3. 3
Agenda – A.M., Thursday 25th
June 2015
Time # Title Speaker
8:45 0 Registration & Breakfast
9:30 1 Why IBM & Cisco?
The IBM and Cisco alliance helps you maximise business results by uniting IBM's vast industry,
business process and implementation expertise with Cisco's world-class unified communications and
networking technologies.…partnering for your success.
Best of both worlds - IBM and Cisco
Ian Mc Manus
IBM IS Country Manager
Yogesh Desai
Cisco IBM Partner Manager
9:45 2 How Innovation in the Data Centre reduce costs and creates genuine competitive advantage?
• Agility/orchestration/Software Defined Infrastructure -
• Virtualisation
• Security/Risk Management
• Performance/scalability
Chris Bashford
Datacentre and Versastack SME
Ian Shave
Global Business Unit
Executive for VersaStack &
BD&A, IBM Storage
10:45 3 Coffee Break
11:00 4 Our Experience in the Market
The changing DC landscape brings many challenges to CIO. These include Budget, Cost Models,
Agility, Mobility & Security. Network demands. Converged Networks etc. Hear from our senior
experts on trends they see in the Irish market today.
Mark Ward Bopp - IBM
Tom Long - Cisco
11:45 5 Q&A Session TBA
12:30 6 iPhone Draw (ONLY for People in the Room) Ian Mc Manus
12:45 7 Wrap Ian Mc Manus
Yogesh Desai
13:00 8 Hot and Cold Buffet Lunch
13:30 9 IBM DC Tour (5 People Only) OPTIONAL
Registration : Please email gtsoff@ie.ibm.com