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·  Interact with the experts and other IT professionals

·  Learn how to integrate and invigorate the business with new IT capabilities

·  Hear the inside stories on successes and failures

·  Learn to think more independently and communicate more clearly

·  Learn to lead more effectively

·  Learn to choose technology more wisely

·  View the TAS Catalog to see the full lineup of TAS seminars that you can bring in-house.

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TAS 2009 Overview:

 Have you noticed that everybody talks about innovation, but nobody wants to change the way they do business? The obstacles to innovation are becoming less technological and more cultural, political, and philosophical. Now that Shared Services is getting some traction, the key is choosing the right things to do, and then doing the right things the right way. Many organizations try to tackle things that are not ready for change. IT pros are learning that innovation is hard to come by. Join us for at an upcoming event: (next year) Hilton Head Island SC May 11-13, 2010 (this year) New York City June 17-18, Oct 20-21, or Ottawa Sept 15-17, and we'll discuss the best practices for innovation, managing growth, and accelerating the pace of change. Well also help you keep up with the latest in these important areas:

(This 3-day agenda is typical for Ottawa and Hilton Head events, though topics and speakers may vary slightly)

Day 1 morning:

  • IT Trends - Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Unified Communication, Green Computing, Cloud Computing, SaaS, SOA, exposing myths.
  • Vendor Strategies (HP, Sun, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Novell). Where are vendors trying to take us? Looking to the Future.
  • The Executive's Guide to the Mainframe - The latest on System z, the next wave of Specialty Engines update on z/OS, zLinux, and z/VM

Day 1 afternoon:

  • IT Security - protecting your business, protecting a nation, vulnerabilities, costs of breaches, evolving malware, future threats, insider threats (fascinating stats from 150 incidents), NATO's prep for Cyberwar, Methods of Attack, Lines of Defense

Day 2 morning:

  • Enterprise Alignment: Linking Business Strategy and Enterprise Architecture - first steps, governance, roles, portfolio management, Master Data Management, Optimizing IM and IT, Zachmann, Federal Enterprise Arch, DoDAF, TOGAF, architectural patterns from IBM and Microsoft


Day 2 afternoon:

  • Getting Ready for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) - motivations, first principles, levels of integration
  • Cloud Computing for Large IT Organizations - strategy, trade-offs, best practices, economics, tools and skills needed.

Day 3 morning:

  • The Modernizaton of Applications: Merits and Demerits - extreme programming, agile development methods, scrum masters, best practices.

Day 3 afternoon:

  • IT Woes and Remedies - Why IT projects fail and how to fix them. Discussions on best practices, complexity, politics, and bureaucracy.
  • The Executive's Guide to ITIL V3 - An overview of ITIL, learning from ITIL successes and failures, the need for ITIL champions.


 

For the last 20 years we've helped our clients stay current with IT, avoid pitfalls and improve their chances for success. Attend TAS and learn about the greening of IT, cloud computing, ITIL, software-as-a service, IT security, total cost of ownership, virtualization, vendor strategies, SOA, the keys to making architecture-based design work, and how to modernize applications. Learn how to integrate, and invigorate business with IT. If you want to broaden your technical fluency, if you prefer straight answers, and if you don't mind having very frank discussions about vendors and technology, you'll like our seminars. Each day is a stand-alone seminar so you can attend all or part of the sessions as your needs dictate.

Mr. Bill Carico, ACTS Corp. President and Sr. Consultant

Bill presents topics throughout the seminar, bringing his unique insights to help explain and demystify the technical and business challenges facing IT professionals. In addition, the series is complemented by numerous guest speakers.

Bill has over 30 years of experience working in IT. He works as an IT consultant and is an author of numerous articles appearing in a number of publications, including The Mainframe Executive, zJournal and he has written a number of white papers. He is the founder of the Technical Awareness Series (TAS) which has been held over 50 times world-wide since 1987.  (Click here to see the full lineup of TAS seminars offered in this unique series) His specialty areas include security, business continuity, server consolidation, performance and tuning, virtualization, and open source software. Bill has also worked for both Intel and IBM, giving him a unique perspective from which to understand the technical and marketing dynamics of the computer industry.

Dr. Gururaj Rao's official title is IBM Fellow, Systems Chief Engineer, IBM Systems & Technology Group, where he has the responsibility for establishing the technical direction for IBM's Enterprise Systems. He leads an inter-divisional team of hardware, software and Research engineers. Working with enterprise customers and IBM's client facing units, he determines business and customer needs and drives the system design of IBM's enterprise systems to meet those needs. is a presenter on Day 1 morning session at the Hilton Head seminars, he'll provide insights into IBM's server strategy and look at their roadmap for the future. Dr. Rao is an energetic speaker and brings with him a wealth of knowledge about the IT industry.

Jim Porell is an IBM distinguished engineer and has served in a number of high-profile roles during his career. He has been chief architect for the IBM System z Software Brand and he is also a former chairperson of the zSeries Software Design council, a group which oversees all IBM mainframe operating systems and middleware. A common theme has been Jim's focus to ensure IBM deploys technology that works consistently across operating systems, and to enable application growth for IBM's customers, either by writing their own new applications or deploying new code from independent software vendors. For many years, Jim has also been working with customers to build secure solutions. He is co-author of Larstan's Black Book of Corporate Security and has been consulting with customers on security solutions for more than 12 years.

Monte Bauman, IBM Technical Specialist and member of ACTS Advisory Board, Columbus OH.  Monte is a certified System z IT Architect and America's group designated specialist for System z technical support.  His specialties include the new and emerging architecture and workloads arena. Monte has nearly 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in the Glendale Processor Development Lab in Endicott NY.  Amidst recent work efforts, Monte has helped his customers deploy Java/WAS workloads and zAAP technology, Linux workloads and IFL technology, and DB2 workloads and zIIP technology, and he has pioneered new techniques for analyzing and comparing alternatives in server virtualization. Monte's "model" provides a technical and cost (aka TCO) comparative analysis, helping customers understand the finer points of virtualization and the machines that support virtualization (i.e. System z and zVM, and x86 and VMWare).

Daniel Kaberon is a member of the Chief Technology Office within the U.S. Central Division of EMC Corporation. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the IT industry, having worked in many technical and senior management roles centered on large systems infrastructure and management. His expertise encompasses a range of information storage and management technologies, among them virtualization, storage tiering, data deduplication, energy efficient arrays, virtual provisioning, and more that can be used to reduce costs, reduce risk, and achieve faster ROIs. Before joining EMC, Dan was a principal at Hewitt Associates, where he worked for 23 years, overseeing mainframe, distributed systems, resource accounting, capacity management, systems management and storage. He has presented many well received papers at national and regional CMG's, SHARE, and various professional groups.



John Kirschner, VP of Special Projects and CTO for ABSi.  John is a technology specialist who has over 25 years experience in IT. He has worked for Lockheed Martin and IBM as a I/T architect, systems engineer, systems programmer, instructor, and as a consultant. He is a certified IT security specialist and helps establish US government security policies in regard to new technologies. John is a certified I/T architect, certified business manager and certified large systems specialist. John is the author of numerous white papers on systems architecture, availability, performance, and ADPE modernization.


Schedule for this unique series

 


Washington DC area TAS 2009 – call for dates

TAS Hilton Head – May 11-13, 2010
NY City TAS June 16-17, Oct 20-21
Ottawa TAS 2009 – Sept 15-17

  • Hilton Head Hotel info:
    Holiday Inn Oceanfront
    1 South Forest Beach Drive
    Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
    843-785-5126
    www.hihiltonhead.com

  • To enroll to attend TAS 2009 in Ottawa - click here
  • To enroll to attend TAS 2010 in Hilton Head, SC - click here
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