COMMON LIVETRACK is a brand new product to deliver even greater value to the Power Systems community.  It takes COMMON's Annual Meeting and brings it to the entire community virtually, allowing those that cannot attend the conference to still be a part of the largest gathering of the Power Systems user community.  

Sit in the Opening Session on Sunday, May 2nd for FREE and learn about what's new and exciting in the Power Systems world from COMMON and IBM - streamed LIVE.  Also available for FREE is a live session on real life Disaster Recovery scenarions presented by Maxava. Take advantage of the leading education offered at the conference from some of the most recognized Power System experts in the world by participating in sessions streamed live from the conference at a great value.

FREE STREAMING SESSIONS

OPENING SESSION

Sunday, May 1, 2011 - 3:00PM - 5:00PM Central - FREE to Everyone

The 2011 Annual Meeting and Exposition officially kicks off with the Opening Session hosted by COMMON and IBM starting at 3:00 pm on Sunday. COMMON President, Pete Massiello, will be joined by Tom Rosamilia, General Manager of IBM Power Systems and System z, to welcome attendees to the conference. Pete will cover important highlights for the conference week ahead and brief members on the successes and initiatives that COMMON has undertaken over the past year, and Tom will provide some very interesting IBM highlights, and will also be joined by Eric Brown, key member of the IBM Watson team, to provide a fascinating technical overview of Watson and DeepQA. During this session, Pete and Colin Parris, VP and Business Line Executive for Power Systems, will reveal the winner of the 2011 COMMON/IBM Power Systems Innovation Award, presenting the company with the crystal statue and certificate of achievement.

Click here for the Archived Opening Session Stream

Don't Become a Business Refugee - Maxava Discusses Real Life Disaster Recovery Scenarios

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 11:00AM - 12:15PM Central - FREE to Everyone

Session Abstract:
The recent earthquake in New Zealand occurred in our backyard by world standards but was actually over 600 miles from the Maxava headquarters.  We have six Maxava customers in the general area – although only one was in the actual central business district which was one of the hardest hit areas.

Imagine for a moment it’s your office crumbled and in pieces.  Your equipment has been crushed by heavy debris, possibly burned in a fire, water-logged by fire department hoses and then exposed to the elements for days on end.  Without an effective disaster recovery plan and the technology enabled to execute on the plan, businesses affected by the earthquake, or any other natural disaster, are crippled until they can get to their data. Because we are a disaster recovery company, Maxava gets to work with many companies facing disasters of various magnitudes – in the past year we have helped our customers through serious machine failures, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards and now earthquakes.  The only thing similar in all these cases is that despite being prepared each company never really thought it would happen to them.

Presentedy by Simon O'Sullivan.  Sponsored by Maxava.

Click here for the Archived Maxava Session Stream

LIVETRACK EDUCATION

Monday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Cost: $299 for members / $399 for non-members

Includes 9 educational sessions over 3 days.  The hours for the sessions will be 2:00pm - 3:15pm, 3:30pm - 4:45pm, and 5:00pm - 6:15pm each day respectively - all times are Central. Click here to read the complete abstracts of all nine educational sessions offered as part of LIVETRACK. 

Monday, May 2nd:

• IBM i 7.1 Overview (2:00pm - 3:15pm)
  Speaker: Steve Will
• Cloud Computing on Power Systems 101 (3:30pm - 4:45pm)
  Speakers: Vess Natchev, Kyle Wurgler, Mike Gordon
• What is an IBM i Technology Refresh -- and Why Do I Care? (5:00pm - 6:15pm)
  Speakers: Dennis R. Martin, Ellie B. Streifel

• From STRSDA and STRRLU to RDP (2:00pm - 3:15pm)
  Speaker: Charles Guarino 
  
  
• IBM Systems Director for the IBM i Environment (3:30pm - 4:45pm)
  Speaker: Dawn May
  
  
• Stolen - An *ALLUSR Experience (5:00pm - 6:15pm)
  Speaker: Richard Dolewski

Wednesday, May 4th:

• db2 and PHP: best practices (2:00pm - 3:15pm)
  Speaker: Alan Seiden
  
  
• Configuring IBM i Password Elimination (SSO) (3:30pm - 4:45pm)
  Speaker: Patrick S. Botz
  
  
• What's New with DB2 Web Query? (5:00pm - 6:15pm)
  Speaker: Gene Cobb 

Click here for the Archived Educational Session Stream

Don't miss out on this new and exciting opportunity to gain leading education from recognized experts, while minimizing your travel costs.

Click here to register for LIVETrack.