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Registration and Coffee in the Lake House Room on the 14th
Floor |
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Opening - Welcome – Margaret Greenberg, MCMG President |
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Death to
Dashboards: Alarming, Performance
Management Based on Variance, System Prioritization and Other Thoughts on
Data Visualization When does the
light on the executive dashboard turn from yellow to red? When do
you order new hardware? Traditionally, these decisions are handled
by setting thresholds — picking some number to use as an upper or lower
limit. Thresholds might have worked well in the days of a handful
of beloved systems. But for today’s complex environments,
thresholding is not only painful to manage but conceptually
bankrupt. Let’s talk about the problems with thresholds and
dashboards and work to identify some practical alternatives. Vendors, put on your iron underwear and attend this
session. |
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Morning Break |
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Storage
Analysis and Modeling John Baker, Intellimagic If you can't measure it, you
can't manage it. This phrase is no more true than in the world of mainframe I/O
performance. Despite impressive
breakthroughs in disk subsystem technology, there remains a substantial disconnect
(pun intended) between the logical and physical view of our I/O
infrastructure. We will discuss how
architectural changes have shifted the most likely bottlenecks from the host
system down to the Disk Subsystem components and why new levels of visibility
and automation are required to avoid painful service level issues. This session will discuss the challenges
involved in managing enterprise disk subsystems in a mainframe environment,
how RMF metrics may actually mislead us into believing that things are
running just fine, and how the old rules of thumb no longer apply. A new methodology and complementary new
metrics will be introduced and discussed.
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Election of
New Officers for MCMG The bylaws of MCMG require an election at the first meeting
of every year. At this meeting, we will elect these officers for two-year
terms: Secretary
Treasurer
2
Directors
The Board is responsible for
forming policies and procedures used at MCMG including meeting topics and
formats, rules and procedures. We are always looking for fresh input
for our organization. MCMG is a volunteer-run
organization. Please participate. We need your skills and
involvement to keep MCMG strong. If you would like to submit a
nomination or be nominated yourself for one of the positions, please send an
email to mcmg_elections@cmg.org
(note that there is
an underscore between “mcmg” and “elections”). If you choose to nominate one of your
peers, an MCMG Board member will contact the nominee for consent. |
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Lunch in Brio on 15th floor |
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zAAP Utilization Case Study, BMO Financial Group Jonathan Gladstone, Bank of In 2004, IBM
introduced zSeries Application Assist Processors, or zAAPs, to their zSeries
line of mainframe computers. These new
specialty engines run Java workloads on the mainframe at greatly reduced
cost. In 2005, after testing and
technical and business case analysis, the BMO Financial Group (a.k.a. the
Bank of |
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Afternoon Break |
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Virtual Tape Russ Prokuski, EMCEMC
Disk Library for mainframe (DLm) is a new solution
from EMC that offers IBM zSeries mainframes
customers the ability to eliminate the need for mainframe tape libraries from
the data center completely. From shortened batch processing
windows to improved data retrieval to lower operating costs, the benefits of
the DLm are considerable. In addition to classic
backup and recovery, mainframe environments use tape for extended online
storage of information such as billing records and call center data. With DLm the retrieval of information is reduced from the
minutes it would take to retrieve it from tape to seconds it would take to
retrieve it from disk. DLm combines low-cost
ATA-protected drives, hot stand-by disks with tape emulation and hardware
compression and the functionality necessary to provide enterprises with a
high-capacity mainframe tape replacement solution for delivering increased
application availability. |
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Meeting Adjourned |
Preregistration must be received by Wednesday, April 16.