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Acts Corp Technical Awareness Series (TAS) May 5-7 Hilton Head
Invitation for IT Executives:
Please join us for the 22nd
annual Technical Awareness Series (TAS) seminars May 5-7 at Hilton Head Island,
SC.
Our
teach team this year includes IBM Fellow Dr. Guru Rao, and prominent IT
consultants John Kirschner and Bill Carico.
All the info, including instructor bios and
online registration, may be found at http://www.actscorp.com/tas
Each session is standalone so
you can attend all or part as your needs dictate. Please register
today!
Here is the agenda for this 3 day event:
Day 1 morning:
- IT Trends - Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Unified Communication, Green Computing, Cloud Computing, SaaS, SOA, exposing myths.
- Vendor Strategies (HP, Sun, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Novell). Where are vendors trying to take us? Looking to the Future.
- The Executive's Guide to the Mainframe - The latest on System z, the next wave of Specialty Engines update on z/OS, zLinux, and z/VM
Day 1 afternoon:
- IT Security - protecting your business, protecting a nation, vulnerabilities, costs of breaches, evolving malware, future threats, insider threats (fascinating stats from 150 incidents), NATO's prep for Cyberwar, Methods of Attack, Lines of Defense
Day 2 (all day):
- Enterprise Alignment: Linking Business Strategy and Enterprise Architecture - first steps, governance, roles, portfolio management, Master Data Management, Optimizing IM and IT, Zachmann, Federal Enterprise Arch, DOD, architectural patterns from and IBM and Microsoft
- Getting Ready for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) - motivations, first principles, levels of integration
Day 3 morning:
- The Modernizaton of Applications: Merits and Demerits - extreme programming, agile development methods, scrum masters, best practices.
Day 3 afternoon:
- Federal IT Woes and Remedies - Why federal IT projects fail and how to fix them. Discussions on best practices, complexity, politics, and bureaucracy.
- The Executive's Guide to ITIL V3 - An overview of ITIL, learning from ITIL successes and failures, the need for ITIL champions.
| by JimPorell | February 2, 2009 Permalink |
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