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ITUG Summit 2007—A Great Success

ITUG Summit 2007 at HP Technology Forum & Expo, held June 18–21 in Las Vegas, Nevada was a great success!

With more than 7,500 attendees in total, 131 exhibitors, eight pre-conference seminars, an ITUG member kiosk, an ITUG networking booth in the Expo, a successful Leaders Day Program, and numerous networking receptions, ITUG Summit 2007 made history by collaborating with HP Technology Forum & Expo.

ITUG provided an exciting technical program line up with nearly 100 technical sessions. Attendees had the opportunity to gain insight from HP developers, managers, and product engineers, experienced NonStop users, and third-party vendors.

The featured speakers included HP executives such as:

• HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd
• EVP and CIO Randy Mott
• EVP, Technology Solutions Group Ann Livermore
• EVP, Imaging and Printing Group Vyomesh (VJ) Josh
• EVP, Personal Systems Group Todd Bradley

And HP NonStop Executives….

• Martin Fink
  Senior Vice President and General Manager
  Business Critical Systems


• Winston Prather
  Vice President and General Manager
  NonStop Enterprise Division


• Randy Meyer
  Director,
  NonStop Product Management, Strategy, and Technology

The featured customer speakers shared exciting stories about how their companies are creatively implementing NonStop Solutions to meet their challenging business needs.

Attendees heard from the following customers at ITUG Summit 2007:

• Diederick de Buck
  Controlling Architect/Technical Evangelist for NonStop Systems
  Network Server Management
  Rabobank Netherlands


• Frank Marchio
  Senior Director, Customer Information Initiatives
  CIBC

Additional highlights included a host of interesting and informative breakout sessions. These ranged from business application solutions (finance, enterprise solutions, and communications, media, and entertainment) and developing applications to business intelligence, platforms, and managing enterprise applications.

Special interest group sessions facilitated meetings with experts in:

• Business Continuity
• Operations Management
• Performance
• Security & Audit
• SQL
• Telecom

The fourth annual ITUG Summit Leader’s Day, a day long event focused on business sessions and interaction with HP executives offered a unique opportunity for HP NonStop customer executives to explore the topic: Optimizing IT for Better Business Outcomes. Learn about what happened at ITUG Summit 2007 Leaders Day.

During the ITUG Closing General Session of ITUG Summit 2007, ITUG’s chairman, Scott Healy, highlighted the state of ITUG as of June 2007.

Check back next week for photographs from ITUG Summit 2007.

Congratulations and thank you to all of the ITUG Summit 2007 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors!

24 x7 Magazine Now Available

As mentioned during the Opening ITUG General Session, HP's 24 x 7 Magazine is now available. If you did not pick up your copy during the event or would like to forward a copy to your colleague, download a copy of the magazine.

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