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The Integrating Services and Technologies Program (ISnT) provides a technical program that encompasses the most essential disciplines of Systems Management and other tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of professionals in SHARE's Member organizations who are accountable for Information Technology Management. We provide a forum to address the issues of managing existing and emerging technologies in the complex heterogeneous and distributed environments that are required for today's multi-tiered Enterprise business systems. The primary goal of the Integrating Services and Technologies Program is to provide a comprehensive technical program that has technical training, provides insights into new technology directions, and presents thought provoking discussions on issues that are relevant to the Technical Staff, their Managers and Systems Architects. This program also supports SHARE's mission of 'Industry Influence' by making a coherent and unified presentation of user needs to IBM, its business partners and other vendors. Business data processing environments today span Mainframes to Personal Computers and require a multitude of networking technologies to distribute processing and data across their complexity. This program tries to be as diverse as the products and services that these different platforms depend upon for effectiveness in your enterprise.
The Projects included in the Integrating Systems and Technologies Program (ISnT) are:
If you are interested in becoming active in any of the Projects in ISnT, please contact Sylvia Gorman or Harry Williams.
Asset Management
The Asset Management Project, running the 'SAM in SHARE' track, is dedicated to controlling IT costs. While covering all aspects of IT costs and Total Cost of Ownership, the escalating software costs and declining hardware costs have created a reality whereby software costs rose to center stage. The SAM Project discusses the set of methodologies, policies technologies and people dedicated to the active management of software inventory, software usage monitoring, license management and the contractual and financial attributes of software across the entire Enterprise. Ultimately, the goal of SAM in SHARE is to manage the total cost of computing - software, hardware, and staff.
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Data Center
The Data Center Project targets organizations that operate heterogeneous enterprise computing environments. Emphasis is placed on the tools, methodologies, and architectures needed to create and maintain reliable, redundant data centers. The project provides a combination of vendor and user sessions on topics of current and ongoing interest. Issues affecting the data center itself, as well as Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating system environments are presented and discussed. Sessions presented in this project will be particularly appealing to attendees from small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) who don't necessarily have a large, dedicated IT staff as well as enterprises who have smaller data centers.
The Data Center Project is currently open and actively encourages new and existing members to participate in all activities.
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End to End Systems Management
The purpose of the End to End Systems Management Project (E2E) is to provide the SHARE membership with information, assistance, and guidance in performing enterprise systems management functions. The project also provides a forum for attendees to influence systems and network management products.
The following are some of the topic areas this project addresses (but not limited to):
- Enterprise and Distributed Systems Management
- Systems Management Automation
- Systems Management Integration
- Integration and Interoperability of Management Platforms
- Continuous System Operation
- Business Continuity
- Disaster Recovery
The project offers sessions that often present solutions on multiple platforms across disparate locations within multi-vendor environments. Emphasis is placed on the tools, methodologies, and architectures that are needed for successful systems and network management.
Project staffing includes liaisons to other SHARE entities to assist in coordinating issues associated with the many products and services addressed by enterprise management disciplines. Other activities include the submission of requirements and position papers aimed at giving a coherent and unified presentation of user needs to systems and network management tool vendors.
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Interdisciplinary Technologies
The ITECH project focuses on the issues, usability and advances associated with deploying new and emerging IT technologies, as well as on their integration into current business applications. This focus includes the topics of IT standards and compliance, privacy and ethics, system usability and accessibility, artificial intelligence, information overload, desktop and mobile computing, telecommuting, virtual companies, software engineering and business process management, search technologies, multimedia, data mining, hardware, and quality and risk issues associated with the deployment of these technologies. The project also works to identify new technologies and incubate projects in these technologies, as they become more mature, either as full SHARE Projects, committees or Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
The project sponsors and coordinates sessions that educate and inform the SHARE membership about the various aspects of technology innovation and use. These sessions include presentations by vendors, user experiences, and 'pure' technology from state-of-the-art research and development arena. The project focuses on emerging technology in a practical, business application perspective, as it is implemented in the 'real world.’
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Professional Development
The Professional Development Project focuses on the non-technical side of today’s IT environment. Whether one wants to admit it or not, the business side and non-technical professional side of the IT environment is as critical as the technical side. Further more, today’s IT environment is both mentally and physically demanding which takes a significant toll on the IT professional. The Project presents series of sessions that designed to address four specific areas of interest:
- Professional Skills - Covers the professional skills required to deal with the business aspects of the IT environment and business as a whole.
- Leadership Skills - Covers the skills required to be an effective manager of IT professionals and/or an effective technical leader regardless of position.
- Personal Skills - Covers the basic skills providing a foundation for building leadership and professional skills as well as technical skills.
- Survival Skills - Covers the skills and methods assisting the IT professional to survive the pace and stresses of our demanding IT environment.
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Security and Audit
The Security and Audit Project is concerned with enterprise-wide security management, which includes security, auditability, and disaster recovery of corporate data, software, and hardware. We are concerned with security management on the desktop, in the client/server environment, on the mainframe, over the Internet, or within any heterogeneous network. The Security and Audit Project provides information on security management tools, policies and procedures that address identity management, data integrity, confidentiality, access control, and systems management -- from within a single enterprise, or across public or private networks, such as the Internet, intranet, or extranet.
The customers of the Security and Audit Project are, but not limited to:
- Security, database, and data administrators who must integrate and manage security policies across the various enterprise platforms.
- AN and client/server administrators who are responsible for security and disaster recovery of their systems.
- Systems management personnel responsible for managing the enterprise networks and other infrastructure services such as mainframes and subsystems, such as CICS, TSO, JES, etc.
- Anyone responsible for installing, administering, auditing, or modifying the RACF, ACF2 and TopSecret families of products.
- People responsible for writing secure applications that meet accreditation standards.
- Department and senior management requiring information on what the security, audit, and disaster recovery issues are, as well as information on developing and implementing workable solutions in their organizations.
- End-users who have, as employees of an organization, inherent security responsibilities for safeguarding information entrusted to their care.
The Security and Audit Project offers several products and services to SHARE and its attendees. These include, but are not limited to:
- Education for the attendee regarding security issues, trends, and solutions to security problems on the various platforms and technologies, such as viruses and encryption, disaster recovery development, implementation and maintenance, etc.
- A forum for submitting security, audit, and recovery requirements to IBM for their product lines. This includes RACF, as well as other IBM products that currently have or should have security issues addressed.
- White Papers which are intended to influence the information technology strategies of IBM, when developing new products, or enhancing existing product lines.
- A forum for Security Managers and practitioners to meet and discuss common problems and solutions in the security, audit and recovery arenas.
- Providing consulting to, or speakers for, other Projects that require security, audit or disaster recovery issues to be addressed, and need additional resources to meet their requirements.
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Storage
The Storage Project provides a focus for distributed storage issues, including the evolving Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage. The areas covered are:
- Tivoli Storage Manager and the Data Protect products
- Tivoli Storage Management
- Tivoli Sanergy
- Tivoli DRM
- Open Systems Disk products
- Open Systems Tape products
- SAN hardware (routers, switches, gateways, hubs, cabling)
- NAS hardware
The project is also the vehicle for submitting requirements for enhancements to the Tivoli Storage software. The requirements voting is held as a joint session with the MVSS (MVS Storage) project.
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