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An Illustrated Explanation of Integrated Service Management in Less than 7 Minutes
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What is IBM Tivoli Software? We know you want the short version. Steven Wright of Tivoli Software breaks it all down for us in less than 7 minutes on a white grease board. Check it out while you have your morning coffee, afternoon tea, or while you get your miles in on the treadmill or trail with your smart phone. Then visit ibm.com/software/tivoli for more details on how IBM Tivoli Software can help you run a smarter business.
Meet Top Gremlin Buster Helping to Enable Smarter Planet Innovations
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As businesses and governments continue to develop and design products and services that are increasingly interconnected, IBM is working with clients to help them build the competencies to manage these products in smarter ways. This week at Innovate, the Tivoli and Rational teams, delivered several sessions to the agenda that demonstrated to the software developers, clients, and business partners how to design develop, deploy an manage smarter products by linking development and operations using Cloud technology. I was thrilled to see the level of interest and enthusiasm from the audience for Integrated Service Management. Many of the sessions were standing room only, including the track kickoff, which had to be moved to a larger room! Sessions that were not SRO were also very popular with nearly full rooms.
We were lucky to capture Bala Rajararaman, Tivoli Distinguished Engineer and Top Gremlin-Buster, along with Moe Abdula from Tivoli Development, who shared their passion for Smarter Products and Services by integrating the tools, processes and data of development and operations.
Tivoli + Rational = Gremlinbusters
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During the late 90's, I worked for a company that sold Java components and had the opportunity to do a demo in front of a sea of developers at a large Java conference in New York city.
I must have tested my demo about 20 times the night before and everything worked perfectly before I put my head on the pillow.
You can see where this is going, right? The next day, in front of at least 70 people, my demo crashed so hard that I might as well have been wearing a nametag that said "Colt Seavers."
I can't tell you what happened between my brother's apartment and the Javits Center.
Gremlins? Maybe. All I know is, one minute the thing was working. The next, it wasn't.
It's the same thing with many of our customers. They develop products and services and test the heck out of them, then deploy and those darn gremlins seem to just spout up out of nowhere.
With Integrated Service Management, IBM provides customers with a means to address their pain points with regard to the service lifecycle. Specifically, Integrated Service Management for Design & Delivery is about the design, delivery and management of software engineered into intelligent devices and services.
It's the alignment of information, processes and workflow across architecture, development, testing and operations teams.
From brainstorming the service or product, to development, testing, to deployment and maintenance and rolling out future features - it's about breaking down the silos between development and operations. And yes, it includes new technologies like Cloud computing.
Here's a good example: customers developing and testing new applications built on SOA need a way to simplify the process of troublshooting (and resolving) issues once this application is deployed into production.
One way that IBM is able to address these problems is with integration of solutions such as IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM).
ITCAM is a tool that can be used in both the test lab and production environments to isolate the root cause of the problem, right down to the specific code, and feed that information back to Rational Performance Tester.
By doing this, the testing staff can replicate both the test lab scenario and the production problems and if it takes more than just a configuration change they can feed those details back into the development tools and correct the problem at the code-level based on what has been identified.
In a nutshell, we describe it as, "Service lifecycle integration that links data and work flows."
It's good stuff and this is only one example (out of quite a bunch) where we have service lifecyle integrations across Rational, WebSphere and Tivoli software that enable organizations to bust the gremlins that inhibit continual service improvement across the end-to-end service chain.
Speaking of busting gremlins, a guy who saw a gremlin back in the day was William Shatner; star of "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" (Twilight Zone) and former conference speaker for Rational's big customer event.
So it shouldn't surprise you that I'm gonna bring this back around IBM's (and Rational's) premier software and product delivery event; Innovate 2010.
If you were at Pulse 2010, then you know that we've been talking about Integrated Service Management for much of this year and it's going to continue this weekend at Innovate 2010.
Keep an eye on our next blog post where we'll have all the details of where you can expect to see Integrated Service Management at Innovate 2010.
And if you're not attending, not to worry. The Rational team are putting a ton of the information (including live streaming for Keynote sessions) on the website
In the News: Jump-Start Service Design and Delivery at Innovate 2010
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Today's software architects must do so much more than just build, deliver and manage...they must innovate. Increasingly, IT is charged with enabling business and seizing new opportunities to create unique, competitive advantages for the business through a more responsive and cost-effective delivery of IT services.
Your friendly roving Integrated Service Management reporter
TRUE Integrated Service Management Story. Read it. Believe it. Benefit from it.
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What I am about to share here is a true story about Integrated Service Management. I changed the name of the customer to Customer because I didn't ask permission to use Customer's real name. So you'll just have to believe me :oD
Oh, What a Better Web We Need
Once upon a time, Customer needed to test the interoperability of hardware, software, operating systems and customer solution stacks for new product releases. Customer needed to coordinate multiple global teams working on an abundance of machines. With thousands of operating system instances in test, Customer faced an enormous management challenge. Growth over time resulted in homegrown tools from many teams that did not interoperate, making data collection difficult. Visibility into tasks assigned to global teams was limited, and often resulted in duplicate testing and lost productivity. In addition to standardizing tools and improving workload tracking and visibility, Customer sought to automate as many repetitive processes as possible, improving productivity and freeing up engineers for more complex testing work.
Integrated Service Management to the Rescue!
The solution for Customer included a RaTivo integration of Rational Quality Manager (RQM) and Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) to allow automatic provision of test machines with the required test configuration, saving Customer manual work and time from request to provision. Additionally, Customer applied Rational Test Lab Manager and Tivoli Application Discovery and Dependency Manager (TADDM) to discover available test lab machines and display the list in RQM, saving Customer test time as all the information is displayed one tool.
All's Well that Ends Well
You can't argue with these results. Customer directly benefited from Integrated Service Management by:
Need to See It to Believe It? Get in on the Action at Innovate 2010.
Visit these Pedestals showcasing Integrated Service Management at Innovate 2010, June 6-10, 2010.
Furthermore, you can attend sessions in the Integrated Service Management track that reveal how to:
Master Service Lifecycle Management at Innovate 2010
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Learn all about the latest strategies and smarter software for design and development innovation through next generation service delivery from the Integrated Service Management track at Innovate 2010, June 6-10. The Integrated Service Management track at Innovate is a continuation of the discussion and training of the Software Delivery Lifecycle Management stream at Pulse 2010, which showcased how clients, IBM and IBM Business Partners use software delivery lifecycle management solutions to help realize greater value from software investments and optimize business outcomes at reduced cost and risk.
The Integrated Service Management track kickoff will be hosted by Jamie Thomas, Vice President of Tivoli Strategy and Development, formerly of worldwide development, client support and product management for the Rational software brand. Jamie will be joined by Bala Rajaraman, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Software, Tivoli and John Wiegand, Distinguished Engineer, Rational Analysis, Design and Construction.
At Innovate 2010, IBM clients and partners will learn innovative approaches to optimizing the service lifecycle, driving better efficiencies and lowering their TCO. Attendees of the Integrated Service Management track will also learn how to leverage the existing tight integrations with Rational solutions. Specifically, clients can find out how to:
Register now for Innovate 2010 and sign up for sessions in the Service Lifecycle Management track!
Bridging the Gap Between Software Development and Operations
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As the world becomes more intelligent, instrumented and interconnected, designing and delivering the systems and application software for innovative new products and services becomes more and more complex.
For example, today's cars contain a 100 million lines of code that are connected to the dealer, to a smart traffic system, to an insurance provider, and to a smartphone, which alone could run 100,000s of new applications.
The complexity of these systems of systems has exploded overnight as every single service and interaction between the multiple systems needs to be managed, monitored, and maintained across the entire service lifecycle.
Current models of design, development, operations, and deployment do not scale and are not cost effective. In addition, there is a huge gap between design, delivery, and operations, inhibiting the efficient delivery of services.
Both development and operations see a number of challenges in their IT and product delivery organizations:
Integrated Service Management—which includes Rational and
Integrated platform. Improve the speed of cross-domain tasks, such as closed loop resolution on problem fixes, and resolutions resulting in an average of 80% reduction in downtime and lost revenue. IBM Rational Team Concert™ and IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager unifies the view of incident tracking and defect management, while IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager together pinpoint root causes.
Lifecycle process automation. Accelerate the development, test, and deployment cycles; reduce operational risk; and improve audit posture. Rational Asset Manager catalogs templates and deployment reference architectures tailored by industry, which invoke the build-test-deploy workflows resulting in greater consistency, predictability, and faster time to market. IBM Rational Build Forge®, IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere®, and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager provide an automated test and deployment workflow reusable across application and data center provisioning environments significantly reducing the manual effort in test and build set up and tear down.
Attend Innovate2010 and to learn more about Integrated Service Management for Design and Delivery. Register today.
Re: Travel tips for Pulse 2010
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In response to: Travel tips for Pulse 2010Thanks for the travel tips, Tiffany! I packed my umbrella and am looking forward to seeing you at Pulse tomorrow.
Re: The "Big" Questions at Pulse: Building a Smarter Planet
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In response to: The "Big" Questions at Pulse: Building a Smarter PlanetGreat blog. I share your desire to engage in conversations about the 'big questions' in order to find common ground and ways we can work together to improve the quality of life for future generations.
Re: Maximo Monday: Manufacturing Live Jam Coming Dec 1st
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In response to: Maximo Monday: Manufacturing Live Jam Coming Dec 1stThis is a really good line up of speakers! I'm posting this to the IBM Service Management blog so others will hear about it and be able to participate.
Re: Industrialize and automate your service delivery with IBM cloud computing
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In response to: Industrialize and automate your service delivery with IBM cloud computingRia, thanks for sharing the announcement letter for IBM Cloudburst V1.2. I was looking for this to share on the IBM Service Management blog. :) http://ow.ly/B193
Quality Management for Applications & Services
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Brian Bryson is the lead for Pulse 2010 track, Quality Management for Applications & Services. I talked with him to find out what kind of proposals he is hoping to see and I've included his comments below.
Re: Content
Any type of content that addresses the federation or unification of development and operations teams would be great. We want to hear about what organizations have done to bridge the gap between these teams.
We believe there are great gains to be had in better aligning development, testing and operations i.e. better quality and faster delivery of new products and services, faster problem resolution and improved business flexibility. We're interested in presentations that talk about:
This is the first time Rational has had significant presence at Pulse, so we're looking for a broad array of development topics—case studies, tips and tricks, process and strategy, and overview presentations—that will help operations professionals better understand and appreciate the challenges of software and service development. This kind of understanding will help create tighter integration across teams which will result in faster repair and replacement cycles, higher quality services, and faster delivery time.
Re: Who are good candidates for submitting abstracts?
We are looking for a good mixture of customer presentations. That's our number one priority. The customers are living with and addressing the daily challenges of service delivery and upkeep and we would like to hear how they have tackled those challenges.
Business partners also are great candidates. They are out there working with the tools and forming the bridge between IBM and the customer. They have a great depth of experience and a unique perspective. We would like to hear more about the challenges they have addressed.
We would also like to hear from the developers behind the tools. This is a great opportunity to connect the customers with the people building the tools to share information and ideas that will help make the tools better.
Re: What makes a good presentation
What I think makes a great proposal is being able to say up front, "At the end of this presentation, the audience will walk away knowing this."
A gold star presentation tells the before and after--here was our situation, here's what didn't work, here's what we did, here are the measured net results. It wraps the story up with quantifiable proof i.e. it took two weeks less to produce a patch fix, or the cycle time for new applications was reduced by 20%.
A short, well structured presentation with a clearly stated purpose or exit criteria is what we're looking for.
Re: Benefits of submitting an abstract for Pulse
Just being present in community of practitioners-- developers, partners, clients, people using the tools—is a huge benefit. Speaking invites collaboration. When you present, you get a seat at the table. It improves your stature in the community and you get feedback from your peers, industry experts and the developers behind the tools—and, as you all know, it never hurts to have the Email address for the guy who developed the tool you are using!
Click here to submit your proposal and plan to join us at Pulse 2010.
Change Management for Applications and Services
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Matt Holitza is managing the Pulse 2010 track--Change Management for Applications and Services. I talked with him about the kinds of proposals he would like to see and have included his comments below.
What are some hot topics in the area of Change Management for Applications and Services?
We're looking for presentations that show how consolidation of change management across development and operations can allow teams in both organizations to collaborate together to rapidly produce high quality products and services.
We'd also like to see stories about solutions that improve automation of application deployment to help support more rapid, less error-prone delivery of new applications.
In addition, we hope to include presentations that provide insights about application and service development. The Pulse audience will be primarily made up of operations professionals. The more we can educate and share information about development best practices, the easier it will be to build bridges with operations. We would like to see Pulse attendees go home and talk about how to improve alignment across development, test and operations to simplify the deployment of high-quality products, applications and services.
What are the benefits of speaking at Pulse?
The benefits of speaking at Pulse are many. Sharing information with your peers is invaluable—not only will you enhance your profile with your fellow practitioners; you will also gain insights about changes processes and solutions that will help you more effectively react to customer needs and deliver better quality software. In addition, you will hear first hand how automation can help you improve the efficiency of team and speed time to market. You will also receive a full conference pass ($1,995 value).
Who would make a good candidate?
We hope to hear from customers, partners, product managers, IBM Global Business Services, distinguished engineers, and anyone with cross product implementation stories. Presentations with documented benefits resonate well with our attendees.
What kinds of products will be featured?
Some of the product pairings that will be highlighted in the Change Management for Applications and Services track include:
How can I learn more?
Visit the Pulse 2010 Call for Papers page to learn more about proposal requirements and how to submit your proposal.
Re: IBM Tivoli Foundations- A quick overview
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In response to: IBM Tivoli Foundations- A quick overviewMid-sized organizations will benefit from the IBM Tivoli Foundations offerings - service management solutions designed and priced to meet the needs of mid-sized organizations. You can learn more at: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/governance/action/08202009.html
IBM Tivoli Foundations- A quick overview
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I wanted to better understand the new
Tivoli Foundations includes two appliances announced on
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager offers turn-key performance and availability monitoring for mid-market companies. It allows them to restore a service that is experiencing performance and/or availability problems with the shortest mean time to recovery possible.
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager also delivers real-time information allows an organization to visualize service performance and health across their network, server, middleware and application components enabling them to effectively manage risk and improve service quality.
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager helps clients optimize their resource allocation and reduce cost by giving them the ability to identify underutilized resources and reallocate them to support new business operations. At the same time, risk is reduced by anticipating resource over-utilization and generating proactive events and reports against resources that do not have the capacity to address growing business needs.
Tivoli Foundations Application Manager comes with out-of-the box best practice monitoring policies that track IT Infrastructure health against pre-defined thresholds. This allows organizations to quickly and proactively identify and respond to problems and issues before critical applications and customers are impacted. Overall service is improved by restoring the service or application that is experiencing performance problems with the shortest mean time to recovery possible using autonomic capabilities to fix problems before human intervention is even needed. Reducing problem determination time decreases cost and allows organizations to spend more resources focusing on business innovation and creating competitive advantage.
Tivoli Foundations Service Manager provides service desk capabilities that allow mid-size companies to handle help desk calls, track problems, and make changes that prevent existing problems without creating new ones. It also provides a self-service, searchable knowledge base that delivers fast answers to common IT problems.
In addition, Tivoli Foundations Service Manager delivers dashboards that provide real-time performance views and out-of-the box content including workflows, templates, key performance indicators (KPIs), queries and reports targeted for mid-size clients.
The Tivoli Foundations Service Manager appliance-based service desk solution helps mid-market clients reduce their costs by optimizing the productivity of operations personnel through its built-in problem solving tools, providing operations a way to increase the efficiency of its service support functions. The robust self-help portal which is populated with best practice resolutions to common problems, gives end-users a way to quickly resolve problems on their own without having to involve any additional personnel.
Managing risk is key to small and mid-market clients that have extremely limited IT skills in-house. The Tivoli Foundations Service Management solution ensures process compliance by integrating standards-based incident and problem management processes resulting in a repeatable and consistent service support process.
Tivoli Foundations Service Manager delivers streamlined standards-based incident and problem management processes that enable rapid service restoration and improved overall service quality. It provides real-time visibility to end users on priority, urgency, and impact of problems, incidents, and service requests. These built-in survey capabilities allow organizations to track and trend overall end-user satisfaction with their operations and creates a closed loop environment where overall service quality can continually be improved.
For more information, check out the datasheets IBM Tivoli Foundations Application Manager, and IBM Tivoli Foundations Service Manager.
Re: Service Management vs System Management - Selling the Benefits of IT
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In response to: Service Management vs System Management - Selling the Benefits of ITBy the way, congratulations on your new blog. I look forward to exciting service management topics yet to come! :)
Re: CloudBurst: New IBM Cloud Computing offering for improved Service Management
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In response to: CloudBurst: New IBM Cloud Computing offering for improved Service ManagementThis is a very exciting announcement. I really like the customer-centric approach--single product, single delivery, single installation, single invoice, single support structure.
Re: Will the real Seamus McManus please stand up?
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In response to: Will the real Seamus McManus please stand up?FYI, the recent IBM Service Management Jam on Cloud Computing, "Cloud Computing: Innovation that drives IT and operations efficiencies" is the #1 most popular of the 41 Jams aired to date. Cloud Computing Jam link: http://bit.ly/9mt8N Jams page link: http://bit.ly/ultmC
Four-Jam Analyst Series: Cost Reduction in an Uncertain Economy
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Service Management in an Uncertain Economy
with Gartner VP and ex-IBMer David Williams and Tivoli GM Al Zollar.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET; 16:00 - 17:00 GMT
Audience: service management and asset management practitioners
Sign up by 11 a.m. ET: http://bit.ly/m5Uot
Upcoming Jams in the Series:
Note: Replays available within 24 hours and for one year.
Re: Growing up z - 2nd Installment
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In response to: Growing up z - 2nd InstallmentOutside-in-Design teams gotta love you: "Until we learn to manage the applications in the same way they are used, that is from the customer's perspective, we will continue to struggle with the reputation of IT as being a stumbling block to business instead of a driver of business." So, how about Cloud computing? This is top of mind lately as I've been working on the launch of the new Cloud computing community https://www.ibm.com/communities/service/html/communityview?communityUuid=fa3a3fd5-6d7b-48b9-b13b-ba25f3325dda What role does something as historically old school as System z have to play in this big, bright new world?
Need Smart People for Smarter Cities, Dynamic Infrastructure, and Service Management
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Recent IBM news on "Smarter Cities" is invoking fond memories of one of my favorite courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Politics of design taught by Professor Langdon Winner. Some of my favorite discussions during this course focused on urban theory and planning and environmentally and ethically responsible innovations. A few of my favorite personal readings included:
The concrete connection between
While innovations and technologies always fascinate me, personally I'm most interested in the political, socio-cultural aspects of Palmisano's statement below:
"All the ways in which the world works come together in our cities. They are the proverbial melting pot -- not only for immigrants, but for systems, blending them together to engender new forms of commerce, of culture, of science, of life and of society. Which is why cities -- more than states, provinces or even nations -- are likely to be the crucible for human progress and evolution in the coming century."
Smart cities require smart people and deliberate thinking. How will
Service Management at Rational Software Conference 2009
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Two great IBM
conferences were held in
You can follow much of the online excitement of the conference via RSC2009 on Twitter and a Twitter search on #rsc2009. I'm really looking forward to the great software development reality TV drama series I mentioned on a previous blog.
General Manager sessions
Al Zollar, General Manager of IBM Tivoli Software, will participate in three executive sessions:
Software Lifecycle Track Presentation
"Enhancing The Application Life Cycle with Tivoli Composite Application Manger (ITCAM)"-- Todd Kindsfather
Abstract: Discover how IBM Rational and
"Bridging the chasm between build, deployment and production"--Rich Johnston
Abstract: Today's IT departments have more systems to manage, more locations to support and more mission-critical applications to build, deploy and maintain than ever before. In many organizations, the processes employed to move applications from build, to deploy, to production phase can be manual, time-consuming and error-prone. The data, tools, and workflows are not well integrated or automated resulting in inefficient processes which inevitably lead to slower time to market, long resolution cycles and even loss of revenue. This session offers a chance for attendees to discuss issues, challenges and solutions for bridging development and IT operations across different aspects of the application and service lifecycle.
Service Management pedestals
Ped 1: "Service Management with CCMDB, TSRM, and RAM: Total Application Lifecycle management"--Rich Johnston
Abstract: The inability to quickly identify application performance bottlenecks can lead to system downtime and unnecessary cycles spent firefighting defects. See how ITCAM can provide monitoring data from operations needed to better understand performance characteristics prior to relase and speed correction of defects.
Ped 2: "Integrating the Service Management Lifecycle across Development & Operations: Optimize Application Performance in Production"--Todd Kindsfather
Abstract: Integration across application development and configuration management tools is critical for complete component life-cycle managmenet. With a Tivoli/Rational integrated solution, customers can experience total application management from development to deploymentt to operation.
For those who can't
attend the conference in
What's this Tour of Tivoli thing anyway?
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Highlights at Impact 2009
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The IBM Impact 2009 conference wrapped up last week and was a huge success. It has set the bar for all future IBM and IT events yet to come! While lots of great events and activities took place at the conference, of notable attention was the use of social media around the conference. See the Impact communities page for a list of social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, Flickr, widgets used.
James Taylor and Andy Piper won the Impact social media game for being the most active in the social media environments.
The Impact team displayed Twitter conversation on the #ibmimpact hashtag in various places throughout the event and the tag made it into the top Twitter trends on Day 1 of the conference.
Social bookmarks tagged with impact09: This list of bookmarks gives a good sense of what the public was talking about at Impact. Use these instructions to add your own favorite bookmarks to the list. Just make sure to tag your bookmark with "impact09".
Also, Mary Hall provides a summary of key IBM Business Partner activities at the event.
As a Tivoli-er, I was keen on following the Service Management conversations around IBM Impact.
WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance
A big focus was on the WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance, a new IBM SOA appliance for deploying and managing SOA in a private cloud. It integrates with Tivoli data center management software and Rational development tools. It also ensures security of data and environments via an encrypted vault concept.
Al Zollar on Service Management, SOA, and a Smarter Planet
I really enjoyed watching the tweets during Day 2 of the conference when the Twitter crowd gave Al Zollar, General Manager of IBM Tivoli Software, a warm welcome during his keynote on Service Management, SOA, and a Smarter Planet. A few of the tweets included:
Fabian Marquez: "Al Zollar from Tivoli did a great job explaining Dynamic Infrastructure and Service Management."
James Governor: "Al Zollar from Tivoli talking about Vertical industry service management ie new IBM Service Management Solution for Healthcare."
Matthew Perrins: "Al Zollar is looking cool !! And got the crowd back already."
Al will be giving an encore of his talk as he keynotes at the Pulse Comes to You Event on May 19 in New York. Pulse Comes to You (PCTY) is a worldwide tour. Check the PCTY Website for a free event near you.
Globe with SO@titude at Impact 2009--by Andy Piper
IBM is a finalist for Best Security Company!: Join us at the SC Magazine Awards Presentation and Dinner
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IBM customers: Join IBM on April 21 for the exciting SC Magazine awards presentation and dinner! RSVP to Karen Krieger at firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like to attend.
Time: 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Where: Hilton
We are very excited since IBM is a finalist in several categories:
As part of the IT security industry's leading global awards program, the SC Awards U.S. was organized to honor the professionals, companies and products that help fend off the myriad security threats confronted in today's corporate world.
SC Awards hones in on the achievements of the guys and gals in the trenches, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities, and the passionate work of government, commercial and nonprofits working to help the industry.
Join in the awards excitement and cheer us on!
Can't make it? Stay up to date with real-time announcements on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ibmsecurity
What Service Management Hot Topics would you like to hear more about from your peers?
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Going to Pulse? Here's your chance to ensure you get the information you want and need!
IBM is hosting a one hour panel, "Tales from the Cutting Edge of Service Management," with IBM customer panelists at Pulse. Tell us which of the questions below would you like us to ask the panel the most? Are there any topics we missed?
· What are you doing to have a more energy efficient data center?
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how bad does a trail have to be before a rear suspension bike becomes a real asset? Are we talking rocks and boulders here? Riding down stairways?
how bad does a trail have to be before a rear suspension bike becomes a real asset? Are we talking rocks and boulders here? Riding down stairways?
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." (Churchill)
"I am a courageous cyclist." (SpongeDad)
Depends on the individual plus how would you measure or define that. Very subjective. I like full suspension because of comfort on all trails (I ride a lot of them) and the fact that the rear wheel stays on the ground better on steep technical climbs and curvy rough descents providing better traction. You do pay a weight penalty..
I ride a fully and a hardtail on the same trails. Just depends on my mood and how I want to ride. If aggressive, I tend to bring out the fully, if laid back and technical, I bring out the hardtail. Both can be used on the same trails just the riding is different. The fully takes alot of hit out of the road. You can stay seated more. With a hardtail you are out of the saddle more using your legs and knees as suspension so where I can pedal on the fully, I have to cruise on the hardtail. To me hardtails are very quick and responsive - more like race cars, the fullies are your caddies!
How about a hardtail with a suspension post?
Just bought a Thudbuster. Shows up in a couple of days.
I've heard good things about them. Not quite a FS feel, but allows you to stay seated, and pedal more than without.
I will report more once I get a ride or two in on it.
They're ok as long as you realize that Thudbusters are a comfort item not a performance item, and that you realize that the true function of a full suspension bike is not simply to cushion the ride. It is not a cheap way to get an FS bike, however it will take the edge of of some jolts which is all it was ever meant to do.Originally Posted by BugsInMyTeeth
It's not a panacea it's a band aid.
hardtails are fun to play with on the trails. they tend to jump easier and most of the time i like it.
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i like hard tails better, if i were to get a freeride bike it would be a hardtail, there more fun to ride, and more challenging to ride
I also prefer the hardtail . You can get up and go much more effeiciently than with your suspension collapsing below you. However, if I was on a serious trail with big rocks, logs, etc, I may consider it someday. Also, if I was doing DH, I would definitely go suspension. But, I don't DH.
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I prefer my hard tail too...My buddy and I switch all the time and his bike feels like a tank to me...it feels sloppy at best...maybe its not tuned right or something...but the stumpy fs I rode felt ok...but that bike is thousands of dollars. My buddys bike was about 1500...trek fuel 80. My bike is a trek 6500 with a couple of added odds and ends. My bike is light...quick...and nimble. Last time my buddy and I switched...He didnt want to give my bike back.
I have a hardtail and a dualie. All I can say is, if you're going to take out the dualie, make sure you're riding something that really needs dual suspension. Hardtail climbs better, more nimble, lighter, etc.
I dont need a damn dualie...its just another luxury I can do without. I drive a Heep Wrangler not a caddy...I ride hardtail not a full suspension...in my Jeep I point it at the rough parts on purpose and on my bike I go around it unless going over it will get me there fasterOriginally Posted by Pheard
Thanks all. Sounds like a hard tail is really more along what I'd want. I won't be doing logs and boulders. More likely trails with some semblance of a path. I'm also thinking mtb'ing is a better father / young son thing than road cycling - more ability to hack around and less worry about traffic.
Any rec's for good bikes?
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I have an adjustable rear suspension. There is a nut that tightens or loosens the spring on the shock abs. I haven't quite figured out which way I like it yet. My old bike had NO suspension and I was always on that thing. Of course I was younger.
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I will put another voice for the hardtail. I have a higher end hardtail - it was 2,000 dollars. For 2,000 you used to be able to get a very good hardtail - not sure you can say the same for full suspension.
A high end hardtail is light enough to double as a hybrid if you just want to cruise. I have done Metric Centuries on my without a problem. It was mixed too, a lot of rock road and then pavement. Nice to have a bike that can handle just about anything, but not feel like a tank on the road if you hit pavement.
A FS bike is not needed for riding down stairs at all since it is smarter to ride down 'em off and back of the saddle.Originally Posted by SpongeDad
I go slow over rock gardens and stuff and stand for optimal balance control so I wouldn't need a FS there either.
The only time I gripe about having a hardtail are riding long periods on grassy areas and when there are long sections of very rough roots.
Of course thats just me.
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Well, I'll be starting a thread soon on the rebuild/repaint of an old Rockhopper I got from a friend. It needed a major overhaul, and it was too big for him anyway. So, I traded him my cheap Wally-World Mongoose full suspension for it. He rides it all the time now, because it fits him.
Anyway, you can usually pick up a used Rockhopper or Stumpjumper for a few hundred, and they're usually pretty lightweight for what they are. Unless of course you want something brand new. There's lots of good mid-grade starter bikes in the $700-$900 range.
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it really depends on your terrain and what you will most often ride. There are 3 parks near me, 2 of which are mostly smooth, a few rock gardens and massive amounts of roots. the other one is called "rocky ridge" and is massive amounts of rocks. lots of fun, im glad i have a hardtail for the up hills, but the down hill sections are pretty damn bumpy. unless you go really expensive i would stick with a hard tail. Weight is just too big of a factor.Originally Posted by z415
Originally Posted by Raiyn
So say those who do not use Thudbusters.
No it's not a substitute for a full suspension system. The thuddy, does provide a degree of suspension for the wheel between your ass and the trail using the front wheel as a pivot. They allow you to be seated longer which saves energy.
This is an old argument. Do we really have to get into it again.
Originally Posted by Raiyn
While agree with your paragraph, I must take issue with your tagline. While BugsInMyTeeth may have implied he hoped it could be a panacea (i.e. a solution to the lack of rear suspension on a hardtail), I think your comparison to a band aid is lacking in accuracy. A band aid is a temporary dressing for a generally minor problem (and used idiomatically to declaim the sufficiency of such a dressing). However the ThudBuster at issue is neither. There is no fault with hardtails -- they are bikes perfectly adapted within their own scope of riding to the very same trails others ride with AM/FR/DH rigs. Like BClpam noted, the trail is the same, just the riding is different.
The thudbuster was designed to do as you point out in your paragraph above -- it takes the edge off some of the rougher bits of riding a HT. It was not designed to fix a weakness of the HT design and make it more like a FS. To many, the responsiveness of the back end while descending, or flowing rocky/rooty sections, is anything but a weakness -- it's feedback and control, not bumps and bangs.
That'd be like saying a padded seat in a formula 1 car is a bandaid in the problem of comfort. There is no comfort problem: it's supposed to be that way.
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No. For the record, I didn't mean to imply a suspension post as a replacement for a FS bike... though I believe it will let me stay seated more, which should improve my pedal performance a tad.
Panacea? Nice.
I'm new here.. looks like a sparked some sort of knee jerk reaction.
Never tried one. Soon will. Will know more then.
Not so as hardtail riders are wimps; just a little less so than us FS riders. I meet this guy periodically in Tanasi (SE Tenn.) who rides a single speed with no suspension. Not only that, but his tires are inflated around 25/27 psi and he uses light-weight tubes. He unweights on all the rough stuff which is plentiful in Tanasi.Originally Posted by mtnbiker66
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I used one on my hardtail as my tail is not hard. Works well and it is a performance enhancer as it reduces fatigue. It lowered my times on my local 18 mile trail. You need to stand on the bigger stuff as the rebound is not damped. However, that's not a real negative as you need to be out of the saddle then anyway. The only real negative is weight.Originally Posted by BugsInMyTeeth
I find that I'm off the saddle about as much on my FS as I was on my old hard tail (with or without the suspension seatpost) for control.


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I have a question, where is the large view for this one?
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Tour truly welcome and this large view is still quite small Miru, that is why I thought it is not large view at all, I think it can be made bigger? ^__^
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NONE, Dunsparce looks better
Good to see my expectations of pure starters come true. I don't think anyone was guessing dual-typed starters anyway.
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Well Bulbasaur, another generation for you being the only unique basic stage starter.
But you really don't expect a Pokémon that's based off a Catfish, to actually be a CAT fish?
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Flying foxes are megabats. Yes. That's all well and good. But they are given that nickname because they have blatantly canid features, and look a helluva lot like foxes with bat wings.
So dragons are giant flying lizards.
Megabats are giant flying foxes.
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Look, if Charizard is "based on a lizard with reference to dragons", then there's no reason Fennekin's final evo couldn't be "based on a fox with reference to flying foxes". Solves the "totally different species" conundrum you have. I'll remind you again that dragons are a nonexistant species.
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Golbat looks nothing like a real bat. Real bats look like dogs with wings.
Or fennec foxes. With wings.
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Haha. I'm glad I prepared for the worst happening. I'm not mad or sad at all, but I am wondering about the other people who wanted dual types......
Why are you guys fighting over this? Pokémon aren't animals, they can evolve into anything. D:
Meh. Anyways, I hope that Fennekin stays on all four. It would be the first Starter that's not Grass to be like that (unless Swampert and Typhlosion counts..?)
Is apparantly Dragon Type in the Friend Safari. Neat.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mariana_Fruit_Bat.jpg That looks alot more fox like (mouth etc) then some rat/mouse
And really, I don't see why making reference to flying foxes would be so bad. Hedge, you wouldn't even really have to make any major changes to most of the Fennekin fake-evo designs past tossing some flaming wings on them. It could work.
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Mexican leftist leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador has a message to foreign oil tycoons: investing in Mexico's oil industry "would be like buying goods without a receipt, something crooked, tantamount to piracy." In a letter to ExxonMobil ( NYSE: XOM) CEO Rex W. Tillerson, the two-time Presidential candidate warned that the Mexican Constitution prohibits the participation of private companies in the oil industry.
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Letters have been sent to foreign oil companies, advising them of the opposition in Mexico to the energy industry reforms proposed by the government in August, leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
ExxonMobil Corp. chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson was told in a letter that the Mexican Constitution prohibits the participation of private companies in the oil industry, the former presidential candidate said.
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Leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged senators from Mexico's largest opposition parties at a rally over the weekend to form a coalition to vote against the energy and tax reforms proposed by the Peña Nieto administration.
Senators from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, and the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, should vote "with absolute independence, as true representatives of the people," against the reforms proposed by President Enrique Peña Nieto, Lopez Obrador said in a address delivered to thousands of his supporters in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza on Sunday.
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A total of 421,233 people have signed a petition calling on the government to hold a referendum on Mexico's proposed energy industry reforms, former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday.
The campaign will continue in an effort to reach 1 million signatures by Oct. 27, when the leftist National Regeneration Movement, or Morena, holds its convention, Lopez Obrador said during a press conference in the Gulf city of Veracruz.
Mexican politics: The PRI's long tail
On May 7th Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's president, showed off some of the fancy political footwork that days before had earned him the gushing endorsement of his first visiting head of state, Barack Obama. Flanked in the National Palace by leaders of Mexico's three main political parties, he resurrected an ambitious reform programme that a scandal in his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had threatened to derail.
Notwithstanding finger-wagging by opposition leaders, Mr Peña persuaded them to restart a tri-party political pact that is the crown jewel of his five-month-old administration. On May 8th the pact was put into action when the government sent a package of bills to Congress to increase bank lending and competition. Next it hopes to liberalise the state-strangled oil industry and raise taxes broadly. Eventually, as Mr Obama succinctly put it, the aim is for Mexicans to make it through each day without paying a bribe.
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Mexico City was once feared as being the most dangerous city in the planet. A new network of security cameras, and a focus on community police-work and patrols, have helped entrepreneurs, restaurant owners, and young professionals out of a decade of stalled urban renewal programs, and fostered the emergence of a vibrant nightlife. As street gangs have receded to fringe neighborhoods, crime has fallen, and many late night partiers have a different concern: the fear of being detained at the breathalyzer checkpoints.
Starting in 2000 with the election of leftist politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as Mexico City's mayor, the city began investing in a series of innovative social programs. Shannon O'Neil, a Mexico expert from the Council on Foreign Relations, explained that Marcelo Ebrard, who was mayor between 2006 and 2012, and his predecessor, Obrador, "went street by street in the Centro Historico and got rid of the ambulantes [unregistered street vendors]. It's a variant of the broken windows theme." Ebrard also told the police to focus on ticketing drivers who neglected to wear seatbelts. He installed security cameras throughout the city, and set up the alcoholímetro checkpoints to crack down on drunk driving.


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