Final Agenda CMG Canada Seminar:  November 6th 2001 (Toronto)

 

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*** Location***
 
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

CMG Canada at regions.cmg.org/regions/cacmg/index.html

 

8:30 AM         Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 AM         President's Welcome - Anthony G. Mungal

 

9:10 AM         Large Capacity Actuator Considerations

                        Anthony Mungal – EMC Corporation

 

The continuing trend of increased densities of disk drives bring with it some interesting and challenging tradeoffs, which are made extremely attractive given the lower cost points they represent.  In fact, there are a lot of pressures which suggests that this increasing density, decreasing cost trend is encourageable and hence will be prolonged.

 

This presentation will deal with a current view of the technology itself and progress into the performance and capacity considerations which need to be addressed so that a large scale deployment of this technology and it’s named successors can be realized.  Examples from commonly found workloads are used to augment the various phenomenon observed.

                       

Anthony Mungal  is a Corporate Consulting Systems Engineer with the EMC Corporation in Massachussetts.  He lives and is based out of Boca Raton, Florida.  He has been with EMC since July 1993 in various positions including: Systems Engineer and Senior Product Manager.  Prior to joining EMC he spent seven years with the Amdahl Corporation in a variety of roles which provided valuable experience in a number of subject areas.  Prior to Amdahl, he was with Storagetek Canada for about six years in positions of Sales Support, Systems Engineering Management, and Product Management.

 

He is a graduate of the University of Toronto with honours in both Mathematics and Computer Science.  He is the President of CMG Canada, which he helped co-found.  He has authored numerous papers on Processor Performance, I/O subsystems, Storage Management and other related topics which he has presented at forums such as Computer Measurement Group (National and Regional meetings), CMG International meetings (Australia, South Africa & the UK), SHARE, GUIDE and an assortment of other local IT related user groups..

 

                                                                                                                                                                           

10:25 AM                                                                  Coffee

 

10:45 AM       An introduction to SAN Capacity Planning

                        Mark Friedman

 

Emerging technology that allows the construction of high performance storage area networks (SANs) requires extending existing analytic frameworks that can accurately predict the performance of complex disk subsystems. This paper focuses specifically on two elements of emerging SAN technology: (1) the performance of Fibre Channel links and connecting hubs and switches, and (2) the performance of in-band and out-of-band SAN data management protocols. Traces and timings from benchmarking tests conducted with an in-band SAN data manager product are analyzed and discussed. Understanding this measurement data should enable existing disk modeling approaches to be extended to encompass this new storage technology.

 

Mark Friedman is VP for Storage Technology at Datacore Software, Inc. He is co-author of  “Windows 2000 Performance Guide” published by O’Reilly in 2001. He is a frequent contributor to CMG conferences on performance and tuning topics, concentrating on Microsoft Windows NT in 1996. He also developed Performance SeNTry, performance monitoring software for Windows NT and 2000 (aka NTSMF). He edited an industry newsletter entitled “Mark Friedman  on Storage Management”, published by Demand Technology. In 1994, he founded ONDemand Software, which developed and sold the award-winning WinInstall software distribution package for Windows networks. Besides regularly contributing to CMG publications, he publishes numerous articles in various computer industry trade publications including IEEE Spectrum.

 

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 International

www.cmg.org

Dec 2-7, 2002 Anaheim

 

TASS (Toronto Area SAS Society) www.torsas.org

TBD

CMG Canada

regions.cmg.org/regions/cacmg/index.html

 

Feb 19, 2002, Toronto

 

FSP (Federation of Security Professionals) Email: dan.formica@ecsi.enbridge.com

EACUG

Oct 19, 2001

Apr 23/24, 2002,  Toronto

 

CSAMUG (Canadian Software  Asset Management Users Group)

www.tam-inc.com\events.html

Jan TBD, 2002, Toronto

 

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