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Hi Everyone,
Please let me know, or register via the sysadmin website.
This month’s topic is “Virtualization” with IBM
Today’s organizations require efficient, affordable storage solutions that help keep up with exploding information demands. Yesterday’s storage solutions are not built to meet these new challenges.
IBM continues its commitment to delivering groundbreaking storage solutions. Our virtualization product suite will give you the scalability, manageability and enterprise-level capabilities that meet both your business needs and IT budgets.
• Storage tiering with solid state drives, scale-out-NAS, storage virtualization, and storage resource management.
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Storage efficiency. Reduce physical storage requirements by up to 50% and make future storage growth easier to accommodate. Use Real-Time Data Compression for your
Active and On-line NAS environments.
• Service Delivery. Improve service levels and beat expectations through better analysis, clearly demonstrate the business value of IT, and confidently support always-on applications.
• Data Protection. Shrink back-up windows and speed restore times to help meet recovery objectives more reliably and efficiently.
Join us on December 1st for an interesting discussion surrounding IBM’s technologies which will enable optimization; resulting in reduced complexity, increased utilization and reduced cost for your organization.
Biographies:
Dave Fairall – Field Technical Sales Specialist, IBM Storage
Dave has worked primarily with IBM's POWER servers and related operating systems and databases, and more recently, with IBM's STG Software and STG Storage product lines.
Over the years, Dave has been engaged in a wide variety of activities, including pre-sales work, systems planning, implementation and architecture, performance tuning (both server and database) and has taught a number of formal IBM education classes during his career. He has worked across a wide variety of industries including typical mid-market, large enterprise and local/provincial government accounts.
David Crinall – Field Technical Sales Specialist, IBM Storage
David‘s current role is as a Field Technical Sales Specialist (FTSS) focused on IBM‘s entire Storage and Tape portfolio. Some of the many technologies that David has experience with include Windows, Unix, Sun Cluster, Backup and Recovery (Netbackup, Legato, TSM), Archive (Storagetek, HP, IBM Tape libraries and drives), and Disk Storage (LSI, HDS, Sun, IBM enterprise, midrange, workgroup arrays).
Some of the roles that he has held in the more than 30 years he has spent in IT include Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and IBM, and IT Consultant. Some of his industry certifications and training include Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Professional, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Architect, and Project Management.
Our December meeting will be graciously sponsored by IBM Canada.
Details for the meeting:
Location: Rainmaker Entertainment Inc, 2025 W. Broadway, suite 500
Date and time: Thurs Dec 1st, from 6 PM to 8 PM.
Refreshments: Yes, we’re providing pizza and drinks. We can go to the pub next door after the meeting.
Very important: Our doors and elevators lock at 5:30 PM. We will have someone in the building lobby from 5:30 – 6:30. After 6:30 please phone 604-841-8330
Parking: Street parking and pay parking under our building if you enter from the back ally behind our studio
A rough agenda:
5:30PM: People can mingle in the Rainmaker lounge
6:00: Welcome and quick introductions
6:10: Presentation by IBM
7:xx: After the presentation we’ll have an open group discussion. Bring your questions, and hopefully others will have answers.
7:45: Screening 5-10 minutes of material from one of our studios.
8PM: Go to the pub or restaurant for beer.
Please let me know if you’re able to attend. Either by an email rsvp to me or an online rsvp via the Studiosysadmin website once we post the event.
Cheers,
Ron
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