Date: Aug 25th, 2009
Meeting time: 9:00am - 12:30pm
Meeting location: IBM 4700 South Syracuse St. Denver, Colorado 80237 3rd floor, Room 311
Meeting topic: Our Summer 2009 TUG meeting
Agenda:
9:00am – 9:15
Welcome and Social (Light breakfast provided)

9:15 – 9:30
Tivoli Update (Smarter Planet)
Speaker – Steve Lee, IBM Asset & Service Management Evangelist
Abstract – A quick presentation to update everyone on what’s new with Tivoli and how the use of the software directly impacts IBM’s efforts for a Smarter Planet.

9:30 – 10:30
Storage Virtualization
Speaker – Scott Drummond, IBM Storage Technical Specialist
Abstract - This session will cover an overview of IBM's Storage Virtualization solution, SAN Volume Controller. We'll cover the architecture, functionality and benefits. We'll then take a look at the latest version - SVC 5.1 which introduces Solid State Drives for greatly improved performance!

10:30 – 10:45
Break

10:45 – 11:30
Reporting with OPAL and Tivoli Common Reporting
Speaker- Jeff Bendorf, IBM Tivoli Systems Engineer
Abstract – To provide a review of Tivoli Common Reporting which is the Tivoli standard infrastructure for creating, viewing, and managing Tivoli product reports. Tivoli Common Reporting can be used to mine the data collected by Tivoli products, and produce reports such as device availability, resource utilization, and outage history. Jeff will also review the enhancements in the newest release of TCR v1.2 available now, as well as the extensive report catalog.

11:30 – 12:15pm
Who made the @%&!% Change?
Speaker – Tina Cottier, IBM Product Manager for TADDM
Abstract - Bugs, unauthorized changes, undocumented implementation tasks, lack of visibility into related CI's can all lead to service disruptions and outages which always prompts the question,“Who made the @%&!#)$ Change?” Without a controlled change management process to answer the what, why, who, when, where, and how questions of a proposed change it’s no wonder that up to 85% of problems are caused by IT changing something.

12:15 – 1:00
Lunch (hosted by Tivoli Software), wrap up & discussion for future TUG topics
Summary:
Based on member input, we've put together three very informative presentations for this TUG meeting. Come enjoy breakfast, network with other area professionals, and of course, engage in technical discussions around Tivoli products. Hope to see you all there!

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