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If the summit is the highest level of achievement, in IT that can mean optimized performance, cost-effectiveness, faster delivery of services or achieving many other critical goals. Attend one of our seminars on mainframe technology for valuable insight into your enterprise so you can get to the summit and make smarter decisions along the way.

Business as usual is a thing of the past, as the introduction of IBM® zEnterprise™ is proving. In this era of reduced IT budgets and more demanding requirements, the unique capabilities of System z and zEnterprise are helping organizations optimize workload deployment on best fit technologies with a common management infrastructure that also helps drive down costs. This model integrates data serving and analytics for valuable insight and enables fast and flexible delivery of new services to drive innovation.

How do you take advantage of System z and zEnterprise? Our 2012 IBM System z Technology Summit is designed to give you practical tips, guidance on where to focus your efforts and sound ideas on how to develop a long-term plan for implementing what you learn in this seminar.

Track 1: zEnterprise – The ideal basis for Smarter Computing

Track 2: DB2 for z/OS Technical Update

Track 3: Smarter Development and Deployment

Track 4: Application Infrastructure Modernization for Business Agility

Track 5: Data Center Operations and Systems Management Update

For more information, please visit the 2012 IBM z Technology Summit page

System z Technology Summit

IBM's announcement of the zEnterprise "system of systems" has introduced a new dimension of computing that unifies the heterogeneous data center. With software optimized for it, and new software developed specifically for it, zEnterprise solves some of the common challenges faced by IT today, while preparing you for the private clouds of the future.

Technical sessions are grouped into five tracks defined by topic and job responsibility, with morning and afternoon sessions for each track. Find the track that’s right for you and click to see the full day’s agenda of in-depth sessions designed to solve specific IT issues and concerns. In addition, you can link to the abstract for each session, and these are also grouped by track.

Track 1: zEnterprise - the First System of Systems
Developed for: IT managers, IT enterprise architects.

Track 2: DB2® for z/OS® Technical Update
Developed for: Database architects, DBAs, database managers.

Track 3: Modern Application Development and Deployment
Developed for: Application architects, application developers, application development management.

Track 4: CICS Technical Update
Developed for: CICS application programmers, CICS application management.

Track 5: Data Center Operations and Systems Management Update
Developed for: Operations management, infrastructure architects, system programmers.