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A Call to Arms for Private Cloud Builders

Speakers:

Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling

John Wetherill, Developer Evangelist, ActiveState

In this presentation, learn about the benefits of elastic cloud infrastructure, the forces driving the move towards it, and action plan for building it using DevOps and Platform-as-a-Service.

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Making the Case for Private PaaS: How ExactTarget Innovates with Stackato

Speakers:

Dale McCrory, Principal Product Manager, Fuel Platform, ExactTarget

Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState

Last year, Software-as-a-Service leader ExactTarget deployed private Platform-as-a-Service technology.

In this webinar, Dale McCrory and Bart Copeland discuss ExactTarget's experience and results, including shortened development cycles, smoother workflow and increased innovation.

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The New Economics of Private Cloud

Speakers:

Joe Weinman, Senior VP, Telx & Author, Cloudonomics

Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState

Cloudonomics is a new way to discuss the benefits of private cloud. Many have focused on cost reduction or business agility. However, private cloud can play a strategic role as well, enhancing operational excellence, business processes and customer experience.

Private PaaS is a key component of a successful private cloud -- an enablement layer that promotes flexibility, scalability and ROI.

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Practical Steps to Hybrid Cloud with Private PaaS

Speakers:

Jo Maitland, Principal Research Director, GigaOM

Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState

Hybrid is considered by many to be the future of cloud. Companies are intrigued by the possibility of a cloud that adapts to the needs of a business, instead of the other way around. But while many companies will sit on the sidelines of hybrid cloud adoption, others will take practical steps today, leveraging private PaaS options.

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Private PaaS for the Enterprise: Myth or Reality?

Speakers:

John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research

Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState

While the promise of PaaS is intriguing, many enterprises are demanding PaaS capabilities on their own terms...Can implementing a private PaaS solve concerns over security? Does private PaaS provide elasticity? What about flexibility in development language, and migration of existing applications?

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Implementing Private PaaS for a Secure Enterprise Cloud

Speakers:

John Rymer, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState

As corporate mandates on data security and privacy compliance drive enterprises to adopt cloud strategies, how do you leverage the benefits of a PaaS that is secure, private, and customizable if your company doesn't permit you to use a public PaaS?

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Application Portability in the Cloud: PaaS Delivers Holy Grail

Speaker:

Diane Mueller, Cloud Evangelist, ActiveState

The ability to move applications--for instance, from a private to a public cloud, or from one hosting provider to another--is a holy grail of cloud computing. But with a little planning, application portability in the cloud can be attained.

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US Patriot Act: Making the Case for Enterprise Private Cloud

Speaker:

Diane Mueller, Director Enterprise Product Management, ActiveState

Is the US Patriot Act causing you to hesitate on leveraging the cloud in your enterprise? Do you want to leverage the power of cloud computing but unsure what the security and privacy implications are for sensitive corporate data?...Despite all the hype about every application moving into the cloud, some practical patterns are starting to emerge in the types of data corporations are willing to move.

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Why Private PaaS Is Not an Oxymoron

Speakers:

Patrick Chanezon, Senior Director, Developer Relations, VMware

Bart Copeland, President & CEO, ActiveState

When you hear of PaaS, what typically comes to mind are names like Heroku, EngineYard, DotCloud, and CloudFoundry.com–hosted Public PaaS providers. But with the increasing focus on development of SaaS applications and some clear advantages to using in-house IT infrastructure, these PaaS providers have had some trouble gaining significant traction with enterprises despite obvious advantages.

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Stackato Overview: Private PaaS on a Micro Cloud, vSphere, or Amazon EC2

Speakers:

Diane Mueller, Director of Enterprise Product Management, ActiveState

Troy Topnik, Technical Communications Specialist, ActiveState

Stackato is the enterprise platform for creating a private PaaS -- but what does that mean for you and how does it work? In this webinar, see a live demo of setting up the Stackat Micro Cloud, deploying a Python (Django) application, and testing Stackato in our Sandbox and on Amazon EC2.

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ActivePython
 

Python: The Programmer's Lingua Franca

Speakers:

Troy Topnik, Technical Communications Specialist, ActiveState

Ingy döt Net, Senior Developer, ActiveState

Steadily growing in popularity, easy to read, easy to learn, and enthusiastically supported by a community drawn from diverse programming backgrounds, Python is starting to emerge as the new lingua franca - a common tongue that bridges language gaps within and between organizations. Learn how "Python as a Second Language" can increase efficiency within your organization.

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Improving Customer Experience Using ActivePerl and ActivePython

Perl and Python can be found in any number of places - on websites, in downloadable apps, in systems back-ends, on the cloud, and within enterprise software solutions. Parallels, a leader in virtualization and automation software, supports dynamic languages ActivePerl and ActivePython in its Plesk product to create a more seamless experience for their customers. Quality components and seamless installations make Parallels Plesk Panel, a server automation solution, a great choice for small business customers and hosting providers who require simplicity and reliability, and ActiveState helps to provide a solid solution within Plesk.

Join Blake Tyra, Plesk Panel Product Manager at Parallels, and Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState, the dynamic languages experts to learn how to:

  • Get to market faster and add easily add functionality with ActivePerl and ActivePython in your software products
  • Increase customer experience and satisfaction with language distribution integration
  • Reduce QA cycles with ensured quality components
  • Eliminate legal risks when distributing Perl and Python in commercial products

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The Continuing Evolution of Perl: Highlights of Perl 5.14 (30 minutes)

Perl 5.14 is here as promised. What impact will it have on your development plans for new applications and on the code you're already running? Should you be upgrading now?

In this webinar for Perl developers and system administrators, join Jan Dubois, Senior Perl Developer at ActiveState, and Troy Topnik, Technical Communications Specialist at ActiveState to learn:

  • What's new in Perl 5.14
  • Community version support policies
  • Refactoring or maintaining existing code
  • The new web frameworks: Mojolicious and Dancer
  • Running Perl applications in the cloud

If you are considering upgrading to Perl 5.14 or just want to know what's new - you'll definitely want to watch this webinar!

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How to Leverage the Power of Python for Processing Big Data (45 minutes)

The Python programming language is easy to learn and offers powerful features for working with large data sets that can greatly improve engineer and programmer productivity. If you’re used to working with Excel, learn how to get the most out of Python’s higher level data structures to enable super efficient data manipulation and analysis. Whether you’re working with large sets of financial data or scientific data, find out how you can use Python for rapid development to retrieve, convert, process and analyze large data sets. And you don’t even have to give up your Excel spreadsheets. Then, when it comes to processing large sets of data, discover options for faster data handling, including taking it to the cloud.

In this webinar, hear from Dr. Mike Müller, President of Python Academy, and Diane Mueller, Director of Enterprise Product Management at ActiveState, and learn about:

  • Processing and analyzing large sets of data using NumPy & SciPy
  • Using Python modules to read and write Excel files
  • Getting faster results by storing in the cloud

About the Speakers

Dr. Mike Müller is CEO of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany, specializing in Python teaching and consulting since 2004. An engineer who also works in research projects, he uses numerous scientific Python packages on a daily basis and teaches a course on "Python for Scientists and Engineers". He is a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), chairman of the PyCon DE conference 2011, runs a Python User Groups, and generally is passionate about developing the Python community. His training and consulting clients in Europe, US, and Asia include Deutsche Börse, Man Investments, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, German Aerospace Center, and more.

Diane Mueller is Director, Enterprise Product Management at ActiveState, where she is responsible for managing dynamic language solutions for the enterprise. She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at Fortune 500 corporations for over 20 years. With her passion for open standards in financial services, she has been actively involved in development efforts of XBRL for the past 11 years, and serves on the XBRL International Steering Committee. She is the host and editor of XBRLSpy.com. Before joining ActiveState, Diane held management and senior development roles at JustSystems, ACL, and Business Objects.

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How to Develop Mission Critical Applications with PyIMSL and ActivePython (45 min)

Rogue Wave’s Steve Lang and ActiveState’s Diane Mueller explore the benefits of using PyIMSL and ActivePython for developing your financial and scientific mission critical applications.  

Rogue Wave’s IMSL Numerical Libraries are a comprehensive set of mathematical and statistical functions that you can embed into software applications. These libraries save you time with pre-written mathematical and statistical algorithms that you can embed into your Python applications in financial, science, technical, and business environments. Access to the libraries is now available through PyIMSL wrappers in ActivePython, the commercial Python distribution pre-compiled with popular Python packages.

This session will show you how to ensure that your mission critical application will move faster from prototype to production with less complexity, cost and risk.  We will demonstrate the power of the combination of the ActivePython & Roguewave’s PyIMSL with a demonstration of an AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time series model commonly used for understanding and forecasting future values of non-stationary time series. Learn:

  • How to access the PyIMSL Libraries with ActivePython,
  • The breadth and depth of the analytic capabilities of PyIMSL and ActivePython, including a demo on time series forecasting
  • An example of charting using the matplotlib module
  • The benefits of using commercial algorithms in your development process
  • Additional feature that set PyIMSL’s AutoARIMA apart from other simple implementations

About the Speakers

Steve Lang, Senior Project Manager, Rogue Wave Software

Steve Lang has more than 20 years of experience with technical and engineering software technology. Steve brings valuable Visual Data Analysis (VDA) expertise to customers across a wide range of industries.  Steve was the Architect and Lead Developer of PyIMSL – Rogue Wave’s mathematical and statistical algorithms for Python. Earlier in his career, Steve established a Scientific Visualization Laboratory at Arizona State University. Steve has experience in Java, Python, GUI design, High Performance Computing, and Visual Data Analysis. Steve holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska and a Masters Degree in Liberal Arts from Arizona State University.

Diane Mueller, Director, Enterprise Product Management, ActiveState

Diane has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission-critical financial and accounting systems at Fortune 500 corporations for over 20 years. Diane has been actively involved in development efforts of XBRL Open Standard for the past 11 years. She serves on both the XBRL International Steering Committee and the Best Practices Board, chairing the software interoperability working group and the XBRL Rendering Technical Working Group, as well as an active member of the RIXML.org working group.

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Looking Ahead to Tcl 8.6 (46 minutes)

ActiveTcl 8.5 has become the standard on which people build their Tcl applications, but Tcl 8.6 is just around the corner. Currently in beta, Tcl 8.6 is expected to have a final release in 2011. What new tricks will 8.6 pull out of the hat? Should you start using Tcl 8.6 soon? Watch this webinar and find out.

Our resident Tcl expert Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState and long-time Tcl community leader and member of the Tcl Core Team, provides an overview of the major features in Tcl 8.6, including Tk. Starting with a new core OO system, going through improvements to string and list handling, and capping it off with lots of extras, this webinar covers the major changes in Tcl 8.6 and how to take advantage of them.

What you will learn:

  • Highlights of Tcl and Tk 8.6 features (OO, NRE, zlib, and more)
  • Why you would upgrade to Tcl 8.6
  • Best Practices for upgrading and data migration: what to watch for, what not to worry about

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Migrating from Matlab to Python (55 minutes)

More and more, financial engineers and quants are turning to Python because it enables fast development and is uniquely suited to their tasks: data preparation, model run automation and connecting existing programs. If you’ve ever used Matlab or other mathematical applications and been frustrated, attend this webinar and learn how Python and packages like NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib can help you achieve your goals faster.

Join Dr. Mike Müller, President of Python Academy, and Diane Mueller (no relation!), Director of Enterprise Product Management at ActiveState, and learn about:

  • Python’s capabilities for working with data and connecting existing programs
  • How NumPy and matplotlib provide functionality such as numerical calculations and plotting graphs similar to Matlab – yet are easier to use
  • Python’s capabilities for data processing and automating model runs
  • How Python’s features help quants with exceptionally readable syntax, automatic memory management, object-orientation, exception handling and lots of powerful libraries


About the Speakers

Dr, Mike Müller
Dr. Mike Müller is CEO of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany, specializing in Python teaching and consulting since 2004. An engineer who also works in research projects, he uses numerous scientific Python packages on a daily basis and teaches a course on "Python for Scientists and Engineers". He is a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), chairman of the PyCon DE conference 2011, runs a Python User Groups, and generally is passionate about developing the Python community. His training and consulting clients in Europe, US, and Asia include Deutsche Börse, Man Investments, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens, German Aerospace Center, and more.

Diane Mueller
Diane Mueller is Director, Enterprise Product Management at ActiveState, where she is responsible for managing dynamic language solutions for the enterprise. She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at Fortune 500 corporations for over 20 years. With her passion for open standards in financial services, she has been actively involved in development efforts of XBRL for the past 11 years, and serves on the XBRL International Steering Committee. She is the host and editor of XBRLSpy.com. Before joining ActiveState, Diane held management and senior development roles at JustSystems, ACL, and Business Objects.

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Exploring the Benefits of Embedding Dynamic Scripting Languages in Your Products (18 minutes)

ActiveState's Bart Copeland (Presidend & CEO) and Jeff Hobbs (Director, Engineering) explore why your company should consider OEM Licensing for dynamic scripting languages in your products.

In this webinar, you will learn how using ActiveState’s OEM solutions can:

  • save your developers’ time
  • help you get to market faster
  • differentiate your offerings
  • improve your customers’ experience with your products

If you are currently using or considering dynamic scripting languages for your next application, you don't want to miss this webinar!

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Smooth Transitions: Using Tcl 8.5 and Upgrading to Tcl 8.6 (50 minutes)

Many programmers are familiar with ActiveTcl 8.4, but 8.5 is the new standard and 8.6 is around the corner. These new releases bring many good and significant enhancements to Tcl when used properly. Join resident Tcl expert Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState and long-time Tcl community leader and member of the Tcl Core Team, as he reviews Tcl 8.5 and gives a sneak peak into what to expect from Tcl 8.6. From infinite precision math to new data structures and with several new commands, this webinar will cover in depth the major changes in Tcl 8.5 and how to take advantage of them, as well as a glimpse of Tcl 8.6. In addition to major changes in 8.5, he will review best practices and tips to ensure a successful migration.

Topics include:

  • Useful Tcl 8.5 features (expand and dict, bignums, namespaces and more)
  • Why you should upgrade to Tcl 8.6
  • Best Practices for upgrading and data migration: what to watch for, what not to worry about
  • Tcl 8.6 highlights

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Connecting the Dots: US SEC, ABS Mandates, Financial Modeling and Python (55 minutes)

Co-hosted by Ann Rutledge, R&R Consulting, and Diane Mueller, ActiveState, focused on the recent US SEC regulation, ABS Mandates, Financial Modeling and Python.

Recently, the US SEC published a proposal (33-9117) covering a series of new initiatives to address the current lack of transparency of asset-backed securities (ABS). This new series of SEC proposed initiatives are a way of putting "teeth" into Reg AB that would give the SEC (and the market) enough data to police and prevent events like the recent subprime crisis.

In this webinar, Ann Rutledge and Diane Mueller will discuss a new key technical requirement in the SEC proposal; the provision of a Python computer program and the market data required to properly monitor and analyse these complex ABS transactions. The role of the proposed program is to enable the capture of all the complicated terms of an ABS deal in code that can be used to analyze the cash flows in each deal and how the returns will get split up between different parties. Currently, investors, fund managers, and investment managers receive a complex, textual description of this information in the prospectus, which makes it difficult to perform or visualize a rigorous quantitative or if-then analysis of the asset-backed securities.

About the Speakers

Ann Rutlege is a founding principal of R&R Consulting. She received her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and her B.A. from Wellesley College, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. A Chicago-based commercial banker in the mid-1980s, Ms. Rutledge moved to the futures and options exchange world, where she worked on the floor of the CBOT and later consulted to the CEO of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange on essential reforms that included creating an audit trail, listing the Hang Seng Option contract and writing the first professional competency exam for options. In 1993, she became the Asian global manager of J.P. Morgan Securities’ futures brokerage business. In September 1995, Ms. Rutledge joined the structured finance group of Moody’s Investors Service. Ms. Rutledge is an adjunct assistant professor of asset securitization at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and visiting lecturer at the University of California at Irvine.

Diane Mueller is Director, Enterprise Product Management at ActiveState. She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at F500 corporations for over 20 years. Diane has been actively involved in development efforts of XBRL Open Standard for the past 11 years. She serves on both the XBRL International Steering Committee and the Best Practices Board, chairing the software interoperability working group and the XBRL Rendering Technical Working Group, as well as an active member of the RIXML.org working group.
 

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Keeping Up with Perl: Development, Upgrade and Deployment Options for Perl 5.12

With the growth in dynamic languages, Perl still rules the roost as “the duct tape of the Internet.” Now that Perl 5.12 and Perl Dev Kit 9 are available, are you ready to make the move? In this webinar for Perl developers and system administrators, join Jan Dubois, senior Perl developer at ActiveState, and Troy Topnik, technical writer at ActiveState to learn:

  • What’s new in Perl 5.12
  • What to do with legacy code
  • Assess if you need to upgrade
  • How to deploy quickly and efficiently
  • How to use CPAN and Perl Package Manger (PPM) for managing 3rd party modules
  • Deployment choices including web, system, desktop and utility applications

If you're starting to implement new applications with Perl, are considering upgrading systems, or are simply in need of a refresher to keep up-to-date, don’t miss this webinar.

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Best Practices in Managing Open Source Intellectual Property in the Enterprise

It seems that every day brings new debates about commercial software vs. open source software. Many people agree that open source options are gaining significant traction in enterprise development, but just what are you getting with that free product? Commercial open source vendors are able to provide much more than just the applications, including enterprise services, technical support, accelerated development, and indemnification/defense of IP claims. Join Robert Blasi, a patent attorney with Goodwin Procter and Bart Copeland, President and CEO of ActiveState, the Dynamic Language Experts for a discussion of current open source developments and the future of commercial products.

In this informative webinar, you’ll be able to:

  • Discover whether open source is truly free
  • Learn best practices for using open source software without the risk
  • Gain insight on trends and drivers for open source in the enterprise
  • Understand why commercial open source solutions can save dollars and time

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Putting Open Source Dynamic Languages Through the Licensing Test: A guide to most popular licenses and their implications (1 hour)

Open source software is becoming increasingly pervasive in the enterprise today. It is easily accessible online and included in products without full visibility into the diverse set of licenses that govern its use and redistribution. Often times, development teams are not fully aware how open source impacts the level of intellectual property (IP) and legal risk exposure.

There are many developers who bristle at the very use of the term “intellectual property.” The Free Software Foundation (FSF) places it among “Phrases that are Worth Avoiding”. There are effective solutions to minimize the level of legal exposure stemming from open source software and continue to use it to propel innovation, accelerate time to market and gain a competitive advantage.

Join Van Lindberg, acclaimed lawyer from Haynes and Boone LLP and author of the popular book Intellectual Property and Open Source and Bart Copeland, President and CEO of ActiveState, the Dynamic Language Experts to:

  • Understand the distinction between free software and open source software
  • Learn about the concepts of copyright, patents, copylefts and trademarks
  • Discover common open source licenses and their implications in enterprise development
  • Gain practical knowledge on how to protect your code and avoid IP issues
  • Get insights into effective commercial solutions to minimize legal exposure

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Safeguarding Against the Risks of Improper Open Source Licensing - Valuable Lessons for Software/Hardware Vendors (1 hour)

Industry-proven approaches exist to manage the risks related to improper open source licensing. These all begin with an understanding of how to institute an effective open source governance program and make use of turn-key solutions that are available to protect organizations from both operational and legal risks.

Join Greg Olson, Senior Partner at open source consulting firm Olliance Group and Bart Copeland, President and CEO of ActiveState, the dynamic languages company for an informative webinar to:

  • Investigate legal, operational and market risks associated with open source
  • Address common pitfalls with open source licensing
  • Identify proven tips for creating an open source governance program
  • Explore commercial open source options to mitigate open source legal and operational risks
  • Share effective steps to protect your organization against costly infringements

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Take Quality Products to Market Faster with Enterprise-Ready Dynamic Languages (1 hour)

Open source programming languages such as Perl and Python have the highest instance of open source use in an organization at 57% according to a recent Forrester Research survey conducted with Dr. Dobb's readers. As dynamic languages presence and importance increases, organizations will rely more on enterprise-ready dynamic languages to create higher quality products, to take products to market quicker and to conserve development time and costs for core competencies.

Join Lawrence Backman, VP, Quality Assurance at Computer Associates, one of the largest independent software companies in the world, and Jeff Hobbs, Director of Engineering at ActiveState, the dynamic languages experts to learn:

  • The value of enterprise-class dynamic languages for developing quality applications faster
  • How Computer Associates uses enterprise-ready ActivePerl to save development time and dollars
  • Open source licensing considerations and solutions to mitigate risk and ensure compliance

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