Come along to the Official Irish Launch of Microsoft System Center 2012!

The official Irish and Northern Irish launches for System Center 2012 have been confirmed by Microsoft Ireland for March 22nd in Dublin and March 27th in Belfast.

I've been asked to present a session as one of four speakers alongside the presenting talents of Aidan Finn (MVP Virtual Machine), Damian Flynn (MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management) and Paul Keely (MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management)!

Each event is a full day out and kicks off at 10:00 until 17:00. The Dublin event is being held in the Berkley Court Hotel and the Belfast event is being held at the Hilton Hotel.

Here's the agenda for the day:

Time	Session
10:00 – 10:30	Event Registration
10:30 – 11:30	Hear how Microsoft takes the experience of running the largest datacentres in the world and applies it to scalable management solutions for customers worldwide
11:30 – 12:00	Damian Flynn from Lionbridge Technologies shares the cost savings and efficiencies achieved from implementing System Center
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
13:05 – 16:15	Real-world examples from Industry Experts
	Demonstration based sessions sharing scenarios that you can take and apply to your business. Examples include Deep Application Insights, Cloud and Data Centre – Automation and managing from the desktop to the datacentre

And here's the BIO's for each of the speakers:

Subject Matter Experts

Aidan Finn (MVP - Virtual Machine), works for MicroWarehouse Ltd as a technical sales lead, working with Microsoft partners on Hyper-V, System Center and Forefront opportunities. He has been working with systems management technologies since 1996, and is experienced with Windows Server, desktop deployment and management, System Center, virtualisation, and so on. He blogs on http://www.aidanfinn.com, tweets as @joe_elway, and has written or contributed to books such as Mastering Hyper-V Deployment and Mastering Windows 7 Deployment.

Damian Flynn (MVP – System Center Cloud & Data Centre), works for Lionbridge Technologies (a Localisation, Logo Certification, Search & Content Services Company) as a Technical Architect of Corporate IT Infrastructure, working with the Business Stakeholders, IT Team, and Partners. Damian is a member of the Microsoft Windows Sever Futures Council, actively participating in multiple Microsoft TAP programs, and has being working on infrastructure technologies since 1994, with a high level of experience in Networking, Storage, Linux and Windows Servers, Virtualisation, System Center, etc. He blogs on http://www.damianflynn.com, tweets from time to time on @damian_flynn, and is a contributing author on the forthcoming book “Microsoft Private Cloud Computing”.

Kevin Greene (Subject Matter Expert – Microsoft System Center Operations Manager), works for Ergo Group Ireland. Kevin has been responsible for the deployment of a large number of System Center projects to enterprise level clients across all sectors. He blogs at http://kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.com and you can also find him on Twitter as @kgreeneit

Paul Keely (MVP – System Center Cloud & Data Centre), Paul has been working with System Center in its original from form for nearly ten years. He works for Infront Consulting group, a specialist system center practice that deploys system center to some of the biggest companies in the world.


You can register for the event on the Irish IT Pro website by clicking on the link below:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ieitpro/archive/2012/02/21/system-centre-2012-launch-events-in-dublin-and-belfast.aspx

Registration places have already been filled so hurry up before it's booked out and I hope to see you there!!