On November 17, IBA jointly with IBM Corporation conducted a conference entitled "IBM zSeries and Modern technologies. IBM TotalStorage Data Storage Systems" in the conference hall of the hotel "Belarus" in Minsk.

Sergei Levteev, IBA CEO, and Vladimir Loginov, High End System Sales Manager, IBM EE/A, spoke about the importance of the issues raised at the conference, wished the attendees successful work and expressed their hope for fruitful cooperation in future.

Sergei Levteev, IBA CEO	Vladimir Loginov, High End System Sales Manager, IBM EE/A

At the conference, the IBA and IBM senior staff made six presentations on the following topics:

• IBM Mainframes: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Development strategy “On Demand”
• IBM permanent data storage systems and IBA solutions
• IBM innovative approaches to data storage systems construction. IBM TotalStorage solutions
• IBM TotalStorage strategy. IBM TotalStorage DS family
• IBM data storage management solutions
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

In the course of reports and presentations the participants had an opportunity to become familiar with a wide range of modern technologies and solutions, and functionality of IBM TotalStorage product family, to ask questions to IBM and IBA experts, and to meet with their colleagues in a friendly atmosphere.

Nikalai Karatchoun, IBA Deputy Technical Director, Director of Technical Division	Aleksey Prokhorov, zSeries Sales Leading Expert, IBM EE/A

More than 90 invitees took part in the conference, including upper and middle managers, a key staff and chief information officers of various enterprises, banks and government institutions.