Future Technology - trends and directions

Green – Sustainable Computing, the realities

Business Continuity – what are the next offerings and solutions?

Data Storage – where is this technology taking us?

Lab Overview
Brief overview of the history of Hursley House and what IBM is doing in the Lab
Hasmukh S Patel (Husky), IBM
Husky has almost 25 years with IBM. Many years in the field helping clients to develop client-server solutions and later managing turn key development projects at customer sites. He has been Sales & Marketing Manager working with Partners to develop and market niche solution and a World Wide Strategist for ISV & Developer Relations (IDR) team focussed on Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO) particularly Pervasive Computing (PvC). Fostering & building key partnerships
with Business Partners / Independent Solution Vendors (ISVs). He is currently Executive Briefing Manager, for IBM Software Group, based at Hursley Laboratory.

Global Technology Outlook
IBM is, of course, in the technology business. We invent it, sell it, integrate it and maintain it. And we’ve been doing this for nearly 100 years. So it’s not surprising that we care deeply about how technology is changing and where future opportunities lie.
As such, it would be easy to assume that the Global Technology Outlook (GTO) is nothing more than an elaborate tool that IBM uses to inform its corporate and product strategies. But the GTO goes far beyond the typical product development exercise.
The GTO takes an unflinching look at trends that are well outside of IBM’s own offerings and expertise, some of which may even threaten entire IBM product lines. It uses history as a guide and takes a long-term view, looking out five or ten years further than most industry experts. It endeavours to understand the cultural and business contexts in which new technology will be used. The GTO solicits ample outside counsel from around the world when making its predictions. And unlike any other corporate strategy exercise, the GTO shares the results with clients, academics and even competitors.
Rashik Parmar, IBM Chief Technology Office - North East Europe
Rashik is IBM's CTO for North East Europe, a Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is responsible for the development and execution of the technical strategies, the vitality of the technical community. He has a wide breadth and depth of knowledge in Finance IT systems and software vendor solutions, acquired through various technical specialist roles. By working closely with both senior business managers and technology specialists, Rashik is able to build a complete picture of the requirements. Keeping well abreast of advances in systems and technologies, he is able to design complete solutions incorporating latest technologies and standards. Rashik has also directed the implementation of these solutions through to realisation of the business benefits. His projects have ranged from replacement branch systems through to consolidation of core systems following merger. In particular he is well respected for his experiences in designing complex e-Business and open systems involving multiple ISVs. Also, his ability to simplify technical complexity for senior management and communicating with all levels makes him much sought after. During the twenty five years of practical experience in IBM, Rashik has worked for financial, retail and manufacturing clients on projects of all sizes. Overall, he specialises in ensuring the technical success of complex IT projects.

Business Continuity- looking forward - what next?
Virtually all organisations now have a business wide continuity plan and the traditional tape backups stored offsite etc.... are struggling to keep pace with business needs. Shortening windows of time for backups and increasing volumes of Mission
Critical Data require advanced and Innovative solutions to keep pace with Regulatory and best practise scenarios.
This session will address the emerging options for business continuity and why there is a strong business case in risk management to prepare for a new way of working in the future. Covering Plan Writing, rehearsals, expectations, Future Solutions.  It
will y encompass most topics and will discuss trends as well as solutions.
Philip Caulfield, Adam Continuity
Since joining Adam Philip has managed both the Client Management and New Business Sales Teams and in 2007 took the role of Managing Director. Since 2007 the Company has enjoyed significant improvements in profit and client growth. Philip is a member of the IOD and regularly contributes articles on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in the UK media.

Green and Beyond - environmental efficiency in IT Infrastructure.
This session will review the environmental (and consequent cost) pressures on IT.  It will cover servers, storage and software to show how a total approach is required to accurately measure and manage the environmental impact of IT Operations.   With the emergence of carbon trading in the EU there are opportunities not only to improve your "Green Footprint" but also to enhance your financial bottom line.
Doug Nielson, Consultant, IBM
Doug is a Systems Consultant working for IBM's Systems and Technology Group. He has had more than thirty years experience as both an IBM customer and employee.  Doug is responsible for the development and promotion of IBM Systems strategies to major European customers, the press, consultant & software vendor community.  He is also a vigorous advocate for IBM servers within IBM.  

IBM SVC Strategy
IBM has a broad and comprehensive product portfolio for data storage and its management. Storage Virtualisation is a key element of this portfolio and IBM has had a leadership position in this technology since the turn of the century. Steve will use his insights into the portfolio to describe IBM's storage strategy, the trends which influence it, and a little about future directions that IBM will be taking for data storage infrastructures.
Steve Legg, CTO, IBM
Steve Legg is Chief Technology Officer for Storage in IBM's UKISA region, with responsibilities across the portfolio of products and technologies that IBM brings to market for storage. He joined IBM in 1982 after graduating from Cambridge university in the UK with a Masters degree in Electrical Sciences. He has over 20 years' experience in the development of hardware and software for high performance, high reliability storage controllers, most recently working on the architecture for IBM's SAN Volume Controller storage virtualisation product from its inception in 1999 to its launch in 2003.  As an engineer and engineering manager he has also contributed to displays technology, electrochemistry, telecomms. and disk drive technology during his 26 years with IBM.

Tour of Hursley Facility