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Agile Modeling: Enhancing Communication and Understanding

Topics
Scaling Agile,
Database Design,
Design,
Agile,
Modeling,
Database

Modeling supports us in communicating and understanding when we create software solutions. As communication and understanding are two of the most critical aspects of delivering software solutions - modeling is a valuable tool that should not be overlooked. Agile Modeling adheres to and aligns with Agile values and principles and should be one of the practices within your Agile toolkit.

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Private Cloud Roundup

Topics
Virtualization,
IaaS,
Infrastructure,
PaaS,
Operations,
SaaS,
Cloud Computing,
KVM,
Eucalyptus,
Xen

Private clouds continue to grow in popularity and offer a number of appealing benefits to an organization including higher utilization of existing server resources, improved manageability, pay as you go, and self-service. This roundup provides a high-level view of some of the key ingredients for creating a private cloud solution.

IBM Workload Deployer – Continuing Maturation of Private Cloud Appliances

Topics
Websphere,
Application Servers,
Virtualization,
Java,
Operations,
IaaS,
IBM,
Languages,
Infrastructure,
Companies,
Cloud Computing,
Programming

IBM Workload Deployer is the next generation of the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst v2.0 appliance further driving the use of patterns, templates and automation to simplify and accelerate the definition and deployment of private cloud solutions.