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Meet Tom Huntington - Mr. Robot

Tom HuntingtonI am Tom Huntington, Vice President of Technical Services at Help/Systems, LLC, and a 20-plus year veteran of the company. During that time, I have traveled more than 900,000 air miles via Northwest/Delta Airlines and visited more than 30 countries to talk to customers about computer automation, backups, security, business intelligence, development practices, quality, and family life.

COMMON Reflections: A Participant’s Perspective

This week, I’d like to share some thoughts about COMMON from our own Chuck Losinski, Director of Automation Technology. Chuck just returned from the 2012 Spring COMMON after a long hiatus and he brings his own unique perspective.


Why did it take me so much time to return to the annual COMMON conference? Where else can you rub elbows with the Chief Architect of IBM i (Steve Will) and other leaders in our community, like Trevor Perry? Where else can you give your input directly to the platform designers and explain your issues? Where else can you get your questions answered in front of your peers?

COMMON, the World, and the Future!

I have the privilege to get to COMMON almost every year. This year, we’re at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, CA—what a fantastic place to stay!

COMMON is a great event for keeping up with the industry, talking to customers, learning from other vendors, and of course hearing IBM’s pitch on where they’re going with technology.

The Help/Systems Solutions Summit Is On The Way

As my kids remind me every summer, September comes around pretty fast. So, I thought I’d better start spreading the word now. This September, the entire family of Help/Systems companies is going to get together to present the 2012 Solutions Summit.

An Apology—We Do Have HSM

I have to apologize to Jim from Kemper Insurance in Chicago.

Last week I was doing a Roadmap discussion with him and this team and he asked the question, “When will Robot/SAVE add HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) support, because the IBM product added this about a year ago.” In my own smug way I replied, “We did this about 15 years ago.”