IBM Power Systems and System Storage Technical Symposium

IBM Power Systems™ and System Storage™ Technical Symposium featuring IBM AIX/Linux, IBM i, and IBM System Storage is the premiere Power and Storage technical event.

This symposium is an intense, consolidated way to learn how you can reduce your operating costs, simplify your IT environment, access more solution providers and leverage the newest technology innovation — virtualization with the IBM POWER6™ technology. You’ll also learn how to take advantage of industry-leading IBM System Storage technologies such as solid state drives, full disk hardware encryption and data de-duplication.

Sharpen your competitive edge by honing skills and learning to exploit the latest Power System p™, Power System i™, and System Storage tools and solutions. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain new skills, obtain an update on what’s new, network with colleagues, and meet with our skilled subject matter experts in a professional networking collaboration of technical gurus and industry professionals like you.

Never has there been a better time to refresh your skills and learn about the new generation of technology at the same time.

Sessions will cover the latest announcements and product advances, including such areas of interest as:

• New features, tips and best practices for IBM POWER6™, IBM AIX® V6.1 and IBM i v6.1
• Workload consolidation delivering maximum ROI
• IBM PowerVM software to deliver industry-leading virtualization
• How to improve server utilization and share I/O resources for better total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Consolidation of Intel® and IBM i applications into a single chassis with the new blade servers and the IBM System i™ platform
• Best practices for a smooth migration to IBM POWER6 and IBM i v6.1 or IBM AIX V6.1 technology
• Dynamic reallocation tools and techniques to handle changing business cycles and surges in demand
• IBM Power Architecture® technology and the steps needed for a greener IT operation and financial advantage
• Enabling security, high performance and high availability for 24x7 operations
• IBM DB2® Web Query, PHP, MySQL, IP Telephony and IBM Lotus® Quickr™ software
• Tools that simplify the life of the system administrator
• Live partition Mobility and NPIV
• DS8000, including support for solid state drives (SSDs), full disk encryption and RAID 6.
• De-duplication using IBM's TS7650 ProtecTIER solutions
• IBM XIV Storage System implementation
• Storage management using Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
• Data protection and recovery using Tivoli Storage Manager Fastback
• IBM's tape encryption solutions using IBM’s Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager (TKLM) and IBM’s Encryption Key Manager

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The IBM Power Systems and System Storage Technical Symposium is intended for IBM customers, IBM Business Partners, IBM employees, Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators. The symposium is attended by technical specialists including:

• IT Managers
• System administrators
• Storage, NAS and SAN administrators
• System programmers
• Application programmers
• IT Architects
• Technical support managers
• Hardware planners
• Data centre managers
• Performance analysts
• Capacity planners
• Anyone responsible for managing or administering external storage on all server platforms across the enterprise

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