[pwayman]

This is the new IBM research project... see below. Sponsored by the IBM UCD team (User Centered Design) Should you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Thank you for your interest and participation in IBM research & development.

Sincerely,
Pat

Project #6053: Virtualization

IBM usability engineers would like to talk with you about your current IT
environment, how you are using virtualization technology and software
today, and your systems management problems. They will require 2 ½ to 3
hours of your time and would like to meet at your site.

This is a great opportunity to provide IBM development with direct feedback
that will be used to improve products.

Activity: Customer interview and discussion

Where: At location of customer choice (Should be in a room where we can
easily
talk)
Time commitment - 2 1/2 to 3 hours

When: October through mid November by appointment at your convenience

Participants: From companies over 100 employees: either IT sys admin,
storage admin or architect who manages or architects at least 5 virtual
images. They may be IBM or Non-IBM customers. Systems that qualify are:
AIX,
Linux, i5OS or OS/400, zOS, SUN, HP or Windows. Also available to business
partners who manage customer sites.

Participants must be within 100 miles of one of the following cities:
Austin, Atlanta, Beaverton (OR), Indianapolis, Kirkland (WA), Poughkeepsie,
Raleigh, Rochester (MN), San Francisco, San Jose, Tucson or Norfolk.

Virtualization technology examples: LPAR, VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server,
IBM Director with the VMM extension, HP Insight manager, HP Secure Resource
Partitions, HP vPars, Xen, IBM PHYP, IBM HMC, zVM, Soft Virtuozzo, IBM SAN
File System, EMC DiskXtender, Other virtualization software or hardware.

IBM will provide a small gift to the participant as a token of
appreciation.

Potential participants must contact me and be approved by the project lead.
A nearby IBM lab will contact each approved participant to schedule his/her
appointment.

Contact me to apply or ask questions.

Pat Wayman
IBM Research Project Coordinator
IBM Contractor
Venice, Florida
941-412-0193
pat.wayman@hughes.net

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