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Interactive Ideas shortlisted for CRN Awards 2010
Interactive Ideas have been short-listed for 'Software Distributor of the Year' in this year's Channel awards.
Laying the Ground Work for a Strong Web Presence
This is the second session in the four-part JBoss Web Presentation & User Interface Webinar Series.
- 9pm EDT (GMT-4 New York) / 13:00 GMT / 3pm CEST (GMT+2 Paris)
- 2pm EDT (GMT-4 New York) / 18:00 GMT / 8pm CEST (GMT+2 Paris)
What's the easiest way to make a wall stronger? Hint - it's not better bricks. It's better mortar. The same is true with web applications. By strengthening your architecture and using the right framework, you eliminate the complexity of application integration--making your web applications faster, better, and stronger. JBoss developers have understood this for years and now the rest of the JEE world is picking up on it too!
In this webinar we will discuss how leveraging an application framework makes it easy to create rich web applications. Discussion points will include:
- best practices for development
- real world examples of rich web applications
- how concepts in the JBoss Seam Framework have influenced JEE 6 features
- what's next in the JBoss Seam roadmap
Speakers:
Jason Andersen, Sr. Product Manager, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
Jason Andersen is the Senior Product Manager at Red Hat responsible for the Enterprise Portal Platform. Jason has been working in various roles within end user software for over 15 years. He has worked with hundreds of customers worldwide in defining and implementing portal, content and collaboration solutions in many different industries. Prior to joining Red Hat, Jason was a Senior Product Manager at IBM responsible for the delivery of IBM WebSphere Portal and Accelerators.
Burr Sutter, Sr. Product Manager, Developer Experience/Tools
Burr Sutter is a current Sun Java Champion, president of the Atlanta Java Users Group and founder of the Atlanta Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. He has over 20 years of software design and development experience along with numerous published articles, book chapters, and developer conference speaking engagement
Click here to register for this webinar.
September Webinar - Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
What will you learn:
During this webinar, an Acronis Systems Engineer will introduce you to the following new features and functionality:
•Automate recovery with a simple, guided process – Instant Restore
An intuitive interface makes it easy to install, quick to configure and deploy, and simple to use for both IT personnel and novices.
•Fast and easy recovery
OS, applications and all data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.
•Recover an entire system, single file or folder
Acronis image-based recoveries give you the granularity you need for any kind of recovery, putting you back in business in a hurry.
•Monitoring
Dashboard provides an overview of all configured and running operations, highlighting any processes that require attention.
•Free IT personnel from repetitive tasks
Grouping procedures enable policies and procedures to be implemented across a known range of systems, making it possible to carry out a mass recovery of many machines in minutes, rather than hours or days.
Who will benefit from attending this webinar?
IT professionals responsible for managing Windows and Linux systems availability across physical and virtual environments to more improved recovery time objectives (RTOs).
Click here to register for this webinar.
AJAX Applications with JSF 2 and the New RichFaces
RichFaces is a JSF framework with AJAX components (over 100), skins, themes, and a component development kit. Although JSF 2 now offers basic AJAX functionality (which was, in fact, greatly inspired by RichFaces), a broader rich component library is still needed to build most real-world JSF AJAX applications. This webinar will first cover JSF 2 AJAX features and then the extra value the new RichFaces 4 adds on top of JSF 2 through its advanced features, tags, customization, and flexibility. Whether you are new to using JSF for developing AJAX applications or you can already show your JSF battle scars, this webinar has something to offer to you.
Click here to register for this webinar on the 8th September.
On-Demand Webcast: Blazing Fast Business Intelligence with Ingres VectorWise and Pentaho
View the on-demand webcast to learn how you can quickly build a high performance end-to-end Business Intelligence infrastructure using Pentaho and Ingres VectorWise.
Click here to view this on-demand webinar.
Novell launch SUSE Appliance Kit
Find out more information on our new Product Information page.
Acronis Extended Summer Incentive
Between 1st July until 30th September 2010 you will have the chance to win a prize of either an iPhone 4 (16GB) or the iPad (32GB wifi) for any deal you make over the value of £5000.
Visit Acronis and Interactive Ideas at 360°IT
Acronis will be exhibiting at 360°IT, held on the 22nd-23rd September 2010. 360°IT is the new, ground-breaking event that demonstrates how IT infrastructure solutions can help to achieve key business objectives such as improving service, reducing cost, managing risk and gaining competitive advantage and growth. Francois Moizet of Interactive Ideas will be with Acronis on the 23rd September. Come and visit us on stand E41.
Attend Four Must Have Features of Postgres Plus Advanced Server v8.4 webinar
Learn more about Postgres Plus Advanced Server 8.4 with tomorrow's webinar from EnterpriseDB.
When Postgres Plus Advanced Server v8.4 shipped in July, it introduced four great new features to Advanced Server users - all designed to ease the DBA's burden of managing their data, monitoring their systems, keeping their software up to date and protecting their data from external attack.
Updated Reseller Promotions page
Just updated today, find out about our latest Reseller Promotions..
Click here to access the page
Acronis to announce online backup and recovery at VMworld
Acronis Inc., a provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, announced Thursday Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online. This online backup and recovery solution offers the advantages of a secondary redundant data store without a substantial upfront investment.
Red Hat Outlines Comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Strategy
A Key Component of Red Hat Cloud Foundations, Red Hat PaaS to Leverage JBoss Enterprise Middleware for Open Choice in Application Development and Deployment
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Red Hat, Inc. the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its vision for a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations, a portfolio that will promote consistency between enterprise applications and the cloud.
SolarWinds Partner Conference with SolarWinds and Interactive Ideas-Training
Learn how SolarWinds and Interactive Ideas can help you sell margin rich network monitoring that are both affordable and easy to use. Attend the Partner Day on September 13th.
This one day conference will provide sales staff and technical staff with a heavy load of information about the way SolarWinds operate and also the best way of selling SolarWinds.
NEW SolarWinds Orion Fail Over Engine (FOE) - How to Sell : Best Practice and Demo Event
The SolarWinds channel team will share with you, best selling practices and demo tips the NEW Orion Fail Over Engine (FOE).
Event details:
Date: Wednesday, 25th August 2010
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM BST
Reserve your Webcast seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/320936112
Novell Announces WorkloadIQ
Novell has announced WorkloadIQ a solution for growing intelligent workload management (IWM) market.
Novell’s strategy for IWM, WorkloadIQ, is based on its ability to integrate identity and security into IT workloads thereby giving customers the confidence and flexibility needed to deliver IT services to end users across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
SoThin stands among giants...
SoThin has reached the finals of this year's PC Pro Awards for Environmental Innovator of the Year.
Red Hat Pursuing Certification For RHEL 6, Hypervisor
Common Criteria certification for the vendor's Linux OS and virtualization would pave the way for its use in private government clouds.
Red Hat is pursuing a certification for its Linux OS and virtualization, paving the way for government agencies to use the technology to create secure, virtualized IT environments and private clouds.
Attend Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 webinar
Learn about Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 with this webinar taking place on the 19th August.
SolarWinds Targets Cisco Network Management
Networking management and monitoring software vendor SolarWinds has made upgrades to its Orion IP SLA Manager and Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) modules to integrate more tightly with Cisco Systems offerings.
VMware Unveils Zimbra Appliance and makes All Zimbra Products Available to VMware Customers and Partners
PALO ALTO, CA., August 10, 2010 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today launched the Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance, an enterprise-class email and collaboration solution delivered as a virtual appliance. Designed to run on the VMware vSphere platform, the Zimbra Appliance helps reduce the cost and complexity of infrastructure management.
