AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, November 5, 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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of newsletters and directions to the Center are available on the
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PUB
TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002
"Building Reliable Web Services"
By Mr. Frank Cohen, Founder of PushToTest & Member, Technology
Council, Silicon Valley World Internet Center
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public. The Pub talk begins at 6:00
p.m.
CABLE
& WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENTS
"How Content Delivery Services Can Boost Website Performances"
For further
information (http://www.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=story_281002_performance).
"Cable
& Wireless Enables Global Efficiencies for the Pearson Group"
For further
information (http://www.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=story_171002_pearson).
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PUB TALK: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
7, 2002
"Building Reliable Web Services"
By Mr. Frank Cohen, Founder of PushToTest
& Member, Technology Council, Silicon Valley World Internet Center
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public. The Pub talk begins at 6:00
p.m.
Web Services have already become the new standard for building
highly interoperable and dynamic information systems. Enterprises
such as Elsevier Science and 2Wire are basing their next generation
infrastructures on Web Service protocols such as SOAP and WSDL that
run on their existing Web infrastructures.
At this Pub Talk, Frank Cohen, Founder of PushToTest, will discuss
building reliable and scalable Web Services. He will show how enterprise
choices for Web Service infrastructure are critical to deploying
well performing, highly reliable, and scalable systems. Mr. Cohen
will demonstrate how PushToTest's free open-source TestMaker tool
solves problems facing software developers, QA analysts, and IT
managers every day and how PushToTest is succeeding with a business
plan based on open-source technology.
ABOUT FRANK COHEN
Frank Cohen is the "go to" guy when enterprises need to test and
solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially
Web Services. Mr. Cohen is Founder of PushToTest, a test automation
solutions business and author of several books on testing and designing
information systems. For the past 20 years, he has led some of the
software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities
for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows. His career accomplishments
include: writing operating systems for microcomputers; helping establish
video games as an industry; helping to launch the Norton Utilities
franchise; leading Apple's efforts into middleware and Internet
technologies; and, most recently, serving as Principle Architect
for the Sun Community Server, Inclusion.net (OTC: IINC), and TuneUp.com.
He serves as an active member and past board member of the Software
Developers Forum, the leading computer software industry association
in the Silicon Valley and is a member of the Technology Council
for the Silicon Valley World Internet Center. For a more complete
bio, visit (http://www.PushToTest.com/ptt/bio.html).
ABOUT PUSHTOTEST
PushToTest (http://www.PushToTest.com)
maintains TestMaker, a free open-source utility for building intelligent
test agents to check Web Services for scalability, performance,
and functionality. PushToTest Global Services customizes TestMaker
to an enterprise's specific needs, conducts scalability and performance
tests, and trains enterprise developers, QA analysts, and IT managers
on how to use the test environment. This unique business approach
delivers inexpensive solutions, expert insight, and immediate results.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Frank Cohen
Founder
PushToTest
2248 Montezuma Drive
Campbell, CA 95008
T: 408.374.7426
F: 408 374 1458
E: fcohen@pushtotest.com
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CABLE
& WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENTS
"How Content Delivery Services Can Boost Website Performance"
For
further information (http://www.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=story_281002_performance).
"Cable
& Wireless Enables Global Efficiencies for the Pearson Group"
For further information (http://www.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=story_171002_pearson).
Cable
& Wireless, an Executive Sponsor of the Center, would like to share
two recent announcements with the Center's online community:
1) "How Content Delivery Services
Can Boost Website Performance"
For
further information (http://www.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=story_281002_performance).
Corporate Websites are becoming increasingly important customer
'touchpoints' as the use of the Internet and eCommerce grows, says
a new online seminar featuring Gartner Research Director Mr. Rob
Batchelder. Technologies such as content delivery networks are therefore
crucial to an organization's effort to support its brand and manage
the customer experience.
Services such as Cable & Wireless Content Delivery enable customers
to store and deliver Web content from servers that are 'closer'
to users. The Web pages that the user wants to view load faster
- leading to faster, more reliable, and more consistent service
which can impact user satisfaction and customer loyalty. This is
achieved by storing copies of a customer's content on Cable & Wireless'
network of servers deployed
at the 'edge' of the Internet and around the world. Requests made
to the customer's origin server for pages are redirected to these
edge servers, meaning traffic does not have to travel over as many
Internet backbones and the customer's content is served more quickly.
And, because content is stored across the Cable & Wireless network
and delivered from edge servers, the load on the customer's origin
servers is reduced, enabling them to better cope with surges in
demand.
To register for a free seminar and white paper, visit (http://www.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=story_281002_performance).
2) "Cable & Wireless Enables Global
Efficiencies for the Pearson Group"
For
further information (http://www.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=story_171002_pearson).
International
media group Pearson needed to rationalize its disparate web infrastructure.
The company needed a single global service provider that could meet
a comprehensive set of requirements across all of its business units
and geographies. Cable & Wireless was one of only a few contenders
that could meet these criteria. It provided a global solution which
helped Pearson reduce costs, improve reliability, and set a group-wide
standard.
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For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge
Network Partners, visit their Websites:
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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