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AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center

Wednesday, September 1, 2004

 

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POWER PUB: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
"THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICS"

Pub Master: Mr. Richard Probst, Corporate Consulting Team, Office of the CEO, SAP
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.

Save the date for the Center's next Power Pub with Mr. Richard Probst of SAP's Corporate Consulting Team, who will discuss "The Future of Analytics"! Further information will be included in next week's eNewsletter.

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SUMMARY: POWER PUB: TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2004
"AUTONOMIC DATA MANAGEMENT: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYHOW….IS IT A REALISTIC EXPECTATION, EVEN TODAY?"
Pub Master: Mr. Collin Bruce, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Solid Information Technology
Summary and links below.

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SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS OF ARCHSTONE CONSULTING'S 2004 INNOVATOR'S FORUM: THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2004
Summary and links below.

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POWER PUB: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
"THE FUTURE OF ANALYTICS"
Pub Master: Mr. Richard Probst, Corporate Consulting Team, Office of the CEO, SAP
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.

Save the date for the Center's next Power Pub with Mr. Richard Probst of SAP's Corporate Consulting Team, who will discuss "The Future of Analytics"! Further information will be included in next week's eNewsletter.

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SUMMARY: POWER PUB: TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2004
"AUTONOMIC DATA MANAGEMENT: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYHOW….IS IT A REALISTIC EXPECTATION, EVEN TODAY?"
Pub Master: Mr. Collin Bruce, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Solid Information Technology

To access Collin Bruce's Power Pub presentation on the Center's Web site:

  • Click Here.
  • Scroll down to the "*August 17, 2004, Power Pub" and select.
  • You will see a link to the presentation in PDF format.

The Power Pub on August 17 around autonomic data management drew a diverse group of Valley executives, technology experts and telecom folks from SAP, HP, IBM, Hitachi, British Telecom, DeTeCon, CommerceNet and many others. As with all the Power Pubs, the discussion opened up to the group after Collin Bruce's initial presentation on the current reality of autonomic data management. Here is a summary of the key questions asked by Power Pub participants:

  • Who owns the data?
  • Does there need to be a trade-off between the device and the network? What really should be "smart" in this autonomic ecosystem?
  • What are we going to do to assure data integrity in a self-configuring, self-healing system?
  • What should we, as consumers, be choosing: 100% data integrity or high performance?
  • When the system is handling data from machine to machine, how does the network deal with that?
  • How much customization is required for our own application (e.g., CRM) to work with the Solid Tech data management solution?

We have become accustomed to picking up the telephone and always having a dial tone, whether we are at home or on the road. Turning on a radio and hearing a traffic report or having it pushed down to the DVD player in our car. Switching on the TV and seeing our favorite show or start our TiVo and watch at our leisure . . . without all the advertising! Clicking on an icon and always getting access to the Website we want.

The original Guiding Questions for the Pub Exchange were:

  • Data management is at the heart of today's "soft switched" infrastructures/environments. But how do we manage them for high availability -- 99.999% and better -- and still cover every device from the data center with its terra bytes of data to diskless mobile devices (your cell phone or Blackberry)?
  • As I develop my distributed application, how do I keep all parts synchronized as I move from device to device or place to place?
  • How do I recoup development time if I have to manage the infrastructure or the fundamental processes required for a complex multi-media application?

ABOUT COLLIN BRUCE

Collin Bruce is the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Solid Information Technology headquartered in Mountain View, California. He recently joined Solid after a time back in sales for CIC where he focused on selling to major financial institutions like Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Prudential Insurance, HSBC and F500 institutions. Prior to that, he held various executive positions at Chordiant Software, Amdahl, SCO and Memorex.

ABOUT SOLID INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Solid Information Technology Corp (http://www.solidtech.com) is the first provider of an Autonomic Data Management Platform that supports the development of applications that are self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-protecting.

Solid provides a data management foundation for embedded and distributed applications that ensure that the data takes care of itself. This dramatically reduces development time and cost, reduces time to market, reduces total cost of system ownership, and provides a robust and flexible foundation for the development of new products and features.

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SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS OF ARCHSTONE CONSULTING'S 2004 INNOVATOR'S FORUM: THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2004
Summary and links below.

More than sixty executives and supply chain management experts gathered at historic Villa Montalvo in Silicon Valley recently to explore strategies to better utilize their supply chains to drive value for their organizations.

The event, "Make Your Supply Chain an Engine for Driving Value," was hosted by management consulting firm, Archstone Consulting, in partnership with the Silicon Valley World Internet Center.

Archstone Consulting suggests that companies that outperform their peers in this economy will do so through innovative management of their supply chains. The afternoon of dialogue at the 2004 Innovators Forum, the first in an ongoing series of industry-focused events, was designed to share insights on using the supply chain as a sales and growth engine for competitive advantage.

Please access the complete summary of the June 24, 2004 Innovators Forum session on the Center's site:

  • Click Here.
  • Scroll down to the "June 24, 2004 Special Session" and select.
  • You will see a link to the summary in PDF format.

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The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Corporate Sponsors and Knowledge Network Partners for their continuing support:

CORPORATE SPONSORS
SAP http://www.sap.com/
Archstone Consulting http://www.archstoneconsulting.com/

KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNERS
• Halleck http://www.halleck.com
• IC Growth, Inc. http://www.icgrowth.com
• Market Wire http://www.marketwire.com
• Incucomm http://www.incucomm.com

Xterprise http://www.xterprise.com

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