Asset Management, Server Security & Storage Power & x86

                         IBM Forum Evere December, 16 2009 Agenda

 9:00 to 9:30 Welcome Coffee

 9:30 to 10:45 – Effective Asset Management in an Uncertain Economy – Sandra Artoos

Today, organizations are feeling the economic pressure and task to do more with less. Reducing costs and risks, increasing revenue, and optimizing asset utilization are three key areas where IBM can help, especially with our asset management portfolio. Effective asset management in an uncertain economy can help companies improve return on asset (ROA) and drive down IT costs. By focusing on IT cost management, governance and visibility of your assets, our Asset Management solutions provide comprehensive asset lifecycle and maintenance management support for all asset types: production, facilities, transportation and IT, as well as asset-related services on a single unified platform.

This session will be held by Sandra Artoos who is a Tivoli sales consultant in IBM. Sandra has worked in IT for more than 10 years with a focus on systems and service management and she is ITIL certified. She joined IBM 3 years ago, convinced by the new vision and strategy of Tivoli Software and the broad range of solutions to meet every customers needs in the current market place.

10:45 to 11:15 Coffee

 11:15 to 12:30 – Server Security – Johan Celis

  This presentation will focus on server security using our multi-layered intrusion detection and prevention technology, both on physical systems and in a virtual environment. It will show how IPS technology can be used to protect servers from growing methods of attack, manage compliancy and how to avoid downtime for emergency patching the OS and applications.

Johan Celis has over 15 years of ICT experience of which over 8 years in security. He currently works for IBM as a Security Solutions Architect for the EMEA region. In this role he manages the EMEA lab environment and Security EBC briefings.

12:30 to 13:30 Lunch

13:30 to 14:45 – Storage for POWER & x86 -State of the Art – Ingo Hesemans

- SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
- DS disk storage
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC)
- Diligent

Ingo Hesemans is a Technical Sales Specialist from the IBM Systems & Technology Group and is working as a pre-sales storage consultant for IBM with customers in Belgium and Luxembourg. He is with IBM for 13 years and was active both in services and pre-sales roles.

14:45 to 15:15 Coffee

 15:15 to 16:30 – Storage for POWER & x86 - State of the Art – Freddy Jacobsen

 - XIV
- N Series
- FlashCopy Manager
- Information Archive
- Tape

Freddy Jacobsen is a Technical Sales Specialist from the IBM Systems & Technology Group and is working as a pre-sales storage consultant for IBM with customers in Belgium and Luxembourg. He is with IBM for 10 years and was active in services, support and pre-sales roles.