September Meeting: IBM i Trends and Directions

What are today's industry trends and how to they affect you and what you should do? Modern technologies such as mobile interfaces, cloud, and analytics are changing the landscape of the computing world. How is IBM i evolving to deliver technology that addresses these trends? This session will review key industry trends and will show how IBM i is positioned to meet the challenges in today s computing environment, including the IBM i strategy, roadmap, and key enhancements that keep IBM i relevant today and for the future.

Biography

Dawn May is a senior technical staff member at IBM in Rochester, Minn. She's the technical lead for the IBM i Systems Software Development organization and an IBM i Business Architect. Dawn's responsible for the overall strategy and plan for the core components of i. Dawn also has technical leadership responsibilities for i performance and diagnostic tools; she led the development of the 6.1 performance tools enhancements, which includes the new Performance tasks in the IBM Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS Web console. Past responsibilities include testing, SNA and TCP/ IP communications development, service tools development and work management development.