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Our Briefing Center staff provides a variety of methods in bringing this message to you, including:
Customized Briefings – we will work with the IBM or BP sales representative to customized an agenda to meet the client’s needs.
Multi-Customer Theme Briefings – we offer periodic in-depth events which host multiple clients with similar IT concerns and questions. These can be a rewarding and exciting way to interact with other clients, discuss IT issues, and hear presentations and demonstrations by our subject matter experts.
Web Briefings (or Webinars)– these provide product and solutions updates, or customized to suit the client’s needs.
Remote Briefings – as our schedule permits, we can provide on-site presentations and discussions. Contact your IBM or BP sales rep to arrange.
Clients – please contact your IBM or Business Partner Sales Representative to arrange your participation.
Business Partners or IBMers – Please contact Cheryl Wallace, IBM RTP Briefing Scheduler, (cwallace@us.ibm.com; 919-543-0766).
For available seating, contact Chris Anthony (canthony@us.ibm.com; 919-486-2485). NOTICE: Cost for these briefings is $125 per attendee (customers, business partners, and IBMers). Account codes or credit card information is required when you nominate your clients. CANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellations 48 business hours prior to the event incur the same charge.
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Cloud Computing In-Depth |
System x & BladeCenter
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Are you ready for Blades? Come visit us and assess your options.
This all day event (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) focuses on key BladeCenter presentations with covers-off demonstrations, implementation and networking considerations, storage and manageability. The target audience is executives, IT/IS decision makers and key influencers. These events represents an opportunity for IBM and Business Partner representatives and their clients to visit IBM and gain a better understanding of the BladeCenter ecosystem, see live demonstrations, and have all of your questions answered. For more information on this briefing, please contact Steve Loeschorn (sloesch@us.ibm.com; 919-254-0767). |
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Do you need help “Breaking through the Haze” of cloud computing?
Cloud computing un-tethers the applications from the underlying physical infrastructure and delivers them to the end user over the internet or intranet. Cloud is a new consumption and delivery model inspired by consumer internet services. And IBM technology leadership and innovation drive more efficient IT consumption and delivery. For more information on this briefing, please contact Steve Loeschorn (sloesch@us.ibm.com; 919-254-0767). |
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- System x & BladeCenter In-Depth
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This event offers you an opportunity to gain a better understanding of IBM System x servers, BladeCenter and Storage offerings. Get an insider’s look at the latest IBM innovations in 64-bit-enabled industry standard servers and what they can do for your business. You will be given the opportunity to interact with IBM product management teams and developers, to understand how IBM can help you reduce costs and improve your operation’s efficiency through reliable innovation.
Discussion topics will include x86 Server technology trends, Leadership innovation with System x, BladeCenter Offerings, IBM x86 Virtualization strategy, IBM System Storage solutions, IBM Systems Director update, with a tour of the new Green Solutions Data Center. |
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- Hosted Client Environment Solutions
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Are you struggling with the rising cost of maintaining PCs; the exploding number of PC configurations & system images; data security, availability and back up for distributed work force; and/or limited control of employee home PCs, as well as partner and contractor-owned PCs? IBM in partnership with Citrix, VMware and Wyse offers you an opportunity to look at the next generation of client offerings designed to address the increasingly complex and costly environment.
This event will include an architectural review discussing the strengths of each different approach available today – shared services, physical platforms, and virtual hosted clients. We will demonstrate many of these technologies & management tools and review service offerings to help with the planning, implementing and/or supporting of this new environment.
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The primary purpose of virtualization is to simplify the IT infratructure, access to resources and the management of those resources. This all day event (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) focuses on IBM Virtualization as it applies to IBM System x and BladeCenter. For more information on this briefing, please contact Steve Loeschorn (sloesch@us.ibm.com; 919-254-0767). |
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