You need to make IT decisions that will drive business success. You face management challenges and technological complexity such as space constraints, power and cooling limitations, heterogeneous environments and I/O connectivity issues. You need to make an informed choice. It's IBM BladeCenter. Created to put you in touch with the experts, our Web seminars cover a wide range of topics designed to help you make your choice.
Live Web seminars
Wednesday, June 11 at 1:00pm EDT
Fueling business growth through IT Innovation The role of "Data Center 2.0" in helping your business succeed
We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, in which we're called upon to support a level of change in business processes that we've never seen before.
In order support these demands, what role does the data center play in delivering business innovation? What changes can we expect to see in our data centers over the coming few years?
In this lively webcast, Gary Barnett, CTO and industry analyst from The Bathwick Group in the UK, will provide a worldwide perspective on the role that innovation will play in building the optimal IT architecture for your business. Gary will also share thought-provoking insights on the emergence of web-based computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) as triggers in changing the way IT drives business innovation.
Learn how to innovate the "Data Center 2.0" that's right for your business.
What the Attendees Will Learn:
The role of innovation in the data center
Innovation styles: taking the right approach will align IT with the business
End results: gaining efficiency and effectiveness in your data center
The evolution of the data center
Smaller, quicker, cheaper: capitalizing on ongoing innovation in hardware design
Automation: delivering on decades old promises
The emergence of Data Center 2.0:
New paradigms: preparing now for web-based computing and Software as a Service
Getting smarter: translating network-delivered services into real business benefits
Speaker: Gary Barnett, Partner & CTO, The Bathwick Group
Gary provides research services, marketing tools, and market consultancy to a range of IT, government, communications, and media clients in the U.K. Gary's current research interests include — Globalization, Green IT, Innovation, Business-focused IT Strategy, the Role of the CIO, Legacy Modernization and Infrastructure.
IBM's groundbreaking eX4 scalable technology and Microsoft's new SQL Server 2008 product will deliver unmatched levels of database performance and reliability.
Utilizing the enhancements in SQL Server 2008, and the scalability of the x3950M2, older SQL infrastructures can be consolidated and centralized. This consolidation enables superior manageability of the SQL Server environment and will help deliver improved TCO. SQL users will see better response times, improved database availability which lead to increased competitiveness in today's business environment.
What the Attendees Will Learn:
How to reduce your SQL infrastructure TCO with System x
New features and functions of SQL Server 2008
How System x scalable solutions can help reduce server sprawl
System x and SQL Server 2008 high availability
System x Scalable Solutions with Microsoft SQL 2008
IBM BladeCenter is a powerful platform, providing industry-leading performance, innovative architecture and a solid foundation for virtualization. Coupled with Intel's processor advancements and their advantages on performance per watt and performance density, IBM BladeCenter offers a broad range of storage and networking options integrated into the chassis to simplify infrastructure complexity and manageability while lowering total cost of ownership.
This webcast will answer how in today's high-demand business environment, organizations can get a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. We are seeing increasing I/O requirements for more bandwidth, low latency and applications are now starting to exploit 10GB Ethernet. We will look at how 10GB Ethernet on IBM BladeCenter can reduce IT complexity.
Today's single-socket dual-core and quad-core servers are as powerful as the two and four-socket servers of three years ago. Many customer applications have not changed, but the technology has. Single-socket servers can handle many application workloads, even databases and virtualization in some customer solutions. IBM is
The IBM BladeCenter® HS12 blade combines the power of Intel® Xeon® processors and easy integration to offer a flexible, low-cost option for small businesses. It includes high-availability features such as solid state hard drives and redundant power connections. And potentially lower power and cooling costs compared to traditional 1U dual-socket rack servers can help save you money.
Raising the bar for performance while minimizing time and effort for your IBM BladeCenter migration.
Join IBM and Intel® for an informative, live web seminar to learn how to boost performance and energy efficiency with the new 45nm multi-core Intel Xeon® Processor 5400 Series. Intel processor-based Blades enable businesses of all sizes to do more and spend less with outstanding price/performance, investment protection and easy migration from dual core to quad core.
We will demonstrate how the PlateSpin® solution can help with your IBM BladeCenter transition using a simple drag and drop interface!
IBM has pioneered new technologies that allow our blades to generate less heat output and use less energy to cool the system than the competition in comparable configurations. Simply put, IBM BladeCenter can run cooler to potentially deliver significant cost savings in a high-density environment.
Combined with Intel's Quad Core Xeon processor 5000 series which has four cores to deliver breakthrough energy-efficient performance to help businesses stay competitive. We provide high-density solutions with the 50W low voltage Quad Core Xeon for 35% less processor power consumption at the same performance level as the standard quad core versions.
IBM and VMware can help improve server utilization with hardware and software designed for virtualization. VMware software can virtualize servers, storage and networking, allowing multiple unmodified operating systems and their applications to run independently in virtual machines while sharing physical resources. With highly reliable and flexible BladeCenter offerings running VMware software, applications and services may be deployed in highly secure and portable virtual machines, which can be provisioned, consolidated and managed centrally, simplifying the IT infrastructure and driving down total cost of ownership.
Innovative new way to simplify I/O address management and deliver new levels of availability
IT organizations deploy large numbers of servers or blades. Address management has become a time consuming difficult task. IBM has developed new innovative ways to significantly help with our BladeCenter server offerings. While some vendors have created a proprietary approach with special hardware, IBM has taken an "Open" approach, allowing IT organizations to use a variety of different vendors, networking and storage fabrics.
Next Generation Workstation
Many IT organizations are demanding more innovation in the workstation (2D/3D graphics space) and looking to help address a variety of concerns that can significantly impact the business. The HC10 Workstation blade is ideal for engineering design applications (CAD), trading floor and other financial applications, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, distance collaboration and more.
Why Blades? Why IBM?
Are you looking to: reduce time deploying and managing servers? Reduce IT costs especially in a SAN environment? Ways to reduce power and cooling? Address server density? This is the Web Seminar for you!
Storage Innovation in the Blade Environment
This event will discuss the variety of options that IBM has to offer to help customers reach exceptional levels of reliability, availability, flexibility and cost savings with storage and blades.
Why proactive migration is a wise strategic choice
Migrating from one server platform to another can be challenging. But when you're faced with a server platform that can no longer support your business needs, proactive migration is a strategic step in the right direction.
IBM BladeCenter S: No longer just for the datacenter
Introducing IBM BladeCenter® S - the first blade chassis from a tier one vendor uniquely designed for distributed environments. Building in simplicity and economy, BladeCenter S is designed to get big IT results from small IT staffs.
Future Web seminars
New Web seminars are already in production.
Future topics include:
Blades: No longer just for the datacenter
Quad-Core Processor-based blade servers
Check back to view new Web seminars as they are announced
