Hands-on Labs August 9-12 at the Dallas TEC

Please invite yourself and IT friends.

Agenda:

Aug 9th   IBM Hands-on Labs and IBM Certification 8 AM - 6 PM
Aug 10th IBM Hands-on Labs and IBM Certification 8 AM - 6 PM
Aug 11th IBM Hands-on Labs and IBM Certification 8 AM - 6 PM
Aug 12th IBM Hands-on Labs and IBM Certification 8 AM - 12 noon
Aug 12th Group Hands-on Hardware/Software multi skills Lab 1 PM - til.....


From August 9th to August 12th (8:00 am until 6:00 pm), the workstations in the Dallas IBM TEC Center will be configured so you can drop in and try out software in the IBM Tivoli product suite.  Self-paced lab guides were created for the 2010 IBM Tivoli, WebSphere, Lotus, Rational and Information Management conferences and POTs that include step-by-step procedures for hands-on exercises with many IBM Tivoli products. These lab guides are intended to take you through a technical topic in 1 to 2 hours. The lab guides come straight from the IBM technical training classes.  This allows you to practice real-world scenarios with the Tivoli portfolio on the most recent versions of the products.

As a special bonus, if you schedule and attend at least one Lab during this event, you will be eligible to participate in the Special Fun Lab. This group challenge will require multiple skills to complete and includes hands-on experience with hardware and software.

A spreadsheet of the Lab Products, Titles, and Abstracts can be found here:
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgxyKBv...

TO ATTEND:
In order to participate, please contact Art Blummer at alblumme@us.ibm.com or (281) 782-0195 and please let him know the Product and Title you are interested in and what date and time you’d like to reserve. You are encouraged to take as many of the hands-on labs as you would like!

CONTACT:
Art Blummer
alblumme@us.ibm.com
(281) 782-0195

LOCATION:
Dallas TEC Center - 1503 LBJ Freeway, 5th Floor, Dallas, TX 75234
August 9 to August 12
8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

This is a great opportunity for hands-on experience with several IBM Tivoli products! If you are unable to open the spreadsheet, please let me know and I will forward a copy as an attachment. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me. 

The following WebSphere product is also included in the labs:

   WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance Hands-on Experience – August 9-12

Your business requires an agile, solid foundation for service-oriented architecture (SOA) to align the advancements of business and IT.  IBM® WebSphere® CloudBurst™ Appliance (WebSphere CloudBurst) is a cloud computing appliance that manages WebSphere products in a cloud environment. WebSphere CloudBurst dispenses patterns of WebSphere virtual images into a pool of virtualized resources running a supported hypervisor.

Winning with WebSphere: 
Application Infrastructure, BPM and Integration

(Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 am and the formal program will commence at 9:00 am)

Register Today! 

Attend this complimentary seminar and become more competitive with software solutions from IBM WebSphere. Learn how to make your business more agile by exploring ways to seize new business opportunities and quickly respond to changing business process demands. Gain insight into addressing your application integration challenges with intelligent connectivity solutions, and experience cost savings with a dynamic application infrastructure.
At this one-day technical IBM WebSphere event, you will see a variety of live product demonstrations, including real world scenarios that corroborate the value of IBM’s WebSphere software for an overall smarter approach to service-oriented architecture. Experience firsthand how IBM can deliver complete end-to-end solutions in comparison to the competition, such as Oracle, Microsoft and JBoss.

Agenda Topics

• WebSphere - Smarter Software for a Smarter Planet
• Build on a Solid Foundation for Smarter Planet Solutions – WebSphere Application Server
• Take Your Infrastructure to the Next Level of Agility and Cost Savings with a Dynamic Application Infrastructure
• Respond Quickly to Changing Business Process Management Demands
• Smarter Planet Solutions Need Intelligent Connectivity
• Accelerate Results – How to Get Started

Audience
Decision Makers, IT Professionals, Executives, Architects, IBM Business Partners or anyone who is putting a flexible IT infrastructure in place to keep pace with rapidly changing business needs. The briefing is designed for companies just getting started, as well as companies looking for advanced functionality built on existing service-oriented architectures.

Products Featured and Demonstrated at the Event

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Abstracts

9:00AM    WebSphere - Smarter Software for a Smarter Planet
IBM is bringing a new level of smartness to how the world works and how every person, business, organization, government and man-made system interacts— where each interaction represents a chance to do things better, more efficiently and productively. Smart Work emphasizes optimization and agility in taking a smarter, new and different approach. This topic provides an overview of how IBM’s WebSphere technology can be used to build smart work capabilities in your organization with the adoption of dynamic business processes, smarter collaboration, smart SOA and an agile business model. Workload Optimized Solutions are introduced with WAS and POWER7.

9:30AM     Build on a Solid Foundation for Smarter Planet Solutions – WebSphere Application Server
IBM WebSphere Application Server is the most successful and maintains the largest market share of any application server. Why? Maybe it is because IBM WebSphere Application Server offers a family of solutions that spans from the small company to the most demanding enterprise environments in the world. This topic proves why WebSphere Application Server is not only the most robust solution from small to large businesses but also provides the lowest cost solution.

11:00AM     Take Your Infrastructure to the Next Level of Agility and Cost Savings with a Dynamic Application Infrastructure
Today’s dynamic business environments and economic uncertainty mean organizations must work smarter to remain competitive and respond to changing customer demands. In order to achieve these goals, organizations need to ensure that critical applications that experience huge demand levels, require immediate response, or grow to massive scale – like online reservation, commerce, and financial trading systems – consistently deliver. In this section, we will look at some of the newest and most innovative technologies available such as virtualization, extreme scaling, cloud computing, and dynamic infrastructures that some of the most leading edge enterprises have implemented in order to scale their businesses to new levels of competitive advantage and maximized revenues.

1:15PM    Respond Quickly to Changing Business Process Management Demands
When you define your enterprise's business processes, you know that change is inevitable. With WebSphere, you can define these processes so they can be changed with minimum cost and development effort. Come and see how you can use the Lombardi TeamWorks and BluePrint solutions as well as the WebSphere Process Server (BPM) to implement your business process in an agile manner that allow you to make quick changes as well as improve your processes and reduce costs.
   
2:30PM    Smarter Planet Solutions Need Intelligent Connectivity
Application integration is the biggest challenge today for many enterprises.  Building an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is probably the quickest and most cost-effective way to address this challenge.  This module describes how an ESB or Message Broker (MB) solution coupled with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) can be used with service-oriented architectures to provide robust communication, intelligent routing and sophisticated translation to dynamically transform services in an infrastructure.

3:30PM    Accelerate Results – How to Get Started
This session will focus on how you can get started on a path to achieve positive results using the IBM solutions that you saw today. You don’t have to “rip and replace” what you have; you can gradually integrate just the solutions you need into your current process and begin to see the flexibility you can achieve. All of this is based on real customer experiences and it is all built on the leading best practice solutions in the market. This session will outline how to get started and what tools, self help aides and services are available to help you move to a higher level of success in your business.