After meeting all prerequisites, in June 2012, Adnan was selected by IBM USA to participate in ISA program. Following are the certifications obtained as a part of this program.

• TOGAF® 9 Certified - The Open Group Architectural Framework
• IBM Certified Infrastructure Systems Architect

ISAs will develop and validate strong technical leadership skills enabling them to architect and design complex IT infrastructure solutions that include integrated multiple server platforms, software middleware, storage, and services. 

• SNIA Architect – Assessment, Planning & Design
• ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
• Foundation Certificate in Green IT - BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
• Information Security Foundation based on ISO/IEC 27002
• IBM Certified Solution Specialists - Systems Management Technical Support V1
• IBM Certified Specialist - PureFlex Technical Support V1
• IBM Certified Specialist - PureFlex Systems Sales V1
• IBM Certified Systems Expert - Infrastructure Technical Design V1
• IBM Certified Solution Architect – IBM Cloud Computing Infrastructure Architect V1
• IBM Certified Specialists – XIV Storage System Technical Solutions V3
• IBM Certified Specialists – IBM Storwize V7000 Technical Solutions V1
• IBM Certified Specialists – High End Disk for Open Systems V2
• Power Systems with POWER 7 and AIX Technical Sales Skills V1
• Power Systems with POWER7 Common Technical Sales Skills - V1
• IBM Certified System Administrator – AIX 7.1

                        
                  

• AN100 - AIX 6 Basics
• AN120 - Power Systems for AIX II - AIX Implementation and Administration

Both courses were conducted by Adnan Ikram that were highly liked by all the participants. 

• VMware Sales Professional 5- VSP5 
• VMware Technical Sales Professional 5 - VTSP5

• Course Title : Introduction to IT Infrastructure Technologies
• Course Code: TN175

These workshops are designed to provide you with introductory information on leading edge infrastructure and emerging technologies. You will be taught about the capabilities, functions and basic solutions offered by the various technology market leaders. 

These lecture based workshops are specially designed to develop human resources by IT professionals with more than 20 years of experience in this field with a commitment to develop skills to meet or exceed demand where each individual can demonstrate their abilities as a key IT resource for any organization doing IT. 

These workshops are equally beneficial for fresh universities graduates and for those who want to start their career as a technology professional. This workshop is a prerequisite of the following job roles and is an excellent opportunity since no one in Pakistan is offering such type of professional courses. 

• IT Sales and Technology Specialists 
• IT Architect 
• Solution Architect 
• IT Consultant 
• System Integrators 
• and all managers who want to refresh their knowledge as per the contents of this workshop. 

Mr. Adnan Ikram, Director IT Infrastructure was invited as a guest speaker to present on Cloud Computing technologies and its importance in terms of latest features offered by various global technology vendors. Adnan has shared with the audience about the key features of Cloud Computing and have covered following topics as a part of his presentation;

• Where we stand today in Cloud Computing space.
• Storage explosion – Facts and figures.
• Cloud Computing – What is it and where it came from? 
• Five essential Cloud characteristics - On-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, measured services.
• Understand three services models – SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
• Review four deployment models – Public, Private, Hybrid and Community Cloud models.
• Understand five mandatory steps to implement Cloud based services.
• Developing the Cloud strategy and the IT transformation Roadmap.
• Reasons why organizations are considering Public Cloud.
• Concerns and barrier to Public Cloud adoption – A CIO based survey.
• See how clients have achieved significant benefits from Cloud Computing
• Pakistan's largest eCommerce ePayment Gateway solution – A SaaS implementation.
• Major Cloud payers and challenges.
• Cloud Security – Is it a concern? 
• Cloud Computing global market share (2010 - 2015) 

Mr. Shahid Latif, CEO, Euronet Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd was also a guest speaker who have presented Euronet's role in the area of Cloud Computing applications and have covered various areas where Euronet can help this market specially in the SaaS space. 

MAJU, Computer Science Department is conducting regular technology seminars on different topics to improve industry knowledge and market awareness of their students. The audience includes MBA/BBA and MCS/BCS students and MAJU faculty members. 

The session was attended by more than 150 students.

Mr. Humayun Qureshi, IT Consultant MAJU and an EX-IBMer have arranged this seminar.

• Course Title :Introduction to Storage Technologies
• Course Code: TN170

This one day lecture class is designed to develop storage technology skills and strategies associated with managing the explosive growth of business data across the enterprise in today's networked economy. It introduces the basic concepts and terminology associated with Direct Attached Storage (DAS), networked storage including Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and internet SCSI (iSCSI). 

It also maps the promise of SANs to the complications of managing islands of information among heterogeneous environments with disparate operating systems, data formats, user interfaces, and limited integration of products from assorted vendors. This course is designed to enable enterprises to be positioned to take advantage of networked storage technology.

This audience of this course would be the resources who;

• Want to start their career as storage sales specialists. 
• Want to develop skills as storage consultants, systems integrators and technology partners. 
• Senior IT managers who want to refresh thier knowledge in storage technologies.

• Course Title :POWER Virtualization Technologies
• Course Code: TN160

IBM Power Systems with PowerVM technology demonstrated superior performance and greater efficiency in using system capacity at higher utilization, as well as at higher resource contention (over-commit levels), and superior scaling with higher throughput performance.

IBM has a 40-plus year history of virtualization. No other vendor can come close to making this claim. The fact is that virtually everything they have implemented on the mid-range, has already been done on the mainframe.

IBM offer one virtualization strategy, PowerVM, unlike the myriad of solutions available from Sun or HP. The technology itself uses a hypervisor-based solution (which IBM has finally implemented though Xen, but only on their x86 platform), which sits between the operating system and the hardware.

This course is intended for persons who are system administrators, technical support individuals, and IBM Business Partners who implement or are planning to implement virtualization on IBM POWER Systems. The audience for this training may also include: 

• System Architects
• System Integrators
• IT Consultants 
• IT Managers

• AIX 7 Jumpstart for UNIX Professional

The course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 or under a standalone full 
partitioned environment. This is an excellent opportunity experienced UNIX users using HP/uX, Solaris, Linux or any other UNIX flavor. 

• IBM AIX 7 Basics
• Security for Power Systems AIX

Alkhalij Holding recently invested in IBM POWER7 and AIX7 technologies and have selected SAP for their ERP applications with Oracle as a database server. The solution will be deployed by using IBM PowerHA for high availability.

The course was conducted by Adnan Ikram that was highly liked by all the participants. This course was specially designed by GBM and was conducted at the customer location.

• Qatar Petroleum 
• Qatar Fertilizer

• Air Arabia
• Allied Bank Limited - Pakistan
• Al-Tayer
• Oman Insurance P.S.C

This service is consisting of ten categories that will cover organizational existing setup of infrastructure based on IBM AIX and Power server running mission critical applications. This consulting service is designed on the basis that you have got nothing to lose and everything to gain. At the end of this service a detailed report will be furnished followed by high level recommendations and suggestions by IBM Certified Solutions Expert – Dynamic Infrastructure Technical Leader and IBM Certified Specialists – Business Resilience.

Business Resiliency Consulting Services –planning and design provides a high availability plan for your organization. Building on information gathered from an initial assessment of your current business continuity capabilities and risks, this service focuses on your specific business requirements. We help you design the program that you need to avoid and mitigate potential risks to your business.

Services Highlights:

• Helps you sustain critical operations in the event of a disruption by defining strategic business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management plans.
• Designs a business requirement-based resilient architecture for your IT environment
• Helps you optimize the balance between your investments and the value of your business continuity program by providing plans and designs based on your unique needs
• Offers flexible and customizable solutions that matches to your specific needs

Dynamic Infrastructure Technical Leader is considered as one of the prestigious certification within IBM and a personal commitment in terms of increasing expertise and knowledge within IBM technologies that he always consider a greater challenge. These certifications are equally important in terms of sharing useful information with customers with full zeal and thrust followed by broad and precise product information and solutions. Following is the list of IBM Dynamic Infrastructure certifications attained by Adnan in the last last week of August 2010. 

• IBM Certified Solution Expert – Dynamic Infrastructure Technical Leader
• IBM Certified Specialist – Dynamic Infrastructure Virtualization & Consolidation Technical Design
• IBM Certified Specialist – Dynamic Infrastructure Business Resilience Technical Design
• IBM Certified Specialist – Dynamic Infrastructure Energy Efficiency Technical Design

Apart from these certifications, in December 2010, Adnan has also acquied these professional certifications.

• IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Cloud Computing Architecture V1
• IBM Certified System Administrator - AIX 6.1

          

IT industry may like this services as it cover various technical aspects where an organization may need a third party consulting services at affordable price in deciding their future IT spending’s and discussing day-to-day technical material related to change management. 

This initiative is one the services that our consultants are used to give to various customers in the past as a part of “Technical Review Committee” and “Technical Review Board”.

• TLC flex 15 hours of monthly consulting services 
• TLC flex 30 hours of quarterly services 
• TLC extended 45 hours of quarterly services