More of the past meetings and agendas:

February 22, 2011

view detailed agenda in - agendaFeb222011.doc or agendaFeb222011.pdf

Sponsored by:

• Slash Your Monthly Software Costs pdf file
• Martin Wills - MVS Solutions
• Virtualization Performance and Capacity Data Classification Schema
• Debbie Sheetz - BMC
• Predicting the Relative Performance of CPU
• Debbie Sheetz - BMC
• How To Take Over A Nuclear Power Plant
• Kellman Meghu - Checkpoint

April 19 & 20, 2011

(Posted Apr 15) CMG Canada has finalized arrangements for our April 19 and 20 seminar. We are especially fortunate to have both 2010 Mullin award winners and a variety of very experienced speakers. The theme for the 19^th is Open Systems, and for the 20^th Mainframes.

The detailed agenda is available for download.

agendaApr19202011-Final1.pdf or agendaApr19202011-Final1.doc

October 19, 2010

detailed agenda - agendaOct192010rev.doc or agendaOct192010rev.pdf

Note that the order of the morning presentations has been flipped. (Oct 15^th update)

• Discover Business Units of Work to Improve Effectiveness of Capacity and Performance Management
• Alon Ben-Shoshan – Correlsense
• Inifiniband Networking - The Need for Speed
• Ron Marshall - Oracle
• Workload Performance Management
• Fabio Gammerino and Dilara Buyuk – ORSYP
• IT Performance Management in a Financial Crisis
• Fernando Martinez - CGI

April 13 & 14, 2010 detailed agenda - agendaApr13142010a.doc or agendaApr13142010a.pdf

Sponsored by Senmesoft

Tuesday

• Fibre Channel storage and SAN infrastructure optimization using instrumentation in real-time
• Eric Robitaille – Virtual Instruments
• How Many JES2 or WLM Initiators Are Right?
• Martin Wills – MVS Solutions
• R – What every Capacity Planner and Performance Analysts Needs to Know
• David Banham – CIBC
• System z Family Product Update
• Jim Elliot – IBM Canada, Ltd.
• Saving Money (and your mainframe)
• Danilo Gipponi - EPV Technologies
• Capacity Planning Issues in 2010
• Danilo Gipponi - EPV Technologies
• EPV – This marketing session is by today’s sponsor – Senmesoft
• Gilles Senecal - SenmeSoft

Members Reception

Wednesday

• Changing perspective on database performance and capacity planning with Oracle Exadata technology
• Oleksiy Razborshchuk – Oracle
• Changing in a Flash - The Impact of Flash and Solid State Disks on Capacity and Performance Planning
• Ron Marshall – Oracle
• Forecasting Data Center Power Requirements: Tips from the Trenches
• Frank Bereznay - IBM / Kaiser Permanente
• Capacity Planning - Why do it?
• John Slobodnik – Toronto Hydro
• Network Latency and Application Performance
• Wilfried von Haren – Predictive Networks
• Don's Diatribe XI
• Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

February 23, 2010 detailed agenda - agendaFeb232010.doc or agendaFeb232010.pdf

Sponsored by Intellimagic

§ Performance Comparison: Migrating from IBM System z9 to z10

• Jonathan Gladstone – BMO
• Load Testing Is Easy. Good Load Testing Is Not. Preparation is the Difference.
• Chris Lynn – Safeway
• A New Perspective on Enterprise Storage Tiers
• John Baker – Intellimagic
• Fibre Channel storage and SAN infrastructure optimization using instrumentation in real-time
• Eric Robitaille – Virtual Instruments

October 20, 2009 detailed agenda - agendaOct202009.doc

• Event Profiling Versus State Profiling, on z/OS
• David A. Day- Cole Software
• Performance Management in Virtualized Environments (IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, VMware ESX specifics and similarities)
• Emmanuel Sauvion – Sysload
• The Stork correlation Use & Abuse of Statistics in Performance & Capacity Planning
• Denise P. Kalm – CA
• IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS V4R2
• Mike Goodman – IBM
• IBM System z Update
• Jim Elliot – IBM Canada

April 14 and 15, 2009 detailed agenda - agendaApr14152009.doc or agendaApr14152009.pdf

Tuesday

• ESCON, FICON and Mainframe Performance ppt file
• Steve Guendert – Brocade
• Multi-Core Computing and the Tiered Storage Model pdf file
• Anthony G. Mungal – EMC Corporation
• Automating Batch and Saving Money pdf file 4.8 MB
• Martin Wills – MVS Solutions
• Building a Dynamic Infrastructure –

Trends and Directions for System z presentation is on Jim's website

• Jim Elliott - IBM
• Linux on System z - A Strategic View presentation is on Jim's website
• Jim Elliott – IBM
• CMG Canada Members’ Networking Session – all invited

Wednesday

• Software Blades
• Kellman Meghu – Check Point Software Technologies Inc.
• Using TeamQuest Model in an Oracle 10G RAC Environment zipped pdf file 7 MB
• John Slobodnik – CGI
• Business Transaction Management –

The Next Generation of IT Performance Management ppt file

• Alon Ben-Shoshan - Correlsense Ltd

§ Performance Testing vs. Performance Monitoring ppt file

§ Jan Warren – Enbridge

• Don's Diatribe IX pdf file
• Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

October 21, 2008 detailed agenda

• Performance Analysis of WAN based application delivery networks pdf file 7 MB
• Wilfried van Haeren – NetDialog Inc. Canada
• Real Application Testing - with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition. pdf file
• Oleksiy Razborshchuk - Oracle
• Trending or Modeling for z/OS Systems - One, the Other, or Both? Word doc
• Greg Caliri - BMC.
• Predictive Analysis in a Multi-Tier environment using Modeling. ppt presentation
• John Slobodnik - CGI
• Open Forum – Questions and Answers

April 15 / 16, 2008 detailed agenda.doc or detailed agenda.pdf Sponsored in part by CA Inc.

Tuesday

• Z10 pdf file 2MB
• Tom Russell – IBM
• Besides The Processor... pdf file 1MB
• Gord Neill – IBM
• Regulatory Compliance and the IBM Mainframe: Key Requirements pdf file
• Reg Harbeck – CA
• Adjusting RMPTTOM to Reduce SRM Overhead ppt presentation or pdf file
• Kevin Martin - McKesson
• On the Importance of I/O Parallelism and I/O Priority structures in z/OS Environments.
• Anthony G. Mungal - EMC Corporation

CMG Canada Members’ Networking Session

Wednesday

• Seeing it All at Once with Barry pdf file 4MB
• Mario Jauvin – MFJ Associates
• THE MINIMUM DAILY ADULT The Right Metrics and the Wrong Metrics pdf file
• Denise P. Kalm – CA Inc.
• Solaris Virtualization
• Scott Wardley – Royal Bank of Canada
• Open Performance Security Architecture Past and Future
• Kellman Meghu – Checkpoint
• Don's Diatribe VII pdf file
• Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

Feb'08 Welcome Letter.doc

March 18, 2008 detailed agenda Mar182008.doc

§ Secure Network Access: Real-time measurement of users compliance to policy

§ Vitaly Levin, Nortel

§ Network Application Monitoring

§ Carey McClymont, Radware

Oct'07 welcome letter

Our Oct. 30,2007 seminar focused on Z series topics: agendaOct302007.doc (detailed agenda)

§ Tom Russell of IBM will present "How Mainframe CPUs Work"

§ Peter Enrico of Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc   will present "zIIPs and zAAPs - Understanding Transaction Flows and CPU Measurements"
and he will also present "Introduction to Websphere MQ Performance"

§ Tony Mungal of EMC will present “Mainframe relevant features of the DASD subsystem”
We will also have a Q&A session.

April 19 and 20, 2005: Agenda This two day seminar included 10 presentations. CA Canada sponsored this event.

February 22, 2005: Feb 22 agenda This half day seminar focused on virtual server architecture. BMC sponsored this event.

January 25, 2005: CMGagendaJan252005a.doc This seminar was sponsored in part by Compuware Corporation who hosted a vendor specific session.

April 20/21, 2004 agendaApr20212004.doc

February 17, 2004 agendaFeb172004.doc

November 18, 2003 agendaNov182003.doc

April 22 & 23, 2003 Detailed agenda and Welcome letter

Further Past CMG Canada Meetings and Agendas