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Connecticut Computer
Measurement Group
Fall CCMG Membership Meeting Agenda
Crowne-Plaza Hotel, Cromwell - Friday, October 26,
2007
Autumn CCMG '07
Agenda The Speakers
The next meeting for Connecticut CMG will be on Friday, October
26, 2007 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Continental Breakfast and a Buffet Luncheon are provided.
Pre-registration is $55, on-site registration is $65.
The Connecticut Computer Measurement Group announces its Autumn
Conference, with again a mix of national, international and local
guest speakers. We have planned a two track meeting in the morning
with the following lineup of exceptional speakers and exceptional
topics including mainframe, mid-range, data warehouse and security.
For the afternoon we have a special double slotted session. Dr.
Bell, a respected CMG contributor and speaker, shares his own
experiences with “Capacity Planning for Retirement”.
After all, we have built our careers on helping others with
planning for future resource consumption. Shouldn't we do the same
for ourselves?
Tell your friends. All are welcome!
We wish to thank BMC for sponsoring the Continental Breakfast
and Refreshment Breaks for the October meeting. Their sponsorship
helps keep down the price of admission to our CMG events.
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We have invited speakers from our own regional CCMG as well as
National CMG. Today’s speakers are experts in their fields
and outstanding representatives of CMG.
Agenda:
| 8:00-8:30 |
Registration & Coffee |
| 8:30-8:45 |
Introductory Remarks & Business Agenda |
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Mainframe Track
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Open Systems Track
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| 8:45-10:00 |
Survival Techniques for Deploying a
Large Data Warehouse
Nin Lei – IBM
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Pros and Cons of Collecting Performance
Data Using Agentless Technology
Dima Seliverstov -BMC Software, Inc.
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| 10:00-10:15 |
Break - Refreshments sponsored by
BMC
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| 10:15-11:30 |
zIIPs and zAAPs - Understanding
Transaction Flows and CPU Measurements
Peter Enrico - Enterprise Performance Strategies,
Inc.
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Information Security Overview, a Survey
of Domains
Gail Reynolds - Aetna, Inc.
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| 11:30-12:30 |
Lunch
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Combined Sessions
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| 12:30-1:45 |
Planning our Retirements
Dr. Thomas E. Bell
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| 1:45 - 2:00 |
Break - Refreshments - sponsored by
BMC
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| 2:00 - 3:15 |
Planning our Retirements - Part II
Dr. Thomas E. Bell
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Closing Remarks
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About the Speakers:
Nin Lei is recognized as an expert in DB2
performance and database design with interests in Very Large Data
Bases (VLDB), covering areas of database and application
design/performance analysis. He is a frequent speaker at database
and data warehouse conferences. He is currently a Certified
Executive IT Specialist at the IBM System z Benchmark Center
conducting customer studies. He drives performance analysis work
for all projects, and he provides architectural guidance to
customers for designing their applications to meet high performance
and scalability requirements. He also advises customers in new
technology exploitation issues in the areas of System z and
database performance. He is a member of the IBM IT Specialist
Certification Board.
Dima Seliverstov is a Lead Software Developer
with BMC Software, Inc. He has a Master of Science in Electrical
and Computer Systems Engineering from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst.
Gail Reynolds is currently an Information
Security Architect at Aetna. She has held several positions within
Aetna’s Information Systems organization. Gail has presented
at CA-World and currently runs Aetna’s Technology Impact
Briefing series. She holds the CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, and CISM
industry security designations. In addition, Gail has two degrees
from Yale University: a B.S. in Biology from Yale College and a
M.F.S. (Master of Forest Science) from Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies.
Peter Enrico has strong and diverse experience
with the IBM zArchitecture platform, and a solid background in
z/OS, Workload Manager, J2EE, WebSphere, Web Services, e-business
applications, application architecture, Parallel Sysplex, and z/OS
UNIX System Services. He also has a good deal of experience with a
variety of UNIX platforms, ERP applications, and distributed
application architecture. He is known as someone that can explain
complex computing concepts to wide audiences, including managers
and executives, in an effective and easily understandable
manner.
Tom Bell received his Ph.D. in Management from
UCLA in 1968. Since then he has focused on the management of
computing and information systems. In 1975 his work was recognized
by CMG when he received the A.A. Michelson award. He was Treasurer
of the ACM's SIGMetrics and has served many terms on the CMG Board
of Directors. In addition, he was elected Treasurer and,
subsequently, Secretary, of CMG. He has written extensively and
presented to professional organizations both inside and outside the
US. For the last 27 years he has run his own consulting business.
Upon reaching his 65th birthday, he retired from active consulting.
However, he hasn't been able to take much vacation time. Retirement
is just too time-consuming.
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Agenda:
Mainframe
Capacity-Performance Track
Open
Systems Capacity-Performance Track
Combined
Systems Capacity-Performance Track
| 8:00-8:30 |
Registration & Coffee |
| 8:30-8:45 |
Introductory Remarks & Business Agenda
Sponsored by BMC |
| 8:45-10:00 |
Survival Techniques for Deploying a Large Data
Warehouse
Nin Lei, IBM |
| Building and operating a large data warehouse (TB+)
requires techniques very different from OLTP systems. Different
approaches of database design, data loading, query optimization,
and performance tuning are necessary to make large data warehouse
deployment successful. With the availability of zIIP processors,
parallel queries can now run with less expensive hardware without
increasing software cost. But how much workload redirection should
be expected? What is the workload management strategy of concurrent
queries? All these questions and more will be answered in this
presentation, with material coming from large data warehouse
studies. |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Break - Refreshments Sponsored by
BMC |
| 10:15-11:30 |
zIIPs and zAAPs - Understanding Transaction Flows
and CPU Measurements
Peter Enrico, Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc. |
| Today’s transactions on z/OS can run on zIIP
or zAAP processors, as well as traditional general purpose
processors. This session will discuss some typical transaction
flows involving zIIP and zAAP processors and how the CPU time
consumed is accumulated to the address space SMF 30, the processor
SMF 70, and the WLM service class period SMF 72.3 records.
Additional topics discussed will include dependent and independent
enclaves, client SRBs, unmanaged threads, and other key concepts
necessary to understand the interpretation of zIIP and zAAP CPU
times. |
| 8:45-10:00 |
Pros and Cons of Collecting Performance Data Using
Agentless Technology
Dima Seliverstov, BMC Software, Inc. |
| Agentless data collection is a powerful technology
which has its advantages and disadvantages. The variety of
agentless implementations for Windows and UNIX will be discussed.
The implementations considered are SNMP (Simple Network Management
Protocol), WMI (Windows Management Interface), Windows Remote
Registry, and WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management). System
performance metrics, availability, security and network issues will
be discussed along with how to identify when the agentless
monitoring component is installed as part of the operating system.
The author will share his real world experience with Windows
agentless technology. |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Break - Refreshments Sponsored by
BMC |
| 10:15-11:30 |
Information Security Overview, a Survey of
Domains
Gail Reynolds, Aetna, Inc. |
| What does information security mean to the
performance professional? Need security mechanisms be the bane of
the performance professional? Before you can judge or merely
contemplate how security controls impact performance and capacity,
you should understand the breadth, integration potential, and
interplay of security. Information Security spans many areas. This
presentation of high level security concepts and common
implementations will provide insight. Overview topics include
architecture, operations, access control, encryption, networks,
process, and much more! |
| 11:30-12:30 |
Lunch (Provided) |
| 12:30 - 1:45 |
Planning our Retirements
Dr. Thomas E. Bell |
| As we age, many CMG Members are approaching
retirement. We need to take actions for ourselves and our families
to protect assets when our financial resiliency is reduced and our
needs have evolved. However, effective planning for retirement is
often deferred until “later” – after more urgent
issues are addressed. Welcome to later. What should you do about
health insurance and life insurance? How much money will you need,
and how reasonable is it to get that much? What will be the effects
of demographics (e.g., the baby boom, increased longevity) and
probable government responses? If you sell your house, where should
you live? Will taxes destroy you, and what reasonable plans should
you make to cope with them? Should you just hand over your assets
to that nice young financial planner and hope for the best? By the
time we're about 40 or 45 we need to implement plans, especially
because demographic shifts promise to put real burdens on people
who haven't retired by 2011. |
Tom Bell will describe some of his realizations
since his retirement 21 months ago -- along with research he has
done to improve his coping abilities. |
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| 1:45 - 2:00 |
Break - Refreshments Sponsored By
BMC
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| 2:00 - 3:15 |
Planning our Retirements Part
II
Dr. Thomas E. Bell |
| 3:15 |
Closing
Remarks
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