Fast, consistent, and repeatable application environments in the cloud.

Session Date& Time: Day 2, March 24, 9:45am EST (6:45am PST)
Keywords: cloud computing, platform as a service, virtualization, applications, virtual images, cloud slam.
Authors: Dustin Amrhein, IBM.
Abstract: Is the flexibility and agility of your business inhibited by the time that it takes you to build and deploy application environments? Maybe you struggle to produce consistent environments as you move them from development to test to production? Learn how you can address these issues and more by leveraging Platform as a Service solutions within your enterprise. Specifically, learn how the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard for virtual images can be harnessed to produce a patterns-based approach to building, deploying, and managing your application environments. This approach delivers the speed, repeatability, and consistency currently lacking in many enterprise application environments and can transform the management of your application environments into a competitive advantage for your business.

This session will include a live demonstration of a solution that utilizes patterns to build application environments in an on-premise cloud.

Bio:
Dustin Amrhein is a software engineer and technical advocate in the WebSphere development organization. He started his career as a developer of web services programming models and infrastructure for the WebSphere Application Server. His current focus is on cloud computing technologies in the WebSphere foundation of products, specifically in the area of running middleware application environments in the cloud. He spends time creating technical collateral and briefing customers to enable them to use WebSphere products to adopt a cloud computing approach in their organization.

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