IBM Rational software podcast series

New Rational Developer for Power now supports Linux development in addition to AIX and IBM i. One "workbench" for all your Power development needs. Shell shares with common Eclipse offerings, as well as new RAD SE for Java tools. We also had a complete refresh of Rational compilers for Power. Listen to our Product Managers talk about the new fuctionality for Power developers which can make you more productive and your applications exploit the new technology of the Power hardware.

New Rational Developer for Power now supports Linux development in addition to AIX and IBM i. One "workbench" for all your Power development needs. Shell shares with common Eclipse offerings, as well as new RAD SE for Java tools. We also had a complete refresh of Rational compilers for Power. Listen to our Product Managers talk about the new fuctionality for Power developers which can make you more productive and your applications exploit the new technology of the Power hardware.

Need to gain control and insight over your end-to-end software lifecycle? The Rational Jazz platform is designed to be the "common glue" that can integrate a broad range of development tools, and help project teams collaborate, automate, and report across the software lifecycle. Join Robyn Gold and Pam Induni to learn what makes the Rational collaborative lifecycle management solution a game-changer.

Need to gain control and insight over your end-to-end software lifecycle? The Rational Jazz platform is designed to be the "common glue" that can integrate a broad range of development tools, and help project teams collaborate, automate, and report across the software lifecycle. Join Robyn Gold and Pam Induni to learn what makes the Rational collaborative lifecycle management solution a game-changer.

Achieving effective software delivery while keeping risks and costs in check is a difficult balancing act. With Cloud computing, you can reduce the high deployment costs of delivering software while maintaining quality, improve control and governance while speeding time to market and enhance the flexibility of software development and delivery processes. In this podcast, Steve Weaver and Jamie Knowles discuss new capabilities from IBM Rational around cloud computing, including Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing, Virtual Load Testing and Modeling and Automated Deployment for Cloud.

Software is an increasingly critical component of smart products and systems. Improving the quality of that software is traditionally seen as incurring increased development costs due to the need to implement more rigorous tools and processes. However, improved quality can also reduce development costs by eliminating constant replanning, reducing reworks costs and providing better predictability in project delivery timing. This podcast discusses the key quality management strategies to deliver such cost savings with improved product quality. Speaker: Moshe Cohen

Rational compilers can optimize your applications to work harder for you. Optimization is the process whereby compilers transform an application into a significantly more efficient version of itself. The compiler can recognize inefficient programming practices and transform them into more efficient ones. The program continues to behave as before but now runs smarter -- it can run faster, use less system resources, and exploit parallel programming to run multiple sections of the code simultaneously. Listen to Roland Koo, Product Manager, Compilers, discuss the new functionality that can be yours when you upgrade to the latest versions of the Rational compilers for Power Systems.

Our world is becoming smarter. Systems are being combined to deliver ever increasing value in ways that challenge our abilities to reason about, design and build. Discover the unique challenges posed on managing quality when systems are integrated to form a larger system of systems. Speaker: Dr. Bruce Douglass.

Web Application Security for Mid-Sized Businesses with Scott Crawford, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).

Software is assuming an ever-increasing role in the control of potentially dangerous equipment. As product development timelines continue to be compressed, how can development organizations apply the principles of agile methods to the development of highly-reliable and safety systems? Join Bruce Powel Douglass, Chief Evangelist for IBM Rational as he discusses how Agile Embedded development applies to high reliability, safety critical systems.

The third installment is focused on how developers can use neat tips and tricks to accelerate code development without compromising on quality. In fact, using automation and code testing and profiling tools that ship with Rational software delivery solutions can help dramatically improve the quality of the first code that goes through the door. Automating the builds and repetitive processes for complex deployments can save time and allow development and test teams to be more efficient and work with software as it's meant to be deployed. We'll discuss some easy methods to use during software development that can perform code analysis, static and dynamic testing, accelerated deployment through automation and best practices for producing better code even before it gets to the test team! Speaker: Adeel Omer.

Security has always hung upon, or been hung by, its weakest link. The complexity of today's systems has compounded the difficulty of defending them, not just because of the number of components, but because of the many sources from which they are drawn. Whether you are integrating an outsourced or opensourced application, or if you are interfacing with an outsourced service provider, security must be one of the areas where there is clear focus and detailed requirements. In this podcast, Jack Danahy, Worldwide Security Executive for Rational, talks about some recent events where more security transparency would have helped, and describes ways in which Rational can help to ensure the security and reputations of our clients.

Have you ever been involved in a software project and thought "There must be a better way to do this?" Software delivery is a challenging proposition, but there are steps that can be taken to reduce cost and risk, and still delivery applications and services on time and on budget. In this series, we'll examine five strategies software delivery teams can take to ensure application quality, while maintain a focus on cost and customer expectations. Speaker: Adeel Omer.

In this series, we are listing five strategies software delivery teams can take to ensure application quality, while maintain a focus on cost and customer expectations. In this fourth installment, we're going to talk about avoiding surprises. When developers add new functionality, or make fixes to address defects, what guarantee do they have that their changes will not adversely impact other areas of the application? The answer: none. The burden lies on quality management teams to ensure that intended changes have not caused unintended consequences. This is a repetitive task that can consume a significant amount of time -- leaving little time left to validate new functionality. To ensure full coverage, teams can employ test automation to help avoid these unpleasant surprises and free their time to focus on validation of new functionality. Speaker: Brian Bryson.

If your development team is still using poorly integrated agile planning, version control, defect tracking or build tools, now you have no excuse not to try Rational Team Concert but we should warn you, that our experience with other Rational Team Concert customers is once developers try it they dont want to use anything else! Speaker: Rolf Nelson.