Minneapolis / St. Paul Computer Measurement Group
Spring 2010
Conference
The Forecast is for Clouds!
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
This session will last all day.
Time: 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Location:
Nexus Information
Systems
6103 Blue Circle Drive
Minnetonka, MN 55343
Driving Directions use our Google Map (GPS will not take
you to the correct location):
http://www.nexusmn.com/contact/directions-a-map.html
Parking: Please use Employee Parking as highlighted on the
attached map, which is the second entrance to the Nexus facility. After you pass the first entrance to Nexus
you will approach a fork in the road.
Follow the left path, yellow circle, around the bend and turn into the
employee parking lot. Parking is free.
The meeting is open to anyone who would like to
attend. Cost: n/c
Bring your business cards for the door prize drawings.
This includes Twins tickets and Barry Merrill’s SMF book.
Agenda:
8:00 - 8:15 Welcome /
Business Meeting
Tom Becchetti, Chairman, Minneapolis-St. Paul CMG
8:15 -
9:15 What You
Need To Know About Storage And Clouds
Henry Newman – Instrumental, Inc.
Henry’s
BIO:
Mr.
Henry Newman has over 28 years of advanced systems architecture and
Performance
analysis expertise in solving the most complex challenges for customers in
Government,
scientific research, and industry around the world. This comprehensive
experience
includes hardware and software requirements analysis and design; silent data
corruption
research and checksums for file systems, tapes and other storage systems; file
system
and high reliability HSM design and optimization; system performance analysis
and
optimization; storage system architecting; high-performance networking;
capacity
planning;
and hierarchical storage management with the focus on high performance
computing
and advanced UNIX, Linux and Windows systems.
Mr.
Newman worked at Cray Research in a variety of capacities for over 11 years,
leaving
in 1992. His last position was International Technical Support responsible for
performance
and tuning issues. Mr. Newman has been with Instrumental, which he
helped
found, over 17 years ago.
Mr.
Newman has served on numerous requirements boards and source selection boards
to
government and industry clients and is frequently an invited lecturer at
storage
conferences
that specialize in digital library
9:45 – 10:00 BREAK - TeamQuest
TeamQuest solutions are
focused on IT Service Optimization (ITSO). The goal of ITSO is to consistently
meet IT service levels while minimizing infrastructure costs and mitigating risks.
This can be achieved in a multitude of ways, from consolidating servers to
avoiding bottlenecks to aligning IT with business objectives.
ITSO is a process supported
by tools aimed at optimizing the planning and delivery of IT services. http://www.teamquest.com/solutions-products/solutions/itso/index.htm
.
10:00 - 11:15 Getting ready for IT Cloud Infrastructure:
Don’t be Scared, however look before YOU leap!
Greg Schulz –
Founder of Server and StorageIO
Clouds
are to the left, clouds are to the right, clouds are above and perhaps below
(if in an airplane), and here you are, stuck in the middle as to what to do or not
do. Rest assured there is plenty of hype and confusion in the industry
pertaining to IT cloud applications, compute, networks and storage with the
cloud crowd cheerleaders on one end, and the cloud crowd cynics on the other.
However, what exists in-between the extremes is interest in using public or
private cloud products, solutions, services, architectures and management
paradigms in complimentary ways to what is currently being done. This session
will look at issues and opportunities as well as infrastructure topics
associated with private and public clouds for IT organizations. Thus the
mantra, don’t be scared, don’t believe all of the hype or doom and gloom,
rather, take a balanced approach, step back, look, listen and learn before you
leap! After all, when it comes to IT clouds, it’s not a matter of if,
it’s when, where, why and how that really matters.
Greg’s
BIO:
Greg
Schulz is founder of Server and StorageIO, an IT industry advisory and
consultancy firm. Mr. Schulz has worked as a programmer, systems administrator,
disaster recovery consultant, server/storage architect and capacity planner for
various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an
industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO. His areas of coverage and experience
include, among others,servers, storage, networks, virtualization, cloud,
performance and capacity planning along with data protection topic
In
addition to his analyst research and advisory consulting duties, Schulz has
published over a thousand articles, tips, reports and white papers and is a
sought after speaker at events around the world. Greg is also author of the
books Resilient Storage Network (Elsevier) and The Green and Virtual
Data Center (CRC). His blog is at www.storageioblog.com and he can be
found on twitter @storageio.
11:15 - 12:00 Oracle's Cloud Forecast
Brock Frank –
Founder of Server and StorageIO
Brock’s
BIO:
Brock
is an accomplished result-driven Senior Principal Consultant with
extensive project management, e-Business applications development,
technical architecture, technical support, and LAN administration
history. Brock has a proven track record for effectively defining project
requirements, strategizing creative technical solutions, and facilitating
timely project execution. Vision-oriented professional with solid
reputation for architecting and managing Oracle and many other transitions.
Detail-oriented coordinator, administrator respected for rapidly adapting to
plan changes and strategizing/implementing highly efficient process management
systems and applications. Personable and skillful communicator respected
for building and maintaining collaborative professional relationships, leading
interdisciplinary technical teams, and promoting project innovation, ownership,
and accountability. More than 18 years Oracle working experience.
12:00 –
1:00 Lunch -
Sponsored by Xiotech
1:00 – 1:45 What You Need to Know
About Security in the Cloud – George Reese – enStratus Networks LLC
George’s BIO:
George Reese is a
founder of Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks LLC, maker of cloud
infrastructure management tools supporting governance and security in the cloud.
Over the past 15 years, George has authored a number of technology
books, including MySQL Pocket Reference, Database Programming
with JDBC and Java, Java Database Best Practices, and Cloud
Application Architectures.
Throughout the Internet era, George has spent his career building enterprise
tools for developers and delivering solutions to the marketing domain. He
was an influential force in the evolution of online gaming through the creation
of a number of Open Source MUD libraries and he created the first JDBC
driver in 1996—the Open Source mSQL-JDBC. Most recently, George has been
involved in the development of systems to support the deployment of
transactional web applications in the cloud.
1:45 – 2:30 Cloudbursting – Chris Hertel –
CTO, ubiqx Consulting, Inc.
Chris’ BIO:
Chris Hertel is a member of
the Samba Team, founder of the jCIFS project,
and author of
"Implementing CIFS -- The Common Internet File System". He
presents internationally on
Samba, network storage, and data networking topics.
He is CTO of ubiqx
Consulting, Inc., a Saint Paul based storage systems
design company that
recently finished writing new SMB/CIFS protocol
specifications under
contract with Microsoft. These are the
first SMB/CIFS
specifications made
publicly available by Microsoft since 1997.
ubiqx Consulting does
business in both the US and overseas.
In addition to
Microsoft, Chris has
consulted for Quantum, Cray, Amiga, and several WAN
acceleration startups (most
of which have since been acquired).
Chris also spent ten years
at the University of Minnesota designing,
deploying, and running the
campus networks, and he was a member of the Saint
Paul Broadband Access
Committee. Chris' current projects
include creating a
collection point for
SMB/CIFS file system know-how at CIFS.org, and advising
potential startup
companies in the network security and medical imaging fields.
2:30 –
2:45 BREAK - EMC
2:45 – 3:30 Cloudbursting – Mitch Brown –
CTO Work Computing
Mitch’s BIO:
.
Directions:
Nexus Information Systems
6103 Blue Circle
Drive, Minnetonka, MN 55343
Driving Directions use our Google Map (GPS will not take
you to the correct location):
http://www.nexusmn.com/contact/directions-a-map.html
Parking: Please use Employee Parking as highlighted on the
attached map, which is the second entrance to the Nexus facility. After you pass the first entrance to Nexus
you will approach a fork in the road.
Follow the left path, yellow circle, around the bend and turn into the
employee parking lot. Parking is free.
Local Officers
To
add your name to our email distribution, contact TBecchetti@sjm.com or MSPCMG@gmail.com or follow us on twitter
@MSPCMG.
Chair: Tom
Becchetti
St. Jude
Medical
Phone: (651)400-1297
E-Mail: TBecchetti@sjm.com mailto:TBecchetti@sjm.com or
mspcmg@gmail.com
Treasurer:
Bob Kunzer
Deluxe
Corporation
Phone: (651) 787-2027
E-Mail: bob.kunzer@deluxe.com
Advisor:
Dez Kristof
Acxiom
Phone:
(651)787-5242
E-Mail: dez.kristof@acxiom.com mailto:dez.kristof@acxiom.com
Director:
Barry Pieper
Phone: (651) 662-9354
E-Mail: Barry_R_Pieper@bluecrossmn.com
Director:
Doug Morris
EMC
Phone: (612)812-6489
E-Mail: Doug.Morris@datadomain.com
Advisor:
Mark Weber
UnitedHealth
Group
Phone:
(612)991-5404
E-Mail: mark_weber@uhc.com
<mailto:mark_weber@uhc.com>
Advisor:
Bill Feeney
Hennepin
County
Phone:
(612)348-6230
E-Mail: bill.feeney@co.hennepin.mn.us mailto:bill.feeney@co.hennepin.mn.us
Advisor:
Brenda Schmidt
TeamQuest
Phone:
(612)578-8092
E-Mail: brenda.schmidt@teamquest.com
Advisor:
Judy Jones
Phone: (612)418-6883
E-Mail: judyjones9@gmail.com
Check out our Web page at:
http://regions.cmg.org/regions/mspcmg/index.html