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The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, March 4, 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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CABLE & WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENT:
JANUARY 2002
Cable & Wireless eMessaging Solutions.
For more information:
(http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us).
CENTER WELCOMES CLAIRE
KAHROBAIE, NEW MANAGER, CLIENT SERVICES
Introducing Ms. Claire Kahrobaie as the Center's new
Manager, Client Services.
PUB: THURSDAY, MARCH
7, 2002
Pub speaker and topic under discussion.
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.
PUB TALK: THURSDAY, MARCH
14, 2002
"High-Volume Web Site Performance Simulator For WebSphere"
By Mr. Noshir C. Wadia, Senior Technical Staff Member,
High-Volume Web Sites, Software Group, IBM Corporation
Open to the public. No Fee. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Pub Talk starts at 6:00 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
CENTER WELCOMES CLAIRE
KAHROBAIE, NEW MANAGER, CLIENT SERVICES
Introducing Mrs. Claire Kahrobaie as the Center's new
Manager, Client Services.
The Center is very pleased to announce Claire Kahrobaie as the
Center's new Manager of Client Services. In this role, she will
be responsible for managing the Center's invitation-only and open-to-the-public
programs and events. Please join us in welcoming Claire on board!
ABOUT CLAIRE KAHROBAIE
Claire Kahrobaie comes to the Center with a background
in event planning and program coordination. Her experience began
with the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel, assisting with annual special
events and holiday programs. She most recently comes from Concept
Offices as their Marketing & Event Coordinator where she organized
weekly client presentations and quarterly marketing events. In addition,
Claire is a Board Member and Programs Chairperson for the San Francisco
Chapter of the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA
). She has directed various educational programs and networking
sessions, serving the professional needs of facilities managers
in the Bay Area.
PUB: THURSDAY, MARCH
7, 2002
Pub speaker and topic under discussion.
Open to the public. No Fee. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Pub Talk begins at 6:00 p.m.
Please join us on Thursday at the Pub for networking with other
professionals from the bay area and other areas. The speaker and
topic for the evening are currently being considered.
See you Thursday!
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 f 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,Client Services
mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
T: 650.462.9800
PUB TALK: THURSDAY,
MARCH 14, 2002
"High-Volume Web Site Performance Simulator For WebSphere"
By Mr. Noshir C. Wadia, Senior Technical Staff Member,
High-Volume Web Sites, Software Group, IBM Corporation
Open to the public. No Fee. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Pub Talk starts at
6:00 p.m.
As eBusiness and its related requirements grow at "Web speed,"
a critical issue is whether the IT infrastructure supporting the
Web sites has what it needs to provide available, scalable, fast,
and efficient access to the company's information, products, and
services. More than ever, CIOs and their teams struggle with the
challenges to minimize downtime and bottlenecks and maximize the
use of the hardware and software that comprises their eBusiness
infrastructure. Configuration planning for large Web servers in
this environment is becoming an increasingly difficult task. The
hardware and software structure of large Web sites is becoming complex
and the behavior characteristics of the workloads are at best poorly
understood, or, at worst essentially unknown because the workload
has yet to be implemented.
The infrastructure supporting most high-volume Web sites (HVWSs)
typically has multiple components, which include clients, the network,
and multiple layers of machines within the Web server. These multiple
machine layers are frequently called tiers with each tier handling
a particular set of functions, such as serving content, providing
integration business environments, or processing data base transactions.
While actual customer implementations can vary widely, the simulator
uses the following generalized view of the infrastructure options.
IBM Patterns for eBusiness & Workloads: These are built in workloads
for the major business patterns: shopping, trading, and banking.
The user can use these pre-built workloads or modify them based
on customer's requirements. Users can also define a very specific
workload if pre-built workloads do not fit customer environments.
We have also developed special algorithms to handle bursty web traffic,
which can occur during holiday season or stock market storm. User
can define the degree of burstiness in the terms of burst/peak ratio.
The user can set a specific performance objective for items such
as (1) user visit rate, (2) resource utilization, (3) response time,
(4) # of concurrent users, and (5) page view rate. The model will
estimate the performance and recommend configurations.
ABOUT NOSHIR C. WADIA
Noshir C. Wadia is a Senior Technical Staff Member
in the High-Volume Web Sites organization of IBM's Software Group.
He is currently leading a team to develop simulator for performance/capacity
estimates. He is also working with large IBM customers on web site
performance issues. Mr. Wadia has held many leadership positions
in architecture/performance throughout his IBM career developing
performance/architecture models for parallel and distributed systems.
Mr. Wadia has been author of many papers in the area of performance.
He has also been adjunct professor for ten years at State University
of New York where he taught Computer Systems Architecture and Design.
Mr. Wadia holds a MS in Computer Science from Syracuse University,
a MS from Applied Statistics from Purdue University, and a MS in
Mathematical Statistics from University of Baroda (India).
ABOUT THE IBM ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY &
JULY CONFERENCE
The IBM Academy of Technology is holding a Conference
on Performance Engineering in Toronto, Canada, on July 8 -10, 2002.
Information about the conference will be published on the IBM Academy
web site (http://w3.ibm.com/academy
- click on coming events).
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
the
above-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, Client Services (mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).
For inquiries about upcoming Center programs, send an email to
mailto:venilde@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
To join our
community, click on this link:
http://center.infopoint.com/join.php
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