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CollabSphere-Chicago (GRANITE) - Spring 2018 Meeting Agenda, April 25th, 2018

We are happy to announce that we are having a Spring 2018 GRANITE meeting.  We have renamed GRANITE to become CollabSphere-Chicago.  Our Spring 2018 meeting is packed with sessions.  We are fortunate enough to have a number of great speakers from IBM, IBM Customer, and IBM Partners. If you are interested in attending this meeting either in person or remotely, you will need to register for the meeting. There is no cost to attend. To register go to:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collabsphere-chicago-granite-spring-2018-meeting-tickets-44900159586 CollabSphere-Chicago (GRANITE) - Spring 2018 Meeting Agenda Location IBM Technical Exploration Center (Hyatt Center, West Loop) 71 S. Wacker Dr. 6th floor Chicago, IL 60606 If you are attending in person, you must have your ID and have registered to enter the building and attend the meeting.  Remote attendees will receive a link to the video conference after it is made available. 08:30 - 09:0...

All Good Things Must Come to an End and the New Hope and Direction

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MWLUG 2017 was our most successful MWLUG conference we have ever had. With over 232 registered and a small number of cancellations, MWLUG 2017 was the most attended and largest conference. We had over 60 sessions, workshops and round tables with speakers from all over the United States and Europe. Over a third of the sessions were non-IBM specific and included sessions covering new topics like MongoDB and GDPR. In tuned with our theme this year, Moving Collaboration Forward, our goal was to expand our conference this year forward towards a new direction and not just cover the usual. The world of collaboration is changing. No longer does a solution stand by itself nor does a solution just involve components from a single vendor. Companies need to chose the best of breed and integrate solutions together. Sometimes it involves solutions from many vendors. This is a direction that IBM is moving towards with Cisco and Box. At the same time we see customers moving away from the IBM stac...