Highlighted session - IBM System Storage Technical University

Attend the 'Optimizing Your Storage Infrastructure' session at the IBM System Storage and System x Technical University next week to learn how IBM Systems Lab Services can help you identify strategies to control storage costs and effectively manage storage growth.  In this session you will gain an understanding of storage best practices and how other business are applying these to address their most challenging storage issues.  Sample Return on Investment (ROI) analyses will also be discussed to show potential real savings that may be realized by implementing these improvements. 

Session times are as follows:
Wednesday, July 28:  9:00am-10:15am, Lincoln 3 room
Friday, July 30, 10:30am-11:45am, Maryland B room

Last chance to enroll in special training for sellers on System x and Storage!

This is the last week to enroll in one of the three IBM System Storage and System x Technical University pre-conference classes. The classes are the weekend prior to the System x and System Storage Technical Universities in Washington, DC.  The Conferences are co-located, July 26-30, at the Marriott Wardman Hotel and the pre-conference classes will be Saturday / Sunday, July 24 & 25 at the conference hotel.

The System x pre-conference class is the IBM System x Technical Certification.  The System Storage pre-conference class is the IBM XIV Technical Training class. You must be enrolled in one of the Technical Universities to enroll in a pre-conference class.

When Business Partners use Partner Reward Vouchers to pay for both the Technical University and a pre-conference class, then co-pay for both events is waived.  To learn more about these pre-conference classes for sellers, click here.

NEW! Be our guest at the Technical Universities Solution Center Open House - PART 2

Have you ever wanted to see the latest storage and x86 solutions from a premiere list of technology companies all in one place? Now is your chance.

Be our guest for hot hors d'oeuvres, open bar and the latest technology in the marketplace.

RSVP required by July 22 to Donna Hiland; include your name, job title, company name and email address for our return confirmation.

This is a great opportunity to visit with premier solution providers all in one place to discuss the latest in storage and x86 server environments.

Other featured companies include:
· IBM Systems Lab Services and Training
· Adaptive Computing
· Broadcom
· Ciena
· Coolcentric
· Double-Take Software
· DTS Software
· IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage
  (SONAS)
· IBM Storage Management for a Smarter Planet    

· IBM System Storage® TS7610 ProtecTIER®
  Deduplication Appliance Express
· IBM System x® Skills Enablement and Tools
· IBM Tape Storage Media
· IBM XIV® Storage System
· Imation
· Mellanox Technologies
· Red Hat

Special offer: One-day pass
Why not make a day of it and visit the University with a special one-day pass ($600) to see how you can build your skills, gain industry knowledge and strategic insights for future data center planning? Just visit the on-site registration desk at the event and pay with a credit card. Limit of one per customer. This special pricing is mutually exclusive of any other discount, and the one-day passes are available for any day of the Conference. For more information, you can view the event website to see the agenda or contact Donna Hiland.

IBM Storage and System x Technical Universities
July 26 – 30, 2010
Marriott Washington Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Our IBM Technical Universities offer the most popular training format available to customers today. It is 4-and-a-half days of deep-dive technical training from beginner to advanced. You can customize your agenda from more than 200 sessions and hands-on labs, and even augment your resume with on-site discounted certification testing.

Are you going? Storage and System x in the spotlight. PART 1

Have you seen the tweets and Facebook comments? If not, join in on the conversation about one of our big IBM Systems events. Today is the first day of the IBM POWER Systems and System Storage Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. If you did not get a chance to get to that one there are still other POWER events coming this year! Check out the new Systems Conference Series page for a comprehensive view.

Should you be participating in that event or any future event please feel free to mention is on Twitter using #ibmtechu or visit us on Facebook and let us know what you think.

Today we will share some of the highlights of the upcoming co-located IBM System x Technical University and IBM System Storage Technical University in Washington DC, July 26-30 that provides IT Managers, Program Managers, IT Architects, System and Application Programmers, Storage Specialists, Capacity Planners, Federal Systems Integrators and other IT professionals with a chance to upgrade their skills and gain a better understanding of IBM's System Storage and System x strategies.

Here you go... Part 1 of the HIGHLIGHTS in no particular order! Stay tuned to read more about what you could see, learn and people you can network with at these events. Stay tuned to read more!

1. One of the largest IBM Solution Center/EXPO's
2. A NEW Federal Track, makes sense since we will be in Washington D.C.!
2. See these people there, and hear what they have to say:

• Dave McQueeney, VP and CTO, IBM Federal, will discuss strategic and urgent needs of clients supporting the Federal Government infrastructure.
• Maria Azua, VP, Cloud Computing Enablement, will discuss the Common Cloud Platform Living Lab, IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud.
• Doug Balog, VP, Disk Storage Business Line Executive, will discuss Storage offerings that enable smart movement and management of information and capacity growth without added complexity.
• Clod Barrera, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, will discuss System Storage trends and directions.
  John Borkenhagen, Chief Engineer, System x, will discuss the System x and BladeCenter trends and directions 
• Jim Rymarczyk, IBM Fellow, will discuss Virtualization and Cloud Computing. 
• Roland Hagan, VP, System x Business Line Executive, will discuss eX5, the next leap forward in x86 server architecture and design. 
• Doc Shankar, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Federal, will talk about private cloud computing and what issues customers should consider when building and securing a private cloud.
• Chris Molloy, Distinguished Engineer, will share with customers how IBM can has helped customers retrofit, extend the life of, and leverage multiple data centers to address high availability issues. He will also discuss what IBM has learned through retrofitting it's own data centers and the future of data centers.
• Janet Beaver, Senior Manager, Americas Facilities Planning, will talk about the greening of the data center and the strategies customers can implement to improve energy efficiency, clean up floor space, and reduce power consumption needs.  
• Louis Capps, Client Architect, Federal High Performance Computing, IBM Federal, will discuss high performance computing and the direction it's headed.
• Bruce Brown, Client Technical Architect, IBM Federal, will talk about IBM's UAV Monitoring solution and its applicability to law enforcement, defense, civil security, border security, weather tracking, and critical infrastructure surveillance.
• Calvin Powers, Security Architect and Strategist, will discuss the current issues and solutions surrounding Cybersecurity
• Richard Swain, Storage Technical Sales Specialist, will discuss SONAS, cloud storage, consolidation and management of massive file-based storage 
  
  And many more topics including Virtualization, POWER7, SONAS, and System z solutions.