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Enterprise Data Center Program

The Enterprise Data Center Program (EDC) provides a technical program that encompasses the most essential disciplines of Systems Management and other tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of professionals in SHARE's Member organizations who are accountable for all aspects of Data Center Management. We provide a forum to address the issues of managing existing and emerging technologies in the complex heterogeneous and distributed environments that are required for today's multi-tiered Enterprise business systems. The primary goal of the Enterprise Data Center Program is to provide a comprehensive technical program that has technical training, provides insights into new technology directions, and presents thought provoking discussions on issues that are relevant to the Technical Staff, their Managers and Systems Architects. This program also supports SHARE's mission of 'Industry Influence' by making a coherent and unified presentation of user needs to IBM, its business partners and other vendors. Business data processing environments today span Mainframes to Personal Computers and require a multitude of networking technologies to distribute processing and data across their complexity. This program tries to be as diverse as the products and services that these different platforms depend upon for effectiveness in your enterprise.

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The Projects included in the Enterprise Data Center Program are:

  • Communication Server (CS)
  • Data Center Management (DCM)
  • Integrating Innovative Technologies (I2T)
  • Network Management and Security (NMS)
  • Professional Development (PDEV)
  • Security and Compliance (SEC)

Communication Server Project

The Communications Server (CS) Project focuses on the network equipment, software, and transport facilities required to design, develop, engineer and deploy an enterprise network. The project's scope encompasses all aspects of communications from and to Communications Server on the Enterprise Server via the Wide Area Network. The project's aim is to establish an effective dialogue among and between users, IBM and other vendors required to provide enterprise networking solutions. This will enable users to design, develop, engineer and deploy enterprise network solutions that meet their business requirements in an efficient and cost effective manner. The CS project will:
  • Provide the SHARE community with information and tutorial sessions on new and existing enterprise network products, functions and solutions
  • Exchange user experience on key products and innovative networking solutions
The CS project tends to focus on areas of common interest from the network systems programmer and/or network engineer's perspective. The CS project is open. New members are encouraged to actively participate by volunteering to share their experiences with others.

Data Center Management Project

The Data Center Management (DCM) Project targets organizations that operate heterogeneous enterprise computing environments. Emphasis is placed on the tools, methodologies, and architectures needed to create and maintain reliable, redundant data centers. The project provides a combination of vendor and user sessions on topics of current and ongoing interest. Issues affecting the data center itself, as well as Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating system environments are presented and discussed. Sessions presented in this project will be particularly appealing to attendees from small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) who don't necessarily have a large, dedicated IT staff as well as enterprises who have smaller data centers.  The Data Center Project is currently open and actively encourages new and existing members to participate in all activities.

Integrating Innovative Technologies Project

The Integrating Innovative Technologies (I2T) Project focuses on emerging technologies, and looks at the broader impact of new ideas as they are integrated into current business applications. Topics, often interdisciplinary, are: Social media, Mobile computing, Telecommuting, Cloud computing, Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Big Data and Analytics, Privacy and Ethics, Cognitive Computing and Software engineering.

The project will help IT staff to understand the benefits and risks associated with the deployment and management of new concepts in large, small and medium businesses. The project also works to identify new technologies and incubate projects in these technologies, as they become more mature, either as full SHARE Projects, committees, or Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Network Management and Security Project

The objective of the Network Management and Security (NMS) Project is to provide value in terms of educating the members on management protocols, tools, methodology, best practices, and issues involved in managing today's complex networks. The project will also provide information, assistance and guidance in performing network management functions.

The project has several goals, including:

  • Defining requirements for existing and future networking management products and applications from IBM and other vendors
  • Educating SHARE membership on mulit-vendor management technology, services, products, implementation, and usage
  • Maintaining dialog between IBM, its business partners and othe vendors
  • Providing a forum for discussion of tools, methodology, and architectures related to the network management arena

Professional Development Project

The Professional Development (PDEV) Project focuses on the non-technical side of today’s IT environment.  Whether one wants to admit it or not, the business side and non-technical professional side of the IT environment is as critical as the technical side.  Further more, today’s IT environment is both mentally and physically demanding which takes a significant toll on the IT professional.  The Project presents series of sessions that designed to address four specific areas of interest:

  • Professional Skills - Covers the professional skills required to deal with the business aspects of the IT environment and business as a whole.
  • Leadership Skills - Covers the skills required to be an effective manager of IT professionals and/or an effective technical leader regardless of position.
  • Personal Skills - Covers the basic skills providing a foundation for building leadership and professional skills as well as technical skills.
  • Survival Skills - Covers the skills and methods assisting the IT professional to survive the pace and stresses of our demanding IT environment.

Security and Compliance Project

The Security and Compliance (SEC) Project is concerned with enterprise-wide security management, which includes security, auditability, and disaster recovery of corporate data, software, and hardware. We are concerned with security management on the desktop, in the client/server environment, on the mainframe, over the Internet, or within any heterogeneous network. The Security and Compliance Project provides information on security management tools, policies and procedures that address identity management, data integrity, confidentiality, access control, and systems management -- from within a single enterprise, or across public or private networks, such as the Internet, intranet, or extranet.