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On extremely short notice, but very proud nevertheless I would like to invite you to a BEWUG meeting on the topic of Cloud Computing and supporting WebSphere technologies on Monday, November 16th presented by Doug Tidwell, author and technology evangelist at IBM. Doug will be one of the speakers at Devoxx (aka “Javapolis”) that week and he kindly accepted our invitation to talk to us on the topic of cloud computing. More on Doug at http://bit.ly/3KMs4C and http://bit.ly/18nQXy

*** Extend Smart SOA Application Foundation into a Public Cloud Abstract: This presentation highlights WebSphere products that are available for use in Amazon EC2 – WAS, sMash, and eXtreme Scale.

*** Intelligently Manage and Extend Smart SOA Application Foundation into a Private Cloud Abstract: This presentation gives an overview of the WebSphere Intelligent Management. portfolio including WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, WebSphere CloudBurst and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition

*** WebSphere CloudBurst Technical Overview Abstract: A technical overview of technical capabilities and architecture of WebSphere CloudBurst and WAS Hypervisor Edition

*** Keeping the Cloud Open Abstract: Although cloud computing has enormous potential, it is vital that cloud vendors not use their position to lock customers in to their platforms. This presentation will discuss the various standards efforts underway to keep cloud computing open.