FALL IMPACT CONFERENCE
October 5 and 6,
2004
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5-Oct |
Wireless |
Technologies |
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Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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“RFID
Overview” |
“Stand Tall and Carry A Precision
Micrometer: One Engineer's General Purpose Measurement Model for Virtual
Machines” Dr. David Boyes, Sine Nomine Associates |
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“RFID:
Strategies for the |
“Managing
SANs: Best Practices, Practical Applications” |
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Lunch courtesy of Veritas |
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Technology: “Utility Computing, High Performance Computing and Storage” Steve
Wheat, Intel |
“Complexity of Web Transaction End-to-End Response
Times” Roger Kovath,
Applied Expert Systems |
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“WiMax:
Coming Soon to a City Near You” |
“Metric
Considerations in a Virtual Environment: Measuring VMware” Alan Firth,
TeamQuest Corporation |
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6-Oct |
Wireless |
Technologies |
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Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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“Measuring What You Can't See: Wireless Systems Management”
Lorin Olsen, Sprint |
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“Interoperability
of Bluetooth Products”
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“Wireless
Home, Wireless Office” Eric
Baumgartner, VML |
"What's Captured Where - Capacity
Planning for zAAPs and MXG Updates for SAS Version 9.1.3" (via phone
link) |
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Lunch courtesy of Applied Expert Systems |
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“On
Demand Technology” IBM Session canceled – slides only. |
8:30 AM “RFID Overview” Wayne Embry, SAS
9:45 AM “RFID: Strategies for the Enterprise” Toby Rush,
Rush Tracking
11 AM “The
Art of Wireless War” Lorin Olsen, Sprint
1:45 PM “Technology: “Utility Computing, High Performance
Computing and Storage” Steve Wheat, Intel
3 PM “WiMax: Coming Soon to a City Near You” Tom Lasiter,
Intel
9:45 A.M. “Managing SANs: Best Practices, Practical
Applications” Jay Alexander, McDATA
11 A.M. “Utility Computing: Managing the Challenges”
Patrick Lin, Veritas
8:30 “Measuring
What You Can't See: Wireless Systems Management” Lorin Olsen, Sprint
9:45 “Interoperability
of Bluetooth Products” Dr. Daniel Deavours, University of Kansas
11:00 “Wireless
Home, Wireless Office” Eric Baumgartner, VML
8:30 AM “It’s All about Performance” Catherine Liu,
Applied Expert Systems
9:45 AM “ITIL Capacity Management” Vaishali Joshi, Pepperweed
Consulting LLC
1:45 PM “Managing the Unmanageable Web” Chris Pratico,
Keynote Systems
Sprint Campus, Earhart D, 6050 Sprint Parkway, Salons A,B
and C
Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) is not
new technology. But as with many
revolutionary ideas, the demand for better, faster and cheaper brings
opportunity to current technology. At a
simple level, it is a technology that involves tags that emit radio signals and
devices called readers that pick up the signal.
RFID tags enable automatic, non-line-of-sight identification. RFID’s implementation will evolve over time
with applications driven by market and consumer demand.
Driving the RFID demand are both the
retail industry and
RFID will address many different
applications. Each application provides
some common and unique requirements. At
the heart, all
successful technology changes are the IT challenges. I see the IT challenges as
another opportunity to add business value to all Enterprises.
Wayne
Embry is a Technical Account Manager for SAS. His areas of responsibilities are
sales and marketing support, for the IT Management Solutions and SAS Customer
Care. In his previous life he was responsible for Performance Management for
all hardware and software components at TWA. He has more years in data
processing than allowed to discuss, with the last 24 years being directed to
Performance Management and Capacity Planning.
He has been a CMG Member for the last 21 years and a member of Share for
26 years. He has presented at Share, CMG, Vendor, and Users session for over 20
years.
WHAT IF:
Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) is revolutionizing asset tracking, inventory
management and supply chain execution. Put an RFID tag - a microchip with an
integrated antenna - on a product, case, or pallet and a suitably equipped
computer can now 'see' and 'talk' to it. As computers can begin to sense each
other and interact with almost no human intervention, there is great potential
for them to manage, synthesize, and act on the information they collect, allowing
humans to focus on exceptions and on the overall business process.
The
potential is not going unnoticed; Wal-Mart, Target, Albertson’s and the
Department of Defense are mandating all their top suppliers apply an RFID tag
to every case and pallet before it arrives at their respective receiving
points.
Let’s
discuss:
Toby
Rush is President of Rush Tracking Systems, a
Toby’s expertise in RFID systems has led to
implementations at top tier refineries, power generation facilities, warehouses
and manufacturing facilities. Prior to
Rush Tracking Systems, his roles included Product Manager and then VP of
Product Development of a venture funded software company whose Work Force
Automation solution utilized RFID. While
at BSI Consulting, he spearheaded the effort to create a new practice group
around mobile and wireless technologies. Toby began his career at Accenture
implementing SAP and PeopleSoft. He has
spoken regionally and nationally on mobility in the enterprise and RFID.
"The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in
his temple before the battle is fought." Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear
the result of a hundred battles. If you
know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer
a defeat. If you know neither the enemy
nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Wireless communications are changing the way we work. Whether at home, in the office or on the
road, wireless communications capabilities are everywhere. But the ease and convenience of wireless
communications comes with a very large price tag: increased risk. In order to secure your information
resources, you need to prepare yourself for the enemies that will attack your
stronghold. You must understand what
they want as well as what tools they use.
By knowing these things, you can then adequately prepare to defeat the
enemies you will face.
Lorin Olsen is a senior technical specialist for Sprint Corporation. He is also the Chief Technology Officer for
Midwest Internet Solutions, Inc (a local wireless service provider). He has been an IT professional for over
twenty-five years. In that time, he has seen IT security concerns grow from the
simple protection of physical assets to the brave new world of (in) security
amidst network ubiquity. In this
presentation, Mr. Olsen will discuss the basic steps needed to secure wireless
networks - both at home and in the commercial workplace.
WiFi has been embraced
by corporations and users alike. Every computer
user is familiar with the idea of a “hot spot”.
What if your whole city were a hot spot?
That’s the idea behind WiMax, an implementation of the IEEE 802.16
standard. WiMAX provides metropolitan area network connectivity at speeds of up
to 75 Mb/sec. WiMAX systems can be used to transmit signal as far as 30 miles.
However, on the average a WiMAX base-station installation will likely cover
between three to five miles. Tom will
present a primer on WiMax and its potential.
Tom Lasiter is a
business development manager in an Intel server provider region. He has 15 years of experience in
communications and semi-conductor areas, serving in engineering, product
management and marketing.
Historical approaches to system
performance measurement have included virtual machines as an aberration,
or, at best, included them as a special case for mainframes only. As the technology for producing virtual
machines or low-permeability system partitions becomes increasingly popular,
the question of how to measure such devices for both performance and chargeback
measurement rears its ugly head. This presentation looks at some of the
"classic" measurement factors and tries to generalize them in a way
that can be applied to different virtualization methods, and to identify
correction values required to adapt the model to different system architectures.
The talk will concentrate on VMWare on Intel systems and some of the logical
partitioning capabilities of some newer systems, but familiarity with some
mainframe or telecommunications rating concepts and performance management
strategies will be helpful in understanding the approach and the terms used in
the presentation.
Dr. David Boyes is CTO and President of Sine Nomine
Associates, has participated in operating systems and networking research for
more than 20 years, working on design and deployment of systems and voice/data
networks worldwide. David has designed scenarios and economic models for
systems deployment on many platforms, and is currently involved in design and
worldwide deployment of scalable system infrastructure for several Global 1000
companies.
McDATA will be discussing both general and specific topics
relating to proper management and measurement requirements for Storage Area
Networks (SAN's). Explosive and
consistent growth within this segment of a corporation's IT function continues
to stress the efficiencies in managing data quantities, the information
lifecycle and the infrastructure required to accommodate the growth. Managing these assets, both physical and data
related, has become laborious and inefficient for the most-part.
Tools are available to assist the IT professional in better
planning, performance measurement and problem resolution. McDATA will be discussing Best Practices, and
reviewing the practical application of these tools, including the long-term
benefits.
Jay Alexander is a Sr.
Consulting System Engineer at McDATA. He has spent the last four years focused on
end user SAN management requirements. Jay has concentrated his efforts on
McDATA's software solutions, leveraging customer relationships to get “real
world” feedback on SAN management complexities that customers face daily. His experiences have defined requirements for
new product functionality targeted at improving the SAN measurement and
management experience.
Prior to McDATA, Jay was
employed at EMC and Sequent Computer Systems. With a rounded background of
host, storage and large SAN deployments, Jay is well positioned to understand
and translate the importance of developing a storage networking management
strategy. Jay resides in
Just
like previous computing models -- mainframe, client/server, and Internet --
utility computing has emerged as the next step in the evolution of Information
Technology (IT). This presentation
provides an overview of the challenges around availability, performance, and
automation in utility computing. To
address the challenges, vendors will need to step up with new offerings. What can you expect a vendor to provide and
how do you evaluate their offerings?
Patrick Lin, Group Product Manager, Utility Infrastructure,
VERITAS Software, has spent over nine years with management services and
software companies. Most recently he was
Director of Product Management and Marketing with Invio Software, an IT process
automation company acquired by VERITAS in July 2004. Prior to Invio, he held positions in product
management and business development with Katmango, Microsoft and Intuit, and
was also a consultant in Bain & Company's technology practice. Patrick holds MS and BS degrees in electrical
engineering and a BA degree in East Asian studies, all from
In today's global economy, eBusiness is a vital component of
corporate success. In the eBusiness economy, a slow Web site is a fast way to
lose money. Overall site performance and
availability can either attract users or frustrate them. The difference lies in the ability to
maintain consistent, reliable Web site performance despite ever-increasing
demands of innovation, performance, and complexity. More often than not, many separate
interactions are required within a single transaction. Pop-ups, passwords, and
multiple page downloads are just the start. In order to accurately assess Web
site performance, the entire transaction needs to be measured from end to end.
Discussion will cover the importance of total response time measurement, the
complexity of nesting within web operations, the diagnostic value of historical
analysis, and the benefits of establishing and adjusting a performance
baseline. Sample logs and reports will be used to show how key performance
indicators can be used to manage Web performance.
Roger Kovach,
currently a principal software engineer for Applied Expert Systems, has been a
frequent speaker at conferences for both the National and UK CMG for many
years. Known for his research in performance measurement in disk systems, he is
now doing research in the domain of the end-to-end web transaction response
time. Roger's experience in the IT
industry spans more than forty years and includes working for the US Navy,
PG&E, and the
Virtualization
is the dominant trend in contemporary IT. While there are readily apparent
benefits to this approach, there are downsides, too. For performance analysts and capacity
planners, the metrics necessary to perform their job functions are hidden
behind layers of abstraction. Using VMware as an example, Alan will show where
the metrics can be obtained and offer some strategies for management.
Alan Firth is a senior performance consultant with
TeamQuest Corp. He has been involved
with the computer industry since 1970 in a variety of roles including
programming, system administration, software design and spent many years as the
head of enterprise integration for an Australian solutions company. He has studied at Monash and