IBM Innovation Center Canada

PureSystems Certification Preparation Workshop

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Last week, the IBM Innovation Center - Canada ran the pilot for the PureSystems Certification Preparation Workshop. This 3-day workshop focuses on the PureFlex System and includes sales and technical training on the first two days followed by testing on the final day.

Due to the popularity of the pilot event, we had to increase the workshop size! A word from Steve Powell, Course Developer for IBM and the instructor for the pilot workshop:

"It was great to visit Toronto and meet so many dedicated Partners. We had a lot of fun getting to grips with the certification test requirements and I'm pleased to say many of our Partners are now certified!"

For those of you who were unable to join us last week, we are holding 4 additional workshops in the coming weeks in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver. We look forward to having many of you attend the upcoming sessions. Please do note that as this is a review course, attendees are expected to be familiar with PureSystems and should study the materials in advance and come prepared with any questions.

If you missed out on this workshop, visit the IBM Innovation Center website at http://ibm.biz/Bdx4sN to register online and find out about our other events.

PureSystems Business Partner Day (Calgary)

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The Global Network of IBM Innovation Centers has been hosting the IBM PureSystems Business Partner Day events worldwide. Here in Canada, we held these informative networking events in Toronto and Montreal and will be bringing the event out to our western Business Partners as well. With a twist. We've made this a morning event and added a more technical workshop component in the afternoon. Check out the agenda for the day. I've included it below with links to register online. Please register separately for the morning and afternoon sessions.

We'd like to invite all of our IBM Business Partners that operate in the western provinces and territories to attend the PureSystems Business Partner Day in Calgary on September 6th.

Agenda
Keynote & Breakout Sessions (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM MST)
Presenters:

Luis H. Rodriguez – Director, IBM Innovation Centers
Todd Austin – Worldwide Channel Marketing Leader, IBM PureSystems

Audience: C-level, Line of Business, Sales & Marketing
At the keynote, you will hear about IBM’s new family of expert integrated systems and how the PureSystems offerings meet the increasing demands of your business and technology challenges.
Breakout sessions will provide value, pricing and incentives, and specific details on next steps.

Register now for the keynote and breakout session: http://ibm.biz/BdxXx2

Workshop (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM MST)
Presenter: IBM Technology Consultant, IBM PureSystems Expert
Audience: IT Professionals
The workshop will instruct you on the tools and techniques used to create scripts for cloud deployment on the IBM PureApplication and PureFlex systems. This workshop will cover:

What are workload patterns
IBM Workload Deployer (IWD) tooling for Virtual Pattern creation on PureApplication system
IBM Composition and Construction Tool (ICCT) tooling for Virtual Appliance creation for PureFlex system

IBM Roadmaps

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With all that IBM has to offer, how does one find their way from point A to point B?

To help you navigate your route, IBM has created a series of roadmaps that should help you along the way. Whether you're a Business Partner, Academic, IT professional, or entrepreneur, these roadmaps offer a step-by-step guide with an overview, resources to learn more, and actions that will help you succeed.

Roadmaps for Business Partners

Industry roadmaps
Cross-industry roadmaps

Roadmaps for academia
IBM roadmap for academia - Faculty
IBM roadmap for academia - Students

Roadmaps for IT professionals
Roadmaps for entrepreneurs

Visit the IBM Roadmaps website (http://ibm.biz/BdxrUX) to learn more about the different routes you can take.

Get "Ready for..."

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"Ready for..." are technical validations offered by IBM to its Business Partners. Achieving "Ready for ..." status shows customers that your solution meets or exceeds IBM compatibility criteria with one or more of the IBM products in that category. There are several "Ready for..." validations available that your company can qualify for and recently, IBM announced the addition of Ready for IBM Social Business to the line-up. As social business becomes increasingly vital to organizations, this new offering builds on and combines the previous Ready for IBM Lotus and Ready for IBM WebSphere Portal validations. Read a guest blog about Ready for IBM Social Business from the perspective of one of our IBM Business Partners: www.ibm.com/connections/blogs/socialbusiness/tags/ready_for_social_business?lang=en_us

Other offerings available to Business Partners include:

Ready for IBM DB2 database software
Ready for IBM Informix database software
Ready for IBM Power Systems Software
Ready for IBM PureSystems™
Ready for IBM Rational
Ready for IBM SmartCloud Services
Ready for IBM Technology
Ready for IBM Tivoli software - IBM Integrated Service Management Library

Each validation has its own steps to complete the process to achieve "Ready for..." status, and once you've successfully completed the validation and marketing criteria, you can display the "Ready for..." mark in the packaging and marketing materials of your qualified offerings. Just remember to follow the guidelines when you download and use your "Ready for IBM..." mark. For more information on the usage guidelines, visit http://ibm.biz/BdxrXC.

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