Unlock Workload Automation: Hybrid IT scheduling and Intelligent Job Prediction at your hands. [Webinar]

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 11:00 AM EST

What if you had the possibility to run any type of workload, On Premises or Cloud, from a single point of control?  What if you could predict with confidence your job's duration and the impact of changes in your workloads?

We are in an era of accelerated industry innovation and transformation. Forces such as data, social media and cloud services are enabling this change. Transformation drives the need for cutting-edge automation to control and maintain business processes, and magnify operational efficiency. Cutting-edge automation must serve IT and Business users, with flexible and consumable services approaches, and with intelligent capabilities to support decision making at every level.

IBM Workload Automation evolved dramatically in the past year. It enables new models of automation for hybrid IT and continuously delivers scheduling flexibility, to empower IT to drive business transformation for the organization. Automation is consumable as a service, both for a greater range of users and applications, and for rapid delivery of business services, while maintaining autonomy for business users.

And the journey continues with predictive intelligence to anticipate problems and make informed, intelligent decisions. Embedded analytics use historical plan information to predict job durations, with no manual work or switching context. Analytics exploit historical workload trends to help organizations understand the impact of changes to business-critical services.

It’s time to seize the opportunity to disrupt the traditional scheduling business-as-usual for better agility with modern automation. IBM Workload Automation Version 9 can be the backbone technology for you to work in more impactful ways.

Join us!  Register here.

The Speaker

Alexandra Thurel
IBM Workload Automation Product Manager

Join this session presented by Alexandra Thurel, IBM Workload Automation Product Manager, to get the insights on the latest innovation in Workload Automation domain, and learn how to drive more business value from IBM Workload Automation.

Join us for Pizza and Patch Management on June 4th!

Yes... The pizza is on us! Register for the live BigFix demo and enjoy a pizza while you watch!          

Champion Solutions Group has added BigFix Systems Management / IBM Endpoint Manager to its portfolio and wants to introduce you to what Gartner called, "the leader in System Management for Desktops, Laptops, Physical & Virtual Servers for automation & control with One Management Console.”

Learn and see how the “intelligent” BigFix agent can throttle, report & remediate in minutes.  The endpoint can discover a deviation from a policy and execute remediation, rather than waiting for an inventory scan and subsequent reports to tell administrators to take an action.

Highlights...

• Understand the difference of patching with BigFix/IBM Endpoint Manager
• See real-time patching scenarios for Unix, Linux, AIX, Suse, Microsoft, etc.
• See how BigFix can automate your patching processes
• Wow! Visibility into your entire network assets & security reporting

To register for this special event, please contact me and I will provide you with registration instructions. Registration closes 48 hours in advance (June 2).  Pizza Delivery Time on the day of the Webinar is 11:30 am. (Delivery contact and direct phone numbers will be mandatory - no corporate phone numbers.)

   

Register for these upcoming webcasts focused around SmartCloud Orchestrator, DCIM, and Tivoli Storage Manager

In These Webcasts: Learn How Cloud Marketplace Extends IBM SCO Functionality; Learn the Definition of Real-Time DCIM; Recover or Migrate Machines Directly from Tivoli Storage Manager Backups

SmartCloud Orchestrator Webcast Extending IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator with Cloud Marketplace Content Packs

May 21st, 11:00 AM ET, US Learn how to use components from Cloud Marketplace content packs to extend IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator functionality, how to install Business Process Manager tool kits and SmartCloud Orchestrator script packages, and how to configure SmartCloud Orchestrator to make use of these components. Presented by Johnny Meidlinger, Technical Enablement Specialist (IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure).

DCIM Webcast Data Center Infrastructure Management with IBM and Emerson Network Power Solution

June 10th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ET, US Join this live webcast to learn the definition of real-time DCIM, the state of the data center today, the primary challenges facing the data center, benefits of DCIM and how DCIM is being adopted, and how the combination of IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure and Emerson Trellis delivers visibility, control, and automation to all of the components of the data center. The Speakers Vikul Banta, Strategy and Product Management (IBM C&SI) Sean Nicholson, VP and General Manager (Worldwide IBM C&SI Business, Emerson)

Storage Webcast Leverage the Power of TSM to Provide Additional Recovery Functionality with TBMR and Recovery Simulator

June 17th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ET, US TBMR (Tivoli Bare Machine Recovery) and Recovery Simulator leverage the power of Tivoli Storage Manager to provide additional recovery functionality. Cristie Software's software will not only recover or migrate machines directly from Tivoli Storage Manager backups but will also seamlessly re-deploy machines. Machine recovery can be to and from physical data centers, Virtual Machines and cloud environments – both public and private. This provides organizations with tremendous flexibility for automated recovery simulation and in the event of a disaster. The Speaker Toby Bishop, Pre-Sales Manager (Cristie Software)

Streamline Processes, Reduce Costs and Ensure Continuous Compliance with IBM Endpoint Manager

IBM can help your organization deliver greater value back to your business.  We do this by compressing processes from months to minutes, by reducing infrastructure costs by the millions, and by insuring continuous compliance of operational, security, and regulatory mandates.

To accomplish this, we provide for a unified management platform comprised of a single resource-efficient agent and a single unified management console that provides operators the ability to have real-time visibility and control over any endpoint - servers, laptops, PCs, Macs, ATMs, Kiosks, you name it.  To do all this, we need a single management server to support over 250,000 endpoints.

Using this unique solution, our clients are quickly and cost-effectively finding and fixing problems in minutes across any endpoint - whether it's on their corporate network or off, whether it's virtual or it's physical.

We call this solution IBM Enpoint Manager and, simply, it just works.

Contact me today to learn more and to set up an online presentation and demonstration.

IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure Software Demos

Select from this list of solution areas:

Cloud & Service Management

Network and Service Assurance

Endpoint Management

Smarter Physical Infrastructure

Storage Management

Top Ten Reasons to Attend IBM Pulse 2014 - The Premier Cloud Conference (Feb 23-26. MGM Grand. Las Vegas.)

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Contact me to learn more - including the possibility of obtaining free passes to IBM Pulse 2014.

Live! Free! IBM Endpoint Manager Monday Morning Demos

TUNE IN..... Monday's at 10:00am ET to see how IBM Endpoint Manager clients deliver greater value back to the business at a lower run rate.  IBM helps manage ALL of a mobile workers' devices -- including laptops, smart phones and tablets -- plus all of an organization's PCs, Macs, Servers, ATMs, Kiosks, POS devices and more; all from a single console and server.

Join live demonstrations each Monday @ 10:00am – 11:00am ET. to see IBM Endpoint Manager in action and have your endpoint & mobility management questions answered by a technical expert.

Want to learn more about IBM Endpoint Manager right now? Watch this three-minute video.

To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) 

1. CLICK HERE 
2. Please enter Meeting Number 199341009, your full name and email address.
• If a password is required, Please enter: Bigfix
3. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen. 

To join the audio conference only

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To check out other events and software offerings please visit my ibm.com page at ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.

IBM Endpoint Manager Delivers Immediate and Sustainable Value to our Healthcare Partners

Build sustainable healthcare systems with IBM Endpoint Manager Build an efficient, flexible organization that proactively manages cost and regulatory requirements and enables greater transparency and accountability Contain costs, meet regulatory demands and gain transparency into operations, while maintaining financial viability Modernize processes, workflows and technology infrastructures Build efficient administrative and medical management processes Improve the quality and efficiency of care while cultivating patient centricity through engagement and health and care personalization Create clinical and business value from fragmented enterprise information Enhance the clinical culture using decision support tools Align incentives for service quality and outcomes Reduce disparities in access and compel individuals to become advocates for their own health Improve patient and consumer access Inform community services to support health and wellness Use IT to add business value and support collaboration The opportunity for a better way is clear with Smarter Endpoint Management St Vincent's & Mater Health achieved visibility and control over 100% of 2700 endpoints and 6500 end-users Christian Hospital Centre freed up the equivalent of a full-time IT person, due to 50% reduction in helpdesk calls Concord Hospital saw a 25 percent savings in software licensing cost Click here to read more about these customer successes.  Click here for the white paper Ensure the health of endpoints in healthcare IT To check out more of IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure Software offerings, articles, and events please visit http://www.ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.

iMAP – Implementation Made Affordable Plan

Affordable and flexible assistance from IBM to help you plan and deploy IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure software efficiently and effectively.

What is iMAP?

iMAP or Implementation Made Affordable Plan is designed to bring the breadth and depth of the entire IBM Software Group’s most talented and skilled resources to help you deploy the Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure software you have purchased from IBM.  If you are a customer that wants to perform your own deployment but feel as though  you need some assistance from experts who have the experience of thousands of deployments, then this offering is just right for you.  With this service we recommend that we assist you in the crucial early stages of your project by laying out the implementation road map and strategy which will help avoid those start-up hurdles we have seen many times.

During our partnership, you will most likely have many “How To” type questions that we can address from years of developing “Best Practices” and, better still, we have a full library of expertly developed code, scripts, and techniques which is guaranteed to save you hundreds of hours of work.  All this help, and much more, is included in this offering!

Don’t do it alone – we can make a world of difference to the success of your project.

Choose a service that’s right for you.

This program is offered as a subscription service that can be customized depending on your particular needs.  All contracts are fixed price, billed monthly on equal payments, and are inclusive of travel.  No additional charges.

So take a great leap in insuring your deployment of IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure software is a success by choosing the level of support you need.  Once you have signed a contract with us, we eill assign your point of contact coach who will be with you for the duration of the contract.

For more information regarding this or any IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure Service, please visit our web site:  ibm.com/software/tivoli/services/consulting.

Highlights

• Experienced IBM technicians
• Delivers knowledge transfer
• Lowers risk for key projects
• Leverage IBM library of code and script
• Offers add-ons to suit requirements
• Provides IBM point of contact coach

Offering Options

Basic Package:  A dedicated IBM Software Group coach to support one IBM Cloud and Smarter  Infrastructure product, and one customer contact for six months at a cost of $50,000, with unlimited access to the services below which will be delivered remotely:

1. Assistance with project planning and strategy development
2. Assistance with solution design
3. Advice on best practices
4. Access to IBM's library of artifacts
5. Assistance with product installation and configurations
6. Assistance with product upgrades/fixes
7. Assistance with problem management, regardless of origin (troubleshooting)
8. Informal mentoring and knowledge transfer

Add-Ons

1. Add an additional product for $40,000
2. Add 10 days on-site for $25,000
3.  Add a customer contact for $5,000
4.  Add five-day on-site class (up to 12 students) for $20,000

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Upcoming #Tivoli User Community Webcasts

HAPPENING IN THE TUC: NOVEMBER 11, 2013 TUC Application Performance Management Webcast The 201% ROI Story: Optimizing Performance in a New Age of Application Landscapes November 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM, ET US Tune in this Wednesday to hear how IBM is evolving to meet the ever changing needs of today's application stakeholders and how IBM is helping one company save millions of dollars. Presented by Marvin Goodman, IBM Application Performance Manager Market Manager.  TUC Maximo Webcast 7 Secrets to Successful Maximo Mobility November 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM, ET US With more than 2.5 billion smart devices expected to be sold in 2014, there is no doubt that taking Maximo Mobile is smart, not only for your bottom line business benefits, but also to increase efficiency among your workforce. So how do you make sure that your Maximo Mobile project is successful? Join Catherine Lai, Business Application Consultant at Georgia System Operations Corporation and Dale Mann, Substation Maintenance Group Lead at Georgia Transmission Corporation as they share GTC’s 7 secrets to Maximo Mobility success. Catherine and Dale will be joined by Jason VenHuizen, VP of Products and Technology at Interloc Solutions. TUC SmartCloud Orchestrator Webcast IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator Interoperability with Software Defined Networks December 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM, ET US Join speakers Dilip Kandlur, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect of Network Management (IBM), and Chris Rogers, Director, IBM Alliance (Juniper Networks) in this IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator webcast. Learn about the challenges of a Data Center Network, the functionality of IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator, solutions to make your networks more capable, and much more.

Did you know?

Between 2012 and 2016, 33% of organizations will change backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity and/or capability.* 

As a Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure representative, I'd love the opportunity to discuss how the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) suite is helping organizations deliver comprehensive data protection with less complexity - all while lowering costs by an average of 38%. **

IBM's Smarter Approach to Back-up and Recovery is a data protection platform based on Simplicity, Scalability and Efficiency that delivers the ability to:

• Reduce backup storage space up to 95%
• Perform advanced backups across virtual environments, core applications, and remote sites
• Simplify administration with the new Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center

If you haven't looked at Tivoli Storage Manager lately, I'd welcome the chance to outline how recent enhancements can help you improve data protection while freeing up valuable IT budget.

Contact me today at http://www.ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta to learn more!

* Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software by Dave Russell et al., June 5, 2013  
** Savings are the average of individual customer Analysis Engine Reports form Butterfly Software, May 2013, n+450. The savings include cumulative 36-month hardware, hardware maintenance and electrical power savings.  Excludes one-time TSM migration cost. All client examples cited or described are presented as illustrations of the manner in which some clients have used IBM products and the results they may have achieved. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions. 

What is IBM Endpoint Manager?

In less than 3 minutes, this short video summarizes the unique capabilities of IBM Endpoint Manager to provide complete IT operations management and security automation across mobile devices, desktops, and servers -- physical or virtual, on or off the organization's network -- with minimal infrastructure and administrative requirements.

Tivoli Storage Manager Webcast on October 15th

When:  October 15, 2013, 11:00 AM to 12:40 PM (Eastern Time)

Overview:  The presentation provides insight into simplifying the procedures that enable Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) administrators to successfully implement TSM TDP for VMware 6.4. The presentation includes an overview of TSM and walks over Piedmont Healthcare’s Backup Environment and how Piedmont uses TDP VMware for VM backups.

The Speaker:  Kumar C Kancharana, IBM TSM Architect/Sr. Systems Analyst

Kumar is an IBM Certified TSM Administrator with Piedmont Healthcare since 2009, he has several years of TSM Administrator/Architect experience, before joining Piedmont Kumar has worked with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Assurant Solutions and also with Bank of America. He has worked with a wide variety of clients and has accumulated extensive experience in installing, configuring and deployment of TSM 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 & 6.2 & 6.3 Servers. He has experience in configuration and support of NAS, SAN and Backup Recovery / Restore.

He has configured TDP for Oracle, TDP for IBM DB2, TDP SQL, TDP Exchange, TDP for Lotus Domino and TDP for VMware, in addition to working on configuring TSM for HSM clients. Kumar has installed and configured TSM NDMP backups for NAS storage on VTL and Physical tape Libraries. He has excellent experience in configuring TSM LAN Free backups. Moreover, he is an expert in building TSM servers from scratch on AIX, Windows, and Z/Os & Linux platforms from scratch.

Furthermore, he has been actively involved in designing, planning, implementing and maintaining an Enterprise Backup and Recovery environment for customers within the user community of 10000+ clients.

Oct. 10th Tivoli User Group Webcast: Easily Integrate IBM Endpoint Manager’s Patch Status Information Using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC).

This webcast will be held on October 10th, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET

OVERVIEW

• This technical preview, demonstration, and strategy overview will explore a path for easily integrating IBM Endpoint Manager's patch status information for your computers into your management tools using Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC). 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

• Christopher Lazzaro - Christopher is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect of Jazz for Service Management.  He helps to establish IBM’s open strategy for integration using open standards such as Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC).  You can learn more about JazzSM at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/servicemanagement//jazzsm/

• Aaron Bauer - Aaron is an Architect on the IBM Endpoint Manager team. Brought in as part of the BigFix acquisition, he has been a focal point for integrations between Endpoint Manager and IBM solutions. He is also responsible for User Experience across the Endpoint Manager portfolio.

ATTN: Florida TSM Users! Join us for a Hands-On Workshop "Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center"

An IBM Proof of Technology

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center is a new web-based graphical user interface for managing your TSM environment.

• The TSM Operations Center provides a simple to use and easily navigated view of your TSM environment
• A new customizable alerting capability has been added
• Problems can be easily assigned and routed between administrators, operators and help-desks potentially reducing errors and costs

This workshop is designed to demonstrate the capabilities of TSM Operations Center. Attendees will receive hands-on experience with the Operations Center. The workshop shows how to navigate through the Operations Center, how to add a spoke server, how to utilize the command builder, and how to assign alerts to specific administrators.

This one-day workshop consists of:

• Presentation: Features and Benefits of TSM Operations Center
• Hands-On Lab: TSM Operations Center
• Presentation: Features and Benefits of TSM Reporting
• Hands-On Lab / Demonstration: TSM Reporting
• TSM Q & A Session
• Continental Breakfast & Lunch are provided*

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this session is to demonstrate the usability of TSM Operations Center. This Proof of Technology (PoT) will help attendees to evaluate the new TSM Operations Center capabilities while demonstrating its features through a hands-on lab.

AUDIENCE

This workshop is appropriate for TSM Administrators who would like an introduction to TSM Operations Center.

COST

This session is offered free of charge. Participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

(* Meals are being provided for attendees who are permitted to accept vendor meals, for example, non-government employees and contractors )

SCHEDULE

This 1-day workshop will start at 9:00 AM and end at approximately 4:00 PM. The following dates & IBM Classroom locations are scheduled:

• September 24, 2013 - Boca Raton, FL 
• 8051 Congress Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33487:  1st Floor, Room 115
• September 26, 2013 - Tampa, FL  
• 3031 North Rocky Pt Dr. West, Tampa, FL  33607:  5th Floor, Rooms 595-597
• September 27, 2013 - Orlando, FL  
• 800 N Magnolia AVe, One Orlando Center, Orlando, FL  32803:  16th Floor, Room 1604

ENROLLMENT
To request enrollment in a TSM Operations Center Workshop listed above, please contact me via my rep page at ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.

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FREE WEBCAST: New Mainframe Monitoring Capability with the OMEGAMON V5.1 Family

• Date and Time: Thursday, August 29, 11:00 a.m. ET 
• Speaker: Rich Edwards, Program Director, Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure Product Management, IBM Software Group
• Description: As new workloads move onto System z, is productivity keeping up? Can you monitor and manage the mainframe supporting mobile, cloud and big data environments?

Join us for a complimentary webcast as we look at new features and functionality in the Tivoli OMEGAMON family to support increased demands around mobile, cloud and big data. In addition, we will discuss IBM’s continued focus on integrating Service Management capabilities for improved productivity and availability across the enterprise. This webcast will cover recently announced OMEGAMON capabilities across z/OS, Mainframe Networks, storage and z/VM.

You will learn how OMEGAMON can exploit new IBM zEnterprise capabilities to proactively resolve problems before they become outages, and how IBM is enhancing the System z Service Management portfolio to support new business and IT visibility requirements for mobile, cloud and big data.

Join us after the webcast for a live question-and-answer session. This webcast will also be available for replay after the event.

Register today.

Hands-On Workshop: Tivoli Storage Manager Ops Center

An IBM Proof of Technology

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center is a new web-based graphical user interface for managing your TSM environment.

• The TSM Operations Center provides a simple to use and easily navigated view of your TSM environment
• A new customizable alerting capability has been added
• Problems can be easily assigned and routed between administrators, operators and help-desks potentially reducing errors and costs

This workshop is designed to demonstrate the capabilities of TSM Operations Center. Attendees will receive hands-on experience with the Operations Center. The workshop shows how to navigate through the Operations Center, how to add a spoke server, how to utilize the command builder, and how to assign alerts to specific administrators.

This one-day workshop consists of:

• Presentation: Features and Benefits of TSM Operations Center
• Hands-On Lab: TSM Operations Center
• Presentation: Features and Benefits of TSM Reporting
• Hands-On Lab / Demonstration: TSM Reporting
• TSM Q & A Session
• Continental Breakfast & Lunch are provided*

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this session is to demonstrate the usability of TSM Operations Center. This Proof of Technology (PoT) will help attendees to evaluate the new TSM Operations Center capabilities while demonstrating its features through a hands-on lab.

AUDIENCE

This workshop is appropriate for TSM Administrators who would like an introduction to TSM Operations Center.

COST

This session is offered free of charge. Participants are responsible for their own business travel expenses.

(* Meals are being provided for attendees who are permitted to accept vendor meals, for example, non-government employees and contractors )

SCHEDULE

This 1-day workshop will start at 9:00 AM and end at approximately 4:00 PM. The following dates & IBM Classroom locations are scheduled:

• August 19, 2013 - Southfield, MI 
• 18000 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48086: 15th Floor, Room 1505
• August 21, 2013 - Cleveland, OH 
• 6100 Oak Tree Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44131: 4th Floor, Classroom 102
• August 23, 2013 - Pittsburgh, PA 
• 11 Stanwix Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222: 9th Floor, Room 910-A
• August 26, 2013 - Columbus, OH 
• 4600 Lakehurst Court, Dublin OH 43016: Building 1, Auditorium A
• August 28, 2013 - Louisville, KY 
• 9780 Ormsby Station Road, Louisville, KY 40223: Suite 1400, Room 105
• September 24, 2013 - Boca Raton, FL 
• 8051 Congress Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33487:  1st Floor, Room 115
• September 26, 2013 - Tampa, FL  
• 3031 North Rocky Pt Dr. West, Tampa, FL  33607:  5th Floor, Rooms 595-597
• September 27, 2013 - Orlando, FL  
• 800 N Magnolia AVe, One Orlando Center, Orlando, FL  32803:  16th Floor, Room 1604

ENROLLMENT
To request enrollment in a TSM Operations Center Workshop listed above, please contact me via my rep page at ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.