2012 IBMSmartCloud Symposium

• General Information
• Highlights and Featured Sessions
• Registration and Tuition Savings Offers
• Keynote and Featured Speakers

• Hotel and Travel
• Week at a Glance and Event Guide
• Certification
• Solution Center Packages

• Cancel/No Show Policy
• Sponsor/Exhibitor List
• Pre-Conference Class for IBM Business Partners and IBMers

• Overview

• Why attend? A new category of system emerges

• Who Should Attend

Date

Location

Duration

Tuition

April 16-19, 2012

San Francisco, CA

4 days

USD $1,995 

(Enrollment in this event includes enrollment in IBMSmartCloud Symposium, IBM Power Systems Technical Symposium, and IBM System z Technical Symposium. All three for the price of one!)

Overview

Rethink IT. Reinvent Business.

Join us for the 2012 IBMSmartCloud Symposium event on 16-19 April 2012 in San Francisco, California. This Symposium will help you Rethink IT and Reinvent Business.

This event will introduce Cloud Computing’s disruptive potential to not only reduce cost and complexity but reinvent the way we do business. Over the course of four days, there will be sessions that define cloud computing and discuss transformative benefits and challenges to consider while sharing specific, proven patterns of success. We will provide proven methods to get started on the Cloud journey from the up-front investments to capacity planning. This event will cover the technology behind private and public clouds whether you choose to build your own, leverage prepackaged solutions or have it delivered as a service.

Sessions will explore challenges and solutions for securing, virtualization and performance of mission critical applications as well as automating service delivery processes for cloud environments. We will help you: design, deploy and consume.

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Why attend? A new category of system emerges

This is the opportunity to move beyond discussions and myths and into the world of cloud computing, increasing opportunity, productivity and return on investments.

A new category of system emerges!

The time has come for a new breed of system to deliver IT at the speed of business:

• It’s a smarter computing approach. A new category. Expert integrated systems combine the flexibility of general purpose system, the elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an appliance tuned to the workload – fundamentally changing both the experience and economics of IT.
• Expert integrated systems will dramatically speed the deployment of new IT processes and services and reduce many of the risks and inefficiencies that are inherent in today’s fixed, deterministic IT solutions.

The excitement is building.

• eWeek: IBM to Introduce New Systems With 'Integrated Expertise'
• ZDNet: IBM eyes new systems with ‘integrated expertise’ built in
• ZDNet: IBM SVP discusses success behind integrated systems trend

IBM Executives give these perspectives

• Steve Mills
• Rod Adkins

Attending IBM SmartCloud Symposium will be your opportunity to talk to the experts and take a deep dive into the emergence of a new category of system referred to as "expert integrated systems".

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Who Should Attend

This event is intended for IBM customers, IBM Business Partners, IBM employees, Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators, such as:

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