TIME: 8:30a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Board of Trade (Downtown) - The Rideout Room

1 First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario (Tel: 416-366-6811)

Enter First Canadian Place (FCP) via any of King, Adelaide, Bay or York Street entrances and stay on the main (street) level; go in to the special Board of Trade elevators near the Timothy's Expresso Bar. (Street level of FCP in the Northeast Quadrant)

ATTIRE: Business attire or Business casual (hard-soled shoes, slacks, collared shirt)

This presentation > will provide hints and suggested approaches to performance management of a web server or servers in a heterogeneous environment. The goal is include the web server and its back-end infrastructure into your overall understanding of your computing environment. Various aspects, from network topology, through security considerations, to server and OS behaviour are discussed in relation to their interaction with the web server.

Nick Welke is a Capacity and Performance Specialist for SAS Institute (Canada) Inc. and has worked within IT for the past seven years. Most recently he has worked with customers in the communications, banking, insurance, manufacturing, and defense areas, helping them in their capacity planning and resource management endeavours. In working to better understand distributed computing environments Nick has sought industry certifications, and currently holds an MCSE+I and CCNA.

A walkthrough of the reasons for, and implementation of, Goal Mode at the Bank of Nova Scotia's (BNS) Development Site. The approach was to keep it simple and the implementation was not difficult, but there were some issues affecting this project. Some are resolved; some, not. This presentation will also include some ramblings & preaching on issues that have been around since the beginning of configuration/performance management and now show up even more under Goal Mode.

Ted McNeil is currently a Senior Technical Specialist in the Mainframe Planning & Hardware Services at the Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto. He has been working in SAS since Merrill's macros and pre-MICS. He was hired to get an Insurance Company, a Government agency, and two financial companies (one being ScotiaBank) get forecasting and tracking systems up and running through SAS, REXX and other forms of automation in order to reduce the grunge work thereby increasing the time available for analysis. He has intensively studied IO, CICS, MVS from SE2 to OS/390 V2R8, VM, IMS, DB2, IDMS, Model 204 (MVS), and C. He graduated in Computer Science and Statistics from the University of Waterloo 1981.

Often, the tools available to the IT analyst lag significantly behind those of the business user. In this paper we will look at Capacity Analysis as a client/server application and use the same analysis techniques that we would use on a line-of-business application to architect a "Capacity Analysis" application. We will then review the architecture for bottlenecks and present an example of a "work-in-progress" where we have begun implementing an architecture using SAS™ on a Windows™/Intel™ platform.

Don Melton (Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies) provides consulting on Architecture, Capacity and Performance of computer systems. He has over 20 years of experience as an IBM mainframe systems programmer with 10 of those years specializing in performance and capacity analysis on various platforms. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and CMG and serves on the board of directors for CMG Canada and COUG.

Intel Business Recovery Planning in a Corporate Financial Services Environment:

With the fierce competition in the securities industry it is necessary for business critical services and data to be available as quickly as possible. No more can a company wait days for the restoration of services after a disaster, they would likely be out of business. Services must be available in hours at an alternate site in order for a company to stay competitive.

Implementation of a Microsoft / Compaq Stretch cluster in an Active Active configuration to provide Business Critical services to the central and disaster recovery site.

Additionally laying the foundation for: The introduction of Storage Area Networks; The introduction of Centralized Managed Storage and Backup; Server Consolidation; Novell To NT migrations

Kyle Bergum (Consultant Spinniker Corporation) provides consulting services related to IT business process, architecture, and project management Kyle has 14 years of experience focused primarily on the Intel / UNIX environments. Major projects have included an entire IT infrastructure, 12K and a 5K node architecture and implementation

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