IBMi Capacity Planning Cloud, On-Prem, or Hybrid? - Randy Watson & Alex Lazzaro

Whether you’re simply upgrading your on-prem Power system, consolidating multiple Power systems, or moving some or all your LPAR to the cloud, capacity planning is in your future.

In this session, IBM i experts Randy Watson and Alex Lazzaro will discuss the most important items to consider when developing a capacity plan – from necessary skills and software licensing to financial implications. Attend this replay to discover:

    What IBM Power server fits your needs
    Licensing particularities for the IBM I
    The opportunities to consolidate workloads, reduce costs, and improve availability by using virtualization
    A real capacity planning example

Alejandro Lazzaro

Professional Services Senior Technical Consultant

Fortra

Alejandro (Alex) Lazzaro is a Professional Services Senior Technical Consultant at Fortra. He works on Powertech and Robot implementations for customers in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

He started working with the IBM i back in 2005 with IBM as an IAM Administrator. He then started as a Junior Admin in 2006 where he worked on environments with BRMS Networks and HA solutions and was later recruited by ACS (then Xerox and finally Atos) in 2011 as a Senior IBM i Administrator.

Randy Watson

HelpSystems

A 50-year IT veteran, Randy Watson has spent the last two decades helping IBM, IBM business partners, and customers manage and analyze performance and capacity on the Power Systems platform for IBM i, AIX, VIOS, and Linux. Most recently, he added analyzing AI/ML Power environments by monitory GPU metrics.