TUG Buzz!
Nov. 12, 2009

The Toronto Users Group  
 for Power Systems (TUG) is a user group/forum for the exchange  
 of ideas, and specializes  
 in providing affordable 
  education relating to the  
 IBM iSeries, AS/400,  
 System i, and Power Systems platforms.  

 TUG is in its 25th year of operation.

Reminder:

If you are planning to attend the November TUG Meeting of members, please remember to register on-line in advance at: www.tug.ca/reg_meet.html.

TUG Meeting of Members – November 18, 2009

Living Arts Centre Mississauga

Speaker:
Sandra Weir is a Senior IT Specialist at IBM. She has been at IBM since 1993. In the last four years Sandra has been immersed in eXtreme transaction processing and virtualization techniques to complement her knowledge of the WebSphere Application Server portfolio. She has worked with many customers to articulate and educate them on the value of developing a scalable, elastic and on-demand computing environment. She is currently the Canadian subject matter expert for Cloud Computing with WebSphere. Sandra earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from McMaster University and is an IBM Certified Expert.

5:00 Session Abstract:
Cloud Computing: Smarter IT Delivery
The Economist magazine states: “Clouds will transform the information technology (IT) industry ... profoundly change the way people work and companies operate.” How does your company deliver applications today? Do you build, install, and manage all of them yourself? How much is it costing you? How much effort is it to build and manage your environment? What if you could get access to new applications, custom testing environments, or additional computing capacity, all on demand, all whenever and wherever you needed it -- and all for a fraction of the traditional cost and effort. This is what Cloud Computing brings. Cloud Computing is all about dynamic provisioning of resources -- applications, testing environments, computing capacity. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or even control over the technology in the cloud. They just use it and pay for it as they need it.

Cloud Computing is not necessarily new, but new technologies that IBM is bringing to market are making it better. Come to the next TUG meeting on November 18th and learn about IBM's vision of Cloud Computing, Dynamic Infrastructure, and Smarter IT Delivery. The vision contains a lot. Software as a service. Custom on demand application provisioning. On demand capacity. Public and private cloud management. You too can be smarter in the way you deliver IT.

MoM Location:
Living Arts Centre Mississauga (BMO Room)
4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga ON L5B 4B8
Highway 403 & Highway 10,
West of Square One
(Free underground parking)

www.tug.ca/t_agenda.html

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