Logicalis IT Forum : 2010 Study Tour to Rochester, Minnesota : 14-19 September

We have a very exciting provisional agenda for this year's IT Forum study tour to the IBM Laboratories in Rochester, Minnesota.

Current agenda (unconfirmed)

Zumbro Room, Executive Briefing Center, IBM Rochester, MN

Wednesday 15 September

09:00 : Welcome : John Rathke, Briefing Project Manager for Europe and Latin America

09:10 : Power7 Update and Directions

10:20 : Break

10:30 : IBM i 6.1, and 7.1 Update and Directions: What benefits are gained by moving to 6.1 and/or 7.1? : Steve Will, Chief Architect, IBM i Operating System

12:00 : Luncheon

13:20 : PowerVM: IBM i, AIX, Linux, VIOS, Blades : Naresh Nayar, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Architect –  PowerVM

14:05 : Break

14:15 : PowerHA : Steven Finnes, Power Systems HA Product Offering Manager

15:15 : Backup/Recovery Update : Deb Saugen, IBM Rochester

Thursday 16 September

09:00 : IBM Systems Director – Bringing together IBM Platforms: to include i Navigator coming under Director banner : Rob Bestgen, Business Architect, IBM Systems Director

10:00 : Break

10:10 : Application Development Directions: Rational Development Tools : Tim Rowe, Business Architect. Application Development for IBM i

11:10 : Break

11:20 : Application Development Directions – continued: General Update – Open Access for RPG, etc. : Tim  Rowe

12:20 : Luncheon

13:20 : Green Initiatives : Brad Brech, IBM Distinguished Engineer, STG Software Strategy and Architecture

14:20 : Break

14:30 : Security Update from a compliance perspective : Terry Ford, Project Manager, Security Services Delivery

15:30 : Break

15:40 : DB2 for IBM i: Data Warehousing

Friday 17 September

09:00 : Cloud Computing : Amit Dave, IBM Distinguished Engineer, STG Software Portfolio Management

10:00 : Break

10:10 : IBM i Marketing Update : Ian Jarman, Manager, Power Systems Software

11:25 : Web Support Update : Paula Fulton, Executive IT Specialist - Senior Certified IBM Support Portal Strategy and Design

12:25 : Luncheon

13:25 : WebSphere on IBM i - Update 

Logistics Overview

We will leave Heathrow at lunchtime on Tuesday 14 September, getting back late morning on Sunday 19 September.

The Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights will be spent at the Marriott TownePlace Suites in Rochester, and the Friday night at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott.

If you are interested in attending, or for any further information, please get in touch with me at mandy.shaw@iperimeter.co.uk or on 01225 436302.

Excellent description of a great manager

Great article by David Hopps in yesterday's Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/aug/02/andy-flower-england-pakistan, including the following, which seems to me to encapsulate most things great managers do:

'One of Andy Flower's great achievements as England's coach ... is to oversee an atmosphere of professionalism, ambition and mutual dependency ... He is shrewd, in charge of his brief and, what's more, he is in charge of his team. He talks honestly but not carelessly. He is measured, not glib, or evasive, or a sucker for meaningless phrases. He analyses but does not inhibit. He is tough but in no stretch of the imagination is he a bully. His fairness demands respect because not to respect him is to be foolish.'

Logicalis IT Forum : Wroxall Abbey : Tues 6/Wed 7 July : Update on HA strategies for IBM i and Power Systems / Solid State Drives

The next IT Forum meeting will be on Wednesday 7 July at Wroxall Abbey, West Midlands, with dinner/overnight stay on the Tuesday night 6 July.

The topic will be 'Update on HA strategies for IBM i and Power Systems'. We are aiming to cover the full range of remote journalling and internal/external storage options. their dependencies, practical implications, and operational complexities. We will also, following our brief discussion of Solid State Drives at the meeting in March, look in more detail at the advantages of using SSDs with IBM i, including a discussion of analysis techniques.

I am delighted to announce that our speaker will be David Tulloch, a senior Power Systems/IBM i Specialist from IBM UK with many years' experience of high availability deployments. David has spoken at the Forum in the past and has worked directly with many Forum members. I look forward to an insightful and very valuable session.

If you are interested in attending, please contact me on 01225 436302 or at mandy.shaw@iperimeter.co.uk.

Chandos Singers : Renaissance Masters : Holy Trinity Church, Bath, Saturday 3 July, 7.30pm

Renaissance Masters

Chandos Singers
Malcolm Hill conductor

John Sheppard Christ rising from the dead
Adam Michna Summertime Mass (c.1650) and De Profundis
Motets by Zielenski (1610), Pierre de la Rue, and Eustache du Caurroy (1605)

Holy Trinity Church, Queen Square, Bath
Saturday 3 July 2010, 7.30pm

Tickets from:
Bath Festivals Box Office
2 Church Street
Abbey Green
Bath  BA1 1NL
Tel: 01225 463362
Fax: 01225 310377
Email: boxoffice@bathfestivals.org.uk

Moderation of blog comments

I must apologise for turning this on, but the latest spam comment on this blog seems to have been added in a way that makes it impossible to delete.

Various points of view on IBM i 7.1, including mine

See http://systeminetwork.com/article/new-os-gets-thumbs-power-i-community

Summer concert of Baroque Choral Music : Winchester Festival, 10 July : Ashton Singers at St Cross

Summer concert of Baroque Choral Music

(part of the Winchester Festival)

Nigel Gardner chamber organ
Hilary Brooks 'cello
Pat Glynn chitarrone
Sackbuts, cornetts and other period instruments directed by Theresa Caudle

Ashton Singers
Julian Macey conductor

A varied programme of choral and instrumental music including works by Gabrieli, Schutz, Schein and Telemann. Complimentary interval drinks in the Master's Garden, weather permitting.

See the Ashton Singers website for more details.