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Unlock the Power of IBM i at POWERUp 2025!

Join us in Disneyland, California, for POWERUp 2025, the premier conference for IBM i professionals. Whether you’re an experienced expert or just starting your IBM i journey, this event offers unparalleled education, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities. Stay ahead of the curve with insights from industry leaders, explore the latest innovations, and connect with a thriving community that shares your passion for IBM i. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge, grow your skills, and power up your career!
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Monday, May 19
 

10:00am PDT

What's New in PowerHA
Monday May 19, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Room 10
Learn through live demonstrations how to take advantage of all the exciting new enhancements in PowerHA with a focus around automation, simplification and integration.
Speakers
avatar for Brian Nordland

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra
In addition to his role as Director of Development for Power Development at Fortra, Brian Nordland serves as the technical product manager for PowerHA and Robot HA. Brian has spoken at events, webinars, and user groups—including COMMON—since 2014. He is a co-inventor on multiple... Read More →
Monday May 19, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Room 10 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience

3:15pm PDT

BRMS - How It Can Save YOU!
Monday May 19, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
Room 13
Backing up your system can be critical for disaster recovery, data recovery, and audit. Managing it manually can be daunting and apt to failure. Learn how BRMS can save the day and automate many essential tasks (some that you may not be doing).
Speakers
JC
Monday May 19, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
Room 13 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience

4:30pm PDT

BRMS Recoveries
Monday May 19, 2025 4:30pm - 4:50pm PDT
Room 12
There's so much to cover in BRMS when setting up the backups that discussing recoveries sometimes gets lost. In this 20 minute session we will focus solely on the recovery process for both full system and single item recoveries. A few tips and tricks for making sure that you are able to recover exactly what you need when you need.
Speakers
SJ

Sarah Jacob

Agile Tech
Monday May 19, 2025 4:30pm - 4:50pm PDT
Room 12 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience
 
Tuesday, May 20
 

8:00am PDT

BRMS Beyond the Basics
Tuesday May 20, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 12
This session will discuss some of the advanced topics in using BRMS for your back up and recovery. Featured topics will be tape and library management, BRMS Networking,  control group and list controls, BRMS Policies and how they affect the overall operation of BRMS, and using SQL to manage BRMS. Recovering from a BRMS back up can be extremely easy, but it can also present some opportunities for trouble. This session will discuss some of the landmines in a BRMS recovery and how to avoid them.
Speakers
SJ

Sarah Jacob

Agile Tech
Tuesday May 20, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 12 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience

8:00am PDT

HA/DR Solutions for IBM i
Tuesday May 20, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 9
The IBM i HA/DR solution portfolio features highly automated IBM storage-based HA/DR solutions. We will address on premise, in cloud and hybrid cloud capabilities as well as the roadmaps going forward. The HA/DR solutions for IBM i incorporate IBM storage replication
and FlasCcopy/BRMS automation. With Cyber Vault, the environment can be extended to automate safe guarded copies for Ransomware protection.

Learning Objectives:
1) How to position, which solution approach should you be using
2) What are the capabilities and limitations if each option
3) What are the value propositions, licensing options and other considerations
Speakers
avatar for Steve Finnes

Steve Finnes

Product Manager, IBM
Steve has spent several years in IBM with positions spanning basic research to product development, product offering and marketing. He is the product offering manager for IBM Power Systems with responsibility for PowerHA for AIX, PowerHA for IBM i and the CBU.
Tuesday May 20, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 9 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience

10:45am PDT

Choosing the right HA/DR Solution
Tuesday May 20, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Room 2
The High Availability and Disaster Recovery landscape is continually evolving with new technologies both on-premis and in the cloud dedicated to ensuring your business stays running. Navigating through these technologies requires and understanding of business needs, and outage protection goals.

Throughout this session we will discuss the types of outages, and the technologies available to protect against those types of outages in order to help you make decisions to map out your HA and DR journey. This session will give a brief overview of a number of technologies including: Db2 Mirror, Live Partition Mobility, Logical/Software based Replication, Full System Replication, and PowerHA technologies.
Speakers
avatar for Brian Nordland

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra
In addition to his role as Director of Development for Power Development at Fortra, Brian Nordland serves as the technical product manager for PowerHA and Robot HA. Brian has spoken at events, webinars, and user groups—including COMMON—since 2014. He is a co-inventor on multiple... Read More →
Tuesday May 20, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience
 
Wednesday, May 21
 

8:00am PDT

PowerHA for Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud (Geographic Mirroring)
Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 2
Geographic mirroring is a PowerHA hardware replication technology that provides a complete high availability solution for IBM i working with any type of storage, enabling the simplicity of hardware replication with the flexibility of cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. In addition, if simple real-time disaster recovery meets your needs, Geographic mirroring can also be used in an IBM i-hosted environment for a very easy-to-implement DR solution.

This session will explain the concepts of geographic mirroring, as well as best practices and sizing considerations. We will walk through a complete configuration of a geographic mirroring environment.

This session will cover recently released technologies for geographic mirroring including compression, multi-target geographic mirroring. In addition, other recently announced PowerHA Cloud technologies in IBM Power Virtual Server will be discussed.
Speakers
avatar for Brian Nordland

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra
In addition to his role as Director of Development for Power Development at Fortra, Brian Nordland serves as the technical product manager for PowerHA and Robot HA. Brian has spoken at events, webinars, and user groups—including COMMON—since 2014. He is a co-inventor on multiple... Read More →
Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience

3:45pm PDT

DB2 Mirror -  Logistics for 400K trucks -  Driving Business Outcomes    
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
Room 7
  

The logistics company generates over 3.2M downloads to equip over 400,000  trucks 7 x 24 with all the AI features they need for their workday.  Near zero downtime was the only way to keep the fleets connected and moving. This CASE Study will present through the eyes of the customer a roadmap:  IBM lab DB2 Assessment, building a reference architecture, implementation, testing failover and day to day management for DB2 Mirror. 

Learn how Transflo leveraged an  IBM Cloud On Net solution by staying on IBM  Power Technology connected to AWS and Azure.  


Speakers
avatar for Richard Dolewski

Richard Dolewski

VP, Enterprise Solutions, Connectria
Richard is a recognized SME and award-winning industry speaker specializing in, Cloud Computing Architecture, Business Resiliency, Disaster Recovery Planning and Backup & Recovery Program Design. He leads organizations through the new era of technology, achieving the desired, successful... Read More →
Wednesday May 21, 2025 3:45pm - 4:45pm PDT
Room 7 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience
 
Thursday, May 22
 

8:00am PDT

Live Demo: Managing PowerHA Solutions
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 2
PowerHA provides complete high availability (HA) solutions for IBM i customers with both internal storage and external storage environments. This interactive demo session will explain the concepts required to manage PowerHA environments, as well as give live demonstrations of the key management tasks used in a PowerHA environment.
Speakers
avatar for Brian Nordland

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra
In addition to his role as Director of Development for Power Development at Fortra, Brian Nordland serves as the technical product manager for PowerHA and Robot HA. Brian has spoken at events, webinars, and user groups—including COMMON—since 2014. He is a co-inventor on multiple... Read More →
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience

9:15am PDT

What is Journaling good for? Beyond journaling for logical HA/DR replication
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Room 6
In this session, we will discuss journaling and its role in logical replication, hardware replication and also its benefit to availability when you not using any type of replication. You might think you don't need journaling if you are not replicating, not using commitment control, and not using other advanced DB2 Features, but that's not the case. We will answer questions such as:
What is journaling doing at its core?
What are the benefits for journaling when I'm not replicating to a second system?
Why do I need to journal for Hardware Replication?
Why should I journal if I want to use Flash Copy?
What is remote journaling and how is it used for Logical Replication?
What are the journaling implications for DB2 Mirror combined with long distance logical replication?
How can I improve journaling performance, disk consumption and remote journaling bandwidth?
Speakers
JV
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Room 6 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience

3:00pm PDT

Building Resilient Power Systems Through Modern High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategies
Thursday May 22, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Room 2
This session will explore essential strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for your IBM i systems. Discover best practices for minimizing downtime, protecting critical data, and maintaining business continuity in the face of unexpected events. We will cover key technologies, implementation considerations, and real-world examples to help you build a robust and resilient IBM i environment.
Speakers
avatar for David Contreras

David Contreras

IBM Power Systems Specialist, Meridian IT
My over 35 years of experience range from Senior System Architect, Systems Analyst, Senior System Engineer, Project Manager, Technical Manager and I.T Specialist. I have the ability to work effectively with different levels of staff from executive to technical. I have traveled extensively... Read More →
Thursday May 22, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802
  High Availability Resilience
 
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