Power of AIX Webcast Series — Winter 2012

Each of the sessions in this series will be presented by industry analyst experts, and in the first session you will learn about how Power Systems is optimized for Cloud computing and how you can deploy an agile cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) . In the later sessions you'll hear from experts about how Watson has changed the landscape of data analytics, and you'll also learn more about business resiliency trends and best practices for a highly resilient infrastructure.

Session 1: Cloud Computing and Infrastructure as a Service
Thursday, February 2, 2012– 2 p.m Eastern time, 11 a.m. Pacific time

Cloud computing changes the way we think about technology. By deploying technology as a service, you give users access only to the resources they need, avoiding paying for unused infrastructure resources. Cloud computing can also go beyond cost savings by allowing your users to access the latest software and infrastructure services to foster business innovation. IBM SmartCloud™ Entry is an agile cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform designed to provide rapid access to security-rich, enterprise-class virtual server environments, well suited for development and test activities and other dynamic workloads. Ideal for both IT and application development teams, the IBM SmartCloud delivers cloud-based services, systems and software to meet the needs of your business. Join industry analyst Tony Iams, SVP & Senior Analyst from Ideas International who will discuss the business advantages of using PowerVM® and Power Systems for your cloud infrastructure.

Session 2: Data Analytics -- How Watson changed the art of the possible
Thursday, March 1, 2012– 2 p.m Eastern time, 11 a.m. Pacific time

Watson's success in the Jeopardy! Challenge was inspiring, but the business impact of optimized systems design is just beginning. With optimized analytics solutions on IBM Power Systems, you can put Watson's technology to work and ensure that you find the answers for your business needs. Join us in this discussion on the benefits of running your business analytics workloads on Power Systems servers.

Session 3: Business Resiliency Trends and Best Practices
Thursday, March 29, 2012– 2 p.m Eastern time, 11 a.m. Pacific time

Business continuity and resiliency is vital to business success, and in today's global economy, the need for a highly reliable and stable server platform has never been more important. With client expectations driving demands for higher service levels, the cost of downtime is higher than ever. CIOs expect their IT teams to design and test effective data center resiliency strategies to avoid both scheduled and unscheduled outages. Join this webcast to hear leading industry analysts from IDC present their viewpoints on business resiliency trends and best practices, featuring their research on how Power Systems servers can contribute to a highly resilient infrastructure.

Power of AIX Webcast Series — Available on demand

What's new with the Power Systems Software Portfolio

Reducing complexity while increasing IT efficiency is a key datacenter design criteria of a well managed and smarter datacenter. This session reviewed the recently announced enhancements to the Power Systems software portfolio, including the new security and compliance product, PowerSC, and the new capabilities to both PowerVM™ and AIX. This session provided the attendee with the information they need to better understand how Power's new software enhancements can help provide an environment that's more secure, efficient and resilient.

Power Systems Optimized for Analytics

Watson’s success in the Jeopardy! Challenge was inspiring, but the business impact of optimized systems design is just beginning. With optimized analytics solutions on IBM Power Systems, you can put Watson's technology to work and ensure that you find the answers for your business needs. Learn the benefits of running your business analytics workloads on Power Systems servers.

Why AIX on Power is the right platform for you

This session provided an in-depth discussion of the advantages of AIX on Power versus other platforms, including Linux on x86. Included in this session were the results from a study done by ©Solitaire Interglobal Ltd.(SIL), a leading provider of deep detailed analytical information, that compares the capabilities of AIX on Power with Linux on x86.  A general update on AIX was also provided.

Are you using virtualization to get the maximum efficiency and cost savings from your AIX systems? Are you writing job schedule scripts to handle dependencies, date variables, and job conditions? Do you need to log in to your systems in the evenings or weekends to monitor your job flows? Do you use CRON to schedule across your virtual partitions?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, listen to this replay for a quick introduction to IBM PowerVM editions for AIX and Skybot Scheduler the enterprise job scheduler for AIX, Linux, , and Windows.

Cloud on AIX

This session reviewed the emerging market for enterprise cloud computing solutions using virtualized AIX workloads and PowerVM™ Enterprise Edition on Power Systems servers. A growing number of IBM clients with demands for enterprise cloud solutions that offer superior scalability, reliability and performance are deploying AIX workloads on POWER7™ based systems. Businesses want to obtain superior results, more than what is possible when using commodity systems. Clients seeking such solutions now have several Power Cloud options, from customized configurations through to the ready-made IBM CloudBurst™ product offering.

IBM AIX Systems Management on the Power platform

Reducing complexity while increasing IT efficiency is a key data center design criteria of a well-managed and smarter data center. AIX Enterprise Edition, an integrated systems management solution consisting of both Power Systems’ and Tivoli® management tools, provides data centers with the capability to discover and map their IT resources, manage the health and availability of those resources and provide the necessary tools to manage and plan for the growth of their data center. The session included a discussion on best practices to manage a smarter data center, with practical experiences on how to plan, design and implement AIX Enterprise Edition to get the most out of your data center.

PowerHA, the Power of Integration

This webcast, featured an analyst from the Edison Group, focusing on key characteristics of a cross platform solution verses the PowerHA® SystemMirror solution for AIX environments. Based on a white paper developed by the Edison Group, the webcast will brought out some of the key findings from the study which will be a useful tool for IT decision makers. The Edison Group white paper is offered as a download.

Get 'er Done: Workload Automation in the Modern Enterprise 

The brave new world of Internet application delivery was supposed to eliminate such antiquated IT concepts as "batch processing". But if anything, the need to reliably schedule recurring application processes for database extracts, data warehousing, and business intelligence has increased the need for critical back-end computing. Those workload automation processes must run securely, in the proper sequence, with prerequisite checking and the ability to recover from run time anomalies. In this presentation you'll learn the fundamentals of process scheduling, how to ensure back-end processing is secure, reliable and resilient, and how dependency mapping can prevent a small workload automation failure from snowballing into a disaster.

Virtual Conferences

Power IT Pro Virtual Conference

This is the first Power IT Pro Virtual Conference offering you updates, education, and in-depth technical exploration on topics for Power Systems and AIX users. This FREE virtual conference features industry experts from IBM and other independent AIX experts. This event offers insight and updates around the innovation, trends, and experiences of Power IT professionals putting AIX and Power Systems solutions to work like never before.

Power IT Pro Virtual Conference 

Register today for the Power IT Pro Virtual Conference and gain insight on the innovation, trends, and experiences of Power IT professionals who are putting AIX and Power Systems solutions to work like never before! Learn from the best -- including, Mel Beckman, Jeff Carey, Rob McNeilly and more.