IBM STG System x™ Technical University

 14 - 16 July 2008

Bangalore

Join IBM’s top technical experts and experience first hand why this conference is selected as ‘the’ premier technical training event of the year for IBM customers. The latest technologies delivered by IBM developers, networking with peers, hands-on labs and world recognised certification testing at a reduced price are a few of the reasons why you should join us in Bangalore!! Don’t miss your chance to choose from over 80 technical sessions, sharing insights with business experts, in a real collaboration of technical gurus and industry professionals like you!

Who should attend

STG AP Technical Universities are intended for IBM Customers, IBM Business Partners, IBM employees, Independent Software Vendors and System Integrators

• Information System (IS) managers
• System Analysts
• Operators
• IT Managers
• System administrators
• System programmers
• Application programmers
• IT Architects
• Technical support managers
• Hardware planners
• Data center managers
• Performance analysts
• Capacity planners

Why you should attend

• Gain skills to increase your productivity.
• Bring back information you can put to immediate use in your
• current environment.
• Save time and money while enhancing your skills - attending the conference is less expensive than attending individual classes.
• Make valuable professional contacts who can collaborate on both current and future projects.
• Meet the product developers and technical experts and discuss you company’s technical issues.
• Investigate new productivity tools or new products. Imagine the time savings when you can examine products from multiple exhibitors right at the Product Expo.
• Meet with the IBM pSeries developers, and watch detailed, customised product demonstrations on POWER5 and Linux.

Registration

Fee provides access to all keynote and elective sessions, workshops, panel discussions, conference proceedings, meals, refreshments and conference events mentioned in the conference agenda.The conference welcome desk will be open for registration July 13th beginning at 17:00 until 19:00. During this time, you will be able to register for the conference. At that time, you will receive your conference badge and welcome pack.The conference welcome desk will remain open for the entire duration of the event, from 8:00 until 18:00 on Monday, Tuesday and from 8:00 until 13:30 Wednesday

Agenda

The conference content is designed around a number of topic tracks. Each track will include content to suit all levels of expertise from novice through expert delivered as presentations, presentations with demos and small group hands on labs. As ever our speakers will include product developers, implementors and subject matter experts.Just a few of the topics include:

• Blade Network Technologies
• Building SAN Solutions with Brocade
• Clustering Solutions and Supercomputing with System x
• Configuring the IBM BladeCenter and BNT (Nortel) switches with iSCSI and Netapp (lab)
• Introduction of IBM Storage Products
• Disaster Recovery in a Virtualized Environment Workshop (lab)
• DataCenter Power and Cooling Management, including CoolBlue
• IBM BladeCenter S and HC10 (demo)-
• Storage and IO sizing for VI3
• IBM Virtualisation Sizing