AT
THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
The Silicon
Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing
support:
EXECUTIVE
SPONSORS
Amdocs, Inc. Cable & Wireless
Deutsche Telekom Fujitsu IBM Corporation
SAP Sun Microsystems
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck IC Growth, Inc.
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All programs
are held at the Center unless otherwise noted.
CABLE
& WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENT: JANUARY 2002
Cable & Wireless eMessaging Solutions.
For more information:
(http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us).
SUMMARY:
CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2002
"Business Continuity Strategies: An IBM Perspective"
By Mr. Todd F. Gordon, Vice President and General Manager,
IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services, IBM Global Services
PUB:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2002
"Nokia BIG-IP iTCM Solutions: Application Availability and Performance"
By Mr. Abhinav Bisarya, Product Marketing Manager, Nokia
Internet Communications
Open to the public. No Fee. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m.
THINK
TANK SESSION: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2002
"Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Check-Up For Health Care eBusiness Needs"
Invitation-only. No Fee. 8:00 am - 2:30 p.m.
CENTER
ANNOUNCEMENT: WINTER 2002
Showcase Your Company at the Center's Thursday Pub
Winter 2002 Company Showcase: Mobility and Information Management:
Metaware for 2002 & Beyond
Fee: $1,500. A special time-restricted offer to companies associated
with the Center's Community.
CABLE & WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENT:
JANUARY 2002
Cable & Wireless eMessaging Solutions.
For more information: (http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us).
Cable & Wireless,
an Executive Sponsor of the Center, would like for your business
to run more efficiently with eMessaging Solutions provided by Cable
& Wireless.
Communicate
more effectively via eMail - keep in touch with customers, prospects,
shareholders or any other community with Cable & Wireless eMessaging
Solutions. Cable & Wireless has the capacity to handle your largest
eMail broadcasts by providing personalization tools to create messages
that build a one-to-one relationship with your audience as well
as having the accountability of the industry's most comprehensive
delivery reports, allowing maximum reach with minimum expense.
FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please visit the following:
http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us
SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2002
"Business Continuity Strategies: An IBM Perspective"
By Mr. Todd F. Gordon, Vice President and General Manager,
IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services, IBM Global Services
IBM's Vice
President and General Manager of Business Continuity and Recovery
Services, IBM Global Services -- Todd F. Gordon -- discussed with
attendees at the Center last Wednesday evening how preparing a business
for an emergency creates a resilience in systems and networks that
can save a company millions of dollars, even if a catastrophe never
occurs.
In the aftermath
of the World Trade Center disaster, IBM swept into action to assist,
not only IBM customers, but also anyone with a business recovery
need. Dramatic lessons were learned which will serve to strengthen
IBM's and others' offerings in the future. Some companies had done
continuity planning, but the people who knew what to do in some
cases did not survive the incident. Some companies had all their
plans on paper inside the destroyed buildings. And some companies
had back-up locations, but could not physically get to them, because
Manhattan was isolated by bridge and road closings. Many companies
had covered the IT issues in their continuity plan, but failed to
address customer care issues. Mr. Gordon had several business continuity
lessons to share with an earthquake-vulnerable Silicon Valley, but
the gold nugget at the bottom of it all is that by putting in place
and practicing procedures for business continuity, IT continuity
and emergency response, a company becomes more resilient to the
smaller down-time incidents that are a constant revenue drain.
The first step
is risk analysis of what procedures to put in place. Assess the
cost of implementation against the possible loss. Mirroring might
not be the best process if a less expensive practice gives you the
level of redundancy needed, based on the value of the information
to the company. Once the risk analysis is done, the plan needs to
be designed to address all vital business processes, not just IT
and not only evacuating people from the building. When the plan
is built, publicize it to the entire company, so that not just a
few managers know the procedures. Then practice. If your business
does face an emergency, be ready to implement the Incident Command
System utilized by fire departments. That means there's no democracy
in an emergency. One boss at the top of the system has no more than
five people reporting to him or her, and so on down the line of
command. It saves lives. Also, post your emergency procedures on
a Web site that is hosted remotely from your office location.
Business tolerances
for downtime have shrunk dramatically in the last decade. Once the
IT, network and vital-services emergency procedures are in place,
they are available to your company on an ongoing, daily basis and
can be implemented to increase efficiency in the operation. Offline
and down time that once drained minutes and hours of revenues from
the company can be decreased or eliminated by implementing the response
procedures, even when the event is not a major emergency.
Every company
in Santa Clara County is required by law to have an emergency response
plan in place. Adding business continuity and recovery to the plan
could save you a bundle. It could save you your business.
PUB: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
28, 2002
"Nokia BIG-IP iTCM Solutions: Application Availability and Performance"
By Mr. Abhinav Bisarya, Product Marketing Manager, Nokia
Internet Communications
Open to the public. No Fee. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Pub Talk starts at 6:00 p.m.
This Pub talk
will outline the BIG-IP products in the Nokia portfolio and how
these products are being implemented by enterprise and service providers
to ensure availability and performance of critical IP applications.
The Nokia BIG-IP application switch is a flexible and fast IP-centric
traffic management device. Mr. Bisarya's Pub Talk will discuss typical
implementation diagrams and outline the customer benefits of each
implementation.
ABOUT
ABHINAV BISARYA
Abhinav Bisarya is the Product Marketing Manager for
Nokia BIG-IP iTCM solutions at Nokia Internet Communications. In
his current role, he is responsible for managing product positioning
and value proposition. Mr. Bisarya is also responsible for undertaking
strategic marketing initiatives to gain mind share for BIG-IP iTCM
solutions, internally and externally.
Previous to
his current position, Mr. Bisarya was involved in two start-ups
in the high availability and content distribution space. He also
served as Product Manager, Wireless Internet Services at Lucent
Technologies before which he spent 3 years working in various positions
in southeast Asia. He has an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, NY and a degree in Electronics Engineering.
ABOUT NOKIA
INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS
Nokia Internet Communications (http://www.nokia.com),
headquartered in Mountain View, California, provides world class
Network Security, Virtual Private Network, and Internet Traffic
and Content Management solutions that ensure the security and reliability
of corporate enterprise and managed service provider networks. Nokia
is committed to enhancing the end user experience by bringing a
new level of security and reliability to the network, enabling an
Internet transaction that is personal and trusted -- each and every
time. For more information, please visit and click on Secure Network
Solutions off the Nokia web site.
THINK TANK SESSION:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2002
"Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Check-Up For Health Care eBusiness Needs"
Invitation-only. No Fee. 8:00 am - 2:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
The focus of this Think Tank Session is to create a
body of knowledge around the most critical technology pressure points
of health care organizations. The Session will also focus on understanding
which of these pressure points merit investment in the short-term
(12-18 months) and long-term (18 months and beyond) for a solid
eBusiness strategy. Twenty-four invitation-only thought leaders
in the health care industry -- representing health care providers
and institutions (end-users), as well as system integrators (SIs)
and vendors (ISVs) - will convene at the Center for a high level
exchange and networking opportunities.
The management
of HCOs is plagued with challenges that keep increasing. Integration
and inter-operability, information duplication, and medical errors
account for a large part of business inefficiencies found today
in HCOs. Limited revenue, increasing costs, continued provider and
consumer dissatisfaction with health care financing and delivery,
and an uncertain financial environment have led boards of directors
and shareholders of HCOs to be more demanding that IT investments
deliver adequate business value. The Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations of 2001 place additional
pressures on HCOs to embrace the Internet economy. Security and
privacy dimensions have been recently elevated due to the September
2001 terrorist attacks.
Enabling technologies
-- such as the Internet, XML, workflow, business process automation,
mobile technologies and other technologies -- can be applied to
many areas in health care to reduce business inefficiencies, comply
with HIPAA regulations, address security concerns, and directly
increase productivity and return-on-investment (ROI). The business
risks to HCOs of not adopting these technologies, proven in other
industries, into a long-term eBusiness strategy, is considered to
exceed the technology risk in attempting to deploy them.
BENEFITS
OF PARTICIPATION
End users have the opportunity to verbalize
their technology needs and learn about existing and upcoming technology
solutions.
The ISIs and ISVs have the opportunity to gather knowledge
first hand on existing and future needs of customers.
Written proceedings will be issued from this Think Tank Session
to the participants to assist in their eBusiness strategies and
budgets for 2002 and beyond.
As a select group, those who participate are able to network
with one another for business opportunities.
FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION & POSSIBLE PARTICIPATION
This program is invitation-only. If you have an interest
in possible participation and represent a health care provider or
institution (end-users) or a system integrator (SIs) or vendor (ISVs),
send your name, title, bio, short summary of your company, email
address and phone number to:
Dr. Venilde
Jeronimo
Senior Director of Client Services
mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
T: 650.462.9800
CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT:
WINTER 2002
Showcase Your Company at the
Center's Thursday Pub
Winter 2002 Company Showcase: Mobility and Information
Management: Metaware for 2002 & Beyond
Fee: $1,500. A special time-restricted offer to companies associated
with the Center's Community.
The Silicon
Valley World Internet Center is offering metaware-related companies
(those with applications, tools, and frameworks that attack the
complexity of enterprise information management) the opportunity
to showcase themselves during Winter 2002 at the Center's Thursday
Pub -- a serious, weekly networking event for mid- to high-level
executives, technologists, and investors in the bay area. The fee
of $1,500 includes promotional activities on behalf of the company
and other benefits. This is a special, time-restricted offer, reduced
from the normal Pub Talk fee of $2,500. There is LIMITED availability
for a few companies to present their metaware.
Companies with
an interest should submit an executive summary with contact information
to:
Dr. Venilde
Jeronimo
Senior Director of Client Services
Em: mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
SHOWCASE
FOCUS
Chief Information Officers have a tough time these
days managing an enterprise's information infrastructure as information
needs grow increasingly complex.
For one thing,
the velocity of information has increased with new software packages
and business processes being implemented to offer realtime data
availability. The challenge of maintaining such realtime information
-- that is complete, current, and consistent across different IT
systems -- is significant. It requires a major overhaul of an enterprise's
information infrastructure. At the same time, the "walls" of enterprises
are falling; that is, software-enabled intra-enterprise collaboration
cuts across functional silos. Business partners, vendors, and customers
are allowed selective access to and control over the enterprise's
resources, linked by collaborative commerce, supply-chain optimization,
and other applications. Furthermore, handheld and mobile devices
are proliferating with most of us depending on cell phones, personal
digital assistants, or other "smart" gadgets to keep us plugged
in. Taken together, these developments add up to some major headaches
for the IT department.
To manage
this complexity, what infrastructure, applications, tools, and frameworks
-- "metaware" -- exist that will restore order and remove some of
the complexity?
What
metaware needs to be developed?
"Simplicity"
and "integration" are hot concepts for 2002. How are these concepts
being incorporated with metaware?
Are
Web Services and Extensible Markup Language (XML) enabling the distribution
of intelligence across the network?
Recent market
developments are targeting such questions. Companies like Ipedo
with its XML database and XML cache are achieving performance improvement
over relational database approaches in achieving dynamic, personalized
content across the network. KnowNow and Kenamea are creating "application
routers" for a world in which Web services are the default mechanism
for business-to-business (B2B) collaboration. Centerpost, a metaware
company addressing the application layer by hiding the complexity
involved in managing heterogeneous devices or transport layers,
lets customers manage customer relationships easily across platforms
by defining the interaction and the expected actions and letting
Centerpost worry about the rest of it. Not surprising, Microsoft
is trying to become a standard fixture of the XML Web services infrastructure
through its .Net and HailStorm initiatives while Sun Microsystems
is focusingon Sun ONE (Open Net Environment).
SHOWCASE
BENEFITS & DELIVERABLES
The market is wide open. How is your company addressing
theabove-related questions? By introducing your metaware-related
application, tool, or framework that attacks the complexity of enterprise
information management, to the Center's community, your company
will benefit from the following:
Promote
Pub Talk in the Center's eNewsletter for three weeks. Listing includes,
title, summary, name and bio of presenter, and information on the
company (including a link to the company's URL), and any company
contact information. Newsletter goes out to 5,500+ individuals.
Promote
of Pub Talk on Center's Website. Pub Talk will be posted for three
weeks on the home page and from then on archived in the Programs
section on the Center's Web site, accessible to anyone viewing Center
past programs.
Promote
company collaterals and materials, including powerpoint presentation
delivered at the Pub Talk in PDF format, on Center's Website alongside
the Pub Talk announcement.
Promote
Pub Talk two weeks prior to the Pub date at the Center's weekly
Pub.
Company
presentation at the Center, delivered to 80-100 key executives,
technologists, and investors from Silicon Valley (and from elsewhere).
Q&A with
and feedback from those in attendance.
Marketing
collaterals distributed during the evening.
Attendance
by company representatives, networking the crowd during the two
hours to generate leads for business opportunities.
Invitations
from the Center to companies from the Pub company's database to
attend, if appropriate.
Wine
and non-alcoholic beverages as well as finger foods served during
the evening.
Set-up
and cleaning fees.
JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY PUB
Come join us for our weekly Pub every Thursday from
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
The Pub Talk
begins at 6 p.m. The Pub gathers 80-100 mid- to high-level executives
every week and, as always, is a great place to come and meet people
from the Silicon Valley and all over the world. Representatives
from small start-ups and major companies to venture capital and
academic join in the exchange at the Center's Pub. It's...
--- The best
reason to take off work early on Thursdays ---
For directions,
please visit http://www.worldinternetcenter.com
and click on directions.
The dress is
casual and there is no fee to attend. Just bring your good ideas!
Companies with
an interest in giving a Pub Talk should contact
Venilde Jeronimo, the Senior Director of Client Services (mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).
For inquiries
about upcoming Center programs, send an email to mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
To unsubscribe
from this eNewsletter, contact Ms. Glenda Garcia at mailto:garcia@worldinternetcenter.com
EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
Amdocs, Inc. http://www.amdocs.com
Cable & Wireless http://www.cw.com
Deutsche Telekom http://www.dtag.de/english/index.htm
Fujitsu http://www.fujitsu.com
IBM Corporation http://www.ibm.com
SAP http://www.mysap.com
Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck http://www.halleck.com
IC Growth, Inc. http://www.icgrowth.com
Internet Wire http://www.internetwire.com
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