text:
A view from the clouds: Cloud computing for developers
Thanks to SOA
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing soa 1 Comment 3,835 Views
Many technologies and ideas are paving the way for cloud computing. Utility computing, grid computing, and virtualization have all played important roles in enabling cloud solutions to take hold. In some ways, SOA is an easy to overlook player in the cloud computing world. However, there's no doubt that without SOA, and the ideas from the SOA movement, cloud computing would not be where it is now.
First, consider the millions of services available in the application services layer of the public cloud. While some of these services are intended to be consumed by an end-user, just as many are meant to be consumed programmatically. Enterprises seek to compose services in the application services layer to deliver larger, end-user applications to their consumers. As such, the ability to consume services that exist across domains and company firewalls is a must. SOA standards help in this respect as they define how services, regardless of location, are discovered, consumed, and governed. This common set of standards has helped to make the services in a public cloud more readily useable by enterprises, so SOA standards have been a key factor in the explosion of service offerings in the public cloud.
Second, and just as important, is the impact that SOA has and will continue to have on the enabling layers of cloud computing. By the enabling layers of the cloud, I mean the platform and infrastructure services layer where we find both application and physical infrastructure. These two layers in the cloud are often referred to as constituting a Service Oriented Infrastructure, so the impact of SOA is immediately obvious. SOA has led to viewing application and physical infrastructure capabilities as discrete services that can be consumed as part of an overall solution or process. As the number of services in these two layers continues to grow, it will be important that they can be discovered, managed, and governed similar to software service components so as to enable robust, composable cloud infrastructure solutions. By applying the principles and lessons of SOA to these enabling services, we can achieve a discoverable, composable, and governable cloud infrastructure.
SOA should be acknowledged as a key enabler to cloud computing solutions. There are of course reasons beyond what is mentioned above. For instance, think about application virtualization and how effective management of such virtualization requires the capability to interact with applications implemented in various technologies. SOA standards have established how to interact and communicate with applications regardless of implementation, so virtualization management can and should piggyback on these standards. As cloud computing continues to evolve, I think we will only see more instances of SOA affecting cloud computing for the better.
Dustin Amrhein[Read More]
Innovation over bureaucracy
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  innovation cloud_computing 3,428 Views
It isn't often that the IT world looks at the federal government as technological pioneers, and the new CIO of the Office of Management & Budget, Vivek Kundra, thinks that is a problem. Kundra is striving the for the federal government to become key leaders in innovation, and in doing so, he's looking at cloud computing as a first step.
Due to the sensitivity and privacy of data the government is often handling, one may not think cloud computing the best fit. Kundra, however, does not see that as a show stopper. "We recognize that whether it's cloud computing or any area of technology there is sensitive and classified information and it cannot be treated the same way as public information, but they are not mutually exclusive." While only a few words, Kundra makes it clear that one of the biggest perceived fears of adopting cloud computing, security and privacy, will not stand in the way of the federal government's march to innovation.
It's still early in his tenure, but the First CIO seems to be serious about his push for cloud computing. He says that he is "killing projects that don't investigate software as a service first", and he is keen on looking to the cloud for storage and web development solutions. Kundra also believes that by leveraging cloud solutions across the multitude of federal agencies, we can ensure that resources are used only when needed by replacing the always-on data center with outsourced solutions where possible. He's also counting on the adoption of cloud computing to send a strong message that government agencies can lead technological innovation.
I doubt anyone would discount the benefits Kundra is seeking by attempting to move the federal government in the clouds. He hopes to reduce tax dollar spending by using only the necessary IT resources, improve end-user services for tax payers, and foster a culture of technological innovation among a myriad of federal agencies. There is no doubt that such a transition and culture change will not come easy, but Kundra sounds dedicated to an honest effort at change. If the federal government is able to effectively leverage cloud computing solutions, I believe it could be a trend-setter for many organizations. If an entity as unwieldy and complex as the federal government can adopt and derive benefits from cloud computing, I believe many organizations that once discounted the technology may take a fresh look at the capabilities at hand.[Read More]
Sandboxes in the cloud
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  development cloud_computing 4,132 Views
In my prior job at IBM, I was, on more than one occasion, reminded of the pains of dealing with software development tools. It seemed to be a constant battle to keep up with licenses, install critical fixes, and update to the latest version of whatever tool I happened to be using. Since I often worked on projects across multiple machines, I had to ensure that versions of the tool on different machines were reasonably close and that any code formatting settings were consistent across the different tool instances. On top of this, the tools were sometimes so CPU intensive that multitasking on the same machine running the tool was impossible.
All of the above pains were a direct function of the tools being installed on my local machine, so you can imagine my interest in a recent announcement by IBM signaling the launch of a pilot program offering Tools as a Service. The program, initially offered to students and faculty of selected universities, delivers hosted software development tools to developers. Users of the development tools do not install, maintain, or run the products on their local machine, instead they access them through a cloud maintained by IBM. The tools can be accessed from any machine with an internet connection, and a developer's sandbox is persisted across multiple sessions. The developer simply logs in, does work, and at some point saves his/her changes and logs out. The saved changes can be accessed at some point in the future from the same machine or an entirely different one.
This is exactly what I needed! Like many developers, I wanted to focus on writing code not maintaining a suite of tools. I for one hope this eventually extends beyond a pilot program and becomes a mainstream practice. You can read more about IBM's Tools as a Service initiative here.
Dustin Amrhein[Read More]
Faces in the clouds
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  sofware innovation cloud_computing governance enterprise cloud computing soa 4,206 Views
Clouds form known patterns of shape, consistency and color. These patterns have formal names too: cumulus, stratus, nimbus, etc. But there are also the patterns that are only in the eyes of the imaginative: a dragon, or a face, or Aunt Betty being chased by a fire-breathing turtle.
Cloud computing implementations are composed of common elements such as network servers, enterprise software, routers, etc. There will be common configurations, however, the power of the cloud comes from the idea that capacity, software, storage, etc. are delivered on demand as a service. So despite the fixed configuration that is really the connected inventory, the shapes of clouds are indeed malleable. So what shapes will we see in these clouds?
One of the most widely used examples of a cloud benefit is the greeting card company that has flat business through the year except for specific holiday peaks. The cloud allows that company to expand their capacity for those peaks only, saving them money. In this example, the cloud is hosted by a third party provider.
But what about that nebulous provider? Such a company will still have to manage capacity and other IT services for all its customers. It has the same issues that any IT shop would have. Finite resources that have to handle all the demand. The cloud principle allows it to provision resource as it is needed, but then this provider will only be able to handle so many customers that have peak business around the various holidays other wise there is no gain. In fact I think that these providers will have to plan which kinds of business they can host to maximize their 'face' time.
Scott Quint[Read More]
Attention Developers
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing_developme... cloud_computing 2 Comments 4,403 Views
When I first started to become aware of the cloud computing movement, I remember being intrigued but not all that aware of its possible consequences to me. After all, I was a developer not a systems administrator, so other than professional curiosity why was cloud computing all that important to me? Maybe you are a developer that can see right through my early, naive perception of cloud computing, but maybe you are a developer that, like me in the early going, doesn't quite see why cloud computing should matter to you. In the case of the latter, I've come to realize that there are several reasons why cloud computing matters to the developer. Let me try to sum up a few of those reasons for you here.
Reason #1: Developer services can be delivered via the cloudThere are many different types of services that can be realized from a cloud (public, private, or hybrid) that could have a large impact on the way developers work. As I mention in a previous post, IBM announced a Tools as a Service initiative in which IDEs are made available within a public cloud. IDEs in the cloud give developers a single development environment that can be accessed from any machine at any time. Better yet, we don't have to worry with installing and maintaining the environment. In addition to IDEs in the cloud, with the increased focus on virtualization and virtualization management that cloud is bringing, the ability to rapidly procure and instantiate runtime environments should become standard practice. This means that new ideas and new product code can be rapidly prototyped and tested. No longer should a proof of concept be delayed because it couldn't be proven in a runtime environment.
Reason #2: Cloud computing means a world of new products and offeringsAs a developer, it is a continuous battle to keep up with constantly emerging technologies, but it is imperative that we do so in order to ensure we take full advantage of available solutions. Cloud computing providers introduce a whole new world of service offerings for consumption by application developers. Cloud providers are offering new storage solutions, new database implementations, new content distribution mechanisms, new application integration capabilities, etc. As developers who may potentially be writing applications that run in the cloud, these new offerings directly affect the code we write. We need to educate ourselves about these new services, and we should understand when these solutions can be best leveraged to deliver our end product.
Reason #3: SOA becomes more importantOkay, so maybe this is not aimed squarely at the developer, but I know many times a developer wears the hat of architect as well... even if they don't know it! In a cloud computing world, the applications and services we deploy to the cloud should align and fit into our SOA. This is critical if we are to fully exploit the benefits of ubiquity offered by the cloud. Cloud computing inherently provides the ability to access services from any machine with a network connection, automatically giving the kind of service ubiquity sought by many companies. By developing these services in a SOA-compliant manner, we extend the reach by making it more readily consumable by other application components. We move beyond pure end-user applications and services, and in doing so new or increased revenue streams may be realized for the service.
These are just a few of the ways I see cloud computing currently affecting the developer's role. There are a myriad of reasons that developers should be cognizant of cloud computing, and I expect the list of reasons to boom as cloud computing continues to advance. I'd also like to hear what you think about cloud computing and the developer, so post a comment below if you would like to join the discussion.
Dustin Amrhein[Read More]
Cloud Cells
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  governance computing soa sofware cloud innovation cloud_computing enterprise 4,280 Views
When we talk about clouds, we tend to think of the usual enterprise with servers centralized in data centers or in server rooms. At least, I do. But why does
Cloud offers the ability to do more than web commerce. The concept of cloud can have broad implications for all kinds of parallel processing needs. Right now, there are a number of organizations from SETI to large medical research firms that use volunteers on the internet to help compute through massive computational workloads. The ability to do that on a wider scale is limited by the need to deliver more sophisticated or even proprietary software on the member systems.
What if workstations could be conscribed to be part of a cloud? When the workstation owner is not using it, the entire machine could be repurposed for another need. Then during work hours, the owner's image could be restored. Private owners could even lease their processing time and make some extra money or earn credit of some kind.
Right now I am surrounded by several multicore processor based systems. Any one of them could power a web presence for a small business. All of them could power the website for a medium business. If I maintained a small cloud using the computers of my neighbors, I could possibly lease powerful computing cycles to render the next animated movie or to compute fractal geometry calculations for climate models. If I operated between 9PM and 6AM I could deliver more than a day's worth of computing gain. What would that be worth?
Scott Quint[Read More]
Cloud Strata
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  governance cloud sofware soa enterprise innovation cloud_computing computing 4,755 Views
At the core of cloud computing discussions and cloud computing in general is the idea of virtualization. The word 'virtualization' might invoke different things depending on who you talk to but for cloud discussions many people think of virtual images: entire systems being stored even down to the operating systems. The advantages seem evident. Instead of complex deployment models you simply need to take an unused piece of hardware resource and lay in the exact pattern. The assumption is that the hardware is free an compatible but everything else is negotiable. I think, however that there are different levels of assumption within the cloud concept.
Laying in entire systems from the OS up may be way more work than is necessary. The advantage is that there are fewer constraints on what kinds of things you can depoy in your cloud. But one of the big disadvantages are that there are fewer constraints on what kinds of things you can depoy in your cloud. Sometimes, productivity is higher when your developers are given the topology parameters and when he knows what resources are going to be available.
In fact, the concept of cloud seems to infer that there are fewer assumptions needed so you will have maximum versatility. However, flexibility is an antagonist to stability and stability is needed for prodcutivity. In effect, more assumptions necessarily equals faster developement and quicker time to release. So is cloud the antithesis of productivity? No, of course not. The beauty of clouds is that you can have as many assumptions as you want.
A productive cloud model could assume specific hardware, OS and even webservers and macro-topologies. The cloud's resources could simply be avalable platforms that serve as quickly added nodes that can be dynamically provisioned within an appserver deployment.
I think cloud models can be stratfied based on the number of assumptions that are built into it. Level 0 clouds could be where the only assumtion is the that the physical machines will support the virtual images. Level 6 could be that virtual servers and resources can be cloned by template to act as expansion nodes to meet growing demand. Does this cross over into other scaling models? Yes. So what? It doesn't have to be unique in every aspect it merely has to be consistent for effective use.
Scott Quint
[Read More]
Cutting through the smoke
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  enterprise innovation computing cloud soa cloud_computing sofware governance 4,261 Views
Dustin and I have been seeingweb sites pop up all over the place with the word 'Cloud' in the name.Everything from web based remote PC services to elastic Web Mail.
I remember in 2000when Business to Business Integration (B2Bi) was the big market buzzword. Every company in the industry was claiming to be "The B2Bicompany". B2Bi was and is not an easy task. Everyone uses and storesdata differently; sometimes even within the same company. So whathappened? Most companies could not deliver products that made the jobeasier in a more generic way and it fell to services based companies.The expense soared and the results were generally poor. XML was justgaining prominence and few "B2Bi companies" ever even heard of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange. It was how businesses shared data before the internet became so capable). Thenet result ended up being that to succeed these providers had to scaleback their claims and muddy the definition of B2Bi. Now you hardly everhear it. The need still exists and the market is robust but the buzzword faded from the lexicon.
Cloud Computing is a powerful concept and the term can encompass many different implementations that achieve Dynamic Infrastructure, On Demand Capacity and Virtualized Enterprises. However, tagging glorified remote desktops and pay-for-GB mail boxes as cloud computing will do nothing but obscure the definition, allow charlatans to deliver poor or incomplete solutions and make it more difficult to convey the value of products and services that support true clouds.
Real cloud providers should be diligent in detailing their services and the value they provide. If the smoke is cleared, the view of the clouds will remain breathtaking.
--Scott Quint
[Read More]
Value with IBM Amazon Machine Images
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  db2 amazon_machine_image ec2 cloud_computing websphere_smash 4,183 Views
About two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to work with the WebSphere sMash, DB2, and Rational teams on a pretty exciting project. It started during a meeting with the sMash team in which they decided to build a sample application to demonstrate at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week. Given the lead team the first thought was to simply show off the application at various IBM expo booths. However, we quickly decided the best way to show off the coolness of sMash was to put it in the hands of users. This led us down a path that would include Rational EGL capabilities, the WebSphere sMash Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and the DB2 AMI.
In a little over a week, we delivered a meaningful Web 2.0 application and put it in the hands of conference attendees. Using WebSphere sMash, we produced services that allowed users to view and search for booths at the conference. Each booth at the conference started with a list of keyword tags, and users could add more tags to let other users know what to expect at the booth. We also delivered a Buzz feature that displayed an aggregated feed from both Twitter and Flickr containing entries about the Web 2.0 Expo.
The Rational team, which was already working on an EGL application that would run on attendee handhelds, leveraged the services from our new sMash application, being hosted on the Amazon EC2 infrastructure, to add to their capabilities. Our decision to host the sMash application on EC2 was driven by two factors. The first was that we had virtually no time to go through the in-house server acquisition process. Second, given sMash's capabilities to export and import applications, we were easily able to transfer our local application copy to the AMI instance with no code change. Once the application was imported into the running AMI instance, we changed a single configuration file to reference our newly running DB2 AMI instance which stored the booth data for the expo.
I just thought I'd share this example to highlight a couple of cool technologies, Rational EGL and WebSphere sMash, and to illustrate a scenario in which the IBM Amazon Machine Images deliver value. If you have any questions or want to see some of the application code, send us an email. Here's a couple of screen shots of the application:
Dustin Amrhein
[Read More]
Enhancing Development & Test
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing development 3,364 Views
Much of the focus on cloud computing to date revolves around the ways in which cloud computing delivers significant administrative and operational benefits. After all, the more dynamic, autonomic capabilities promised by cloud could go a long way in relieving some of the burden in managing large, complex IT infrastructure operations. Sometimes lost in the cloud computing benefits discussion is how cloud computing enhances development and test groups in an enterprise. I can think of five different ways in which cloud computing strengthens development and test groups:
1) Self-service capability: A defining characteristic of cloud computing solutions is a self-service capability that allows users to commission and decommission computing resources as appropriate. In development and test shops, this means users can directly procure the resources they need to complete their tasks without going through lengthy, manually-driven procurement chains. This results in a significantly shortened procurement period, and it means developers and testers can quickly get to the task at hand.
2) Resource availability: Resource sprawl within IT shops, a very common occurrence, leads to resource deficiencies that are sometimes a problem for enterprise developers and testers. Tasks like testing massive configurations and performing intensive load tests become increasingly difficult as it is hard to harness enough resources to get the job done. Cloud computing, through intelligent virtualization, usage tracking, and more, enables this scattered resource pool to be viewed and utilized as a single logical entity. Resources can be doled out as needed, and intense tasks become achievable without extensive setup or procurement periods.
3) Environmental fidelity: From the time a software application or service leaves a developer's hands to the time it reaches production, quite a few things about its environment may be changed, often times unbeknownst to the developer. The test and operation teams may have different conventions and configurations than development teams, and this can lead to unintended application behavior and delays in service delivery. Cloud computing offers a potential solution to this problem in the form of the increasingly popular templatized solution stack. These solution stacks are pre-built, ready to deploy configurations, which include the application and entire environment down to the operating system. This stack can be captured as some sort of image (i.e. OVF image, Amazon Machine Image, etc.), and passed off between each team along the delivery cycle. Teams downstream from development see the exact environment in which the application was designed and unit tested, and they can balance needed changes to that environment against a known, working solution.
4) Hosted tools: Though possibly not yet standard operating procedure, one can look at the wave of SaaS offerings and make a reasonable assumption that more and more development and test tools will be moving in that direction as well. Why not? Putting aside the technical challenges of hosting something like a code editor on a network, the benefits of centrally hosting these types of tools are clear. Developers and testers no longer have to worry with installing, configuring, running, or maintaining these enabling tools on their own machines. Instead, they can log into the tools from any machine with a network connection and get work done.
5) Increased focus: This benefit is a culmination of all of the above benefits. By easing the process to acquire resources, making more resources available, ensuring configuration integrity, and removing the burden of maintaining tools, developers and testers are left to focus on their core jobs. The operational and administrative portions of their job are significantly reduced through cloud computing solutions. As a result, organizations are in a position to benefit from more developer innovation, increased test quality and coverage, and more.
The above five ideas illustrate that cloud computing can indeed enhance development and test efforts just as they boost administrative and operational tasks. Development and test teams that understand the benefits they can derive from cloud computing are likely to be proactive in advocating its use. For the cloud computing industry, increasing adoption by development and test groups could lead to widespread grassroots movements that further spread the use of cloud computing throughout enterprises.
-- Dustin Amrhein
[Read More]
Cloning, virtualization and Cloud computing
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing enterprise governance computing software innovation cloud soa 5,273 Views
Can you have cloud computing without virtualization? I don't think so. Some have stated to me that they believe a cloud could b contrived without virtualization but I don't see it. Cloud computing is all about being able to expand or contract an enterprise on demand and as a service. Without deployable virtual images there is no mechanism for doing this efficiently.
I suppose that you could argue that clouds do not necessarily include the OS or the hardware and that you could scale by use of templates and configuration files to clone systems. That is cloning. Cloning, spawning, parallel processing and other mechanisms for creating capacity and processing power dont have the scope that a full cloud implementation has. Cloud computing is an administration paradigm that may share or even employ some or all of these other techniques but can include more.
I guess the biggest thing that sets cloud computing apart from cloining or spawning is that cloud computing is a paradigm for a flexible distributed computing platform. Cloning and spawing are techniques as is Virtualization.Clouds are entire managed infrastructures where virtulized systems are simply tools and cloning is a function of products.
Scott Quint[Read More]
Service Elasticity
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing soa 3,737 Views
Many enterprise IT decision makers are probably currently, or will be shortly, contemplating some type of cloud computing solution that promises to deliver benefits to their operation. After all, cloud computing solutions, when utilized prudently, are hard to resist. As these decision makers prepare to weigh the pros and cons of such solutions, there is one consideration that is perhaps more important than all others: Will this solution enable elasticity among my services and applications?
Hopefully the answer to the above question is a confident 'Yes'. A lot of discussion is given to providing virtualized, dynamically scaled resources such as servers, processors, operating systems, etc. and rightfully so. By optimizing the usage and consumption of these infrastructure resources, IT operations can be significantly enhanced. However, these resources are often times just a mean to an end, that end being service delivery. IT provides services and applications to end-users that are critical in terms of revenue generation or optimal business activity. These are the resources that most need elastic capabilites to ensure that end-users are continually provided responsive service. Cloud computing solutions need to address this capability by providing the means to package services in manageable units and deliver the ability to govern the scale of these units in an autonomic fashion.
Note, that in the question above I used the word enable. This was deliberate since it is hard to comprehend how any cloud computing solution could provide "out-of-the-box" service elasticity. The implementation of a SOA architecture becomes a necessary partner to achieving true service elasticity. Services must be developed in such a way that they are loosely coupled from other services and required components such as databases. Otherwise, the ability of one service to dynamically scale may be implicitly connected to another service's ability to achieve such elasticity. In this type of intertwined architecture, maximum elasticity will never be achieved.
What do you think about the current cloud landscape? Is there enough focus on service elasticity, and is service elasticity even the most valuable aspect of cloud computing? Leave a comment below, or reply to us on Twitter @WebSphereClouds.
-- Dustin Amrhein
[Read More]
Open standards for the cloud
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing open_standards 3,463 Views
I recently read the Open Cloud Standards incubator charter proposed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), and I think this is a great effort to propel the cloud computing effort forward (read the charter here). In the interest of disclosure, I'm not just saying this because I happen to be employed by one of the supporters of the movement. It's time to acknowledge that open standards are not an inhibitor to innovation, but instead they facilitate the kind of technological adoption that makes innovation both possible and profitable.
The incubator charter sets its eyes on standards around cloud resource management. Its main focus will concern the management of cloud computing elements that make up the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer, but it will also discuss some elements of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer. The charter lists among its deliverables a cloud taxonomy, cloud interoperability white paper, informational specifications, and security requirements for cloud resource management. The hope is that such standards would increase cloud interoperability, mitigate the potential for vendor lock-in, and guide companies who already deliver resource management products and are looking to extend such capabilities to cloud resource management.
In particular, there are a couple of deliverables that sound interesting. The first, a cloud taxonomy including terms and definitions, is a necessary step to move forward any cloud computing standardization efforts. There is too much disagreement among the cloud industry at large as to exactly what defines and makes up cloud computing. While healthy discussion and debate on this subject are good, it is time to agree on a standard definition that all can at least accept. Without a common, acceptable definition, standards movements will be crippled since it's hard to govern something we cannot define.
The charter also proposes information specifications that would define profiles for the management of resources within a cloud computing environment. If these types of management standards were produced and subsequently adopted by a multitude of cloud providers, consumers could define a common cloud interaction layer and freely switch in and out the provider. In addition to these new specifications, updates to existing standards in DMTF are among the deliverables. The existing specification that is explicitly called out in the charter is the OVF packaging standard. I can only hope this means a standard packaging for virtual images deployed in a cloud environment. If that is indeed the goal, by combining a common cloud management mechanism with a common cloud packaging strategy, consumers would be provided the ultimate choice among cloud providers. They could package and deploy services meant to run in the cloud in such a way that the task would be repeatable across any cloud provider adopting the DMTF's standards. In addition, the mention of updating existing specifications sends a clear message that cloud computing standardization efforts must not duplicate existing standards work. Instead, new specifications are introduced where necessary, and existing specifications are updated to accommodate this new computing paradigm.
I'm excited about the incubator charter announced by DMTF. I'm sure this is just the beginning in what will be a long journey of providing for an open cloud, but it is a necessary first step. I for one don't buy the argument that open standards stifle innovation. Instead, I believe open standards increase technological adoption, and more consumers mean more opportunities, and demand, to distinguish offerings by creative innovation. What do you think about cloud computing standards? Let us know below, or send us an email.
-- Dustin Amrhein
[Read More]
WebSphere charges into the clouds
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing websphere 3,864 Views
Alas, the wait is over! WebSphere is jumping head first into the cloud computing fray. The announcement today of two new offerings means that companies will be able to build and benefit from private WebSphere clouds. In addition, to these new offerings, IBM also announced two more WebSphere products headed to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
To start, the new WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition is a virtualized packaging of the popular WebSphere Application Server platform. The virtual image includes a Linux operating system, WebSphere Application Server, and IBM HTTP Server all pre-installed and packaged according to the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). There are six different WebSphere Application Server profiles pre-configured on the image, which allow the virtual image to take many different forms when deployed to a hypervisor. The image supports unattended activation, meaning the virtual image can be deployed to a hypervisor and configured with activation scripts. This feature allows the deployment process to be fully automated. WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition allows users to reap the benefits from virtualization and realize a higher level of business agility with their WebSphere Application Server environments due to the radical ease of deployment.
In addition to WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition, IBM announced the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a secure hardware appliance that allows users to construct, store, deploy, and maintain private WebSphere cloud environments. WebSphere CloudBurst delivers WebSphere Application Server configurations including the operating system, which are optimized for virtual environments. These configurations, or patterns as they are called by WebSphere CloudBurst, can be customized by users to build WebSphere Application Server configurations that include the operating system, middleware, and user applications. WebSphere CloudBurst allows users to deploy these patterns to their private cloud, and it provides maintenance and administration capabilities for the deployed virtual systems. In short, WebSphere CloudBurst provides capabilities to manage the entire lifecycle of private WebSphere cloud environments.
The announcement wasn't all about private clouds. IBM also announced its intention to make the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere eXtreme Scale offerings available as Amazon Machine Images. These AMIs will allow users to utilize both the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere eXtreme Scale on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
It's clearly an exciting and innovative time for cloud computing in WebSphere. Stay tuned to our blog and WebSphere Cloud Computing for Developers site for more information and resources on these new offerings. In the meantime, check out the WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition page and the WebSphere CloudBurst page for more information and live demos!
-- Dustin Amrhein
[Read More]
A closer look at WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing 3,575 Views
The recently announced IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is creating a fair amount of stir in the cloud computing market. Its ability to create, deploy, and administer private WebSphere cloud environments gives customers the ability to create and manage a services oriented cloud. To provide a more in-depth look at what the appliance delivers, I'd like to take a short look at the creation, deployment, and administration capabilities to understand what each one means to the user.
To get started, in order to leverage WebSphere environments in a private cloud, you need to construct WebSphere configurations optimized for such a virtual environment. Using WebSphere CloudBurst you can do just that. WebSphere CloudBurst ships a virtual image packaging of the WebSphere Application Server called WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition. From this new virtual image offering, complete WebSphere Application Server topologies can be constructed to create what WebSphere CloudBurst terms a pattern. These patterns are representations of fully functional WebSphere Application Server environments. For example, using WebSphere components in the WebSphere Application Sever Hypervisor Edition, you can create a cluster environment that includes a WebSphere Deployment Manager, two customs nodes, and the IBM HTTP Server.
In order to create these patterns, WebSphere CloudBurst provides a drag-and-drop interface that allows users to select WebSphere components from the new virtual image and drop them onto a canvas that visually represents the WebSphere configuration. In addition to adding WebSphere components, users can also drag and drop script packages onto the components within a pattern. These script packages allow users to provide scripts and other artifacts that further customize the WebSphere Application Server environment once it has been deployed in the cloud. These script packages can do just about anything, from tuning WebSphere security settings to installing applications in the newly created environment.
Building the virtualized WebSphere Application Server environment, or pattern, is only part of the process. Once the pattern is built, it is ready to be deployed to the cloud. WebSphere CloudBurst operates on a 'bring your own cloud' model, so the cloud resources are defined to the appliance. These cloud resources consist of a set of supported hypervisors and a list of IP addresses available to the cloud. Once these resources are defined, WebSphere CloudBurst has all the information it needs for deployment. On deployment of a pattern, WebSphere CloudBurst determines the state of the available resources, and places the pattern across the available hypervisors accordingly. It places the WebSphere instance to ensure efficient use of resource, high performance, and high availability. In addition to placing the pattern instance onto the hypervisors, WebSphere CloudBurst selects and assigns an IP address to each WebSphere component in the configuration. Both the placement and IP address assignment are done with no user input or intervention. The result of the pattern deployment is a fully instantiated WebSphere environment that can be accessed and used like any other such environment. It is important to note that the WebSphere environments do not run on the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, and in fact the appliance plays no role in the runtime of the environments.
While it is true that the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is not involved in the runtime of the patterns that it deploys, it does provide users the capability to monitor and administer these environments. From the WebSphere CloudBurst console, each of the WebSphere virtual systems can be viewed to understand network configuration, memory consumption, and CPU usage. Usage of cloud resources (i.e. memory, CPU, IPs) is also tracked at a user or user group level allowing WebSphere CloudBurst to support chargeback across an enterprise. In addition to these monitoring capabilities, maintenance features are part of the appliance's administration story. WebSphere CloudBurst provides users with a central administration point for applying maintenance, such as iFixes and service packs, to the WebSphere virtual systems it created. These fixes can be applied within the WebSphere CloudBurst console with only a few mouse clicks providing an unprecedented ease of maintenance application.
The above is only a glimpse at the capabilities of the new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. Look for more information about this offering at ibm.com/cloudburst, and stay tuned to our blog, twitter account (@WebSphereClouds), and website as we continue to deliver insight into WebSphere CloudBurst.
-- Dustin Amrhein
[Read More]
CloudBurst gets it right
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing computing soa cloudburst enterprise software innovation governance cloud 4,359 Views
Cloud Computing is essentially a Systems Management innovation. I understand that, to some, that means simply managing hardware and capacity or computing power. However, it also involves deployment of enterprise level software. While some software is a kind of out-of-the-box asset that can be installed generically as if it were a hard asset, infrastructure software like WebSphere requires considerable skill and knowledge.
Tier1 cloud computing implementations must be able to expand the enterprise into provided capacity quickly and autonomically. If the scale-out requires tremendous effort and specialized skills then the cost savings that cloud offers is severely mitigated.
CloudBurst provides a mechanism to quickly deploy WebSphere environments to private clouds and allows the administrator to simply manage the assets on which WebSphere will run. The expertise of setting up and configuring WebSphere is, in effect, canned. This allows for much more rapid deployments and reduces the need for more expensive admins.
While many companies are still putting forward more technologically sophisticated offerings that still require even more technologically sophisticated staff, WebSphere has produced a product with a value which is more easily realized, understood and which can be seen on the balance sheet.
- Scott Quint
[Read More]
Interop Conference
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud innovation enterprise cloudburst software computing cloud_computing governance soa 4,974 Views
Dustin and i manned the IBM booth at InterOp in Las Vegas last week. The conference was very different from the industry conferences I remember, but then again I haven't been to one in a long time. I don't recall seeing boxing matches, light shows or bikini models but I think they are a welcome addition.
Ostensibly this conference was focused on cloud computing and was even called the "Cloud Summit". However, in the vendor area, there were few real cloud computing specific peds. Most of the vendor displays were about hardware, system monitoring and security.
Ric Telford of IBM gave a keynote address and sspoke of IBM's cloud offerings. After the keynote, there was a flurry of visitors asking about IBM, Cloud Computing and IBM's cloud offerings. Most of the visitors were looking for education and we were happy to have the opportunity to talk about the company and cloud computing from IBM's perspective.
We had the CloudBurst Appliance with us and it drew some interest. The purple case definitely stood out and drew inquiries. Some excitement is being generated but I think now the industry and the market has to catch up to us.
-- Scott Quint
[Read More]
Customized Private Clouds
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing 3,277 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst delivers out-of-the-box capabilities in the form of pre-built WebSphere Application Server configurations, or patterns, which are ready to be deployed to a private cloud. These pre-built patterns range from a single server topology to more complex, clustered topologies. In addition, these patterns have been tuned to produce hardened, best-practice environments. For users, this means once they have the appliance setup, they can immediately begin building a private WebSphere cloud.
The out-of-the-box capability of WebSphere CloudBurst is extremely useful, but what about the situations where those patterns don't align with a user's needs? What if a user needs to create a highly customized WebSphere environment? Not to worry, WebSphere CloudBurst was built with a focus on bringing customization capabilities to the user. These customization capabilities cover the full WebSphere middleware environment, from the operating system to user applications.
To start with, WebSphere CloudBurst allows users to modify the virtual images that are shipped with the appliance. These virtual images contain the operating system and WebSphere components that are used to build the WebSphere patterns. A perfect use-case for this is if a user needs to install custom software to be used in all of their WebSphere environments.
For instance, if a user wanted to install a JDBC driver that was to be used by each of their WebSphere deployments, they would simply extend one of the shipped virtual images, install the JDBC driver, and then recapture the image. Once the image was recaptured, it could be utilized to build the WebSphere patterns that represent the complete WebSphere middleware environment. By using this virtual image to build patterns, users are assured the JDBC driver will be present in each and every WebSphere deployment to their private cloud.
Another common customization is a change to the WebSphere topology in a pattern. If a user has a particular cluster environment that is different from the shipped WebSphere cluster patterns, they could simply clone the shipped cluster pattern, make any needed topology changes, and then save their new pattern.
The best thing about this process is that the topology changes are done via a slick GUI interface. Users can construct WebSphere topologies by simply dragging and dropping WebSphere components (i.e. stand-alone servers, deployment managers, web servers, etc.) onto a canvas! Once the pattern is constructed and saved, it can be reused as many times as necessary.
Patterns can also be customized to include user applications or other WebSphere configuration tuning. Script packages are compressed files (ZIP or TAR) that are constructed by users to alter the WebSphere environment. These packages might contain an application and scripts to install the application, or it could contain a script to tune or enhance the environment created by WebSphere CloudBurst.
The beauty of script packages is that they can do just about anything. Users tell WebSphere CloudBurst how to execute the script package (i.e. "Call the installApp.sh script in my script package"), and that execution takes place at the end of the pattern deployment. The result is a dispensed WebSphere environment that has been customized according to the script package contents.
There's more to WebSphere CloudBurst customization capabilities than what I talked about above, including the ability to customize each and every deployment of a pattern, and the ability to align these customization activities with organizational responsibilities. To find out more about these capabilities, check out the demos on our YouTube channel or send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Stay tuned to the blog for more information about the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance.
[Read More]
Junk and Treasure
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  enterprise computing soa software governance cloud_computing cloudburst innovation cloud 4,855 Views
If you work in a development shop similar to mine, you and many of your coworkers have more than one workstation under your desk.We use those extra machines for a variety of reasons but by and large they they tend to serve most often as foot warmers. That is not to say that they are unnecessary but rather they simply aren't used most of the time. If you try to eliminate one, you will surely need it within the next week but if your manager asks if it is really necessary you would be hard pressed to pinpoint precisely when the last time it was used for something really important. To developers, these extra machines are potential sandboxes for isolated experiments or testing scenarios. For managers, they are relatively unused capital investments that require inventory control and have depreciating value.
If you are a network administrator there are certainly computers in your inventory that are older and lack the capacity to be counted on for everyday use. They sit in a corner or in a blade rack and are probably idle or even powered off. These assets take up physical space and contribute very little to your data center. However, they have little sale value but may represent a significant investment. Or maybe you just can't part
with them for sentimental reasons.
Whatever the reasons for having computing resources lying around that are seldom used, here is an idea: Virtualization. With virtualized images you can use those machines for whatever purposes are required and for as long as they are required without having to spend hours loading them with a compliant OS image, installing software and configuring them for use. Virtual image libraries could hold preinstalled systems for almost any need. It could be for anything:
When the need for the machine is passed, it can be un-deployed and returned to the pool. This could significantly increase the available computing power of an entire development business. The ability to turn any machine into a needed and useful system on demand is real agile computing and gives a whole new dimension to governance.
--- Scott Quint
[Read More]
Announcing IBM CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm_cloudburst cloud_computing 3,305 Views
IBM trekked further into the cloud today by announcing new offerings that will help clients to leverage the cloud within their enterprise. These offerings include development environments, test environments, and desktop services running either in the IBM cloud or a private cloud, as well as something called IBM CloudBurst (not to be confused with the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance).
In particular, the IBM CloudBurst offering jumps out to me as a truly innovative offering. This offering promises our clients a complete private cloud solution that includes hardware, software, and services all in a single package.
Essentially it sounds like the IBM CloudBurst offering is all about building out a cloud-enabled data center. The hardware provides the bulk computing power to host private clouds, and the software provides enhanced service management capabilities to give users full control and insight over the elements of their private cloud.
Couple these computing capabilities with included IBM service, and this means clients should be able to get up and going with their private clouds very quickly.
This new offering really seems to hit a sweet spot. While the number of cloud computing offerings continues to grow, few if any offerings take such a holistic approach to providing such a solution.
This type of comprehensive solution gives users what they need in terms of the hardware to host a private cloud and the software to manage that cloud. Just as importantly though, it helps users put the hardware and software to work via implementation services also offered in the solution.
I invite you to take a look at the new IBM CloudBurst offering, and don't forget to sign up for the IBM CloudBurst webcast scheduled for June 25th.
-- Dustin Amrhein
[Read More]
WebSphere CloudBurst FAQs - Part 2
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud websphere cloudburst cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst 5,308 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst FAQs - Part 3
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing cloudburst websphere_cloudburst private_cloud virtualization 3,415 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst FAQs - Part 4
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing virtualization private_cloud websphere 3,500 Views
WebSphere and Cloud Computing
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere cloud virtualization public_cloud cloud_computing private_cloud 1 Comment 5,586 Views
Cloud Computing for Developers
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing websphere public_cloud amazon_web_services ibm 3,880 Views
Interview with an Architect
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst private_cloud testing cloud_computing virtualization websphere 1 Comment 4,774 Views
Using Red Hat with WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing red_hat private_cloud 2 Comments 6,627 Views
WebSphere has special sauce
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_application_ser... websphere websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing virtualization 3,345 Views
Be Rational
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst rational_build_forge private_cloud cloud_computing 4,079 Views
Taking a spin on the IBM Cloud
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing public_cloud ibm_cloud 3,388 Views
Making the most of custom images
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_virtual_enterpr... websphere websphere_cloudburst private_cloud cloud_computing 1 Comment 4,355 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst 1.1
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing virtualization private_cloud websphere_cloudburst 3,412 Views
Auditing a WebSphere cloud
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing websphere virtualization private_cloud 3,421 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst Roundup
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm virtualization websphere cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst private_cloud 4,073 Views
Any cloud you want
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst websphere 3,716 Views
Sharing your custom resources
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm websphere_cloudburst private_cloud virtualization appliance cloud_computing websphere virtual_image 4,209 Views
What's in a PowerVM cloud?
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm cloud_computing virtualization private_cloud powervm pseries websphere websphere_cloudburst 5,734 Views
Automating the application of fixes and upgrades
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst ibm websphere maintenance private_cloud 4,944 Views
Get an inventory of your virtual systems
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization ibm cloud_computing virtual_image websphere cli private_cloud websphere_cloudburst 4,534 Views
WebSphere Portal and WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere hypevisor_edition private_cloud provisioning websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing virtualization ibm websphere_portal virtual_image 5,954 Views
Scheduling pattern deployment
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization websphere_cloudburst virtual_image websphere pattern cloud_computing automation 4,629 Views
Using LDAP with WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud websphere_cloudburst virtualization virtual_image ibm websphere cloud_computing 4,273 Views
Custom maintenance packages
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtual_image websphere_cloudburst virtualization maintenance ibm administration private_cloud cloud websphere cloud_computing 5,042 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Tivoli Monitoring
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst monitoring ibm websphere tivoli pulse_2010 private_cloud 4,691 Views
Resizing your custom virtual images
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm websphere virtual_image websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing virtualization 3,740 Views
Clearing the air on CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm websphere_cloudburst virtualization websphere ibm_cloudburst cloud_computing private_cloud 3,826 Views
Talking security and WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud websphere virtualization websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing security ibm virtual_image 4,168 Views
Using waitFor in the WebSphere CloudBurst CLI
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing cli websphere_cloudburst scripting automation 3,909 Views
How do you do it?
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtual_image wsadmin cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst websphere_application_ser... administration websphere_application_ser... virtualization 2 Comments 6,613 Views
Script packages in-depth
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing virtual_image websphere_application_ser... websphere_cloudburst customization 4,634 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst and z/VM
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization cloud_computing hypervisor z/vm websphere_cloudburst websphere ibm private_clouds 5,271 Views
Proxy techniques for the WebSphere CloudBurst REST API
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  java apache_wink cloud_computing rest websphere_cloudburst 4,762 Views
IBM CC4D Event
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst developers 3,656 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Systems Director VMControl
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization websphere private_cloud vmcontrol ibm systems_director cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst 1 Comment 5,728 Views
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibmimpact websphere cloud_computing ibm websphere_cloudburst 4,982 Views
May is almost here and that means that IBM IMPACT is right around the corner. Just like years past, IMPACT 2010 will be a great chance to get valuable education and insight into IBM WebSphere software and software from across the IBM software family. If you want to hear how IBM software is leading the march toward a smarter planet, register now.
IMPACT 2010 will be a great chance to hear the WebSphere cloud computing story. There will be multiple sessions on the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. These include customer-led sessions, internal adoption stories, overviews, and much more. I'll be there running a hands-on lab and delivering a session that discusses integration between WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Rational tools. Of course, there is more to WebSphere and cloud computing than WebSphere CloudBurst. We have several other sessions that will detail all of IBM WebSphere's work in the cloud.
If you are interested, I put together a short video discussing some of the sessions on tap for WebSphere and cloud computing at IMPACT 2010. I'd also encourage you to check out the social media site for IBM IMPACT 2010. On that site, you will find tweets, videos, and blogs about the conference. Don't forget to sign up, and I hope to see you in Las Vegas! -- Dustin Amrhein
Prep for IMPACT
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing ibmimpact ibm impact websphere websphere_cloudburst 5,619 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst 2.0
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  new_release cloud_computing ibm private_cloud websphere websphere_cloudburst 3,682 Views
Making sense of WebSphere CloudBurst for production environments
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst virtualization cloud_computing applications websphere middleware ibm 3,999 Views
WebSphere Process Server Hypervisor Edition
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud ibm websphere_process_server virtualization cloud_computing virtual_image websphere_cloudburst 5,080 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst and Rational Automtation Framework for WebSphere
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud rational_automation_frame... applications cloud_computing administration websphere_cloudburst automation 4,770 Views
Multi-image patterns and the CLI
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing automation websphere cli ibm websphere_application_ser... db2 virtualization websphere_cloudburst private_cloud 2 Comments 7,100 Views
IBM Hypervisor Edition image matrix
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing virtual_image virtualization websphere_portal hypervisor websphere_cloudburst websphere_process_server websphere_application_ser... db2 6,218 Views
Managing software licenses in the cloud
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  software_licenses virtualization governance ibm cloud_computing pvu websphere_cloudburst private_cloud websphere 4,286 Views
Import configuration from existing WAS environments
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst websphere_application_ser... virtualization private_cloud websphere cloud_computing 4,351 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst and the Intelligent Management Pack
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud cloud_computing websphere_virtual_enterpr... websphere_application_ser... websphere_cloudburst 4,880 Views
Upcoming Tech Talks for Business Partners
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing appliances private_cloud websphere_cloudburst cache 3,560 Views
Layers of elasticity
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_application_ser... elasticity cloud_computing ibm websphere_cloudburst websphere virtualization private_cloud 7,230 Views
Audit logs and the CLI
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere virtual_image virtualization websphere_cloudburst private_cloud cloud_computing ibm audit 5,649 Views
What do you want to know?
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere experts ibm technology cloud_computing 4,084 Views
FAQs Revisited - Part 1
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  faq elasticity websphere_virtual_enterpr... virtualization cloud_computing private_cloud websphere_cloudburst 1 Comment 5,951 Views
FAQs Revisited - Part 2
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_application_ser... virtualization websphere_cloudburst websphere private_cloud ibm cloud_computing 4,304 Views
FAQs Revisited - Part 3
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere virtualization websphere_application_ser... websphere_cloudburst hypervisor ibm cloud_computing 5,064 Views
Script Packages: A How-To
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  scripting websphere_application_ser... automation websphere_cloudburst websphere private_cloud cloud_computing ibm 5,123 Views
Using the CLI to expand virtual systems
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing ibm websphere elasticity websphere_cloudburst cli virtualization 4,124 Views
Deploy-time variable resolution
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_application_ser... ibm db2 websphere scripting configuration websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing 5,126 Views
The Tivoli Service Automation Manager and WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  tivoli_service_automation... ibm websphere websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing virtualization tivoli automation 10,122 Views
Scripting for a proxy
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud proxy cloud_computing administration websphere_cloudburst ibm_http_server websphere scripting virtualization automation ibm 5,350 Views
Virtualization and Automation in WebSphere Clouds
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing websphere gwc virtualization ibm event automation 5,454 Views
Managing your application runtime
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  sla ibm gwc cloud_computing websphere autonomic_computing websphere_virtual_enterpr... application event 7,531 Views
Application optimization with WebSphere DataPower
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  application_optimization gwc ibm cloud_computing datapower websphere_datapower websphere event 11,378 Views
Update: Enabling cloud computing with WebSphere
Exporting environments from WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  pattern virtual_image script_package cloud_computing resources websphere_cloudburst environments 7,422 Views
An overview of users and user groups in WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud virtualization websphere_cloudburst access cloud_computing roles users 4,163 Views
A flood of announcements
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  hypervisor virtualization virtual_image websphere_cloudburst websphere_business_monito... private_cloud cloud_computing websphere_process_server 3 Comments 6,719 Views
Checking in from Düsseldorf
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  appliance websphere_cloudburst virtualization private_cloud cloud_computing 1 Comment 5,756 Views
Execution modes for script packages
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere private_cloud websphere_cloudburst automation scripting ibm cloud_computing virtualization 4,853 Views
WebSphere CloudBurst 184.108.40.206 now available
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst ibm virtualization cloud_computing private_cloud cloud websphere 5,508 Views
Customizing the WebSphere CloudBurst deployment process
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing ibm virtualization private_cloud customization automation websphere_cloudburst websphere 5,511 Views
Increasing consolidation through customization
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  ibm websphere_application_ser... private_cloud websphere customization virtualization cloud scripting cloud_computing automation websphere_cloudburst 5,780 Views
Tracking usage in WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  cloud_computing usage private_cloud websphere_cloudburst 5,282 Views
What a difference a year makes
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere cloud_computing websphere_cloudburst ibm 4,815 Views
Check out this new sample
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  websphere_cloudburst virtual_host samples scripting cloud_computing 4,165 Views
What is IBM doing in PaaS?
Haddon Hill Group and WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud cloud_computing ibm websphere websphere_cloudburst haddon_hill_group 4,391 Views
Update to the WebSphere CloudBurst Samples Gallery
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  samples governance cloud_computing patterns cli websphere_cloudburst private_cloud automation 4,406 Views
Back to the basics with WebSphere CloudBurst
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  pattern automation cloud_computing virtual_image websphere_cloudburst virtualization private_cloud 1 Comment 5,529 Views
A brief overview of the IBM Cloud
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization public_cloud websphere cloud_computing ibm 2 Comments 6,192 Views
A practical look at customization
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  private_cloud websphere_cloudburst websphere_datapower websphere_extreme_scale ibm customization cloud_computing websphere_application_ser... websphere xc10 4,592 Views
A different approach to migration
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  rational_automation_frame... virtualization migration websphere_application_ser... websphere_cloudburst cloud_computing 4,327 Views
Faster and faster
DKA 0600026VJ2 Tags:  virtualization cloud_computing websphere private_cloud scripts ibm virtual_image automation websphere_cloudburst 4,495 Views


text:
bmw 3 series prices through the years
hi. i was wondering about this information and unfortunately, i have never bought a bnew bmw. i had an e36 and now an e46. i tried searching the forum and google for this information. all i get is used prices. i wanted to know how much the ff car cost per year
2000 323ci in 1999 brand new
2001 325ci in 2000 brand new
2002 325ci in 2001 brand new
so on and so forth
i wanted to see the starting prices they were sold. for example, a 2011 328i coupe starts at 36200 today. how much did your car cost brand new in the past.
I thought Edmunds usually had that info...
2001 330ci sport/premium package was $39,000 new, manual btw.
my 2002 325ci with a few options was like 34,000 or something. The original window sticker came with the car when I bought it.
2002 325XI with xenons, moon roof costed around 32k?, i have the original window sticker in my owners manual packet in the car.
Can you tell me how much my vehicle was worth at a specific time in the past?
You can look up your vehicle's current value using our online Used Vehicle Appraiser. In addition, our staff is happy to email you a customized estimate of its value at a specific time in the past (back to the year 2000), a service we provide free of charge as a courtesy to our visitors.
To request a historical pricing estimate, first collect the following information about the vehicle:
* Year, make, model and the Edmunds style name
* Color and optional equipment
* Date for which you would like the appraisal to be made (back to the year 2000)
* Mileage and vehicle condition at the appraisal date
* Region (state or ZIP Code) where the vehicle was located at the appraisal date
(We encourage you to use our Used Cars research pages to help identify the vehicle's style, optional equipment and/or color.)
Once you have this information, send your historical pricing request to us via our Contact Us form, and we will return an estimate by email, usually within two business days.
While we are pleased to accommodate these requests, please be advised that Edmunds does not certify or attest to the information we provide or otherwise participate in legal proceedings.
you were saying?
My 2001 325i MSRP'd for $35,550 or something close to that. You can take your VIN to the dealer and they'll give you an option sheet complete with the MSRP for your specific vehicle.
2000 323Ci
No options except for Tannin red leather interior
Total cost $33,000
According to the window sticker pulled from my file...
2000 323i
Base $26,990
Steel Blue Metallic $475
Gray Leather $1,450
Auto (slushbox for you 5 speed fanboys ;)) $1,275
Sport/Premium Package $4,300
Dest Charge $570
Total $35,260
As I recall the 325s were imminent and I bought 9/22/2000 (just turned 10!) so I was given an extremely generous (by BMW dealer standards) 3% discount so I paid $34,202 plus TTL. The cross town dealer was only offering 2% so I had my dealer steal this from their inventory while it was still on the boat from Germany.
When I build a car on the BMWUSA site configured as identically as I can, it comes to $41,250 for a 2011. I believe that represents a 1.6% inflation rate. If you apply the fed's figures for annual inflation rates over the last 10 years the car should cost $44,400, so I guess BMWs have come down in price?
I was sent this by the salesperson I dealt with when I bought my 2004 ZHP.....
0433 330Ci USD 36,800.00
Color 405 Imola Red N/C
Upholstery N6SW Black Leather 1,450.00
Options ZCW Cold Weather Package 750.00
464 Ski bag N/C
494 Heated front seats N/C
502 Retractable headlight washers N/C
ZHP Performance Package 3,900.00
226 Sport suspension N/C
481 Sport seats N/C
710 M steering wheel N/C
716 Aerodynamic package N/C
760 Shadowline exterior trim N/C
767 Performance package N/C
772 black cube trim N/C
775 Anthracite headliner N/C
785 White turn-signal lights N/C
787 18" alloy wheels N/C
403 Moonroof 1,050.00
522 Xenon headlights 800.00
524 Adaptive light control N/C
639 BMW Assist with Bluetooth 750.00
Net Total 45,500.00
Destination Charge 695.00
Total Suggested Price 46,195.00
bingo. i was thinking the same thing and hence the thread...
so they increase the price by 1000 a year or something???
31550 for the base if we take out that option.
hmmm some discrepancies already. another member stated 26990 as base price...
im wondering???????
Base 2000 323Ci - $28,990
Steel Gray Metallic - $475
Tanin Red Leather - $1450
Total Suggested Retail Price - $31,485
mine was $43 000 - 2003 330ci, I have the original window paper when the dealer took it from the port in New Jersey. What I remember:
Sapphire metalic $475
M wheels $400 or $600
auto tranny $12xx
**** I dont remember the rest maybe I will pos a pic of it
mine was just over 41,000 tannin red leather, sport package, premium package, cold weather package sunroof. i think it came with everything but nav. I dont believe the tire pressure monitor was available yet. May be wrong. Anyway someone paid a lot for this car brand new. I have original window sticker
i bought mine last 2003, 325i brand new for $34K
My car is a 2003 330i M-Sport and it cost over 50 grand new back in '03, lol.
An M3 cost over 75 grand back in '03.
Dont be scared by those prices, I live in different country with slightly better economy so thats why its like that.
LOL at US car prices, I just checked BMWusa.com and a starting price for 2011 M3 coupe is $58,000 which is lol to me, as just a few hours North you would pay $80,700 for the same car.
Love these threads, and I'm not being sarcastic.
What major problems have you had with the car?
my 2000 328ci with just hit 168k, no far replaced air compressor, lost reverse on tranny, those are the 2 major problems. all others are the usual stuff.
back to this thread, :D my sister bought a new 330ci 2002 model. $43,000
black leather, harmon kardon, auto, xenons, etc..
|All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:05 PM.
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
(c) 1999 - 2016 performanceIX Inc - privacy policy - terms of use

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Dana Buoy, Sylvan Esso
Sun., Aug. 17, 2014, 8pm get tickets
2015 E. Riverside, 888/512-7469
Durham, N.C., duo Sylvan Esso was birthed from folk roots, but the collaboration between singer Amelia Meath and producer Nick Sanborn went electric with much better initial reception than Dylan. Meath took a break from her all-woman trio Mountain Man for slicked-up beats from producer Sanborn, bassist for her fellow scenesters in barefoot psychedelic group Megafaun. Since releasing its self-titled debut in May, Sylvan Esso has appeared on The Tonight Show and shot up national charts. Times have changed since 1965. – Abby Johnston
Sylvan Esso


text:
This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version.View Full Document
This note was uploaded on 02/04/2011 for the course ENGL 1301 taught by Professor Chumchal during the Spring '08 term at Blinn College.
- Spring '08
- Chumchal
- English
Click to edit the document details


text:
Take CableTV.com's Advice and Make DIRECTV Your Next TV Service Provider
With so many cable companies and television services available in your area, it can be tough to sort through them all and choose the best. We use data from independent customer surveys to sort through satellite TV and cable companies in Knippa, TX, and according to our research, DIRECTV is the best TV service provider near you.
The more channels your TV package offers, the less likely you'll be to ever miss a Dallas Cowboys or game or any of your favorite TV shows. It's important to look at the channels offered in a package, since some TV packages in Knippa offer most of the major networks, but have a different selection of smaller channels compared to similar packages available in other cities. Our research allows you to compare the channels and features offered by the highest rated providers available in Knippa. You'll find the selection of channels and features you're looking for at a price that fits your budget so you can choose the best cable company in Knippa, TX for your household.
Customer service and dependability are just as important as channel selection when it comes to finding the right TV provider. That's why CableTV.com includes both of these factors in their ratings of Knippa TV providers. By following our recommendations for the best cable company in Knippa, TX, you can easily find a superior TV package that meets your demands while providing reliable customer service.


text:
|Home | Site Map | Search | Directory | Admin Services
|Center on Human Development and Disability
|About CHDD | IDDRC | UCEDD
Dr. Sackett's primary research focus has a goal of understanding how parental characteristics and other intergenerational influences, prenatal and perinatal factors, and postnatal experience interact in affecting development. Aims include identifying primate models of reproductive and developmental failure and studying developmental consequences of experimental treatments designed as models of human diseases or therapeutic agents for human diseases. The major aspects of Sackett's research are study of basic developmental mechanisms and investigation of breeding and husbandry of captive primates. His 20-plus-year study of development of low birth weight (LBW) pigtail macaque infants has revealed lower levels of motor activity and more fearful and withdrawn behaviors than in normal birth weight infants.
Sackett's current research projects emphasize study in four areas: (1) acute and chronic effects of psychosocial stress on pregnancy and fetal and postnatal development of offspring; (2) postnatal effects of intrauterine growth retardation with and without catch-up in growth by birth; (3) growth and behavioral development in infant and juvenile monkeys exposed to viruses, drugs, and vaccines; and (4) genetics of reproductive problems such as prematurity, low birthweight, and fetal loss. Specific projects address the effects of neuroleptic drugs and childhood vaccines on the development of young monkeys, whether assisted reproductive technologies do or do not produce deviant growth and behavioral development, and the phenotypic similarity of identical twins produced by embryo-splitting.
University of Washington • Center on Human Development and Disability • Box 357920 • Seattle WA 98195-7920 USA • 206-543-7701 • email@example.com
Copyright © 1996—2017 Center on Human Development and Disability. Updated: August 1, 2014


text:
July 17, 1976: Day of the Week
July 17, 1976 was the 199th day of the year 1976 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 167 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.
A person born on this day will be 40 years old today. If that same person saved a dollar every day starting at age 3, then by now that person has accumulated $13,860.00 today. That is, assuming this person is still alive and kicking.
Hey! How's your lovelife today? Get a free love reading with the most frank answers. Start to seize love opportunities in your life! Try it today and improve your lovelife. Did I mention it's F-R-E-E? (Sponsored link; 18+ only)
Here's the July 1976 calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1976 calendar.
Curious to find out some fun birthday facts about July 17, 1976? Know some interesting info about your day of birth including celebrity birthdays and the meaning of your birthday. Listen to the number-one song on the day you were born. (Sponsored link)
Zodiac & Birthstone
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Dragon is the mythical animal and Fire is the element for a person born on this day if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology (or Chinese zodiac).
July 17, 1976 Historical Event(s)
- 1976History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
- 1976The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
Who were born on July 17, 1976?
- 1976Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
- 1976Eric Winter, American actor
- 1976Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
- 1976Luke Bryan, American musician
- 1976Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
Now try another date like anniversaries, birthdays of someone you know or any other date that is special to you. Don't forget to share the info to your friends, loved ones or social media followers. Who knows, they might appreciate and thank you for it.


text:
Weird Scenes From the Night Kate and William Met Beyoncé and Jay Z
As an Eric Garner protest took place outside Barclays.By Margaret Hartmann
As an Eric Garner protest took place outside Barclays.By Margaret Hartmann
Weeks after apologizing for tearing the country apart, he's back to his old tricks.By Joe Coscarelli
What was that about American exceptionalism?By Dan Amira
Matt Drudge thinks the King family refused to let Republicans speak today.By Dan Amira
Gohmert thinks he can park wherever he wants.By Dan Amira
Donald Trump is going to CPAC. Chris Christie is not.By Dan Amira
Which Pretty Little Liars Character Said It? Take Our Quote Quiz
Netflix Continues Its Cancelling Spree by Firing Girlboss
Frank Rich: Nixon, Trump, and How a Presidency Ends
13 Predictions on How Long Trump's Presidency Will Last
The TV Reporter Wondering About Her Date's Girlfriend
Veep Season Finale Recap: Off to the Races
Marti Noxon Isn't Afraid of the 'Ugly Stuff'
Silicon Valley Season Finale Recap: Servers Have Souls Too
Social Darwinism Is What Truly Guides Trump
And With One Tweet, the Extremely Depressing Toy Story Rumor About Andy's Dad Became Fake News


text: ok here i am again with the itch for a new firearm, particularly a 1911 framed pistol in 45acp. ok so while im saving up funds for a quality piece, id like to ask for advice on best bang for the buck on a really good 1911, this is going to be my first 1911 so please help me insure that it wont be the last (as i dont want some hunk of junk emptying my wallet) anyways i have been really leaning towards a springfield armory range officer, but i would really appreciate some feedback on whats out there thats worth looking into. btw my budget is from free-to around $900 so please leave out the $2,000 wilson combats and competition, personal loan-needing high priced guns that id have a s**t fit over if i scratched the finish. anyways please lend some advise my way as it will be much appreciated


text:
In this exclusive audio interview, Adams, since announced as the 2012 pitching coach for Quad Cities, discusses the AFL in general and quickly drills down into each of four Cardinals pitchers that were under his direction.
In bonus coverage, Adams also highlights the three Cardinals position players that were competing for the Javelinas.
For daily stats on all the Cardinals competing all over the world this off-season, be sure to check out our Cardinals Winter League Notebooks, exclusively here at The Cardinal Nation.
Other interviews in this series:
Tyler Lyons
Matt Adams
Ryan Jackson
Justin Wright
Keith Butler
David Kopp
Oscar Taveras
AFL video interviews:
Matt Adams
Ryan Jackson
Brian Walton can be reached via email at email@example.com. Also catch his Cardinals commentary daily at The Cardinal Nation blog. Look for his weekly minor league column during the season at FOXSportsMidwest.com. Follow Brian on Twitter.
© 2011 The Cardinal Nation, thecardinalnation.com and stlcardinals.scout.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
The Effect of Acupuncture on Anxiety and Working Memory
This study has been completed.
National University of Health Sciences
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
National University of Health Sciences
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: December 1, 2011
Last updated: April 14, 2015
Last verified: April 2015
- Full Text View
- Tabular View
- No Study Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
This study endeavors to examine the relationship between acupuncture, anxiety, and performance on a test of working memory. In the study, all participants will complete the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) survey to determine how anxious they are at the moment and how anxious they tend to be in general. Then ½ of subjects will receive acupuncture for 20 minutes and ½ will rest quietly for 20 minutes. After this period, all subjects will again complete the STAI survey. Then all subjects will complete the Automated Operations Span Task (AOSPAN) which is a computerized test of working memory. Statistical analysis will be performed to determine if acupuncture had any effect on State-level anxiety and on performance on the AOSPAN.
|Memory Impairment Anxiety
|Procedure: Acupuncture
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Acupuncture on Anxiety and Working Memory
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Acupuncture Anxiety MemoryU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by National University of Health Sciences:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in anxiety level [ Time Frame: Baseline and after1 hour ]Participants will complete the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory survey to see how anxious they are initially; after acupuncture treatment or quiet resting, they will complete the survey again to see how anxious they are after the intervention.
- Memory task [ Time Frame: After 1 hour ]Following acupuncture treatment or resting control, participants will complete a standardized memory test (AOSPAN) to see if intervention affects memory.
|Study Start Date:
|February 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: Control Group
Participants will be asked to make themselves comfortable lying on a massage table for 20 minutes.
Active Comparator: Acupuncture group
Acupuncture group will receive one acupuncture treatment for twenty minutes.
Procedure: Acupuncture
After completing questionnaires and anxiety survey, a licensed acupuncturist will insert needles according to Clean Needle Technique into specific acupuncture points. Procedure will last 20 minutes.Following acupuncture treatment, participants will complete anxiety survey and memory test.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 30 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Undergraduate University student
- Fluent in English
- Willing to receive acupuncture
- Aged 18-30
- In good health
- Not pregnant
- Not breastfeeding
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not an Undergraduate University student
- Not fluent in English
- Unwilling to receive acupuncture
- Under 18 years of age or older than 30 years of age
- Chronic disease
- Pregnant
- Breastfeeding
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01492738
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01492738
|United States, Illinois
|Tiffani Kim Institute
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60654
|A Center for Oriental Medicine
|Wilmette, Illinois, United States, 60091
Sponsors and Collaborators
National University of Health Sciences
|Principal Investigator:
|Jason Bussell, MSOM, LAc
|National University of Health Sciences
|Study Director:
|Hui Yan Cai, PhD, LAc
|National University of Health Sciences
More Information
Keywords provided by National University of Health Sciences:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 22, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|National University of Health Sciences
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01492738 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 1, 2011
|Last Updated:
|April 14, 2015
Keywords provided by National University of Health Sciences:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Anxiety Disorders
Mental Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 22, 2017


text:
By Adam Lucas
1. Huge free throws by Isaiah Hicks with 31.6 seconds left and Kenny Williams with 19.5 seconds remaining. The senior knocked in the front end of a one-and-one in a three-point game, then followed by hitting the second. Then Williams also converted both ends of a one-and-one that stretched the lead to 91-84. That essentially sealed the game for the Tar Heels in a big road win. As often happens in a win like this, which finished 93-87, you could cite multiple players with important plays late: Justin Jackson made a three-pointer with a minute left, Kennedy Meeks was all over the court, and three different players (including Jackson) made those late free throws. All five starters finished in double figures.
2. Sometimes it doesn't take complicated coaching advice. When he watched his Tar Heels pick up the team's tenth foul with 8:35 left, Roy Williams bounced off the UNC bench and screamed, "STOP FOULING." One of Wake's primary offensive attacks in the second half came at the line, where they were 15 of 22 in the final period. Carolina committed 16 fouls in the second half.
3. Don't take a road win in the Atlantic Coast Conference for granted. In calendar year 2017, road ACC teams came into the Carolina game at 2-16. It's now 3-16 pending the outcome of Boston College-NC State, and the Tar Heels have two (Clemson and Wake) of those victories. That means Carolina is 2-0 on the road in the ACC in 2017, while the rest of the ACC is 1-16.
4. What a workmanlike, veteran, important effort from Kennedy Meeks. The senior was matched up with an athletic, active John Collins in the paint, and while Collins occasionally got the better of him, Meeks won the overall matchup with 18 points and 11 rebounds, plus a couple of big blocked shots late in the game. Collins was probably the prettier player to watch, but Meeks was the more effective. Meeks also kept a potential offensive rebound away from Collins with 20 seconds left by tapping the ball and keeping it alive.
5. Big loss for the Tar Heels in the first half, as Tony Bradley--who had played well (he had four of Carolina's six first-half offensive rebounds) against an aggressive Wake Forest team--took an inadvertent elbow and ended up flat on his back on the Lawrence Joel court. Bradley had concussion-like symptoms, did not return to the game, and will be evaluated back in Chapel Hill. It is, of course, incredibly frustrating that just as the Tar Heels appeared to be getting fully healthy with the return of Pinson, they lose one of their primary reserves.
6. The problems caused by Bradley's injury were then exacerbated by the fact that Luke Maye quickly found himself in foul trouble early in the second half, followed soon after by Isaiah Hicks racking up three quick fouls in the first part of the second half. That left Kennedy Meeks on the floor for a long stretch of the final half, and the veteran responded with some important plays.
7. Roy Williams tossed in some zone in the second half to try and slow Wake's offensive rhythm. The Tar Heels got a quick turnover with the zone when the Deacs tossed the ball away, then switched back to man.
8. When Brandon Childress inevitably has a basketball-playing son of college age in about 25 years, can we go ahead and agree that the Tar Heels should offer him a scholarship regardless of his ability just to keep him away from Wake Forest? Childress, the son of noted Tar Heel-killer Randolph Childress, did not attempt a shot in the first half, and then proceeded to score 16 second-half points and kept Wake seemingly within one possession of the lead for most of the second half.
9. Carolina is going to spend some time in practice the next couple of days working on their defense against a high ball screen. Wake used that set repeatedly in the second half, creating some space and some confusion within the Tar Heel defense.
10. Another thing they'll work on: inbounding the ball under their own basket. That was a problem against NC State (yes, there were rare problems against the Pack), and was an issue again in the final minute. First, the Tar Heels burned a timeout when they were unable to inbound it, then turned it over coming out of the timeout on a play that allowed Wake to cut the deficit to 87-84 with under 35 seconds to play.


text:
- On-Air Playlist
- Program Schedule
- Community Calendar
- EarlyBirds
- Sponsor Directory
- Closures
- Featured Programs
- News
- Arts & Life
- Music
- Programs
- About
- Support KRCC | Underwrite
Pop Goes The Dance Party
By Noel Black On October 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In A Big Something, KRCC Concerts, Music
There was a time in Colorado Springs when people used to complain regularly that great independent music rarely, if ever, came to Colorado Springs. Every once-in-a-while you'd get a noteworthy national act—a Snoop Dogg or Bob Dylan, and there have been plenty of excellent underground venues for lesser-known touring bands. But great music on any given night used to be a rarity. Thankfully, things have changed. Now not only is there great local music on almost any night of the week at venues from The Black Sheep to The Triple Nickel to Kinfolks in Manitou, but KRCC has also been proud to bring you festivals like Meadowgrass and Blues Under the Bridge along with the World Music Series and lots of excellent one-off shows like Saturday night's indy dance-pop extravaganza with Denver-based The Apples in Stereo, guests Fol Chen and locals The Electric Illuminati.
In case you haven't heard of all or any of these bands, we've lined up a free download from each of the bands so you can get a taste of what to expect. If you remember the bad old days and appreciate these kinds of live shows, please come out, shake your booty and show your support. Tickets are only $10 for KRCC members in advance and you can buy them here at the station from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. today and tomorrow at 912 N. Weber. General public and all day-of-show tix are $16. Doors open at 7 p.m. and it's all ages. Tickets are also available at ticketweb.com. Thanks!
(Right-click or Option-click on the link to download or click the play button to stream)
"Dance Floor" by Apples in Stereo
"Howl At The Moon" by The Electric Illuminati
Comments are closed.
Black Forest Fire Information Resource
- Spring 2013 Membership Drive$250,000 out of $250,000 raised so far
Get The Big Something EmailEmail Marketing by iContact
Recent Comments
- Marcia Wurm on A Brief History of Colorado Springs as Interpreted via a Pile of Old Matchbooks, Part I
- HSPPR on HSPPR Pet of the Day: Peaches
- HSPPR on HSPPR Pet of the Day: Pepper
- HSPPR on HSPPR Pet of the Day: Mr. Biggs
- HSPPR on HSPPR Pet of the Day: Hector
- HSPPR on HSPPR Pet of the Week: Pepper
- HSPPR on HSPPR Pet of the Day: Dosia
- HSPPR on HSPPR Pet of the Week: Roger
KRCC 91.5fm
NPR's Weekend Edition
Car Talk @ 10:00 AM
xponential radio
NPR's Radio Ahora @ 7:00 AM
Ticket hours: noon-6p Tues-Fri
on the phone or at the studio.
KRCC presents ARLO GUTHRIE
Pikes Peak Center
Saturday July 13, 2013 8pm
reserved seating through Ticketswest.com
7th Annual Blues Under The Bridge – July 20th, 2013
WATERMELON SLIM & THE WORKERS, JOHN HAMMOND, BLUES CARAVAN W/ JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR, THE SLIDE BROTHERS, D.B. REILLY, and THE JUST US LEAGUE
www.BluesUnderTheBridge.com for festival information
KRCC Member tickets on sale for $25. General Public tickets on sale for $35. VIP tickets $91.50. Day of show tickets $40 at the west gate. Tickets available through www.TicketFly.com or at KRCC.
Pre-festival Party Friday July 19th from 5-8pm at the Wyndham Grand Mining Exchange with Watermelon Slim, and Big Jim Adams!
Pre-festival shows at Jack Quinns with:
BJ Estares and Route 66 on Wednesday July 17th at 7:30pm!
The Delta Sonics with Al Chesis on Thursday July 18th at 7:30pm!
Austin Young on Friday the 19th at 9pm!
KRCC presents TAB BENOIT
Colorado Springs, City Auditorium
Wednesday, July 31st
KRCC Member Tickets on sale now for $16 at the KRCC Studios.
General public tickets on sale through www.AMusicCompanyInc.com .
KRCC and the Fine Arts Center present VIEUX FARKE TOURE
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Monday August 5th, 7pm
KRCC tickets on sale now for $15 at KRCC.
FAC member tickets on sale for $15, and general public tickets on sale for $25 at the Fine Arts Center Box Office, or through www.csfineartscenter.org
KRCC presents DIANA KRALL
Pikes Peak Center
Wednesday, September 25th 7:30pm
reserved seating through Ticketswest.com
Pikes Peak Center, Saturday October 12th, 2013 8pm
KRCC member pre-show meet and greet opportunity 6:30-7:30pm – pre-show meet and greet tickets available for $40 to members ONLY at the station.
Advance KRCC member tickets on sale now through August 2nd through www.TicketsWest.com. Enter member promo code and click find.
General Public tickets on sale August 2nd, 2013
KRCC presents BONNIE RAITT
Pikes Peak Center
Wednesday, October 16th 8pm
reserved seating through Ticketswest.com


text:
Free parking is available at the B&H parking lot, located at 349 West 34th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues (north side - small lot next to the synagogue). Minimum purchase of $100 is required for 1 hour of free parking. Get 2 hours free with a purchase of $300 and up.
There are many public parking lots in the vicinity of B&H. The two closest parking lots are indicated on the map. Discounted parking is also available at Central Parking Garages.
Bear right to the lower level. Take Parkway South 9A (Henry Hudson Pkwy/West Side Highway). Follow Parkway South to 34th Street. Turn left. Go 3 blocks to 9th Avenue and turn right, to B&H.
Follow 9A South to 34th Street and turn Left. Go 3 blocks to 9th Avenue and turn right to B&H.
Take Major Deegan Expressway to George Washington Bridge exit. Stay in the right lane, heading towards lower level. Take Pkwy South 9A. Follow Pkwy South (Henry Hudson Pkwy/West Side Highway) to 34th Street and turn left. Go 3 blocks to 9th Avenue and turn right to B&H.
When exiting the tunnel, go to 9th Avenue. Turn right and go to 34th Street to B&H.
Turn left at 34th Street. Go 3 blocks to 9th Avenue and turn right to B&H.
eastbound to the Gowanus Expressway and to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Exit at the West Side Highway/12th Avenue. Turn right at 34th Street. Go 3 blocks to 9th Avenue and turn right to B&H.
take Downtown or Southbound exit to 34th Street and turn right. Go to 9th Avenue, turn left to B&H.
exit at 60/61st Street. Take 5th Avenue alongside Central Park to 34th Street. Turn right onto 34th Street. At 9th Avenue turn left to B&H.
The subway and bus fare is $2.50, payable with MetroCards. Buses also accept exact change fares. MetroCards are available at Subway stations and local stores.
Runs east/west on 34th Street. Stops on 9th Avenue at the corner of B&H Photo.
Runs from Waterside Plaza to the Port Authority Bus Terminal via 34th Street, 2nd Avenue, 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue. Stops at 9th Avenue & 34th street at the corner of B&H Photo."
New Jersey Transit and other buses arrive at the Port Authority terminal at 42nd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. Walk South to 34th Street and 9th Avenue.
The Long Island Railroad, Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, (PATH 33rd Street and 6th Avenue)
8th Avenue:A, C, E 7th Avenue:1, 2, 3 6th/7th Avenue:B, D, F, M, N, Q, R Lexington Avenue:4, 5, 6 (Take 4, 5, 6 to Grand Central Station /42nd Street.) Transfer to Shuttle to Times Square. Take A, C, E to 34th Street.
Metro North Railroad trains stop at Grand Central Station at 42nd Street between Lexington and Vanderbilt Avenues. (See above for Shuttle to Times Square.)
For further information, call MTA Travel info:
The NY Waterway operates a ferry from Weehawken, NJ. The ferry takes you across the Hudson River to 39th Street and 12th Avenue in just 4 minutes. Take the Shuttle bus to 9th Avenue.
For information and time schedule call 1-800-53-FERRY.
Subway Map: www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm
Buses Map: www.mta.info/nyct/maps/index.html
NY Waterway Ferry: www.nywaterway.com/FerryRoutesSchedules.aspx
NJ Path: www.panynj.gov/path/maps-schedules.html
Port Authority of NY and NJ: www.panynj.gov/