IT Migration Life Cyle: An Expert Panel Discussion #OpenITchat May 21st

Once a company has made the decision to migrate all or part of their IT infrastructure to a new platform, it begins an entire workload life cycle that has to be considered.  Each step has its own benefits and challenges, from requirements gathering to what to happens after the migration has complete

  1. IT Migration Life Cyle: An Expert Panel Discussion

  2. Join this month's tweechat by following #openITchat on May 21, at 2 p.m. ET where Cal Braunstein, Robert Frances analyst, Dave Carlquist, VP of Competitive Strategy at IBM and Joe DeBella, CIO from AriZona Beverages USA will discuss the lifecycle of an IT migration from an analyst, vendor and customer points of view.  This is an opportunity to tweet directly with Dave, Charles and Joe to find out how customers can migrate and maintain IT infrastructure that gives their company the leading edge.

    More about our tweetchat panelists ...

  3. If it's your first time joining a Tweet Chat, here's a rundown on how it works:
    What: A Tweet Chat is an online conversation held at a pre-arranged time following a specific hashtag, in this case #openITchat. You will need a Twitter ID to take part.
    When: Wednesday, May 21, at 2p.m. ET
    Where: The chat can be followed on Twitter using the hashtag #openITchat. Alternatively, log on and access the chat on Twebevent.  A recap will be posted on this blog the following Thursday.
    Who: Anyone and everyone is welcome to join and tweet-along!

  4. Get a reminder

  5. The Panel

  6. Cal Braunstein serves as Chairman/CEO and Executive Director of Research at Robert Frances Group, Chief Research Officer for Experture Group, the parent of Experture and RFG, and GreenWay Collaborative CEO. In addition to his corporate role, he helps his clients wrestle with a range of business, management, regulatory, sustainability, and technology issues. 

  7. @IBMOpenInvite A "flashmob" formed at #openITchat. It's been an invigorating hour of chat using social media as the foundation #openITchat
  8. Dave Carlquist is the VP of Global Competitive Strategy for IBM. In that role, he is responsible for developing IBM’s  strategies for capturing competitive market share in the hardware, software and I/T services segments worldwide. Dave joined IBM in 1982 and has worked in a broad range of roles encompassing sales, marketing, services and business development. Prior to his current job he was the vice president of General Business for the Western half of the US, responsible for sales and services including all small business and mid-market enterprises plus large enterprises establishing new relationships with IBM. 

  9. Joe DeBella is the CIO of AriZona Beverages USA.  He is a graduate of Cornell University, with further education at NY Institute of Technology and Columbia University.Mr. DeBella has published white papers on Incremental ROI, Demand Planning, Harmonization, Application retirement, Best Practices and many many more. He has spoken at Gartner, SAP, IBM and other local business group Conferences. He still owns his own Strategic Consulting firm, AnCirs, providing process and technology input to top executives in the U.S

  10. Come to our Virtual Event occurring at 1 p.m. ET on May 22

  11.   "IT Migration: An Expert Panel" where Dave, Charles and Joe will continue the conversation from their tweetchat, but go into much greater depth. To register, visit our virtual event page at: http://events.unisfair.com/rt/ibm~openinvitationMay2012.

    Migrating from an IT vendor can be an uncertain time for any company. IBM offers an Open Invitation to consider an IT future providing
    tomorrow's technology today. 

    Join the conversation @IBMOpenInvite.

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