBM SmartCloud Monitoring so attractive. The value proposition they offer isn't just post-deployment -- although that's enormous -- but pre-deployment, too.

By offering organizations substantially enhanced power to determine and optimize how a private cloud will fulfill workloads, these solutions also inspire confidence that maybe cloud computing really can live up to the hype.

Provision and monitor your way to peace of mind -- and incredible business value
When I spoke with Marvin Goodman, Product Manager for IBM Tivoli Software, he also seemed to see things along these lines.

Actually, one of the points he made was that even when the cloud is already up and running, much the same kinds of questions will still apply as new workloads are added to it from the more conventional infrastructure -- or somebody proposes said addition.

In that scenario, in fact, a double set of worries may apply.

'Physical to virtual migration plans are a daunting challenge for both application owners and cloud administrators,' said Goodman. 'The application owners are under pressure to meet deadlines for the virtualization of their workloads, but face uncertainty about the ability of the cloud to service their customers. Meanwhile, cloud administrators have to quickly respond to requests from those application owners, and be able to determine, with confidence, that addition of those workloads is feasible, and won't affect the performance of existing workloads.'

Fortunately, what SmartCloud Provisioning and Monitoring offers is directly applicable to both sets of worries.

Consider: both the application owners and cloud administrators are bound to like the idea that in the cloud, new virtual servers will be created and provisioned with absolutely mind-boggling speed based on business requirements (thousands of servers per hour, if need be). And once those servers are up and running, workloads can be assigned and distributed across them -- meaning that applications should indeed perform as expected, and that the cloud will simply have taken on another role with ease.

They're also going to like the idea that the cloud's assets and resources are continually and automatically monitored over time to verify that they're performing up to target levels -- or if they aren't, notifications will be sent, steps will be taken and a fix will be made. Because when things are about to take a turn for the worse, the sooner you know about it and the more comprehensive your insight, the better.

'When application owners surrender their workloads to cloud administrators, they lose the visibility into performance they've been accustomed to. Their application is now sharing server resources with lots of other workloads, many of which they know nothing about. So they're uncertain about how their applications will perform in the cloud,' said Goodman. 'SmartCloud Monitoring allows cloud administrators to provide assurances that workloads are, indeed, running smoothly in the cloud. It can also leverage performance data to optimize those workloads and their placement to simultaneously maximize performance and capacity.'

Instead of dynamically generated virtual servers and unpredictable resource allocation being something to worry about, in other words, they are simply strengths to rely on -- strengths the cloud was supposed to have in the first place.

Future-proofed clouds generate more rain over time
Of course, not even a cloud runs on magic; ultimately there is a limit to what it can accomplish given a finite set of resources. The question is: where's that limit, and how accurately can you establish it in advance?

If you're a cloud administrator of the type Goodman is talking about, capacity planning and management is a pretty big deal for exactly these reasons. Which, no doubt, is why capacity management is one of SmartCloud Monitoring's great selling points.

'Customers trying to grow the maturity of their virtual environments into robust private clouds often grapple with the pressure to add more and more workloads to the environment, at a pace that far exceeds the growth of their cloud budget,' said Goodman. 'SmartCloud Monitoring's capacity analytics and planning unlock hidden capacity in the existing infrastructure by freeing up resources through virtual machine 'right-sizing' and optimization.'

So rather than always buying new storage for new workloads, you can often just improve the way you're using existing storage.

Instead of always working harder, you work smarter. Indeed, this gets right to the heart of what IBM has in mind when it talks about Smarter Computing. Maybe you really do need more/new resources or maybe you don't; why not establish as clearly as possible which situation applies, and respond accordingly? It all goes straight to the point of making sure clouds will live up to their original promise.

And if you're really going to design a cloud to be the best possible IT service delivery platform -- the one that really is as optimized as it can be -- you should probably try to future-proof your cloud to ensure it will support change of many kinds: change in workloads, certainly, but also change in critical resources and assets.

For instance, consider all those server images -- the complete software snapshots needed to create virtual servers dynamically. For many organizations, image management is a huge hassle because (a) there are way too many images, (b) more show up all the time and (c) it's not very clear what's inside them.

SmartCloud Provisioning, fortunately, includes some nifty features directly aimed at these issues. Looking for a specific image that needs a security patch, and all virtual servers based on it? You can easily conduct a search along those lines. Or suppose you're trying to drum up the closest possible match to a target image – that, too, is a straightforward matter. This also means it's easy to discover and eliminate duplicate images, consolidate libraries down to the essentials and in short, knock the bullet point titled 'Image Sprawl' right off your Fix Now! list.

Along similarly future-proofed lines, note that SmartCloud Monitoring offers support not for just one hypervisor, but for many. Ergo, if you want to add different hypervisors to your cloud over time, you can just go ahead and do it, and rest assured that the IBM solution has got your back.

Goodman sees this particular instance of future-proofing as a serious advantage.

'IT departments want to be able to choose hypervisor technologies based on cost-benefit analysis, and not feel compelled to stay with a particular vendor just because they've become reliant on its management tools,' he said. 'As a management solution that crosses different hypervisor platforms, and indeed physical platforms as well, SmartCloud Monitoring allows customers to maintain tool continuity as they move workloads from one virtualization platform to another, focusing directly on availability, performance and total cost of ownership.'

So with all that in mind, let me ask you this:

When it comes to private clouds... what, really, are you so worried about?

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The March issue of the IBM Software Newsletter has been in inboxes for just a little more than 24 hours, but already it looks like the new IBM SmartCloud offerings, announced at Pulse 2012, are getting most of the attention from our readers. Here's a quick reader's/viewer's guide you can use to ramp up on the offerings, and what they can do for your organization:

Start with the press release announcing all the new IBM SmartCloud offerings

Watch video of the Pulse Cloud and Data Center Optimization keynote, on Livestream – a great discussion of the market and IT forces that are changing what companies need from cloud computing.

Read the new study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, The power of cloud: Driving business model innovation, to learn the different cloud-enabled business models companies are using cloud today, and the potential business value of each.

Another SmartCloud capability, announced in advance of Pulse, is also attracting clicks: IBM SmartCloud Enterprise – Object Storage, which dramatically simplifies management of unstructured data (emails, social content, documents, and other non-row-and-column data) in the cloud. For more information, visit the SmartCloud Enteprise web page, and scroll down.
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We just mailed our February IBM Software Newsletter, featuring the top stories from Lotusphere 2012. And while products like IBM Connections 'Next' and Notes and Domino Social Edition grabbed the headlines, IBM Docs and Lotus Symphony are getting a LOT of attention from our readers.

IBM Docs (previously called LotusLive Symphony) is a cloud-based productivity suite, lets team members inside and outside the firewall collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations – people can co-edit in real-time, assign sections of documents for one another to work on, etc. IBM Docs will be available later this year, but you can try the beta now if you have a LotusLive (soon to be IBM SmartCloud for Social Business) account, or as part of a LotusLive trial.

IBM just released Lotus Symphony 3.0.1, an upgrade to its no-charge, on-premises office productivity suite. The upgrade adds new features like support for a million spreadsheet rows, new chart types, and more bullet and numbering styles; it also repairs a few bugs.

At Lotusphere, IBM also announced future plans for Symphony that led to some misunderstanding and panic about IBM pulling out of the no-charge office suite arena, which it isn't. The actual story, nothing to panic about at all, is that:

Symphony 3.0.1 is the current release of IBM's no-charge office suite

An upcoming IBM edition of Apache OpenOffice 4.0 – which will contain the Symphony codebase, and which IBM will support in exactly the same way it supports Symphony now – will be the next release of IBM's no-charge office suite.

For more detail on this, check out Ed Brill's blog (and the video presentation therein).
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Of the many announcements made this week at Lotusphere 2012, the one that resonated most with our readers was the new IBM SmartCloud for Social Business – a re-branding and expansion of what you now know as IBM LotusLive cloud-based collaboration offerings. The key take-aways from this announcement:

For now, you can continue to try and buy LotusLive services as usual; soon they'll be called IBM SmartCloud for Social Business

You can also try the Beta for IBM Docs (previously called LotusLive Symphony), a set of cloud-based tools for collaborating on documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

IBM also announced that the next generation of its social networking platform, IBM Connections, will incorporate sophisticated analytics and real-time data monitoring – so that organizations can quickly analyze the flood of data generated by social interactions, integrate it with data from other sources, and make faster, better decisions on the fly. Which apparently impressed more at least two people at the show.

Honorable mention: Oh puh-lease, Oracle. Even in the midst of an 'all Lotusphere, all the time' new cycle this week, IBMer Conor O'Mahony's methodical (and revealing) dismantling of a recent Oracle marketing claim got plenty of attention. Check it out.
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So almost against my will, I come up with best practices for things like making espresso, playing scales on a guitar and finding a restaurant in an unfamiliar part of town.

This morning it struck me that there are underlying concepts that practically all of these best practices have in common:

1. Faster is better.
2. Cheaper is better.
3. More consistent results are better.
4. More automation is better.

That last idea is particularly powerful.

The less I have to think about any of the details of (for instance) making espresso in the morning, the more I can think about whatever I actually need to do that day instead.

This is helpful because without coffee, I am nearly useless and can be confused by doorknob locks. I need all the brainpower I can get. So it's nice being able to pull a shot or two of good espresso -- not a trivial job -- completely on autopilot.

It also occurs to me that if you apply those four concepts I list above to IT infrastructures, you get a pretty clear sense of where things have gone in the last 10 years -- and where they're heading. To wit: higher performance, lower costs, greater consistency and smarter automation.

And once again, the fourth one is particularly powerful. Especially in a cloud context.

A significant chunk of the appeal of cloud architectures, to business leaders, is simply this: You don't have to think about the details of the technology (which is relatively unimportant). You can instead think about what you're trying to accomplish with the technology (which is very important). You can more easily go, in a business sense, from early-morning, pre-coffee haze to clarity about your strategies and their execution.

And this is surely part of why, in recent years, pay-as-you-go public clouds have flourished, but private clouds (despite lower operating costs over time) have been a little slower off the mark. Private clouds, being private, require creating and maintaining the actual cloud infrastructure in-house. I imagine business leaders look at that idea and say, 'Oh, geez, we're back to the details of the tech.'

This being so, the more IT solution providers can simplify and accelerate private cloud creation and maintenance, the more successful private clouds are likely to be.

Day one: No private cloud. Day two: Killer private cloud.

Well, the IBM SmartCloud initiative, launched last fall, strikes me as being directly on point in this respect.

When I talked to Murtuza Choilawala, Product Manager for Cloud Solutions with IBM Tivoli Software, he agreed -- pointing specifically to provisioning as a key cloud capability.

'Simplifying and accelerating private cloud rollout -- of new services, new servers or the whole cloud -- is really what SmartCloud is all about,' he said. 'A big part of that comes thanks to a particular element of the offering called IBM SmartCloud Provisioning. Using it, organizations can easily get a private cloud up and running, starting with nothing but the hardware, in less than a single business day. If you're looking for a fast, effective implementation of business strategies, where you don't have to struggle with the technical details? You can't do much better than that.'

A single business day? To go from no private cloud to an up-and-running private cloud? 'Game-changer' is not a phrase I like to use, but it seems to apply in this case. In fact, an upcoming Tech Talk on Cloud Computing to be held January 18 with Choilawala will show you why.

Further conversation revealed that this is no coincidence. SmartCloud Provisioning was designed specifically for the scenario I described above: An organization is interested in private cloud. It likes the idea of the reduced operating costs that come from owning its own cloud. But it's leery of the expected setup, maintenance and management a private cloud will require.

Forget about the usual hassles of setup, maintenance and management

What IBM SmartCloud does is reduce all three of those problem areas to a bare minimum.

Setup, for instance. In this area, SmartCloud Provisioning discovers new host (node) hardware, then allows administrators to create new virtual servers that will run on that hardware, and provision those virtual servers from an image library, at blistering speeds. How blistering? IBM cites up to 100 VM's in less than 3 minutes

This strikes me as an incredibly fast, Usain-Bolt-level rollout. I'd watch it happen with a sort of stunned expression, blinking at the painful memory of what it was like to be an IT guy manually provisioning one server at a time, and envious of IT guys who will never have to deal with that experience.

The setup capabilities get stronger yet. Let's say your private cloud services are more successful than you expected and demand is higher. So you decide to scale up your private cloud by adding more hardware.

Turns out that you can simply add that hardware and start using it right away -- basically, hot-swapping in new hosts -- without bringing down your cloud or cloud services. This is because SmartCloud Provisioning will automatically detect the new hardware you've added, reflect the addition in your management console and give you the option to create new virtual servers running there.

Then your services will automatically leverage those virtual servers, scaling to meet the higher demand. It's really that simple.

Maintenance is similarly effective because IBM SmartCloud Provisioning can leverage these same capabilities when things go wrong. Let's say one of those physical hosts, for whatever reason, goes offline. As it does, SmartCloud Provisioning will detect that change. It will also try to solve the problem on its own via rebooting/microbooting (or reinstallation of PXE, which is used to boot servers remotely).

Either that will work, or if it doesn't (due to true hardware failure), the IT team can simply pull the problematic hardware and replace it with a new host. Then SmartCloud Provisioning will detect the new host and reprovision it on demand.

'SmartCloud Provisioning is actually so advanced in this area that we're using the term self-healing to describe it,' said Choilawala. 'The idea is that when things go wrong, the private cloud should always notice that and, whenever possible, fix the thing that went wrong by itself -- like somebody with a headache taking an aspirin. It should hardly ever be necessary to go to the doctor. So medical bills (operational costs) go way down. And cloud productivity? Given the headache-free reality, that goes way up.'

If you've gotten this far, you can probably see that management -- our third potential pitfall for a private cloud -- is also really straightforward. SmartCloud Provisioning keeps administrators constantly apprised of which virtual servers are up and where they are on which hosts. It also supports multiple virtualization environments ranging from VMware to Xen to KVM (Linux). The everyday management functions it doesn't handle automatically, it empowers IT team members to handle with minimal ado and (more importantly) practically zero service downtime.

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All this means that the private cloud becomes a much simpler, less intimidating and more pragmatic possibility for organizations today. And over time, as IBM continues to revise and enhance SmartCloud, that's just going to become more and more powerful an argument.

'SmartCloud Provisioning is best understood as a foundational offering,' said Choilawala. 'Already we offer complementary solutions like IBM SmartCloud Monitoring, that tracks cloud assets and status levels in more granular detail, to give organizations higher service availability and performance with what-if analysis and capacity management. And as more capabilities are added to SmartCloud, in areas like service management, it's going to become an increasingly superior private cloud platform.'

Interested in knowing more? Attend Pulse 2012, to be held in Las Vegas March 4-7. Attendees can expect both an in-depth look at SmartCloud's capabilities today, via technical demos, as well as a sneak peek into its future roadmap of development for the immediate future.

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Guest blogger Wes Simonds worked in IT for seven years before becoming a technology writer on topics including virtualization, cloud computing and service management. He lives in sunny Austin, Texas and believes Mexican food should always be served with queso.

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Minnesota got off to a great start in the class of 2014 when it added the commitment of four-star Minneapolis (Minn.) Washburn running back Jeff Jones in February, but the Gophers' fight to keep the state's top player at home is not yet over.
"I let them know that I am going to stay committed, but I am going to start to explore my options again," Jones said. "Me and my father had a talk and I felt that it was only right if I gave the other schools an equal opportunity to recruit me.
"Coach [Jerry] Kill was fine with that. He told me to look at just go look at the other schools and check them out."
Jones spoke with Kill on Friday, and was able to schedule a trip the following day down to Iowa State to check out a Cyclones' practice.
"They meshed their practice into our junior day and we got to tour around their facilities and watch the rest of their practice," Jones said. "Coach (Paul) Rhoads came and talked to us, and thanked us for taking the time to come down there. At the end we got to meet with our recruiting coordinators.
"I talked with Coach [Kenith] Pope, the running backs coach, and he was telling me how he could help develop me as a running back. He coached LaDainian Tomlinson down at TCU and he also coached Barry Sanders, so he's coached a few big-name players."
Iowa State was one of the first schools to offer Jones last summer, and his interest in the Cyclones' program has grown following the recent visit to Ames.
"I am definitely interested in Iowa State. They liked me since my freshman year, so I respect them on that," Jones said. "They have great facilities down there. There are bigger in the country, but I don't think there is another school that has the equipment that they have there."
Other schools that have offered are Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Syracuse and Wisconsin. The California Bears have also shown strong interest in recent weeks and could be on the verge of joining that group.
The 6-foot, 190-pound Jones does not have any other spring campus visits planned, but he does expect to see several schools over the summer.
"If it is possible to see all the schools that have offered me, I would like to do that," Jones said.
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Starting in the last few years, eateries serving Bangali ranna (cooking) now generously speckle the city. Their ubiquity is noteworthy—from quiet residential blocks to busy business districts, all with catchy names straight out of everyday Bengali confab, aiming at embodying the homely cosiness of its cuisine and ambience. They stand out from the older restaurants, which go by exotic, even arcane, names such as Oasis, Mocambo or Peter Cat, inspired by the cuisine they serve—Mughlai, Chinese, Continental, Lebanese....
In comparison, sample the casually quotidian nature of some of the new foody monikers: Khai Khai (an informal word conveying that constant, moreish pang that so afflicts us, and the title of an iconic Sukumar Ray poem); Fish Fish (phonetically, the Bengali word for 'whispering'); then there is Sholo Ana Bangali (one hundred per cent Bengali—both a compliment, and an age-old, mock-serious defence when accused of being 'Anglicised'). There is also Jholey Jhaley Omboley (a Bengali idiom signifying omnipresence); Tero Parbon (the phrase for the nth number of festivals in the Bengali calendar); and Bhuri Bhoj and Pet Pujo (both Bengali terms for a grand feast). The list goes on.
Most interestingly, the rash of restaurants zeroing in on the marketability of Bengali cuisine in Calcutta has been attributed less to tourists and 'non-Bengalis' out to sample local food—the craving for authentic Bengali ranna seems to stem from Bengalis themselves.
From the unique needs of those like Aunt Dolly, who want hands-free access to traditional Bengali dishes (some of them fiendishly complicated and time-consuming to prepare) for an occasion, to those large numbers of working, middle-class Bengalis, especially women, who no longer have the time or inclination to cook, yet drool at the very thought of bhapa ilish, mochar ghonto, bhetki paturi and muri ghonto with fish head. Rajeev Neogi, director of the restaurant chain Bhojohori Manna—a trendsetter of sorts in serving traditional delicacies when it started in 2003—explains: "It is difficult to pinpoint exactly why a trend catches on. It could be the catchy name (culled from a hit Manna De Bengali song from the '60s, where the eponymous 'Sree Sree Bhojohori Manna' brags and sings of his adventures and achievements as a chef in various lands). It could be the fetching ambience, the quality of the food or the affordable pricing too. But the fact that today few people have the time, not to mention the expertise and help, that our mothers and grandmothers have always had to prepare elaborate meals plays into it."
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"There are so many choices today that it's mind-boggling, but I'm not cribbing," laughs 39-year-old Dipali Mukherjee, who quit her job as a sales executive in a multinational when her son was born ten years ago. "It was a nightmare in those days. I was working. Returning home at night, I would have to cook and clean up. My husband and I both love Bengali food and so do my in-laws." So, it was a relief when the eateries started appearing. "We not only got into the habit of eating out, but whenever my in-laws or even friends visited we would order in. I have become a housewife but I have completely stopped cooking," she chuckles.
The new places have priced themselves for the middle segment of the market, below the existing upper end restaurants, but much above the 'pice hotel' or street kiosks—for long the only places one could get basic Bengali fare. The 'pice hotel' has been very popular for decades in Calcutta, with some 2,000 cheap, hole-in-the-wall joints all over the city, usually catering to the lower segment. But in these new eateries that offer home-cooked food, you can have a hearty meal for, say, a reasonable five hundred rupees.
So, for those like Dipali, today it's less about what to cook than where to drop in for the next meal. Will it be 'kola pata' (banana leaf) for lunch? And for dinner, can she gorge at Podda Parer Ranna Ghar (the kitchen on the banks of river Padma)?
The report on the resurgence of Bengali cuisine restaurants in Calcutta was fun reading (And Chew the Head Too, Apr 14). Readymade food will become an essential part of our lives as more women join the workforce. Also, the new generation doesn't know how to cook, and are not really interested in learning either.
Thank you to all those who have taken the trouble to read the article and share their thoughts. Out of the arguments made here, there are two that perhaps need answering. So here they go.
1. The first part of the article compares outcomes (relative percentages of population of the religions concerned) irrespective of the process that led to those outcomes - whether immigration, relatively faster population growth or conversions. This was for two reasons. One, to put the figure of 2.3 per cent in "numerical perspective", as the article itself explained. The second reason was that outcomes are ultimately what the crux of debate is about. The rest of the article in any case dealt with process - or conversions in this case, from both a contemporary and historical perspective.
2. Some commenters have tried to cast doubts on the reliability of Census 2001. Those who do this should bear in mind that Census 2001 was conducted by a BJP government. Considering the extreme importance that BJP gives to this issue, it would be reasonable to expect that IF it had perceived a problem with the methodology that was distorting the numbers, it would have fixed it. As the article mentioned, BJP or BJP-supported governments have been in power for 10 of the last 40 years, or about a quarter of the time, and the only reasonable conclusion one can arrive at is that any misreporting of numbers, real or perceived, would be marginal and hence, not of importance.
To all other arguments made, my answer is the following: Please read the article again, with particular focus on the quotations of Vivekananda and Monier Williams, and the history of the missionary efforts in Bengal and their outcome.
Fish for the Bengalis is not just food, it is almost religion.
Readymade food will become an essential part as more women go to work. Also the new generation girls do not know how to cook and are not interested in cooking.
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Nowadays the hottest debate in Turkish politics is, for sure, the notorious "postmodern" coup of Feb. 28, 1997.
I am sure, foreign readers of Today's Zaman are familiar with the events that took place from July 1996, which is the date of installation of the Refahyol government (a coalition between former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's Welfare Party [RP] and Tansu Çiller's True Path Party [DYP]), to June 1997, the date of its fall. Erbakan was obliged to resign under strong pressure from the army, which used an array of tools, both legal and illegal. Now more than 20 general and officers in retirement are facing charges in connection with the 1997 coup.
My intention is not to discuss different political and legal features of this historical event but to focus on its economic background. Many participants in the debate over Feb. 28 coup d'état assert that the postmodern coup was not only illegitimate but also caused big economic losses.
The argument alludes to the successive financial crisis followed by severe recessions in 1999 and in 2001. To summarize, these crisis were provoked by sky-high real interest rates as well as by bank failures within the context of economic instability.
To put it crudely, I do not agree with this approach. I believe the responsibility for the crisis lies, for the biggest part, in the hands of Refahyol and its poor governance of economic affairs. In fact, the bad governance, in other words the populist way of governance, started as early as the beginning of the 1990's, when the capital account was opened to international capital flows, while the pre-conditions of this audacious step were not fulfilled. I do not want to divert the attention of my readers to explaining subtleties of the 'small open economy theory' but let me just point out that this kind of opening requires healthy macro-economic fundamentals like low budget deficits, low inflation, low interest rates, and last but not least, a solid banking system. None of these were existing in the beginning of 1990's, but further more the populism of former President Süleyman Demirel's government (a centre right and left coalition) exacerbated the imbalances already existing.
The Refahyol government continued in this way and increased the amount of money being printed in order to finance a widening budged deficit. The Mesut Yılmaz government, which succeeded the Refahyol government, stopped the monetary financing and signed a staff monitoring agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but it was not legitimate and strong enough to use all other necessary ingredients, like budget discipline and banking reform, to reinstitute confidence. Neither governments nor army can be blamed directly for the economic disaster. Indeed, the real responsibility was in the hands of the whole political establishment who were unaware of the new constraints introduced by the new economic regime, which was the open economy. My basic point is that, economic turmoil weakened civilian political power, which prevented its ability to resist the coups.
The Feb. 28 postmodern coup is not a unique example of this particular feature of Turkish politics. Each military coup after the 1950's profited from similar economic conditions. This was the case for the May 27, 1960 coup. The power of the Democrat Party government (DP) was at bay in 1958 because of high inflation and lack of hard currency to pay for imports. The devaluation shock of August 1958, as the condition of the IMF stand-by, did cause a severe stagflation and the necessary complement of the devaluation, the fiscal discipline, could not be implemented by the weakened Adnan Menderes government. The March 12, 1971 coup arrived amid the devaluation of 1969. The Sept. 12, 1980 coup happened not only within the context of a political backlash, but also under the conditions of a severe depression. The inflation reached three digit levels, while the export coverage of imports was as low as 20 percent. It was impossible to satisfy the demand for intermediary goods, so industrial production was rapidly declining.
I can not speculate that if the economic situation was not quite as bad, military coups could not succeed or ever be planned. The fundamental motivation of a military coup was the control of the parliamentary regime by the army, with the help of the bureaucratic establishment of course, in order to preserve a limited democracy with limited individual liberties, as was projected when the Kemalist regime was obliged to institute minimum political plurality in 1946.
Having said that, I believe that the economic turmoil weakened civil governments and facilitated in this way the task of putschists who were searching for popular support. And I also believe that, if the Justice and Development Party (AK) government during its first years would not have succeeded in establishing economic stability accompanied by high growth, it would not have been able to resist the joint pressures of the army and the high judiciary during the presidential election episode of 2007, be able to win an electoral victory in July 2007, and finally, be able to survive to the closing trial of 2008.


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Do you open the brewery to public?
Absolutely. We're open every Fri eve from 5pm. We have all our beers on tap (including one off crazy batches) and we make good pizzas too. Wed nights we also open from 5 and you can get a free tour at 6:30pm. We're usually brewing Wed nights so it's a great time to see, hear and smell new batches of Goat coming into the world. We're at 80 North St, Richmond.
Do you sell drinks other than beer at the bar?
Yep we have some good Australian whites and reds and the excellent Two Step Apple Cider. Also have David Baker's locally distilled specialty single malt whiskies and his gin and vodka. Soft drinks too.
How do you get the goat into the beer?
The truth is we don't actually put goats in our beer.
Why don't you brew the Surefoot Stout year round?
We like the idea of having special beers coming out in certain seasons of the year and the Surefoot really fits well with the colder winter months.
Why don't you have bands play at the brewery?
We'd love to but we have residents living close by and we have a condition on our planning permit that says we cannot host live music.
Did you start out as homebrewers?
Yes, it all started in Dave's backyard in Elsternwick. We've still got some detailed brewing journals highlighting the highs and lows of Dave's early work. Some of his hits were the Salmon's Runnin' Stout, Leroy Brown Ale and the Black Dog Dark Brown.
Expose vos houblons! What?
"Show us your hops"
So why Mountain Goat?
A mountain goat's a big hairy animal that's never gonna fall over.
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Five Things We Learned: Time to worry about KG
|04.14.09 at 11:03 pm ET
It is now permissible to be worried about Kevin Garnett. Not time to freak out, necessarily, but worried? Yup.
A week ago, KG was supposed to make his return against the Sixers. He did not, obviously. Before that he was supposed to sit out a game or two and be back for Charlotte. That was two weeks ago. Once the Celtics clinched the No. 2 seed, they had no reason to push him back on the court, and while it's hard to argue with that decision, it's becoming increasingly clear that Garnett is not 100 percent and probably won't be in time for the playoffs.
The Celtics sent him home for more treatment and quotes like, "not progressing the way we would like," and "needs more time," do not bode well. At this point, it's fair to say no one outside the team really knows how Garnett's knee is doing, and while it's conceivable that he could come out for Game 1 of the playoffs, wreak havoc for 35 or so minutes and have a big laugh at everyone's expense, it just doesn't seem likely.
Without Garnett and without Ray Allen, there wasn't a lot to take from Tuesday's game with the Sixers (recap here), but Paul Pierce's 3-point barrage was a good sign for the Celtics. Pierce has shot fewer 3-pointers per 36 minutes than at any other point in his career, but he has shot them effectively, making 38 percent.
Pierce made seven of nine 3-pointers Wednesday, (shades of 2002?) and had his step-back jumper working to perfection. The Truth is ready for the playoffs and so are…
The only important thing for the Celtics was getting some extended minutes for Tony Allen and working Leon Powe back into the action. Good results on both counts. Allen played 38 minutes and scored 18 points, displaying an aggressiveness that has been largely absent from his play during his comeback. Powe, meanwhile, was efficient, scoring 10 points in 14 minutes.
Kenny Smith tried to make the argument that the Sixers reminded him of the Hawks because they're young (but they're not as young as Atlanta), they're athletic (true, but they're not that athletic) and they run (whoops).
You will hear about a thousand times between now and Saturday if the Celtics wind up playing the Sixers that Philly likes to run, but here's the deal: In terms of pace — that is the number of possessions per game — the Sixers rank 22nd in the NBA. In other words, they play slower than Memphis, slower than Houston and (yes) slower than the Celtics.
Bringing the halftime conversation full circle, everyone agreed that the Sixers aren't as good as the Hawks last season. A little perspective, please. Atlanta won 37 games last year and got blown out four times in Boston during the playoffs. They played great three times at home and have made a nice jump last year, but let's not pretend that anyone thought the Hawks were "good" last season, and the comparison between last year's Hawks and this year's Sixers doesn't hold up.
The Sixers came into last night's game holding the tiebreaker over Chicago for the sixth seed. They leave a game down with one to play and are staring at a road date with Cleveland tomorrow. If the Bulls beat Toronto at home tomorrow, they will be a trendy pick to beat Orlando in the first round, but that's a story for another day.
So, it looks like it will be Philly in the first round and while the thought of a renewed Celtics-Sixers rivalry is enticing, the early line here is that this is the scenario Boston wanted all along. They avoid Detroit, and swoon or no swoon, every time the Celtics play the Pistons, it's a struggle. They avoid Chicago, who is white hot and they avoid Miami and D Wade.
Not to mention, the Celtics are 4-0 against Philly this year, travel will be easier and there isn't a single matchup that clearly favors the Sixers.
"(The Celtics are) gonna beat them like they stole something. Starting this weekend."
I'm just surprised Joey Crawford didn't T up Sir Charles. He got everyone else.
To play or not to play
|04.14.09 at 10:39 am ET
The Celtics have an interesting dilemma tonight when they play the Sixers. They are locked into the No. 2 seed thanks to the Magic's late-season tumble and have essentially nothing to play for. Doc Rivers has already ruled out Kevin Garnett, although he may want to get Leon Powe some run.
But what about the rest of the team? The Sixers are still fighting for either the sixth or the seventh playoff spot with Chicago who has a half-game lead on Philly. Rivers told reporters that he's still trying to figure out how to play it.
'Philly's fighting with other teams, and it will be tough to sit guys for that fact,' Rivers was quoted as saying in the Herald. 'That's my first thought, though I also have to take care of my team first. But that was my first thought when I thought about the Philly game.'
The Bulls finish their regular season tomorrow with a home game against Toronto, while the Sixers finish up in Cleveland, so a Celtics win tonight could effectively set up a Boston-Philly first round matchup.
The Celtics are 3-0 against Philly heading into tonight's game and went 2-1 against the Bulls, dropping a St. Patrick's Day game in Chicago.
UPDATE: Well that helps solve some of that issue. Ray Allen has been suspended by the NBA for one game for elbowing Anderson Varejao in the varejaos on Sunday. Allen is expected to serve his suspension tonight.
Seventh seed watch: Pistons out
|04.14.09 at 12:21 am ET
The Boston Celtics still don't know who they will face in the first round of the playoffs, but one thing they do know is it will not be the Detroit Pistons. On Monday night the Pistons got locked into the eighth spot with a 91-88 loss to the Chicago Bulls. They will play the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round. So with two days left in the regular season, the battle for the sixth and seventh seeds is still up for grabs between the Bulls and Philadelphia 76ers. The Bulls have a half-game lead over the Sixers heading into Tuesday.
6. Chicago Bulls (41-40)
Wednesday, April 15 vs. Toronto Raptors
7. Philadelphia 76ers (40-40)
Tuesday, April 14 vs. (2) Boston Celtics
Wednesday, April 15 @ (1) Cleveland Cavaliers
Kevin Garnett's Effect
|04.13.09 at 10:45 am ET
Over on Basketball Prospectus, Bradford Doolittle has an interesting number to quantify what Kevin Garnett's absence has made on the Celtics. Doolittle writes:
"When Garnett was injured, Boston was 44-11 and had an efficiency margin of +10.4 points per 100 possessions. Since then, Boston has gone 15-8 with a margin of +5.8. The offense has barely dropped (113.2 offensive efficiency down to 112.9) but the defensive efficiency has risen by 4.3 points. That's the effect of Kevin Garnett. With a full-strength Garnett, the Celtics are right there with the Cavs, Magic and Lakers. Without him, they're at the approximate level of the Blazers or Spurs."
That's about it in a nutshell, which is why it wouldn't be surprising if the Celtics eased Garnett back into the lineup in the first round. Without him they are still one of the top seven or eight teams in the league, but they will certainly need him if they are going to successfully defend their title.
Also of interest: The Magic are reeling and Hedo Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis are not expected to play tonight against Milwaukee. Lewis has tendinitis and Turkoglu sprained his ankle over the weekend, but X-rays were negative and Turk is quoted in the story as saying the injury is not serious.
First round still up for grabs
|04.12.09 at 11:00 pm ET
The Boston Celtics locked up the second seed in the Eastern Conference on Saturday, but their first round opponent is still uncertain. This weekend the Chicago Bulls rose to the occasion, the Detroit Pistons continued to be mediocre, and the Philadelphia 76ers came up short. With only three days left in the regular season, the sixth, seventh, and eighth seeds are still up for grabs.
6. Philadelphia 76ers (40-40)
The Sixers are slipping on a five-game losing streak. This weekend they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors, putting their hold on the sixth spot in jeopardy as they gear up to face the top two teams in the Eastern Conference.
Rest of the season:
Tuesday, April 14 vs. (2) Boston Celtics
Wednesday, April 15 @ (1) Cleveland Cavaliers
7. Chicago Bulls (40-40)
The Bulls enter the final week of the regular season on a four-game winning streak, including Saturday's victory over the Charlotte Bobcats. They will wrap up the season at home where they are 28-12.
Rest of the season:
Monday, April 13 @ (8) Detroit Pistons
Wednesday, April 15 vs. Toronto Raptors
8. Detroit Pistons (39-41)
Despite beating the New Jersey Nets on Friday, a loss on Saturday to the Indiana Pacers landed the Pistons one game behind the Chicago Bulls in the eighth spot. They are 1-2 this season against both of their upcoming opponents.
Rest of the season:
Monday, April 13 vs. (7) Chicago Bulls
Wednesday, April 15 @ (5) Miami Heat
More than a flopper
|04.12.09 at 7:13 pm ET
Anderson Varejao has been called a flopper. He has been called emotional. But the Celtics' front office has another name for him.
'He's a beast, though,' Celtics managing partner Steve Pagliuca said on Celtics Now. 'He's a beast.'
Varejao made an impression when he worked out with the Celtics prior to the 2004 NBA Draft. Even though they decided to go with Al Jefferson a the 15th pick (Varejao was later picked up by Cleveland at the 30th spot), his workout was still memorable five years later.
'We tried him out for the Celtics and I thought we had to stop the tryout because he was going to kill somebody,' Pagliuca said. 'He was hacking. I thought our players were in jeopardy. He's a very physical player.'
That day stood out to Varejao as well. He recalls going hard against David Harrison, who was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 29th pick that summer.
'It was a very physical workout. I remember that,' Varejao said. 'It was pretty physical and that's what I like. I like to play like that and that's why he probably remembers me.'
There is no ignoring Varejao this season. He averaged 11 points and 7.8 rebounds in four regular season games against the Celtics. The pairing of 6-foot-11 Varejao and 7-foot-3 Zydrunas Ilgauskas has stifled the Cs down low without Kevin Garnett, Leon Powe, and Brian Scalabrine.
He made another impression on the Celtics on Sunday when he rattled the even-keeled Ray Allen. (Click here for a recap of the Cavaliers 107-76 victory.) They got tangled up trying to box one another out at the line and Allen ended up on the ground. After Allen dealt Varejao an elbow on his way back up, both were called for technical fouls.
'He's kind of an energy, hard-hitting player,' Pagliuca said.
No kidding. Even though a language barrier prevented Brazilian-born Varejao from receiving compliments from Pagliuca at the time, he still appreciates them five years after his workout.
'That means a lot to me,' he said. 'It means a lot because hearing that from somebody who's in the situation that he's in right now, and he's still talking about me, it means a lot. I just want to say thanks for his words.'
Allen reveals favorite five shooters
|04.12.09 at 4:59 pm ET
ABC revealed Ray Allen's five favorite all-time shooters during Sunday's game against Cleveland:
Reggie Miller
Dell Curry
Dale Ellis
Craig Hodges
Michael Cooper
No Celtics? Allen's list includes players who have burned him in the past, just as he has done to so many other teams during his career.
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Both of last weekend's debuts took tumbles, which is to be expected coming off a holiday weekend. The Hangover II plunged 62% in weekend two, grossing $33 million. For the record, the first film also grossed $32 million in its second weekend, but it was coming off a $45 million debut, not an $85 million opening weekend. Still, the film already has $186 million after eleven days, which makes it the tenth-biggest R-rated grosser and puts it on track to become the first R-rated franchise ever to have two $200 million earners. Kung Fu Panda 2 dropped 49%, for a $24 million second weekend, which is a bit high of a drop and a bit small of a second weekend for a Dreamworks cartoon. Still, the film crossed the $100 million mark today and has equaled the ten day gross of the other Dreamworks Memorial Day opener, Madagascar. That film ended with $193 million, so the Kung Fu Panda sequel will likely finish around $175 million (or just under the $180 million earned by Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa). That's a solid figure, but it will be foreign sales that will likely determine the fate of Kung Fu Panda 3. Madagascar 2 made $423 million overseas, so we are indeed getting a Madagascar 3. Kung Fu Panda 2 has $225 million worldwide thus far.Thor now sits with $169 million and will likely crawl to $180 million domestic. And the two rom-coms Jumping the Broom and Something Borrowed are still neck-and-neck with both just over $35 million.
And that's it for this weekend. Join us next weekend for J.J. Abrams's Spielberg homage Super 8 (was invited to see it last week but had to pass, so will likely wait until opening day for IMAX) and Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, which I will gladly see if Allison is interested. It looks amusing and Heather Graham looks hotter than she has since Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (I certainly hope it's a better film). Until then, keep reading and commenting.
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