Interested in Cloud Computing?

Checkout the IDC Cloud Computing Summit which takes place in London on Tuesday, 29 September, 2009.

The Summit will cover the current hottest topics in Cloud Computing, including:

• How to ensure that you maintain security levels when moving to the cloud
• What type of applications can be most readily moved to the cloud
• What the benefits of moving your processes to the cloud might be

If you would like further information, or to register (using the code “FinalPlaces” to bypass the payment screen) you can check out the website at: www.idc.com/uk/cloud09.

See you there!

Regards,
Salim

Managed Methods Teams Up With Intrago UK

— Managed Methods – Boulder, Colorado announces a partnership with Intrago to optimize the governance of SOA deployments. SOA deployments are becoming the ubiquitous architecture for application integration. More and more companies realize the advantages of building business processes using SOA fundamentals. This is a shift from the way applications are being built. In many cases the expertise for building these services are just not available in house. More often than not these projects are being outsourced to external consulting firms.

Checkout this presentation: http://tinyurl.com/m3zh87

Vijaya is a highly respected Associate of Intrago UK. We are proud to be associated with his company, EAIESB.

Intrago UK have successfully launched the Customer Website for McLaren Automotive. Check it out here: http://www.mclarenautomotive.com.

The technology underlying this site is based on SUN JCAPS – an Open Source ESB product stack that underpins the SOA Core Framework delivered by Intrago UK and the fantastic efforts of our offshore development centre based in Hyderabad, India.

For more information about how Intrago UK may be able to help your organisation with its SOA and Business transformation initiatives, please email enquire@intrago.co.uk.

Alternatively, contact Salim Sheikh, Chief Strategy Officer directly
by email salim.sheikh@intrago.co.uk or by phone +44-7545-394-809.

Today is a very proud day 🙂

I’ve successfully published my first article in Microsoft’s Architecture Journal! I’m working on several others that will soon follow in other respected journals and magazines.

The article, co-written with my trusted friend & fellow architect Nayan Ruparelia, is on the last page of the Journal 21 – “Service Orientation Today and Tomorrow”. This is the September 2009 edition of The Architecture Journal.

If you’d like to read the complete article, please download a PDF copy from here: http://bit.ly/19AAQ3
 
If you have any problems, go direct to the following Microsoft website link:
 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/0/6/906F57FF-3C6F-4412-A802-0AB0E4B58C71/AJ21_EN.zip

Enjoy!

Regards,
Salim

See the entry for:       

9/15/09 PICTURE IT: The Art of Drawing people In

http://www.ruthmalan.com/Journal/JournalCurrent.htm

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Hi –

FYI, a newly issued RFQ details what’s expected from cloud computing vendors
in terms of security, SLAs, geographic location, and data ownership.
See:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/showArticle.jh
tml?articleID=218900541&cid=nl_IW_daily_html

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Chris
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Hi –

Here’s further information on next week’s US Government Cloud Workshop. It includes the draft agenda and a slide shows that how the talks fit together. Thanks, Bob!

9:00 – 10:00 Katie Lewin from the General Services Administration with
insight into the US Federal Cloud Computing Initiative
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/18031511/US-Federal-Cloud-Computing-Initiative-Overview-Presentation-GSA>
10:00 – 11:00 Peter Tseronis, Department of Energy Deputy CIO and
Chair, Federal CIO Cloud Computing Working Group <http://www.cio.gov/>
11:00 – 12:00 Dan Risacher (OSD-NII) on the US Department of Defense
cloud computing activities

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:45 Rob Vietmeyer of the Defense Information Systems Agency
<http://www.disa.mil/>
1:45 – 2:30 Emergency Response Speaker (TBD)
2:30 – 3:15 Peter Mell of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology <http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/index.html>
3:15 – 4:00 John Willis co-author of the Cloud Use Cases Group’s,
Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/17929394/Cloud-Computing-Use-Cases-Whitepaper>
4:00 – 4:45 Craig Lee, Nils Puhlmann on the Cloud Standards
Coordination Group
<http://cloud-standards.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page>
4:45 – 5:00 Wrap-up discussion