3/1/2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
BREAK FREE from high maintenance analytics - New York City
Join us for this executive seminar on the benefits of advanced analytics with IBM Netezza and also learn why hundreds of customers are migrating from Oracle to DB2.
Hear from two IBM experts. We will explore the power of high-speed analytics to gain valuable business insights to maintain a competitive edge in this ever changing business world.
Executive Seminar followed by cocktail reception at the 21 Club, New York City.
Location
21 Club
21 West 52nd Street
New York City, NY
3/8/2012
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
TECHbiz Learning Course: Enhancing Efficiency with IBM Storage/Back-Up Solutions
About this Course: If you’re trying to accommodate up to 40 percent annual data growth, on a limited budget, let this course show how you can achieve greater efficiency with IBM Storage and Back-up Solutions. It addresses five essential technologies you can employ to manage ever-growing storage needs by adding core capabilities without adding complexity. Data compression, data deduplication, and thin-provisioning help satisfy demands – using what you already have on the floor – while reducing power, space, and cooling requirements. Storage virtualization can improve disk utilization up to 30% and administrator productivity by 2X, while achieving online data movement among different types of storage from leading disk storage manufacturers to resolve I/O hotspots, provide load-balancing and optimize storage costs. And automated tiering, allows you to move data to the appropriate drive tier dynamically, based on on-going performance monitoring. What you will learn: -Lowering capital requirements and operating expenses to help your business gain a competitive advantage -Understanding how to apply essential storage technologies to improve efficiency and increase flexibility in demanding business environments -Maximizing system availability by minimizing planned downtime and eliminating downtime normally associated with storage migrations. Other courses of interest: -Optimization and Efficiency of Storage Infrastructures -Improving SAN and Storage Replication Infrastructures
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
3/8/2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
TECHbiz Learning Course: Optimization and Efficiency of Storage Infrastructures
About this Course: Efficiently meeting the demands of growing data storage and back-up requirements—when those requirements are growing at 20-40 percent per year—demands a dramatic change in management strategy. That is why this technical track course uses sound business rationale—reduced cost, improved productivity, and minimized risk—to introduce more efficient infrastructure configurations: Real-time data compression to shrink active data up to 80% without degrading performance. Virtualization to improve storage utilization as much as 30%. Thin-provisioning to free up pre-allocated space. And data de-duplication to reduce capacity requirements to a fraction of their previous levels. This course is a perfect complement to our management-track course on Enhancing Efficiency with IBM Storage/Back-up Solutions. What you will learn: -An overview of storage optimization, including design and implementation benefits -Calculating ROI on resource-efficient technologies; data compression, storage virtualization, thin provisioning, and de-duplication -Design concepts and best practices for deploying greater storage efficiency in the data center. Other courses of interest: -Enhancing Efficiency with IBM® Storage/Back-up Solutions -Improving SAN and Storage Replication Infrastructures
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
3/8/2012
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
BREAK FREE from high maintenance analytics - Philadelphia
Join us for this executive seminar on the benefits of advanced analytics with IBM Netezza and also learn why hundreds of customers are migrating from Oracle to DB2. Hear from two IBM experts. We will explore the power of high-speed analytics to gain valuable business insights to maintain a competitive edge in this ever changing business world. Executive Seminar followed by Dinner and Cocktails.
Location
Parx Casino
2999 Street Road
Bensalem, PA
3/15/2012
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
TECHbiz Learning Course: HA/DR Solutions for IBM i Environments
About this Course: IT contingency planning covers a lot of ground—including hardware, software, and management structures for replication, disaster recovery, and high availability. This course for small, medium, or large enterprise users of IBM i systems addresses all of those strategies under the umbrella of Rocket iCluster®—a logical replication solution for the IBM i operating system. You’ll discover how to mirror mission-critical data and objects from a primary system to one or more secondary systems in real time, enabling options for both high availability and disaster recovery solutions in one approach—with fully or partially automated role swapping for switchover or failover. The course also addresses the use of tape virtualization as a medium in your backup recovery environment for benefits of storage consolidation and faster data restore processes. What you will learn: -Benefits of Rocket iCluster and tape virtualization for HA and disaster recovery solutions -An easy-to-use software-based approach to high-availability solutions -Data replication set-up strategies for protecting mission-critical applications -Aggressive recovery solutions that can scale up to more than two billion transactions per hour. Other courses of interest: -New Efficiencies in IBM i 7.1 Installations -Pushing BRMS for IBM i to its Maximum Efficiency
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
3/15/2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
TECHbiz Learning Course: New Efficiencies in IBM i 7.1 Installations
About this Course: Don’t underutilize the latest IBM i 7.1 operating system features that can help you to run more productively and more efficiently. This course will help you harness the maximum available opportunities, more quickly and completely. Gain the insights needed to capitalize on the enhanced features of i 7.1, Including workload optimizing systems, dynamic energy optimization, gaining resiliency without downtime, and virtualization without limits. You’ll be prepared to turn the highly scalable and virus resistant architecture into with an operating system that does more than just run your hardware. It will help you deliver new value in terms of your ability to innovate and fully integrate your business applications. What you will learn: -Exchange information among customers and suppliers, more completely and efficiently -Enhance system management for serving Web applications and for Systems Director Navigator for i -Capitalize on virtualization enhancements for IBM i hosted partitions and IBM PowerVM® -Take maximum advantage of storage management enhancements for solid state drives. Other courses of interest: -HA/DR Solutions for IBM i Environments -Pushing BRMS for IBM i to its Maximum Efficiency
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
3/15/2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
TECHbiz Learning Course: Pushing BRMS for IBM i to its Maximum Efficiency
About this Course: Are you applying Backup, Recovery, and Media Services (BRMS) for IBM i to maximum benefit in your IT environment? Many users do not. This course addresses not only what you might achieve with BRMS archiving, but also how easy it is to implement previously untapped capabilities. Beyond just automating the creation and backup of your archival library, BRMS simplifies the process of structuring and recording your archiving scripts. That makes it easier to enhance front-line storage capacity and efficiency by archiving rarely accessed data, and easier to retrieve that data quickly and with pinpoint accuracy, whenever you need it. This is one 90-minute investment that will continue to pay dividends every time you archive or retrieve stored data. What you will learn: -Archive and back-up critical historical files (such as tax records) with a built-in roadmap for retrieving them -Take archival “snapshots” of data warehouse files every time you refresh them (weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.) -Use a graphical user interface running on a single desktop to manage BRMS functions across multiple systems. Other courses of interest: -HA/DR Solutions for IBM i Environments -New Efficiencies in IBM i 7.1 Installations
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
3/21/2012
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Alfresco Lunch & Learn - Document Processing Solutions for Finance & Insurance
Alfresco is the leader in open source enterprise content management systems with over 2500 customers globally.
Topics: Overview of Alfresco's ECM Solutions including 4.0, Cloud Connected Content, Cloud Scale Performance, Social Channel Publishing, Customer Presentation & Case Study; Document Processing Solutions for Financial & Insurance Co.'s
Location
The Embankment Restaurant - Jersey City, NJ
234 10th Street
Jersey City, NJ
4/5/2012
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
TECHbiz Learning Course: Virtualization and Consolidation with IBM® POWER Systems™
About this Course: Workload consolidation offers big savings in terms of host hardware efficiency. But taking maximum advantage of high compression ratios (4x-10x), available with applications such as Oracle’s Exadata database running on a single server, means choosing the optimum hardware/software platform. This course will show you what other users have discovered about consolidation—in terms of optimized workloads, improved server utilization, and reduced energy and licensing costs—when using IBM Power Systems with PowerVM® server virtualization. A certified IBM instructor will demonstrate business benefits of this virtualization and consolidation approach, along with insights into how you can achieve similar results in your applications.
What you will learn: -Why more than 2,000 Sun® and HP® customers have migrated their Oracle workloads to IBM Power Systems -How to gain the resiliency to optimize workloads and reduce energy consumption without downtime -How to take advantage of your opportunities to achieve virtualization without limits. Other courses of interest: -The POWER® of PowerVM™ for Virtualization -Best Practices for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Implementation
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
4/5/2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
TECHbiz Learning Course: The POWER® of PowerVM® for Virtualization
About this Course: Learn your options and opportunities of harnessing virtualization technology for greater efficiency and economy, through a blend of broad-view tutorials and in-depth demos on IBM Power Systems™ hardware capable of running AIX, Linux, and IBM i operating systems concurrently. This course takes you from technology concepts through practical considerations to concrete tactical steps for implementation—in just a few hours. If you are responsible for optimizing enterprise IT resources, you’ll benefit from learning where to concentrate your efforts and identifying which common pitfalls to avoid. A certified IBM instructor will answer your in-depth technical questions from a perspective of economic viability that your managerial decision-makers will appreciate. What you will learn:
-Understanding when virtualization makes sense and how to virtualize—disk I/O, network I/O, AIX images -Opportunities for boosting service levels and ROI through optimum utilization of IT resources -Maximizing availability through rapid scaling, partition mobility, consolidating diverse workloads -Best practices and methods for virtualization on IBM Power Systems platforms. Other courses of interest: -Virtualization and Consolidation with IBM® Power Systems™ -Best Practices for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Implementation
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
4/12/2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
TECHbiz Learning Course: Best Practices for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Implementation
About this Course: Learn how to implement virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization software that is optimized to take advantage of Intel and AMD Virtualization Technology. This course addresses a brief overview of Microsoft’s Virtualization Technology, when virtualization makes sense, and the architecture and requirements of Microsoft Hyper-V. Live demos of high-availability options and a review of real-world deployments help link the theoretical concepts to practical outcomes—such as reducing the cost and energy footprint of your data center, reducing complexity, increasing functionality, and improving performance, reliability, and protection. You will leave better informed on how to evaluate, plan, and implement virtualization for optimum results.
What you will learn: -Reducing IT costs by consolidating diverse workloads in your Intel or AMD environment -Improving service levels and boosting ROI through optimum utilization of enterprise IT resources -Minimizing planned downtime and maximizing system availability by moving live workloads between servers -Employing best practices for server configuration, virtual machine installation, clustering, and high availability Others courses of interest: -Virtualization and Consolidation with IBM® Power Systems™ -The POWER® of PowerVM® for Virtualization
Location
Solution Centers
Micro Strategies Solution Centers 85 Bloomfield Ave, Denville, NJ and 1200 Atwater Drive, Suite 165, Malvern, PA
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