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Welcome, developers!
Last day of Impact 2012: As this extraordinary conference draws to a close, many participants are looking
back on the week in Las Vegas and assessing its true impact. There are, however, a couple of announcements that
we found particularly buzz-worthy.
First, IBM is now offering two ways to test
drive the powerful new IBM PureSystems family of solutions at no charge: With our cloud-based trial,
you can develop, test, and deploy applications in a secure cloud environment, and take advantage of built-in patterns of
expertise; or, you can download the IBM Virtual Pattern Kit for Developers and extend IBM patterns locally
on your own system. Either way, it's easy to get familiar with these flexible, expert integrated systems. What else? The
new developerWorks WebSphere
Request for Enhancement (RFE) community gives you a unique opportunity to collaborate directly with WebSphere product
development teams and other product users in an online community environment. Here's your chance to influence the WebSphere
decision makers!
Those of you who weren't able to make it to the conference can join the conversation on Twitter (#IBMPureSystems #dev), or
check out Scott Laningham's video
interviews from the lavish Venetian Resort, which capture the key takeaways of Impact 2012. Although by now, Scott's
probably on his way home ... assuming he made it past the LAVO Nightclub.
Until next week,
John Swanson and the developerWorks editorial team
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IBM workshop in Zurich: WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance
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IBM PureSystems: Cloud-based trial (beta)
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IBM PureSystems: IBM Virtual Pattern Kit for Developers
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Create and customize virtual application patterns: Add components and capabilities
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Platform-as-a-Service virtual application patterns are realized by
supporting a combination of application-centric deployment models,
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how developers can start creating and customizing virtual application patterns with the IBM Workload Plug-in Development
Kit.
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Manage application services with virtual application patterns
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a virtual application pattern.
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Data transformation with IBM Netezza Appliance using InfoSphere Data Masking
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