*BONUS* A "double" meeting
Please register for either or for both meeting segments
The "pre" meeting (starting 5:00 P.M. - registration at 4:45)
Presented by Tracy Smith, IBM
The "regular" meeting (cocktails, registration starting 6:00 P.M.)
Presented by Andy Chung, IBM
The one regular meeting price covers both meetings
Meetings will be held on April 18, 2007.
The "pre" meeting (starting 5:00 P.M. -
registration at 4:45)
The recent IBM Hardware announcements
- A new System i 515 Express for small businesses with up to 40 users.
- A new System i 525 Express for mid-sized businesses with
increased expansion options such as Capacity on Demand.
- Up to 6x performance improvement to power new solutions.
- Storage prices to drive new solution opportunities.
- Dramatic new flexibility in i5/OS licensing.
Tracy can be reached at tasmith@us.ibm.com.
The "regular" meeting (after-dinner topics)
All about VMware & Blade Center on System i
Have you ever had problems managing your Windows Servers? Come hear and SEE a better
way to manage your Windows Servers integrated with your System i.
The following areas will be discussed:
- Virtual Storage Management- manage all of your storage requirements together as
one versus a managing storage on individual servers.
- Combined Userid Management.- manage your userIDs for both OS/400 and Windows from iSeries
navigator, create them once and get both IDs created, both passwords created and both sets
of security permissions setup.
- Hot Spare Servers - a way that one extra Intel hardware resource can provide hardware
failover coverage for like Intel hardware integrated with the iSeries.
- Effective Change Management/Test Environment - how to introduce software updates, bug
fixes and service packs into your Windows environment safely and effectively to reduce
the chances of outages caused by change.
- Virtual Ethernet Communications - setup high speed server to server (Windows/Windows,
Windows/OS/400 etc.) network communications over the Virtual Ethernet network running on
the iSeries system bus.
- Consolidated Backup and Recovery - consolidate your backups for both OS/400 and your
Windows servers into one operation.
Andy Chung can be reached at aschung@us.ibm.com