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.
Led by IBM experts, these in-depth sessions cover a wide range of topics, including:
- Unified management and control of multiple computer systems
- High-speed analytical capabilities that give you a competitive edge
- Provisioning the private cloud
- Live, in-action problem-solving using IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions
- Changing your business processes without performing any actual coding
- Unified Resource Manager APIs that help to build and manage workloads
zEnterprise leverages the proven strengths of the mainframe — availability, security, flexibility, manageability and recoverability — to drive application development, enterprise performance and overall productivity to new heights so you can turn insight into action.
Dates and Locations
| Locations | Dates |
|---|---|
| Columbus, OH | May 22, 2012 |
| Chicago, IL | May 30, 2012 |
| San Francisco, CA | June 12, 2012 |
Available Tracks
Our 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 on the latest software technology and how it can help you solve specific IT issues and concerns. In addition, you can link to the abstract for each session, and these are also grouped by track.
The day begins with:
8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast and registration
8:30 a.m. Introductions and program overview
9:15 a.m. Breakout sessions begin
Track 1: zEnterprise – An ideal basis for Smarter Computing
Developed for: IT managers, IT enterprise architects
Track 2: DB2® for z/OS® Technical Update
Developed for: Database administrators, database managers
Track 3: Smarter Development and Deployment
Developed for: IT application architects and developers
Track 4: Application Infrastructure Modernization for Business Agility
Developed for: System analysts, application architects, CICS application developers and IT architects
Track 5: Data Center Operations and Systems Management Update
Developed for: IT operations and system programmers
