Università di Trento – March 21st 2007

International Business Machines Corp.

Pietro LoprioreIBM System i Technical Sales Manager

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Our values

Dedication to every client’s success

Innovation that matters, for our company and for

the world

Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships

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Our “mission”

Being the first in inventing, developing and producing the most advanced information technologies

Translating these technologies in value for our clients through professional services and business solutions on a global scale

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Headquarter: Armonk, NY

350,000 employees

In 170 countries

More than 60% of revenue generated outside the US

8 research centers and 24 development labs

Financial results in 2006:

- revenue: 91,4 billion dollars

- net profit: 9,4 billion dollars

IBM today

FY 2005 Revenue split

Servicesi

Software

Other

Hardware

Financing

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IBM Research

HaifaAlmaden Yorktown

Heights

Delhi

ZurigoPechino

TokyoAustin

More than 3.000 researchers and scientists 5 Nobel prize winners For 14 consecutive years IBM is the first company in the US for

number of patents (35.000 in 14 years, 3.621 in 2006 alone) 5.8 billion dollars spent on R&D in 2005

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Industry sectors

Enterprise clients Finance Distribution Industrial Communication and

media Public sector

Small and Medium Enterprises

IBM: the operating model

Business units

HardwareServerStorage

Software Services and solutions

Business Infrastructure

Technology Financing

Geos

America Europe, Middle

East and Africa Asia e Pacifico

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Magnetic storage

FORTRAN

Fractals mathematics

Relational database

Voice speech recognition

IBM Research contribution

IBM operates in the B2B market but its technology and patents are embedded in many products (tree-structure directories in operating

systems, processors, etc.)

RISC architecture

Scanning tunneling microscope

High temperature

superconductivity

Parallel scalable

supercomputers

Personal Computer

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IBM…embedded!

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Here since 1927

Headquarter in Segrate (Milano)

39 offices

10.751 employees *

More than 3500 business partners

Total revenue in 2005: 2.498 M€ *

IBM in Italy

Nuovo Headquarter IBM Italia a Segrate

* IBM Italia group

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IBM Tivoli Lab in Roma

The only Software lab in Europe

500 software architects, software developers, test engineers, technical writers, project managers, systems engineers

Collaborates with IBM Research Division (Watson Research Center in USA and Haifa Research Center in Israel)

Competency areas: grid computing, multimedia, pervasive computing, IT optimization, scalability and performance

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Bari

Mission critical web applications

Healthcare & Life Sciences applications

e-learning solutions, knowledge factory

Cagliari

Security and infrastructure benchmarking

Napoli

Web portals development

Catania

Wireless e-business solutions

IBM Italy Innovation Centers

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Research- Joint projects with italian universities, research centers and IBM worldwide development (Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano, Università di Parma, Università Bocconi, Normale di Pisa, La Sapienza di Roma, etc.)

Talents- Hiring: more than 200 in 2006- Grants, national and international internships for thousands of students

Innovation- Semantic Technologies Competence Center (Università La Sapienza di Roma)- Rational/Eclipse Competence Center (Università di Trento)- Linux Competence Center (Università di Palermo)

Italy University relations

Università di Trento – March 21st 2007

IBM System i Academic Initiative

The collaboration with Università di Trento

Pietro LoprioreSystem i Technical Sales Manager

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System p™Get the power to do more,

spend less.

System x™Innovation comes standard.

System z™The flagship for IBM Systems innovation and the hub of the

infrastructure.

BladeCenter®Simplify data center complexity.

System Storage™Bring information to people.

System i™Install faster. Maintain easier.

Simplify your IT.

The IBM Systems family Innovative, proven technology providing platform choice to match unique business needs

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IBM System i Project with Università di Trento (1/2) Project objectives

– Relaunch System i awareness in one of the most important Italian technical Universities

– Create the future generation of IT Managers on the IBM System i platform through our Deltadator Business Partner and clients

– Respond to the skill shortage on IBM System i (check on Monster the iSeries, AS400, AS/400 search keys!!!)

Activities Plan• Deltadator and some of its clients in the Trento-Bolzano area have been selected

• 6 months internships (in italian) starting in 2007 with or without credits – based on students’ dissertation needs

• Selected innovative projects on the IBM System i platform on the following topics:

– Application development: Web Services, SOA, PHP, J2EE WebSphere, ACG Java, 5250 application modernization;

– Infrastructure solutions: Business Continuity, IT Simplification and Consolidation (Windows, Linux, UNIX, i5/OS).

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IBM System i Project with Università di Trento (2/2)

Activities Plan (...continued)• System i technical seminars (Starting April 17th 2007):

– 20 hours (elapsed 4-5 weeks) at Università di Trento – by IBM and Deltadator System i Specialists– Target: Computer Science and Management Engineering students

• Specific additional System i Training by IBM FTSS Specialists c/o IBM or Deltadator premises;

• Submission of the participants’ CVs in the IBM Students Opportunity System, accessible by IBM BPs and clients worldwide;

• A participation diploma will be given to all the participants.

Selection criteria for the internships• Attendance;• Skills and interest in the topics covered by the project;• Motivational interview with University teachers, IBM and Deltadator managers, clients’ tutors.

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Seminars schedule (1/2)

April 17th (12:30 – 14:30)

System i Architecture Part 1 (2 hours)

– Which System is the Right Solution, Why i5 is the Focus of this Course, i5 Hardware, Impacts of Computer Design, Goals of the i5/OS Architecture, Overview of the Machine Interface Architecture, From CISC to RISC, Java Implementation

April 18th (14:30 – 16:30)

System i Architecture Part 2 (2 h)

– Object-Based Design, Single-level storage, Address space, Pointer protection, Hardware Integration, Hierachy of Micro Processors, System i I/O structure, Software Integration

May 8th (12:30 – 14:30)

I5/OS Security (2 h)

– I5/OS Basic Security, Access Control, Physical control, System level security, Identification and Authentication, Resource security, Administrative control, Single Signon

May 9th (14:30 – 16:30) and May 15th (12:30 – 14:30)

I5/OS Work Management and System Management (4 h)

– Work Management, Operator’s view, System’s view, Performance Tuning, Systems Management, Network comunications, TCP/IP on System i

May 16th (14:30 – 16:30)

Availability and Scalability (2 h)

– Availability, Disk Protection, Journal Management, Backup and Recovery, Save without Interruption, Independent ASP

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May 22nd (12:30 – 14:30)

Integrating Windows Server (2 h)

– Integrated xSeries Server, IXS & IXA implementation, iSCSI Technology, Value of Windows integration, System i in a Windows network

May 23rd (14:30 – 16:30)

System I Database (2 h)

– DB Basics, Integrated Relational Database, Data Retrieval, Managebility, Application Development (Store Procedure, Triggers, …), Performance

May 29th (12:30 – 14:30)

Using legacy application for e-business (2 h)

– Application development overview on System i, Application modernization, Java on System i, Refacing tools, Web Applications Development, Web services, Service-Oriented-Architecture

May 30th (14:30 – 16:30)

Logical partitioning (2 h)

– VMWare ESX, System i Logical Partitioning, Virtual Resources, Shared Processors, Virtual Ethernet, AIX and Linux Integration

Seminars schedule (2/2)

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Summary: so....what’s in there for me as a student?

This is not another academic course! This is a deep practical training on topics that are relevant for IBM, our Business Partners and clients worldwide…..this is a concrete step in the job market!

The opportunity to get skills on one of the most successful and widespread application server in the world

– 98 of the “Fortune 100” companies have at least one System i;

– More than 240,000 customers around the world;

– System i runs applications in more than 6,000 banks worldwide;

– More than 20,000 customers and 500 Software companies in Italy;

You will gain highly qualified and requested skills (check again on ANY Job Search engine the “AS400”, “iSeries”, “AS/400” words!!)

Your CV will be submitted in the Students Opportunity System database, accessible to our Business Partners and Clients community around the world

You will be part of the IBM network

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IBMFor additional information contact:

silvia_olchini@it.ibm.com