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Connecticut Computer Measurement
Group -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each April, CCMG invites vendors to display their products and services to our membership in addition to the technical presentations from invited speakers. This opportunity to engage in discussion with the vendors occurs during registration, between sessions and after lunch. We welcome the following vendors and thank them for their support: Applied Expert Systems BMC Software Candle Compuware IBM ISM Reconda STK Tivoli ___________________________________________________________________________________________ We have invited speakers from our own regional CCMG as well as National CMG. We are pleased to have CMG 2003 Best Paper and Mullen Award winner, Ron Kaminski. The morning will feature dual tracks with two sessions each for mainframe performance and open systems. The afternoon is a combined session featuring topics across platforms. Agenda 08:30-08:45 Introductory Remarks Mainframe Performance Track OK, you got to Goal Mode last year, or maybe 3 years ago. But is the Workload Manager (WLM) really managing your favored workloads best? This presentation is based on user experiences in a local shop and focuses on getting CICS and IMS regions managed with WLM transaction response time goals. Setting up WLM with good naming conventions and exploiting report classes will be reviewed as well as how to model your transaction classifications. The use of monitoring tools will also be presented. 10:00 Break - Vendor Area Open 10:30-11:45 To MIPS or Not to MIPS, That is the CP Question! All workloads are not created equal, nor are all processors. Learn how the characteristics of one battle it out with the design of the other to produce a variety of processor capacity relationships for IBM's zSeries processors. Watch the instruction mixes, memory footprints and I/O rates of legacy and emerging workloads interact with the logic (can anybody spell super-scalar?), megahertz, cache structures and number of engines of the processors - and everyone wants to boil all this mayhem down to "one number fits all" - yikes. LPAR and Sysplex affect capacity ratios too? - Hey, we don't have time for everything but they'll get a mention as well. After seeing this presentation you may never want to use MIPS for capacity planning again ... just kidding ... but you will find out when its okay to use MIPS and when to avoid it like a virus (or at least make some adjustments to minimize the illness).
Open Systems Track 08:45-10:00 Strategies for Successful Network SLA Management IT organizations are increasingly being tasked with providing higher levels of service, often in the face of declining resources. Defining, meeting and documenting Service Level Agreements is critical. The successful implementation of an SLA for network performance requires careful planning to ensure that it is attainable and realistic for both the customer and the service provider. This discussion will focus on the challenges and considerations that go into the creation of an effective Network Service Level Agreement. 10:00 Break - Vendor Area Open 10:30-11:45 Server Consolidation Considerations, Part II The drive to lower IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) leads to distributed system server consolidation and shared environments. Quickly expanding e-commerce web servers also steer IT towards larger, centralized platforms. These trends present a host of challenges: planning how to best consolidate workloads while optimizing transaction performance and minimizing cost per transaction. Mike will share with us actual case studies that illustrate how these challenges were met. 11:45-01:00 Lunch (Provided) - Dessert served in the Vendor Area Combined Sessions 01:00-2:15 Time Stable Workload Characterization Techniques “Best
Paper CMG 2003” Whether you have a fancy purchased analysis tool, or use a series of home grown scripts and procedures, how do you efficiently construct workloads from collected data that solve problems, answer questions, and require the least handholding so that you have time to effectively communicate the results? This presentation will center on time-tested techniques and real world examples used to group, portray and describe capacity planning and performance information to your management and fellow technical staff. Ron is winner of the 2003 Mullen Award given in memory of past CMG president Bill Mullen. The award recipient is an individual who exhibits both technical excellence and an engaging presentation style. 02:15 Break - Vendor Area Open - Raffle Drawings for Prizes (Be there to win!) 02:45 - 4:00 VoIP: The Performance Requirements of a New Network Application
Voice Over IP (VoIP) is a disruptive technology that will alter most
forms of communications and impact many other data processing applications.
Like LANs, PCs, and the Web, its advantages lie in some cost savings,
productivity enhancements and yet-to-be developed applications. Its adoption
in business and everyday life will be inevitable. In this talk, we will
briefly look at some of the advantages and applications surrounding VoIP
but concentrate on the engineering challenges posed by this very real-time
technology, mostly as it is applied to the office environment. |
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