TIME: 8:30a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Tuesday), 8:30a.m. - 5:00p.m. (Wednesday)

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)

9:15 AM Managing Your IT Resources Effectively: "How to move beyond Performance Management to Service Delivery Management."

This presentation will provide an overview of the evolution of performance management and discuss strategies for enterprise-wide capacity planning, performance management and service delivery. It will then move to a discussion of specific case studies, where companies have implemented technology in order to bring IT goals in line with business objectives. Attendees may expect to gain a greater understanding of what data IT organizations are currently leveraging to reduce overall costs and increase efficiencies.

Nick Welke is a Systems Engineer for SAS Institute (Canada) Inc. and has worked within IT for the past six years. Most recently he has worked with such customers as Nortel Networks, Royal Bank, CP Rail and National Defense, helping them in their capacity planning and resource management endeavors. Nick is SAS' resident expert within this area of IT, and holds an MCSE and Internet designation.

In this session, Al will outline the process used to migrate from the IPS/OPT in compatibility mode to Workload Manager in Goal mode on an MVS 5.2 operating system environment. This session will cover the actual steps taken to prepare for the migration, gradual activation, and verification of the effective performance of the changes. Also, from a pure user-experience perspective, it will discuss the many things to consider after implementation. Why wouldn't you want to make your performance tuning life simpler?

Al Marshall has 25+ years experience in IS, the last 10 in performance & capacity planning. He is currently employed at Royal & Sunalliance Insurance of Canada in Toronto.

As the processing topology of the Parallel Sysplex or Highly Clustered environments continues to evolve to encompass more scalability, high availability, and increased parallelism, the urgency to configure I/O subsystems capable of supporting a high level of I/O Concurrency and greater bandwidth becomes paramount. Even a modest level of parallelism within workloads will quickly remind us that while it is important to configure I/O subsystems which are capable of achieving very high I/O rates at user defined (sub ten, sub seven etc.) response times, it is equally important and oftentimes critical to configure said subsystems so that they can deliver the right level of I/O Concurrency and I/O Bandwidth.

This paper looks at an assortment of issues facing the I/O Planner, performance analyst and others today, specifically on the issues of I/O Concurrency, I/O bandwidth, access density and other related phenomenon. This is achieved through the use of analytical methods and readily available, easy to use data elements augmented with configurational examples intended to illustrate the various points.

Anthony Mungal is currently President of CMG Canada, and works with EMC in a Consulting role. Prior to joining EMC over five years ago, he spent about seven years with Amdahl Canada Limited in the capacity of Regional Systems Engineer. His employment background prior to that spans several years as a Consulting Systems Engineer, Manager, MVS Senior Systems Programmer, Business Systems Analyst, and Application Development and Programming. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto with honours in both Mathematics and Computer Science. He is a founding director of CMG Canada and is presently serving as the President. He has authored many papers on Capacity Planning, CPU and I/O performance, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, and Storage Management which were presented to various forums including SHARE, miscellaneous User Forums, and local and international CMG conferences.

On March 1, 1999, EMC Corporation introduced the next generation Symmetrix (version 4.8), models 3/3630, 3/3830, and 3/3930. This presentation will help you understand what improvements have been incorporated into these sub-systems and how those improvements can affect various customer workloads. Extensive test results for both the Open Systems and Mainframe environments will be shown and discussed, along with a variety of illustrative workloads.

Miller Dixon is a Corporate Systems Engineer at EMC Corporation in Hopkinton, Massachusetts providing pre-sales support on related Symmetrix Performance on Mainframes. He has worked in the performance area for 20 plus years. Prior to joining EMC, he was in a customer environment dedicated to the area of DASD Performance and Performance Issues in the acquisition of DASD. Has been very active in Computer Measurement Group (CMG) over the last 20 years at both the regional and national level.

This presentation is an extended overview of Microsoft Strategy.  Specific discussion topics will include the Digital Nervous System  (and how it relates to strategic IT) , Windows DNA  ( the enabling technology for the digital nervous system )and the Microsoft Commerce Vision. The demonstrations include a Windows 2000 demo, a Corporate Purchasing demo (commerce) and a video of the BackOffice 4.5 daily cycle.

Jeff Dool is employed by Microsoft Canada. In joining Microsoft Canada 4 years ago, he began in Product Support Services (PSS), providing telephone support for development products and desktop productivity applications. He moved from PSS to a position in technical pre-sales as a Technology Specialist specializing in database technologies. His current position is a Technology Specialist, focused on delivering technical information to IT Professionals through the TechNet and Direct Access Programs

In 1994 HP and Intel joined to co-develop a 64-bit Instruction Set Architecture which serves as the technology foundation of IA-64. Intel's Merced processor will be the first chip built around this architecture, and it is targeted to be available in the year 2000. HP is strategically committed to providing its customers with enterprise solutions based on IA-64 for HP-UX, Windows NT^®, and MPE. This session will provide an overview on:

• The evolution of technologies used in chip architectures,
• EPIC technology and the benefits to improving system performance,
• The industry's view of IA-64 and companies planning to adopt this new architecture
• How will computer vendors be able to differentiate themselves in this era of a standard computing architecture,
• What is Hewlett-Packard's plan to help clients move to this new architecture.

A key design element of IA-64 is the built-in binary and data compatibility for application code from both PA-RISC and IA-32. Binary and data compatibility will ensure a smooth transition for Hewlett-Packard's customers from their existing HP 9000 and HP3000 Enterprise Server, NetServer, and desktop platforms to future systems based on IA-64.

Binary compatibility from both PA-RISC and IA-32 to IA-64, together with HP's commitment to source code compatibility for HP-UX applications, including 15,000 applications from independent software vendor partners, will result in the rapid availability of a performance-optimized application portfolio on HP's IA-64 platforms.

The ability of HP's IA-64-based platforms to run both HP-UX and NT on the same system offers access to the widest application portfolio and will facilitate the concept of "platform reuse." Hewlett-Packard customers will be able to re-deploy a systems platform from a UNIX^® application to NT or vice versa.

Hewlett-Packard will continue to develop PA-RISC processors to meet the transition needs of customers, creating an overlap of the PA-RISC and IA-64 based systems. This overlap will provide Hewlett-Packard customers with a smooth transition to IA-64, but more importantly, the choice of when to move. HP's PA-RISC roadmap, coupled with its IA-64 leadership, provides the greatest investment protection value and performance today and well into the future.

Steve is the Enterprise Systems Program Manager with Hewlett-Packard Canada's Enterprise Accounts Marketing Organization with 19 years of experience in the computer industry. He has a number of positions at Hewlett-Packard, most recently as the Educational Services Manager in HP Education where he worked with many clients to identify, plan, and implement appropriate instructional solutions to fit their specific training and educational needs. He is currently responsible for the marketing programs in Canada that promote the HP9000 Enterprise Servers. He holds a Diploma in Computer Engineering Technology from Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario. He also has a Diploma in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics, both from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. He is a Certified Engineering Technologist (CET). He has been a guest speaker on a variety of topics at various industry seminars and at educational institutions.

This presentation provides an overview of the major ER vendors (SAP, BAAN, Oracle, Peoplesoft) that run on S/390, and discusses in detail the value that S/390 can bring to these mission critical systems. This is a "must" session for the many folks responsible for deploying such applications, not to mention the many which are responsible for ongoing performance and monitoring of such subsystems.

Mr. Henry has twenty-four years in IBM focusing on the implementation and use of enterprise wide systems, which act as managers and distributors of Enterprise process and data. He has provided technical leadership of leading edge IBM customers in evaluating and implementing large interconnected central servers, for example Mr. Henry was the lead architect for DND on the DCCA and the MASIS project. He has co-authored a book, Selecting a Server, The Value of S/390, IBM form SG24-4812 and has presented the business value and technology design of Enterprise Solutions for audiences across Canada, the US and in Japan and Australia.

Previously, Mr. Henry was IBM Canada country support for MVS/ESA and ES/3090 processors. Mr. Henry has worked in both the OS/390 Development Laboratory and San Jose Programming Laboratories (System-Managed Storage) doing product planning and information development for internal and external education and consulting.

Election of Directors, Treasurer's Report, Membership Report and other business of CMG Canada. This is a special invitation to members of CMG Canada to come along and participate in this very important business activity.

This presentation will discuss Sun's hardware and software (SPARC and Solaris) architectures in server-side computing. Large scale servers must have attributes beyond raw performance; building for reliability, scalability, serviceability (and other real world needs) is also necessary. How Sun builds systems (not just computers) to meet these requirements will be discussed, followed by Sun's vision for future large-scale computing.

Russell Crook has a B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Waterloo and has worked in software development and architecture for the past two decades on systems ranging from microcomputers to mainframes. He is currently a Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems specializing in software development technologies.

 3:00 PM OS/390 V2R7 Update and R8 Preview

This session will provide a "detailed" overview of the new and/or improved functions in OS/390 V2R7 with a focus on how they can be used to economically run new workloads on S/390 while taking advantage of S/390 traditional strengths. This is the latest update on S/390. Be sure not to miss it!!

Mr. Henry's biography is featured in a preceding paragraph (Wednesday's session at 10:45am).

This session will have the distinct advantage of wrapping up the last two days worth of discussion and information. There are many issues and changes to be pondered and discussed. Come (or stay) and participate in what promises to be a lively exchange of opinion and discussion on many topic areas relating to your future day to day activities and the impact on them through technology.

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