IBM Events for July 2009
You are cordially invited.
One of my responsibilities is to keep you informed of the events for IBM Software products and solutions. This email covers the events in the Minneapolis area, as well as, the on-line and national events.
You can use the blue hotspots in this email to learn more about the products and solutions. Many IBM software events are FREE.
Click here for additional software events.
7/7/09 | 9 - 10 | Open Source Portals: Myth, Hype, or Reality? Go beyond software license fees when evaluating a portal solution | Web Conference | Click here to register. In today's economy, you're asked to do more with less. "Free" open source software seems appealing. But not every open source alternative to commercial software delivers the expected business results. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to gain insights on how to evaluate open source versus commercial portal alternatives.
7/7/09 | 10 - 11 | So You Say You are a Java Developer? - Development Practices with Rational Application Developer | Web Conference | Click here to register for this event. IBM Rational Application Developer helps Java developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE, Portal, Web/Web 2.0, Web services and SOA applications.
7/8 - 9/09 | 9 - 5 | Discovering the value of SOA using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. | Click here to learn more about this event. IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides a smart approach to SOA, delivering a standards-based connectivity and integration solution that allows you to create and deploy interactions quickly and easily between applications and services, with a reduced number and complexity of interfaces. Supports AIX, HP Unix, i family, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows, and z/OS operating systems.
7/9/09 | 10:30 - 12 | TSM FastBack Live Demo & Presentation | Web Conference | No registration needed. Click here for web conference information. | TSM FastBack is a next-generation data recovery and data protection software solution that gives clients the power to quickly restore any amount of Windows data, anywhere in the organization, from any previous point-in-time, following any type of data loss. Click here for a brief and here for an extensive video overview of TSM FastBack.
7/14 - 16/09 | 9 - 5 | Discovering the value of WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 for your ESB and SOA | | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. Click here to learn more about this event. IBM WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 is built for universal connectivity and transformation in heterogeneous IT environments. It distributes information and data generated by business events in real time to people, applications, and devices throughout your extended enterprise and beyond. Integrates multiple applications, networks, and device types using a platform-independent based enterprise service bus that lets you conduct business reliably and securely.
7/15/09 | 10 - 11 | Developing J2EE Applications, using IBM Rational Application Developer | Web Conference | Click here to register for this event. IBM Rational Application Developer helps Java developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE, Portal, Web/Web 2.0, Web services and SOA applications.
7/16/09 | 1 - 4 | 3 - 1 Hour Web Demonstrations on the following Tivoli products: SVC, TPC & TSM. Conducted by Sirius Computer Solutions, an IBM BP. | Webinar | Click here to learn more about this event and to register. Attend one event or all three.
• IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is designed to combine storage capacity from multiple disk systems into a single reservoir of capacity that can be better managed as a business resource and not as separate boxes and to help increase storage utilization by providing host applications with more flexible access to capacity.
• IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) provides basic storage resource management, extends existing management of a single storage system, provides capabilities such as storage reporting, monitoring, policy-based management, and storage provisioning.
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) delivers a broad range of storage management capabilities, including backup, archive, recovery, space management, database and application protection, enterprise resource planning (ERP), bare machine recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
7/22/09 | 3 - 4:30 | TSM FastBack Live Demo & Presentation | Web Conference | No registration needed. Click here for web conference information.
7/23/09 | 10:30 - 12 | TSM FastBack Live Demo & Presentation | Web Conference | No registration needed. Click here for web conference information.
7/28 - 29/09 | 9 - 5 | Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Upgrade Workshop | | IBM Technical Exploration Center, 650 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55402 | Contact me to register. | Click here to learn more about this event. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino software delivers a proven platform for collaborative business applications, messaging and workflow. It provides a reliable, security-rich messaging and collaboration environment for more than 46,000 companies worldwide, helping to increase employee productivity, facilitate decision making and improve overall responsiveness. IBM has leveraged its 20 years of leadership in business collaboration solutions to provide a new kind of desktop application that can help deliver an enhanced user experience, drive greater business value and boost IT performance.
Minnesota WebSphere User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.
Twin Cities SVC/TPC User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.
Central Region Security Tivoli User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.
Twin Cities Tivoli User Group (TCTUG) | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.
MNNotes411 (MN Lotus Notes User Group) | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.
Twin Cities Rational User Group (TC-RUG) | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.
North Central Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) User Group | No meeting scheduled at the moment. Please click on the hot spot above to learn more about this user group.
Please let me know if there are others who would be interested in and/or would benefit from learning about IBM software products and solutions. You are welcome to forward this email to them or provide me with their information and I will contact them.
Hopefully, you and/or others are able to attend some of these events.
Please let me know if you and/or others have any questions or if you want to register for any of these events.
Sincerely,