If we suffer disruptions or outages in an enterprise IT environment, mission critical services will be seriously impacted. The services we offer are not just based on hardware technology and operating system issues, nor even on applications such as databases or process control software. These services are the compendium of all we do in our IT shops to make our enterprise strategies succeed. These services are what make our businesses successful.
We are looking for sessions that:
Identify which of the services you support are mission critical.
Identify how to understand if the technologies we recommend and manage are appropriate.
Show how to deliver the quality of IT services that are needed to support mission critical services.
Optimizing IT Through Service Consolidation
In times of economic challenge, we look for ways to optimize our (often) declining IT budgets. Service consolidation is one of the key approaches that allows us to do more with less. This relates to use, deployment and management of computer resources. These consolidations also relate to the workforce needed to support the IT resources. Often as we consolidate services, we find that our efforts to optimize have left us to the situation where we (surprisingly) now have capacity for growth. An IBM executive once quipped that SHARE really is an acronym: Society to Help Alleviate Redundant Effort. At the time, we thought it was cute. Now it may be a fact.
We want sessions that:
Help people understand what the services are that they must deliver.
Define the opportunities to improve your business through consolidating services.
Train how to move across turf boundaries to work together to deliver what your business needs.
Explain how to measure the success of a consolidation.
Show what a successful consolidation would look like.
Benefits of presenting include:
Developing interpersonal skills
Growing your professional network
Benchmarking your IT experiences with others
Receiving fresh ideas about solving issues like yours
Gaining recognition as an Enterprise IT professional
Helping others solve problems based on your experience
SHARE, it’s not an acronym; it’s what we do!
Submitting a Session
Please click on the arrow next to each session type below to read full Program descriptions and to access the submission links for each session type. Unless you are familiar with the Program structure of SHARE, please select 'Undecided/Unknown' as the topic for your submission.
The deadline for submitting a session is April 29, 2011.
Application Architecture Development
The Architecture Program focuses on infrastructure, databases, message flow and transaction processing. Its Project areas include ASM (System z Assembler), CICS, LANG (Development Languages), MQ, SOA and ADI (Application Development Integration and Infrastructure.)
Communications Infrastructure
The Communications Infrastructure Program is SHARE's focus for telecommunications hardware, software, communications architectures, programming interfaces and interface standards to provide a framework for complete connectivity.
Enterprise Data Center
The Enterprise Data Center Program (EDC) provides a technical program that encompasses the most essential disciplines of Systems Management and other tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of professionals in SHARE's Member organizations who are accountable for all aspects of Data Center Management. The Projects included in the Enterprise Data Center Program are: Data Center Management (DCM), Emerging Technologies (ETEC), Professional Development (PDEV), Security and Audit (SEC).
Information Management
The Information Management Program (IMGT) focuses on how enterprises organize, retrieve, acquire and maintain information. The Projects in the Information Management Program include the Database Project (DB) which primarily covers DB2 and also includes Oracle and MySQL, the IMS Project (IMSD) and the Storage Project (STOR).
Linux & VM
The mission of the Linux & VM Program (LVM) is to provide information and education to SHARE attendees who are users of Linux and VM technologies; to influence the direction of development in the realms of Linux and VM; to provide an environment that fosters the interchange of ideas among the participants.
The LVM Program comprises two Projects: The Linux Project (LINX) focuses on the Linux operating system and its uses on all platforms. The VM Project (VM) focuses on all things related to the z/VM operating system and related software.
LVM also provides sessions on Virtualization technologies, from running Linux on VM to virtual networks, storage and Cloud computing.
MVS
The MVS Program is concerned with the installation, maintenance, management, integration, and exploitation of z/OS systems and System z hardware. It is comprised of four projects: Enterprise-wide Capacity Planning and Performance Management (EWCP), MVS SCP (MVSE), MVS Storage Management (MVSS), and zNextGen; and three Committees: ISPF, JES2, and JES3.
Undecided/Unknown
This area is for submissions that need to be reviewed and assigned to a SHARE program that best defines the topic of the presentation.
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