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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
2008 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 the two remaining TAS 2008 dates, September in WDC area Sept 30 - Oct 2 (Tues-Thurs), and November 4-6 in Ottawa, 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:
Day 1 morning:
- IT Trends - Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Unified Communication, Green Computing, SOA, Open Source update; 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 new z10, Specialty Engines Overview, J2EE Strategies, 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 Architecture - foundations, linking business strategy, governance, roles, portfolio management
Day 2 afternoon:
- Optimizing IM and IT - Master Data Management
- Getting Ready for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) - motivations, first principles, levels of integration
- Enterprise Architecture - Divining truth out of chaos, Zachmann, Federal Enterprise Arch, DOD, architectural patterns from and IBM and Microsoft
Day 3 morning:
- Innovating with Shared Services - people/processes/measurements/technology; managing/accelerating growth; case studies; avoiding pitfalls
Day 3 afternoon:
Federal IT Woes and Remedies - Why federal IT projects fail and how to fix them. Discussions on best practices, complexity, politics, and bureaucracy.
For the last 20 years we've helped our clients stay current with IT, avoid pitfalls and improve their chances for success.
Attend TAS 2008 and learn about asset management, total cost of ownership, virtualization, vendor strategies, security, SOA, the
keys to making architecture-based design work, and how to innovate with Shared Services. 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.
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Mr. Bill Carico,
Director of Education, ABSi
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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 including John Kirschner, ABSi; Bob Johnson, independent consultant;
Monte Bauman from IBM, and Rudy DeSa, Executive Director of Network and Systems Services for Health Canada.
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.
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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.
 Bob
Johnson, BJ Associates. Bob has developed large and small systems: from
co-author of the original Lexis-Nexis Information Retrieval system, to IRS
master file processing, to recently as the Chief, Retirement Financial Systems
Branch at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. At OPM he used agile
development techniques to upgrade and modernize retirement systems, financial
systems, health benefits, insurance, and annuity payment systems from all
government employees. These systems process up to $80 Billion dollars per year
and pay approximately 1.4 million annuitants monthly. As member of the OPM
Office of the Chief Information Officer and technical advisor to the Chief
Architect, he prepared for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).
The basic development architecture: Information Technology Systems
Management (a formalized Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC) was tailored to
maintain control, meet deadlines, and come in under budget while maintaining
control the development processes.
 Montgomery 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).
Schedule for this
unique series
WDC TAS 2008 - Tues-Thurs, September 30 - Oct 2, Washington, DC area (Potomac, MD)
Ottawa TAS 2008 - Tues-Thurs, Nov 4, 5, & 6, Ottawa, Canada (Agenda TBD)
- To
enroll to attend TAS 2008 in Hilton Head - click
here
- To
enroll to attend TAS 2008 in WDC area - click
here
- To
enroll to attend TAS 2008 in Ottawa - click
here
- To pay for your registration using your credit card -Click Here
- WDC Area Location: TPC Avenel Country Club, Potomac, MD
- Ottawa Location: Crowne Plaza Ottawa, 101 Lyon Street North, (613) 237-3600
- Start Time each day: 8:30am Dress Code: Business Casual
- Please call for
Additional Information 434-385-1397
- Bring a TAS seminar in-house. Click here to see the
full lineup of TAS seminars.
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