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Triangle/RTP WUG Feb. 24 - Edge of Network, Akamai, WebSphere Dynamic Caching
Helen (Nell) Rehn, IBM
Tues. Feb. 24, 2004
IBM Building #500 Cafeteria Research Triangle Park, NC
6:00 p.m. Gather, Networking, Light Food and Drinks sponsored by Wily Technology
6:15 p.m. Group Business (5 min.) , Brief Presentation on Introscope by Wily Technology (10 min.)
6:30 p.m. Main Presentation
Akamai is one example of an on-demand edge application platform. Deployed at the "edge" of the network - close to user access points - it consists of nearly 15,000 servers in over 1,100 networks around the world. Enterprises can deploy applications to this distributed platform in order to avoid service bottlenecks and failures, and at the same time provide on-demand scalability, global reach, and high performance for application users.
IBM and Akamai have integrated and deployed WebSphere Application Server (WAS) version 5.0 onto the edge servers. Enterprises can execute J2EE Web tier applications in an on-demand WebSphere environment, known as Akamai EdgeComputing powered by WebSphere, and consume Internet computing resources on a pay-per-use basis.
Our speaker, Helen Rehn, is a staff software engineer in the WebSphere Platform System House Advanced Design and Technology group, and a member of the Edge Computing Project Team. She has coauthored papers on Edge Computing.
She will discuss Edge Computing, concentrating on EdgeComputing powered by WebSphere. She will go over where and how Edge Computing can best be leveraged, including best practices for how to architect applications for Edge Computing. She will also demonstrate tooling to make architecting and deploying EdgeComputing powered by WebSphere solutions easier.
In addition, she will discuss how to take advantage of caching technologies to improve the performance of web content. She will cover the caching of dynamic and personalized content, including WebSphere Application's server's built-in dynamic caching facility as well as its support for Edge Side Includes (ESI -- http://www.esi.org).
See the directions below and map at http://www.rtpwug.org/download/RTPsitemap.pdf
The meeting is FREE to all - no RSVP is needed.
Directions to the Meeting
Distance from Raleigh (17 miles) / Durham (8 miles) / Chapel Hill (12 miles)
From I-40, take Exit 280 - Davis Drive. At the end of the exit ramp, take a right (North) onto Davis Drive. Continue straight on Davis Drive for about 0.5 miles. Take a right on Cornwallis road. Go about 1/2 mile, you will cross over railroad tracks. At the IBM gate keep to the right.
If the rightmost gate is down, press on the intercom button and tell the remote guard that you are attending the WebSphere User Group meeting, and give him your name. He will open the gate for you. Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." Our IBM host is Greg Ackerman.
Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." It should be the third road on the left. It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.
It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.
You will see a visitors' parking lot. Turn in and park, and walk to the Building 500 lobby.
Be careful not to go too far (the second Tivoli building is too far) or you will find yourself on a one-way exit ramp and have to drive back around.
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