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 We all know nothing good ever happens after midnight- especially if you're an IT manager. That 3AM wake-up call usually means the worst has happened- you've had a security breach. This is the ultimate nightmare for any leader in IT. But what can you do to prevent this nightmare from becoming a reality, and how can WebSphere Application Server help?

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 It is no secret that businesses are always seeking opportunities to grow and improve their bottom line. But never has doing so felt so much like The Jetsons. Digital transformation is here, and the future is yesterday. Talk around water coolers and, more importantly, boardroom tables in 2015 is focused squarely on digital transformation—the progression of changes that occur with the adoption of digital technologies such as cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security (known collectively as CAMSS).

 CEOs and CIOs now focus not only on how to use cloud technology to develop their products, but also how to improve services and forge stronger relationships with customers, partners and employees. The industry is at an exciting point of convergence. For instance, today sensors can collect data and send it to the cloud, where developers using dev ops tools such as IBM Bluemix have created very rich analytical insights for end users. Organizations of all sizes and across all industries are waking up to the notion that the best way to get ahead of the competition—and stay there—is to embrace digital transformation as a primary way to improve these relationships. CAMSS has quickly become the key to business growth and sustained success.

 To help organizations navigate the new world of digital transformation, IBM has gathered six chief technology officers (CTOs) who are leading the charge in cloud, analytics, mobile, cognitive (Watson) and Internet of Things (IoT). The event, "CTOs Uncensored: Perspectives on Digital Transformation from the Front Lines" will be a live CTO video chat at 11 am ET on June 17 hosted by IBM Middleware General Manager Marie Wieck and featuring CTOs from across IBM.

 They'll discuss opportunities presented by a digitally transformed organization, the challenges prohibiting success and how these challenges can be overcome. In this fast-paced environment, businesses need to be more agile than ever, and this often means restructuring and adopting new business models and a culture shift requiring alignment across the organization as the business moves forward. Join us for this uncensored discussion with IBM CTOs who are at the forefront of helping clients make these vital changes.

 To register for the chat, sign up here http://ibm.co/ibmctochat.

 You can also follow the conversation on Twitter. We will be using the hashtag #IBMctochat to live tweet the conversation from our social handles. You can also tweet a question using the hashtag, and we will do our best to have it answered live.

 Check out the IBM CTOs who will be providing their insights on the chat:

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 Contributed by Matt Berry Vice President, Marketing, IBM Systems - Middleware It is no secret that businesses are always seeking opportunities to grow and improve their bottom line. But never has doing so felt so much like The Jetsons. Digital... 2 0 6326 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-f9cccf74-ecf8-4044-99ca-04ceb9cbd5b6 IBM MessageSight V1.2 and MessageSight Virtual Edition V1.2 deliver mobile and machine-to-machine communication within and beyond the enterprise Andrew Schofield email@example.com 120000NJ3J active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2014-10-24T04:06:55-04:00 2014-11-21T14:20:53-05:00
 Do you need to connect enterprise systems to devices and sensors simply, efficiently, securely and reliably? You need IBM® MessageSight™ V1.2, the latest release of our high-performance mobile and machine-to-machine messaging appliance. It makes it simple to connect your enterprise to the Internet of Things, and enables fast, responsive, bi-directional communication with mobile applications. This release adds virtual appliances for production use to give many new deployment options for MessageSight.

 Rapidly deploy MessageSight to public and private clouds

 MessageSight Virtual Edition offers a new breadth of deployment options and flexibility. The cost varies depending on how you use it and how large a virtual appliance you deploy. First, choose whether you want to use it for development (free for a single user), non-production or production work. Next, choose how large a virtual machine to deploy into. A small, non-production virtual appliance is much cheaper than a large, production virtual appliance.

 In a public cloud, the cost of virtual machines increases the larger and more powerful they are. Because MessageSight automatically scales according to the resources you provide, you can work out how large a virtual machine to use based on your expected workload. For example, if you know you need to support 100,000 concurrent connections, you can select sufficient memory to support it. The cost of the virtual machine in the public cloud and the cost of MessageSight both depend on the size of the virtual machine. So, MessageSight fits very well in the modern, cloud environment.

 For the very best performance, choose the MessageSight physical appliance. The combination of custom hardware and firmware tuned specifically to exploit it gives a clear benefit. For more flexibility or less demanding workloads, choose MessageSight Virtual Edition. You can of course choose a mixture of both. For example, you could have a free development virtual appliance for each of the application developers, a small non-production virtual appliance for testing, and a much larger virtual or physical appliance for production.

 There are two different media packs, one for VMware hypervisors and one for the IBM SoftLayer cloud-managed infrastructure. Over time, we may add support for further cloud providers based on demand.

 Manage your messages more easily

 We've added new features to make it easier to manage the messages on the appliance and reduce the administrative burden for a running system.

 We now have message expiration for MQTT. When you use a messaging policy to grant authority to publish messages, you can set the maximum time-to-live for messages published. So, if you know that messages for a particular application are only useful for an hour, for example, you can set the maximum time-to-live to 3,600 seconds and MessageSight will discard messages which are not consumed within this time. Since message expiration is not part of MQTT itself, this is an administrative extension to make MessageSight's MQTT support even better.

 In a publish/subscribe system, messages for a subscription might be published faster than a subscriber can consume them. If it's just a temporary part of the natural variability of the system, that's fine and buffering some messages temporarily is useful. But, the number of unconsumed messages for a subscription needs to have a limit, and a decision made as to what happens when the limit is reached. We now have two different behaviours for a full subscription: discard-old-messages and reject-new-messages. If you use discard-old-messages, when a message is being published which matches a full subscription, MessageSight discards some of the old messages to make more room. It discards messages a few at a time for efficiency, but the idea is that a full subscription keeps the most recent messages. Now, this is optional since messages are being discarded, but it might well be preferable to keep messages flowing than to reject new ones.

 Finally, we have added shared subscription support for MQTT. This is for situations where a single consumer cannot keep up with the flow of messages. You use a shared subscription by using a special format for the topic filter when you subscribe like this: $SYS/SharedSubscription/MySub/Topic1/Topic2/Topic3. This uses a shared subscription called "MySub" to the topic "Topic1/Topic2/Topic3". Messages published to "Topic1/Topic2/Topic3" will match this subscription. If the shared subscription already exists, the new subscription actually adds a new consumer to the shared subscription which shares the messages with the other consumers. Messages are delivered to the different consumers based on how fast they consume messages. You can do this with a regular MQTT client, just by using the special topic string format. The effect is workload balancing for MQTT clients.

 Of course, we have full support for the forthcoming MQTT 3.1.1 protocol which we expect to become an OASIS standard in a few weeks.

 Security and administration enhancements

 MessageSight now supports the popular OAuth 2.0 standard which enables secure delegated access to messaging resources without the credentials being supplied to MessageSight. For example, you could use DataPower as the authorization server.

 There are three features intended for safeguarding server stability. These are specifically for situations where you might not have control over the behaviour of the clients, such as MQTT being used on a public-facing server. They're all configured using connection policies essentially as advanced authorisation properties. Taken together, they make it simple to restrict the actions of MQTT clients.

 First, you can ensure that publishers only publish QoS 0 messages. These have the lowest overhead and the server is allowed to discard them. You can already limit the size of messages published, and now you can control the QoS administratively.

 Second, you can require that MQTT clients connect using the clean-session=true setting. This ensures that the server does not have to remember the clients when they have disconnected.

 Third, you can ensure that clients connect "anonymously" without specifying a client ID. This is a new feature of MQTT 3.1.1. The effect is that you can be sure that there's no risk of two clients accidentally or intentionally using the same client ID and interfering with each other.

 We've done a lot of work on resource monitoring. There's new SNMP support so you can easily incorporate MessageSight into your enterprise monitoring solution. There are new statistics and charts in the dashboard so that it's easier to see system activity and resource use at a glance. For example, there's a categorized break-down of the memory use on the appliance so you can see the volume of messages buffers, the amount of memory taken up by subscriptions and so on.

 You can set up a remote logging server to receive MessageSight log messages, or have log files automatically copied onto a file server for archiving.

 Protocol plug-ins - technical preview

 Imagine that you work for a car company which has already deployed a small number of high-end connected cars. You want to roll out connectivity more widely, but you realise that the protocol you started using will not scale to millions of vehicles. You decide to use MQTT and MessageSight for the newer cars, but what do you do about the existing ones? Do you run two parallel systems, or perhaps change the firmware in all of the existing high-end vehicles?

 MessageSight V1.2 includes a plug-in point to support additional protocols. You can write a plug-in which speaks the old protocol, install it into MessageSight and handle both new and old protocols in the same infrastructure. The plug-in does not have direct access to the network; instead, it uses the MessageSight communications code to send and receive packets. The plug-in uses a publish/subscribe messaging interface to talk to the MessageSight engine so that it can interoperate with the rest of the system.

 This feature is a technical preview to start with. We'd love feedback on protocol plug-ins, whether it's about the programming interface, debugging your plug-ins or whatever.

 What next?

 Both editions of MessageSight V1.2 will be available on 21 November 2014. Why not download the virtual appliance from IBM developerWorks and try it out for free on your laptop?
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 In this blog, I'm going to talk about security and MQTT. At the end of the blog, you should have a good understanding of the kind of things you need consider to secure an MQTT-based system appropriately.

 The Internet of Things is growing as more and more devices become connected to the internet. A lot has been written recently about security and the Internet of Things, much of it highlighting mistakes people have made when trying to secure their systems. Cars, household appliances, fitness gadgets, games consoles, smart meters and a lot more can communicate over the network. So, getting this stuff right is important and getting it wrong gets noticed.

 Many of the security technologies used with MQTT are also used with HTTP but, because MQTT is a client-server publish/subscribe messaging protocol, there are some additional things to think about too such as the capacity of the MQTT server to buffer messages.

 MQTT is used in a wide variety of environments ranging from enthusiasts automating their homes to critical infrastructure for smarter cities. The security requirements for these environments vary widely. You might be concerned about privacy of data and making sure that the publishers and subscribers are trusted. You'll also want to ensure that the messaging servers remain dependable no matter how they are used or misused.

 If you're using MQTT to help monitor and control something like a domestic greenhouse as a hobby, you could argue that security is unimportant. You run the risk of someone else receiving data published by your sensors, sending messages to change the environment inside your greenhouse, or even trying to attack the MQTT server so your high-tech greenhouse becomes a low-tech greenhouse. If it's just a hobby, the risks are perhaps acceptable. Personally, I'd tend to agree in this case, provided that you don't inadvertently give public remote control to your water supply. But, if your passion is growing prize-winning fruit, you might take these matters more seriously. Some people will do anything to grow a bigger melon.

 If you're using MQTT to publish the scores from an international sports tournament to web browsers, you're probably comfortable with any web browser connecting to receive the scores. But, I expect you'd be keen to ensure that only the sports tournament officials can publish the scores. So, for a publicly accessible server, there could be different security considerations for trusted clients on an internal network compared with those on the public internet.

 The MQTT protocol is sometimes criticized for lacking security features directly in the protocol, but it is a conscious decision. Each deployment has its own security requirements. Most deployments of MQTT make use of transport layer security, so the data is encrypted and its integrity validated without encryption being a feature of MQTT itself. Similarly, most uses of MQTT also make use of authorization features in the MQTT server to control access, but you won't find access-control lists in the protocol.

 There are several aspects to think about when trying to secure an MQTT system.

 Transport Layer Security
 The first decision is whether you want your MQTT data encrypted on the network. If it's not in any way secret, perhaps you don't care who sees it.

 Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol which provides communication security. The data is encrypted to prevent eavesdropping and checked for integrity to prevent tampering. It's the technology used to provide secure access to web sites for things like internet banking. The earlier versions went by the name SSL, and that seems to have stuck since many people still use the earlier name.

 When using TLS, the server has a certificate which the client validates to ensure that it's connecting to a server it trusts. As a connection is established, the client and server exchange information to create a secure, encrypted connection between them. This secure connection can then be used to transport MQTT.

 Using TLS in this way gives privacy to the data but, beyond checking that the clients can support acceptably strong ciphers, the server doesn't know anything about the clients. It is also possible to demand that the clients have certificates so that the server can also trust the clients. This option, called mutual authentication, is not always used because it brings along with it the requirement to manage the distribution of certificates to the clients.

 With TLS comes a performance cost. Firstly, the cost of establishing a secure connection is much higher than an insecure connection, both in terms of data exchanged between the client and server and in terms of processing. For connections which come and go frequently, this will put a burden on the server. Secondly, the encryption of the payload adds a performance burden. However, most commercial MQTT systems do use TLS to get the benefits it brings.

 Authentication
 Authentication is all about confirming identity. Even though authentication and authorization are separate concepts, they're closely linked.

 An MQTT client can provide a user name and password at the time that it connects. It is important to use a secure, encrypted connection when using the MQTT user name and password so that these credentials are not transmitted in the clear. The MQTT server is responsible for checking the user name and password. It's likely that the supplied identity will be used for authorization purposes.

 If you want to lock down the MQTT network very tightly, one option is to use mutual authentication and generate the clients' certificates yourself. In doing this, you're acting as a certificate authority (CA) for those client certificates. You could then give each client its own identity as part of its certificate and use this identity as part of the authentication and authorization of the clients. This makes it very hard to impersonate a client; you would need its certificate. If you do somehow manage to steal a certificate, you can only impersonate that particular client.

 Sometimes MQTT is used with authorization frameworks such as OAuth 2.0. OAuth 2.0 enables separation of the authorization server from a resource server, such as an MQTT server. Sometimes companies use this to centralise checking of credentials in their infrastructure.

 When using OAuth 2.0, the user presents their credentials to the authorization server which performs the authentication check and returns an access token encapsulating permission to access a resource. The access token is then passed to the resource server. The resource server validates the access token, usually by communicating with the authorization server, and then grants access to the resource. Using the access token, the user has securely gained access to a resource without presenting credentials to the resource server.

 What does this means in MQTT terms? This diagram will help explain.

 The client presents its credentials such as a user name and password to the authorization server.

 The authorization server checks the credentials and returns an access token. This represents an authorization for the client to gain access to a resource.

 The client requests an MQTT connection with the MQTT server providing the access token. A convention will be used by the MQTT server to receive the access token, such as passing the access token as the password in the MQTT CONNECT.

 The MQTT server requests validation of the access token by the authorization server.

 The authorization server checks the access token's validity and returns whether it was valid.

 The MQTT server accepts the MQTT connection from the client if the access token was valid.

 In this simplified example, the access token is encapsulating authorization to connect to the MQTT server. In principle, the access token could give authorization to publish and subscribe on specific topics too.

 Authorization
 When working out how you're going to use MQTT, it's quite common to draw a diagram showing the clients and servers, the direction of message flow and the topic names that will be used. If you want to make sure that the messaging that occurs in the running system matches your diagram, you'll want to use authorization to enforce it.

 MQTT is a topic-based publish/subscribe protocol. Every message is published on a named topic and every subscription has a topic filter which may include wildcards. So, authorization is in terms of publishing, subscribing and topic names. Most MQTT servers have some way of granting authority to publish and subscribe on topics. How authority is actually granted varies from server to server, but it's usually done using some kind of access-control lists or policies. For example:

 User 'bob' is granted 'publish' authority on topic 'location'.

 User 'joe' is granted 'subscribe' authority on topics starting with 'price'.

 Any client connecting from an IP address starting '9.20.' is granted authority to publish on topic 'chat'.

 Server dependability
 There are many ways in which an MQTT client can exert resource demands on an MQTT server. The clients always communicate through the server. The server keeps track of session and subscription information for the clients, buffers messages awaiting delivery and stores data recoverably to enable reliable messaging in the event of failures. Because an MQTT server will certainly have a limited capacity, you should consider how to ensure it remains stable and responsive. For an internet-facing server with untrusted clients, this is particularly critical.

 A server is going to have a maximum number of connections that it can sustain. If you're in control of the clients and the server, you can ensure that the clients do not exceed the capabilities of the server. If you're not in control of the clients, you may be able to set a limit for the number of concurrent connections which keeps the server within its operating capacity.

 A server is also going to have some limit for the amount of message data it can hold at once. The MQTT specification permits messages up to 256 megabytes in size. Most devices cannot handle such large messages though. Think, for example, about the effect of a 256-megabyte message arriving on a mobile phone. If you are not in control of the publishers of messages, you may be able to set a limit for the maximum size of messages that can be published so that you can be sure that all of the messages in your system are a reasonable size.

 Each subscription will consume some resources, both in terms of memory and in terms of matching published messages with subscriptions. A very straightforward way for a malicious client to consume resources on a server is to create a massive number of subscriptions. A given client can only have one subscription on any particular topic string, so it's a good idea to authorize untrusted clients to subscribe to only the specific topic strings you'd like them to use.

 Retained messages provide a way to ask the server to remember the most recent message published on a topic. But because of this, a malicious client who publishes retained messages on a wide range of topics can consume a lot of resources. To prevent this, use authorization to restrict untrusted clients to publish messages to only the specific topic strings you'd like them to use.

 Structuring your topics
 Although you could use just a single level of topic names, it's common to organise topic names using the '/' separator to create a hierarchical structure. The resulting structure is often called a topic tree because of its shape. There's no single right way to design topic trees, but here are some common patterns:

 Use an identifier for the sender or receiver of messages as part of the topic string. For example, the topic strings could be "device/<deviceid>/temperature" or "device/<deviceid>/command" where <deviceid> is different for each device. This means that each device has a separate temperature topic and a separate command topic.

 Think about which data the subscribers will want to receive. Wildcard subscriptions such as "car/+/alert" provide an easy, efficient way to collect data from a set of similarly named topics. Here the '+' sign is a single-level wildcard and the subscription will match messages published on "car/123/alert", "car/124/alert" and so on. So, this is an example of a single subscription which matches many topics.

 For a multi-level topic string with a sequence of variable identifiers, use fixed strings to separate the identifiers to make topic strings easier to understand. For example, "type/<type>/id/<id>/event/<event>/format/<format>" is simpler to comprehend than "<type>/<id>/<event>/<format>". When the variables are replaced, it's easier to understand "type/6385/id/01-4123/event/deploy/format/json" than "6385/01-4123/deploy/json". And, when it comes to defining the authorisation rules, having a scheme which is easy to understand makes mistakes less likely.

 Although it's common to use some metadata such as a device ID in topic strings, I've sometimes seen this taken to extremes with more than 20 levels. The more complex the topic strings, the more complex the matching processing in the MQTT server. In practice, it's rare to use more than 12 levels.

 In the first bullet above, you can see the power of using replacement variables in authorisation rules. Pattern-based authorisation like this means you can apply a small number of authorisation rules to a very wide number of clients.

 CleanSession and Client IDs
 MQTT makes a distinction between recoverable and unrecoverable data. When a client connects, it tells the server whether it can be forgotten when it disconnects (CleanSession=1) or that it must be remembered when it disconnects (CleanSession=0). Clearly, CleanSession=0 clients consume resources on the server even when they are not connected. Consequently, it is probably not a good idea to permit CleanSession=0 connections from untrusted clients.

 Finally, MQTT has a slightly unusual feature called the client ID. The idea is that every client provides a unique identifier as it connects. For CleanSession=0 clients, this is used by the server to resume a session when the client reconnects. The unusual part is the behaviour when a client connects using a client ID that's already being used. The server disconnects the existing connection and lets the new connection take over. MQTT is designed like this because it's expecting clients to use unique, assigned identifiers. If a client connects to find its client ID already in use, it's because that same client disconnected and has reconnected before the server has had a chance to clean up.

 In environments where client are not assigned unique identifiers, this behaviour might be inconvenient. For example, a central publisher of information might use client ID "ResultsPublisher". If another client tries to use exactly the same client ID, the central publisher will be disconnected. In a trusted environment, you could use authentication to ensure that this doesn't happen. In an untrusted environment, such as the public internet, there doesn't seem to be much value to providing a client ID at all. This is why MQTT 3.1.1 permits CleanSession=1 clients to connect without providing a client ID. If I was deploying MQTT 3.1.1 on the public internet, I would only accept connections from CleanSession=1 clients with no client ID.

 Tying it all together
 An electrical appliance company wants to use MQTT to connect a new range of top-end dishwashers to their IT systems. In this network, most of the data flows from the dishwashers to the company's server indicating events such as suspected water leaks or heater failures, but there's also a limited amount of data flowing the other way. The data flows across the public internet. They want to encrypt the communication for privacy reasons to prevent someone snooping the data and working out how to impersonate or control dishwashers. But more than that, they want to ensure that data from each dishwasher actually comes from that specific dishwasher. So, as part of the manufacturing process for each dishwasher, they create a certificate and burn it into the dishwasher's firmware. Their MQTT server is then set up only to accept connections from clients with certificates they signed.

 Each dishwasher is assigned a unique identifier which it uses as its MQTT client ID. The connections use CleanSession=0 so that the MQTT server remembers the dishwashers' sessions and subscriptions even when they are disconnected. This allows reliable message delivery to be resumed when they reconnect and also means that messages matching the dishwashers' subscriptions while they are not connected are queued up on the MQTT server awaiting reconnection.

 Summary
 The best practices vary depending on what you're trying to achieve, but here are some closing thoughts.

 If you want to accept connections from untrusted clients that you do not control, such as web browsers, you're not in control of the number of clients or what they might attempt to do. Here are some points to consider:

 Only use secure connections if the nature of the data requires it.

 Think about the client IDs that are going to be used. If possible, keep the client IDs from untrusted clients distinct from those used by trusted clients. Some servers let you do this using authorization rules.

 Do not let clients connect specifying CleanSession=0. This way, the server does not need to remember clients when they disconnect.

 Control authorization to subscribe very tightly, probably to specific fixed topic strings. This prevents a malicious client from making a massive number of subscriptions.

 If you permit untrusted clients to publish messages, again control authorization to publish very tightly, probably to specific fixed topic strings.

 Do not permit excessively large messages to be published. If your application uses small messages, a client publishing a huge message is probably up to no good.

 Alternatively, if you just want to accept connections from trusted clients and the privacy of the data is important:

 Secure the connections so that the data is encrypted.

 If certificate management is not a problem, consider using issuing clients with certificates and only accepting connections from clients with certificates.

 Make sure the capacity of the server is sufficient for the number of clients using it, even when clients are disconnected for a long time and messages are queued up for them.

 Now you should have a good idea of how to secure an MQTT-based system and the features of an MQTT server to look for so that you can secure it properly. Why not give it a try?
 In this blog, I'm going to talk about security and MQTT . At the end of the blog, you should have a good understanding of the kind of things you need consider to secure an MQTT-based system appropriately. The Internet of Things is growing as more... 0 3 7901 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-271c4459-fe3f-48fe-b44c-d9154ce3897c Days of Future Past: IBM Cloud Integration Is Like A Superpower for Composable Business Ryan Boyles firstname.lastname@example.com 100000UX41 active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2014-04-28T19:55:49-04:00 2014-04-28T20:50:30-04:00

 At IBM Impact today, we witnessed the ongoing evolution of IBM as a Service. Cloud and mobile took center stage during the morning general session keynote. It's becoming clear what incredible mutant superpowers IBM gives to customers that dare to innovate and disrupt the status quo. The heroes and villains of the X-men comic book and film universe each have unique "X-genes" that give them special abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis, healing factors, flight or even time travel (as you will see in the latest film coming out in May). IBM's cloud strategy is improving how companies (and developers) utilize IaaS, PaaS and SaaS together to compose their business and deliver services and experiences customers and employees demand in today's omni-channel world. You have to look at the way IBM empowers operations leaders and developers with robust "as a service" capabilities. My fellow social beat reporter @TurboTodd blogged about new abilities announced today for Codename: BlueMix, IBM's PaaS development platform.

 Customers are using multiple channels to interact with companies, and ultimately all kinds of data. They have the expectation that these channels are aware of each other in a seamless way and no matter the touch point there is an always on experience. IBM knows cloud integration is the critical superpower to morph and mutate data in new ways for customer interactions. Systems of record and systems of interaction have to now work together as a team in this digital world. IBMers Michael Curry and Aarti Borkar spoke today during the Integration keynote about the API economy and new innovation abilities that IBM Cloud Integration provides customers like WestJet to delight their customers with handy status mobile notifications and personalized engagement to build loyalty.

 Living in a world with dynamic hybrid cloud brings interesting technical challenges. Many applications in the enterprise have dependencies and effects on data shared between systems of record and interaction. Cloud integration requires the IT staff to manage data in the following ways in a hybrid cloud environment.

 Application standards

 Synchronization

 Migration

 Transformation

 Security

 Visibility

 The Senior Manager of Enterprise Integration for Johnson Controls shared a story about how excited he was about getting his hands on IBM cloud tech after Impact 2010. Early FUD concerns with cloud security delayed adoption of SaaS until 2012 when senior management realized they needed to innovate their CRM. They knew a cloud based approach would give them the ability to be more nimble, introduce functions faster and reduce disaster recovery headaches. This meant integrating Salesforce with Workday. Managing APIs and data integration was a real challenge to evolve the back office to securing tie public SaaS to on-prem applications. Johnson Controls successfully tackles this challenge using IBM Cloud Integration with Cast Iron, Datapower, WebSphere ESB and MQ. They unleashed these solutions to fight the integration villains of their story; namely cloud security and API management.

 This illustrates IBM Cloud Integration superpowers in action.
 The IBM POV addresses integration in four key ways:

 IBM knows the key to project success is synchronization.

 The first concern and first question that is asked about cloud is security.

 Development must be easy and flexible with an ability to build through configuration.

 API management must provide seamless integration for data across systems of record.

 IBM announced this week Cloud Integration version 7 runs on SoftLayer and the same platform features are also available to developers on BlueMix. The IBM Cloud Integration platform is also extended with new API management 3.0 to assemble business APIs in a secure and open way while managing private, public and partner app developers and analyzing usage. If you have not tried this technology, you should talk to IBMers Adolfo Rodriguez and Don Boulia to see cloud integration superpowers for yourself. They have a slick BlueMix demo (introduced at IBM Pulse) and they now are competing with each other to show off key features in a mobile app using SaaS.

 Follow me on twitter to learn more about news, views and tech at Impact 2014 surrounding Integration, Internet of Things and SaaS.

 Excelsior!

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 At IBM Impact today, we witnessed the ongoing evolution of IBM as a Service . Cloud and mobile took center stage during the morning general session keynote. It's becoming clear what incredible mutant superpowers IBM gives to customers that dare to... 0 0 5836 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-52e79739-a1a9-4777-b4ef-01a177da804c Security and the Internet of Things Kim Messeri email@example.com 270006VW0G active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2014-02-21T17:21:19-05:00 2014-03-14T17:07:16-04:00
 What is the Internet of Things?

 WhatIs.com defines the Internet of Things (IoT) as:

 "...a scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to automatically transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. IoT has evolved from the convergence of wireless technologies, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and the Internet.

 A thing, in the Internet of Things, can be a person with a heart monitor implant, a farm animal with a biochip transponder, an automobile that has built-in sensors to alert the driver when tire pressure is low -- or any other natural or man-made object that can be assigned an IP address and provided with the ability to transfer data over a network."

 The first mention of the Internet of Things was in 1999, but in practice, it has been brewing for decades. Did you know that the first "Internet appliance" was a Coke machine in the early 80s. Programmers at Carnegie Mellon University connected to the machine via the Internet, checked the machine's status and confirmed if there would be a cold drink at the ready if they walked down the hall to the machine...pretty amazing!

 Why is security such a big deal in IoT?

 Since IoT is any "thing" (cars, smartphones, household appliances, etc.) that has its own address on the Internet, it can be hacked. For instance, the first Internet fridge was hacked. Therefore, as IoT becomes more practiced, more embedded in our day-to-day lives, security and privacy of (your!) data is key. Protecting personal data is fundamental; it's an issue of trust.

 What does the Internet of Things mean to IBM?

 Industry analyst firm IDC predicts the installed base for the Internet of Things will grow to approximately 212 billion devices by 2020, a number that includes 30 billion connected devices. This linking of devices on the Internet provides "a sea of data" that we now have the opportunity to hear, see, capture, and make sense of by recognizing patterns. With all this interconnectedness, "the planet has grown a central nervous system." Find out more by watching this video featuring IBM's Mike Wing, Andy Stanford-Clark and John Tolva.

 With the explosion of data available through sensors and mobile devices, your business is now able to connect to its end users with unprecedented intimacy and awareness. With this knowledge and potential for two-way interaction, the Internet of Things is enabling transactions when the time is most optimal for your customers.

 You can learn more about IoT, how solutions can be implemented and how this exchange of data can increase your business's decision making power and build your customer loyalty, trust, and satisfaction in the Integration and Mobile Enterprise tracks at Impact 2014 April 27-May 1 in Las Vegas. BE FIRST and join us there!
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 A dance instructor back in my undergrad college days, Bernadine Kunkel, once told me "You could go to the moon if you wanted too." I guess this was Kunkel's take on the old saying, "Anything is possible if you set your mind to it."

 Prime Minister of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, is often credited with the phrase, "the art of the possible." In Bismarck's case, he was referring to politics not being an exact science, but an art.

 "Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best." (Otto von Bismarck)

 Transported to today, Kunkel and Bismarck could just as well be talking about the possiblities of innovation gained by use of "disruptive technologies"—Mobile, Social, Cloud, Big Data, Internet of Things, Security - i.e., the art of the possible. Embracing an integrated technology transformation to uncover hidden opportunities and capitalize on
 them by creating new business models, revenue streams, products and services is what the Business + Technology Strategies = The art of the possible curriculum track at Impact 2014 April 27-May 1 at The Venetian in Las Vegas is all about.

 Business + Technology Strategies = The art of the possible track

 What up and coming technologies will gain traction in your industry, within your organization, or with your customers? Social, mobile, cloud and analytics are no longer emerging technologies. They are transformative tools changing the way we do business—from operations and logistics to strategy and marketing. What's next? Explore the potential of augmented reality, the Internet of Things, security analytics and more. Join business leaders, leading edge industry technologists and IBM professionals to hear how forward-thinking organizations are building technology into their short- and long-term business strategies.

 Sub-tracks

 Deeper Learning — Big data, analytics, predictive modeling...technologies or business advantage? Join the discussion to hear how technology and business combine to provide deeper insight into customer preferences, market dynamics and business operations.

 Getting Social — Are you participating in the "always on" global marketplace? Can you manage, and measure, your organization's digital footprint? Do you have a plan to support or broaden your social influence? Learn how private and public organizations are tapping into the social communities of customers and constituents to become more connected and more relevant.

 Putting Mobile First — Hear how organizations are leveraging mobile technologies to effectively shorten their value chain, connecting employees, partners and customers. Developing mobile applications that drive transactions at the point of engagement. Realizing ROI and developing innovating mobile-based products and business models.

 Privacy, Risk and Compliance — Managing privacy, risk and compliance is a business priority, and for some, an industry imperative. Join our technologists and corporate security experts to hear how technologies that protect your customer and enterprise information can provide market differentiation and increase customer confidence.

 Realizing Industry Value Amidst Technology Change — What does it take to work smarter? Hear how business and technology leaders from industry-leading organizations have leveraged partnerships within their enterprises or agencies, and within the IT industry to make customer-centric changes that make a difference. Take part in these innovative discussions to leverage the latest mobile, smarter process, cloud and integration technologies to realize business value and prepare your organization for this transformation and beyond.

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 Learn how to BE FIRST—to create new business models, engage customers in new meaningful ways, and adapt faster than your competition to address new markets and opportunities—by joining IBM and 9,000-plus of your peers at Impact 2014. Register by February 21, 2014 for our Early Bird rate and receive $300 off the regular registration rate of $2,195!
 A dance instructor back in my undergrad college days, Bernadine Kunkel, once told me "You could go to the moon if you wanted too." I guess this was Kunkel's take on the old saying, "Anything is possible if you set your mind to it." ... 0 0 6030 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-b39d2567-24d0-4f31-b851-e1345e80ca69 What Does It Mean to Have Mobile-Ready IT? Claus Jensen email@example.com 270002PWF3 active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2013-10-09T08:17:18-04:00 2013-10-18T10:40:44-04:00
 Mobile has a big impact on business models across all industries and most major organizations are addressing how to become a truly mobile enterprise. But what about the IT side of the equation, what does it mean to have mobile-ready IT? Obviously becoming mobile introduces the need to support different technologies, but is that all there is to it? I assert that the most fundamental change brought to IT by the mobile enterprise is the need to integrate literally everything, in near real time. Every channel, every piece of data, every grain of insight, everything. Thinking about what that really means, brings three thoughts to the fore front:

 Everything needs to be accessible. Not just in a technical sense, but it must be really easy to assemble new mobile apps, in a device neutral fashion as mobile apps tend to be small, purpose built and always changing.

 Everything needs to be secure. It is no longer sufficient to simply provide a secure web server - any access to any asset needs to be secure, irrespective of channel or protocol. Furthermore, the mobile environment itself needs to be secured against device side tampering and threats.

 Everything needs to scale in an optimized fashion. Think about the discrepancy between the scale of the Internet of Things and the scale of classical transactional systems. It very quickly becomes obvious that something must mediate that discrepancy in a controlled fashion - if we let all the traffic through directly to the enterprise back end, that back end will inevitably break (if not, then it will become prohibitively expensive to run).

 These three thoughts are simple and fundamental imperatives for mobile-ready IT, yet for many IT organizations they are difficult to attain due to the existing portfolio of solutions having been built to meet other requirements in another time. What is needed is a way forward that does not require a revolution of existing systems and processes but rather an evolutionary process that allows those assets to be used as components for mobile solutions.

 For more on IBM's view, take a look at these thought provoking webcasts on mobile-ready IT. In addition, you can learn about the steps that your peers are taking to become mobile-ready organizations by checking out the IBM Institute for Business Value mobile study.
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 Post by Nataraj Nagaratnam (@n_nataraj)

 We are all witnessing how technology impact business, and how this is shaping up the future of enterprise IT. Current and emerging technologies - mobile, cloud, big data, social - help businesses innovate, and dynamically engage with their clients in new and innovate ways. At the same time, we also see these raise questions about risk and security.

 How can we enterprises embrace a mobile strategy so that they can quickly deliver secure mobile applications?

 Who do you know and who do you trust in this age where each of us have different digital identities and representing our personal, enterprise, and social personas?

 How can you have protection and monitoring around application workloads in a cloud environment?

 How can high value data asset be secured and monitored?

 If you think about it .. security is a multi-dimensional puzzle - across People, Application, Data, and Infrastructure. While siloed technologies may not provide a holistic view, we believe that every enterprise needs Security Intelligence that gives better view of their security and risk posture.

 Next week at the IMPACT conference at Las Vegas, we will be discussing many of these topics, share our point of view, and hear from you about what you see happening. Please join us in at the security sessions - be it about security intelligence, mobile security, identity, or security on expert integration systems, as well as at our security peds at the Expo center.

 I look forward to meeting you in person, discuss about trends or your security challenges, and helping you adopt technology shift with confidence!

 Dr. Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam
 Dr. Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Security Solutions in IBM Security Systems. In this role, Raj leads cross IBM technical strategy for security solutions including mobile security, and cloud security; drives integration and innovation projects. During his career at IBM, as chief architect, he has lead architectural efforts for security portfolio in identity and access management, and prior to that security architecture for WebSphere Platform. He was also the CTO for India Software Lab focused on building technical leadership and collaborative innovation. He leads and participates in various open standards activities. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, papers, security standards specifications, and books, including the book on "Enterprise Java Security" published by Addison Wesley. Nataraj received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University.
 Post by Nataraj Nagaratnam ( @n_nataraj ) We are all witnessing how technology impact business, and how this is shaping up the future of enterprise IT. Current and emerging technologies - mobile, cloud, big data, social - help businesses... 0 2 5241 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-3c6b86dd-2fd6-4a56-9865-5cce6b5cd053 Security at IBM Impact 2013 Marcel Santilli firstname.lastname@example.com 270002FABM active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2013-04-23T09:38:00-04:00 2013-04-23T09:38:00-04:00
 Did you know IBM Security offers one of the world's broadest, most advanced and integrated enterprise security product and service portfolios?

 IBM Security's portfolio, supported by world-renowned IBM X-Force research and development, provides the security intelligence to help organizations holistically protect their people, infrastructure, data and applications, offering solutions for identity and access management, database security, application development, risk management, endpoint management, network security and more.

 This enables organizations to more effectively manage risk and implement integrated security solutions for mobile, cloud, social media and other enterprise business architectures.

 Security at Impact 2013

 Learn more about IBM Security's products and services at IBM Impact 2013. We will have a strong presence at Impact this year, including:

 A Security Zone in the Solution Center

 8 different security specific sessions covering topics from Securing Mobility to Security Intelligence to Securing Cloud and Web Applications

 97 other sessions have security as a topic!

 Come interact with the actual folks implementing advanced technologies to better understand the security concerns these topics open up and how IBM can help address them. Find more details below and search for 'security' in you agenda builder for even more sessions.

 Top Security Sessions at IBM Impact:

 Below are some of the top security sessions at IBM Impact 2013 that you do not want to miss:

 Do you have a pulse of your security and risk posture?

 Security has become a board room discussion as it impacts business and IT. Whether your risks are due to advanced threats, mobile access, cloud infrastructure, compliance issues, or you're looking to analyze big data for security insights, you need to assess your posture and apply a set of security capabilities to deal with that security challenge. This session will discuss how capabilities across People, Data, Application, Infrastructure and Security Intelligence can help you proactively manage your security and risk posture.
 Session Number: TCS-3167
 Speaker(s): Nataraj Nagaratnam, IBM
 When: Mon, 29/Apr, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
 Where: Venetian - Palazzo M

 Who Do You Know, and Who Do You Trust?

 The concept of identity as authority is ages old, but today's highly connected and socially networked environment has created multiple identities for most users. Some identify most strongly with social platforms, others adhere to their organizational identity, while many are still rooted in their physical persona as represented by driver's licenses and passports. This session will discuss the role of identity and access in today's world, as well as an approach to apply them in addressing trends around cloud, mobile and identity intelligence.
 Session Number: TCS-3168
 Speaker(s): Sridhar Muppidi, IBM; Ravi Srinivasan, IBM
 When: Tue, 30/Apr, 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
 Where: Venetian - Palazzo M

 Security for Mobile Devices, Applications and Information

 Organizations want to provide users the option of using a mobile devices to allow them to work wherever/whenever they need to, but doing so requires diligence in protecting sensitive data for compliance. Organizations are now tasked with supporting the new social, virtual, and mobile users and the applications they access. With mobile threats on the rise, complex IT environments, and maintaining policies are top of mind concerns for many security and risk professionals. This session will provide insight into how organizations can manage their risk by taking steps to manage these mobile devices, protect sensitive data with IBM Security solutions. The session will include a demonstration of IBM WorkLight, ISAM and IEM working together.
 Session Number: TMB-2948
 Speaker(s): Vijay Dheap, IBM; Sridhar Muppidi, IBM; Nataraj Nagaratnam, IBM
 When: Wed, 1/May, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
 Where: Venetian - Palazzo K

 If you have any questions or want to see the latest from IBM Security, follow us on Twitter.
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 Let's continue this conversation at Impact 2013 in a series of live IBM Impact chats held in the Social Playground Video Theater each day. Plus check out the developer unconference (vote the agenda!), mobile open technology meetup (with special guests!) and AT&T mobile hackathon (top prize is $10,000 USD plus serious bragging rights!). Do all of this with the new Developer Pass for the deeply discounted price of $495.

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 Let's continue the conversations at Impact 2013 in a series of live IBM Impact chats held in the Social Playground Video Theater each day.
 See you in Las Vegas,
 Ryan Boyles @ibmimpact Social Lead Unleash enterprise value, inside and out, with Systems of Interaction from Ryan Boyles Let's continue the conversations at Impact 2013 in a series of live IBM Impact chats held in the Social Playground Video Theater each day. See you in Las... 0 0 2764 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-af7f961b-33e6-48ef-9968-a9e9f26d045c From Pulse to Impact, Business in Motion Ryan Boyles firstname.lastname@example.com 100000UX41 active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2013-03-20T11:57:54-04:00 2013-03-20T11:57:54-04:00
Guest post by Niqqi Brown, IBM Tivoli Demand Programs

I'm excited! Impact is six weeks away and I am sure we all are looking forward to networking with clients, attending sessions, listening to keynotes, learning about new and enhanced solutions and much more. And to top it off, it's all happening in Vegas! Some of you may have attended IBM Pulse earlier this month, which was a huge success with over 650 sessions and events and a closing message from the NFL's Peyton Manning. However if you missed Pulse – there are a host of sessions at Impact where you can learn about IBM Tivoli cloud and mobility solutions that are transforming the ways in which clients do business and achieve outcomes. Here is a quick cheat sheet of the Tivoli events at Impact 2013.

Tivoli Sessions
Breakout Sessions

2592 - Innovations for Managing Your Critical Applications with IBM

3026 - Learn from 3000+ Engagements: Establishing Cloud Enabled Datacenter

3025 - Flexible Cloud Delivery with PureSystems and Common Cloud Platform

2745 - Managed Service Provider - grow with SmartCloud

3132 - Extend Your IBM Endpoint Manager Deployment To Mobile Devices

2659 - Tivoli Monitoring: Optimize IT Infrastructure Performance of BPM Solutions (customer presentation)

Inner Circle

1219 - Future Trends for Managing Your Critical WebSphere Applications With Tivoli

3031 - SmartCloud : Strategy, Architecture and Roadmap

Birds of a Feather

3161 - Problem Resolution in Minutes Using Unstructured Data Analysis

Tivoli Pedestals

Tivoli Optimizes Performance of Critical Applications

Analytics Solutions for Efficient IT Operations

IBM MobileFirst Management

Want more information? Look up all of the cloud, mobile and security topics in the Impact session preview tool. Be sure to register for Impact and invite your clients and colleagues. You don't want to miss all of the opportunities at Impact 2013!

 Guest post by Niqqi Brown, IBM Tivoli Demand Programs I'm excited! Impact is six weeks away and I am sure we all are looking forward to networking with clients, attending sessions, listening to keynotes, learning about new and enhanced solutions and... 0 0 2949 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-6a4eac98-8f30-442a-ba03-91a2268070dc WebSphere DataPower for Mobile Security Mark Luczak email@example.com 270005TAGV active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2013-03-20T10:54:18-04:00 2013-03-20T11:03:25-04:00
 In this brief video, Maryanne Hondo, the product manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower, describes the role that WebSphere DataPower has in helping enterprises put mobile technologies to work while helping to keep those enterprises secure. Maryanne says mobile technology offers a way to extend business and customer relationships, strengthen brand loyalty and grow business. IBM WebSphere DataPower solutions help optimize IT infrastructures enabling them to respond more intelligently and securely.

For an in-depth look at mobile technology in the enterprise, read "A Competitive View of SOA Appliances -- Comparing SOA Appliances from Forum, IBM, Layer 7 and Vordel," a Lustratus Research report. As SOA services are opened to mobile and cloud applications, B2B trading partner usage and the trend toward exposing corporate APIs for third-party development has lead to increasing levels of SOA activity.

As access increases, securing corporate services is crucial. SOA appliances help protect organizations from unauthorized use and other risks. More than a gateway, these appliances simplify SOA and help reduce TCO by offloading and consolidating repetitive SOA activities onto a purpose-built, cost-efficient, specialized platform.

There will be many opportunities to connect with Datapower experts like Maryanne and members of the IBM technical staff at IBM Impact this year. Be sure to check out the session preview tool to find sessions, talks and labs about Datapower technology. Register for Impact to put your business in motion with SOA.

 In this brief video , Maryanne Hondo, the product manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower, describes the role that WebSphere DataPower has in helping enterprises put mobile technologies to work while helping to keep those enterprises secure. Maryanne says... 0 0 3900 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-3404f8c4-d29c-4d8e-a7dd-f93b13530a6b Middleware Conversations 2016-02-29T11:37:42-05:00 urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-4d0e279e-4b03-47d7-8a84-7a23302ceea3 Tivoli to Reveal the Next Chapter of IBM SmartCloud at Impact 2012 Jennifer Dennis firstname.lastname@example.com 110000CSRM active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2012-04-17T20:54:46-04:00 2012-04-18T12:45:48-04:00 With Impact 2012 just around the corner April 29 - May 4 in Las Vegas, the Tivoli community of thought leadership and technical expertise is busy preparing for our participation. This year, we'll continue discussions on SmartCloud and Mobile that we initiated at Pulse 2012. We'll also explore the new IBM PureSystems announcement made on April 11. There will be over 30 sessions featuring Tivoli content, including 10 led by Tivoli. Here's a look at what you can expect from Tivoli at Impact this year:

 Danny Sabbah, GM, Tivoli Software, speaking at the Cloud/Mobile Mini Main Tent on day two of Impact, where the topic will be "New Era of Computing".

Jamie Thomas, Vice President of Strategy and Development for IBM Tivoli will be hosting a session on "Optimizing the World's Infrastructure" about IBM Tivoli capabilities that can help businesses gain visibility, control, and automation across their infrastructure. She will be joined by analyst Bola Rotibi, Research Director from Creative Intellect Consulting. Attendees will be introduced to new case studies that reveal how IBM clients are obtaining optimal business value with IBM solutions.

 You can also find Tivoli experts in the Cloud Zone and the following Tivoli pedestals in the Impact Expo hall:

 Tivoli Application Performance Management: Aaron Tobin will demonstrate how IBM Tivoli's Application Performance Management solution for IBM Business Process Management (BPM), provides the visibility into the performance and availability of the IT resources associated with business processes, by helping optimize the performance of the BPM infrastructure by isolating, identifying and repairing problems before they impact the business.

IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices: David Tamillow and Jude Lancaster will show visitors of this ped how to secure and manage traditional endpoints as well as Apple iOS, Google Android, Symbian, and Microsoft Windows Phone devices. Guests will discover how to safeguard enterprise data and maintain compliance using an industry proven flexible management architecture.

 Additionally, Tivoli will participate in the Impact Business Partner Cafe, where our partners can learn how to maximize their revenue with the latest channel tools and sales enablement resources, including our SmartCloud Technologies!

Browse all of the Tivoli sessions using the Impact Session Preview Tool, or if you are already registered start building your agenda !

Tune in to Jamie's presentation from Pulse 2012 last month to get caught up and get ready for Impact 2012!

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Dalton Caldwell, the principal founder of App.net, wrote a blog post on Friday in a bid to guide startups that have "less than one year of runway", which seems to be how Venture Capitalists refer to money in the bank to cover operational expenses. The piece walks us through the necessary questions a business owner must ask themselves and the traps to avoid, as well as reiterates the age-old truth that you can always raise money when you don't need it but can't find two pennies to rub together when it counts. Managers are told to think about the welfare of their employees, the legal obligations to pay taxes before becoming insolvent, and also returning any remaining money to investors alongside a great big apology. There was just one important element missing: what to tell the rest of us.
As many people know, Mr. Caldwell decided to close-up shop of his own startup, App.net, back in May of 2014. The announcement was almost expected as there were a number of failures from within the organisation. What was not expected, however, was that the servers that powered the network would continue to run despite the fact that there were no longer any full-time employees to maintain or further develop the platform. In the words of Mr. Caldwell himself:
The good news is that the renewal rate was high enough for App.net to be profitable and self-sustaining on a forward basis. Operational and hosting costs are sufficiently covered by revenue for us to feel confident in the continued viability of the service. No one should notice any change in the way the App.net API/service operates. To repeat, App.net will continue to operate normally on an indefinite basis.
Dalton Caldwell made good on his promise to wind down the company as the runway became too short to make for a viable landing, and his staff were able to find employment elsewhere before "going down with the ship", as it were. As the people who paid for an ADN subscription were the ones who funded the business, he also followed up (more or less) by returning the money (more or less) to the investors in the form of a promise to keep the lights on ... though we have no idea how long those lights might stay on or an easy way to know who to call if there are problems1.
So, while the blog post on The Macro to business owners who are facing a potential financial crunch does cover everything Dalton did when App.net was left to run idle, it doesn't really go far enough. If a company is going to shut down, it needs to be a little more transparent with its customers. In the case of App.net, this means knowing how many years, months, weeks, or days of funding remains in the bank to keep the service running. We don't need to know the exact dollar figure, though that would make crowd-sourcing another year's operations costs much easier to coordinate, but we do need to know when things are going to start happening. Being told "App.net will continue to operate normally on an indefinite basis" is just too vague for the average person. As a result, people have naturally left the network to focus their attentions elsewhere ... using social tools that are the complete antithesis of what App.net was supposed to be.
The customers should be kept in the know.
But maybe this isn't how things work in Sunny California. Maybe, because people have come to expect online companies to ignore them, this is just par for the course. It doesn't have to be, though.
Lots of companies fail. Online companies tend to fail faster than most. It's a sad reality. Failing gracefully, however, might just help the people who ran those failed companies succeed faster the next time around. Communicate with your customers. Apologise if you must. Shut systems down if you must. But communicate. Let the world remember your name with a smile rather than a frown.
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Stonington - A town meeting will be held Tuesday night so residents can vote on a controversial nuisance ordinance that could dramatically limit the use of dirt bikes, ATVs, go-karts, snowmobiles, motorcycles and other recreational vehicles in many residential areas. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the high school.
Residents will also vote to adopt a peddler ordinance, allow the town sell the old police boat through a competitive bid process, increase the Mystic Harbor Management Plan mooring fees from $10 to $50 and transfer a piece of land at Fellows Street and 45 Sisk Drive to the Stonington Housing Authority.
The proposed nuisance ordinance would require riders to stay at least 300 feet from the property line and at least 500 feet from all off-site residences unless they have permission from adjacent land owners to be closer. In many instances, that could drastically decrease the amount of land available for riding on each lot. The 300-foot setback requirement would make 90,000 square feet or two acres of a lot off limits for riders. Most residential lots in town are smaller than two acres.
In addition, anyone who builds a structure, course or obstacle such as mounds, depressions or berms for riding, would need to obtain a facility or event permit from the town and install sedimentation and erosion control measures. If four riders or more want to ride together, they, too, would need a permit.
The town developed the proposed ordinance in response to complaints from residents of a Mystic neighborhood who said last year they were being disturbed by a teenager who rides his dirt bike for long hours on his grandparents' two-acre Richmond Lane property. They pressed the town to enact regulations to curb the riding, which they charged hurt their quality of life and damaged property values.
Over the past year, town attorney Tom Londregan reviewed ordinances from other towns before crafting the proposed nuisance ordinance.
The proposed ordinance would ban recreational vehicles from using a town or state road to access land to ride on or to cross land without the landowner's written permission. Riders must carry that permission with them. They would not be allowed to operate on town land without town permission.
Riders would not be able to cause dirt, dust or debris to cross onto an adjoining property. Riders would not be able to operate within 50 feet of a stream or waterway, wetland, floodplain or sensitive erosion area.
The ordinance states that certain kinds of activities, "even though lawful, can create a nuisance if not conducted with restraint, common sense and a recognition of the need and desire for quiet enjoyment of property by others."
It adds that certain types of recreational vehicles are likely to adversely affect property values and threaten the health, safety and welfare of people in town. Because of this, the town must require a way "to protect residents from the most egregious nuisance activities while allowing customary residential, commercial, industrial and institutional operations to continue, grow and prosper."
Violators would be issued an infraction with a fine of $75. The town could also periodically adjust the fine.
Since 1997, the town has had a nuisance ordinance in effect that prohibits people from making any unreasonably loud and objectionable noise that can be heard inside a home before 6 a.m. and after 10 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and before 8 a.m. and after 10 p.m. on Sundays. Violations are punishable by a $100 fine. There are a number of commercial and public safety exemptions to the ordinance.
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She doesn't seem tempted even when she's drunk but I bet she's someone's slutty buddy. She can't be that composed if she hasn't gotten any in 5 months like she says!
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This is the creepiest and Loveliest Possessed Amy picture I have ever seen. It is amazing.
Amy haters Amy's coming possessed to kill you off. Prepare your anus.
This drawing remins me of the film The Ring the scene where Samara gets out of the tv .-.
This drawing remins me of the film The Ring the scene where Samara gets out of the tv .-.
Aw, sweet! This is from an episode of Sonic X!
Spooky ghostly possession there!
this is so cool! i stared at it and it looked like it was moving forward to me which was somewhat creepy but cool! great job on this!
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Holy crap that's chilling! Absolutely love the colors and the ripple effect in the screen! It really looks like she's coming out to get you!
Thank you for another fantastic piece for the S-S-S-S-S-Squad!
Ha, I remember when this happened on Sonic X, it freaked me out then. It's still awesome though!
Boom boo possession? Wow.
And one ugly motherfucker.. being the picture I was looking at.
This episode of Sonic X frightened the absolute hell of me!
Wow...this is really cool. Its creepy but amazing. I love it. x'D
Demons do not live in Hell. They thrive within us all.
Awesome. I love creepy and bloody stuff!!!!!
(This goes under creepy category)
This is really creepy and it is amazing to look at. Incredible!
Holy s***!! The fact that my HD TV makes this picture even scarier!!
But still, pretty damn Hyper-Realistic! Good job, man! ^^
No problem, dude! And I looked at the episode as well. Apparently, Amy was possessed in it, which gave me the chills!!! Geeeee~!!
this is SO EPIC OF EPICNESSS
really nice work
If you could animate the hands, that would increase the creep factor by a lot. And the day people can view this with 3D glasses or something of the sort, that would cause so many heart attacks it wouldn't be funny............... okay, maybe a little funny. XD
Well done.
ohh my god, she will take me D:
wonderful art.
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wonderful art.
i loved, perfect like ever!
Isn't this from a Sonic X episode? It looks awesome
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