Past CMG Canada Meetings and Agendas

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 24 & 25, 2007  agendaApr24252007a.doc  There is a new meeting location – C’est What 

Frank Berezney is traveling from California and hopefully we can give him a warm welcome.

·  Did Something Change? Using Statistical Techniques to Interpret Service and Resource Metrics.

§         Frank Berezney - Kaiser Permanente

February 20, 2007 (morning) Detailed Agenda

·  Oracle Real Application Clusters

Oleksiy Razborshchuk  – Oracle Corporation

·  Optimizing Your Oracle Investment

John Anderson – IBM

 

November 14, 2006  Detailed Agenda 

·  CSP 101: From Monoliths to Dinosaurs and Beyond

§         Gord Neill – IBM Canada

·  Planning for the public Internet

§         Martin Timusk - Timusk.com Inc.

·  Agentless vs. Active agents

§         Michael Taylor – Compuware

·  SOA Monitoring & Performance Management Challenges

§         Yori Lavi - OpTier

 

April 18 & 19, 2006  Detailed Agenda       Sponsored by Shunra and CA Canada

Tuesday

·  IT Issues That Still Keep Me Awake  pdf file

§         Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

·  Data Centre Consolidation

§         Amichai Lesser – Shunra

·  Application Performance Monitoring – One Approach  ppt file

§         John Slobodnik – CGI / Bell

·  Implementing a Monitoring Approach  ppt file

§         Janet Warren – Enbridge

·  Balancing Batch workloads and CPU activity in a parallel sysplex environment  ppt file

§         Kevin Martin – McKesson

Wednesday

·  What’s ITIL Got to do with it?

§         Nancy Hinich – CA

·  How Do TCP Profile Parameters Impact Performance?”  pdf file

§         Nalini Elkins – Inside Products

·  Business Resilience Means Direction, Exchange, Evolution  pdf file

§         Reg Harbeck - CA

·  Performance Improvements   “Things I Wish They’d Told Me 8 years Ago” – Visualized  ppt file

§         Thomas A. Halinski - Compuware

February 21, 2006    Agenda

·  Java Performance and Websphere ppt file              

§         Craig Hodgins – Compuware

·  Mainframe Specialty Engines pdf file                       

§         Gord Neill – IBM

·  A session sponsored by Compuware 

·  Defending the End User – Protecting your home, your employees, and yourself from emerging threats. pdf file   

§         Kellman Meghu – Checkpoint

·  Service Level Management                           

§         Mike Walter - Compuware

October 18, 2005, focusing on emerging technologies: Agenda  

·  A Paradigm Shift in Computational Scaling  Neil Bunn – IBM Canada

·  The future of virtualization                                Bruce Cowper – Microsoft

·  Introduction to Throughput Computing and Solaris 10         Russell Crooke – Sun Microsystems

·  Intel on Microprocessor Technology Trends  Kevin Mulhall - Intel

 

Here are some photos from the April 2002 meeting.  April 2002 photos

 

 

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