Newsletter - March 2001
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President's Message from Peter MaherJAM 2001In response to the overwhelming demand JAM will stay the first Friday in December. So mark your calendars now for December 7th 2001 - JAM 2001! The Board has begun planning for JAM 2001 and we need your ideas. Please let one of us know if there are any topics or presenters that you would like to see. We are committed to making this the best JAM ever and to do that we need your input. MARCH MEETING
Managed Availability: Today and the Future. Managed Availability is the methodology and a discipline under which an enterprise can deliver consistent, predictable access to data and applications, wherever and whenever it is required. It takes into account a lot of information provided by the various groups whose job it is to define where things are going and what the influences that will drive us all to have to provide various solutions in order to stay alive. A good presentation with a lot of interesting observations presented that will have relevance in everyone's world. Gary Lagarde, Solution Architect with Lakeview Technology, has over 16 years of AS/400 and iSeries 400 system-architecture experience, including hardware and operating systems, middleware, communications and client/server interfaces in the business environment. His background covers an enterprise-wide view of server-consolidation strategies, LPAR implementation, systems management, ERP infrastructure design, highly available application deployment, and disaster-recovery planning and implementation. Previously, Gary was senior technologist at Reynolds Metals Company, Richmond, VA, an $8 billion subsidiary of the $30 billion multinational Alcoa Inc., where he served as liaison to the IBM Rochester Lab for the past decade. He also co-authored the IBM Redbook "AS/400 Clusters: A Guide to Achieving Higher Availability." He is an adjunct professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, where he lectures on management of information-systems architecture and best practices for IT/business-operations development. Gary also serves on the advisory board for VCU's Institute for Enterprise-wide Solutions, guiding the development of IT and business programs that ensure VCU graduates are well-grounded and prepared for leadership positions in technology and business. Gary has previously served as chairman of the AS/400 Large Users Group, as vice president of the J.D.Edwards One World Technical Special Interest Group, and is a member of the Common Top Concerns committee. He has also received the Business Leadership in IT Higher Education award from the Information Systems Research Institute.
Tuesday MARCH 20th, 2001
6:30pm Dinner 7:15pm Gary Lagarde 8:30pm Adjournment MEMBERS FREE 30.00 Non-Member Treasurer's MessageYear 2001 Membership RenewalAll prior year members should have received their membership renewal invoices during January. Although most of you have since sent in the checks, there are still quite a few memberships not yet renewed. If you have not taken care of it, it is time now to renew your memberships for another year. I will appreciate if you can take care of the renewal at the earliest so that we can focus on another year of activities for you. If you have any questions, or if you will like to start a new membership, please feel free to call me. Your 2001 membership can be renewed or a new membership started by sending in your check for $100 for the annual fee. The checks made out to WAM may be sent to:
12023 Blackberry Terrace North Potomac, MD 20878
K B Soni
Board of Directors
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