Agenda CMG Canada Seminar:
February 19th 2002 (Toronto)
TIME: 8:30a.m. -
2:30 p.m.
LOCATION: SAS
Canada Inc.
BCE Place
181 Bay Street, Suite
2220
Enter the
Bay-Wellington Tower of BCE via the Bay or Wellington Street doors
and take an elevator to the 22nd floor.
ATTIRE: Business
attire or Business casual (hard-soled shoes, slacks, collared shirt)
If
this program is not of interest to you, please pass it on to the appropriate
group within your organization ... or have them visit
8:30 AM Continental
Breakfast
9:00 AM President's Welcome - Anthony G. Mungal
9:10 AM Distributed Application Performance Troubleshooting:
A Guaranteed
Approach
Gary Kaiser – Compuware
It’s
a worn-out adage in the industry that the network usually gets blamed first
when a user experiences poor
application performance; correct or not, it is still usually up to the network
manager to prove or disprove the
accusation.
How
can you accomplish this in a timely fashion, without finger pointing?
Regardless of the infrastructure monitoring tools and network analyzers at your
disposal, their element focus often fails to recognize the
"counter-intuitive" problems that consume an inordinate amount of
time, resources and angst.
This
technical seminar will show how you, as a network analyst, can quickly and
accurately perform "triage" on a poor-performing application,
delivering clear cross-functional proof of the root cause(s) of the problem and
deliver actionable recommendations, whether the problem lies with the client,
network or server. Using client and server packet captures, you will be able to
classify and quantify any transaction's performance problem, regardless of the
application. Audience: Network technicians/analysts/managers
Gary Kaiser is the Technical Product Manager, Vantage Product Line.
He has over 20 years of technical experience in networking and communications,
and comes to Compuware with the acquisition of Optimal Networks in July
2000. At Optimal, Gary directed the operations of all customer services
groups, including pre-sales engineering, customer training, consulting services
and customer support. He has also held various technical support
positions for Retix, Wang Laboratories and Burroughs Corp. (now Unisys). Gary has authored several white papers on
application deployment and capacity planning, and speaks frequently on
application performance topics.
10:25 AM Coffee
10:45 AM Distributed Availability
Joe
Calcada – Candle Corp.
In the ubiquitous world of
applications it's almost a miracle that these complex systems stay running. But
even as our distributed environments become more and more complex pressure
mounts to maintain 100% availability. This requirement is forcing corporations
to re-evaluate the importance of their
distributed systems and the necessity to better manage the environment in ways
that are reminiscent of the mainframe.
Learn how tried and true processes and procedures can help ensure the
availability of distributed systems.
Joe
Calcada has over 10 years of experience in the technology
consulting, architecture, development and implementation of highly distributed
enterprise client/server and application integration information systems. He
has successfully functioned in Systems Analyst, network administration, project
management, technology consulting, and sales and marketing roles in projects
associated with technology architectures, system integration, performance and
availability, development and end-user computing. His extensive expertise in
delivery of distributed systems, networking and transaction monitor
technologies, and integration services have enabled Joe be recognized as a
strategic consulting partner with his customers. Joe’s expertise includes
distributed enterprise architecture and development involving UNIX, NT, Novell,
LAN/WAN communications and network programming including IPX/SPX, TCP/IP and
TUXEDO distributed transaction monitors, C, C++ programming languages and
various scripting languages. A recent engagement included the deployment of
distributed monitoring for a Peoplesoft application spanning multiple platforms
and networks. The focus involved complete End to End monitoring and
implementation of a backoffice suite of products to complement the performance
information. The infrastructure
involved Mainframe DB2, Tuxedo transaction servers, and DB2/Connect facility,
as well as NT systems.
12:00 PM End of Presentations
12:15 PM Members Lunch at nearby restaurant (paid
by CMG Canada)
2:00 PM Adjourn
Dates to
Remember (for CMG and other organizations with reciprocal
notification)
|
CMG Canada |
Apr 23/24, 2002,
Toronto |
|
TASS (Toronto Area SAS
Society) www.torsas.org |
Feb 8, 2002 |
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|
FSP (Federation of Security Professionals) Email: www.intiss.com\fsp |
EACUG May 10, 2002 |
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|
CMG International |
Dec 8-13, 2002, Reno |
|
CSAMUG (Canadian Software
Asset Management Users Group) |
Feb TBD, 2002, Toronto |
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