Seattle Dynamic Infrastructure Customer Event

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Wrapping up my week in Seattle, Washington, I presented at a[Dynamic Infrastructure] client event. This is the third one in a six-city tour. I will not be at the remaining cities next week, as I will be at the [Forrester IT Forum 2009 Conference] instead in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Rather than hold this in IBM's Kirkland facility, we chose to have this instead at the [Chateau Ste. Michelle] winery, which was just a few miles away in Woodinville. The weather was a perfect match to pair with the information we presented. Clear sky in the low 70s.

This was a typical roadshow event, serve breakfast, meet everyone, have four main-tent sessions, answer questions, then finish with a nice lunch. Here was the speaker line-up:

• Jerry Mixon presented IBM Global Services to help customers improve service, reduce costs and manage risk.

• Steve Loeschorn presented the latest on IBM System x and BladeCenter offerings. Steve showed how IBM'sSystem x servers were more energy efficient than x86 servers from HP and Dell.
• Michael Middleton presented the latest from IBM POWER® systems. Michael had some interesting statisticsthat showed IBM's AIX operating system to be more reliable than Sun Solaris, HP-UX, andMicrosoft Windows. Based on a study of 400 companies, AIX averaged only 36 minutes of downtime per year.
• Tony Pearson (that's me, in case you forgot already, writing in the third person) presented IBM's [Information Infrastructure strategy], with highlights of [XIV], [TS7650 ProtecTIER], and [N series] storage systems.

Next week, Las Vegas!

technorati tags: IBM, Dynamic Infrastructure, Seattle, Washington, Kirkland, Woodinville, Global Services, System x, BladeCenter, HP, Dell, POWER systems, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, improve service, reduce costs, manage risk, XIV, TS7650, TS7650G, ProtecTIER, N series