Session Abstracts Session info Title, speaker & abstract Walk-in Demo's II STG Team Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Systems Truck Demo - ALL - All attendees Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Systems Truck

Walk-in Demo's II STG Team Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Systems Truck Demo - ALL - All attendees Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Systems Truck

Walk-in Demo's II STG Team Thursday 14:30-15:45 Systems Truck Demo - ALL - All attendees Thursday 16:15-17:30 Systems Truck

STORAGE IBM ProtecTIER v3.3 - CIFS and NFS filesystem backup approach sBC01 Alex Jung Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees IBM ProtecTIER v3.3 released the NFS Filesystem for backup environments. The session will explain the latest features and the benefits beyond. IBM ProtecTIER - Datareduction for faster recovery sBC02 Alex Jung Thursday 8:45-10:00 Frederik Lecture - Bas - All attendees The session will show the benefits of IBM ProtecTIER. VTL Market Overview, Features of IBM ProtecTIER v3.3 IBM ProtecTIER - European Case Studies sBC03 Alex Jung Friday 8:45-10:00 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees The session will show case studies and solutions of IBM ProtecTIER

Multi-tenant Copy Services configurations with DS8000 Copy Services Scope sBC80 Management (Resource Groups) Alexander Warmuth Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Frederik Demo - Adv - All attendees There is a trend to consolidate multiple storage systems to fewer, larger ones. Acquisitions, mergers, or outsourcing activities create the need to accommodate different organizations on the same storage system with a clear separation of administrative access to certain resources and functions. In this presentation we explain how the DS8000 family allows to handle multi-tenant Copy Services configurations using the Resource Groups feature. We discuss the ideas and concepts behind it and show how to implement it with several live demo examples.

Tell me what I need to know about encryption sBC04 M.G. McCullough Thursday 10:15-11:30 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees Are you or your customer still trying to decide whether you want to encrypt tape data? Do you want to encrypt tape data but do not know how? Or you just want to learn about what IBM solution has for tape encryption? EKM ,TKLM, ISKLM , AES, EEDK, RSA etc confused on this acronyms this session will answer all of those questions. Come learn about how about can provide a total solution for tape encryption

Data Protection Options in the Era of Cloud and Why We Still Need Tape sBC05 Matthias Werner Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees The 7x24 availability requirements, cheap disks and ample bandwidth have enabled new ways of providing data protection and backup: Deduplication and compression techniques are being implemented across the storage hierarchy and snap-technology – often coupled with cloud archive approaches- is offered as a quick means for backup. But Tape technology is breaking the multi-TB per cartridge barrier, LTO 6 was introduced late last year and LTFS provides entirely new ways of using tapes! This session highlights the unique advantages tape storage has. It summarizes the state-of- the-art IBM tape technology and roadmap and more importantly, where and why to use tape, how to position IBMs deduplication solutions and presents considerations related to archiving and compliance topics.

IBM archive storage options sBC06 Nils Haustein Thursday 8:45-10:00 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will introduce storage options for archiving that are based on standard IBM products. It focuses on IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM) based solutions and presents the architecture, building blocks and value proposition. The session also gives guidance for the implementation of SSAM based solutions and migration paths from other archive storage products. The speaker has more than 10 years of experience with archive storage system and is co-author of the book "Storage Network explained" where he contributed a chapter about archiving.

IBM Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Storage Manager- Introduction and use sBC07 cases Nils Haustein Thursday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - All attendees The IBM Linear Tape File System (LTFS) provides a file system on tape and improves usability of tapes in a backup and ILM environment. This session gives a short introduction to LTFS and highlight use cases which are implemented in the field. Furthermore this session present LTFS Storage Manager and explains it functionality and how it can be easily deployed in a tape based archive system. The speaker has more than 10 years experience with IBM tape and has developed prototypes for backup and archiving systems based on LTFS.

DEMO : Improving your Backups & Recovery with ProtecTIER solution sBC81 Veronique MALDY Thursday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 2 Demo - Int - All attendees Live demo using TSM and ProtecTIER VTL: the advantages of the PT's deduplication & IP replication to optimize backups/restores and associated storage. Demonstrate the data reduction thanks to the inline dedupe. Demo: Taking advantage of ProtecTIER VTL for a Disaster Recovery with TSM sBC82 Veronique MALDY

Thursday 14:30-15:45 Johan Friso Demo - Adv - All attendees Demonstrate step by step the complete TSM (6.3.3) Failover using ProtecTIER VTL 3.1.14 Business Continuance / Disaster Recovery 2013 Update: Lessons, Planning, sBC83 and Solutions Victor T. Peltz Friday 10:15-11:30 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees Major disasters have occurred over the past few years: Hurricane Katrina flooding New Orleans, the NYC World Trade Center collapse, the Sendai Japan tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdown, flooding in Queensland, Australia, and earthquakes in Christchurch, NZ. These events and others have brought into focus the importance of companies worldwide having a workable and practical Business Continuity Plan. Part 1 of this presentation will use these events to focus on some of the important principals, lessons learned, and metrics used in developing a practical and affordable Disaster Recovery Plan. Some of the concepts discussed are: Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO), synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, two- and three-site considerations, how to get started building a DR plan and avoiding some of the key mistakes made by other IT organizations when developing a DR plan. Part 2 will highlight the foundational IBM hardware, software, and Cloud-based offerings which can help build a sound BC/DR infrastructure and assist in implementing economical solutions to enable an appropriate level of protection. Recent enhancements to System z GDPS, System p PowerHA + Storage reference architectures, and Tivoli System z automation products will be reviewed. This session will be particularly useful to IT Managers and Administrators who are responsible for cost-justifying and developing IT BC/DR plans. Storage Trends & Directions sWN01 Dr Axel Koester Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Entresol 1 - - All attendees

Storwize V7000 Unified explained - part 1 sCL01 Andreas Baer, Nils Haustein Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees The Storwize V7000 Unified is providing NAS storage capabilities to the SVC and 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 give an overview of the product features and starts a technical discussion of the advanced functions which will be continued in part 2 of the session series. It will contain latest experiences from field implementations and topics developed in Advanced workshops.

Storwize V7000 Unified explained - part 2 sCL02 Andreas Baer, Nils Haustein Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees The Storwize V7000 Unified is providing NAS storage capabilities to the SVC and 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 build on the foundation laid in 'Storwize V7000 Unified explained - part 1' and will continue the technical discussion of the advanced functions. It will contain latest experiences from field implementations, best practices and topics developed in Advanced workshops.

Storwize V7000 Unified Advanced Functions - Asynchronous Replication sCL03 Andreas Baer

Thursday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees Asynchronous Replication is a foundation to provide Disaster Protection for your V7000 Unified environment. This session discusses the functionality and setup in great detail, it will provide best practices, hints and tips to achieve a successful implementation as well. It will include experiences from the field as well as from Advanced Workshops.

Making the Most out of SCSA with TPC sCL04 Christian Bolik Thursday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees Learn how to multiply the value of SmartCloud Storage Access (SCSA) by making use of all the powerful features in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) which are of relevance in SCSA deployments. TPC is a prerequisite for SCSA, so why not make the most out of it? Learn how to use TPC to keep track of capacity utilization of the SONAS and Storwize V7000 Unified devices in your SCSA installation, how to add additional Cloud Capacity Pools and Service Classes for use by SCSA, how to monitor the performance of the Storwize V7000 Unified devices, and how to troubleshoot provisioning, performance, or other issues which surface in SCSA, using TPC. "Storage Clouds In A Big Blue Sky - Different Approaches On How To Use sCL05 IBM Storage To Build Your Cloud Solution" Dirk Vogelsang Friday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 1 Lecture - Bas - All attendees This session will give a (technical) overview of the different possibilities to use IBM storage products as building blocks for your storage cloud solution. Getting the best out of GPFS in SONAS sCL06 Hilmar Reorig Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees Friday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 1 This session explains the basics of GPFS and how it is used in SONAS. The audience will learn about the hard- and software - structure of a SONAS system and understand the concepts of GPFS client and server nodes. The concept of information life cycle management (ILM) and how this work together with disk failure groups and disk pools will be clarified. Storage Cloud in less than one day: IBM SmartCloud Storage Access - IBM sCL07 simplifies cloud storage implementation Johann Weiss, Joerg Walter Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees IBM® SmartCloud™ Storage Access is an easy-to-deploy, simple-to-use software solution that includes a self-service portal for storage provisioning, monitoring and reporting. This session is conducted by the Europe product manager for this product and an infrastructure architect who was involved in the beta testing. The first part positions this new offering: What is the solution? How does it fit into the cloud strategy of IBM? What is the basic architecture, set-up? Prerequisites? What are the target market segments? How is the product licensed? The second part goes more into technical details and shows screen shots for the major functions and reports: How to set-up Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and Microsoft Active Directory for SmartCloud Storage Access, and how to set-up of the product itself? End user actions: provisioning of storage, monitoring of consumed space? Administrator tasks: Import users and groups, set-up approval cycles, how to monitor, which reports are available, e.g. for capacity planning? IBM Cloud Storage Architectures sCL08 Clodoaldo Barrera Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees Cloud computing is rapidly emerging as an important IT deployment model, with several distinct use cases. Storage is an important component of all of these. There are some special requirements for storage in clouds, including automation for provisioning and management, and Multi-tenant security. Object Stores are also of particular importance. We describe IBMs architecture for cloud storage, and the mapping of storage products to achive the desired capabilities of the various cloud types

Software Defined Storage - New Directions in Storage Virtualization sCL09 Clodoaldo Barrera Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees Storage virtualization has already proven to be a valuable tool in creating cloud-ready infrastructure. Products such as San Volume Controller, TPC, and SONAS provide highly virtualized views of storage that can be quickly matched to the needs of cloud users. But there is more to come: with the right base in place, APIs can be used to create and provision storage according to meet the demands of users selecting from a service catalog. We describe the basic ideas and the resulting capabilities that take virtual storage to the next level. V7000 Unified - Basic Hands on sCL50 Manuel Schweiger Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees V7000 Unified Basic Hands on This lab session will cover how to do Basic setup of a V7000 Unified. Attendees will get the opportunity to learn how to authenticate against a Windows Active Directory, create Shares and Snapshots.

V7000 Unified - Advanced Copy Services for NAS sCL52 Manuel Schweiger Thursday 10:15-11:30 Windsor Lab - Adv - All attendees V7000 Unified - Advanced Copy Services for NAS This lab session will cover how to setup async mirror and geo caching between 2 V7000 Unified. Attendees will get the opportunity to learn how to setup, change and monitor above functions.

V7000 Unified local Active Cloud Engine - Introduction and best practices sCL10 Nils Haustein

Thursday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees Local Active Cloud Engine capabilities in regard to ILM and HSM are key differentiators of V7000 Unified. This session gives an overview about the concept of ILM and HSM in V7000 Unfied and presents guidance and best practices for the implementation. The speaker has hands-on experience with the implementation of V7000 Unified systems and has developed various classes teaching the concepts and implementation.

IBM System Storage N series: Trends and Directions sCL11 Roland Tretau Thursday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will cover IBM’s latest N series releases and current solution integrations. This session is ideal to update your N series knowledge by covering the latest trends and directions. Further, this session will outline new features and functions that will be introduced with the latest Data ONTAP release. Participants will learn about new features and how to apply them, providing solutions that meet customers’ business needs. Global Active Cloud Engine (WAN Caching) Best Practices sCL12 Thomas Luther, Alexander Saupp Thursday 14:30-15:45 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees This implementation-level session describes best practices for implementing the global IBM Active Cloud Engine (ACE) on SONAS and V7000 Unified. Based on the upcoming SONAS Best Practices Redbook chapter for ACE, we'll show you: - Planning and designing an ACE global namespace - Network infrastructure requirements and planning - Authentication and authorization - ACE Quotas, policies, and cache disk sizing - Runprepopulation, peer snapshots - Cache connection, disconnection - Local update ACE filesets - Backup and recovery of ACE filesets IBM Active Cloud Engine puts the right data in the right place at the right time, to give users the fastest possible access, along with the same view of their data, no matter where they are. Join us!

SONAS/V7000U independent fileset and inode planning considerations sCL13 Thomas Luther, Alexander Saupp

Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees The powerful concept of independent filesets and IBM Active Cloud Engine has been introduced into IBM SONAS, V7000 Unified, and GPFS 3.5; thus creating need to understand independent filesets, and plan GPFS filesystem inode allocations to the number of filesets and files in a GPFS-based filesystem. This technical session demystifies this important topic, provides a straightforward tutorial and methodology to efficiently plan this key aspect of any GPFS-based filesystem. We will cover: - Definition of terminology and usage cases: filesets, inodes - How the inodes for file sets are allocated within a GPFS filesystem - How the maximum amount of inodes is determined for a filesystem - Considerations for sizing inodes for filesystems and filesets - Changing inode allocations - Example usage scenarios

New compelling features for the IBM DS3500 and DCS3700 Worry-Free sDS01 Storage Andreas Grottel Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees This session provides an exhaustive overview of the new worry-free technologies recently announced on the DS and DCS Series that include Dynamic Disk Pooling, IP Replication and Performance Read Cache (Intelligent Cache Tiering), among others and the new, very competitive, offering structure. With Dynamic Disk Pooling, customers will see simplified provisioning, advanced performance of their storage device through new disk virtualization functions, and a recovery advantage in vastly improved rebuild times. Attendees will learn how DS3500 IP Replication can help customers to easily and cost effectively replicate data between locations to make sure that information is protected from both system failures and site failures. Performance Read Cache boosts the level of performance of your applications to the next level by leveraging SSD technology in a completely seamless and transparent manner to the user. Both DS3500 and DCS3700 systems can now enjoy all these features (plus more!) and are now even easier to order with the new offering structure which greatly simplifies the configuration task. Come and learn how Worry-Free storage is a reality, NOW! Oracle & IBM FlashSystem Storage sDS02 Mike Ault

Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees Friday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 3 The session will initially cover where Oracle needs high performance IO, how Flash storage solutions can help, historical and current benchmarks and the use of TMS solutions in an optimised hybrid solution known as OPERA (Optimal Performance Enhancing RamSan Architecture). It will then examine the features of the Oracle Exadata system and determine when they are useful and when they are not showing a comparison on performance and cost between an IBM and an Oracle configuration with similar performance characteristics. For absolute beginners: A basic introduction into XIV - Part 1/2 - The sDS03 beginning, and why it still makes sense to start new with XIV Dirk Vogelsang Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 3 Lecture - Bas - All attendees The XIV System is too old to be tought to rookies? Wrong! This is so wrong ... Let's say "Back to the basics" - and the session will not only tell rookies how an XIV works, it will also touch advantages and business values of this wonderful system! Also notice that this session will be interactive, so be prepared to play an active role in this "workshop- like" session. (This is part 1 out of 2, introducing the system, it's architecture and advantages, in part 2 there will be also discussed the advanced features)

Introduction to Storage sDS04 Eyal Zimran

Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 3 Lecture - Bas - All attendees This session is designed to teach basic storage skills for sellers. We will discuss how to identify storage opportunities, the basics of storage technology, and existing storage architectures. The IBM storage strategy and recent storage announcements will be discussed as part of the overall IBM storage strategy and the protfolio of IBM Storage

Storwize V7000 and IBM i sDS05 Jana Jamsek Thursday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees Storwize V7000 is an excellent external storage solution for IBM i customers. We have a big installed base of Power IBM i customers that use Storwize for their disk capacity. Many of these clients employ PowerHA for i with V7000 for their High availability and Disaster recovery solutions. In this session we provide a detailed in-sight in the solution V7000 with IBM i: we present the sizing guidelines, modelling with Disk magic, implementation with dual VIOS, and PowerHA for i with V7000 Copy services for HA and DR solutions. We also provide the guidelines for performance investigation and we list the tools that are available for this. Storwize V7000 [Unified] - What this is? Why it matters? sDS06 Anne Auge, Johann Weiss Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 3 Lecture - Bas - All attendees In a double act the sales leader and the product manager give an overview of the IBM midrange storage product: One describes the functionality whereas the other bridges this to the value for the end user. The team covers the hardware building blocks, the software functionality both for the block and the unified version of the product. Amongst others EasyTier, Real time Compression and Active Cloud Engine are covered. Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified as IBM Smarter Storage for Smarter Computing: Efficiency, manage cost and capacity growth with the Storwize family!

VMware stretched cluster with IBM SVC sDS07 Karl Hohenauer Thursday 14:30-15:45 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will give an overview about the different storage split cluster architectures and how to build a VMware infrastructure on top of it. It will cover best practices for IBM SVC stretched clusters in a VMware environment. The presentation will also highlight configuration tips how to build an application / site aware VMware stretched cluster in combination with IBM SVC by using VMware HA, DRS and Storage DRS features.

IBM SVC & IBM FlashSystem Storage sDS08 Detlef Helmbrecht, Karl Hohenauer Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees Friday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 3 The Texas Memory System RamSan Flash Storage is the newest member of the IBM Storage Portfolio. It delivers extremely low latency for high demanding applications. We will give a short introduction to the features of Flash Storage and show how to optimize Flash storage in an IBM SVC infrastructure. Performance tuning of a PoC Set-up in the European Storage and Competence Center in Mainz will be discussed. This session also includes how to overcome the most common pitfalls when preparing a PoC with SVC and Flash Storage. The possible misconfigurations in an IOMeter Test Environment will be shown. A customer PoC example at the end will complete the session. IBM System Storage (XIV and Storwize V7000) Integration into VMware ESXi sDS50 and vCenter Markus Oscheka, Ralf Wohlfarth Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees This lab session will cover the the integration features of IBM system storage into VMware ESXi and vCenter. The integration consist of IBM Storage Device Driver for VMware VAAI and IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter. The IBM® Storage Device Driver for VMware VAAI is a software plug-in that integrates with the VMware ESX and ESXi environment, as part of the VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). The IBM software plug-in consists of a kernel module that reports to the VMware VAAI driver and allows offloading extended VMware operations to IBM Storwize® V7000 and the IBM XIV® Storage System. The IBM® Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter is a software plug-in that integrates into the VMware vCenter server platform and enables VMware administrators to self-provision storage resources on IBM storage systems. The IBM Storage plug-in runs as a Microsoft Windows Server service on the vCenter server, and enables the IBM storage management features on the vSphere client. Attendees will get the opportunity to learn about these features and get hands-on experience. IBM XIV Storage System Integration into Windows 2012 sDS51 Markus Oscheka, Ralf Wohlfarth

Friday 8:45-10:00 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees This lab session will cover the the integration features of IBM XIV into Windows 2012. The integration consist of IBM® Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), the administration of XIV with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012, and the the space reclamation on NTFS with scsi unmap command. The IBM® Storage Management Pack for SCOM is a set of software modules, or management packs, which allow you to access and monitor IBM storage systems using the host-based Microsoft SCOM interface. With SCVMM administrators can discover, classify, allocate, provision, map, assign and decommission storage associated with clustered and stand-alone virtualization hosts. Attendees will get the opportunity to learn about these features and get hands-on experience. Flash Copy Dependencies on SVC sDS09 Philip Huntley Thursday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 3 Lecture - Adv - All attendees SVC, V7000 and V3700 allow flash copies to be taken from a single source to multiple targets, including thin-provisioned or compressed volumes. For efficiency, space is allocated only when it is required, but this leads to dependencies between mappings. More complex arrangements can result in equally complex dependencies. This session will describe how flash copy dependencies are handled under the covers, and how these relate to the mappings created by the user.

System Storage DS8870 R7 Update - Easy Tier and Beyond sDS10 Peter Kimmel Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees The System Storage DS8870 is IBM's enterprise storage flagship, featuring the most advanced functions we offer to the market. This session discusses the new deliveries which we get with the latest R7 code release, along with a look at the internal architecture and most recent feature enhancements. A special emphasis lies on the new additions to the Easy Tier optimisation algorithm and the options that the usage of SSDs gives us in conjunction with IBM Easy Tier.

IBM Smarter Storage with perspective. Five revolutions who shook the sDS11 industry and, IBM SVC & Storwize arrays' innovation initiatives Pierre Sabloniere Thursday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees The session presents in a first part a vendor agnostic view of the storage technology history and clients expectations collected from 500+ IT shops. The second part covers recent developments of the IBM storage virtualization technology (SVC and Storwize arrays) and the way functional use cases are addressing and/or exceeding Client demands. This presentation was first used for a SVC/V7000 user group and has been since used with many clients and prospects to introduce IBM smarter storage innovation and capabilities Storage Efficiency technologies for TCA and TCO optimization illustrated by sDS12 Client Cases Pierre Sabloniere Thursday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees This session concentrates on key efficiency technologies available on SVC and Storwize arrays and the way they optimize TCA and TCO. TCA and TCO gains are illustrated with actual financial figures and client cases the author was exposed to. The content of the session is best intended for Storage Architects and Managers in charge of designing optimized storage solutions.

XIV basic hands on lab with Multi System Managemet 4.0 & HAK2.0 update sDS52 Christian Schoessler, Roger Eriksson

Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees In the basic hands on lab you will experience the ease of use of the IBM XIV Storage System by using the new Multi System Management GUI 4.0 tools. You will map volumes to a Windows or AIX host with the new Host Attachment Kit (HAK 2.0). The new 10Gig iSCSI host connection will be used in the lab. Afterwards you can enable or disable SSD caching of the volumes. We will learn to understand the statistics and monitoring of the XIV. After completing this session you will be "educated XIV Administrator" and be able to implement XIV Storage Systems into your production. XIV advanced hands on lab with Multi System Management 4.0 update sDS53 Roger Eriksson, Ralf Wohlfart Thursday 14:30-15:45 Windsor Lab - Adv - All attendees In the advanced lab session with XIV Storage System you will have remote access to XIV Gen2, XIV Gen3 and the new XIV Gen3.2 by using the new Multi System Management 4.0 tools. You will also be able to use the advanced functions of the XIV like creating synchronous and asynchrounus mirrors between different XIVs and use the XIV migration freature to migrate data from EMC to the XIV Storage. After completing this session you will be "advanced educated XIV Administrator" and introduce the XIV into your production.

XIV Gen3 SSD Caching Demonstration sDS80 Stephane Couteau

Thursday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 2 Demo - Int - All attendees This live demonstration shows how easyli XiV SSD Flash Cache can increase performance of customers applications, and how simple it is to exclude specific volumes from the Flash Cache management if needed. Accessing to an infrastructure with a 6 modules XiV Gen3 with SSD, connected to an AIX server simulating a highly random OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) application, two pre-defined scenarios will allow to start/stop application workload and/or enable/disable FlashCache, either globally or at application volumes level, and directly see the result of changes on the IOs rate and response time, through dynamically updated graphs . In-deep V7000 hands on lab, including remote mirroring sDS54 Stephane Couteau, Antoine Maille Friday 10:15-11:30 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees 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, and map it to a Windows or linux host, define Flashcopy mappings as well as mirroring relationships to a second V7000, and perform disaster recovery tasks. Additionnaly, you will ahve the opportunity to navigate through the different menus to discover various options, like performance monitoring, event management, physical disk management, ....

SAN Volume Controller/Storwize V7000: Moving vdisks between I/O groups sDS55 and Recovering a cluster from a desaster Part 1 Sabine Engel, Thorsten Hoss Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees What if a cluster is running out of space? Adding an additional I/O group is easy but how can existing vdisks be distributed evenly across all I/O gro ups? That's easy, too: In this lab the attendees will learn how to move vdisks between I/O groups without disrupting host activities. In addition, attendees have the opportunity to simulate a desaster by destroying a cluster and learn how to recover it. This is a once-only chance to test this feature in a controlled environment.

SAN Volume Controller/Storwize V7000: Moving vdisks between I/O groups sDS65 and Recovering a cluster from a desaster Part 2 Sabine Engel, Thorsten Hoss Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees

Storwize V7000 RAID: Can You Spare a Drive? sDS13 Sharon P Wang

Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - All attendees Ever wonder about that RAID stuff like redundancy, balanced of exact/yes/no, spare goal, and spare protection? How are spares assigned? Are they hot? Global? Or just standby-ishly cool? What is meant by exact match versus performance match versus capacity match? What is the difference between non-degrading and degrading spares? Does location matter? What about chain balance? Was the hot spare selection algorithm raided from match.com? Come and find out how arrays of drives mingle in harmony; yet automatically swap for a more suitable match ;). Can you spare this session? Oh yeah, drive firmware upgrades will not be spared. Lab - Storwize V7000 Spare Protection for RAID Arrays sDS56 Sharon P Wang Thursday 16:15-17:30 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees Come and fail a drive. See that even a RAID array defined with a zero spare goal is protected. Get more acquainted with array attributes including RAID status, redundancy, balanced, and spare protection counts. Take a closer look at array member goals and hot spare selection. Assess cascading effects on other arrays once a spare is invoked. Study the associated alert messages. Examine the array member rebuild process invoked by the system to restore array redundancy and review how a member exchange is automatically scheduled to restore array balance. Because it seldom happens, get comfortable with drive failures.

Lab - SVC/Storwize V7000: Real-time Compression and the Comprestimator sDS57 Sharon P Wang Thursday 11:45-13:00 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees Friday 11:45-13:00 Windsor Real-time Compression technology embedded in the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and Storwize V7000 compresses active primary data. Data reduction occurs as it is written to disk; not during post processing. Consume less space. Come and check out Real- time Compression on the SVC and see all the capacity savings statistics dynamically compiled by the GUI. Got volumes of existing data? Who doesn't? Use the Comprestimator to identify volumes with high compression ratios. Then use Real-time Compression along with Volume Mirroring to shrink consumed capacity, exterminate fluff, and prolong your current storage investments.

Designing Fibre Channel over Ethernet solutions for SVC / Storwize Part 1 sDS14 Thomas Vogel, Torsten Rothenwaldt

Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - All attendees With release 6.4, IBM SVC and Storwize V3700/V7000 provide Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for host attachment, back-end storage systems, and node-to-node communication. This double session with demos is an advanced tutorial how to design and implement an FCoE solution. We analyze the differences between classical Ethernet and Fibre Channel and discuss how Data Center Bridging (DCB) and FCoE implement FC functionality in an Ethernet infrastructure. We review the status of the FCoE standardization and the resulting limitations for SVC / Storwize solutions. Then we show how to configure FCoE on Brocade switches and how I/O flows from an FCoE CNA to the back-end storage system. Good knowledge about SVC / Storwize and traditional Fibre Channel SAN is assumed. Designing Fibre Channel over Ethernet solutions for SVC / Storwize Part 2 sDS14 Thomas Vogel, Torsten Rothenwaldt

Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - All attendees

z/OS Basic Hyperswap and TPC for Replication 5.1.1 sST80 Alexander Warmuth

Thursday 14:30-15:45 Frederik Demo - Int - All attendees With Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication, your Disaster Recovery configuration is just a few mouse-clicks away. z/OS Basic Hyperswap adds a high availability component and protects from storage system outages. We briefly introduce TPC for Replication and z/OS Basic Hyperswap - what are their benefits, how do they fit in our portfolio, how do they work? Then we explain the enhancements that were implemented in the recent years. We complement the lecture with live demos that illustrate the ease of use and value of the solutions. TS7700 New GUI and latest updates sST01 M.G. McCullough Friday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - All attendees Major announcements have been made to this product over the lasts few months, this session will mention some of them but will spend most of the time covering the brand new GUI that was announced for this product based on the XIV protocol , and covering FDE (Full Disk encryption), the session will all show the major difference from SME (System manage encryption) and FDE (Full Disk encryption). What’s new in z/OS 2.1 DFSMS sST02 Scott Drummond Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will review the new functions/features DFSMS within z/OS 2.1. We'll review new items in the categories - Scalability, Performance, Optimization, Networking and Ease of Use. Additionally, we'll review new storage hardware support provided by DFSMS. z/OS Storage Management Ecosystem update sST03 Scott Drummond Friday 8:45-10:00 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will provide an overview of IBM's strategy for managing z/OS storage ecosystems. We'll show how the strategic z/OS storage management product - OMEGAMON XE for Storage fits into the strategy and how the rest of the Tivoli z/OS Storage management portfolio works together to address common z/OS storage tasks and problem resolution. We'll also do a short review of Tivoli z/VM storage products.

Recent top functions in DFSMS (R10-13) sST04 Scott Drummond Thursday 11:45-13:00 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will review some of the more important functions/features of recent releases of DFSMS. We'll look at items like VSAM CA Reclaim, PDSE enhancements, performance / scalability improvements, major DFSMShsm and DFSMSrmm improvements. Field experiences of SVC and SVC Split Cluster environments focused on sPE01 performance and best practices Frank Opelka Thursday 10:15-11:30 Johan Friso Lecture - Adv - All attendees This session will cover different scenarios within SVC environments where performance issues have been analyzed and fixed. It will discuss optimal planning and setup of SVC environments, standard installations and Split Cluster configurations. Another part of the session is focused on performance optimization in different environments based on field experiences. Functions and features like Copy Services, Thin Provisioning, Volume Mirroring and Compression will be discussed, too. Additionally best practices will be summarized and discussed to ensure stable setups, especially in split cluster environments. Main focus here is SAN design and zoning. Lab: Performance Monitoring and Reporting with TPC 5.1.1 Part 1 sPE50 Jeff Ottman Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees TPC is an excellent tool to monitor and manage you SAN environment. The double- length session will begin with a short but detailed TPC overview, followed by labs allowing you to manage a SAN including the Storwize V7000, hosts and switches.You begin by reviewing the configuration via the TPC GUI., then collect and create reports with capacity data , view SRM reports to recapture unused capacity ,and use TPC and the Storwize V7000 performance monitors to analyze system utilization. Finally you will create Storage Tier reports which assist with workload distribution on the storage subsystem. Lab: Performance Monitoring and Reporting with TPC 5.1.1 Part 2 sPE51 Jeff Ottman Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees

Performance Monitoring and Reporting with TPC 5.1.1 sPE02 Jeff Ottman

Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees Learn how to collect , report and analyze performance data using the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center managing IBM storage subsystems. The session will show key storage performance reports for management, and also drill down to performance and capacity planning techniques. Also included is coverage of. the TPC Storage Optimizer to analyze and balance workload distribution along with creating and viewing storage tier reports on backend disk utilization

Behind the scenes: Caching in disk systems sPE03 Torsten Rothenwaldt Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Johan Friso Lecture - Adv - All attendees More cache always helps — really? How much does that depend on the workload, on the configuration you have chosen, or on the storage system's internal cache management? This presentation looks behind the scenes of caching in today's storage systems. We discuss design principles for cache architectures, and we explain the different algorithms to fill and maintain the cache's content. The focus is on SVC, XIV (DRAM and SSD caching), and DS8000. This advanced lecture provides expert-level knowledge from an unusual cross-product perspective that helps you exploiting storage systems more efficiently, especially in complex solutions with different storage systems and multiple layers of RAM and SSD caches. IBM FlashSystem - deep dive sSF01 Matt Key Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees Friday 10:15-11:30 Entresol 2 This session will cover, in detail, the architectural concepts of the IBM FlashSystem solutions, product differentiators and best practise for use in IBM solutions

IBM FlashSystem - Solutions and Implementation sSF02 Matt Key Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees Friday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 2 This session will cover how FLash Storage can be used to complement and enhance customers existing solutions providing enhanced application performance through using SVC EasyTier, database preferred read techniques and manual data placement

Real Time compression in V7K and SVC sSF04 Guy Meir Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Johan Friso Lecture - Bas - All attendees * 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, some examples for lab tests done * Available sales tools – 45 days free trial licenses, compresstimator, compression guarantee program * Guidelines and considerations where to implement RTC – where to implement RTC where to avoid and why Real Time compression appliance for NAS sSF05 Guy Meir Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Johan Friso Lecture - Bas - All attendees Overview - what is RTCA and what value does it bring Performance - no performance degradation – how and why Utilization – Reducing back-end storage utilization, allowing for more workload on less budget Installation (slide by slide) Capacity advisor overview Real Time Compression ROI clinic sSF06 Guy Meir Thursday 16:15-17:30 Johan Friso Lecture - Bas - All attendees In this session we will go through 5 real life business cases for RTC and the ROI it can give the customer. This will allow sales people to figure out where is it best to go with RTC to win deals Lab: Hot Spot Migration with Easy Tier and Storwize V7000 sSF50 Jeff Ottman Thursday 8:45-10:00 Windsor Lab - Int - All attendees Come explore Easy Tier, solid-state drives and performance monitoring tools in the Storwize V7000. Easy Tier provides for the automatic placement of ‘hot’ extents to the SSD storage tiers. In this lab exercise you will explore the Storwize V7000 GUI/CLI to review Easy Tier configurations, create volumes and generate IOs for Easy Tier evaluation, view the performance monitor showing current utilization, and use the IBM Storage Tier Advisor tool (STAT) showing potential hot spots deemed suitable for movement to solid-state drives. IBM Real-time Compression Appliance Demonstration sSF80 Stephane Couteau Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Frederik Demo - Int - All attendees This live demonstration, using a remote infrastructure with an IBM Real-time compression appliance connected between a Windows 2003 server and an IBM Nseries N3300, allows to show the benefits of the RTC appliance in terms of performance, capacity savings, and high availability.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) V5.1.1 and Virtual Storage Center sST06 (VSC) update -news Hartmut Bohnacker Thursday 16:15-17:30 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees Tiv oli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) V5.1.1 and Virtual Storage Center (VSC) update - news This session will give you newest informations about TPC V5.1.1: - installation (prerequisites, practical experiences) - new data path explorer DPE - new reporting/alerting possibilities with TPC V5.1.1 - new Cognos Reports special reports for performance analysis - new interfaces (SMAC) Attendees will get newest Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) V5.1.1 information: enriched with practical experiences ( bottleneck analysis) and also with a short live demo of new TPC functions. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) V5.1.1 Demo sST05 Hartmut Bohnacker Friday 10:15-11:30 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) V5.1.1 Demo This session will show the participants in a demo the functions of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.1.1: new GUI how it looks like how it works new Data Path Explorer additional information for thin-provisioned environments how to do performance analysis (bottleneck analysis) how to use new integrated reporting with Cognos predefined reports ad hoc reporting (create reports) special reports for performance analysis save / run reports schedule reports The attendees will get a live demo of the new TPC V5.1.1 - how it looks like - how to use for performance analysis - how to do reporting At the end of this demo participants should have an impression how TPC can be used at customer locations. Unique advantag es and integration points of IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage sSM03 Center with Power Virtualization and Cloud Solutions Jeffrey Barnett Friday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 3 Lecture - Int - All attendees Advanced virtualization and cloud solutions require integration between server and storage infrastructures. This session will cover the unique advantages of leveraging virtualized storage, specifically IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center (VSC) with PowerVM, IBM Systems Director VMControl, and SmartCloud Entry for Power. VSC is a new offering that both combines and extends the capabilities of IBM SAN Volume Controller, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, and FlashCopy Manager. We will cover the advantages and complementary benefits of virtual storage used with private Power compute clouds and advanced virtualization. In addition, we will explore the unique capabilities resulting from integration points between of VSC and the Power virtualization and cloud software stack. IBM Storwize V7000 for your VMware virtual infrastructure sSV80 Maille Antoine Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Frederik Demo - Int - All attendees This session will show how SVC and Storwize features can improve the overall efficiency of a typical VMWare infrastructure * Usage of IBM Storage Plugin in VMWare to allow Vmware administrator to create new Datastore from Virtual Center. * Use Tivoli Flashcopy Manager for Virtual Environnement to save and restore Virtual Machines using Space-Efficient FlashCopy function. * Implement Remote Copy betwen Storwize controlled by VMware Site Recovery Manager to enable site failovers to recover rapidly, reliably and economically. This session will use a live environnement. VMware data protection with IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager sSV01 Axel Westphal Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - All attendees The session provides a product overview about the functionality and installation requirements for FlashCopy Manager (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. Introducing the IBM System Storage N series Reference Architecture for sSV02 Virtualized Environments Roland Tretau Thursday 11:45-13:00 Frederik Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will introduce a Reference Architecture for Virtualized Environments (RAVE) utilizing VMware vSphere, IBM System x® Server/BladeCenter®, IBM System Networking, and IBM System Storage® N series as a storage foundation. Clients face many common storage challenges, and some clients have variations that make them unique. With this reference architecture, a proven and scalable solution has been created that consists of a rack of servers, storage, and networking components. This session will present three carefully sized scenarios, Entry, Mainstream, and Advanced, each based on preferred practices for real world workloads. SAN Fundamentals - Effective Zoning sNG01 Jim Blue Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - 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 examples, such as AIX LPM implementations and using aliases for SVC, along with several customer case studies showing less than optimal results to avoid.

SAN Best Practices sNG02 Jim Blue

Friday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 1 Lecture - Int - All attendees 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 and thus have a real-world basis.

Troubleshooting SAN and Performance Issues sNG03 Jim Blue Thursday 16:15-17:30 Entresol 2 Lecture - Adv - All attendees With complex fabrics, the SAN administrator has greater difficulty with troubleshooting general SAN and performance problems. This presentation will provide a general approach to troubleshooting simple connectivity issues as well as dealing with performance issues in the local data center. Discuss points include an brief overview on change management, what information to have befo re a problem occurs, where to start troubleshooting, some of the data needs 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. Proactive Monitoring of Brocade Fabrics sNG04 Jim Blue with Brocade Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 2 Lecture - Adv - 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. From Fabrics to Cloud Storage: Storage Networking News sNG05 Matthias Werner Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Entresol 2 Lecture - Int - All attendees With a full family of 16 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN products available now and Datacenter Networking transitioning to 10- and 40-Gbps, the competition for the core network in the datacenter is in full swing! In this session, we will review the current Storage Networking market, will look at the complete set of IBM SAN products announced this year and will discuss, how and where these solutions should be positioned and used with clients. We will also include topics about non-Fibre Channel SANs using iSCSI and NAS, elaborate on advantages and use-cases for each of the technologies as well as discussing “storage optimized” long range support over DWDM and FCIP. And lastly: Understanding why SANs initially came abou t in the late 90s is crucial in discussing how we will use them in 2020! Storage Portfolio Selection Guide: What (not) to use when sSP01 Dr Axel Koester

Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Johan Friso Lecture - Bas - All attendees The Storage Products Selection Guide is the "dummy's guide to storage" when it comes to finding the right solution in overlapping parts of the (disk-) storage portfolio. We will discuss simple rules of thumb "what (not) to use when" and which pitfalls to avoid, including looking at some competitive objections. Without getting into feature details, we will discuss "DS8000 or XIV", "XIV or V7000", "SAN or NAS", "N series or Active Cloud Engine", "FC or FcoE or iSCSI", "Metrocluster or SVC stretched cluster" and more. Every IBM storage product will be tagged with a "one-liner" benefit.

Recent project experience with creative layouts for multi-site "stretched" sSP02 SVC high availability Dr Axel Koester Thursday 14:30-15:45 Entresol 2 Lecture - Bas - 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. Step Right Up: Taking Your Presentation Skills to the Next Level sSP03 Glenn Anderson Friday 11:45-13:00 Frederik Lecture - Bas - All attendees 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.

Storage Directions and Strategy from IBM sSP04 Clodoaldo Barrera Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees Smarter Computing is creating several emerging use cases with specialized storage requirements, including Big Data and Hadoop style Analytics, Cloud computing, in- memory database and high performance analytics, etc. At the same time, new technologies are available to improve performance, availability, efficiency and cost. We review the important new use cases and their requirements for storage, and the application of new technologies to meet the demands. We also discuss IBm and industry technology directions. Finally, we show how IBM's product portfolio is evolving to cover these new uses. What are Industry Consultants saying about IBM Storage in 2013? The Good sSP05 and the Not-so-Good Victor T. Peltz Friday 11:45-13:00 Johan Friso Lecture - Int - All attendees Gartner Group, ESG, Forrester Research, Evaluator Group, TechTarget and other storage industry consultants publish reports assessing IT vendors’ storage products. Gartner Group has recently changed the entire structure of their storage Magic Quadrant Research Papers. This session will summarize Gartner’s changes, current industry consultant White Papers dealing with IBM’s storage products, and discuss what the consultants believe to be the strong and weak points of these products. This session will be beneficial to installations that are considering acquiring or upgrading IBM storage and IBM representatives who wish to discuss a consultant’s commentary with their clients.

POWER Power Systems Trends and Directions aixNA01 Pat O'Rourke Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Spiegel Lecture - Int - All attendees - NDA This session will be an over of the current Power Systems family, AIX and IBM i offerings. There will be a review of recent announcements and trends in the market place. Power Systems Roadmap Futures aixNA02 Pat O'Rourke Thursday 14:30-15:45 Spiegel Lecture - Int - All attendees - NDA This session will cover IBM's Power Systems roadmap for 2013 and provide insight into IBM's future technologies. Future POWER7+ systems, IO, PureFlex will be discussed. A signed NDA is required to attend this session Power Flex System Deep Dive aixPS03 Pat O'Rourke Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Spiegel Lecture - Int - All attendees The Power Flex Systems deliver simplicity, agility, control, and efficiency. This session provides a deep dive into the Power Flex system node offerings. System node design, memory architecture, IO Subsystem, and rack packaging will be reviewed. The new POWER7+ node offering will be reviewed.

POWER7+ 770 / 780 Deep Dive aixWN04 Pat O'Rourke

Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Spiegel Lecture - Int - All attendees This session will be a deep dive on the new Power 770 / 780 systems based on POWER7+ processor technology. Subject matter to be discussed will include system designs; upgrade options from previous Power Systems, performance characteristics, operating systems supported as related to POWeR7+... Power 795 Deep Dive aixWN05 Pat O'Rourke Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Spiegel Lecture - Int - All attendees There are new and enhanced IO options for the Power 795. This deep dive session highlight these new features, plus new Firmware features along with the architectural design of the Power 795.

Power System I/O Subsystem Deep Dive aixWN06 Mark Olson Thursday 11:45-13:00 Margriet Lecture - Int - All attendees This session provides direction on Power Systems I/O development, discusses newly announced IO enhancements, and reviews selected Power I/O topics of high interest. The focus is on Power Systems I/O and does not cover IBM I/O provided by IBM Storage organization such as SANs or tape library PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX aixHY07 Steve Finnes

Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Margriet Lecture - Bas - All attendees The long awaited PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition is here! In this session we will cover the product offering along with the new enhancements like support for Hyperswap. We will also have a look at the product roadmap going forward. AIX and Power Software Trends and Directions aixWN08 Jay Kruemcke Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Spiegel Lecture - Int - All attendees Learn what new and coming for AIX, PowerVM, PowerSC and other Power Software products

Software licensing for Virtualized Environments aixWN09 Jay Kruemcke Thursday 8:45-10:00 Spiegel Lecture - Int - Learn the details of how software is licensed in a virtualized environment with PowerVM. What you don't know CAN hurt you!

VIOS Shared Storage Pool (phase 3) aixVN10 Nigel Griffiths Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Irene Demo - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Spiegel Nigel takes you through the newest features on this new way with virtual disks. Once the low number of LUN disks are in the pool the PowerVM AIX guys can allocate the disk without talking to the SAN team. Hurray! Then it is all ready for Live Partition Mobility. Plus you can assimilate local disk or VIOS disk LPARs in to your SSP and then use LPM. What about recovering your failed machine SSP LPARs in seconds and restarting them? Nigel plans to demo some of these features live. AIX Workload Partitions and Versioned WPAR for running AIX 5.2 & 5.3 aixVN11 Nigel Griffiths Thursday 10:15-11:30 Spiegel Demo - Int - This technology has been out since AIX 6 5 years ago and is now being used more by system admin to reduce work and sweat the hardware. By using less LPARs each with a different copy of AIX manpower is reduced for upgrades, monitoring, tuning and backups. Since AIX 5.3 support was dropped a year ago (unless you purchase the extended support) the Versioned WPARs have proved a good option for many. Nigel will demo some of these tasks and creating a Versioned WPAR. POWER7 & 7+ Performance aixPE12 Nigel Griffiths Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Spiegel Lecture - Int - Thursday 11:45-13:00 Spiegel In this session, Nigel will remind you of some of the challenges and common sub- optimal config mistakes that he has seen at customers. Particularly, those moving up from POWER5 and POWER6. Rules of thumb, tools and strategies to avoid these will be covered. We also start a new age of whole machine monitoring were single virtual machines can't be performance tuned in isolation so a holistic app roach is needed. This session is a never ending work in progress and performance is an on going process as we learn more and new technology is released. nmon for Performance Monitoring aixPE13 Nigel Griffiths Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Irene Demo - Int - Nigel Griffiths the inventory of nmon is going to talk about it how it was developed, some common problems and frequently asked questions and some of the tools you can use to analyse the data. You are welcome to join the nmon Fan Club by joining us for this session. A bundle of useful [hands-On and technical] tips and tricks - new content for aixAN14 2013! Gareth Coates Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Christina Lecture - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Margriet We will explore a number of features and techniques which can be used in the management and administration of Power Systems. These will include the hardware, the firmware, the HMC, VIOS and various operating systems. Some will be simple "one- liners" others will take a little more time. Most will be specific to Power Systems and a few may work on other platforms too. We will also mention a few other little used, though great features which will involve either other sessions or further reading, eg: Redbooks. Migrating Power Blades from IVM to HMC aixST15 Gareth Coates Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Irene Lecture - Int - If you use Power Blades, then this will be a very useful session. It will go through the details and a worked example of how to migrate the management of Blades to an HMC. Using an HMC to manage Blades will allow the use of dual VIOS, and has many other benefits too. Pure Systems, a year into the program aixPS16 Gareth Coates Thursday 10:15-11:30 Irene Lecture - Int - Thursday 16:15-17:30 Irene Based on the first year or so, what have we found out about this platform. Are there any gotchas? What do I need to consider when architecting a solution? The mysteries of SSH tunnelling and IPSEC revealed on AIX! aixSY17 Alex Abderrazag & Alexander Paul Thursday 10:15-11:30 Kroon Lab - Int - TBD

Demystifying 10 Gigabit Ethernet Performance aixPE18 Alexander Paul Friday 10:15-11:30 Christina Lecture - Int - This session covers the major performance characteristics for using 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters in a virtualized environment. Performance relevant aspects and potential bottlenecks with appropriate tuning mechanisms will be discussed. Versioned Workload Partitions, AIX 5.3 WPARs in AIX 7.1 Lab aixAN19 Alexander Paul

Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Aurora Lab - Bas - Thursday 11:45-13:00 Kroon This Lab gives an brief hand-on introduction on how to deploy a AIX 5.3 workload into a AIX 7.1 Versioned Workload Partition (vWPAR) that is running on Power7 hardware. In addition you will learn about how to administer Physical Volumes, create and export Volume Groups , control SAN multipathing and influence processes and memory settings within vWPARs.

Planning performance optimized Dual Virtual I/O Server setups for aixVN20 networking Alexander Paul Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Christina Lecture - Int - Thursday 8:45-10:00 Irene This session covers different 1 and 10 GbE design approaches for Dual VIO-Server setups and their resulting benefits for availability and performance. The session also gives tips and tricks for the implementation and shows examples starting from very basic up to more advanced setup. Multiple Shared-Processor Pools in Power Systems aixVN21 Christopher Hales Friday 11:45-13:00 Maxima 1 Lecture - Bas - With virtualization becoming ubiquitous in server estates, the facility of Multiple Shared- Processor Pools (MSPPs) in the Power Systems severs is an important capability in the extensive PowerVM portfolio. Using MSPPs as can make capacity management and administration easier, and contain software license exposure. After a short primer on PowerVM partitioning, the co-inventor of the MSPP technology with take you through the basic concepts, the implementation and configuration of MSPPs, and conclude with some considerations/decision-points when architecting virtualized services with MSPPs. LPAR isolation architechure used in POWER Systems aixVN22 Christopher Hales

Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Christina Lecture - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Christina The secure isolation of partitions is a cornerstone of the exceptional capabilities offered by PowerVM on POWER7 systems. Chris begins by introducing some basic microprocessor architecture primitives such as compute and memory organization, instruction formation and flow in super scalars, virtual memory and cache implementation, I/O organization with direct memory addressing. Using these primitives, Chris focuses on PowerVM and the POWER7 microprocessor architecture. He explains the design and overall philosophy behind the secure implementation of virtualization; privileged domains, memory addressing modes and page translation tables, caches, and special PowerPC architecture instructions/registers. He goes on to describe DLPAR actions, micropartitioning (including associated virtual processors, cache, threads, and the partition table), VIO Server deployment and Active Memory Expansion. Hands-On Lab - GPFS (General Parallel File System) Easy Administration aixSE23 Nicolas Sapin & Sylvain Delabarre Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Aurora Lab - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Aurora Come to this hands-on lab session to learn how to implement a General Parallel File System (GPFS) cluster. You'll perform some basic administration (add space, add node), and check the superior resilience. By doing it yourself, you'll see how easy it is to create and configure a GPFS file system. IBM Systems Director 6.3 and VMControl 2.4: A Foundation for Cloud aixST24 Computing Thierry Huche Friday 8:45-10:00 Irene Demo - Int - Deploy an AIX virtual Server in less than 2 minutes with VMControl 2.4 using Storage Copy Services (SCS) which is a faster alternative to NIM for capture and deployment of virtual appliances (AIX, Linux and IBM i) Active Memory Expansion with Oracle on POWER7 Lab aixVN25 Thierry Huche Thursday 10:15-11:30 Aurora Lab - Int - Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Kroon In this Lab you will learn how to configure an AIX LPAR on POWER7 to use Active Memory Expansion (AME). You will enable LPAR to use AME as well as how to use the amepat tool to view current and recommended configurations. You will use Oracle Workbench to simulate the workload Flex System Manager to manage PowerVM aixPS26 Thierry Huche Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Maxima 2 Demo - Int - Deploy an AIX virtual Server in less than 2 minutes with Flex System Manager using Storage Copy Services (SCS) which is a faster alternative to NIM for capture and deployment of virtual appliances (AIX, Linux and IBM i)

Live Partition Mobility and NPIV Lab aixWN27 Thierry Huche & Sylvain Delabarre Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Aurora Lab - Int - Thursday 14:30-15:45 Aurora NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) is a fibre channel industry standard method for virtualizing a physical fibre channel port. This port is used by Logical Partitions as Virtual Fibre channel adapter through the Virtual I/O Server. Live Partition Mobility take advantage of NPIV to allow migration of Partition with Physical Fiber Adapter using a virtual Fibre Channel as temporary adapter during the migration. AIX Technical Update (AIX V7.1 TL02 & AIX V6.1 TL08) aixWN28 Armin Roell

Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Irene Lecture - Adv - Friday 8:45-10:00 Maxima 1 AIX V6.1 and AIX V7.1 received a rich set of functional enhancements through the technology level update in fall 2012. This session provides a technical overview of the new features delivered with AIX V6.1 TL08 and AIX V7.1 TL02. PowerSC Overview aixSY29 Armin Roell Thursday 14:30-15:45 Irene Lecture - Int - The IBM Power Security and Compliance (PowerSC) product family provides a comprehensive set of features to enhance the overall security robustness and regulatory compliance of IT services based on IBM Power Systems technology. This session introduces IT professionals to the six functional domains of PowerSC: Security Compliance Automation, Trusted Boot, Trusted Logging, Trusted Network Connect, Trusted Firewall, and Trusted Surveyor Business Intelligence For Dummies: Power your BI knowledge aixSS30 Christophe Menichetti Thursday 11:45-13:00 Christina Lecture - Bas - This session targets those with little or no knowledge of Business Intelligence domain. What is business intelligence/analytics? What is the architecture? How does it work? What is BAO, the strategic pillar of IBM ? How does Power Systems fit? Do not hesitate to join this session and ask many questions. EmPower your Oracle software ! (Why IBM Power for Oracle?) aixSS31 Francois Martin & Fred Dubois Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Margriet Lecture - Int - Friday 10:15-11:30 Maxima 1 The objective of this presentation is to show how you can take benefit from the PowerVM virtualization and elements of Power Systems and AI X to optimize your Oracle Solutions (From the Application to the Database). Through a live demo using Live Partition Mobility and Advanced Memory Expansion, we show the flexibility of this architecture and benefits for availability, workload management. Customers cases are also covered to explain why they chose IBM Power Systems for their Oracle Environment. Tuning Oracle Databases on AIX aixSS32 Ronan Bourlier & Sebastien Chabrolles

Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Christina Lecture - Int - Friday 10:15-11:30 Margriet This session will explain how to configure AIX to support Oracle with the best performance, how to setup Oracle to take advantage of AIX features and understand the joint effort to tune both Oracle and AIX, and how they interact each others. Know your enemy : Oracle Exadata aixSS33 Ronan Bourlier & Francois Martin Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Margriet Lecture - Int - This session will explain what is an Exadata in technical details, its strengthes and it weaknesses, compared to Power Systems. It wi ll explain there is no magic behind it and will review how Power Systems can beat Exadata and how to counteract Oracle bragging and benchmarking. Install LDAP server/client on AIX aixSY34 Michael Felt Thursday 11:45-13:00 Aurora Lab - Int - Using dow nloadable Try/Buy images install and configure IBM LDAP server and client on AIX partitions in 90 minutes

Add RBAC/TE controls to your application aixSY35 Michael Felt Friday 10:15-11:30 Aurora Lab - Int - Friday 11:45-13:00 Aurora Cookbook approach to putting your application into Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and Trusted Execution (TE) (includes short lecture to assist with performing lab steps). Also includes time for Q&A. What can I get out of updating to the latest firmware release (disruptive aixVN36 update) Michael Felt Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Christina Lecture - Adv - You have read the marketing material on DPO and/or affinity_groups and you wonder - Why should I bother with this update? - and how do I prepare? Be prepared - come with questions. Lots of time for questions!

Installing and Configuring IBM Systems Director in an AIX environment aixST37 Ted Sullivan Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Aurora Lab - Bas - Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Aurora In this Lab session, you will configure an IBM Systems Director management server in an AIX partition. You will install a Systems Director Common Agent on a Managed End Point (MEP), followed by discovering, accessing and inventorying the MEP. You will then have the opportunity to explore a variety of Systems D irector monitoring functions.

PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 cluster configuration - Lab aixHY38 Ted Sullivan Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Aurora Lab - Bas - Thursday 16:15-17:30 Aurora Attendees will configure a two node PowerHA SystemMirror cluster using the recently release 7.1 code.

Implementing AIX security features aixSY39 Ted Sullivan Thursday 8:45-10:00 Aurora Lab - Int - In this lab session you will be able to choose among the following AIX security features: RBAC, Encrypted File systems, Trusted Execution, Configure long passwords, AIX 7 enhancements or AIXpert. Many of the selections will require an entire lab session to complete.

Smart Cloud Entry and VMControl in action aixVN40 Stephen Lutz Thursday 14:30-15:45 Margriet Lecture - Adv - Friday 10:15-11:30 Irene This session shows how the Systems Director Plugin VMControl works and how it is used in the Smart Cloud Entry solution. This session includes a demo of Smart Cloud Entry and VMControl.

Planning and deploying an efficient infrastructure with PowerVM aixVN41 Cesar Maciel Thursday 10:15-11:30 Christina Lecture - Int - Friday 11:45-13:00 Irene In this session we cover the capabilities of PowerVM and how to apply them in real case scenarios. We discuss the best practices for partition configuration, virtual processors, memory virtualization techniques, as well as planning for future growth and system migrations. We also focus on hardware configuration and sizing of the Virtual I/O Server for disk and network I/O. AIX Hidden Gems - Uncommon/less known AIX, HMC and VIOS commands aixAN42 Cesar Maciel Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Christina Lecture - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Maxima 2 Did you know you can create a RAM disk on AIX and mount a filesystem on it? Or that iostat now shows tape I/O information? This presentation shows some less known AIX commands, or some additional options to known commands, that can help in system administration tasks and simplify the operation of an AIX environment. Advantages of Power Systems for SAP aixSS43 Cesar Maciel Thursday 16:15-17:30 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - This session highlights the benefits and advantages of Power Systems for SAP solutions. Along with excellent performance, Power Systems servers offer advanced virtualization capabilities that SAP can leverage, and integration with SAP monitoring tools. This is a session for IT Specialists managing SAP solutions, and SAP Basis specialists. It is not focused on SAP functional modules - it is focused on SAP HW infrastructure and virtualization capabilities of PowerVM. PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i ibmiHY44 Steve Finnes

Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Margriet Lecture - Bas - PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i has been changing the way IT shops do HA the world over. Once available only to our AIX and System Z clients, clustering has been embraced by IBM i customers large and small and these days everyone knows someone who’s running PowerHA for their HA/DR operations. In this session we will talk about the business value, the latest announced enhancements as well as a discussion on the product roadmap. IBM i Availability Update ibmiHY45 Sabine Jordan

Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - In this session we cover updates and enhancements on all the areas concerning availability with IBM i. This includes PowerHA for IBM i as well as Save and Restore topics, hardware enhancements, PTF management etc.

PowerHA: From Zero to Failover in a SAN environment in 60 Minutes ibmiHY46 Sabine Jordan Thursday 10:15-11:30 Maxima 1 Demo - Int - In this session, we will do a live demonstration of setting up a two node cluster with PowerHA for IBM i and external storage with Metro Mirror, move an application to an iASP and demonstrate a switchover to the backup system. Power HA Roundtable - What you always w anted to know and never dared to ibmiHY47 ask iHA team (Fred, Sabine, Steve) Thursday 16:15-17:30 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - This session is planned as an interactive session to exchange questions and best practises in a PowerHA for IBM i environment. Come and meet the experts!

PowerHA for IBM i lab (Double session) ibmiHY48 Sabine Jordan Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Kroon Lab - Int - Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Kroon In this lab, we will do a complete setup of a PowerHA for IBM i environment. We start with creating an iASP, moving data into the iASP, creating a cluster, setting up MetroMirror and finally doing a switchover and/or failover to the backup system. Because of the ressources needed, this lab will be "driven" by one student with everybody else watching and discussing what needs to be done. DB2 for IBM i 7.1: What's New ibmiSS49 Simona Pacchiarini Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - Come and find out how the DB2 for IBM i features can help your IBM i databases and applications take a giant leap forward. You will learn how these new DB2 for IBM i features such as XML support, Global Variables, and Array Support in Routines can be used. Also see the very latest DB Technology refresh content.

DB2 for IBM i XML Support ibmiSS50 Simona Pacchiarini

Thursday 8:45-10:00 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - DB2 for IBM i 7.1 now supports XML as a column type. This session introduces XML and describes all of the support for storing, accessing and processing XML data stored within DB2 for IBM i. It also describes the use of OmniFind text search engine on XML data.

Beyond Query/400 - Experiencing DB2 Web Query ibmiSS51 Simona Pacchiarini Thursday 11:45-13:00 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - IBM DB2 Web Query for i is IBM's strategic replacement for the Query/ 400 product. It is a robust, extensible, and productive reporting solution. Delve down into this more robust and extensible reporting solution, which leverages the latest reporting and graphing development tools available in DB2 for i. DB2 Web Query will allow you to improve the look and functionality of your existing Query/ 400 reports. Would you like your Query output sent to a PDF file or Microsoft Excel? Would you like to see your existing reports formatted as graphs and charts? WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE YOUR REPORTS RUN IN A FRACTION OF THE TIME IT CURRENTLY TAKES? What's New with DB2 Web Query? ibmiSS52 Simona Pacchiarini Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - Get an overview of the new DB2 WebQuery version including the new packaging options and new pricing. See a detailed review of the new InfoAssist development tool . Hear a discussion on Query modernization as well as the IBM i for BI Solution Edition.

The Science and Art of Indexes for DB2 for IBM i ibmiSS53 Simona Pacchiarini Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - On any platform, good database performance depends on good design. And good design includes a solid understanding of indexes and column statistics: how many to build, their structure and complexity, and their maintenance requirements. This is especially true for DB2 for IBM i, which provides a robust set of choices for indexing and allows indexes and statistics to play a key role in several aspects of query optimization. This session will cover: Why indexes are important to the query optimizer for statistics. Determine what columns in a table are the best candidates for new indexes. What types of indexes (binary radix or encoded vector) they should be creating and how they will benefit the queries. What new tools are availa ble to analyze your indexing strategy. See the new IBM i 7.1 SQL Index capabilities. DB2 Web Query Lab ibmiSS54 Simona Pacchiarini

Thursday 16:15-17:30 Kroon Lab - Int - Come get your hands on DB2 Web Query and try out our simple web based interface

IBM i: Network install, upgrade and update (Lab) ibmiST55 Christophe Lalevee, Benoit Marolleau

Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Kroon Lab - Int - In this session, you will understand concepts and best practices to implement IBM i network installation, update and upgrade solution, based on NFS server. To discover by yourself this new feature, you will experience labs on a real infrastructure. Content - Introduction and main concepts - Source server configuration (NFS Server) - IBM i first install - IBM i upgrade - IBM i update (overview) - Labs IBM i: Live Partition Mobility for IBM i live demonstration ibmiVN56 Christophe Lalevee, Benoit Marolleau Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Maxima 1 Demo - Int - Friday 10:15-11:30 Maxima 2 Live Partition Mobility is a PowerVM Enterprise Edition feature for moving a running partition from a Power System to another. This session will introduce LPM concepts, and will be followed by a live demonstration based on a real-life example. Content: - Live Partition Mobility with IBM i: concepts - Configuration and performance good practices - Live demo: live migration of an IBM i partition running DB2 and Websphere workloads (hundreds of virtual users simulated with Rational Performance Tester) VIOS 101 for IBM i ibmiVN57 Fred Robinson Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - Have you heard about this thing call a Virtual IO Server and wondering what all the fuss is about? Come to this session for an introduction to VIOS, scenarios of where it can add value to your IBM i installation and a discussion of how to get started with VIOS.

Implementing VIOS for IBM i Clients ibmiVN58 Fred Robinson & Janus Hertz Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - Just us for a combined lecture and demonstration of implementing a VIOS scenario that we discussed in VIOS 101 session. This session will show most of the common VIOS functions that you will need to implement and what might need modified over time as you support IBM i clients to VIOS. Five Practical Examples of IBM Systems Director for IBM i (Including ibmiST59 capturing and deploying IBM i partitions) Fred Robinson Thursday 8:45-10:00 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - You've heard of IBM Systems Director, but what how can you use it. This session will detail five practical uses of IBM Systems Director. Learn about accurate hardware and software inventories, hardware and OS monitoring, alerting, automating LPM, and even how to capture and deploy IBM i partitions in under 15 minutes utilizing the VIOS that you worked so hard to implement.

IBM i and VIOS Lab (Double session) ibmiVN60 Fred Robinson & Janus Hertz Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Kroon Lab - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Kroon This VIOS lab will provide the student with the opportunity to perform the steps for them self that were discussed and demoed in the "Implementing VIOS for IBM i Clients" It highly recommended they have previous VIOS experience or have attended the "Implementing VIOS for IBM i Clients" session earlier in the week IBM i and VIOS Lab (Double session) ibmiVN60 Fred Robinson & Janus Hertz Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Kroon Lab - Int - Friday 10:15-11:30 Kroon This VIOS lab will provide the student with the opportunity to perform the steps for them self that were discussed and demoed in the "Implementing VIOS for IBM i Clients" It highly recommended they have previous VIOS experience or have attended the "Implementing VIOS for IBM i Clients" session earlier in the week What's new in Navigator - I mean really New! ibmiWN61 Tim Rowe Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - The world of Navigator is undergoing a significant transformation. We will be doing a preview of the new updates for the Web Navigator support for IBM i. See how to manage your IBM i system without using the green screen. This support has been available in several different forms for a number of years; Client & Web . We will look at where we have come from and where we plan to go in the future. Time for a Change: An Overview of the Next Generation of IBM i Access ibmiWN62 Tim Rowe Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - How would your business be transformed if you could run the same Client Access software on about any Operating System, like Macintosh, Linux and Windows? How about a new paradigm for deployment? Would the ability to run it from many different deployment locations like a Thumb Drive, Network Server, Web Deployment, or local Files System be of Interest? In this session we will look at this brand new Java client called 'IBM i Access Client Solutions' and its capabilities including Deployment, 5250 emulation, Data Transfer and Console support. There will also be a discussion of how this client fits within the IBM i Access Family and IBM i Systems Management strategy moving forward. Understand your Applications Today and in the Future - How Application ibmiDT63 Runtime Expert Can Help Tim Rowe Thursday 10:15-11:30 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - Applications today continue to become more complex and have many dependencies that can have a direct effect on the stability and function of your applications. How can you keep track of these dependencies ? Many of us have applications across multiple environments; test, QA, development, and production. How can we actually know what is in each of these environments. Appl ication Runtime Expert is a new tool that can help you build an automated mechanism for understanding and keeping track of your applications and the attributes in the operating systems that can effect these applications. We will review how Application Runtime Expert can help. This exploration will include live demos in addition to the normal session content. Application Runtime Expert is an easy to use tool that can provide a great deal of simplification and help will little investment. What is Application Modernization? ibmiDT64 Alison Butterill Friday 11:45-13:00 Maxima 2 Lecture - Int - Application modernization can mean many things to different people. Ask ten people and I am sure you will get just about that many different answers! We are going to take a look at some of the different options that are available to you. We will explore modernization from a holistic perspective. We will look at language, infrastructure, tools, database and methodology. With many options you can start small and build as you have time. Taking advantage of many different new and exciting technologies and opportunities without have to start over! Meet the New IBM i Access ibmiWN65 Tim Rowe Thursday 14:30-15:45 Kroon Lab - Int - Come join us for a guided demonstration and follow along at your lab workstation as we introduce you to the new Client Access client. IBM i Access Client Solutions is a new member of the IBM i Access Product Family, and is a Java client that is supported running on multiple Operating Systems like Macintosh, Linux and Windows. During this guided lab session we will highlight the Ease of Deployment, 5250 Emulator and Data Transfer functions, along with whatever time allows or questions direct us towards. Make My i To Go ibmiDT66 Alison Butterill & Tim Rowe Thursday 11:45-13:00 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - Android, Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, tablet, and on and on. So many mobile devices, so many applications. Employees want to work 24X7! They want access to email, to development, to data, to the system. They want to use their own interface from where ever they happen to be! How can you deliver the right interface to the right person at the right time? What is available to make the job easier? We will explore the various IBM i solutions that can help you deliver on the request to "Make Mine to Go". IBM i Trends and Directions ibmiWN67 Alison Butterill Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Irene Lecture - Bas - The world is evolving and changing. So is IBM i. How are clients and partners use IBM I is also changing. What are today’s industry trends? How do they affect what you do and what you should do. Most importantly how is IBM i evolving to deliver these new technologies and new capabilities. Discover how the IBM i operating system is more relevant today than ever before. And what will the future bring? A Look at IBM i 7.1 and the Technology Refreshes ibmiST68 Alison Butterill Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - Thursday 14:30-15:45 Maxima 2 The IBM i operating system is built for business. The latest release, 7.1 delivered significant new function in its core, and has continued to add new capabilities through Technology Refreshes. Everything from enhancements to virtualization, extensions to PowerHA and new mobility and cloud offerings h ave been added. This presentation will review the recent capabilities provided with IBM i in 7.1 and its Technology Refreshes. Application Program Optimization ibmiDT69 Gottfried Schimunek #N/A Lecture - Int - This presentation will explain the various tuning techniques to optimize your application for best possible performance throughput and run times. There are a excellent compiler and runtime enhancement features in IBM i and the compilers which can be used to optimize specific response time sensitive or resource intensive applications. We will discuss them in some more details how to use them effectively and will share examples of potential improvements. We will also discuss the tools to collect the program information to compare the improvement results. We will also deep dive into optimizing access to the Database with native I/Os and use some alternative approaches to common I/O techniques to improve throughput and runtimes significantly. IBM i Application Development Strategy and Update ibmiDT70 Alison Butterill

Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - The world of application Development is changing quickly. New tools, new technologies, and new languages are coming forward at an incredible rate. IBM i developers are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the new advancements while capitalizing on their existing investments. This session will review some of the hottest industry trends and the latest announcements from IBM and look at how they all tie together. Recent Power Hardware Announcements powerWN71 Mark Olson & Patrick O'Rourke

Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Irene Lecture - Int - This session provides a great overview of the most recent hardware announcements Power Systems has introduced. Quickly catch up with the latest Power news. POWER7+ 710/720/730/740 DeepDive powerHE72 Mark Olson Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Spiegel Lecture - Int - This session provides an in depth look at some of the newest and most popular Power Systems servers, the POWER7+ 710, POWER7+ 720, POWER7+ 730 and POWER7+ 740 which were just announced 1Q2013. This session focuses on their server technology, offering structure, editions, memory, architecture, activations, expansion options, key I/O, configuration options/trade-offs, operating environments, 720 upgrades and much more are covered. This is a great session for those who deal with selecting the right Power System and ensuring the right equipment to meet the business needs is used. The session is appropriate for AIX, IBM i or Linux environments. POWER7+ 750/760 DeepDive powerHE73 Mark Olson Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Spiegel Lecture - Int - This session provides an in depth look at the newest and most recent POWER7+ servers announced 1Q2013. The new POWER7+ 750 and POWER7+ 760 represent a new hardware foot print, very different from the POWER7 750 which is also briefly covered in this session. This session focuses on the Power 750 and Power 760 server technology, offering structure, editions, memory, architecture, activations, expansion options, key I/O, configuration options/trade-offs, operating environments. This is a great session for those who deal with selecting the right Power System and ensuring the right equipment to meet the business needs is used. The session is appropriate for AIX, IBM i or Linux environments. Power SSD Details: Recent Announcements, Configuring/Ordering SSD powerHE74 products Mark Olson Thursday 8:45-10:00 Margriet Lecture - Int - Session builds on Overview SSD presentation, providing details of recent SSD announcements, existing SSD products, configuration/ordering considerations and more Power SSD: Overview, Recent Announcements, Technology, & Positioning powerHE75 Mark Olson Thursday 16:15-17:30 Margriet Lecture - Bas - Session overviews where/how SSD best fits into Power System usage scenario. It covers the underlying SSD controller and flash memory technology and how/where it fits into the overall Power Systems server architecture and product offerings. PowerVM Trends & Directions powerNA76 Jay Kruemcke Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Irene Lecture - Int - Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Irene NDA session covering PowerM trends and directions.

Meet the experts powerON77 Jay Kruemcke #N/A Lecture - Bas - Had some questions that you didn't get a chance to ask in the session? Then come to this Birds of a feather session. This is your opportunity to ask questions and hopefully get answers in a session devoted to YOU. We will have a number of the speakers available for this informal session.

Power 760 - from hands on experience powerHE78 Gareth Coates Friday 11:45-13:00 Margriet Lecture - Int - Power Advanced Technology Support have been using an early ship Power 760 since November last year. Come and hear all about our experiences: installing, testing and investigating the new facilities and features available on this exciting platform, when used with the latest firmware and HMC code, such as Dynamic Platform Optimisation (DPO) and the 10/50 mS Dispatch Wheel.

Meeting "Our New Computer Overlords", The Future of Innovation in powerWN79 Computing. Jeff Stuecheli Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Margriet Lecture - Int - Improvements and innovations in server design over the past decades have been fueled by amazing strides in transistor density (Moore's law) while maintaining near constant power (Dennard's scaling). Looking forward to the coming decades, basic transistor scaling becomes challenging. This challenge has inspired a slew of innovation that will fuel system capability growth into the coming decades. This talk will survey these emerging technologies, showing the path towards an exciting future in system capabilities. Taking POWER to Level 7, Two Decades of Innovation powerHE80 Jeff Stuecheli Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Margriet Lecture - Int - This talk will present a historical perspective starting at the original POWER machine up to POWER7. Over this interval machine performance has grown an amazing 16000x. The talk will highlight which innovations enabled this massive growth. Scaling the "memory wall" is a critical aspect of this growth, and is key component of the talk. Cognos on Power Lab powerSS81 Christophe Menichetti Thursday 8:45-10:00 Kroon Lab - Bas - Friday 11:45-13:00 Kroon The goal of this lab is to catch the basic principles of designing a Business Intelligence Application with COGNOS Framework Manager and integrate the baselines of building intelligent reports with COGNOS 10. At the end, you will better understand Power Value for Intelligent Cognos Reports. Smarter Networking for Smarter Data Centers with IBM Power Systems powerNG82 Mike Easterly

Thursday 8:45-10:00 Christina Lecture - Int - This session will focus on the changes in data center networking induced by increasing virtualization, convergence and Cloud Computing in the data center. The current data center architecture needs a fundamental revision in order to prepare for the next generation and the synergies between servers, storage and networking is more important than ever before. This session will discuss the IT trends and requirements, IBM’s Networking strategy, a portfolio overview and innovations that provide competitive differentiation and value for building smarter solutions with IBM Power Systems and IBM System Networking. Building Smarter Systems with IBM PureSystems and IBM System powerPS83 Networking Mike Easterly Thursday 14:30-15:45 Maxima 1 Lecture - Int - This session will discuss how systems are now moving from a single server to systems being deployed at a chassis, rack or potentially multiple rack level in which servers, storage and I/O switching work tightly together. Flex and PureSystems provide clients new capabilities and this session will look at the key role that Ethernet plays in these systems and solutions from unmatched flexibility, performance, and scalability that help build a strong foundation for today’s and tomorrow’s data centers by building on standards and providing seamless interoperability with clients existing networks. Improve Energy efficiency in buildings using analytics on IBM Power System s powerSS84 – RIDER project Elsa Fabres Thursday 10:15-11:30 Margriet Lecture - int - Friday 11:45-13:00 Christina RIDER (Research for IT Driven Energy Efficiency) is a collaborative research project for Smarter Energy. The objective of this project is to improve the energy consumption in a building or group of buildings using multiple sources of energies. IBM Montpellier has developed an IT solution based on SPSS combining predictive modelling, real data captured through sensors technology, and business intelligence, in order to optimize energy usage. The SPSS server is running on Power Systems in order to get a high performance statistical model computation. This session will give you an overview of the RIDER project and will show you the benefits of the IT solution put in place. What's new in IBM Systems Director powerST85 Fred Robinson & Deepa Desai Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Margriet Lecture - int - Thursday 11:45-13:00 Irene This session will cover the new features with IBM Systems Director. Beyond the POWER7+ processor powerNA86 Jeff Stuecheli Thursday 16:15-17:30 Spiegel Lecture - int - Friday 10:15-11:30 Spiegel A Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) must be signed to enter this session.

PowerLinux Trends and Directions linuxWN87 Jeff Scheel

Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Christina Lecture - Int - New initiatives are underway around Linux for Power. This session will focus on the most recent Linux on POWER7+ announcements along with new announcements planned that will make Power and the Power software and server ecosystem an even more viable alternative to Intel x86 Linux. This session will provide the technical details behind the key Linux differentiators for the current and new POWER Systems focused exclusively on competing with Intel x86 Linux. Attend this session to gain a greater appreciation for the new POWER Systems and the features exploited by Linux that deliver superior value to running the workload on commodity hardware. New POWER7+ family of PowerLinux servers, software and solutions linuxHE88 Chuck Bryan Thursday 14:30-15:45 Christina Lecture - Bas - Comparably priced to equivalent Intel x86 servers and VMware, the new Linux only, POWER7+ PowerLinux servers along with PowerVM for PowerLinux have been optimized for traditional and emerging Linux workloads running on Red Hat or SUSE. Learn more about the strategic solutions built on the new PowerLinux offerings that include Big Data Analytics featuring InfoSphere BigInsights and Streams along with Apache Hadoop. Also, learn how the new PowerLinux offerings exploit PowerVM virtualization vs. Intel x86 Linux and VMware to support more new web and mobile applications per server for Android and Apple phones and tablets along with business critical industry ISV applications like SAP. How and why are customers using PowerLinux instead of Intel x86 and linuxSS89 VMware Chuck Bryan Thursday 16:15-17:30 Christina Lecture - Bas - IBM Power Systems running Linux are benefiting organizations from KwikFit to Retraites Populaires to Energen with more efficient virtualization and superior scalability to support more Linux workloads per server than Intel x86 servers with VMware. Power Systems are also attracting emerging, scale-out Linux workloads like Big Data to exploit the same advantages as Watson with clients like NC State University and pharmaceutical companies they work with. In addition, clients like IT Informatik are using a virtualized, cloud delivery model to host SAP workloads on PowerLinux for mid- size clients. Learn how customers are taking advantage of Power Systems running Linux to deliver services faster with better economics and reliablity to traditional Intel x86 Linux servers. Using the PowerLinux SDK and WebSphere for new applications for web and linuxWN90 mobile clients Jeff Scheel Friday 11:45-13:00 Spiegel Lecture - Int - If you're trying to realize the Linux promise of single source, multiple platform solutions plus you need to develop new applications to support web and mobile clients, you'll want to leverage common tools and middleware including Java and WebSphere as much as possible. The new Eclipse-based SDK for Linux on Power combines the traditional Eclipse development framework of source code and project management tooling with Power-specific analytical tools for porting and optimizing your applications. In addition, the new WebSphere Liberty Profile provides a lightweight Java platform for getting started developing enterprise class Java web and mobile applications. Join us at this session to learn more.

SYSTEM X & PURESYSTEMS

System x & PureSystems Trends & Directions xWN01 Steve Edwards

Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Willem Lecture - Int -

OpenStack Technology Review xCL01 Egan Ford

Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Bernhard Demo - Bas - Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Bernhard OpenStack delivers a massively scalable cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. In this session we will look into this new up and coming cloud solution and explore it capabilities with a demonstration. We will also explore how OpenStack fits with IBM SmartClo ud and Flex solutions. The Data Center Needs an Operating System Data Centers populated with thousands of commodity servers have become the dominant computing platform. This has created administrative costs as high as 60% of IT spending. TCO gains can no longer be achieved with technology refreshes alone driving lines of business to look at public cloud as the answer to poor TCO and rising labor costs. In this session we will explore what is needed to make private IT competitive again by creating a Data Center Operating System that can fully automate all critical infrastructure (servers, storage, network). A demonstration of an existing solution will be presented as well as a discussion of how to measure TCO. The Data Center Needs an Operating System xCL02 Egan Ford Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Bernhard Lecture - Bas - Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Bernhard Data Centers populated with thousands of commodity servers have become the dominant computing platform. This has created administrative costs as high as 60% of IT spending. TCO gains can no longer be achieved with technology refreshes alone driving lines of business to look at public cloud as the answer to poor TCO and rising labor costs. In this session we will explore what is needed to make private IT competitive again by creating a Data Center Operating System that can fully automate all critical infrastructure (servers, storage, network). A demonstration of an existing solution will be presented as well as a discussion of how to measure TCO. Your Journey to Cloud with IBM System x: Strategy, Portfolio, and xCL03 Techniques for Driving Private Cloud Adoption Ajay Dholakia Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Willem Lecture - Bas - Thursday 8:45-10:00 Bernhard Confluence of growing x86 server market and rising cloud adoption presents a unique opportunity for IBM System x. This presentation will give an overview of IBM System x Cloud Strategy that is focused on enabling private cloud adoption by exploiting the market dynamics related to cloud computing and by leveraging IBM's SmartCloud framework of products, services and solutions. Private infrastructure-as-a-service cloud offerings portfolio based on IBM System x, BladeCenter and PureSystems families will be presented. A brief overview of IBM SmartCloud Entry cloud management software will be presented, along with the prevailing competitive landscape. Finally, the major tipping points encountered in the journey to cloud, such as cost and scale of the IT infrastructure, processes and tools for management, and the skills of the IT administrators will be discussed. Cloud Security: Considerations, Imperatives and Architectures xCL04 Ajay Dholakia Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Willem Lecture - Bas - As cloud computing become the top priority for CIOs, security considerations in cloud continue to remain a barrier to adoption. This presentation will describe various aspects of cloud security within the framework of people, data, applications and infrastructure domains. The focus will then be laid on IT infrastructure security inv olving both physical and virtual IT resources. Virtualization has become the basis for realizing the economic benefits of cloud computing. A secure cloud environment begins with a secure hypervisor. Key security features of various x86 hypervisors will be discribed. The open source hypervisor KVM will serve as an example for the comparative evaluation of virtualization security features that provide a strong foundation for creating a trusted virtualized environment. An overview of approaches and architectures for a secure multi-tenant cloud infrastructure will be presented. Open Virtualization with KVM xCL06 Tony Gargya Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Oranje Lecture - Int - Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Oranje The KVM Hypervisor is a proven secure, scalable, performant ent erprise technology. For the right situation KVM can be the best hypervisor solution on the market today. This technical session will cover the entire technology from bottom to top, including the hypervisor, tool-chain, Systems Director and VMControl, and components from partners including Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, and others. Attendees will understand the fundamental strengths of KVM, where it is driving business and meeting customer needs, how it can help drive higher-level IT solutions, and how IBM can tie things together for the customer. Cloud Computing with KVM xCL07 Tony Gargya

Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Oranje Lecture - Int - Thursday 10:15-11:30 Maurits KVM provides a superior foundation for huge multi-tenant, cloud data centers. This session will draw from diverse live production examples to break down how KVM integrates with different tools and technologies to provide massive, automated, cloud data centers. Along the way we will discuss learning experiences, problems overcome, pleasant surprises, an d the outlook to the near future. We will discuss specific tools that are being used with KVM today for cloud computing including IBM’s VMControl, TSAM, and Smart Cloud Provisioning plus xCAT, SDMC, OpenStack, RHEV-M, OpenShift, and more. x86 Hardware Virtualization Extensions Explained xCL08 Bill Bauman Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Willem Lecture - Int - This session focuses on Intel's VTx and AMD's AMD-V technologies. As virtualization is now critical to enterprise computing, hardware-based virtualization solutions are necessary to both support and drive this trend. After an overview of the difficulties of virtualizing traditional x86-based systems, we discuss the impetus for adding and enhancing virtualization capabilities at the processor and chipset level. Note: If you have attended this session in the past, there are no significant updates at this time. Software Defined IT xCL09 Bill Bauman Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Willem Lecture - Bas - Enterprise computing has been steadily transitioning from a single-solution, device- specific model to a multi-purpose, software-driven model for many years now. The pace of the transition, though, is now rapidly accelerating. This modern transition is Software Defined IT (SDIT). We explore what aspects of enterprise computing are already software defined, which ones are in transition and which are soon to follow; from servers to networking and storage. Included in the discussions is the progression from traditional IT to Software Defined IT and some of the major driving factors behind its acceleration, including components of OpenStack. Why IBM's Flex Systems are poised to do well in this evolving era of SDIT is discussed throughout the presentation. RHEV 3.1 In-depth Architecture and Best Practices xCL10 Bill Bauman Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Oranje Lecture - Int - The information presented in this session is based on collaborative work done between IBM's ATS virtualization experts in Dallas, TX, USA and Red Hat's technical counterparts. There is an overview discussion of the architecture of a RHEV 3.1 environment, including screenshots, architecture and best practices around storage, networking, guest creation and more. Attendees should have some familiarity with KVM and Red hat Enterprise Virtualization to get the most value from this session. Scalable, Extensible, File and Object Storage on the System x3650 M4 with xCL11 RHS Bill Bauman Thursday 16:15-17:30 Willem Lecture - Bas - Come learn about GlusterFS, Big Data and one of the most unique scalable storage solutions available, powered by open source technology. RHS, based on GlusterFS, 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 direct attached storage. We begin by introducing Red Hat Storage Server for On-premise and how the x3650 M4 is the ideal server to support it. There is also discussion around the RHS's extensible architecture, solution design and capabilities. RHEV 3.1 Overview, New Features, and Demo xCL12 Bill Bauman Friday 10:15-11:30 Bernhard Demo - Bas - Learn what's new in RHEV 3.1 for managing KVM environments. We will cover the general capabilities of RHEV 3.1 with some emphasis on the newer features and capabilities. There will also be some discussion around upstream projects in the open source community that will continue to further enhance the RHEV Manager and Hypervisor. A demo of RHEV Manager 3.1 is scheduled for the end of the session. Accelerate Private Cloud Deployment and Infrastructure Consolidation with xCL13 IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 Guilhaume Garcia Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Oranje Demo - Bas - Thursday 14:30-15:45 Oranje This track is a presentation and a demonstration of IBM® SmartCloud™ Provisioning. A private cloud solution that combines infrastructure and platform capabilities to deliver elastic workload management, image lifecycle management and resilient, high-scale provisioning on heterogeneous hypervisor and hardware platforms. We will go through the deployment of services, the lifecycle management of Templates and virtual machines. x86 Virtualization Strategy xCL14 Steve McKinney Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Constantijn Virtualization is a key enabling technology to build a dynamic infrastructure. Virtualization technology is a large part of solutions in servers, storage, networking and client systems. IBM has a rich portfolio of offerings to assist our clients in leveraging this technology. In the x86 server space, we do this by partnering with providers of industry standard hypervisors including VMware, Microsoft and the Linux community. We then provide a range of platform offerings – both “scale up” and “scale out” – to create a solid foundation for a virtualized infrastructure. But perhaps most important is the focus on enhancing the manageability of the total solution and integrating management of the core platform with the virtualized environment, regardless of the choice of hypervisor. With a strong foundation of virtualized infrastructure, cloud technologies can extend and enhance the ability to deliver new levels of capability. IBM is delivering cloud solutions that bring significant value to customers with a wide range of solution needs. Does Cloud Computing Still Matter? An Update for the IT Professional xCL15 Glenn Anderson Thursday 11:45-13:00 Oranje Lecture - Bas - 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. How do you respond when your boss says "we should be doing cloud computing?" What do they really mean? This session is part technical, part philosophy on cloud computing. A vending machine for IT requests: How IBM SmartCloud Entry unifies IT xCL16 service delivery across multiple platforms Ian Robinson Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Oranje Demo - Bas - Thursday 11:45-13:00 Maurits Effective private cloud solutions can liberate end users from the complexities of the underlying IT infrastructure, while at the same time allowing IT administrators the freedom to optimize that infrastructure without disrupting user activities. To deliver these benefits, a private cloud solution must be able to span multiple hardware platforms (including x86, Power and mainframe) as well as supporting multiple virtualization/hypervisor technologies. This session introduces the capabilities of IBM SmartCloud Entry, which is a unique priva te cloud solution that spans multiple hardware platforms and hypervisor technologies. One cloud to bind them: Using IBM SmartCloud Entry to integrate VMware xCL17 with other hypervisors on System x Ian Robinson Thursday 16:15-17:30 Maurits Demo - Bas - Friday 8:45-10:00 Bernhard Many IBM System x clients are moving towards a multi-hypervisor environment, attracted by the growing popularity of virtualization solutions such as Hyper-V and KVM that are delivered with the OS. IBM SmartCloud Entry provides a consistent private cloud infrastructure that embraces these hypervisors and integrates their usage with VMware. This session explains how multi-hypervisor integration solves the x86 virtualization fragmentation challenge, and provides insight into future directions of IBM's popular entry private cloud solution. OpenStack: What it is and what it's not xCL18 Matt Archibald Thursday 10:15-11:30 Bernhard Lecture - Bas - This session will aim to provide clarity with what exactly OpenStack is, some reference applications, and some misconceptions in the market. There will also be parallels drawn between some of the IBM SmartCloud offerings and OpenStack. Particular attention will be focused on the OpenStack components and their relation to SmartCloud Entry . Architecture of the current OpenStack release, Folsom, will be covered as well as what will be available in the Grizzly release and a brief overview of SmartCloud Entry 2.4 will be covered. Attendees will be able to distinguish the different capabilities between OpenStack, it's components, and how they compare to some of the IBM SmartCloud offerings. Attendees will also gain an understanding of the components that make up OpenStack, who some of the major contributors are, and will be given some examples of how, where, and why OpenStack is used in the marketplace. Attendees will also hear cases where SmartCloud Entry has been used and in what context. HPC Cloud and IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition 4.1 xCL19 Francois Gibello Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Maurits Demo - Int - Thursday 16:15-17:30 Oranje Attend this session to learn how to address HPC in the Cloud with PCMAE. We will provide an overall picture of the HPC cloud landscape, and the high value use cases where clients are starting their HPC Cloud journey. From an Infrastructure Management perspective, we will introduce PCMAE to deep dive on the use cases and solutions customers are looking for to manage their HPC Cloud infrastructure. We will then expose the possibilities of PCMAE with a demo. The demo illustrates: how to create various cluster definitions (HPC, Hadoop), how to instantiate them on a cluster of virtual or physical machines, how to flex up or down the number of nodes within a cluster in order to strongly facilitate the repurpose of resources in the underlying IT infrastructure, mandatory to better face business priorities changes across time. IBM Blade Server Integrated Offerings xII01 Steve McKinney Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Constantijn Lecture - Int - 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. Enterprise X-Architecture xII02 Steve McKinney Friday 8:45-10:00 Constantijn Lecture - Int - 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 the technology, products (x3850, x3950, x3690 & HX5) and solutions our current eX5 offerings deliver... and yes there will be an eX6. x86 Trends & Innovation xII03 Steve McKinney Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - 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. System x High Volume Update xII04 Steve McKinney Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - Get an update on the latest M4 offering and the High Volume portfolio. The presentation delivers a review of product positioning, portfolio design, product offering, current value propositions and directions on our high volume x86 servers. Focused on the product details down to the feature and function of all new M4 servers, attendees will get an appreciation for how IBM differentiates these offerings in this high volume segment. IBM Strategy ... Smarter Computing for a Smarter Planet xII05 Steve McKinney Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - This is a new world. Our old assumptions about the speed of business no longer apply. We are seeing explosions in the growth of data an d deficiencies in the ways we interact with that data. We are facing greater risks and less resources. No matter what industry our clients are in, there are requirements to react to insatiable demands for IT services... new forms of data, new services, ne w applications and new abilities to touch clients, all within the confines of a finite budget. IBM has a strategy to help our customers not only survive these challenges but to prosper with the opportunities they provide. Smarter Computing is an initiative to deliver to the marketplace a technology point of view which will help our clients integrate, automate and transform their information technology functions to prepare themselves for the next era of cloud computing... and an infrastructure that can meet the needs of this insatiable demand within the confined of a finite budgets. Virtualizing the Desktop xII06 Steve McKinney Thursday 16:15-17:30 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - 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, the IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure powered by VirtualBridges VERDE or 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. eX5 Scaling: How to optimize your performance using MAX5 xII07 Xavier Buniak Thursday 8:45-10:00 Maurits Lecture - Int - Thursday 14:30-15:45 Maurits The MAX5 is the key feature of the new X5 servers, This presentation is basically four things, First I will give you an overview of the MAX5 memory expansion. Then I will talk about some of the advantages to Purchase Memory Expansion. After that I will explain how to optimize the DIMM capacity with and without MAX5. and we will show the several configuration choises with some Benchmarks results. Up to the x3850x5 8 sockets using 2 MAX5. How to prove that the eX5 server can support your IT business objectives xII08 Xavier Buniak Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Maurits Lecture - Bas - Friday 8:45-10:00 Maurits The new x3850 X5 offers 3X the performance and enhanced features including MAX5 memory expansion and workload optimized models to maximize memory, minimize costs, and simplify deployments. As customers evaluate IBM Systems and technology solutions, they frequently ask for proof that a particular configuration can support their IT business objectives. Get an in depth view of our center and understand how you can use it to "Benchmark" the new eX5 servers (x3850X5,X3690X5,HX5,MAX5). this session includes customer benchmark results. Extend big data Hadoop workloads and performances with IBM GPFS shared xII09 file system and IBM Platform Computing products Francois Gibello Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Maurits Demo - Int - Friday 10:15-11:30 Maurits With the exponential growth of data, traditional high performance systems are struggling to keep up with the deluge of big data. The traditional HPC data access strategies prove inadequate when data intensive workloads run on these distributed systems. Traditional HPC systems are designed for a distributed compute architecture and executing the computation workload by harnessing multiple processors. However, when data-intensive tasks require analysis, traditional HPC file sharing mechanisms suffer from data bottlenecks. New technologies such as Hadoop leverage the distributed architecture for both compute and data. By combining Hadoop with a multi-tenant architecture and a low latency scheduler, IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), organizations can build a robust, multi-purpose, converged infrastructure for HPC and big data analytics. For this session the attendees will learn how traditional High Performance Computing systems can be dynamically designed and set up to execute both MapReduce and non MapReduce applications, thanks to IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and Plaform Computing products. Meet the Experts xII10 Staff #N/A Lecture - Bas - Please plan on attending this special session on Thursday - 5:30 to 7:30. This session is an open forum for you to ask the various speakers here this week your questions. Smarter Networking for Smarter Data Centers xNG01 (PureSystem and more) Mike Easterly Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Alexander Lecture - Bas - Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Alexander This session will focus on the changes in data center networking induced by increasing virtualization, virtual machine mobility and Cloud Computing in the data center. The current data center architecture needs a fundamental revision in order to prepare for the n ext generation and the synergies between servers, storage and networking is more important than ever before. This session will discuss the IT trends and requirements, IBM’s Networking strategy, a portfolio overview and innovations that provide competitive differentiation and value for building smarter solutions Intelligent Virtualization - using IBM Smarter Solutions for PureSystems xNG02 Mike Easterly Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Alexander Lecture - Bas - Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Alexander This session will discuss three innovative technologies that IBM has to assist IT organizations with their virtualized environments. Topic 1 will be about IBM Virtual Fabric and how IBM can provide solutions that help reduce cost and complexity while also addressing the performance of today's virtualized environments. Topic 2 will discuss how IBM's VMready can make your network VM aware by automatically identifying VM's, simplifying the management of VM's and automating the tracking and management of VM during migration. Topic 3 is a new Distributed Virtual Switch.

How and where should we use Software Defined Network (SDN)? xNG03 Geordy Korte Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Willem Lecture - Int - Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Alexander SDN holds the promise to revolutionize how we build Networks by closely aligning the applications requirements with the networking characteristics. With a simple graphical interface, IBM's Programmable Flow Controller (PNC) is centrally defining all flows within your Network allowing you to increase your applications performances, enhance your network security and build an optimal resiliency scenario. This session is looking a real life scenario on how SDN achieved the above listed benefits. We will share experiences and recommendations based on IBM's early leadership in supporting SDN standards like OpenFlow. Building a Software Defined Network with the IBM Programmable xNG04 Networking Control Geordy Korte Thursday 8:45-10:00 Alexander Demo - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Alexander In this session we will take a deeper look into the technical details of how to configure and build a software defined network, leveraging IBM’s Programmable Network Controller. In addition to a technical discussion, this session will also include demonstrations. Seamless Integration of IBM System Networking with Any Networks - (like xNG05 Cisco) William Scull Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Alexander Demo - Int - Friday 10:15-11:30 Willem In this course, you will see specific examples of how IBM System Networking for PureSystem, System x or Power can easily connect into any Core Network like Cisco Catalyst or Nexus networks. Topics of discussion will focus on Easy Connect mode which allows for transparent connectivity into Cisco environments. Networking Customer case studies with our value added functions and xNG06 configuration examples William Scull Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Alexander Demo - Int - Thursday 16:15-17:30 Alexander In this course, you will see our new hardware and key new features on our new NOS 7.7, like stacking, UFP, SPAR, vLAG, FCoE over LAG, LACP suspend mode. You will see how we can implement it via real case customer studies done with of IBM System Networking for PureSystem. We will provide all the how to step by step implementation and final configuration of networking equipment. Building Virtual Application Networks for VMware environments xNG07 Per Ljungstrom Thursday 10:15-11:30 Willem Demo - Int - Thursday 14:30-15:45 Alexander In this session we will have a technical discussion around the IBM System Networking Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V an advanced, feature-rich distributed virtual switch for VMware environments with policy-based virtual machine (VM) connectivity while providing the advanced networking, troubleshooting and management features of physical switch environments. In addition we will discuss Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) based on the IEEE 802.1Qbg standard scalable, flexible management of networking configuration and policy requirements per VM and eliminates many of the networking challenges introduced with server virtualization. Provisioning and configuring your virtual network using 802.1Qbg xNG08 Per Ljungstrom Thursday 11:45-13:00 Willem Demo - Int - This session will explore how 802.1Qbg can be used to provision and manage network resources in the virtual datacenter. Topics include configuring the VSI Database in Flex System Manager, DVS5000v, System Network Element Manager and IBM System Director, and how 802.1Qbg is used to manage virtual machine migrations across the network. Datacenter Network Convergence (with FCoE) in transparent mode for xNG09 PureSystem Stephan Fleck Thursday 10:15-11:30 Alexander Demo - Int - Saturday 10:15-11:30 Alexander In this session we will discover how to build an end to end FCoE IBM Solution that will converge both Ethernet and Fibre Channel. In transparent mode. This session will develop all scenarios we can have in transparent mode (at Pure Chassis level via CN4093s, at ToRs level via G8264-CS, provide FCoE storage to an existing full SAN FC fabric, ….). And finally you will see how is easy to implement such scenarios. Datacenter Network Convergence (with FCoE) in full fabric mode for xNG10 PureSystem Stephan Fleck Thursday 11:45-13:00 Alexander Demo - Int - Friday 11:45-13:00 Alexander In this session we will discover how to build an end to end FCoE IBM Solution that will converge both Ethernet and Fibre Channel. In FCoE full fabric mode. This session will develop all scenarios we can have in (at Pure Chassis level via CN4093s, at ToRs level via G8264-CS, only FCoE solution, attaching existing FC storage, ….). And finally you will see how is to implement such scenarios, with all FC Zoning and two separate Fibre Channel redundant Fabric's. Blades Inside the Mainframe? Understanding the New IBM zEnterprise xSS01 Hybrid System Glenn Anderson Thursday 14:30-15:45 Willem Lecture - Bas - System x and POWER7 blades inside the mainframe? Would you like to have a better understanding of that mainframe server in the corner of your datacenter? The IBM System z mainframe is a heterogeneous compute system capable of hosting many workloads integrated together, each one optimized to meet individual business goals on an IT infrastructure managed as one single entity. The latest System z is the zEnterprise, which is a hybrid model of the traditional mainframe managed together with p and x blade servers. This introductory and educational session will explore the basics of System z mainframe hardware and software, helping you become a smarter and more complete IT professional. SSCT and Power Configurator xSS02 Rani Doughty Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Maurits Demo - Bas - The presentation/demo provides you insight into two of the primary PureFlex System Pre-Sale Tools Configurator. Attendees will have exposure to the SSCT and the Power Configurator tool with a live demonstration on how to configure PureFlex and Flex System configurations in each tool. Attendees will be able to navigate and configure solutions using both SSCT and Power Configurator. Attendees will also have the ability to have a free time Q&A session with an expert SSCT user and a Power Configurator developer x-config and eConfig xSS03 Rani Doughty Thursday 8:45-10:00 Oranje Demo - Bas - The presentation/demo provides you some insight into two of the primary PureFlex System Pre-Sale Tools Configurator. Attendees will have exposure to the x-config and the eConfig tool with a live demonstration on how to configure PureFlex and Flex System configurations in each tool. Attendees will see live demonstrations of configuring solutions in two of the brands' fulfillment tools. Attendees will be able to freely ask questions and have their cases modeled as an example. Attendees will also understand why there are multiple tools and when to use each tool. Using IBM Power Configurator in Competitive Situations xSS04 Matt Archibald Thursday 10:15-11:30 Oranje Lecture - Bas - IBM Power Configurator is a powerful tool that can give deep insight into platform TCO and assist with ROI calculations and data center planning. This session will give attendees the ability to take the results of power calculations and accurately compare them to competitive proposals. Additional insight will be given on how to perform apples-to-apples comparisons between IBM and competitive configurations, as well as level-setting power results from IBM Power Configurator and openly published benchmarks. Attendees will gain skills and understanding that will enable them to more accurately speak to the energy efficiency of IBM systems with respect to the proposed power consumption offered to clients by the competition. Attendees will be able to successfully show how power is derived, and how to compare the results of the IBM Power Configurator to client-specific workloads, thus giving a more realistic estimate of clients' production power consumption. SSCT and Power Configurator Lab xSS75 Rani Doughty Thursday 11:45-13:00 Nassau Lab - Bas - This Lab class is the follow on session to the SSCT and Power Configurator Presentation/Demo. Attendees will have the opportunity for hands on exposure to the tool and be guided on how to build, configure and validate a PureFlex and Flex System solution. Attendees will be able to work through exercises to become more familiar with two of the IBM PureFlex products main configurator tools. Attendees will be able to ask questions and get answers on not only putting configurations together but what the results mean and how they relate to client environments. xConfig Lab and E-Config Demo xSS76 Rani Doughty Thursday 14:30-15:45 Nassau Lab - Bas - This Lab class is the follow on session to the x-config and eConfig Presentation/Demo. Attendees will have the opportunity for hands on exposure to the tool and be guided on how to build, config ure and validate a PureFlex and Flex System solution. Attendees will gain familiarity with installing and using two of the brands configurator tools. Attendees will work through lab examples and will be able to completely configure solutions after this lab session. IBM's Systems Management Offerings xST01 Steve McKinney Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Constantijn Demo - Int - Management of IBM server systems is designed to be tailored to the needs of individual client environments. Hardware level "built in" management is provided with the Integrated and Chassis Management Modules. Independent, purpose specific tools to deploy, configure, update, and diagnose systems are provided via Tools Center. IBM Systems Director provides a platform management foundation that includes x86 and Power servers, non-IBM servers, networking and storage. For PureFlex solutions, IBM Flex System Manager delivers a converged management appliance which is fast, easy, and integrated. This session will review these management options, position different approaches and demonstrate the products in action. Systems Management with IBM's latest Systems Director 6.3 xST02 Steve McKinney Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Constantijn Demo - Int - Management of System x, BladeCenter and FlexSystems is designed to be tailored to the needs of individual environments. Hardware level "built in" management is provided with the Integrated Management Module. Independent, purpose specific tools to deploy, configure, update, and diagnose systems are provided via Tools Center. Finally, IBM Systems Director 6.3 is a platform management foundation that streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment. This session will review these management options, position IBM Sys tems Director within the family of IBM systems management offerings, overview the components that comprise a Systems Director implementation and demonstrate the product in action. Demonstrations typically include various aspects of monitoring, energy management, updating, controlling, and configuring System x and blade servers. Managing a Virtual Infrastructure xST03 Steve McKinney Thursday 10:15-11:30 Constantijn Demo - Int - 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 move s 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. Exploiting Infrastructure Management with Active Energy Manager xST04 Matt Archibald Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Bernhard Demo - Bas - This demo session will show how IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager can automate the management of data center infrastructure based on system wa rnings and errors, as well as environmental factors (errors and warnings) caused by power and inlet temperatures exceeding defined thresholds. Attendees will get some background on data center design and operating considerations when deploying new systems into existing environments and how AEM can be used to manage facility resources quite easily. Get Into The Ring With IBM Systems Director & PureFlex FSM! xST05 Richard Simon Thursday 16:15-17:30 Bernhard Lecture - Int - 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 IBM Systems Director and Flex System Manager but were afraid to ask. Come and pitch your question to a subject matter expert and learn something new!!! Discover. Update. Manage. The Trinity Of IBM Systems Director & FSM. xST06 Richard Simon Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Bernhard Lecture - Bas - Friday 11:45-13:00 Bernhard What are the three main things that you need to do, when you've just installed your IBM Systems Director or PureFlex FSM? This lecture will take you through the simple but essential steps of collecting your systems that need to be monitored, updating their firmware, managing them and beyond! The CMM & FSM Show - Initialization and First Steps. xST07 Richard Simon Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Willem Lecture - Bas - Friday 11:45-13:00 Willem Step right up, Ladies & Gentlemen! Welcome to the best double-act of the decade! So you've got yourself a PureSystems product…What's the first things you need to do with the PureFlex Chassis Management Module (CMM) and Flex System Manager (FSM)? Learn about the Initialization Wizards for both and the further configuration tasks that you need to perform, to ensure that both the CMM and FSM are working properly. Lecture also includes hints'n'tips and lessons learned, from someone who's installed over 15 chassis so far! Integrated Solutions with PureSystem Offerings xPS01 Steve McKinney Thursday 8:45-10:00 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - As data grows more and more complex, a simpler approach to managing IT is needed. Capturing and automating what experts do – from the infrastructure to the application – to make IT easy to deploy and manage. By combining the flexibility of a general purpose system, the elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an appliance, expert integrated systems have the ability to transform the IT lifecycle. Procured as a single system, with a single product ID, all components are pre-selected and pre-integrated in the factory, eliminating the complexity of setting up components. This session will review the strategy and offerings for IBM’s new PureSystems family including PureFlex, PureApplicatioin and PureData. IBM PureFlex System - Introduction xPS02 Steve Edwards Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Maurits Lecture - Int - The IBM PureFlex System is a new category of computing that integrates multiple server architectures, networking, chassis, storage, and system management capability into a single system that is easy to deploy and manage. This session covers the new IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis along with the x86 and Power compute nodes, systems management, networking, and the external storage device - IBM Storwize V7000. IBM PureFlex Express, Standard & Enterprise editions xPS03 Steve McKinney Thursday 14:30-15:45 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - Learn about how IBM PureFlex came to be, with the journey from initial 'clean slate' projects to 'IBM PureSystems', and how it now fills a growing market need for 'Expert Integrated Systems'. Learn about the PureFlex Express, Standard, and Enterprise configurations. Understand what those systems are; what is included inside from compute to storage, as well as how they are delivered and the services that acco mpany them. Learn how additional elements can be added by customers over time, and how IBM achieves customer flexibility while also delivering an integrated system. Get a better understanding of the strategy that is driving PureSystems and see a preview into the future PureFlex elements yet to come. IBM Flex System Manager xPS04 Steve McKinney Thursday 11:45-13:00 Constantijn Demo - Int - 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. Management of a PureFlex System xPS05 Astrid Kreissig Friday 8:45-10:00 Oranje Demo - Bas - Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Systems Truck With the new PureFlex System systems management will become easy and efficient. This workshop will demonstrate this beyond the typical marketing charts. It will enable the attendee to evaluate with the customer the effort, benefit and saving in setup and managing a PureFlex System. Based on real-life experiences gathered during PoC sessions we will demonstrate 'adding a new compute node', 'expanding the storage size' and 'setting up a new VLAN'. We will also discuss backup scenarios and automation. Setting up a Cloud on PureFlex System xPS06 Astrid Kreissig Friday 10:15-11:30 Oranje Demo - Bas - Thursday 8:45-10:00 Systems Truck Smart Cloud Entry is part of the deliverable of PureFlex Systems. This workshop will demonstrate beyond the marketing charts how to set up the PureFlex and the SCE for multiple clouds, separate networks and multiple projects. IBM PureFlex System - Network Management xPS07 Best Practices and Experiences Bernhard Dierberger Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Bernhard Demo - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Willem The PureFlex network integration requires the collaboration of several data center administration teams (network, server, virtualization, cloud). Therefore, it is crucial to have a solid understanding how to design and configure the PureFlex internal network resources to build a firm network infrastructure. The presentation covers the network configuration inside the PureFlex System starting from the top of the rack switch, the internal switch modules going over to the node I/O adapter and the virtual network configuration inside the hypervisors. Worldwide STG Client Center - PureSystems Demo Capability and xPS08 Information Bernhard Dierberger Friday 11:45-13:00 Oranje Demo - Bas - Thursday 10:15-11:30 Systems Truck Selling a PureFlex system can be accelerated with the help of real life demonstrations. These demos can help to avoid time consuming Proof of Concepts. The STG Client Centers have developed an extensive variety of demos that help selling PureFlex. The presentation will give an overview of the STG Client Center PureFlex demo offerings. IBM PureFlex in a Cloud Environment xPS09 Gottfried Schimunek Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Systems Truck Lecture - Bas - Thursday 11:45-13:00 Systems Truck The IBM PureFlex system has been built with Cloud Computing in mind and allows very quick provisioning of new virtual machines (LPARs with IBM i, AIX and Linux as well Linux and Windows on Intel). It supports all major hypervisors available in the industry; PowerVM, KVM, HyperV and VMWare. We will share how to use these hypervisors to provision new VMs and change some of the characteristics of running VMs. We will also discuss self provisioning, charging and monitoring of VMs for client professionals and experts. Introduction to Virtual Appliances on Power and PureFlex Systems xPS10 Gottfried Schimunek Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Willem Lecture - Adv - Whether you have a private or hybrid Cloud environment with IBM PureFlex, you may want to consider to create several Virtual Appliances of your Applications using AIX, IBM i and Linux to be able to deploy them quickly on Power Systems. The ICCT/ICON tool and the Virtual Application Factory can help application providers to speed up the process of creating Virtual Appliances significantly and allowing you to inject many application environment specifics which a re required by the individual application during the deployment of Virtual Machines. Integrated PureFlex System Storage Management with Flex System Manager xPS11 Jeffrey Barnett Thursday 8:45-10:00 Willem Lecture - Int - Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Systems Truck Come learn about the integrated storage management capabilities of the IBM PureFlex System using the IBM Flex System Manager. The IBM Flex System Manager includes capabilities to manage storage that is integrated into the overall PureFlex system management. This integration simplifies infrastructure management tasks that span storage, server, and network management. We will explore the unique capabilities associated with managing the IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node as well as the management capabilities for managing standard external storage systems. The session will also explore how the integrated storage management capabilities support higher level cross infrastructure management capabilities like virtualization and cloud computing. Finally, we will explore how the Flex System Manager's storage management capabilities can be extended to integrate with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Administration in IBM SmartCloud Entry xPS12 Upendra Rajan Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Maurits Lecture - Int - IBM SmartCloud Entry is a cloud offering that is designed to be simple to deploy, easy to use and provide essential Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud capabilities on top of a virtualization environment. In this session, we will discuss the installation and behind the scenes administration of IBM SmartCloud Entry 2.4 vApp for IBM PureFlex that can be performed by a systems administrator for efficient management of the appliance. Performance Capacity Planning for Power and PureFlex Systems xPS13 Gottfried Schimunek Thursday 11:45-13:00 Bernhard Lecture - Adv - This presentation will demonstrate the IBM capacity planning and sizing tool called the Workload Estimator – WLE for Power Systems. We will share and discuss how to use this web based tool for AIX, IBM i and Linux on Power applications as well as for Windows and Linux on Intel nodes in a PureFlex environment. The tool is available on an IBM web site, is free of charge and helps significantly with performance capacity planning and performance sizing tasks. We will go through "what if" scenarios and demonstrate the impact of various hard and software options to throughput and resource utilization in a virtualized environment. IBM PureFlex System Power and Thermal Planning xPS14 Matt Archibald Friday 10:15-11:30 Constantijn Lecture - Bas - Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Oranje This session will cover how to properly plan for power and cooling for the IBM PureFlex System based on installed configurations and workloads. The IBM PureFlex System was designed with efficiency in mind and this session will cover some of the ways to take advantage of those designs to maximize efficiency of PureFlex installations. This session will include real-world examples sent in from the field over the last year. Attendees to this session will learn about all of the tools and information sources available to them as well as some of the methods and tips of planning an installation. After this session, attendees should be able to identify all of the required data center parameters needed to complete an installation and perform a basic planning exercise. IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node xPS15 Steve Edwards Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Maurits Lecture - Int - This session will discuss the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node that is available for use in the newly announced IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis. Focus of this topic will be on the architecture, features and functions of this X-Architecture compute node. Both the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node and IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis are two components of the IBM PureSystems brand of expert, integrated systems. Speed up Time to Value - An Overview of System x and Flex Solutions xPS16 Ajay Dholakia Thursday 14:30-15:45 Bernhard Lecture - Bas - Today's challenges of a traditional IT environment range from cost and size of the IT infrastructure, cost of management SW, as well as cost and skills of the IT administrators. A key focus area for IT Managers is achieving faster time to value when standing up IT solutions to ad dress business needs. In this presentation, an overview of solutions in the System x, Flex System and PureFlex System portofolios will be provided. The session will begin with a discussion of the taxonomy of solution categories, including workloads, levels of integration and also ease of deployment and consumability. The role of capturing best practices in defining solutions will be addressed. The need to balance flexibility with levels of integration will be emphasized. The solutions portfolios will be reviewed. The presentation will conclude with insights from field experiences to date and a look to the future for the solutions offerings. Chassis Management Module and Integrated Management Module xPS75 Rick Ramos Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Nassau Lab - Bas - Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Nassau The Chassis Management Module (CMM) is one of five key components of Systems Management in the IBM Flex System, and provides single chassis management. Come and see how the CMM provides system monitoring, event recording, and alerts and how it manages the chassis, the devices, and compute nodes. In addition we will show the new Integrated Management Module II (IMMv2) is the next generation of IMM and how it provides basic management of the Intel Compute Node. IBM Flex System Manager xPS76 Rick Ramos Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Nassau Lab - Bas - Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Nassau IBM Flex System Manager (FSM) is 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. Come to this session for a test drive. Configuring an x86 compute node using configuration patterns xPS77 Richard French Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Nassau Lab - Int - Thursday 16:15-17:30 Nassau IBM Flex System Manager version 1.2 includes configuration pattern support 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 xPS78 Richard French Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Nassau Lab - Int - Friday 8:45-10:00 Nassau IBM Flex System Manager v1.2 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. Hands-on IBM SmartCloud Entry 2.4 in IBM PureFlex xPS79 Upendra Rajan Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Nassau Lab - Bas - IBM SmartCloud Entry is a cloud offering that is designed to be simple to deploy, easy to use and provide essential Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud capabilities on top of a virtualization environment. In this session we will carry out the installation and behind the scenes administration of the IBM SCE 2.4 vApp on IBM PureFlex. IBM PureFlex Networking xPS80 Upendra Rajan Thursday 8:45-10:00 Nassau Lab - Bas - The PureFlex System combines compute, storage, networking, virtualization and management into a single infrastructure system with built-in expertise at sensing and anticipating resource needs to optimize your infrastructure. In this lab session, you will learn about the new IBM System Networking products for IBM PureFlex and work with them to implement basic tasks. Advanced IBM PureFlex Networking xPS81 Upendra Rajan Thursday 10:15-11:30 Nassau Lab - Adv - The PureFlex System combines compute, storage, networking, virtualization and management into a single infrastructure system with built-in expertise at sensing and anticipating resource needs to optimize your infrastructure. In this session, you will work with advanced datacenter networking concepts to ensure high availability and redundancy in IBM System Networking products for IBM PureFlex. Build a private cloud on IBM PureFlex with SmartCloud Entry 2.4 xPS82 Guilhaume Garcia Friday 10:15-11:30 Nassau Lab - Int - Friday 11:45-13:00 Nassau The lab aims to enable an IT specialist or Architect to install and configure a Private Cloud Solution (Infrastructure as a Service) on IBM PureFlex based on the IBM Smart Cloud Entry solution. The attendees will have the opportunity to install the IBM Smart Cloud Entry management software and use this solution to deploy services in a Private cloud model. We will start the session with the overview of the IBM SmartCloud and PureSystem portfolio and will go through all the steps of implementing a quick IaaS solution with the SmartCloud Entry. COMPETITIVE TRACK Pure System advantages running SAP. DB2 convinced Oracle customer cCO01 Albrecht Marquis Tuesday 10:15-11:30 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - Competitive oriented customers are convinced from PureSystem providing "datacenter in a box" running SAP and other applications. Solution and Total Cost discussion about PureSystem advantages. 2 Examples:

1st customer came from Solaris/Oracle DB and migrates to AIX/DB2 V10. Other applications will run on VMware/Linux. Storage is Flex-V7000 and SVC.

2nd customer came from Power6 small 570/AIX/Oracle and migrates to p460 keeping the existing SAP on Oracle environment. Other SAP systems run on x86/Linux. How to migrate a SAM-FS environment to a IBM solution cCO02 Ingolf Wittmann Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - SAM-FS (Storage Archive Management - File System) is becoming more and more expensive for customers because of licenses & warranty costs. IBM was developing an alternative solution to SAM-FS based on Tivoli HSM & GPFS with a specific extension to read SAM-FS environments for migration. Impact for the infrastructure is very limited because of - Full support of the current IT Infrastructure - Transparent support of SAM-FS functionality in the new environment - Attractive IBM license and services model - Integration of additional file systems as possible - Transparent painless migration capabilities of SAM-FS data during operation This session will cover the strategy, technology, best practices and customer cases. How to deal with ULA and other Oracle licensing cCO03 Ingolf Wittmann Tuesday 14:30-15:45 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - This presentation describes the behaviour and politics around Oracle licensing. It's a deep dive about contracting, and how to respond on it. Including some tools, methods and teams who can help in a Oracle license discussion. Topic to be defined cCO04 Jaume Castanyer Segura Tuesday 16:15-17:30 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate -

Oracle Exadata running SAP cCO05 Dietmar Amrein Wednesday 8:45-10:00 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - The product Exadata from Oracle is since 2011 supported from SAP as Oracle database maschine. This session will cover the overview of Exadata and the limitations in the installation and in running SAP on the appliance. The system's live, but is it ready? cCO06 Ian Gardner Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - Based on IBM research, the presentation highlights the cost impact of delivering poor quality. Rather than increasing costs, contrary to this, investing in higher quality solutions reduces the overall cost of your project.

There is increasing complexity of systems, acceleration of delivery timescales and intensity of cost constraints in modern implementations. This places an emphasis on the need to deliver a quality solution.

IBM has completed a number of studies on poor quality costs. Fixing a defect can cost eighty times more post go-live than investigating and fixing the defect during development. Understanding this can change the way you manage your project.

Why of interest?

Poor quality affects all of us. It touches all parts of the systems implementation cycle, and affects all stakeholders. It is something that most readers will have experience of and is something that reaches news headlines far too frequently.

The presentation does not look at tools and methods that can improve quality. Instead it looks at the costs of poor quality and why this should be considered in project planning. It explains why it costs less to deliver solutions of a high quality rather than the norm, which is to meet budgets and schedules. Evidence is based upon IBM research and quality expert H J Harrington. Oracle Data Centre Rationalisation - A practical View cCO07 Ian Gardner Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - This discussion will outline the current trend for data centre rationalisation or migrations and the approaches being taken to facilitate the change. The discussion will combine the supporting technologies in place to support such activities at a database, storage and application level. An overview of the IBM DC migration methodology and approach to Include :

Why are customers rationalising

What are the options and methodologies

How does this manifest itself

Edited “Real life” examples STG Competition@IBM Client Center: how to compete against Oracle/SUN, cCO08 HP, Cisco …. Alain Cyr, Christophe Menichetti Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - As Infrastructure leader IBM competes against many infrastructure players such as HP,Oracle/SUN,CISCO,DELL, … As sales ou technical team, you need to learn more about IBM competitors strategies and tools/support to close big and touchy competitive deals. The goal of this session is to present you STG competitiors and the IBM Client Center Montpellier as the right place at the right moment to transform competition battlefield into success stories. Through the IBM Client Center Montpellier experiences and expertises, we will share with you the latest assets and how to specifically engage with us. We will cover: Infrastructure competition against Oracle/SUN ExaXXX "appliances", Cisco UCS competition against Pure Systems, IB M Global Alliance (Oracle / SAP) and their coopetition ecosystem. This not exhaustive, and our presentation will browse a more complete picture of what is already available and what is planned. SAP HANA on the IBM Smart appliance cCO09 Carsten Dieterle Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - This presentation discusses the different use cases addressed with SAP HANA, i.e. SAP BW on HANA and as well ERP on HANA. I will present a customer project with a big scale out IBM solution, including high availability and disaster tolerance functionality. Finally I will present the advantages of the IBM solution in contrast to the solutions from our competitors. How STG sponsored Services add value to your Storage Project cCO10 Wilfried Ochs Thursday 8:45-10:00 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - An arsenal of pre- and post-sales services is available to support your storage project / opportunity in 2013. This session will cover how to get these services free-of-charge for the customer, the program's intent, qualification criteria, qualifying Storage products and 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. Co-Speaker: Hubert Pimingstorfer, Storage Client Technical Sales Leader Europe How to lower SAP operation costs with DB2 instead of Oracle cCO11 Karsten Stöhr Thursday 10:15-11:30 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - The key message of this presentation :After switching your SAP- environment to DB2 operation costs will be reduced by more than 20%.

The presentation will show, why more than 1000 customers switched more than 40.000 SAP-Systems from Oracle to DB2 . CLOUDcare and SVC/TPCcare programs cCO12 Eric Aquaronne Thursday 11:45-13:00 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - This lecture presents CLOUDcare and SVC/TPCcare programs, that are very very under utilized in Europe , because people dont know they exist Topic to be defined cCO13 Roland Lindner Thursday 14:30-15:45 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate -

SAP on IBM Power Systems vs. x86 alternative. Co cCO14 Albrecht Marquis Thursday 16:15-17:30 Juliana Lecture - Intermediate - The presentation discusses platform solution differences running SAP comparing Po wer/AIX to x86 based solution. Configuration and platform layout aspects considering total operation and TCO. One part is explaining that PowerVM is the most cost efficient platform to run Oracle DB.

ARCHITECTURE TRACK Big Data and Analytics: Why infrastructure matters. cAR01 John Easton Tuesday 10:15-11:30 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - A run through of the challenges facing organisations as they try to adopt big data and analytical workloads. Illustrated with examples of how specific clients have solved these with specific infrastructure choices. All designed to help make the point that infrastructure matters. PureSystems - a Pattern based system design and deployment cAR02 Francois Briant Tuesday 11:45-13:00 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - Patterns have been used in IT for many years, covering a very broad range of domains (infrastructure patterns, patterns for e-business, …). The concept of design patterns has gained acceptance by IT designers and developers. Maturity of standards and associated tools now enable to move from «descriptive patterns »to «prescriptive and configuring patterns », including the emerging «dynamic configuration patterns »and Software Defined Environment. IBM has a unique capability around patterns, as IBM solut ions cover the different layers of IT environment (Infrastructure, Platform, Application and Business layers). Cloud delivery models are associated to «pattern based »design and deployment methods and tools, capitalizing on existing and emerging standards. PureSystems family imbeds these methods and tools, and enable a simple and easy access and usage of the «patterns based»system design and delivery models. This presentation will illustrate all types of patterns across the whole PureSystems family, based on customer cases and references. Solutions for Managed Service Providers cAR06 Pierre Perdaems Wednesday 10:15-11:30 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - All major analysts predict that at least 2 out of 3 servers will soon be sold to MSP rather than to end clients. With its huge service business, IBM is leading the MSP market and is so ideally positioned to develop unique value-proposition for MSPs so MSPs can quickly onbard new customers, quickly offer new services while lowering their operating cost. The objective of this presentation is to cover the technologies and solutions that IBM can offer to MSPs as well as the commercial model MSPs can benefit from to acquire these solutions with a “Pay as you grow” model. PureSystems, Power, System-X, Storage as well as Management software are key part of these solutions supported by the MSP Center of Excellence. Smarter Computing and PURESYSTEMS cAR07 Pierre Perdaems Wednesday 11:45-13:00 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - Smarter Comptuing is an elegant and efficient approach to help clients identify gaps in their I/T capabilities. Smarter Computing also helps defining roadmaps to fill gaps. This presentation will make architects understanding how to bridge Smarter Computing and PURESYSTEMS. Puresystems is oviously not the only answer to all challenges in the I/T world but Puresystems is certainly an elligible soilution in many of the Smarter Computing areas. Let's use a structured top-down approach to determine where to leverage PureSystems. Smarter Computing Workshop cAR08 Michele Del Sordo Wednesday 14:30-15:45 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - Smarter computing is the IT infrastructure that enables a Smarter Planet. Smarter Computing is of a lot of things: "data ready", "cloud ready", "security ready", "tuned to the task" and it is all these things. However, at the end of the day the value proposition around Smarter Computing is all about the economics. Smarter Computing is really about making IT efficient and innovative and improving the economics. So setting a "Smarter Computing" roadmap, will allow an IT department to transform its nature from a "cost center" to a "change agent" for the business. In this way an IT department can deliver new services that are being demanded every day, it can help the business spot trends to act on, create new markets and of course utilize resources much more efficiently. IBM has identified a set of IT capabilities which an IT department can leverage and combine in pursuing its "change agent" transformation. A "Smarter Computing workshop" is the way IBM can help Clients: To build progression paths, entry points and prioritized action plans to best align IT's Smarter Computing capabilities in support of the business. To provide the CIO with a holistic, big picture view, to better articulate the value of IT’s Smarter Computing initiatives with peers and the IT organization. To facilitates meaningful dialog among peer IT organizations via a proven assessment technique. Business Resiliency a different view cAR09 Jaume Castanyer Segura Wednesday 16:15-17:30 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - Business Resiliency (BR) a different view:

IT systems are an indispensable part of today's economy and society. The penetration reaches even to the private sector. The Internet is ubiquitous. The whole world is connected. Business processes only work with IT support. Breakdowns and interruptions have become catastrophic and can result in significant economic losses. Event of a disaster preparedness is a must today. Planned and unplanned interruptions must be handled without damage to business operations. Business Resiliency and Security is what IT experts seek as a solution for the safe and uninterrupted operation. This lecture should make aware that this is not a simply technical challenge, but about careful planning and preparation for the real thing. IT will cover the most actual approach, definitions, and methods, like RPO, RTO, NRO, critical success factors and 7 steps for a successful BR implementation The Impact of Enterprise Architecture on Infrastructure. IBM Systems cAR10 Agenda : investing in clients to build strategic relationship Jerome Tarte Thursday 8:45-10:00 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - The purpose of Enterprise Architecture is to optimize across the enterprise the often fragmented legacy of processes into an integrated environment that is responsive to change and supportive of the delivery of business strategy. The change that will be introduced will concern the IT technology, at the end the IT infrastructu re. The purpose of this session is to highlight the connections between the EA and the IT infrastructure. It will show what could be the impact of the principles and strategy decisions on the IT infrastructure but also what could be the benefit of EA to reach the target of having an flexible IT infrastructure supporting efficiently the business strategy.

The IBM Systems Agenda program invests in a strategic relationship with clients to help transform their IT into a strategic business asset. This session will describe the characteristic of the IBM Systems Agenda program, its life cycle and what are the benefits for the client. The financial equation of IT infrastructure: what are the TCO & ROI of the IT cAR11 infrastructure modernization Jerome Tarte Thursday 10:15-11:30 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - The technical aspects and advantages of IT solutions are not more enough to make decision. In a context where cost optimization in IT budget is more and more required, the stakeholders should be convinced by an efficient business case. The TCO and ROI of a solution are key elements in the decision process. This session will describe how to compute these elements and demonstrate how they could be used to probe the value of the IT infrastructure modernization. Big Data Analytics - IBM's Universe demystified cAR12 Volker Barent Thursday 11:45-13:00 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - During this presentation you will learn about all analytics solutions that IBM Hardware platforms can offer today. Starting with Big Data (e.g. Hadoop and Hana) based solutions on System x, followed by operational analytics for System p (e.g. Cognos) and PureSystems up to the analytics accelerator for Mainframe, we will cover key benefits as well as architectural considerations when implementing those solutions. The session will conclude with best practice learnings how to start such a project and how to avoid typical pitfalls. Beyond Moore's law - what next? cAR13 Ingolf Wittmann Thursday 14:30-15:45 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - What is Moore's Law and why is this law not any more true? What is the current status and future development in the processor technology? A10 years technology view into the future: What technology does for us? The presentation is all about these three question and will find answers which are not expected by many people! Gordon Moore in 1965 a few years after the invention of the integrated circuit was setting the rule that every 18 or 24 months would double the density of transistors on a chip per unit area. This was derived from the computer industry, that therefore the performance of the processor would double. This rule was true as long as computer were running with single processors and the miniaturization of transistors was done under this rule. But at least with the introduction of multi-core processors and multi-processor boards, this rule is in fact not longer valid, especially with the first true dual-core POWER4 processor, which was launched by IBM in 2001. With these processors, the performance increase of those servers is coming from many cores which are packaged into one processor. The IBM Cell processor was working for example with 8 different processing units has been installed in most of the gaming consoles on the market. Many of these multi-core processors are then mounted in a server. Several of these servers are tied together with software technologies to provide for example distributed databases and cloud computing. In this way, still the immense increase in performance every 18 or 24 months in the IT industry is achieved. But to return to the question, since 2001 with the announcement of the Power4 processor Moore's Law is not any more valid. Everybody is invited to join the session to have a discussion what that means to infrastructure environment in ten years or beyond. PureSystems – An Introduction cAR14 Jean-Michel Rodriguez Thursday 16:15-17:30 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - The time has come for a new category of systems: systems with integrated expertise that combine the flexibility of general purpose system, the elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an appliance tuned to the workload—fundamentally changing the experience and economics of IT. Announced in April 2012, the IBM PureSystems offers built-in expertise, integration by design and a simplified experience. During this presentation, you will get introduced to the complete PureSystems offering and positioning, will know the IBM vision and strategy around these new technology and solutions and finally will understand where is the competition. Green Energy cAR15 Jean-Michel Rodriguez Friday 8:45-10:00 Beatrix Lecture - Intermediate - Taking care of the energy is no longer an option. A good energy policy can supercharge an organization’s performance through direct electricity savings, a diminished need for facilities,and lower capital costs related to IT resources and devices. Even if the value of going green is good for business and for the world, plugging into environmental consciousness is only part of the story. IBM is looking to build the optimal energy-efficient IT infrastructure as the energy costs is a fundamental part of operating a business. I will present the new data center and energy paradigm and IBM vision, show how the instrumentation can help to improve business processes, see how to build an interconnected Smarter Infrastructure and finally present the DCIM concepts and architecture.