November 14, 2008 - Eddie Satterly on Virtualization in Infrastructure Architecture

Virtualization is a journey that often begins with a focus on server consolidation as the first step on a path towards increased efficiency, agility and resilience. While this is a natural place to start, virtualization complexity increases significantly at scale. Not only can the network play a key role in furthering the objectives of your server virtualization initiative, it also allows you to virtualize infrastructure resources such as storage, I/O and the core services provided by the network itself. As a result, your data center architecture becomes increasingly responsive to the demands of the business. This session will describe a service-oriented network architecture that enables many of the application technologies currently capturing the attention of enterprise architects, including SOA and Web 2.0. Attendees will learn how the network can reduce complexity and management costs, enhance system resiliency and flexibility, and improve the usage and efficiency of networked assets and applications.

December 12, 2008 - David Naigles and Dennis Gurdian of LANSA on "iSeries Modernization Methods"

Future Meetings:

• January 9, 2009 - Clark Scholten on digital certificates, SSL, and Single Sign-on (SSO).
• Jim Sloan, creater of IBM QUSRTOOLS.
• Craig Johnson - Does IBM BladeCenter fit you IBM i, AIX or Linux environment?
• Matt Booher - Laptop Security.
• Hacking 101 - How Web Sites Get Cracked.
• April 26-30 2009 - COMMON comes to Reno.
• Sunday, April 26, 2009 - COMMON 5K event at the Grand Sierra Resort