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Originally posted September 28, 2010 on AIXchange
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but that isn’t always the case. For instance, the IBM Power Systems Technical University 2010 is set for Oct. 18-22 in Las Vegas. And if you attend this conference, odds are you’ll bring back a wealth of new knowledge about AIX, Linux and IBM i systems.
As I’ve noted numerous times (here, here and here), the information available at Technical University conferences is invaluable. I consider this the IBM technical training highlight of the year. These events are well worth planning and budgeting for.
Here’s an overview from IBM:
“This university is an intense, consolidated way for attendees to learn how to reduce operating costs, simplify the IT environment, access current and upcoming solution providers and leverage the newest technology innovation — virtualization with the IBM POWER7 technology.
“IBM Power Systems Technical University will offer hundreds of sessions on extensive topics, multiple training levels (beginner to advanced), best practices, solution center/expo and certification testing. Attendees will hear details behind the latest POWER7 announcements offering improved capabilities: New workload optimizing technologies like IBM TurboCore, IBM Active Memory Expansion and Active Memory Sharing to reduce memory costs, IBM PowerVM and VMControl virtualization software to support up to 1,000 virtual machines, Intelligent energy optimization features, such as IBM POWER7 EnergyScale.
“The more than 300 sessions will feature such topics as:
• What’s new in AIX 7.1 and IBM i7.1.
• Deepdive sessions covering all 2010 POWER7 announcement.
• NDA future Trends and Directions sessions for Power, AIX and IBM i.
• Active Memory Sharing (AMS) and Active Memory Expansion (AME). Taking virtualization to the next level.
• Best practices for POWER Systems including VIOS, I/O and firmware/microcode currency.
• Turning SAP and Oracle in AIX Environments.
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged network adapters (CNAs) for Power Systems servers.
• Understanding the Processor Virtualization for POWER6 and POWER7.
• Migrating from IBM i V5R4 to i6.1/7.1.
• VIO Server Best Practices and Enhancements.
• Leveraging Live Partition Mobility to move to POWER7.
• Technical details of the new high-end POWER7 Systems.
• How to migrate to POWER7 Hardware.
• Designing your NIM Environments with Reliability.
• What’s new in PowerHA SystemMirror.
• Performance, Capacity Planning Enhancements.”
If you can make it happen, I encourage you to attend next month’s Technical University conference. And, for those readers outside the United States, here’s a worldwide events calendar that includes an IBM Technical University conference in France.