Originally posted by: TonyPearson
Next week, May 11-15, I will be in Las Vegas, Nevada for the [IBM Edge 2015 conference], covering IBM System Storage, z Systems and POWER Systems.
There are really three conferences in one:
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Executive Edge, for business executives, CIO and IT directors
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Technical Edge, for storage, system and cloud administrators
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Winning Edge, for IBM Business Partners
I am giving presentations this year at both Technical Edge and Winning Edge.
Here is my Technical Edge schedule of what I will be presenting next week:
|
Day |
Time |
Technical Edge |
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Monday |
10:30am |
Software Defined Storage Technical Overview -- Why? What? How? |
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03:00pm |
IBM's Cloud Storage Options |
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04:30pm |
Data Footprint Reduction -- Understanding IBM Storage Efficiency Options |
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Tuesday |
10:30am |
Software Defined Storage Technical Overview -- Why? What? How? |
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12:30pm |
What is big data? Architectures and Practical use cases |
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01:45pm |
IBM's Smarter Storage Strategy |
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Wednesday |
09:00am |
New Generation of Storage Tiering: Less management, lower costs and increased performance |
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10:30am |
IBM's Smarter Storage Strategy |
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12:30pm |
IBM's Cloud Storage Options |
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01:45pm |
IBM Spectrum Scale (Elastic Storage) Offerings |
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Thursday |
12:30pm |
The Pendulum Swings Back -- Understanding Converged and Hyper-converged environments |
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Friday |
09:00am |
IBM Spectrum Storage Integration with OpenStack |
I am also part of the Winning Edge track for Cloud and Analytics Sales Enablement (CASE) training. Here is my Winning Edge schedule of what I will be presenting next week:
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Day |
Time |
Winning Edge |
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Wednesday |
04:15pm |
IBM Offerings for Cloud Infrastructure - Storage
(co-presenting with Elan Freedberg) |
We will have some exciting storage demos at the Solutions Center:
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Object and Cloud storage
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Big data and pervasive Flash
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Virtualization 2.0
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Next generation Tier 1 storage
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Data Protection, Archive and Nearline storage
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Storage Efficiency with Data Footprint Reduction
The Solution Center demos will be shown at the following times. I will try to hang out here during these times to help answer questions:
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Day |
Time |
Demos at the Solution Center |
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Monday |
11:30am - 12:45pm |
Solution Center Hours |
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05:30pm - 07:30pm |
Opening Reception |
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Tuesday |
11:30am - 01:00pm |
Solution Center Hours |
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05:30pm - 07:30pm |
Reception |
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Wednesday |
11:30am - 12:30pm |
Solution Center Hours |
In between presentations and demos, I will be having conversations with clients at breakfast, lunch and dinner, blogging, tweeting, and attending some of the 600 other storage sessions that will be presented at Edge this year!
I am looking forward to a great week!
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