Next week at IBM Edge2016 Conference

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Next week, I will be in Las Vegas for [Edge 2016], IBM's Premiere IT Infrastructure conference of the year.

I have been attending these and other storage-related conferences for the past 25 years, and blogging about them for the past 10 years! Here are the posts I wrote for last year's Edge:

• [My Schedule at IBM Edge2015 Conference]
• [What to Expect from Edge 2015 Conference - Insights from my Colleagues]
• [How to Win Prizes at IBM Edge2015 Conference]
• [Edge 2015 Day 1 Kickoffs and Keynotes]
• [Edge 2015 Day 1 Setup and Sessions]
• [Edge 2015 Day 2 General Session Keynotes]
• [Edge 2015 Day 2 Sessions on Big Data and Strategy]
• [Edge 2015 Day 3 Sessions on Automated Tiering and Spectrum Scale]
• [Edge 2015 Day 4 Sessions and the Pendulum Swings Back]
• [Edge 2015 Day 5 Sessions and Final thoughts]

Edge will be different in many ways this year. The past few years we had separate "Executive Edge" for C-level executives, "Winning Edge" for IBM Business Partners, and "Technical Edge" for server, network and storage administrators.

This year, all 1,000 sessions are combined back into one, but with clever hints in the titles. The words "General Session", "Outthink" or "Cognitive" are used to indicate C-level executive talks. Those that use the terms "Winning" or "Community" target IBM Business Partners, Managed Service Providers and Cloud Service Providers. Those that mention z Systems, POWER servers, or Storage solutions, often adding the term "Deep-Dive", are technical.

(Unlike other sessions that might appeal to one portion of the audience or another, mine are suitable for everyone, from C-level executives and IBM Business Partners to storage administrators. To help people find them under the new naming scheme, I have added "Tony Pearson Presents", or words to that effect.)

About 260 breakout sessions relate to IBM Storage, but there are only 20 or so time slots, so obviously you can't see them all in person.

I strongly suggest you pick about three to five topics per time slot, so that you are not overwhelmed by the dozens of choices during the event. This allows you to make a quick decision on which one you finally decide on during each time slot.

Occasionally, a session might get canceled, postponed, or be so full of attendees that nobody else is allowed in, so having three to five topics selected allows you to chose an alternate.

Here is my schedule for next week at Edge 2016.

My colleagues Dave Dabney or Adam Bergren will be located at the WW Systems Client Centers Booth 125 of the Solution EXPO.

If you are active in Social Media, consider using the hashtags #IBMedge, #IBMstorage, and #IBMcloud. You can follow me on Twitter, my handle is @az990tony

For those interested in a one-on-one meeting with me, over breakfast, lunch or dinner, or some other time, I have several slots still available. Fill out a request form on BriefingSource at: [https://briefingsource.dst.ibm.com/]

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