Every year IBM puts on a conference for all of our clients, business partners and strategic partners.
This conference has both Storage and X series sessions along with key note speakers from the top management at IBM.
People come from all over the world to this conference looking for the
'how to' answers and whats to come with the product lines. There is also a solution center that houses all of the products along with our sponsors. This year our top platinum sponsors are Cisco, Intel and Netapp. Other sponsors include Brocade, Emulex, Fuision-IO, VMWare, Red Hat and SUSE.
I plan to be working in the solution center at the SONAS booth talking
to clients about the benefits of SONAS and how it fits into their
environments. If you are wanting to stop by here are the hours that I will be there:
Monday, July 18th
Solution Center Open 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM ( w/Networking Drinks)
Tuesday, July 19th
Sponsor / Exhibitor Only Lunch 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Solution Center Open 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM (Coffee & Dessert served in the Solution Center)
Solution Center Open 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM ( w/Networking Drinks)
Wednesday, July 20th
Sponsor / Exhibitor Only Lunch 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Solution Center Open 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM (Coffee & Dessert served in the Solution Center)
I also will be presenting a few sessions on NAS technology here at the conference. Most of my sessions will be a look at what IBM is doing with SONAS, N series and Real Time Compression.
I have a NAS 101 class that I really love doing because there are so
many people that have a misconception of what NAS is today. In my N
series update session we will be talking about the latest release on
N6270 and the EXP 3500 as well as a peek at the R23 release coming in a
few weeks. The other two sessions I am doing are a little off the topic of NAS but around social media and using www.ibm.com for help.
Tony Pearson, John Sing and Ian Wright will be joining me on a panel to
discuss the roles we play in social media and what each of us thinks of
the future of social media. The support session is something that
a client suggested to me out of their frustration of how to find
documents on our support pages. Here is a list of sessions and times that I will be presenting:
7/18 - 1:00 sSN14 Storage Networking (NAS - SAN) NAS 101: An Introduction to Network Attached Storage
7/19 - 10:30 sSN15 Storage Networking (NAS - SAN) NAS @ IBM
7/19 - 1:00 sSN18 Storage Networking (NAS - SAN) IBM N series: What's New?
7/20 - 1:00 sGE10 General Tips and Tricks on Searching for Support Answers on ibm.com
7/20 - 5:30 sGE61 General Using Social Media in System Storage
7/21 - 10:30 sSN18 Storage Networking (NAS - SAN) IBM N series: What's New?
7/21 - 2:30 sSN15 Storage Networking (NAS - SAN) NAS @ IBM
If
you are at the conference feel free to come to any of my sessions and I
would love to hear from you about the IBMNAS blog or any of my social
media outlets. We are using the following hashtag for the
conference all week if you want to follow what is going on via twitter
feed #ibmtechu
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