AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Centers
Tuesday, March 12, 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.
Internet Wire
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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).
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.
WORKING GROUP: TUESDAY,
MARCH 19, 2002
"Models & Taxonomies"
Second meeting of an ongoing Working Group on "Dynamic
Information Integration: The Role of the Feedback Loop"
Invitation-only. No Fee. 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT
Center Thursday Pub Glasses: How do I get one? Can I
get a replacement?
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
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,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).
WORKING GROUP:
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2002 "Models & Taxonomies"
Second meeting of an ongoing Working Group on "Dynamic Information
Integration: The Role of the Feedback Loop"
Invitation-only. No Fee. 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
As a result of a series of programs last fall, the Center is hosting
a Working Group this winter and spring on "Dynamic Information Integration:
The Role of the Feedback Loop." A group of 12-14 invited participants
(who have participated in the Center's past programs on this subject)
will analyze and discuss various aspects of dynamic information
integration over the next several months, including:
The role and importance of explicit models
How to achieve a working feedback loop
Existing technologies and components
Relevant standards
SECOND WORKING GROUP MEETING
The second Working Group meeting on March 19 will focus
on "Models & Taxonomies." When striving for information integration,
central metadata models and taxonomies are needed. Data from heterogeneous
sources need to be mapped to these models and taxonomies. In theory,
there are several possible approaches. The group will discuss as
well as exchange ideas and experiences with different approaches.
The goal of the meeting is to get an overview and compile information
on the different ways of addressing data from heterogeneous sources
and metadata models and taxonomies. The following questions -- among
others -- will be discussed, over wine and light hors d'oeuvres:
Is a central metadata model or taxonomy necessary?
How is flexibility over time ensured if a central model is
used?
Can learning systems be used to perform mappings and translations?
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Venilde Jeronimo
Sr. Director, Client Services
Em: mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
T: 650.462.9800
CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT
Center Pub Glasses: How do I get one? Can I get a replacement?
Further information below.
The question is often asked, how do I get a Thursday Pub glass?
Those who have been to the Center's Thursday Pub 15 times over a
12 month period, are inaugurated into the "Center's Community" and
receive a wine glass engraved with their name on it. These glasses
remain at the Center and each week can be used at the Thursday Pub,
a networking program.
If you are missing your Pub glass or you have been to the Thursday
Pub 15 times over the last 12 months (and we can double check with
our own records), please send an email, by Friday, March 15 to:
Ms. Glenda Garcia
Operations Assistant
Em: mailto:garcia@worldinternetcenter.com
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
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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