VA MD and DC Open Source IBM Z and LinuxONE Meetup Group

Security Lifecycle Management (SLM) is top of mind of CISO's. This is because of the rapid escalation of cybersecurity attacks, the costs associated with such attacks and a flurry of regulatory activity that requires organizations to institute tools and practices that protect secrets like passwords, API keys, Certificates, Encryption Keys, etc.

This session will discuss capabilities that are available NOW to modernize the IBM Z Secret Management Landscape with IBM Vault.

Optimize data center efficiency and workload consolidation on
IBM® LinuxONE

Protect your data and applications with Confidential containers and Post-Quantum Cryptography

Enhance, scale and secure AI workloads with IBM Telum® II and
IBM Spyre accelerator

As organizations modernize IBM Z® and LinuxONE™ environments, virtualization and automation are essential for delivering scalable, efficient, and resilient operations. This session explores how IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE provides a unified management layer for z/VM®, KVM, and PR/SM™ based virtualization environments. Attendees will learn how the solution enables consistent lifecycle management of virtual machines, storage, and networking across the platform.

The session also demonstrates how Terraform and Ansible can be used together to automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks through an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach, helping organizations accelerate deployment, improve consistency, and reduce operational complexity.

In addition, the session highlights recent enhancements that extend management capabilities to logical partitions (LPARs), enabling LPARs, hypervisors, and virtual machines to be managed through a single, unified operational and automation framework. By bringing these capabilities together, IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE helps organizations simplify hybrid infrastructure operations while supporting modernization initiatives across IBM Z and LinuxONE environments.

Discover how Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on IBM Z enables organizations to consolidate virtual machines and containers on a single enterprise platform. This session combines a hands-on overview of core virtualization capabilities - including VM lifecycle management, storage operations, networking, and live migration - with performance-driven insights into cluster sizing, resource consumption, VM density, and scaling behavior. Attendees will leave with practical guidance for designing, deploying, and optimizing OpenShift Virtualization environments that deliver both operational simplicity and enterprise-grade efficiency.