For those of you who are in the Wisconsin area and who are interested in System z, z/VM and Linux on System z, here's the notice for the upcoming morning meeting of Wisc zLUG.
Link to PDF: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/WISC0602.PDF Wisconsin Linux on System z User Group Greetings fellow users of Linux on System z and z/VM in Wisconsin. We have a special speaker from IBM, Bill Reeder, on hand in the morning presenting two topics. As usual, just reply to gar...@us.ibm.com to confirm your attendance. This is a great opportunity to get together with your peers and discuss current opportunities and issues for Linux on System z. Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Time: 09:00 AM - 11:30 AM Location: Thomson Beta Systems 350 N Sunny Slope Road Brookfield, WI - The south side building on your right as you drive in. - Sign in at the main entrance. - The meeting is in the Boardroom room right up the stairs from the sign in desk Please REGISTER with Greg A. Rehn of IBM: gar...@us.ibm.com Agenda * Coffee and Rolls at 08:30 AM * Welcome and Introductions * Linux on System z: Why and Which Applications ? Presented by Bill Reeder, IBM This presentation will outline the architecture behind Linux running on System z, and show which applications are BEST run on System z Linux, and why. Session will show which questions and approaches do work and give real customer examples that validate this approach. We will also cover applications which work extremely well on System z Linux and reasons why in a competitive situation System z Linux could be the better choice, and highlight some customer examples. * Big Blue Goes Green: An Update on how IBM is consolidating computers to double capacity Presented by Bill Reeder, IBM On August 1, 2007 IBM announced that its Project Big Green would spur a global shift to Linux on the mainframe. Further, IBM claimed to double computing capacity with no increase in consumption or impact by 2010. And, as if that were not ambitious enough, IBM also announced that it would consolidate 3,900 of its own distributed servers to 33 mainframe computers in 3 years. How is it possible to achieve such massive consolidation? Bill tells us how and gives us an update on this project. Bill Reeder bio: Bill Reeder has been with IBM 13 years and he was among the original team that began Server Consolidation for IBM. . Bill is responsible for Linux across all IBM server platforms to help customer decide from a technical and business reason which platforms to deploy . Prior to joining IBM. Bill worked as an architect, System Administrator, Application developer, database administrator and system integrator. He is a frequent lecturer at IBM Top Gun Classes, Technical Conferences, and many IBM and customer events. Bill is currently responsible for Linux Systems Sales and Strategy, Americas Group. Location: Thomson Beta Systems 350 N Sunny Slope Road Brookfield, WI - The south side building on your right as you drive in. - Sign in at the main entrance. - The meeting is in the Boardroom room right up the stairs from the sign in desk Please REGISTER with Greg A. Rehn of IBM: gar...@us.ibm.com Please REGISTER with Greg A. Rehn of IBM: gar...@us.ibm.com Please REGISTER with Greg A. Rehn of IBM: gar...@us.ibm.com ----------------------------- Enjoy! Pamela L. Christina ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
