 | Level: Introductory Billy Newport (bnewport@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Phillip Parrish (parrish1@us.ibm.com), Software Technical Architect, IBM
14 Apr 2006 Listen to informative interviews with IBM® experts in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation. The first in the 2006 WebSphere® technical podcast series on developerWorks, this 31-minute podcast covers what to consider when improving your resource utilization by meeting throughput and transaction volume demands in OLTP applications with WebSphere Extended Deployment. This first episode welcomes back host Pat Flanders, developerWorks SOA zone editor, and introduces you to regular additional interview segments: "MarketWatch" with David Backus and "Did you say Mainframe?!" with David Rhoderick.
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This podcast provides a high level overview of how to improve resource utilization. Host Pat Flanders starts off by discussing with Billy Newport on how customers can improve their IT performance and scalability through:
- The new features of the IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment software product, including the on demand router and
the Application Placement Controller.
- Some of the programming model enhancements in WebSphere Extended Deployment, such as Partitioning Facility
and ObjectGrid.
On the MarketWatch segment, David Backus takes a realistic view of the market and
discusses with Phillip Parrish what SAP customers should consider when looking at middleware solutions. On the Did you say Mainframe?! segment, Dave Rhoderick provides:
- An overview of the mainframe, to help listeners understand the role of mainframe in today's IT
environment.
- An insight into how to create a competitive edge while at the same time decreasing the risk of the IT system and
keeping a tight lid on costs.
- A perspective on the fundamental difference between the mainframe and other platforms.
Special offer: Take advantage of the the listener-only discount offer from IBM press books. Receive 40 percent off the list price of newly published SOA and WebSphere books listed by retrieving the coupon code found with the audio of each podcast.
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Billy Newport is a Senior Technical Staff Member working on WebSphere Extended Deployment distributed caching technology (ObjectGrid) and WebSphere high availability. Besides his current activities, he helped add advanced APIs like the WorkManager APIs (JSR 236/237), and worked on the staff plugin architecture of WebSphere Process Server. Prior to IBM, he worked as an independent consultant at a variety of companies in investment banking, telcos, publishing, and yellow pages in over 10 countries. |
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Phillip Parrish is a Software Technical Architect with the IBM Software Group. He is regarded as a
leader on the topic of SAP NetWeaver. He has consulted with 200+ accounts worldwide in every
industry segment mapping business requirements to solutions: people, process, and information technology.
Experience of note includes Software IT Architect at IBM, Chief Architect at American Airlines, Technical Architect
of The SABRE Group, and Senior Engineer at Accenture. His accomplishments have been recognized by the IT
industry, trade journals, executive management, and as a speaker at internal and external IT conferences. |
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