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General Information
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presentation sessions. Detailed information on our participating exhibitors and sponsors, Solution Center hours of operation,
receptions and exhibitor sessions and presentation abstracts can be found in the Agenda Book and Solution Center Program
Guide.
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AGENDA AT A GLANCE
TIME Day 1 TIME Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
08:00 - 08:50 Primer Session Primer Session Primer Session
08:50 - 09:00 Moving Break Moving Break Moving Break
08:00 - 09:45 Registration
09:00 - 10:15
Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
Opening Session 10:30 - 11:45
09:45 - 11:15
09:45 - 11:15 Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session
11:15 - 12:00 Coffee Break 11:45 - 12:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Solution Center Coffee Break Coffee Break
Certification
Certification
Certification
12:00 - 13:15 Plenary & Elective 12:00 - 13:15
Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session
Session
Solution Center
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch 13:15 - 14:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 14:30 - 15:45
Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session Elective Session Conference Ends
Solution Center
Certification
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30 16:15 - 17:30 Elective Session &
Elective Session Elective Session Meet the Experts Elective Session
Arrival &
registration System x
(15:00 - 19:00) Solution Center Meet the Experts
Welcome Reception
17:30 - …… 17:30 - …… Networking Drink Storage
17:30 - 19:30
17:30 - 18:30 17:45 - 19:00
Event Dinner
18:30 - 23:00
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Keynote Speakers
Monday, October 13 at 09:45

Pembroke & Landsdowne Suite doors open at 9:30
Gareth Tucker
Lenovo Enterprise Alliance Director EMEA
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Adalio Sanchez
Senior vice president of Enterprise Systems
Lenovo
Greg Lotko
Vice President and WorldWide Head of Development for IBM’s Storage Systems
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Session Abstracts
Session info Title, speaker & abstract
KEYNOTE
Amy Purdy - Director, STG Technical Training Services - IBM
Gareth Tucker - Lenovo Enterprise Alliance Director EMEA - Intel
Adalio Sanchez - Senior Vice President, and General Manager Enterprise
OG1 [Keynote/Lecture] Systems – Lenovo
Greg Lotko - Development & Manufacturing VP, Storage Systems
Development - IBM
Monday 9:45 - 11:15 Landsdowne & Pembroke Suite Lecture
MEET THE EXPERTS SYSTEM X and PURESYSTEMS

sFU [Storage/Lab] Speaker Panel
Wednesday Landsdowne
MEET THE EXPERTS SYSTEM STORAGE

xFU [System x /Lab] Speaker Panel
Wednesday Meeting Room 18
IBM System Storage DS8870 Space Reclamation

sSE10 [Storage/Lecture] Hans-Paul Drumm
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 3 Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 9:00-10:15 Munster With the DS8000 Licensed Machine Code 7.7.10.xx.xx, available for the
IBM System Storage DS8870 product, IBM introduces new support for
space reclamation by using the corresponding functionality offered by
Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec. Space reclamation can be
seen as being complementary to thin provisioning and allows to reassign
storage capacity that is no longer in use back to the storage system so
that it can become assigned anew.
This lecture provides:
i) An introduction into space reclamation.

ii) SCSI in-depth information being relevant in this context.
iii) An overview about Symantec Storage Foundation incl. installation and
customization details.
iv) Examples demonstrating the benefits of space reclamation.
Supporting the unsupported: The IBM SCORE (earlier: RPQ)

cSE01 [Competitive/Lecture] process
Hans-Paul Drumm
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 2 Lecture - Business Technical - IBM & Business Partners
In specific situations IBM's support policies require special approval (e.g.
when conducting space reclamation, implementing storage solutions that
are not generally available,....) to avoid any support gaps. To handle such
situations there is a process called "Storage Customer Opportunity
REquest (SCORE)".
This lecture covers:
I) The history and the scope of the SCORE process.

ii) When to use the SCORE process and when to apply other processes.
iii) How and who to generate SCORE requests.
iv) Example(s).
v) Where to acquire further help from.
Does Cloud Computing Still Matter? An Update for the IT
sCS01 [Storage/Lecture] Professional
Glenn Anderson
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Thursday 14:30-15:45 Landsdowne Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
This entertaining and irreverent session explores the current state of cloud
computing in IT, and the current thinking on how your data center plays a
part. Don’t be fooled or confused by all the media hype surrounding cloud.
This session is part technical, part philosophy on cloud computing.
Step Right Up: Taking Your Presentation Skills to the Next Level
sFU01 [Storage/Lecture] Glenn Anderson
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 3 Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 2 Ever seen a great presenter and wondered – how does he do it? What
makes it different from the way I present? Drawing on experiences
speaking around the world, from classes to conferences to comedy club
stand-up routines, Glenn will help you make your next presentation a
career-builder. Topics include preparation, speaking techniques, and what
makes PowerPoint sparkle? Glenn Anderson is a long-time instructor and
presenter with IBM Technical Training, with a wealth of experience
developing and delivering very technical material.
IBM System z Mainframe Computing: A Big Picture Introduction
sOS01 [Storage/Lecture] Glenn Anderson
Tuesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 3 Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Tuesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 3 The IBM System z mainframe just keeps rolling along, celebrating its 50th
anniversary in April, 2014. Currently represented by the zEnterprise
servers and four unique operating systems, IBM System z continues its
industry leadership in virtualization, security, performance and availability.
This high-level session will describe the current zEnterprise server, the
basic capabilities of z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE and Linux on System z, and
introduce some key mainframe transactional and database middleware.
Spend one hour with a long time IBM instructor and become conversant in
IBM mainframe computing.
OpenStack & Storage – Advanced Lab with SVC (O-5)
sSY50 [Storage/Lab] Sabine Engel, Dirk Vogelsang
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 12 Lab - Technical - All attendees
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 12 In this lab you will learn how to use a real OpenStack environment
connected to an IBM SAN Volume Controller. You will learn how to use
SVCs advanced functions to enhance the OpenStack environment.
REMARK: O-5 is part of the SDS Curriculum.

- It might be helpful to have seen O-2 to O-4
- If you want to work more on that track, you could follow up with O-6
OpenStack & Storage - Cinder Config on XIV/SVC (O-6)
sSY80 [Storage/Demo] Sabine Engel,Dirk Vogelsang
Tuesday 10:30-11:45 Leinster Demo - Technical - All attendees
Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 3 In this demo you will see how to setup an OpenStack environment to use
Cinder connected storage.

- It might be helpful to have seen O-2 to O-5
DS8870 R7.3 - High-Performance Flash Enclosure
sFS01 [Storage/Lecture] Peter Kimmel
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Munster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 3 The High-Performance Flash Enclosure enables true flash architecture
within the DS8870, combining the stability and versatility of IBM's flagship
storage enterprise product with the performance characteristics of flash
storage: Delivering ultra-low response times and an extreme amount of
IOps in a very compact 1U format. Ready for tiering with Easy Tier, to
have 3-tier or 2-tier solutions all in one frame.
This session introduces the High-Performance Flash Enclosure and gives a
general overview of recent enhancements for DS8870.
FlashSystem V840 Lab & Hands On
sFS50 [Storage/Lab] Thorsten Hoss Detlef Helmbrecht (dehe@de.ibm.com)
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 12 This session provides deep knowledge on the new IBM FlashSystem V840.
Participants will know the difference between the three FlashSystem
deployments: FlashSystem 840, FlashSystem V840 and FlashSystem 840
with SVC.
Furthermore the participants will have the opportunity to get hands on
practice on FlashSystem V840.
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IBM System Storage and VMware SRM 5.5
sSM51 [Storage/Lab] Thorsten Hoss Markus Oscheka (moscheka@de.ibm.com)
Tuesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 12 Lab - Business Technical - All attendees
IBM Storage Systems integration into VMware Site Recovery Manager
This lab session will cover the integration features of IBM® Storage
Systems (IBM XIV, IBM Storwize V7000) into VMware® vCenter Site
Recovery Manager (SRM). VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a
disaster recovery offering that provides automated orchestration and
nondisruptive testing for virtualized applications. The integration consist of
the IBM Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), which enables SRM to perform
Tests, Recoveries, as well as Reprotects. Attendees will get the
opportunity to learn to install SRAs, configure SRA and SRM, perform
tests, failover, and failback, and get comprehensive hands-on experience.
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux hands-on
sTS50 [Storage/Lab] lab Pt 1
Wilhelm Gardt Axel Westphal
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 12 Lab - Technical - All attendees
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux – a component of
IBM SmartCloud™ Virtual Storage Center (VSC) - supports fast backup and
restore of databases and file systems. It leverages the FlashCopy and
Snapshot technologies of IBM storage systems. This hands-on lab offers a
fast technical introduction to fathom the mysteries of FlashCopy Manager.
Participants will learn how to install and configure FlashCopy Manager 4.1
on AIX operating system and IBM SAN Volume Controller and will finally
run FlashCopy backup and restore tasks for file systems.
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux hands-on
sTS50 [Storage/Lab] lab Pt 2
Wilhelm Gardt Axel Westphal
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager for UNIX and Linux hands-on lab Pt 2
SAP Landscape Virtualization Management - IBM Cloud Solution

sCS02 [Storage/Lecture ] for SAP
Wilhelm Gardt
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Munster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Friday 12:00-13:15 Ulster SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) is SAP’s management
framework for SAP systems. It offers automation of daily SAP
management functions such as provisioning, start/stop, relocation and
cloning of SAP systems. IBM’s implementation of SAP LVM supports
(amongst others) Flex Systems and SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and
integrates the associated IBM management systems, for example: Flex
System Management. This session explains the SAP LVM architecture and
discusses the SAP LVM use cases. A live demonstration shows a SAP
system clone on the basis of SVC FlashCopy and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy
Manager.
IBM DB2 and Oracle database analyses - Predictable Performance
sFS02 [Storage/Lecture] Gain
Detlef Helmbrecht
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Ulster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Ulster This lecture shows how to analyze IBM DB2 and Oracle Databases to
estimate the performance gain when using IBM FlashSystem.
Windows based databases and application performance gain will be shown
by using perfmon.
FlashSystem 840/V840 Overview & Use Cases
sFS03 [Storage/Lecture] Detlef Helmbrecht
Monday 14:30-15:45 Ulster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Ulster This lecture session gives an overview of IBM FlashSystem, the
architecture and shows the important business benefits based on
customer requirements and use cases for FlashSystem 840 and
FlashSystem V840.
Next Generation FlashSystem 840 and FlashSystem V840
sFS04 [Storage/Lecture] Architecture Deep Dive
Detlef Helmbrecht
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Monday 16:15-17:30 Ulster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Ulster The architecture and the concept purpose built hardware and the IBM
FlashSystem will be presented and explained. The performance concepts,
the software features, the components and the enterprise features like
VSR, 2D RAID, Concurrent Code Load, Hot Swap Components and new
Enterprise GUI are explained in detail. The attendees will get inside
knowledge on IBM FlashSystem.
Demo FlashSystem V840 deployment and use cases & live demo
sFS80 [Storage/Demo] Detlef Helmbrecht Thorsten Hoss (hass@de.ibm.com)
Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Ulster Demo - Business Technical - All attendees
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Munster This session will show the different FlashSystem V840 deployment
scenarios and show, as a live demo, the technical implementation with
AIX, Linux, Windows and VMware
Storage - The Cloud - IBM - The Others
sCS03 [Storage/Lecture] Dirk Vogelsang
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Landsdowne Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
This introductory lecture will put a flashlight on how you can build a
private storage cloud solution using IBMs System Storage as building
blocks.
As well a brief overview on what our competitors do for “cloud storage”

will be given.
(Not touched are topics like legal aspects, reference architectures and
public cloud)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About IBM XIV Storage
sSS01 [Storage/Lecture] System (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Dirk Vogelsang
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About IBM XIV Storage System
(But Were Afraid to Ask).
This is a NON-PowerPoint session, fully interactive, an open discussion,

with time for questions, and hopefully answers to all of those.
The audience will be encouraged to play an active part of this session. The
experience of previous sessions like this shows that usually the following
topics are touched automatically: The base of XIVs groundbreaking
architecture, competitive aspects, how XIV fits into IBMs storage portfolio,
and when and how to sell XIV best.
But YOU are free to give input, ask YOUR questions and have an active
role in a lively discussion about and around the IBM XIV Storage System.
OpenStack & Storage – Basic Lab - with XIV (O-4)
sSY51 [Storage/Lab] Sabine Engel ,Dirk Vogelsang
In this lab you will learn how to use a real OpenStack environment
connected to an IBM XIV Storage System. You will get "live" experience
and see for yourself how easy and fast it is to create, from scratch, your
own virtual machine and add your own amount of storage to it.

- It might be helpful to have seen O-2 and/or O-3a
- If you want to work more on that track, you could follow up with O-5
and O-6
Real Time Compression in V7K and SVC
sSE01 [Storage/Lecture] Guy Meir
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 1 Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 1 Overview – what is RTC and what value does it bring
* Real time compression basics – What is a compressed volume and
where (and why) the compression logic fits in the SVC\V7K software stack
* Compression performance – no performance degradation – how and
why, customers examples and lab tests
* Available sales tools – 45 days free trial licenses, compresstimator,
compression and performance guarantee program
* V7K Gen2 and SVC DH8 Hardware improvements and version 7.3
updates
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RTC Best Practices - implementation guidelines
sSE02 [Storage/Lecture] Guy Meir
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 1 Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 1 In this session we will review best practices for implementing Real Time
compression in SVC and V7K.
As well as known limitation and how to avoid performance issues and
other pitfalls.
We will go over all best practices and do a technical deep dive into each
one.
* CPU considerations when using compression
* Cache considerations when using compression
* Compressing the right volumes - how to get the best out of your system
* Distribution of compressed volumes between IOgroups
* Data access patterns - what to lookout for
How STG sponsored services add value to your Storage Project -
cFU01 [Competitive/Lecture] 2014 Update
Wilfried Ochs Hubert Pimingstorfer
An arsenal of pre- and post-sales services is available to support your
storage project / opportunity in 2014.
This session will cover how to get these services free-of-charge for your
customer, the different funding programs and their intent, the qualification
criteria, qualifying Storage products and the request process.
You will hear about the storage services portfolio, recent engagements
and how STG Lab Services helps to increase Business Partner's and client's
satisfaction.
Special focus in this session will be on IBM FlashSystem.

IBM Storage Directions - Flash and software-defined
sSP01 [Storage/Lecture] environments
Axel Koester Clod Barrera
Monday 12:00-13:15 Landsdowne Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
[comment only: Replica of the technical opening session at EDGE]
Three-site SVC Cluster high availability project experience & new

sHA01 [Storage/Lecture] innovative setups
Axel Koester
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Ulster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
IBM clients and business partners have been very creative with the SAN
Volume Controller lately, and developed new ways of using it in
uncommon multi-site layouts.
Let's look at some innovative uses of SVC clusters forming chains or
circles. We will share our project experience from an insurance industry
project in Germany where a 3-site SVC solution displaced EMC SRDF/star
in a high-performance, highest-availability environment.
Elastic Storage positioned in the IBM storage portfolio
sEC01 [Storage/Lecture] Axel Koester
Monday 14:30-15:45 Landsdowne Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Landsdowne This session helps understand the IBM storage portfolio and the newly
added codenamed "Elastic Storage".
Attendees will learn to explain SAN vs NAS vs 'Cloud' environments,
network choices, monolithic vs. modular vs. clustered systems and the
advantages of IBM's file-, tape- and block virtualization solutions.
Every IBM storage product will be tagged with a "one-liner" benefit.
Five IT trends that shape the datacenter of tomorrow (without
sSP02 [Storage/Lecture] saying "Big Data" or "Cloud")
Axel Koester
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Thursday 9:00-10:15 Munster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Five observed IT trends that will have a strong impact on how datacenters
are run in the near future:
- Everything-as-a-service
- Community-driven standards
- Cognitive systems
- Eventual consistency
- Failing disk technology dividend
See what strong impact these five will have on how IT infrastructures are
built and managed!
Data Footprint Reduction -- Understanding IBM Storage
sSE03 [Storage/Lecture] Efficiency Options
Tony Pearson
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 1 Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Data Footprint Reduction is the catchall term for a variety of technologies
designed to help reduce storage costs. This session will cover four
techniques for data footprint reduction: thin provisioning, space-efficient
snapshots, data deduplication and real-time compression. It will also
discuss the IBM storage products that provide these capabilities. Come to
this session to learn how these technologies work, and how they will
benefit your data center.
IBM’s Smarter Storage Strategy
sSP03 [Storage/Lecture] Tony Pearson
Monday 14:30-15:45 Leinster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Friday 10:30-11:45 Munster Want to understand more about IBM's initiatives for building a smarter
planet and how that relates your business? This session will explain it all,
including how IBM's design approach and strategy for its various storage
products and solutions for efficiency, optimization and agility. It will also
position the features and capabilities of IBM’s various disk and tape
systems in this context.
What is big data? Architectures and Practical use cases
sSE04 [Storage/Lecture] Tony Pearson
Do you understand the storage implications of big data analytics? This
session will explain what big data is, and cover the Information
Infrastructure and practical use cases.
New Generation of Storage Tiering: Less management, lower
sSE05 [Storage/Lecture] investment and increased performance
Tony Pearson
Confused on how to implement storage tiering between Flash, Disk, Tape
and Cloud storage resources? This session will cover the various
techniques and technologies available.
Cloud Storage Options
sEC02 [Storage/Lecture] Tony Pearson
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Landsdowne Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
This session will cover elastic storage options, including XIV, SONAS and
Storwize V7000 Unified, and LTFS-EE. This presentation will cover Active
Cloud Engine for local space management and global access to files.
IBM Archive Storage Solutions - Data Retention for Government
sBC01 [Storage/Lecture] Compliance and Industry Regulations
Tony Pearson
This session will cover the various offerings IBM has for archive solutions,
including IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM), Linear Tape File
System, and WORM tape storage systems.
Disk Magic Basics
cSY01 [Competitive/Lecture] Joe Bacco
Thursday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 2 Lecture - Technical - IBM & Business Partners
This presentation is for new and less experienced users of Disk Magic. It
will cover 1)What is Disk Magic? 2) What do I need before I start? 3)
How to I get the data I need? 4) Modeling workloads 5) Data input and
navigation 6)Modeling a new configuration 7)Tiered Solution Advisor 8)
Output options 9) Modeling growth options and 10) Hints and Tips.
Disk Magic Update
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Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 2 Lecture - Technical - IBM & Business Partners
This presentation will cover updates to Disk Magic over the last 9 months.
The updates include support for IBM DS8870, Storwize Gen2 V7000 with
real-time compression, Storwize V3700, Storwize V3500, Storwize Easy
Tier 3 modeling improvements and new user productivity features and
changes.
Capacity Magic Basics and Update
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 2 Lecture - Business Technical - IBM & Business Partners
This presentation will cover using Capacity Magic for Storwize V7000
Gen2, V5000, V3500 and V3700, DS8000 and disk products announced
through October 2014. Capacity Magic calculates the customer usable
capacity based on product, RAID type, disk capacity and spares.
Capacities are expressed both in decimal and binary.
Proactive Monitoring of Brocade Fabrics
sNW01 [Storage/Lecture] Jim Blue
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Munster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Many customers want to have rules and guidelines about how they can
proactively monitor their SAN environments. While there is a plethora of
documentation about how to use various tools, such as Fabric Watch and
Network Advisor, specific configuration parameters and suggested
threshold values fall
into the "it depends" category. This session will present more specific
information for what to watch to better manage a Brocade switch based
SAN environment. Customer case studies will be included.
Troubleshooting Performance Issues
With complex fabric designs and data replication, the SAN administrator
has greater difficulty with troubleshooting general SAN and performance
problems due to the additional components in the solution. This
presentation will provide a general approach to troubleshooting
performance issues in the data centers as well how to determine if the
LAN/WAN is the problem source. Discussion points include where to start
troubleshooting, the data to be collected, and sampling of the tools and
techniques to accomplish the various tasks. Several customer case studies
will be presented to illustrate some of the principles and techniques
presented in this session.
SAN Best Practices
Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Munster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 12:00-13:15 Leinster Whether a SAN is simple or complex, many customers want to have a
single source for guidelines and general "rules of thumb" on best practices
in SAN environments. However, many vendors and industry organizations
have not necessarily published formal and/or concise documentation of
best practices to fulfill the needs of SAN and storage administrators. This
presentation will present a broad spectrum of basic guidelines and their
benefits towards effective SAN management including change
management techniques to help simplify the complex and have
consistently managed environments. Every point is based on previous
customer experiences for a real-world basis.
FCoE: An Advanced Introduction

Monday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 2 Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 10:30-11:45 Leinster Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a maturing protocol that is being
deployed by many SAN vendors and customers. Learn about how this
protocol and technology works, and how it differs from Fibre Channel. This
session will cover Ethernet flow-control mechanisms that are required for
FCoE to function and the status of enhancements and additional standards
development. There will be a "lessons learned" segment which is based on
customer cases which have been handled within the SAN Central defect-
warranty support team.
SAN Fundamentals: Effective Zoning
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Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Leinster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Zoning is a feature that is used to effectively manage SAN-attached
devices. Good zoning implementations are an excellent means to
maximize resource utilization while maintaining data security and
minimizing potential impacts due to misbehaving ports. Zoning is also a
key component of successful, heterogeneous open systems SANs. This
presentation will discuss the reasons to use zoning, various
implementation methods when configuring zones, along with some
general guidelines, tips and techniques. Many of the techniques and
implementation methods will be highlighted with several examples and will
include several customer case studies showing less than optimal results to
avoid.
SAN Fundamentals - Brocade SAN Routing
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Munster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Data migration and replication over long distances using native Fibre
Channel connections can be impractical and very expensive to implement.
Extension switches, or routers, offer the option of using Fibre Channel
over IP (FCIP) which can utilize existing IP wide area network (WAN)
infrastructure to connect Fibre Channel based SANs. This presentation will
show some of the more
widely used designs for long distance connections and the various
advantages and disadvantages of each design. Basic concepts and
terminology will also
be included as well as some case studies showing some common
mistakes.
Storwize Clustering - Solution Design and Best Practices
sSY01 [Storage/Lecture] Thomas Vogel
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Leinster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Leinster The new Storwize V7000 Gen2 provides more scalability options than the
previous generation. This session explores in-depth how you can use
multiple storage controllers in a single cluster, the internal design, and the
consequences for an appropriate solution design. We identify use cases
and show how to plan such a clustered Storwize system.
After attending the session, you will be able to identify use cases for a
cluster with multiple storage controllers and perform an appropriate
solution design.
Good knowledge about the Storwize products is assumed.
SVC and Storwize nodes with more than 4 ports: Solution Design
sHA02 [Storage/Lecture] and Best Practices
Thomas Vogel
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Munster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 9:00-10:15 Landsdowne The new SVC DH8 and the V7000 Gen 2 offer significant more Fibre
Channel ports per node than the previous generation.
This session explores the internal design and the consequences for
solution design and implementation. We identify use cases and show, how
to plan such an environment.
After attending the session, you will be able to design and implement a
SVC / Storwize system under optimal usage of the additional ports.
Good knowledge about SVC configurations is assumed.
SVC/Storwize v7.3 Easy Tier
sSE06 [Storage/Lecture] Torsten Rothenwaldt
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Ulster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Ulster Easy Tier is a feature of the SVC and Storwize family since 2010, but in
contrast to the evolution in DS8000, with only minor improvements. Now
the v7.3 release lifts Easy Tier to the level of DS8000 Easy Tier R3. It adds
support for three tiers, auto-balancing within a tier, and several
enhancements of the internal algorithms.
In this advanced session, we explain the new functionality,
implementation details, and the impacts for SVC/Storwize solution design.
You learn how to apply the new STAT and Excel tools for system analysis
and sizing. Good knowledge about SVC/Storwize storage configuration is
assumed.
SVC enhanced stretched cluster — what does this term mean?
sHA03 [Storage/Lecture] Torsten Rothenwaldt
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Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Ulster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Ulster The generic term “enhanced stretched cluster” raised many questions
because it summarizes different changes: Functions to recover from rare
multiple failures or rolling disasters as well as SAN traffic flow
optimization.
This advanced session explains design, advantages, and risks of these
functions. Based on the theory behind SAN Volume Controller, we discuss
the cluster’s behavior and consistency in different failure scenarios. You
learn about the use cases of different HA/DR options, how they work and
which actions are necessary to recover from multiple failures.
Good knowledge about SVC configurations and stretched cluster SAN
design is assumed.
Methods, Procedures, and Tooling that allow Fibre Channel and
sSY07 [Storage/Lecture] Compression Performance Analysis on Storwize Family Products
Michael Erwig, Christian Karpp
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Leinster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
This session will explain participants the various required steps to do
performance problem determination for standard and/or compression
related performance issues on SVC or Storwize clusters while making use
of Excel Pivot Charts.
SVC and V7000 Scripting - Things you always wanted to know
sSY08 [Storage/Lecture] but never tried…
Michael Erwig, Christian Karpp
The listener will learn which preliminaries need to be taken to make use
of SVC and Storwize scripting, s/he will understand basic scripting
routines, and finally will dive into the world of powerful and flexible
scripting to simplify and automate complex tasks within SVC and Storwize
members.
Storwize V7000 Unified: Update and selected advanced functions
sSY02 [Storage/Lecture] Andreas Baer
Monday 16:15-17:30 Leinster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Landsdowne The Storwize V7000 Unified is providing NAS storage capabilities to the
V7000 product family. It offers unified - file and block based - storage
within one storage solution using the common IBM NAS software stack.
This session will provide an overview of the architecture and discuss the
latest enhancements for the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified in 2Q2014.
In addition we will describe certain features and advanced functions in
detail.
It will include feedback, field experiences and best practices for the
functions discussed.
Prerequisite is a basic understanding of the V7000 Unified product and its
NAS features and functions.
V7000 Unified Advanced functions: WAN Caching
sSY03 [Storage/Lecture] Andreas Baer
Tuesday 9:00-10:15 Munster Remote Caching, also known as WAN Caching, has been released with the
R1.4.1 code release for V7000 Unified and greatly enhanced recently in
R1.5. It is based on the
Active Cloud Engine as a foundation for intelligent management of
distributed file data and data access across a wide area network (WAN).
This session will discuss the concepts, configuration, parameters and use
cases.
It will provide best practices, hints and tips to achieve a successful
implementation as well, including experiences from the field as well as
from Advanced Workshops.
Demo- and Hands On Session for configuring and running

sCS04 [Storage/Lab] ownCloud
Frank Broede
This session is a demo- and hands-on-session about accessing and using
the general ownCloud features/functions and how to configure ownCloud
so it fits your use-cases best.
Participant should plan to visit the ownCloud/IBM lecture sessions prior
visiting the demos/hands-on session
ProtecTIER deduplication FSI Hands-On lab Pt1
sSE50 [Storage/Lab] Mathias Defiebre Joerg Walter/Germany/IBM
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Monday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 12 Lab - Technical - All attendees
This hands-on lab will put you in the driving seat of a life ProtecTIER
environment. Do you want to use TSM with ProtecTIER in an FSI
configuration and follow the individual steps needed to configure and
operate it? On top of that,. ProtecTIER IP replication is configured and
allows full end-to-end DR testing operations in a productive ProtecTIER
environment.
Monday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 12 Lab - Technical - All attendees
ProtecTIER deduplication VTL Hands-On lab Pt 1

ProtecTIER deduplication VTL Hands-On lab This hands-on lab will put you
in the driving seat of a life ProtecTIER environment. Do you want to use
TSM with ProtecTIER in a VTL configuration and follow the individual steps
needed to configure and operate it? On top of that,. ProtecTIER IP
replication is configured and allows full end-to-end DR testing operations
in a productive ProtecTIER environment.
Smarter Backup and Recovery for Big Data with IBM’s Tivoli
sBC02 [Storage/Lecture] Storage Manager (TSM) and GPFS Storage Server (GSS)
Joerg Walter
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 2 Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 2 Organizations are storing, using and backing up more data than ever
before - resulting in the question: How to manage enterprise backup
environments while maintaining flexibility and scalability?
TSM can help to build a smarter backup data management. GSS is an
excellent data storage platform for backup data and metadata managed
by the TSM server.
This presentation describes an approach of managing backup data with
ITSM while leveraging the great interoperability and reliability of a TSM
and GSS solution. In addition the results from a Proof of Concept are
shown, including a performance analysis, which was conducted to outline
what throughputs can be expected when storing backup data with an IBM
Backup Solution based on TSM and GSS.
How to break in into competitive Clients with SVC Turbo
cFU04 [Competitive/Lecture] Compression
Pierre Sabloniere
Turbo Compression brings a drastically novel change to storage
rationalization techniques and creates truly compelling benefit for Client
infrastructures when combined with SVC. This topic presents the IBM
Turbo Compression technology, how it works, what it means to Clients
and how to engage conversation w/ Competitive Clients.
Actual benefits illustrated with multi PB client situations, TCO mechanisms,
return on assets and SLA improvements are covered to help appreciate
the 60% gains enabled by SVC Turbo Compression..
The presentation wraps up with the 7 key questions qualifying the SVC
Turbo Compression.
The seven revolutions which shook the Storage Industry

cFU05 [Competitive/Lecture] Pierre Sabloniere
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This session is a MUST for Sales and Technical Sales professional facing
Competitive account – Its content opened the door to Clients representing
more than €100 M open storage opportunity.
The topic covers the 7 revolutions which shook the storage industry, on
going IBM innovation initiatives and real life client cases. The session
starts with a vendor agnostic view of the storage technology history and
clients expectations collected from 500+ IT shops. Recent developments
of the IBM storage virtualization are next explained and Client examples
illustrate benefits in real life situations. The session concludes how IBM
may typically help clients to evaluate storage infrastructure transformation
benefits before undertaking the journey.
Using TPC/VSC with external authentication services

sTS01 [Storage/Lecture] Markus Standau
So far the most common practice was to have one or two user IDs that
get shared among the administrators. With the introduction of the new
Web-based GUI as well as the more modern provisioning functions more
people are using TPC/VSC.
This session will introduce you to the ways you can setup TPC/VSC to use
external authentication services like Microsoft Active Directory Services or
LDAP directories. After this session you will have the understanding of
what you need to consider and what the implementation steps are.
How to: TPC/VSC and VMware Integration
sTS02 [Storage/Lecture] Markus Standau
to: TPC/VSC and VMware Integration
Abstract: This session will demonstrate you the 3 levels of integration
between TPC and VMware so that you will be able to perform planning
and implementation of such an integration.
Topics covered are:
- vCenter/Hypervisor attachment
- VMware Web Client Extension for TPC
- TPC VASA Provider
- Using TPCs System Capabilities for VM Storage Profiles
What you will learn:

This session will demonstrate you the 3 levels of integration between TPC
and VMware so that you will be able to perform planning and
implementation of such an integration.
Topics covered are:
- vCenter/Hypervisor attachment
- VMware Web Client Extension for TPC
- TPC VASA Provider
Software-Defined Provisioning & Optimization

sEC03 [Storage/Lecture] Markus Standau
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Landsdowne Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 12:00-13:15 Landsdowne This session will introduce you to the functions of IBM Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center (TPC) that are only available in the VSC bundle/edition
and that are sometimes also called the Analytics Engine.
You will learn what TPC can automate when doing provisioning as well as
what restriction and approval features are included to make this function
available to non TPC expert users.
In the second part you will learn what tools are included in TPC to help
you analyze if you can optimize the placement of volumes if you have
multiple storage tiers.
An understanding of what TPC and VSC is mandatory
OpenStack & Storage - Basic Concepts (O-2)

sCS99 [Storage/Lecture] Harald Seipp
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Thursday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 3 OpenStack is the major Open Source Infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS)
platform that is used to build open cloud computing environments. The
OpenStack project is backed by IBM as well as almost all key players in
the IT industry.
Starting with explaining cloud computing terminology, then providing
information about the OpenStack project, this lecture will provide an
comprehensive overview how IBM is involved in the OpenStack project
and what role (IBM) Block, Object and NAS Storage plays within
OpenStack environments.
A short OpenStack live demo will conclude the session.
OpenStack & Storage - Advanced - Cinder (O-3a)

sCS05 [Storage/Lecture] Harald Seipp
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 3 This lecture will cover the technical details of the OpenStack Storage
architecture and how IBM storage systems tie into that including a live
demo of a real-world OpenStack cluster with IBM storage solutions
attached.
The session will have a focus on the OpenStack Cinder Component that is
used to provision persistent storage to VMs within an OpenStack Cluster
including lessons learned while operating the OpenStack cluster.
The Live Demo part of the session will show how easy Storage can be
provisioned through OpenStack using the IBM XIV Storage system.
IBM Elastic Storage - GPFS GSS appliance

sEC04 [Storage/lecture] Harald Seipp
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Landsdowne lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 10:30-11:45 Landsdowne This lecture session will introduce and go into details on IBM Elastic
Storage - GPFS GSS appliance
VMware data protection with IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy
sTS03 [Storage/Lecture] Manager
Axel Westphal
Friday 9:00-10:15 Ulster The session provides a product overview about the functionality and
installation requirements for FlashCopy Manager 4.1(FCM) on VMware. In
the session I will discuss the positioning of FCM and the specific FCM
settings for IBM storage systems. A short demo of FCM for VMware on a
PureFlex System will be included.
Performance & Capacity Management
sSE07 [Storage/Lecture] Johann Weiss
Real-time Compression is available for SAN Volume Controller and
Storwize V7000, now with hardware acceleration. The sessions covers the
basic compression technologies, IBM's implementation and differences to
others, why compression offers storage at half price, and considerations
for hard- and software configuration.
Includes information on the dual RACE engine to be announced October 6.
Disk Storage Solutions
sSS02 [Storage/Lecture] Johann Weiss
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Leinster Gives an overview of the Storwize family, hardware and software including
EasyTier 3, Real-time-Compression with hardware acceleration and IP
replication. Not only a list of facts and functions but shows also the value
for the customer. Some hints and tips on performance, configuration
options and licensing rules.
Includes details on new encryption function.
Storage NDA Session
sSP10 [Storage/Lecture] Andreas Grottel, Johann, Weiss, Marco Ceresol
Thursday 16:15-17:30 Landsdowne Lecture - Technical - All attendees - NDA
Storage futures discussed signed NDA required!
Software Defined Storage

sEC09 [Storage/Lecture] Clod Barrera
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Monday 16:15-17:30 Landsdowne Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 3 Software Defined Environments have become the preferred approach for
modern IT operations, combining the values of automation, policy
enforcement, and efficiency. Within these SDE operations, storage must
be properly included to support the expected user experience and cost
benefits, while still providing performance, availability, and data
protection. We discuss how Storage is configured and then managed
through a stack of Virtualization, Provisioning, and Orchestration software
Cloud Storage Architectures
sCS08 [Storage/Lecture] Clod Barrera
Monday 14:30-15:45 Munster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Cloud Storage is a rapidly growing deployment model, which will shortly
become the majority model for new storage. Your company may operate a
cloud service, or use one for some or all of your IT operation. This talk will
explain the important types of cloud use from a storage perspective, and
the benefits and risks involved. We will show the architectures that IBM
supports for these clouds, and discuss the practical steps for their use,
including the latest in Object Storage.
Storage Portfolio and Strategy
sSP05 [Storage/Lecture] Clod Barrera
Storage technology continues to move at rapid pace, and users struggle to
stay ahead in their planning. We break out three specific topics that are
driving change in storage infrastructure: new and faster media such as
Flash; new storage system architectures. For each of these, we discuss
technology innovation, timeframe, and how it will affect client decision
making.
Your private File Sync & Share with own Cloud and IBM
sCS09 [Storage/Lecture] Frank Broede
Monday 16:15-17:30 Munster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Munster You are interested in using file sync & share for your company, but you
are afraid of putting confidential and valuable business data into public
sync & share clouds like Dropbox? Yes, you better are!
If your company wants to take advantage of easy-to-use file sync & share,
but wants to keep the business data safe and confidential, you should
take a look at what ownCloud and IBM can offer you.
The combination of ownCloud's file sync & share software and IBM's
System Storage is an easy way to build you private file sync & share
solution
IBM Software Defined Storage & Storage for enterprise Cloud
sEC05 [Storage/Lecture] Eyal Zimran
Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Landsdowne Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Learn what is Software Defined Storage (SDS) and integration of Storage
into Cloud Computing environments. Discuss the benefits of available
architectures and implementation highlights of IBM cloud solutions.
Evaluate cloud examples with VMware, OpenStack and RESTful API,
together with implementations based on IBM SmartCloud Storage Access
and IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center (VSC). Discuss case studies of
real life implementations.
Introduction to IBM Storage Strategy and Portfolio
sSY04 [Storage/Lecture] Eyal Zimran
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 3 Explore where storage technology is moving to addressing data growth
requirements with Disk Size, Flash Storage, and Software Defined Storage.
Learn how IBM is harnessing these technology developments and
innovations to deliver a powerful storage products and solutions. Hear the
latest product updates of the IBM most complete storage portfolio.
Discover how to leverage software and solutions in product enhancements
to reduce cost, increase performance, and simplify your IT operations for
Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social network solutions (CAMS).
IBM System Storage Archive Manager
sSS03 [Storage/Lecture] Peter Schenke
This presentation will explain what System Storage Archive Manager is,
and how it integrates with records management, content management,
and archive management software and how it integrates with storage
hardware.
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IBM Compliant Archive Solutions with Use Cases
sBC04 [Storage/Lecture] Peter Schenke
This Presentation will explain IBMs Compliant Archive Solutions as an
integrated Solution with IBM Hard- and Software. To illustrate this
Solution Use Cases will be presented.
Transform Your Datacenter for the Cloud
sCS06 [Storage/Lecture] Mike Griese
Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Munster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 3 BM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center can help transform a traditional
heterogeneous data center into a next-generation, hyper efficient cloud
storage environment. Leveraging industry leading storage virtualization
and storage management capabilities, along with intelligent analytics and
automated task execution, you will be able to rapidly deploy new
workloads and provide faster response to end-user issues. This will lead to
a streamlined IT operations center that enables you to proactively manage
the environment and better service your end-users' needs.
What's New in Data Management - TPC/VSC Roadmap
sTS04 [Storage/Lecture] Mike Griese
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 1 Learn how the new features and functions introduced in Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center 5.2 and IBM Virtual Storage Center 5.2 will make your
storage administrators more effective at managing complex SAN
environments. You will also learn how these products can improve the
efficiency of your environment and give you the tools to lower overall
storage costs.
Driving Down the Cost of Storage Infrastructure with IBM
sSE09 [Storage/Lecture] Storwize Family
Nick Harris
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Leinster Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Clients are very focused on reducing the cost of storage in every part of
their business. IBM Storwize family can not only significantly reduce the
cost up to 90% in some cases, but also simplify the management and
unify storage services. During this session we will rely heavily on
demonstrations to show how your storage footprint can be reduced with
the simplest interface in the marketplace.
Disaster Recovery on the Cheap with Storwize
sBC05 [Storage/Demo] Nick Harris
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Leinster Demo - Technical - All attendees
As storage grows the cost of networking and availability become critical to
clients implementing availability. The IBM Storwize family’s new native IP
based replication technology not only reduces cost through use of
standard IP services, it improves the use of the network. The new IP
replication function has built in WAN optimization that does not require
additional hardware. During this session we will show improvements to
the network capability and demonstrate how simple it is to use.
Defining the New Storage Building Block – Simplicity with
sSY05 [Storage/Demo] Extreme Performance
Nick Harris
Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Leinster Demo - Technical - All attendees
Traditionally clients have separated they workloads with different storage
devices or by simply buying tier-1 disk for everything. This is no longer
sustainable with the rapid change in applications and the enormous
growth in storage. A new building block is available that combines
extreme performance and simple economics. The hugely successful
Storwize SVC plus IBM FlashSystems can dramatically reduce your storage
costs. In this session we will show examples of how extreme
performance married to the simplicity of SVC, and reduction of your
existing infrastructure can reduce your overall costs.
IBM i Enhanced Availability with DS8870
sHA04 [Storage/Lecture] Nick Harris
In 2014, the integration between the IBM i environment and DS8870
continues to improve the options for high availability. As more clients view
their current 2-site availability insufficient to meet there business service
requirements, a new design is needed. In this session we will discuss the
3-site options for IBM clients and other HA/DR options available in 2014.
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IBM i Full Site Replication with DS8870
sHA05 [Storage/Lecture] Nick Harris
Some IBM i clients struggle to implement cost effective high availability. A
new, and simple solution using IBM System Storage is available. We will
cover the IBM i HA basics, and show how customers can use new IBM i
integration to implement a simple switch and failover environment.
SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster Setup and Manual Recovery
sHA06 [Storage/Lecture] Procedure Customer Example
Michael Frankenberg
Friday 10:30-11:45 Ulster In this session I describe the setup of the IBM SAN Volume Controller
(SVC) Enhanced Stretched Cluster on the basis of a customer example. I
demonstrate the steps that are necessary to use the manual recovery
procedure in case of a disaster and what to consider before the client use
this procedure. In addition I explain the latest changes of the Enhanced
Stretched Cluster introduced with Rel. 7.3.
Realizing Software Defined Storage Through IBM SmartCloud
sEC06 [Storage/Lecture] Virtual Storage Center
David Bartlett
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Landsdowne Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Landsdowne An overview and live demonstration of the ability of VSC to apply policy
based provisioning and optimization capabilities to virtualized storage
infrastructure, including the latest integration points with IBM Elastic
Storage. The power of analytics are harnessed to drive efficiency and
provide decision support.
XIV's new 3 Way Mirror feature
sHA50 [Storage/Lab] Ralf Wohlfarth Markus Oscheka
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 12 Lab - Technical - All attendees
This lab session will cover the new 3 Way Mirror feature of the IBM® XIV
Storage System.
Attendees will get to know the concept and experience the easy and
straight forward configuration of the new feature including failover and
failback scenarios.
XIV new features: Multitenancy and Management tools 4.4

This lab session will cover the new Multitenancy and Management tools
4.4 of the IBM® XIV Storage System.
XIV and IBM Hyper-Scale Lab with the option to ask the experts
This lab session will cover the IBM Hyper-Scale features of the IBM® XIV
Storage System. Attendees will have access to different IBM® XIV Storage
Systems and use the IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility feature to move a volume
online to another system. The session will contain little theory but much
hands on and the option to discuss your questions with the experts.
SVC DH8 and Storwize V7000 Gen 2 updated hardware and
sSY09 [Storage/Lecture] improved software
Kai Ruth
Friday 9:00-10:15 Leinster Hardware fresh-up of SVC (DH8 nodes) and Storwize V7000 (Gen 2)
together with SVC/Storwize release 7.3 was adding a lot of new features
to our successful product family.
This session focus on the latest hardware changes, showing supported

configurations, upgrade possibilities and provides a peek into the newly
introduced Real-time Compression accelerator cards.
A good basic knowledge about the Storwize products is an advantage as

the session is focuses on the changes.
In-depth V7000 hands on lab, including IP replication remote

sSY06 [Storage/Lab] mirroring
Antoine MAILLE ,Stéphane Couteau
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Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 12 "During this hands-on lab, performed on live remote systems, you will
discover the ease of use of the V7000 web-based GUI for both basic and
advanced administration tasks. You will learn how to create volumes,
compress volumes, map it to a Windows host and define Flashcopy
mappings. You will also discover how to set up the IP replication feature,
create mirroring relationships to a second V7000, and perform disaster
recovery tasks.
We will discover how to switch between metro and global mirror.
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to navigate through the
different menus to discover various options, like performance monitoring,
event management, physical disk management, ...."
Demonstrate the Turbo Compression Effect.
sSE80 [Storage/Demo] Antoine MAILLE
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 3 Demo - Business Technical - All attendees
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Leinster Buy traditional or Smarter Storage ??
Only IBM propose to combine Virtualization, Compression, EasyTier and
Flash Optimizers. It provides a ground breaking solution to address
customers data growth challenge and improve performances.
This session will demonstrate how IBM TurboCompression can offer a
solution that doubles usable storage capacity and IO processing capability
of existing infrastructures at a fraction of the price of traditional storage
expansion.
The live demonstration will use a relevant Oracle OLTP workload."

FlashSystem performance acceleration demonstration
sFS81 [Storage/Demo] Stephane Couteau
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Ulster Discover how IBM FlashSystem easily integrates into an existing SVC
infrastructure, and how to take advantage from SVC mirroring to redirect
read operations on the FlashSystem, in order to benefit from its ability to
carry out a very large number of IOPS at a very low latency. During this
live demonstration, both OLTP and batch workloads will be applied on an
Oracle database environment, in order to show the performance
improvement when switching all read operations on the FlashSystem.
SAP and FlashSystem demonstration
sFS82 [Storage/Demo] Stephane Couteau Cesar Beltran
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Ulster This live demonstration will show you examples of what FlashSystem can
do to help you to accelerate SAP workloads, without changes to your
existing architecture or code.
OpenStack & Elastic Storage – Swift
sEC07 [Storage/lecture] Alexander Saupp
Tuesday 10:30-11:45 Landsdowne lecture - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 3 Swift is the only OpenStack component that can be deployed
independently, as it implements an ObjectStore API that can be used from
applications outside of OpenStack virtualized environments.
This lecture will explain the Swift concept & architectures, show use cases
as well as go into specifics of IBM based implementations, e.g. on Elastic
Storage
Elastic Storage – GSS introduction & architectural Blueprints
sEC08 [Storage/lecture] Alexander Saupp
Tuesday 9:00-10:15 Landsdowne lecture - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 3 This session will provide technical background on "Elastic Storage" (a.k.
GPFS) - specifically the GSS version that bundles Hardware and clustered
raid software features.
After looking inside technology & functions, we'll discuss architectural

blueprints that provide customer value today, e.g. potential deployment
types, Sync & Share with OwnCloud, GSS as Storage Pool for TSM
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Experience the new TPC functionalities
sTS05 [Storage/lecture] Marion Hejny
Monday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 1 lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 3 Have you upgraded your TPC to the newest available version ? This
session will show you the latest enhancements of TPC/VSC
Experience the new TPC functionalities
sTS81 [Storage/Demo] Marion Hejny
Monday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 1 Demo - Technical - All attendees
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 3 Have you upgraded your TPC to the newest available version ? This demo
will show you the latest enhancements of TPC/VSC
TPC: Cognos Reporting
sTS06 [Storage/lecture] Marion Hejny
Tuesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 1 lecture - Technical - All attendees
Want to have your Reports be sent to your boss before you come to
work? Or do you want to get a notification with a detailed report of your
own defined threshold violations before your customer complains ?.
Get used to TPC Cognos, find the appropriate predefined report, learn
how to create reports in Query Studio and then add enhanced
functionality in Report Studio to them. Basic Event Studio functionality will
also be shown.
TPC: Cognos Reporting
sTS82 [Storage/Demo] Marion Hejny
Tuesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 1 Demo - Technical - All attendees
Want to have your Reports be sent to your boss before you come to
work? Or do you want to get a notification with a detailed report of own
defined threshold violations before your customer complains ?.
Get used to TPC Cognos, find the appropriate predefined report, learn
how to create reports in Query Studio and then add enhanced
functionality in Report Studio to them. Basic Event Studio functionality will
also be shown.
Demo of Query Studio, Report Studio and Event Studio
ProtecTIER with IBM FlashSystems
sFS51 [Storage/Lab] Mathias Defiebre
Come join us for the ProtecTIER with IBM FlashSystems lab
IBM Storage OEM Strategic Alliance with Lenovo

cCP01 [Competitive/Lecture] Christopher Konarski ,Virginie Radisson, Carlos Kohan
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Landsdowne Lecture - Business - IBM & Business Partners
Targeting #1 position in the server market, Lenovo is becoming a WW key
actor.
Align with Lenovo's solution strategy by attaching IBM storage - this will
enable you to grow your business profits and customer share.
Be part of the transition, be part of the market battle, engage with the
IBM OEM team. All you need to know about this alliance and what this
mean to you especially as a BP
N series is gone, now what?
sFS [Storage/Lecture]
Roland Tretau
As the IBM NetApp OEM partnership has been denounced earlier this year
there are many questions that come up client NAS cases: Can I continue
using N series? what about updates? what would be the IBM NAS solution
that fits my business requirements? What are IBM's NAS options? This
session will outline options for clients to move to IBM NAS based on
practical examples. There will also be a panel of experts presents to
discuss Elastic Storage, SONAS, GPFS, and V7000Unified NAS solution
scenarios
Explore TCOnow! for Flash with RTC
sSE [Storage/Lecture] Roland Tretau
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Munster Lecture - Technical - All attendees
It's true! Data is "the new natural resource", the new currency of
business. While data can provide invaluable insight, your customers still
need to wrestle with the old currency - CASH MONEY. With the advent of
the new IBM Flash System 840 and V840, this new TCOnow! module
offers streamlined and advanced analysis functions for storage design,
acquisition, and operation.
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XIV Gen 3 rel 11.5 Updates
sSS05 [Storage/Lecture] M.G. McCullough
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Landsdowne Lecture - Technical - All attendees
This session will give a brief overview of the XIV subsystem for any one
that is new to this product. Followed by enhancements to the Rel 11. 5
code and then followed by open labs which are available for any one that
needs to have hands-on the XIV for themselves.
TS7700 Updates
Come here about the latest enhancements to the TS7740 and TS7720 VTS
What's New in the world of tape

Friday 12:00-13:15 Munster New tape drive! New tape Library come get the details!
Trends and Directions for x86 Servers

xTD01 [System x/Lecture] Steve Edwards - Adam Roberts ( SanDisk)
Monday 12:00-13:15 Pembroke Lecture - Technical - All attendees
This session will cover the current trends and latest technologies affecting
the designs of x86 based servers as well as a preview of our upcoming
products.
Software-Defined Networking
xCL04 [System x/Lecture] The Next Revolution in Virtualization
Alan Kittel
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 18 Software-Defined Networking is poised to revolutionize the way we handle
networking in the data center. We have virtualized CPU and storage; SDN
lets us virtualize the network. We'll separate hype from reality by
discussing the business flexibility offered by SDN. We will also take a look
at IBM's industry-leading SDN products such as SDN-VE. IBM is a major
participant in open source projects OpenStack and OpenDaylight, as well
the Open Networking Foundation. We'll wrap up the session with a look at
SDN approaches from vendors such as VMware and Cisco. At the end of
the session you'll have a clear picture of what SDN is, why it matters,
what is happening in the marketplace, and why SDN will be a key
technology for 2014 and beyond.
Virtualizing the Desktop
xCL06 [System x/Lecture] Steve McKinney
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 8 Gartner predicts that “desktop virtualization, has the potential to outstrip
server virtualization” when it comes to overall ROI. And according to Info-
Tech “the technology has advanced such that virtual desktops can now
deliver a full desktop PC experience’. This topic examines the opportunities
that today’s organizations have to improve security, simplify manageability
and reduce the cost of their PC environment through the execution of a
hosted/thin client implementation. Discussion elements include an
architectural review and the strengths and limitations of the variety of
different approaches available today... shared services, physical platforms
and virtual hosted clients. It will also introduce IBM's latest totally
integrated solution powered by . Citrix VDI-in-a-Box - delivering ease of
installation and cost efficiencies that are truly industry leading. This
session will help customers and IBM business partners to understand how
IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure transforms the traditional desktop
in to next generation workplace.
Transforming the Datacenter with Cloud
xCL07 [System x/Lecture] the IBM Software Defined Environment
Jeffrey Falkanger
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Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 18 Cloud is rapidly transforming IT, creating an opportunity for
unprecedented speed and agility in both the datacenter and the client's
business. To realize these benefits, Enterprises need a solid infrastructure
foundation that is efficient, flexible, and software-enabled to take
advantage of advanced workload and lifecycle automation. This session
will show how IBM leverages open standards (i.e. OpenStack, OpenFlow,
etc.) as the foundation for enabling the hardware infrastructure, and
drives operational efficiency with solutions such as IBM Cloud Manager
with OpenStack and IBM Cloud Orchestrator for an end-to-end optimized
Cloud environment.
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack
xCL08 [System x/Lecture] Planning and Implementation
Upendra Rajan
Monday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 8 Lecture - - All attendees
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 8 Join an extensive discussion on planning for deploying IBM Cloud Manager
with OpenStack (previously called IBM SmartCloud Entry). This lecture is
structured as a guide for an organization to plan the journey to cloud
using IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack. Attendees will be presented
with the various customer related IaaS features and properties that can be
enabled using IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack in order to create an
efficient cloud environment.
IBM System x3650 M4 BD Software Defined Storage Platform
with RHSS as OpenStack Swift and Cinder Backing Store and
xCL10 [System x/Lecture]
More
Bill Bauman
Come learn how IBM is redefining the software-defined storage market
with the IBM System x3650 M4 HD and BD models in collaboration with
Red Hat Storage for On-Premise and Cloud solutions. There is an
introduction to the x3650 M4 BD and Red Hat Storage features and
architecture, highlighting OpenStack backing store capabilities. The IBM
solution allows you to quickly and efficiently build out a big data
environment that supports high performance, data replication and online
rapid scalability – all by leveraging solely the internal storage of the
System x server.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on PureFlex
xCL50 [System x/Demo] Jean Midot
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 7 Demo - Technical - All attendees
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 9 Discover the overall architecture and the different possibilities of desktop
infrastructure based on Citrix products.
Cloud Solution
Real Case Example for IBM Training Business
xCL51 [System x/Demo] Tristan Spadi
Alexandre Dini
Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 11 Cloud Computing presentations can often seem too theoretical and far
from real life applications. During this session, you will discover the IBM
Cloud Training solution currently in production, providing every week more
than 2000 lab environments to students all over the world. This
presentation will describe how a business need has been addressed with a
Platform As A Service solution:
• IBM Remote Lab Platform requirements
• Architecture and technical overview
• Live demonstration
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack 4.1
xCL52 [System x/Demo] in MSP style
Michael Weisbach
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 18 Demo - Technical - All attendees
Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 8 This demo session will show you how to implement IBM Cloud Manager
with OpenStack 4.1 (CMwO) in an Managed Service Provider (MSP)
specific configuration. The first part of the demo show how an almost fully
automated CMwO installation might look like and how to address the
"genesis challenge" of an IaaS cloud environment. The second part of the
demo will show how to configure CMwO in an MSP context using
RHEL6.5/KVM as platform, how to deal with a bunch of clients (tenants),
how to connect to VLANs per tenant and give you an overview about
known pitfalls, based on real customer experiences.
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HPC Cloud and IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition
xCL53 [System x/Demo] 4.1
Ludovic Enault
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Pembroke Demo - Technical - All attendees
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 10 Learn how to address HPC in the Cloud with this session.
After setting various HPC use cases covering private, public, and hybrid
cloud landscape, we will focus on Infrastructure Management and
introduce PCMAE to understand what solutions our customers are building
to add flexibility into their HPC clusters management and turn them into
private HPC clouds. A demo will expose various possibilities of PCMAE:
- Creation of various cluster definitions (HPC, Hadoop)
- Instantiation of a cluster definition on virtual or physical machines
- Repurpose any allocated resources from any cluster by flexing up or
down the cluster to manage business priority sudden changes
- Eventually burst into external resources, ideal to deal with workload
peaks.
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack in Action
xCL54 [System x/Demo] Guilhaume Garcia
Tuesday 10:30-11:45 Pembroke Demo - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Pembroke This session is about presenting and demonstrating the value IBM Cloud
Manager with OpenStack, a robust solution for deploying an IaaS cloud
based on OpenStack. It is supporting KVM, Hyper-V, VMware, PowerVM,
PowerKVM and z/VM under a unique self-service portal. The attendees will
have an introduction to this new software architecture and can start
quickly a setup themselves with the 90 days trial immediately after the
demonstration.
Build a Hybrid Cloud architecture and demonstration
xCL55 [System x/Demo] Guilhaume Garcia
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Pembroke Demo - Technical - All attendees
Even if you are managing Power Systems or x86 virtualization, IBM's can
offer you several ways to interact with Public Clouds such as Softlayer to
create hybrid services at the IaaS level or PaaS level. This session include
a demonstration on both delivery services with STG and SWG solutions.
(IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, IBM SoftLayer).
IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack Technical Deep Dive - Part 1
xCL75 [System x/Lab] Upendra Rajan
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 10 In this session you will carry out an installation of the product on an IBM
PureFlex system and perform extensive behind the scenes administrative
tasks to transition an organization into cloud.
What will attendees learn from this session:
• Perform the installation.
• Learn to enable the IaaS interface for various customer related
functions.
• Modify various features and properties.
• Create a cloud environment with your own projects, users and
networking configurations.
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 10 This session covers the concepts of creating your own golden image and
deploying an instance using IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack.
• Create an image.
• Deploy a new instance.
• Work with request approvals as an administrator.
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 10 This session deals with making the administrator’s job easier by showing
how to efficiently manage instances, projects, user permissions and
controlling access to various virtual resources.
• Identify how to efficiently manage instances and projects.
• Identify how to efficiently manage users and control their access.
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IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack 4.1
in MSP style
Hands on Workshop
xCL78 [System x/Lab]
(Double Session)
Michael Weisbach
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 10 This lab session will provide you with hands on experiences on "IBM Cloud
Manager with OpenStack 4.1" (CMwO) in an Managed Service Provider
specific configuration. First part of the lab is a brief introduction into the
Flex based lab environment, the network configuration and so on as well
as new features introduced by CMwO 4.1 / 4.2, especially the Chef based
installation framework. The main part of the lab session will focus on the
"genesis challenge" (before Chef based instrumentation kicks in) and how
to rapid implement a CMwO 4.1 based IaaS cloud environment and how to
configure CMwO in an MSP style manner. The environment used to deliver
the lab consists of two KVM VMs and two x240 Flex nodes running
RHEL6.5/KVM per group. The last part of the lab, depending on attendees
interests, can be used to discuss hybrid cloud scenarios we can implement
with CMwO 4.1 (4.2).
System x Portfolio with x86
xII01 [System x/Lecture] Steve McKinney
This topic reviews server trends and technologies effecting the x86 server
segment along with IBM's focus on delivering server solutions for a
dynamic infrastructure that improve service, reduce cost and manage risk.
Discussion elements include: IBM innovative technologies, X-Architecture,
management tools and a review of System x scale-out and scale-up server
platforms.
Change Things Up
with
xII03 [System x/Lecture] IBM NeXtScale System
Gaurav Chaudhry
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 9 This session covers a general and technical introduction to the new IBM
NeXtScale System. NeXtScale is optimized for traditional HPC/Technical
Computing, Cloud - both public and private, and analytic work loads. In
this session you will learn the basics of how NeXtScale is build, why we
selected certain features and functions, the markets it will excel in, the
value of the architecture and a look forward. You will also gain an
understanding of the overall scale-out market, trends in this space, and
what it takes to win in this segment.
IBM NeXtScale System
xII04 [System x/Lecture] Basics of Power and Cooling
Matthew Archibald
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 6 The IBM NeXtScale System Chassis is powered and cooled like no other
system. This session covers basics of NeXtScale System power and cooling
such as an overview of the chassis power requirements, scalable
cooling, and much more. Also included will be an update of the new
power supply and PDU options, as well as covering how to determine the
maximum number of supported nodes for the different power supply
options.
System x Pre-Sales Tools
xII05 [System x/Lecture] William Luken
This presentation provides you some insight into the primary System x
and BladeCenter pre-sales tools used to help learn, build, configure and
validate System x standalone products and integrated solutions. Many pre-
sales tools are shown and discussed in this session. See the lab session for
actual training on some of the tools discussed.
IBM X6 Systems Provide a Solid Foundation for Enterprise
xII06 [System x/Lecture] Workloads
Jeffrey Falkanger
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Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 9 This session describes the innovative and powerful features of the IBM
System x3850 X6 with Intel E7 v2 processors. Its modular design,
processing scalability, memory, storage, and reliability capabilities provides
an ideal platform for Web-facing and database workloads.
Introduction to Intel Xeon Phi
xII07 [System x/Lecture] Francois Thomas
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 7 Intel is a new comer in the co-processor market with its new Intel Many
Integrated Core (MIC) Architecture. In this presentation, we will present
the new Intel MIC product named Intel Xeon Phi as well as the ways to
program using this architecture. We will also present the main
technological advantages Intel Xeon Phi presents for HPC applications and
why it is one of the most relevant co-processor for our customers due to
its ease of use. Examples from codes will be presented so as to highlight
the different aspects of using this new technology.
HW+SW-KW
xII08 [System x/Lecture] Francois Thomas
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 8 Power consumption is a critical factor for servers and data centers. Do
you know how much our application consumes? Where is this power
used? What you can do to reduce it? After an introduction on the different
sources of power consumption of a data center (power consumption,
cooling and power loss), we will dig into the different components of the
power consumption of a server: CPU and Memory. We will then show
the relation between power consumption and performance and the trade-
off between power, performance, and energy. We present the features we
have introduced in Platform LSF to implement Energy Aware Scheduling
on x86 systems to control and optimize power and energy consumption of
clusters and applications.
Next Generation M5 Servers
xII09 [System x/Lecture] Steve Edwards
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 8 IBM will shortly be unveiling it's next generation of high volume,
NeXtScale and Flex servers. This session will cover the new technologies
included in these servers as well as how the servers were designed.
IBM X6 Systems Provide a Solid Foundation for Web-Facing
xII10 [System x/Lecture] Workloads
Alan Kittel
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 7 This session describes how the IBM System x3850 X6, with its processing
scalability as well as memory and storage capabilities, provides an ideal
platform for Web facing workloads
The Advantage of Database Workloads
xII11 [System x/Lecture] on IBM System x3850 X6
Alan Kittel
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 9 With todays rapid data growth, enterprises are challenged to process all
the data they should. The challenge is to manage the volume of data for
the purpose of on-line transaction processing along the variety and
velocity of data for the purpose of analytics to gain business insight. This
session shows how database workloads such as OLTP and Analytics
exploit the X6's eXFlash SSD and eXFlash memory-channel storage
capabilities to provide a lower cost per transaction and faster results than
the competition.
IBM NeXtScale
xII12 [System x/Lecture] Planning and Optimizing Power
Matthew Archibald
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Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 6 IBM have designed NeXtScale to take advantage of using as-configured
power to size and plan the number of power supplies and power supply
size in the chassis. This makes the installations as efficient as possible
based on only installing the number and type of power supplies required
to support the load. Given this focus around optimization, planning for
power can be confusing, and this session aims to help attendees
understand all of the considerations involved when planning power
infrastructure. This will be a guided overview of the product infrastructure
and how to use the IBM tools to plan with emphasis on understanding
how to make the tools work for you.
Enterprise X-Architecture
xII13 [System x/Lecture] Steve McKinney
Monday 16:15-17:30 Pembroke Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 8 As customers look into cloud computing there are many key challenges in
their data centers: underutilized servers with costly software licenses,
rising management costs, space constraints and maxed out power. IBM's
next generation enterprise X-Architecture is specifically designed to
respond to these challenges with leadership performance, new levels of
server and blade scalability and unmatched reliability for higher workload
utilization and consolidation. This topic will cover an overview of this X6
technology, products (x3850, x3950, x880 & HX6) and solutions.
System x Pre-Sales Tools
xII50 [System x/Demo] Demo
William Luken
In the pre-sales tools lab we will do a deeper dive into the use of the
primary sales configurators and supporting tools for System x &
BladeCenter. This is an open session and we will cover the tools that you
would like to see - actual usage of and learn more about, like: the SSCT,
x-config, e-config and supporting pre-sales tools.
Unmatched I/O Flexibility & Scalability
xNW01 [System x/Lecture] with IBM Flex and PureSystems
Andy Wright
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 18 Attend this session and discover how Flex and PureSystems provide
unmatched capabilities when it comes to Ethernet connectivity. We will
discuss our unmatched flexibility and scalability, in addition to how we can
help IT organizations significantly reduce cost and complexity. We also are
providing systems administrators more control when deploying larger
systems at the chassis, rack or multi-rack level which can connect
seamlessly into your existing networks, but allow you to maintain control
of all the connectivity in the chassis or racks. We will highlight all the
Ethernet offerings including converged capabilities. Finally, we’ll give you a
glance at key areas we are focused on moving forward.
Smarter Ethernet Connectivity
xNW02 [System x/Lecture] with Rack Based System Solutions
Andy Wright
Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 18 Many IT organizations are looking to simplify deployment and
management of larger systems, allowing System Admins to deploy a rack
or multiple racks at a time. It is clear that infrastructure matters - IT
demands for performance, availability and reliability are critical with the
demands of virtualization, big data, mobility and cloud computing. This
session will focus on the importance of simple Ethernet connectivity and
more advanced networking. We will review IT trends, ways to help
simplify System and Network admins roles and responsibilities, discuss
benefits of flatter networks, a portfolio overview, and innovations that
provide competitive differentiation and value for building smarter systems
with rack based system solutions.
Convergence - Saving you Thousands of Dollars!
xNW03 [System x/Lecture] Andy Wright
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Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 18 As datacenters evolve, convergence is being considered by many in IT as
a way to reduce cost and complexity, in addition to a way to possible build
larger POD’s or converged systems at a rack or multi-rack level. 10 Gb
Ethernet is making this possible helping eliminate parallel LAN/SAN
infrastructures in favor of a single converged Ethernet fabric. In this
session we will discuss: the role and benefits of NAS, iSCSI and FCoE,
capabilities for Power and Pure Systems, examples of using convergence
in bigger systems and more.
The Role of Networking in a Software Defined Data Center
xNW04 [System x/Lecture] Andy Wright
This session will cover Software Defined Networking (SDN) from both the
virtual network and physical networks. Discussion will include the
advantages of leveraging overlay technologies like VXLAN and others to
simplify virtual networks, plus how OpenFlow standards can provide an
emerging framework designed for dynamic and flexible physical networks
that allows organizations to easily modify, control and manage today's
physical networks. We will discuss how we work with IBM based
technologies in addition to other vendors in the industry explain the
technology, best practices and our experiences with clients.
10 Simple Configurations that Maximize IBM System Networking
Connectivity
xNW05 [System x/Lecture] with Cisco Networks
William Scull
Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 18 IBM System Networking has a proven track record of interoperability with
other manufacturer's network, such as Cisco. In this technical session, we
will look at ten configurations that simplify and maximize connectivity
specifically with Cisco Networks.
Top Three Common Network Designs our Clients are
xNW06 [System x/Lecture] Implementing
William Scull
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 18 Learn what types of network designs IBM System Networking clients are
currently implementing. We will examine the top three types of designs
our clients implement and look at their benefits.
Scalable IP Data Centers with IBM PureSystems Using Spine-
xNW07 [System x/Lecture] and-Leaf Topologies
Per Ljungstrom
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 18 This session discusses the advantages of deploying PureSystems in
replacing a traditional hierarchical data center environment. Learn how to
reduce deployment time by up to 95% while building a high performance
spine-and-leaf topology.
Scalable IP/FCoE Data Centers
xNW08 [System x/Lecture] with IBM PureSystems
Per Ljungstrom
Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 18 Discover the advantages of deploying Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
on PureSystems. Learn how to reduce deployment times by up to 95%
plus other advantages of deploying scalable clusters or POD's in a Flex
Systems Data Center environment. Topics will include in-depth discussion
of IBM Flex System Interconnect Fabric, Brocade VDX and the advantages
over a complex and costly 3-tier architectures.
IBM SDN VE Introduction and Demo
xNW50 [System x/Demo] Upendra Rajan
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 7 Join a general discussion on Software-defined Networking. Attendees will
be presented with the basics of SDN, why we need it and its benefits.
Then, an introduction and a demo of the IBM SDN VE product
will show a good use case to clarify the concepts.
System x Service & Support Differentiators
xSL01 [System x/Lecture] William Luken
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Tuesday 9:00-10:15 Pembroke Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Pembroke This presentation provides an overview of the System x service and
support structure and offerings. Closing with a high-level direction of the
System x transition to Lenovo.
Delivering insight faster with Technical Computing
xSL02 [System x/Lecture] Gaurav Chaudhry
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 5 Technical Computing is how organizations achieve insight faster, reduce
time and cost, and gain competitive advantage. In this session you will
learn how System x is mobilizing technical computing to bring value to all
size clients and how IT can be delivered across industries and users. You
will also learn how Intelligent cluster is more than just delivering parts, it
is how we deliver solutions to our clients whether they are deploying
workloads for High Performance Computing or enterprise computing.
Can you Control your DataCenter?
xSL03 [System x/BOF] Oren Wolf
Chuck Weber
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 9 BOF - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 9 To achieve the ultimate goal of increased competitiveness that smarter
systems can provide, it is necessary to move beyond the detailed
management of systems – servers, storage and networks – to the
optimisation of workloads and the delivery of high-value IT services in
new ways. IT administrators need streamlined, automated systems
management tools that directly address key business concerns related to
IT, such as the ability to more rapidly deploy services in response to
business needs, and the control of costs associated with capital
expenditure and ongoing management.
Accelerated Technical Computing
xSL04 [System x/Lecture] Francois Thomas
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 7 Continuous increase in data processing and computational needs coupled
with today’s energy constraints make hybrid solutions with co-processors
more and more attractive. Accelerator based solutions need to be
assessed in terms of performance, portability, productivity and energy. In
this presentation, we outline the key technical features of standard Intel
x86 processors and accelerators (GPGPU and Intel Xeon Phi). We propose
a methodology for customers to choose the most suitable solution based
on the combination of a programming model, computer architecture and
needs. We present the capabilities of IBM Platform LSF to deal with
multiple co-processors solutions. Some performance data and market
references will be shown.
RHEV 3.4 and OpenStack Integration
xSL05 [System x/Lecture] In-depth Architecture and Best Practices
Bill Bauman
Thursday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 6 Learn how RHEV is reducing the resources required and the complexity of
integrating legacy virtualization with modern OpenStack infrastructure in
the same datacenter. There is an overview discussion of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and the architecture of a RHEV 3.4 environment,
including screenshots, architecture and best practices around storage,
networking, guest creation and more. Additional roadmap will be
presented and discussed, time-permitting. Note, this session is based on
collaborative work done between IBM's ATS virtualization experts in
Dallas, TX, USA and Red Hat's technical counterparts.
OpenStack and IBM/Intel Trusted Computing
xSL06 [System x/Lecture] on RHEL OpenStack Platform Overview
Bill Bauman
Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 8 IBM, Intel and Red Hat are closely collaborating to educate customers on
the benefits and capabilities of a secure OpenStack Platform running on
IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems, making it easier for
organizations to evaluate and implement their private and hybrid cloud
security initiatives in multitenant and public cloud environments. We begin
with an overview of what is OpenStack, what the architectural design
points initially were, and how they are evolving to satisfy the needs of
enterprise datacenter administrators. That is followed by an overview of
Red Hat’s implementation of the IBM/Intel Trusted Compute Pools
technology, and then architectural discussion around OpenStack's core
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projects.
Software Defined Storage

xSL07 [System x/Lecture] VMWare's VSAN and System x
Tom Szabo
This lecture will serve as an introduction to VMWare's VSAN product and
how IBM's System x server lines can be leveraged to take advantage of
this new technology. Use cases, design considerations, and actual
configurations of rack based, Flex system, and NextScale components
configured to create virtual SAN and vSphere clusters will be reviewed.
Insight Into Oracle Solutions
(Technlogies - Applications - Virtualization)
xSL08 [System x/Lecture] on IBM System x / Pureflex Servers
Fred Dubois
Friday 12:00-13:15 Pembroke This session will highlight how you can get the best of your IBM System x
/ PureFlex Servers for your Oracle environment. Virtualization (VMware -
OVM …), high-availability, flexibility in regards to Oracle environments will
be addressed to help you making the right choice to build your Oracle
Solutions on IBM Infrastructure.
Oracle Database 12c Experiences
xSL09 [System x/Lecture] on IBM System x
Fred Dubois
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 5 This objective of this session is to cover some key features of the latest
Oracle database 12c such as Multitenant, RACONe Node, and FlexASM.
Based on customer experiences, internal testing done at the IBM Oracle
Center, this session will present 1st experience feedbacks, advantages and
constraints introduced by this new version on administration, architecture
design, and costs. A demonstration in regards to Oracle Database 12c
implementation on IBM System x will be run during this session.
IBM Systems Solution for SAP HANA
xSL10 [System x/Lecture] Martin Herzog
Thursday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 7 SAP HANA is a flexible, data source agnostic, high-performance analytics
appliance, which allows you to analyze large volumes of data in real time,
without the need to materialize aggregations. This new in-memory
computing appliance from IBM and SAP is based on IBM eX5 flagship
systems, IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS) and the SAP HANA
software. In-memory computing is a technology that allows the processing
of massive quantities of data in main memory to provide immediate
results from analysis and transaction. The data to be processed is ideally
real-time data. Attend this session to get a deep insight into this new
technology and how it applies to SAP Business Warehouse and SAP
Business Suite application landscapes. Learn about the principles of in-
memory computing, the architecture, components and benefits of the IBM
Systems Solution for SAP HANA, its delivery, operational, and support
aspects.
X6 Servers + SAP HANA + Business Warehouse Accelerator Drive
xSL11 [System x/Lecture] Real-Time Benefits
Martin Herzog
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Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 7 The IBM + SAP partnership is one of the largest, most strategic in the IT
industry. It leverages the unique technologies, intellectual property and
industry expertise of both companies and addresses 3 key industry trends:
1) Business transformation: CEOs want to transform their businesses to
keep pace with technological change;
2) IT landscape simplification: Businesses need to be agile;
3) Driving business outcomes: Companies want clear, measurable results.
The attributes of X6 platforms and SAP HANA and SAP Business Suite
mean that CEOs can run their businesses
in real-time with new performance levels. Learn how IBM and SAP built
the largest in-memory business solutions in the world and how your
business can achieve the same benefits.
SAP HANA Competitive Update

xSL12 [System x/Lecture] Tag Robertson
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 9 SAP has teamed with seven server vendors to enable choice in the
marketplace for SAP HANA solutions. Attend this session to learn why the
IBM System solution for SAP HANA is the leading choice among
customers.
Enhance Capabilities of SAP Business Suite Applications with X6
xSL13 [System x/Lecture] Systems
Tag Robertson
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 9 SAP Business Suite applications handle business critical transactions and
analytics for many enterprises. Learn how IBM X6 Systems can provide
leading performance, faster deployment, and resilient solutions for SAP
Business Suite applications.
Hadoop - Why you need IBM Platform Computing and GPFS File
xSL14 [System x/Lecture] System solutions
Ludovic Enault
Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 5 With the steadily growing need for data analysis and cost savings, more
and more organizations are looking at and implementing big data hadoop
environments.
We will outline Hadoop cluster technologies and competitive solutions with
local storage and new paradigms emerging with a tiered approach on
external storage. We will demonstrate why IBM General Parallel File
System (GPFS) is a unique entreprise File System for Hadoop with all the
mandatory features to drive infrastructure and business needs. As the
performance and flexibility are also critical, we will explain how
organizations can take advantage of Platform Symphony and Cluster
Management to design a data-centric solution for extremely high resource
utilization and cloud services.
The Fundamentals: Analyze Structured Data With PureData
xSL15 [System x/Lecture] System for Analytics
Tim Bohn
Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 5 Most businesses already have a repository for structured data and are
performing some type of analytics on that data. Poor performing reports
result in excessive database administration overhead and waste valuable
computer and human resources. PureData System for Analytics vastly
speeds and simplifies the analysis of structured data thanks to
revolutionary hardware acceleration and appliance simplicity. Learn how to
master structured data analytics with winning performance and price
performance over the latest in engineered and in-memory analytics
competitors.
Scalable Transaction Databases Made Easy: OLTP with PureData
xSL16 [System x/Lecture] System for Transactions
Tim Bohn
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Friday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 5 In the world of big data, highly reliable transactional database systems
that scale are more important than ever. PureData System for
Transactions is a highly reliable and scalable database platform optimized
for transactional workloads. Integrated by design, the components and
software of PureData System for Transactions are selected, configured
and tuned for transactional workloads. It offers the built-in expertise of
IBM's best system designs and practices. The management interfaces
offer a simplified experience for administrators. Attend this session and
see market leading performance and DB2's continuous availability in
action as it compares to the less than continuous availability and lower
performance of a well-known competitor.
Why IBM PureApplication is Better than Oracle Exalogic and VCE
xSL17 [System x/Lecture] Vblock – A Case Study Analysis
Howard Operowsky
Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 6 Businesses want optimized IT infrastructure and processes to deliver
faster time to value to focus on business growth. PureApplication is a
complete cloud solution that can optimize the IT lifecycle and make your
business more efficient. Through case studies, we will demonstrate how
PureApplication System and PureApplication Service on SoftLayer make for
ideal cloud environments. Patterns are the key to deliver simple and fast
deployments for many solutions such as BPM and Mobile. Our competitive
studies cover aspects of the integrated hardware and software to build
dynamic, scalable, and secure clouds. Understand how it delivers the best
price/performance with reduced labor thanks to patterns and a single IT
lifecycle management console.
PureApplication vs. Exalogic/Exadata: A Deep Dive Case Study
xSL18 [System x/Lecture] Competitive Analysis
Howard Operowsky
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 6 Which has the better performance at a better price/performance mark?
Which can deploy workloads easier with reduced labor? That’s what this
deep dive, hands-on case study of IBM PureApplication System versus
Oracle Exalogic and Exadata answers. The study involves the environment
setup, configuring and deployment of a web based on-line trading
application and its associated database. The goal was to research and
understand the aspects of both solutions’ approaches and compare the
performance, price/performance, deployment labor and skill required to
use the system. After you see the details, you’ll understand why
PureApplication offers the superior solution.
OpenCompute or OEM?
xSL19 [System x/Lecture] Matt Ziegler
Tuesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 9 By now, every person working in IT has heard of the Open Compute
Project (OCP) spearheaded by Facebook and adopted by other companies
deploying servers at large scale. Customers are now demanding vanity-
free servers in their own datacenters while at the same time expecting
end-to-end quality and support they are used to from their OEM provider.
OEMs are adjusting to this new era of computing by building lower cost
hardware that maintains high quality and competes directly against
servers developed through the OCP. Attend to this session to learn more
about OCP and how OEMs are stacking up against this threat.
Scale-Out Solution Design. Why Cost Matters.
xSL20 [System x/Lecture] Matt Ziegler
Tuesday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 9 As customers migrate from solutions that rely on tightly coupled software
and hardware stacks to solutions that utilize shared-nothing designs, more
and more companies are moving to scale-out architectures for their
enterprise. Customers are continuously seeking to lower their capex and
opex costs in order to streamline business units, drive R&D and maximize
value. Companies and research institutions constantly look at ways to
maximizing the impact to the overall business or research project per
dollar spent in IT infrastructure and operations. This session will examine
the market forces driving solutions towards scale-out architectures and
what IT providers are doing to meet the demand.
What Do You Do When You Meet a Cluster Opportunity?
xSL21 [System x/Lecture] Gaurav Chaudhry
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Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 8 To your customer a cluster is a just another solution that they are
purchasing. They expect the same treatment as other solutions they have
purchased. To Lenovo a cluster is a system integration project that must
be managed to deliver a solution that meets your customer's expectations.
The end to end cluster pricing process will be discussed in an easy step by
step manner. Not all clusters are the same, so why treat them the same
when you are trying to determine a winning price. Processes, resources,
recommendations and best practices will be covered preparing you to
provide cluster proposals to your customers.
Implement Software Defined Network for Virtual Environment
xSL76 [System x/Lab] with VMware (SDN VE)
Jean Midot
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 11 Install and discover SDN VE in a VMware environment and see how you
can leverage the overlay network in a virtualized environment. This lab
will NOT cover the OpenFlow part of SDN VE.
Real time Logs Analytics
xSL51 [System x/Demo] Francois Capristo
Monday 14:30-15:45 Pembroke Demo - Technical - All attendees
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 6 How can you analyze millions of lines of logs coming from several servers
and applications to transform this data into valuable information for the
business? What about doing predictive incident alerting based on this
information? In this session we will describe the implementation of IBM
InfoSphere Streams on System x servers to transform logs and correlate
them with accurate business data to provide in real time a highly valuable
information to the operation team. We will cover the end to end
implementation process from the architecture to the performance.
Big Data for Data Center Insights
xSL52 [System x/Demo] Francois Capristo
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 5 In this session we will describe how we have implemented a Big Data
Project based on IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM InfoSphere Streams
to better understand the utilization of the Cloud Data center for World-
Wide Training environment. IBM Remote Lab Platform manage about
1300 servers, storage systems and switches to provide physical and
virtualized equipments for more than 200 training sessions each week.
The objective of our Big Data Solution is two things - first, better
understand our customers to develop the Business of our Sponsors
(Training Partners) and our Business. Then, it's to improve IT operation by
using Analytics to act pro-actively on Incidents, improve the quality of the
service, and optimize infrastructure utilization.
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)
and IBM/Intel Trusted Computing
xSL75 [System x/Lab] Introductory Lab
Bill Bauman
Friday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 10 Lab - Technical - All attendees
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 10 This lab is intended to be an introduction to the OpenStack Dashboard
(Horizon). Users will define simple network and port configurations,
storage and instance flavors (sizes), and launch instances (virtual
machines) in the TestFlight lab environment. The secure compute aspects
of this lab are most easily accomplished from a Linux workstation, but
Putty can be utilized in Windows to accomplish similar tasks.
Get Into The Ring
xSM01 [System x/Lecture] with IBM Systems Management Tools
Richard Simon
Friday 10:30-11:45 Pembroke The popular lecture is back! The only lecture at the conference that's
TRULY OPEN - where the agenda is created by the audience! Everything
you wanted to know about the Flex System Manager and IBM Systems
Director but were afraid to ask. Come and pitch your question to a
subject matter expert and learn something new!
Managing PureFlex
with Flex System Manager
xSM02 [System x/Lecture] Then and Now
Michael Elliott
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Thursday 16:15-17:30 Pembroke Flex System Manager is a single point of control for the management of
physical and virtual compute, storage and networking resources from a
single management console. This session will discuss the Flex System
Manager capabilities, including new features in FSM 1.4.0.
Alternatives for Managing Flex System
xSM03 [System x/Lecture] Michael Elliott
Everyone has heard of Flex System Manager, but are you aware of the
other software alternatives for managing Flex System? This session will
discuss those options, including the pro's and con's of using them.
Flex and System x Management Console
Now and in the Future
xSM04 [System x/Lecture] Oren Wolf
Chuck Weber
Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Pembroke Lecture - Technical - All attendees
Friday 9:00-10:15 Pembroke Get introduced to software solutions from IBM which will help to manage
your datacenter and get a peek into the next generation of system
management software which is in development. This session will describe
our strategy and plans to deliver simplified foundational management of
compute resources, optimized by scalable integrated management of
servers, storage, and networks, and enhanced with extensibility into
industry-leading cloud and virtualization ecosystems.
IBM Systems Management Tools
xSM05 [System x/Lecture] Best Advice Ever!
Richard Simon
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 7 Get the latest information on how to better use your Flex System Manager
(FSM) and IBM Systems Director (ISD) implementation. Learn from an
expert on the tools, the top hints and tips of how to best utilize these
products, whether for a PureFlex environment or a standard IBM Systems
set-up. What are the first things you need to do on the FSM? How do you
prepare an IBM Systems server for management by ISD? What extras do
agents give you, over just hardware management? Easiest way to do
updates of firmware and BIOS with FSM/ISD? How to speed up the
performance of both FSM/ISD and more!
Managing a Virtual Infrastructure
xSM06 [System x/Lecture] Steve McKinney
Thursday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 8 The move from large numbers of stand-alone x86 servers to highly
consolidated, virtualized solutions is well underway. The new challenge
facing this virtualized infrastructure is how to manage it. This presentation
looks at the functions IT managers are demanding from their
management platform as the underlying infrastructure moves from
virtualized, to automated, to optimized. The role of IBM Systems Director
within the overall management platform is discussed and examples of the
value that Systems Director brings to the solutions will be demonstrated.
Systems Management Solution Scenarios
xSM07 [System x/Lecture] Lesley Bain
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 7 Gain an understanding of the Systems Management Solutions available for
the various infrastructure scenarios.
Systems Management Preview
xSM50 [System x/Demo] Lesley Bain
Wednesday 12:00-13:15 Pembroke Demo - Technical - IBM & Business Partners - NDA
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Pembroke NDA Session
(IBM/Lenovo/Business Partners)
The Future of x86 Systems Management
xSM51 [System x/Demo] Michael Elliott
Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Pembroke Demo - Technical - All attendees - NDA
NDA Session
Upward Integration Modules for VMware and Microsoft Deep

xSM52 [System x/Demo] Dive
Charles Weber
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Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 8 Deep dive into Upward Integration Modules: capabilities, functions and
how to position against other
System x Management offerings.
Cloud Bursting Powered by Softlayer
xCL09 [System x/Lecture] Tristan Spadi
Alexandre Dini
Wednesday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 6 Lecture - Technical - All
Friday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 18 The aim of this session is to present how we implemented a Cloud
Bursting solution for the worldwide IBM Training Business. IBM Remote
Lab Platform provides every week more than 2000 lab environments to
students all over the world. However during peak periods, we are reaching
capacity limits with our private Cloud. During this session we will describe
you how we made this Cloud solution more scalable using extra resources
from SoftLayer. Feel free to join us to learn more about a Cloud Scalable
solution!
Understanding the PureSystems Family
xPS01 [System x/Lecture] Michael Elliott
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 9 IBM PureSystems combine the flexibility of a general purpose system, the
elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an appliance. They are integrated
by design and come with built in expertise gained from decades of
experience to deliver a simplified IT experience. This session will provide
an overview of the PureSystems family, as well as digging deeper into the
individual components of the Flex System.
IBM Blade Server Integrated Offerings
xPS02 [System x/Lecture] Steve McKinney
With the announcement of IBM’s new PureSystems family came the
delivery of a whole new technology platform, IBM PureFlex & FlexSytems.
Now customers have a choice of chassis based integrated solutions. One
that will continue to offer support for ongoing projects extending
consistency beyond the last decade, and another that can provide the
latest technology with a platform consistency for the next decade going
forward. This topic will take a look at the status and direction of IBM’s
BladeCenter and FlexSystems and compare the values each has to offer.
IBM Flex System X6 Compute Nodes
xPS03 [System x/Lecture] Richard French
Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 9 The IBM Flex System X6 Compute Node family is the newest addition to
the sixth generation of IBM Enterprise X-Architecture servers. This session
will discus the architecture, features and functions of the IBM Flex System
x880 X6, x480 X6, and x280 X6 scalable compute nodes. The IBM Flex
System X6 Compute Node family are components of the IBM PureSystems
brand of expert, integrated systems.
IBM Flex System Basics of Power and Cooling
xPS06 [System x/Lecture] Matthew Archibald
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 7 The IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis breaks out of the one size fits all
model of BladeCenter to offer scalable power and cooling. This session
covers basics of Flex System power and cooling such as, an overview of
the Enterprise chassis power requirements, scalable cooling, and much
more. This session will also cover the newly announced power supply
options and how to size solutions using the IBM Configurator Tools.
IBM PureFlex and Flex System Electrical Power Configurations
xPS07 [System x/Lecture] Matthew Archibald
This session covers electrical power for PureFlex configurations and
BTO/CTO configurations. Join us and review reference configurations, best
practices, how to design a good power infrastructure, and much more.
“Flex System Basics of Power and Cooling” is a prerequisite for this
session.
Managing Flex System with VSphere
xPS08 [System x/Lecture] Intro to Upward Integration Modules
Tom Szabo
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Wednesday 10:30-11:45 Pembroke This session will review the overall architecture of our Flex system chassis
and how it enables different management options. This will lead into an
overview and look into IBM's upward integration module for vSphere. The
features and functionality of the UIM will be covered in detail. If possible
a remote demo to show the interface will be provided.
CMM Deep Dive
xPS09 [System x/Lecture] Charles Weber
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Pembroke Deep dive into the CMM functions and capabilities.
IBM Flex System Manager

xPS50 [System x/Demo] Steve McKinney
This topic does a deep-dive into the systems management capability of
the PureFlex System. It includes: Flex System Management overview,
architectural implementation, integrated management functions, and
chassis management module. The Flex Systems Manager is integrated by
design to provide management integration of physical and virtual
compute, storage and networking resources from a single point of control.
It is implemented via a high performance scalable systems management
appliance based on the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node. This FSM
hardware comes preloaded with systems management software which
enables you to configure, monitor and manage IBM Flex System
resources.
PureFlex System & Flex System
xPS51 [System x/Demo] Pre-Sales Tools & Sales Configurators Demo
William Luken
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Pembroke This presentation provides you some insight into the primary PureFlex
System and Flex System pre-sales tools and sales configurators used to
help build, configure and validate these offerings. Many of the pre-sales &
sales configurator tools are demo'd and discussed in this session.
Hands-on with IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module
xPS75 [System x/Lab] and Integrated Management Module
Velma Howard
Thursday 9:00-10:15 Meeting Room 11 The Chassis Management Module (CMM) is a key component for systems
management in the IBM Flex System Chassis, providing management for a
single chassis. The Integrated Management Module II (IMMv2) is the next
generation of service processor management for X-Architecture compute
nodes. Come and navigate the user interface of the CMM and IMMv2 to
see how they provide system monitoring, event recording, alerts, and how
they manage the Flex System chassis, devices, and compute nodes.
Hands-on with IBM Flex System Manager
xPS76 [System x/Lab] Richard Simon
Richard French
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 11 IBM Flex System Manager (FSM) is a high-performance, systems
management appliance based on the IBM Flex System x240 compute
node. This FSM hardware comes preloaded with systems management
software, which enables you to configure, monitor and manage IBM Flex
System resources. Come to this session for a test drive of the user
interface.
IBM Flex System Networking Review
xPS77 [System x/Lab] Hands-on Lab
Upendra Rajan
Thursday 10:30-11:45 Meeting Room 10 IBM Flex System offers an intelligent, integrated, and flexible network
architecture that fits within your existing or future environment. This
mostly discussion and some hands-on lab will review features for these
high performance network switch offerings. The last part of this session
you may spend navigating the user interface of an Ethernet switch with a
short hands-on lab.
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IBM Flex System V7000
Storage Administration
Velma Howard
Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 10 This lab focuses on performing general administrative functions related to
the integrated IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node. Using a pre-
configured lab, you can explore general management tasks that enable
you to make configuration changes related to your environment. Begin
with navigating IBM Flex System V7000 GUI via the settings, access,
hosts, and volumes menus to identify basic settings. Finally, you can
execute management operations for the IBM Flex System V7000 using the
CLI.
xNode Server Management with Flex System Manager
Hands-on Lab
xPS79 [System x/Lab] Richard French
Richard Simon
Thursday 12:00-13:15 Meeting Room 11 In this Hands-on lab, you will navigate the user interface of IBM Flex
System Manager to interact with an X-Architecture compute node server
service processor (IMM). You will work with the functions of viewing the
hardware log, various LED indicators and display their status, access the
service processor using a remote control, and work with power control
support.
Configuring an x86 Compute Node using Configuration Patterns
Richard French
Thursday 14:30-15:45 Meeting Room 11 IBM Flex System Manager supports configuration patterns for IBM Flex
System chassis and X-Architecture compute nodes. Configuration patterns
allow for quick, step-by-step configuration of compute nodes by
configuring local storage, network adapters, boot order, and Integrated
Management Module (IMM) and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
(UEFI) settings. Once you define a configuration pattern, you can store it
and deploy it to one or many compute nodes. A series of hands-on lab
exercises shows the steps necessary to create, save, and deploy a
configuration pattern that can be used to perform the initial configuration
of a compute node.
Deploy a Compute Node Image to an x86 Compute Node
Richard French
Thursday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 11 IBM Flex System Manager supports “bare metal” installation of an
operating system image to an X-Architecture compute node. Through the
IBM Flex System Manager user interface, you can deploy operating system
images to one or more X-Architecture computes nodes. A series of hands-
on lab exercises shows the steps necessary to deploy a compute node
image to an x86 compute node.
IBM Flex System V7000 Storage
Managing Pools and Volumes
Velma Howard
Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Meeting Room 10 This lab focuses on using the integrated IBM Flex System V7000 Storage
Node to create physical resources into logical resources (MDisks, pools
and volumes). Explore monitoring tools to view system details and
performance using the IBM Flex System V7000 GUI and CLI access. In
addition, you can define a host definition using a IBM Flex System
compute node and use the logical resources created to map volumes
directly to the compute node. Finally you will view the results to see how
volumes appear on the host server. The last task is optional, you can
delete the node cluster and system data, and perform system recovery to
retrieve cluster using IBM Flex System V7000 Service Assistant Tool.
The End Of Life Opportunity - Windows Server 2003 R2 and 2008
vSC01 [Vendors/Lecture] R2 migration to Windows Server 2012 R2
Rui Freitas - Microsoft & Intel
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Tuesday 8:00-8:50 Sales Suite Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
With over 22 Million Windows Server 2003 servers running out there, End
of Support becomes a critical conversation to have with all of our
customers. Don’t lose this opportunity to help your customers in their
journey to the cloud, by modernizing, and consolidating these legacy
servers. There is a great opportunity to drive Windows Server Datacenter,
System Center and Azure. In this Session we will provide guidance and
resources for migrating from Windows Server 2003 and 2008 to Windows
Server 2012 R2
Building secure cloud solutions with IBM Softlayer
vSC02 [Vendors/Lecture] Andreas Groth & Gareth Tucker - Softlayer &Intel
Wednesday 8:00-8:50 Sales Suite Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
Security, compliance and nationalisation of data are critical considerations
in choosing a partner for deploying cloud solutions. In this class,
understand the partnering opportunities with Softlayer, the Softlayer
approach to security and performance and how you can sell that value to
clients.
The End Of Life Opportunity - Windows Server 2003 R2 and 2008
vSC10 [Vendors/Lecture] R2 migration to Windows Server 2012 R2
Rui Freitas - Microsoft & Intel
With over 22 Million Windows Server 2003 servers running out there, End
of Support becomes a critical conversation to have with all of our
customers. Don’t lose this opportunity to help your customers in their
journey to the cloud, by modernizing, and consolidating these legacy
servers. There is a great opportunity to drive Windows Server Datacenter,
System Center and Azure. In this Session we will provide guidance and
resources for migrating from Windows Server 2003 and 2008 to Windows
Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2 Virtual Desktop solutions
vSC11 [Vendors/Lecture] Rui Freitas - Microsoft & Intel
Windows Server 2012 R2 includes the ability to publish Remote Apps,
Shared Desktops, and VDI (pooled and dedicated) - It’s easy to do and
works well! You can use a variety of clients including iOS, OS X, Android,
Windows, & Windows RT Learn how Microsoft-centric remote hosted
applications & desktops can be deployed & managed, gain appreciation for
how simple it can be to deploy a remote application or desktop solution.
How NVM Express is changing the game for Non Volatile
vSC12 [Vendors/Lecture] Memory?
Gareth Tucker - Intel
Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is about to change the game for
connecting high speed storage to systems. In this class learn about which
options are coming and applications and solutions that benefit you should
target
Building secure cloud solutions with IBM Softlayer
vSC13 [Vendors/Lecture] Andreas Groth & Gareth Tucker - Softlayer &Intel
Security, compliance and nationalisation of data are critical considerations
in choosing a partner for deploying cloud solutions. In this class,
understand the partnering opportunities with Softlayer, the Softlayer
approach to security and performance and how you can sell that value to
clients.
System x Flash Solution Differentiation (How to position and
vSC14 [Vendors/Lecture] WIN)
Adam Roberts - SanDisk
This session will look at all the different available System x flash solutions
from IBM. Presented by former IBM chief flash architect Adam Roberts, it
will teach you how to position each, where they fit and how to win the
deal. We will cover SSDs, PCIe and the eXFlash DIMMs. Understand from
the person directly responsible for how the portfolio looks today why IBM
has gone in this direction, and where he sees the industry going forward.
Simplifying workload deployment, management and monitoring
vSC15 [Vendors/Lecture] with Cisco integrated data center architecture for private cloud
Wes Kinard - Cisco
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The momentum of change happening in the DataCenter is reaching a
critical stage. Enterprise workload requirements are creating challenges
for deployment and monitoring of current data center architectures. To
gain efficiency and deliver faster workload deployments, Cisco's data
center solutions provide the infrastructure and tools necessary for today's
dynamic workloads. Please join Cisco in discussing the hardware and
software that makes integrating the DataCenter possible.
Hyper scale, expand, extend. Find out how transforming your
network just got easier.
vSC16 [Vendors/Lecture]
John Turner - Brocade
The network is changing with Flash/SSD and SDN. Getting things
working, keeping them working efficiently and simply just got easier.
Discover what’s really going on in your network and how Fabric Vision and
Brocade GEN5 can reduce deployment time, avoid problems, maximize
performance, and reduce costs through innovative diagnostic, monitoring,
and management capabilities Enterprise Extension via FCIP and ‘Hyper
scale’ Solutions utilizing the powerful NEW Brocade 7840 and Director
Blades – see how
welcome to the network revolution
vSC17 [Vendors/Lecture] Greg Byrne - Emulex
With the introduction of a more powerful processor from intel, with higher
I/O and memory capability, we are also introducing a new platform ,
Skyhawk, the only general purpose network card, that has the capability
of SDN offload, RDMA ( RoCE ), additional v-nics , and more ports per
card, all wrapped up in the lowest power and highest throughput silicon
package in the industry.
QLogic: What's new in storage and data networking for the
vSC18 [Vendors/Lecture] System x M5 server launch?
Alastair McKeeman - Qlogic
Monday 14:30-15:45 Sales Suite Lecture - Business Technical - All attendees
QLogic has a wide range of storage and data networking options for the
recently announced Flex System, System x and NeXtScale M5 servers. The
options include 10GbE products based on the Ethernet controller related
assets acquired from Broadcom earlier this year. The presentation will
review how these products and QLogic's market leading Fibre Channel
adapters enhance the performance and functionality of System x M5
servers in virtualised DataCenter and Cloud deployments.
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IBM Storage OEM Strategic Alliance with Lenovo

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