<font size=2 face="sans-serif">The Georgia IBM POWER User Group meeting
is a quarterly meeting focused on the users of IBM POWER Systems.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM POWER Systems run AIX, IBM i and
Linux operating systems.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The focus of this group is primarily
users of AIX and Linux operating systems.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM does not offer its own Linux distribution.
Rather, IBM runs standard distributions of Linux provided by the
standard Linux distributors.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Currently, IBM POWER Systems support
RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The topic for the April 21, 2016, Georgia
IBM POWER User Group meeting will be Provisioning Linux on POWER Systems.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">A customer who runs RHEL will discuss
their processes for provisioning RHEL.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">A customer who runs SLES will discuss
their processes for provisioning SLES.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">An IBM Lab Services resource will discuss
creating LPARs or Virtual Machines or Guests to run an operating system
- Linux, etc.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If anyone from the Linux Enthusiasts
community would like to attend, you are welcome to do so. </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Please forward this email to Victor.Threatt@us.ibm.com
and provide the information requested in the flyer below.</font><br><font size=2 face="Calibri"><br>--- </font><br><br><font size=4 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b>Georgia IBM </b></font><font size=5 color=#000080 face="Arial"><b>P</b></font><font size=4 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b>OWER
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</b></font><img src=cid:_1_12C36A0012C3662800602BD085257F89 style="border:0px solid;"><br><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b>Date/Time:
Thursday, April
21, 2015, 3pm to 5pm</b></font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b>Location:
IBM Corporation,
Building A, Barfield Auditorium</b></font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b>
6303 Barfield Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30328</b></font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b>
</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">Agenda:</font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">3:00-3:10pm
Meet and Greet</font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">3:15pm
Opening Housekeeping</font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">3:15-5:00pm
Presentation<br></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Subject: Customer
Experience Provisioning Linux on POWER</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b> with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Presenter: Jason
Brown, Travelport, OS Team, Systems Engineer</b></font><br><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Subject: Customer
Experience Provisioning Linux on POWER</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b> with
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Presenter: Jason
Williams, Carter’s, Senior Systems Engineer</b></font><br><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Subject: Provisioning
Linux on POWER</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>
(PowerKVM, PowerVM, PowerVC)</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>Presenter:
Mehboob Mithaiwala, IBM Lab Services</b></font><br><br><font size=3 face="Arial"><b>
</b></font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">4:50-5:00pm
Round Table</font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">5:00pm
Closing Housekeeping</font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">5:00-7:00pm
Gathering at Uncle Julio’s</font><br><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b><u>DRIVING DIRECTIONS</u></b><u></u></font><br><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">To </font><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">IBM
Corporation, 6303 Barfield Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30328:</font><br><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">
From GA 400 North, Exit at Abernathy Road.</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">
Go west on Abernathy Road.</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">
Turn left (south) on Barfield Road (1<sup>st</sup> light
after GA 400).</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">
Building is on the left after you cross Mt. Vernon Hwy.</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">
Turn left into the facility. Go around the building
to the parking garage.</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">
Breezeway to the buildings is on the 4<sup>th</sup> level.
</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">Building A is on
your left coming from the parking garage.</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">
</font><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">From IBM Corporation to Uncle Julio’s,
1140 Hammond Drive, Atlanta, GA</font><br><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Left (south) on Barfield Road out
of the IBM facility.</font><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Left (east) on Hammond Drive at
the dead end of Barfield Road.</font><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Left (north) on Peachtree-Dunwoody
Road (1<sup>st</sup> major intersection).</font><br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Right into Uncle Julio’s parking
lot.</font><br><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b><u>Registration</u></b></font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">Note: We are back in an IBM
facility, so we have IBM security procedures.</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">Please reply (</font><a href=mailto:Victor.Threatt@us.ibm.com><font size=3 color=blue face="Arial"><u>Victor.Threatt@us.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">)
with the following:</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">Subject:
Request to attend Georgia IBM POWER User Group Meeting</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">Content:
Your Name</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">
Your Company Name</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">
Your email address</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">
Your cell phone number</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">
</font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial"><b><u>Website</u></b></font><br><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Arial">Georgia IBM POWER User Group
website url:</font><br><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en"><font size=3 color=blue face="Arial"><u>https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Power%20Systems/page/Georgia%20IBM%20Power%20User%20Group</u></font></a><br><p><table width=480 style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tr valign=top height=8><td width=240 style="border-style:none none none none;border-color:#000000;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;padding:0px 0px;"><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Victor
Threatt</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>POWER(p) Technical Sales Specialist</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Industry and Enterprise Accounts (Southeast)<br>Certified for IBM Power Systems<br>Cell: 770-241-1067<br>Victor.Threatt@us.ibm.com</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">@VictorThreatt4P<br><b><u>Embrace Change.</u></b></font><td width=240 style="border-style:none none none none;border-color:#000000;border-width:0px 0px 0px 0px;padding:0px 0px;"><img src=cid:_1_1201AD6C1201A7D800602BD085257F89 style="border:0px solid;"></table><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am rebuilding my contact list. It
is really helpful when all emails sent include an editable signature block
that includes name, enterprise, title/function, geographic location, phone
numbers and the internet email address.</font><br><BR>