COMMON Belgium

Jos is Senior Server Solutions Architect and iSeries Specialist 27 years of IBM, spent mostly as Systems Engineer, later as IT Specialist in the mid-range systems environment (S/3x, AS/400, iSeries). Joined the ITSO in 1987 until 1991; strong link with ITSO remained up to today; authored and co-authored several ITSO deliverables (Redbooks, workshops, presentations, etc.). Several presentations for the COMMON organization. Currently role as Systems Architects in the Server and Technology Group.

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome coffee

9:30 – 10:40 Dynamic Infrastructure Part I – Jos Vermaere

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee

11:10 – 12:20 Dynamic Infrastructure Part II – Jos Vermaere

12:20 – 12:30 COMMON Belgium Annual meeting and Elections – Gustaaf Legroux

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:40 SAP on Power System Part I – Bart De Sitter

14:40 – 15:10 Coffee 15:10 – 16:20 SAP on Power Systems Part II – Bart De Sitter

16:20 – 16:30 Tombola for CEC participation 6-9 June Krakow, Poland.

He started his career with IBM when he graduated as Industrial Engineer in 1997. The first years he worked as hardware field engineer repairing AS400s and tape subsystems. After this period, he moved on as hardware technical support member, doing remote problem analysis - still on AS400 and System i servers. The next step was performing remote software support on System i servers. This was a real challenging job; because i5/OS embeds so many components (e.g. database, networking, mail and application servers) that in-depth knowledge on all these components is almost impossible. In 2004, Bart moved from the support organization to the systems sales department, where he focused on System i servers with all its integration aspects (e.g. Domino and Websphere Portal). In 2007, Bart became a SAP IT architect, doing SAP projects in a pre-sales mode from the infrastructure and software point of view. The main task in this job is listening to the customer needs and translating this into hardware requirements, sometimes in combination with SAP consultants.

This presentation provides an overview of IBM Power Systems with AIX and i in the SAP market and the excellent partnership between SAP and IBM. This presentation introduces also the technical principles of PowerVM virtualization combined with the AIX V6.1 operating system and the resulting advantages for our joint customers, such as availability, IT optimization, performance. Besides that it contains also information about into the market and how the Dynamic Infrastructure concept can help SAP customers.

Dynamic Infrastructure & SAP on Power System

IBM Forum Evere May, 05 2009 Agenda