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Specifically designed for transactional web and database applications, PureApplication System solutions are packaged into patterns built for easy deployment on the cloud. This article offers a gateway of understanding into the IBM PureSystems family of expert integrated systems by providing a tour of the structure of the IBM PureApplication System and virtual patterns of expertise. more

Access how-to articles, free trial software, discussion forums, educational videos and podcasts and hands-on exercises. more

Peter Cole, founder and CEO of Green Hat, an IBM Company, speaks about today's extreme challenges of increasing cost of quality and development complexity while balancing quality and speed for software projects. Technologies such as virtualization and the cloud enable continuous integration testing of complex heterogeneous environments much earlier in the development cycle. more

The dW author program bestows participants with author designations that reflect the level of their contributions and activities across the developerWorks community. more

Stay up to date with Rational software. Use its group blog, wiki, message board, and file share to publish yourself not only to the community, but also with other active users on developerWorks. more

With nearly 50 unique blog entries, the Maximo Asset Management Bilogs detail data analysis and reporting functionality, customizations and best practices. To draw user’s attention, the BiLogs present unique information ranging from Printer Relationships to Florida Alligators to the Large Hadron Collider. more

Software and systems delivery teams can reduce costs, increase quality and deliver faster! How? By providing an integrated set of capabilities that help translate business needs into detailed requirements, prioritize and manage project scope, support collaborative planning at macro and project levels, enable traceability through the lifecycle and allow a holistic view of delivery status and progress. more

A demo illustrating how IBM Rational software can help reduce risk, decrease development costs and maintain quality across the development lifecycle by allowing your team access to the latest project information in real time. more

The goal of this white paper is to explain the various administration and configuration tools offered by IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0. Learn about which tool to use for which task and about the new capabilities of WebSphere Portal 7.0, and understand differences from previous versions of WebSphere Portal. We take you through exercises for each tool so you can learn hands-on how to use them. more

This article illustrates an example of how to build a simple mobile user interface that interacts with a business process. The implementation of the mobile UI uses Dojo with the IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0 and Mobile, and the sample business process is implemented with IBM Business Process Manager V7.5. The mobile web application built here renders with a native look and feel on webkit-enabled mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and RIM smartphones and tablets. more

Extend your skills to DB2 anytime. This new online workshop leverages existng PL/SQL and other database experience to DB2 in a way that is fast and easy. Now with an online learning option, you can extend your professional skills an hour at the time as it fits with your schedule. more

Sign up for a technical workshop in a classroom setting. Held throughout the year in different regions worldwide and there is no charge to participate. These bootcamps contain detailed lectures and labs for deep-dive learning of DB2® 9.7, Informix®, InfoSphere™ products, Optim™, Guardium®, and Netezza®. Each bootcamp includes a free Technical Mastery Test and/or IBM Certification Exam. more

Select the most suitable MapReduce implementation for large scale data analysis jobs based on your skills, preferences, and requirements. MapReduce is a simple and powerful programming model that enables the easy development of scalable parallel applications to process vast amounts of data on large clusters of commodity machines. It isolates the application from the details of running a distributed program. But many programmers are unfamiliar with the MapReduce programming style and prefer to use a SQL-like language to perform their tasks. In this article, read an overview of high-level languages and systems designed to tackle these problems and add declarative interfaces on top of the MapReduce framework. more

Meet the gKrypt engine, the world's first package to employ general purpose graphics units (GPGPUs) for data encryption, which is an important tool for information security. It uses an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) based 256-bit block cipher to provide robust security. In this Part 1 of a two-part series, explore the AES, the GPU port of the Rijndael algorithm for Linux®, the parallelizing of the AES algorithm, and the use of the gKrypt Engine supporting CUDA for NVIDIA-based GPUs. more

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You set the agenda. You submit and pick the topics. You attend the discussions. You and your peers present. Make your voice heard, submit your ideas and vote for your favorite topics. At Impact 2012 there will be at wealth of opportunities a?? ranging from networking with experts to career-advancing certifications. Register for Impact and the Unconference to build skills and gain insights in the most critical topics in technology, including cloud, mobility, SOA, BPM, WebSphere and more. more

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If you're a DBA or database developer currently working with Oracle or another relational database management system, learn how easy it is to get trained and certified for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Features introduced in DB2 9.7 make it very easy to reuse your PL/SQL knowledge, since DB2 has out-of-the-box support for Oracle's SQL and PL/SQL dialects. Expand your skills portfolio, or extend your DBMS vendor support to include DB2. You'll find that you're already almost there. more

Learn some considerations that new software as a service (SaaS) vendors need to take into account when developing applications or modifying existing ones to enable them for multi-tenancy on the cloud. The article discusses the considerations only from a database perspective specifically, from an IBM® DB2® perspective. Six cases or methods are described. more

If you are new to IBM information management software, this brief history of DB2 contains the information you need to get on board fast, including a historical perspective, technology overview, the role of DB2 software in information on demand, and many references to help you get started. more

Cloud computing provides a way for you to develop applications in a virtual environment, one in which computing capacity, bandwidth, and storage aren't issues. Cloud computing is a key component to effectively provisioning IT resources and services so you can store them in a secure manner, find the individual bits you need quickly to move projects along, and access the analytical value in your data to make the most effective organizational business decisions. more