zEnterprise Customer Council – Cary, NC

 
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You are cordially invited to join us for our next zEnterprise Customer Council event on the campus of MetLife in Cary. The goal of the council is to provide our customers in management positions and their employees a forum to learn the latest System z technologies and directions. 

We’ll start off our day with a welcome from our site host, MetLife, followed by a customer presentation on how they use their System z from a business and technical perspective.

Our second presentation will be Db2 AI by Rakshith Prabhachand, Db2 Offering Manager from IBM.  There is no doubt that machine learning has become prevalent in our daily activities as it helps us make better data driven decisions.  It makes sense to extend this same technology to help tune performance for Db2 for z/OS.  By applying machine learning to distill insights from your workload characteristics, we empower the Db2 optimizer to find better paths for SQL queries.  This solution delivers out-of-the-box CPU and elapsed time savings for an overall performance boost.

After lunch we’ll hear about Project Zowe from Todd Lipp, Software Engineer from Rocket and Bruce Armstrong from IBM.  Project Zowe is a recently announced open source project under the Open Mainframe Project  providing easier interoperability of the z/OS operating system and z/OS products. Zowe founding companies are IBM, Rocket Software and CA Technologies. Zowe is the first open source project based on z/OS. This new framework will enable an ecosystem of software solutions intended to provide a simple, intuitive environment for a variety of IT professionals performing administrative, development, test and operation tasks on z/OS, and help onboard the next generation of mainframe users.

Next up will be an update on the Open Mainframe project. Len Santalucia, CTO of Vicom Infinity and Chairperson of the Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project will talk about conclusions made from a recent survey completed by the Open Mainframe Project regarding the usage of Linux on IBM Z and the business value the mainframe provides.

We’ll end our day with a presentation on Container Pricing by Scott Engelman, z/OS Offering Manager from IBM.  Container Pricing makes pricing simpler and more economical for qualified solutions. It’s a framework for hosting simplified and flexible software pricing for qualified solutions running on the z13 and z14 IBM processors, and allows specific workloads to be metered, reported on, and optionally capped, whether on a dedicated LPAR or co-located with existing workloads on an existing LPAR with no direct impact on your 4 Hour Rolling Average.  There were 3 announced Solutions in November 2017: Application Development and Test, New Application Solution and Payments Pricing Solution.  Additionally, in October 2018, the Application Development and Test Solution and the New Application Solution had updated announcements.  All of this will be discussed in this session.

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Rich Gast, Business Unit Executive, IBM

Garry Grandlienard, Z Client Architect, IBM

Mitch Hoffman, Regional Manager of the Carolinas, Rocket Software

Len Santalucia, Business Development Manager, Vicom-Infinity, Inc.

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