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Terry From: theresekrueger@hotmail.com To: azsagel@azsage.org Subject: [AZSage] AZSAGE ANNOUNCEMENT: This Thursday Evening Oct. 29th => Top Features of Your Favorite OS's as Presented by HP, IBM, Red Hat, and Sun @ University of Advancing Technology? Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:32:14 -0600 ================================================ Please email your RSVPs to steering@azsage.org RSVPs greatly help to ensure we have accommodating facilities and materials. University of Advancing Technology Students you are welcome to RSVP and join in this special event as well! ===================== AZSAGE'S October?s EVENT WHAT: &n! bsp; Top Features of Your Favorite OS's WHEN: Thursday, October 29 Doors open at 6:30 / Presentation starts at 7 PM WHERE: University of Advancing Technology (http://www.uat.edu/) Parking should not be a concern. UAT has plenty of parking around the campus and there is a retail mall close by that parking is also available during evening presentational time if required. 2625 W Baseline Rd Tempe, AZ 85283 (602) 383-8228 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS345&q=University+of+Advancing+Technology PRESENTATION SUMMARY Join us for an exciting evening of short presentations and a panel discussion by your favorite OS vendors: HP (HP-UX), IBM (AIX ), Red Hat (RHEL), and Sun (SOLARIS) ! Each OS speaker will present 20 minutes on the features, reasons, and capabilities that differentiate their respective OS which make it the most valuable OS platform for the industry. The content will be directed to an audience comprised of IT Professionals including Architects, Developers, Administrators, Managers, and Students. Following the presentation, there will be a 20 minute panel discussion where the presenters will respond to questions from the audience. The speakers and agenda content as follows: HP Presentation Discussion points: - Short look at the history of UNIX and at the history of HP-UX - HP-UX software roadmap - HP-UX virtualization - HP-UX 11iv3 new features - moving towards boot once and only once BIOs: Wayne West, Hewlett-Packard Wayne joined HP in the professional services organization 14 years ago. Most of that time was spent working on HP-UX systems with Department of Energy Labs. He later moved into the Pre-sales role as a Systems Engineer and focused on large, Federal customers. After moving to Phoenix 10 years ago, Wayne began working with HP?s Global 100 accounts focused on highly available systems built on HP-UX. Wayne is currently a Solutions Architect working with one of HP?s largest accounts in the areas of Manufacturing and high performance computing. Bob Yarwood, Hewlett-Packard Bob has 25 years of Enterprise experience selling large mission critical UNIX solutions. He is in his 4th year with HP as a Business Critical Server (BCS). As BCS Specialist, Bob has covered some of HP?s largest customers in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Bob also spent 7 years at Sun Microsystems in the Bay Area. Additionally, while in the Bay Area, Bob was the Director of OEM Sales at a Silicon Valley start-up. Bob also spent significant time at Dell and also Data General selling Enterprise solutions to commercial accounts. Bob and his family live in the Scottsdale area. IBM Presentation Discussion points: The presentation will cover an introduction to AIX with a focus on the new features found in AIX 6.1 in the areas of functionality, manageability, security and virtualization within the OS while also discussing virtualization in conjunction with the Power hardware. BIO: David Sinnott, IBM 26 years with IBM in the IT industry. Formerly a VM and SNA systems programmer before moving to Phoenix and taking a technical sales role supporting AIX and Linux on Power hardware 19 years ago. Red Hat Presentation Discussion points: * Who is Red Hat? * The power of Open Source and Red Hat's Development model * Red Hat's product line and how Red Hat is able to bring value to customers * RHEL 5.4 features, advancements, performance BIO: Akash Chandrashekar - Red Hat Is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Red Hat Linux. RHCE Thomas Cameron - Red Hat Is a seasoned Solutions Architect at Red Hat. RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT Sun Presentation Discussion points: Sun Microsystems, will describe in detail some of Solaris's notable features, including: - World-record performance on a wide range of application and platform combinations. - High-availability features for fault-tolerance. - Advanced resource management, diagnostic and observability features like DTrace. - Built-in virtualization at no extra cost, permitting large scale consolidation with native performance. - An advanced filesystem, ZFS, that eliminates the risk, complexity and limitations of competitive filesystems. - Broad hardware platform support, on SPARC, Intel, AMD. - DoD-level security. - Long-term enterprise support, product lifecycle, and guaranteed compatibility. - Broadest portfolio of applications for open systems OS. - OpenSolaris with a growing open source community. 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From: theresekrueger@hotmail.com
To: azsagel@azsage.org
Subject: [AZSage] AZSAGE ANNOUNCEMENT: This Thursday Evening Oct. 29th => Top Features of Your Favorite OS's as Presented by HP, IBM, Red Hat, and Sun @ University of Advancing Technology?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:32:14 -0600

 

================================================
Please email your RSVPs to steering@azsage.org
RSVPs greatly help to ensure we have accommodating facilities and materials.

University of Advancing Technology Students you are welcome to RSVP and join in this special event as well!

=====================

AZSAGE'S October?s EVENT

WHAT:    &n! bsp;              Top Features of Your Favorite OS's


WHEN:                   Thursday, October 29
                              Doors open at 6:30 / Presentation starts at 7 PM

WHERE:                 University of Advancing Technology (http://www.uat.edu/)

 

Parking should not be a concern. UAT has plenty of parking around the campus and there is a retail mall close by that parking is also available during evening presentational time if required.

 

2625 W Baseline Rd
Tempe, AZ 85283
(602) 383-8228 


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS345&q=University+of+Advancing+Technology

 
PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Join us for an exciting evening of short presentations and a panel discussion by your favorite OS vendors: HP (HP-UX), IBM (AIX ), Red Hat (RHEL), and Sun (SOLARIS) !

Each OS speaker will present 20 minutes on the features, reasons, and capabilities that differentiate their respective OS which make it the most valuable OS platform for the industry. The content will be directed to an audience comprised of IT Professionals including Architects, Developers, Administrators, Managers, and Students.

Following the presentation, there will be a 20 minute panel discussion where the presenters will respond to questions from the audience.


The speakers and agenda content as follows:

 

HP Presentation Discussion points:

         - Short look at the history of UNIX and at the history of HP-UX

         - HP-UX software roadmap

         - HP-UX virtualization

         - HP-UX 11iv3 new features - moving towards boot once and only once

 

BIOs:

Wayne West, Hewlett-Packard

 

Wayne joined HP in the professional services organization 14 years ago. Most of that time was spent working on HP-UX systems with Department of Energy Labs.  He later moved into the Pre-sales role as a Systems Engineer and focused on large, Federal customers. After moving to Phoenix 10 years ago, Wayne began working with HP?s Global 100 accounts focused on highly available systems built on HP-UX.  Wayne is currently a Solutions Architect working with one of HP?s largest accounts in the areas of Manufacturing and high performance computing.

 

 

Bob Yarwood, Hewlett-Packard

 

Bob has 25 years of Enterprise experience selling large mission critical UNIX solutions.  He is in his 4th year with HP as a Business Critical Server (BCS).  As BCS Specialist, Bob has covered some of HP?s largest customers in Arizona, Nevada and Utah.  Bob also spent 7 years at Sun Microsystems in the Bay Area.  Additionally, while in the Bay Area, Bob was the Director of OEM Sales at a Silicon Valley start-up.  Bob also spent significant time at Dell and also Data General selling Enterprise solutions to commercial accounts.  Bob and his family live in the Scottsdale area.  

 

IBM Presentation Discussion points:

The presentation will cover an introduction to AIX with a focus on the new features found in AIX 6.1 in the areas of functionality, manageability, security and virtualization within the OS while also discussing virtualization in conjunction with the Power hardware.

 

BIO:

David Sinnott, IBM

26 years with IBM in the IT industry. Formerly a VM and SNA systems programmer before moving to Phoenix and taking a technical sales role supporting AIX and Linux on Power hardware 19 years ago.

 


Red Hat Presentation Discussion points:

* Who is Red Hat?
* The power of Open Source and Red Hat's Development model
* Red Hat's product line and how Red Hat is able to bring value to customers
* RHEL 5.4 features, advancements, performance

BIO:

Akash Chandrashekar - Red Hat

 

Is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Red Hat Linux. RHCE

 

Thomas Cameron - Red Hat

 

 Is a seasoned Solutions Architect at Red Hat. RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT


Sun Presentation Discussion points:

Sun Microsystems, will describe in detail some of Solaris's notable features, including:


- World-record performance on a wide range of application and platform combinations.
- High-availability features for fault-tolerance.
- Advanced resource management, diagnostic and observability features like DTrace.
- Built-in virtualization at no extra cost, permitting large scale consolidation with native performance.
- An advanced filesystem, ZFS, that eliminates the risk, complexity and limitations of competitive filesystems.
- Broad hardware platform support, on SPARC, Intel, AMD.
- DoD-level security.
- Long-term enterprise support, product lifecycle, and guaranteed compatibility.
- Broadest portfolio of applications for open systems OS.
- OpenSolaris with a growing open source community.

 

BIO

Jeff Savit is a Sun Microsystems Principal Field Technologist working in areas including Solaris, Virtualization, performance, Java, migration, and application and system architecture. Jeff is expert in virtualization and systems performance on multiple platforms, and has internals-level experience ranging from mainframe OSes like MVS and VM, to Linux, and of course Solaris and other Unix variants. 

 


20 Minute Q&A Panel All

 

DRAWINGS:

O'Reilly Books for review and to be be given away at our October event!

X Power Tools
By Chris Tyler

Security Power Tools
By Bryan Burns, Jennifer Stisa Granick, Steve Manzuik, Paul Guersch,
Dave Killion, Nicolas Beauchesne, Eric Moret, Julien Sobrier,
Michael Lynn, Eric Markham, Chris Iezzoni, Philippe Biondi

Unix Power Tools, Third Edition
By Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides

Practical UNIX and Internet Security, Third Edition
By Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz
UNIX in a Nutshell
By Arnold Robbins
LINUX Kernel in a nutshell
By Greg Kroah-Hatman

For latest O'Reilly news; go to ?http://oreilly.com/? anytime?

Don't forget ? UAT and AZSAGE Members get 35% off O'Reilly's books and Free ground shipping on orders of $29.95 or more in the US

 

 

 

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