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Welcome to another
edition of the Tech Connection...
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Greetings!
In this monthly eNewsletter, Davalen's Search &
Discovery, Lotus, Brazil, National Staffing Consulting and WebSphere practices,
come together to share relevant news and information on the technology that
powers your projects.
After successful events and a new product launch - Davalen Charts - the Davalen staff has been busy educating our current and potential
clients as well as business partners on the solutions we provide to solve your
critical business needs.
This month, our Search & Discovery Practice Area
Manager, Peter Wilkerson, takes a look at your data to see if your company is
at risk for a digital disaster zone equivalent to a tornado-stricken library.
Don't miss the update articles for our other practice areas as well including: how
to gain secure remote access to iNotes, developing J2EE applications with
WebSphere Portlet Factory, how Davalen's Staffing Services is gearing up for
the fall and why Managing Partner, Dave Jacob has WebSphere Portal
on the brain.
From technical tips to consulting and mentoring services, Davalen
provides comprehensive resources for your business needs. So take a quick break
and gain some valuable insight from the professional who know it best.
Cheers,
Ruth Jarvis, Davalen
PS - Don't forget to check the latest news and past articles on
our blog.
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Digital Disaster
Zone: Are Your Employees Working in the Digital Equivalent of a
Tornado-Stricken Library of Congress?
Digital Disaster Zone
 | by Peter Wilkerson, Search & Discovery
Practice Area Manager
A number of years ago a tornado struck near a university
library. The storm came close
enough to break windows and as the wind began to swirl, books were knocked off
their shelves, ripped apart and strewn across the building. It was a nightmare. Nobody could find anything.
What most companies don't realize is they have more data in their
storage devices than was in that one library.
On my laptop I have about 800 megabytes of PDF files I use for
different phases of my consulting work.
The PDF's are just part of the library of information I use to help
solve clients' problems. If these
files were printed out they would be roughly equivalent to a pickup truck
filled with books.
Imagine searching through the bed of a truck looking for a
specific page in a book.
Now imagine you paying your employees to go through all the books
in a large academic library trying to find what they need, without knowing
where to look, and not knowing whether they've found the right pages or latest
information. You are asking your
employees to search for data in the digital equivalent of a tornado-stricken
library.
Use the chart below to get a sense of just how much data you are
asking your employees to work with. Without an effective search solution, you are asking your users to
work in a Digital Disaster Zone.
1
megabyte - a small novel 5
megabytes - the complete works of William Shakespeare
100
megabytes - about 3 feet of shelved books 1
gigabyte - a pickup truck filled with books
2 gigabytes - about 66 feet of shelved books 50 gigabytes -
a floor (5,000 sq. ft) of books
1
terabyte - all the X-ray films in a large technological hospital
2 terabytes - an academic research library
10 terabytes - the
print collection of the US Library of Congress 2 petabytes - All US Academic Libraries
200 petabytes - all
the printed material in the world
Are your
employees working in a digital disaster zone? Continue the conversation on our
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Secure
Remote Access to iNotes
by Len Barker, Managing Partner -
Lotus Practice
I recently had the pleasure of working with a client to
install and configure Lotus Mobile Connect (LMC). LMC has a client that allows a user to roam between wireless
access points without losing their session or to lose wireless access for a
period of time and then pick up the session where you last left off. LMC also offers the ability to setup
HTTP access services for secure reverse proxy type access to network
resources. The financial trading
company that I was working with was looking for a secure and reliable way to
access iNotes from the Internet. Their current implementation of a reverse proxy and Site Minder was not
satisfactory primarily because of problems with session management. Lotus
Mobile Connect promised to be a more straightforward solution, and it was!
LMC can be installed on Linux, AIX or Windows. We chose Windows. Any LDAP directory or RADIUS server
will do for authentication. This was perfect for this project because we were
able to use their corporate standard of RADIUS with RSA to authenticate users
and then use an LTPA token to manage single sign on between all of the Domino
servers. With Lotus Mobile Connect
we were able to easily and securely solve the age-old problem of how to allow
access to iNotes servers without placing the servers in the DMZ.
Contact me for a free consultation about what Lotus Mobile Connect can do for your
organization
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Develop
J2EE applications with WebSphere Portlet Factory to run on WebSphere
Application Server.
Helmar Martens
 | by Helmar Martens, Davalen Brazil
Not many people know that all the benefits of the Rapid
Application Development and cost reduction provided by WebSphere Portlet
Factory (WPF) is also available for WebSphere Application Server (WAS). Despite the fact that WPF ships
with Portal, WPF can also be used to quickly and efficiently develop J2EE
applications to run on WAS.
All the capabilities to access numerous back-end systems,
application profiling, Web 2.0 and displaying KPIs or building dashboards are
available to run on WAS.
If you
run WAS and would like to take advantage of this Rapid Application Development
tool, please contact us for further information.
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Davalen's Staffing Services Gears Up for Fall 2010!
Deborah Corcoran
 | by Deborah Corcoran, National Resource Manager
It's hard to believe that September is here! Where did the Summer of
2010 go? Davalen Technical Staffing Services was super busy this Summer with
contract staffing requests from our customers; everything from assessing infrastructure environments,
Lotus Notes migration upgrades, Portlet Factory training via our "virtual"
training labs, WebSphere Portal installation and mentoring to installing Lotus Mobile Connect, Lotus Connection Manager, and Lotus
Notes Traveler Lotus Traveler on executive iPads - this mobile
software suite request for installation and testing, was very much in demand!
Davalen is here to help assist our customers with our highly skilled
technologists, who provide our clients with RapidValue Services - designed to ensure
clients receive the most value from their IBM software investment. With our
"just in time" staffing services model, we help balance your busiest project
times by getting our folks on-site at your location, or working remotely.
Davalen technologists are experts in all IBM software skills and "parachute in and out" seamlessly into
your environment.
We can discuss in detail any technology "pain" points you maybe
experiencing or if you are thinking of engaging with us for a mini-assessment
of your technical environment. Our Davalen contract services team can help
resolve issues that your environment might be experiencing or offer recommendations for more ROI
from your IBM software investment - it's just that simple, and you can feel
confident that you are getting IBM certified technologists who are experts with
the IBM software stack.
Our services consist of a customized blend of system architecture, hands
on training, mentoring, "just in time" technical services staffing
implementation assistance.
Gives
us a call at 800. 827. 8451 or email us now - what are you waiting for?
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WebSphere Portal
on the Brain.
by
Dave Jacob, Managing Partner, WebSphere Practice
Q3 so far was highlighted by the Exceptional Web
Experiences (aka IBM WebSphere Portal Excellence) conference. Davalen got a
chance to feature its work with the Davalen
Charts [link] product, which is intended for robust graphic support for
Dashboards in Portal. We are actively implementing this solution for healthcare
[link] and energy [link] clients and look forward to adapting it to more
markets. This solution incorporates many of the features in Web 2.0 to make the
charting engine more in tune with graphics support that clients are demanding.
The use of animation, 3D, and drill-down capabilities are just a few of the
features being used.
At the Portal Conference, IBM
announced the release dates of IBM WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portlet
Factory version 7. We have been working with the IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
team and the Davalen Portlet Factory training [link] is available (electronic
release of v7 is available now and the media version is available September 24th).
Stay tuned for an advanced Portlet Factory course, which
will focus on the GUI design in Portlet Factory and the use of the DOJO and
Ajax builders that ship with release 7 of Portlet Factory.
Check
out the new Landing Page for Davalen Charts and let us know what you think.
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About Davalen: We Speak Business. We
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Davalen, LLC, has been a trusted
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