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Connecticut Computer Measurement Group
Summer CCMG Membership Meeting Agenda
Radisson Hotel, Cromwell - Friday, June 6, 2003
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Our June meeting comes quickly after the April Vendor Day affair.There
is always much to get done in a very short window.This year we are
proud to bring you a good cross section of topics to get your summer
off to a considered purposeful season.
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Agenda:
08:00-08:15 Registration and Coffee
08:15-08:30 Introductory Remarks
08:30-09:45 Right-sizing Upgrades or Migrations: 3 Steps to Determining
What You Really Need
Dr. Boris Zibitsker- BEZ Systems
What is your optimal hardware configuration?How do you know if you
have enough—but not too much—capacity? What options do
you have to maximize usage of the existing resources? And if you move
to another platform entirely, what new hardware requirements will
you face?
The key to determining appropriate configurations is to understand
what demands your business places on your infrastructure. Different
applications supporting different lines of businesses consume resources
differently—and will continue to do so as you grow. Find out
how to make sure you’re not paying for capacity you don’t
need—or tying up resources for capacity you already have.
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09:45 Break - Refreshments provided by BMC
10:00-11:15Analyzing & Forecasting a Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) Application
Rick Isom - Consultant
The CRM application is important to bank business, thus capacity
planning designed reports to analyze the application.Because of the
application's characteristics, it presents formidable challenges for
the capacity planning group.A methodology called principal component
analysis is helpful in determining which variables contribute to the
application's CPU usage, and is critical in forecasting CPU usage.
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11:15-12:30 Capacity Planning Networks
John Marciniak- Compuware Corporation
Network capacity planning is a process for identifying the resources
needed to carry current and projected volumes of traffic.Determining
where and when to add bandwidth or expanded routing or switching capacity
are the most fundamental capacity planning decisions.The effect of
resource failures is a critical factor in such decisions.Resources
must be deployed to maintain network connectivity and acceptable performance
for mission-critical applications, even in the event of failures.
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12:30-01:30 Lunch (Provided)
01:30-2:45 It's All About Performance
Catherine Liu - Applied Expert Systems, Inc
Success in today's 24/7 global business environment often hinges
on the ability to manage network availability and performance, understand
routing patterns, and maintain mission-critical Web sites. In the end it really
boils down to one thing: It's all about performance! Management, Monitoring,
Reporting and performance Service Level Objectives will be discussed.
Sample Reports will be used to show how users can use key performance
indicators to manage OS/390-based TCP/IP networks and Web applications.
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02:45 Break - Refreshments provided by BMC
03:00 - 4:15 Server Consolidation
Mike Matchett-BMC Software
The drive to lower IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) leads to distributed
system server consolidation and shared environments. New business
trends including quickly expanding e-commerce web servers also steer
IT towards larger, centralized platforms. These trends present a host
of challenges that aggressive performance management best practices
can address: planning how to best consolidate workloads, optimizing
transaction performance while minimizing cost per transaction, purchasing
the right resources at the right time, evaluating disaster recovery
fail-over scenarios, and supporting fair cost allocation (charge-back).By
retaining clear insight into "who" is doing "what"
in consolidated hosts and proactively planning for change with predictive
modeling, companies can save money while delivering optimal guaranteed
service.
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