Wednesday May 14, 2008:
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Increase Application and Network Performance on IBM BladeCenter

IBM BladeCenter is a powerful platform, providing industry-leading performance, innovative architecture and a solid foundation for virtualization. Coupled with Intel's processor advancements and their advantages on performance per watt and performance density, IBM BladeCenter offers a broad range of storage and networking options integrated into the chassis to simplify infrastructure complexity and manageability while lowering total cost of ownership.

This webcast will answer how in today's high-demand business environment, organizations can get a reliable infrastructure to run compute-intensive applications with minimal maintenance and downtime. We are seeing increasing I/O requirements for more bandwidth, low latency and applications are now starting to exploit 10GB Ethernet. We will look at how 10GB Ethernet on IBM BladeCenter can reduce IT complexity.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• IT Technology trends and direction
• Demands for processing
• Growing demand for I/O and direction
• IBM BladeCenter value

Thursday May 29, 2008:
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern

System x Scalable Solutions with Microsoft SQL 2008

IBM's groundbreaking eX4 scalable technology and Microsoft's new SQL Server 2008 product will deliver unmatched levels of database performance and reliability.

Utilizing the enhancements in SQL Server 2008, and the scalability of the x3950M2, older SQL infrastructures can be consolidated and centralized. This consolidation enables superior manageability of the SQL Server environment and will help deliver improved TCO. SQL users will see better response times, improved database availability which lead to increased competitiveness in today's business environment.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• How to reduce your SQL infrastructure TCO with System x
• New features and functions of SQL Server 2008
• How System x scalable solutions can help reduce server sprawl
• System x and SQL Server 2008 high availability

Wednesday June 11, 2008:
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Customer Testimonial

On-Demand Presentations:

Thursday March 6, 2008:
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern

Multiply Energy Efficiency, Minimize Cooling Challenges
IBM Intel Blades can run cooler to deliver significant cost savings

IBM has pioneered new technologies that allow our blades to generate less heat output and use less energy to cool the system than the competition in comparable configurations. Simply put, IBM BladeCenter, powered by Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors, can run cooler to potentially deliver significant cost savings in a high-density environment.

Combined with Intel's Quad Core Xeon processor 5000 series which has four cores to deliver breakthrough energy-efficient performance to help businesses stay competitive. We provide high-density solutions with the 50W low voltage Quad Core Xeon for 35% less processor power consumption at the same performance level as the standard quad core versions.

In addition, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager is included with IBM BladeCenter servers. Active Energy Manager allows you to see your actual power consumption right now, but also let's you track consumption over longer periods of time such as hours, days, weeks, even months. This gives a comprehensive picture of power usage. Plus, the new power virtualization feature allows you to take power from servers that don't need it all and give it to new servers. This is great for people that are out of power.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• New HS21 and HS21 XM low voltage BladeCenter models
• Benefits of energy efficiency
• Gain performance while lowering power and cooling costs
• How IBM's Active Energy Manager can help you plan for energy savings today and tomorrow

Friday March 14, 2008:
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Virtualization Made Easy
IBM BladeCenter and VMware Solutions that Deliver Value

IBM and VMware can help improve server utilization with hardware and software designed for virtualization. VMware software can virtualize servers, storage and networking, allowing multiple unmodified operating systems and their applications to run independently in virtual machines while sharing physical resources. With highly reliable and flexible BladeCenter offerings running VMware software, applications and services may be deployed in highly secure and portable virtual machines, which can be provisioned, consolidated and managed centrally, simplifying the IT infrastructure and driving down total cost of ownership.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• New HS21 XM with Embedded Hypervisor and VMWare ESX Server 3i
• When to Virtualize on Blades
• VMware ESX Server 3i Features
• Simplify Management of Hardware Resources & Virtual Machine Hosts
• Time, space and budget savings

Wednesday April 9, 2008:
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Affordable Performance for Many Small and Medium Enterprise Applications
Intel Quad-Core processors for great performance from a single-socket Blade

Today's single-socket dual-core and quad-core servers are as powerful as the two and four-socket servers of three years ago. Many customer applications have not changed, but the technology has. Single-socket servers can handle many application workloads, even databases and virtualization in some customer solutions. IBM is Introducing a new single socket Intel-based Blade with the RAS features clients expect from BladeCenter, priced right for high availability. The IBM BladeCenter® HS12 blade combines the power of Intel® Xeon® processors and easy integration to offer a flexible, low-cost option for small businesses. It includes high-availability features such as solid state hard drives and redundant power connections. And potentially lower power and cooling costs compared to traditional 1U dual-socket rack servers can help save you money.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• What applications are well suited for a single-processor blade
• What are the benefits of a single processor
• Xeon 3300 series processors vs Celeron vs Core 2 duo
• Product features and benefits