Past Meetings
*Date: March 29, 2012*
Meeting time: 6:00PM-8:30PM
Meeting location: IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners 404 Wyman St., North Entrance Waltham, MA
Meeting topic: PowerSC Security and Compliance Solutions
Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30PM - Dinner and Networking
6:30 - 8:00PM - PowerSC security and compliance solutions
8:00 - 8:15PM - Group business
8:15 - 8:30PM - Networking
Summary:
Virtualization has provided great value to IT organizations. At the same time, it has introduced complexity and challenges as those organizations attempt to secure, and meet compliance requirements, virtualized environments. To meet these challenges, IBM has introduced the PowerSC solutions to help address these challenges in AIX and PowerVM environments. During the conversation, T.R. will give an overview of the PowerSC including features, functions and the value it can bring to your group.
Thomas (T. R.) Bosworth is the world wide offering manager for IBM Power Systems PowerVM virtualization and PowerSC security and compliance solutions. Thomas joined IBM Global Services in 2007 as the result of IBM's acquisition of Softek Storage Solutions. He has been involved in software development and product management for over 10 years. He has over 25 years of enterprise technical experience with server and storage virtualization working as a sales engineer and manager, selling solutions for a variety of companies including Fujitsu and Amdahl.
Date: Dec 16th, 2010
Meeting time: 6:00PM-8:30PM
Meeting location: IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners 404 Wyman St., North Entrance Waltham, MA
Meeting topic: AIX 7.1 Features, Functions, Trends and Directions
Agenda:
6:00PM-6:30PM - Dinner served
6:30PM-6:45PM - AIX 7.1 Trends and Directions
8:00 - 8:15PM - Group business
8:15 - 8:30PM - Networking
Summary:
Jay Kruemcke, AIX Program Director, will be joining us from Austin, TX. He will be discussing the latest AIX 7.1 features, functions, trends and directions. Here's a brief bio:
Jay Kruemcke is currently the AIX Program Director. He manages marketing activities for the AIX operating system as part of the POWER Marketing team. He also assists with sales situations and evangelizes the advantages and future directions of AIX at customer briefings, conferences, and webinars. Jay has held a variety of positions at IBM over the past 20 years including AIX Architecture Development Manager, Tivoli Product Manager, Executive Briefing Center Staff Member, SAP Systems Management Consultant, AIX Product Build Support, and Mainframe System Programmer.
Date: Mar 26th, 2009
Meeting time: 6:00PM-8:30PM
Meeting location: IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners 404 Wyman St., North Entrance Waltham, MA
Meeting topic: Sappi's Power6 Blade Experiences
Agenda:
6:00PM-6:30PM - Dinner served
6:30PM-6:45PM - Introduction
6:45PM-8:00PM - Sappi's Power6 Blade Experience
8:00PM-8:30PM - Group Business and Networking
Summary:
Our speaker for the evening will be Shane Hutchins, one of our members. Shane is the IT Infrastructure Manager at Sappi Fine Paper North America in South Portland, ME. Sappi has been an early adopter of POWER6 based blades. Shane's presentation will be focused on Sappi's experience with JS12 and JS22 blades. Some of the discussion items will include:
-What they were looking to replace
-What they chose as the replacements
-Their experience, including Live Partition Mobility, HACMP, Energy Scale and IVM
-Challenges that they faced
-What they love and hate about the blades/BladeCenter
-What's next?
Date: Dec 3rd, 2008
Meeting time: 6:30 PM
Meeting location: IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners - Waltham, MA
Meeting topic: Recent Annoucements - Power 6
Agenda:
Agenda for the meeting:
Dinner and networking (30 minutes)
Power6 Recent Announcements by Tom Capasso - An overview of the October Power Systems announcements including the Midreange System Refresh, New Virtualization Capabilities and software & System Management.
Demo of Virtual I/O Server V2.1.
Group Discussion, open forum and networking
Date: Sep 17th, 2008
Meeting time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Meeting location: OSRAM SYLVANIA 100 Endicott Street Danvers, MA 01923
Meeting topic: HACMP Presentation and Lighting Basics
Agenda:
6:00 PM - Networking and Dinner
6:30 PM - Brief discussion of Lighting Basics
7:00 PM - HACMP with Questions and Answers
Date: May 7th, 2008
Meeting time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Meeting location: IBM Waltham IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA
Meeting topic: New England Power Users Group Meeting
Agenda:
1. Tivoli Monitoring on System p with Frederick Gariepy
2. Group discussion
Date: Mar 5th, 2008
Meeting time: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Meeting location: IBM Waltham IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA
Meeting topic: New England Power Users Group Meeting
Agenda:
1. System P Virtualization features and options presentation by Rick Bonadies
- Discussing Shared Pools Concepts, configuration and Value
- VIOS Architecture/Design Points
- LPAR mobility feature
2. Power6 Recent Announcements - An overview of the February Power Systems announcements including the p520, p550 and PowerVM editions
3. Group Discussion
Date: Dec 5th, 2007
Meeting time: 6:00PM - 8:30PM
Meeting location: IBM Waltham - IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA
Meeting topic: AIX Security and Tivoli Monitoring Solutions for System p
Agenda:
Dinner and Networking (30 min.)
"What's new in AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 Security?" with Jackie Wilson (45 min.) - Jackie is a member of the System p Advanced Technical Support team focused on AIX Security. She will be discussing the new features that were announced with AIX 6.1 including Role Based Access Control, Encrypted File Systems, AIX Security Expert, Trusted Execution, Trusted Execution and the AIX Security certifications. She'll also cover some security features announced with AIX 5.3 that you may have missed like AIX Security Expert, Stack Execution Disable, Secure FTP, IP Filter, IP Security and User Authentication with LDAP.
Tivoli Monitoring on System p with Frederick Gariepy (45 min.) - Rick is a Senior IT Specialist covering Tivoli Business and Automation Solutions for the Upper New York and New England regions. He will be discussing the IBM Tivoli Monitoring System Edition for System p performance tools, which are available with one-year of support for no additional charge on System p. Rick will also discuss the Tivoli portfolio of software available to monitor and manage System p servers.
Group business, open forum and networking (30 min.)
Date: Sep 19th, 2007
Meeting time: 6:30PM-8:30PM
Meeting location: IBM Waltham 404 Wyman St. Waltham MA
Meeting topic: The agenda for the meeting is:
Dinner and Networking (30 min.)
AIX 6.1 Trends and Directions with Jay Kruemcke (45 min.) - Jay is the AIX offering manager, based in Austin, TX. He will be giving an overview of the functionality that will be available in AIX 6.1 and the trends! /directions going forward.
HMC7/Partition Mobility Demonstration with Jim Vander Poel (45 min.) - He will be giving a demonstration of the recently released HMC7 code. He will also be be demonstrating partition mobility on a new Power6 based p570 in the Innovation Center.
Group business, open forum and networking (30 min.)
Date: Jun 14th, 2007
Meeting time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Meeting location: IBM Lexington 83 Hartwell Ave. Lexington, MA 02421
Meeting topic: Power 6 Announcements & Virtualization Discussion
Agenda:
Summary:
Power 6 System Announcements (30 min) - This meeting is scheduled to occur after the official Power 6 System Announcements. We will discuss the specifics of the announcements and what/when IBM will be delivering in the Power 6 systems.
User Virtualization Discussion (10-30 min) - I'm looking for a volunteer(s) to discuss their experiences with virtualization. This might be a good opportunity to discuss your organization's experience in implementing and using Advanced Power Virtualization. I'm happy to help anyone interested in volunteering to work out the format and material with which they are most comfortable.
Group Business (30 min) - We will be transitioning to leadership of the group ! by users after this meeting. If you are interested in helping to lead the group, please attend the meeting or let me know of your interest.
Open forum, networking (30 minutes)
Date: Mar 21st, 2007
Meeting time: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Meeting location: Newport Room IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners 404 Wyman St. (North Entrance) Waltham, MA 02454
Meeting topic: System p Trends and Directions, Virtualization and Micropartitioning
Agenda:
System p Trends and Directions (30 min)
Demo of System p Virtualization/Micropartitioning (30 min)
Discussion of future user group meetings (meeting frequency, location, content) (30 min)
Open forum, networking (30 minutes)
