CMG Canada Seminar: Tuesday February 18th 1997
TIME: 8:30a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Board of Trade (Downtown) - The Council Chamber
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)
If this program is not of interest to you,
please pass it on to the appropriate group within your organization
... Thanks for your prompt attention.
Agenda:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM President's Welcome - Anthony Mungal
9:15 AM Capacity Planning Experiences at the Royal Bank - CMOS, Parallel Sysplex
Simon Cheung - Royal Bank of Canada
With the introduction of CMOS processors over
the last couple of years, Royal Bank, like many other companies,
has taken advantage of the cost savings resulting from the implementation
of this technology. In addition, the implementation of MVS 5.2.2
and parallel sysplex has brought further opportunities for cost
saving through PSLC pricing options. This presentation will describe
the results of these 2 important implementations, not from a cost
perspective, but from a capacity planning perspective. Questions
we'll try and answer from our experience include:
Simon Cheung is a Team Leader in Capacity Management for the Royal
bank of Canada. Simon leads a team of three people and is responsible
for producing the mainframe capacity plan for the Royal Bank's
four computing centres, capacity methodologies and optimization.
The capacity plan is reviewed and revised if needed, twice yearly.
Simon has been with Royal Bank Financial Group (RBFG) (Royal Bank
and Royal Trust) for 8 years working as a Senior Consultant is
various functions such as software support, systems performance,
application optimization and capacity management. Prior to joining
RBFG, he worked for IBM for 6 years in various positions in large
systems marketing support, systems development and testing. Simon
holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A.
10:30 AM Coffee
11:00 AM "RMF and SAR"
Tim Michalski - EMC Corporation
This informative presentation entitled "RMF
and SAR" is a roadmap for MVS performance analysts to understand
how to apply their skill set to Open System Capacity Planning
and Performance Tuning. It is a must for those with the MVS background
seeking to understand the Open Environment, and even vice-versa.
It draws similarities, parallels and highlights the differences
between the various measurements and techniques employed between
the two monitors. This presentation was extremely well-received
at the Rocky Mountain CMG Seminar in September last year.
Tim Michalski is a System Engineer with the EMC Corporation in Pittsburg, where for the last three years he has done customer pre and post sales support on Plug compatible DASD Subsystems. Prior to joining EMC he spent five years in Systems Engineering with the Amdahl Corporation in a similar role on supporting Plug compatible Mainframes, DASD Subsystems, and Plug Compatible Communication Processors. Prior to Amdahl, he spent twelve years with the Memorex Corporation in Systems Engineering supporting Plug compatible DASD, Tape, and Communications equipment, as well as various other Customer Service and Technical Support Positions.
He is currently the Advisory Council Representative for the Mid-Atlantic
CMG (MACMG), with which he has been actively involved in for almost
18 years in various capacities, including Chairman, Vice Chairman,
and Program Chairman.
12:15 PM Lunch (make your own arrangements)
1:30 PM RAID: Past, Present, and Future
Brett A. Quinn - EMC Corporation
This presentation will begin with a brief
review of the historical RAID 'levels' defined a decade ago at
University of California at Berkeley. Recent advances in RAID
technology (e.g. microcode functionality, distributed XOR), which
contribute to the view that state of the art storage is as much
software as hardware, will be discussed in detail. The presentation
will conclude with a review of the recently announced RAID Classification
Program currently being implemented by the RAID Advisory Board.
The goal of this Classification Program is to help users distinguish
RAID storage subsystems, one from another, based on the level
of data availability and protection they are intended to provide.
Brett Quinn is a Corporate Systems Engineer for EMC Corporation in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He provides technical marketing support on the Symmetrix series of Integrated Cached Disk Arrays to EMC's worldwide Systems Engineering force. In addition, Brett represents EMC on the RAID Advisory Board, an industry association which promotes the understanding and use of RAID and related storage technologies.
Prior to joining EMC in 1994, Brett was a technical support manager
and spent nine years with IBM as a Large Systems SE.
2:45 PM Coffee
3:15 PM "Virtual Tape Subsystem"
Frank Vonasek -
StorageTek Canada - Toronto
Recent vendor announcements have paved the
way for the introduction of the 'Virtual Tape Subsystem' into
the Enterprise. This presentation discusses the virtualization
of data and more specifically the high level conceptual architecture
of virtual tape subsystems. The speaker will discuss the benefits
of 'Virtual Tape' as well as the performance and capacity considerations
for evaluating a 'Virtual Tape Subsystem' solution.
Frank Vonasek has 18 years experience in the Data Processing industry
and is currently a Systems Engineer with StorageTek Canada in
Toronto. Previously, he was a Senior Consultant with Coopers &
Lybrand Consulting, Performance Analyst in the Open Systems arena
with Toronto Stock Exchange and Capacity and Performance Analyst
at the T. Eaton Company.
4:30 PM Adjourn
April 15-16th 1997 CMG Canada 2 day Seminar -
Toronto