© 2010 IBM Corporation IBM Academic Initiative: building skills for a smarter planet IBM Academic Initiative : Skills for a Smarter Planet John Schilt

© 2010 IBM Corporation

IBM Academic Initiative: building skills for a smarter planet

IBM Academic Initiative :

Skills for a Smarter Planet

John SchiltManager, IBM Innovation CentreManager, IBM Academic Initiative

[email protected]

July 16, 2010



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Smarter Planet

Tools and Resources

Academic Initiative

developerWorks

My developerWorks

Skills Cloud

Discussion



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U.S. companies and retailers lose $40 billion annually due to inefficient supply chains.

In North America, up to 22 percent of total port volume is empty containers. The Port of Jersey has 100,000 empty containers sitting in storage – worth nearly $200 million.

Congested roadways cost $78 billion annually in the form of 4.2 billion lost hours and 2.9 billion gallons of wasted gas.

$11.5B worth of produce is wasted in India because of outdated post-harvest infrastructure



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1 billion transistors for each person on earth.

THINK1 billion people are connected to the internet

By 2010, 30 billion RFID tags, embedded intoour world.



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smarter planetSmarter is a vision of how the world works — how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts.

Each interaction represents a chance to do something better, more efficiently, more productively.

But more than that, as the systems of the planet become smart, we

have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress.



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smarter planetOur world is becoming

INSTRUMENTED

Our world is becoming

INTERCONNECTED

Virtually all things, processes and waysof working are becoming

INTELLIGENT



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+ + =

An think and act in new ways

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economically, socially and technically.



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IBM Academic Initiative: Skills for a smarter planetKey Components of presentation

smarter planetIndustry Solutions

Goal

Let’s Build a smarter planet

Architecture Solutions

smarter planet

Dynamic Infrastructure

Dynamic Infrastructure

Green & Beyond Green & Beyond

New Intelligence

New Intelligence

Smart WorkSmart Work

Primary Themes

smarter planetIntroduction

Strategic Context

INSTRUMENTED

INTERCONNECTED

INTELLIGENT

Academic InitiativeSkills, Courseware

Required Skills

SOA

BPM

Large Systems

Software Development

SSME

Social Software

Security

Information on Demand

Service Management



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IBM Academic Initiative

Build IBM’s brand and presence

Build relationships with a number of local Universities

- Give back- Mentoring

- Guest Lectures- Industry Advisor

- Curriculum Advisor- Adjunct faculty

- Career / Open days

Skills development

Shortage of skills in the workforce Cost of skills in the workforce

AI Metric : New courses with IBM content



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Universities

SWG

AI

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dWorksIIC ISV Relations

IDR Public Sector

STG GTSGBS

IBMResearch

IBMHR

IBM Relationships with Universities

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IBM Academic Initiative

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www.ibm.com/academicinitiative

Software Downloads

Courseware

Technical skills development

Access to virtual servers (z, POWER)

SSME

Cloud Computing

Student portal / certification

Student opportunity system

My developerWorks

Academic Skills cloud



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Download software :

SOA Sandbox

DB2 9.7 Express C

Rational Functional Tester

Increase your SOA skills through practical, hands-on, online trials free of charge as a cloud service.

a no-charge version of DB2 Express 9 database server. It is designed to be up and running in minutes, is easy-to-use and embed, includes self-management features, and embodies all of the core capabilities of DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows such as pureXML™. DB2 Express-C offers the same core data server base features as other DB2 Express editions and provides a solid base to build and deploy applications developed using C/C++, Java™, .NET®, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python and other programming languages.

an automated functional and regression testing solution for QA teams concerned with the quality of their Java™, Web-based, Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET®, terminal-based, SAP, Siebel and Web 2.0 applications.

(some examples)

… or other versions of DB2



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Download software : (via the Academic Initiative)

Almost any IBM SW product can be downloaded via the faculty members for teaching, learning and non-commercial research.

Rational Family of productsRational Application Developer (based on Eclipse)

WebSphere Family of productsWebSphere Application Server (inc Community Edition)WebSphere Business ModellerWebSphere Process Server

DB2 Family of productsLotus Family of productsTivoli Family of products… plus others, such as Cognos and iLOG



Additional Resources

alphaworks developerWorks My developerWorks

Coming soon : Academic Cloud

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http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/

alphaWorks: IBM’s community for emerging technologies



What we offer

IBM developerWorks is the destination on the web for developers and IT professionals to stay on the cutting edge and develop their skills on open standards technologies and IBM products.

Delivers the deep technical code, content, and community you need and depend on to get answers to your tough technical questions.

Delivers unparalleled content in over 4 languages, including articles, tutorials, demos, events and more. ibm.com/developerworks/aboutdw

developerWorks: IBM’s community of developers, IT Professionals, & students

Key Statistics: Over 1M skill activities per year34 industry awardsServes 200 countries4 local language sites



a professional network and knowledge base that connects the developer community worldwide to share and collaborate

My developerWorks…

My developerWorks runs on IBM Lotus connections.

Build a profile Add comments Personalize My home Connect with colleagues Join or create a group Tag, rate & recommend content

Start an activity Track bookmarks Contribute to a wiki Listen to a podcast Write a blog entry Post to forums

ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks

Join today!

Shortened url : bit.ly/IBMBALLARAT



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New Cloud Offering

IBM Academic Skills Cloud

– IBM is announcing an Academic Skills Cloud project

• to dynamically deliver provisioned virtual server images of some of it’s leading software for use by College/University Faculty to more easily teach IT related skills.

– Academic Skills Cloud is designed to augment and enhance software delivery capabilities.

• Unlike traditional environments, member faculty will be able to log on to IBM Cloud and get access to customizable virtual machines in minutes.

– With this new pilot program, Academic Initiative is offering choices to deploy workloads that

• will assist faculty in teaching with IBM software with greater efficiency, productivity and control to benefit students.

– This new environment provides

• compute and storage as a service, IBM Rational Software Delivery Services, Rational, WebSphere and Information Management software to help speed the delivery of software for teaching purposes.

Goal

– To expedite the delivery of key IBM software for teaching purposes via a highly automated, highly virtualized, very dynamic, and flexible self service cloud environment.

– Accelerate the teaching of IT skills of the future, and build skills for a smarter planet

Coming soonto

Australia !



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