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Minneapolis / St. Paul Computer Measurement Group

Early Summer 2008 Conference                                        

 

 

 

“Z/OS it’s not just your Daddy’s OS”

 

 

 

May 22, 2008

 

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008

Convenient Location:

BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota

           

Driving directions:  See map at the bottom. 

**Free parking**

 

The meeting is open to anyone who would like to attend.  Cost:  n/c

 

Agenda:

 

8:05 - 9:00  Dave Spring -  IBM z Series update model z10 Performance and Features

9:00             speaker   AQM Solutions  
Proactively Maintaining Your SLA Commitments - Mark Karier – TriTune Product Manager, AQM-Solutions, Inc.
 
Abstract:
 
Companies struggle to maintain their SLA commitments with the ever-changing and complex production workloads. By adopting a methodology of identifying and minimizing potential threats to meeting your SLA's before the threats becomes reality, you can proactively manage your enterprise applications and maximize the attainment of your SLA commitments.  
 
A methodology available to proactively achieve your SLA commitments will be presented.  As the methodology is being presented, detailed information regarding the requirements to implement this proactive methodology will be discussed in detail.
 
The session will conclude with a review of the steps necessary to implement the proactive methodology in your enterprise application environment.
 
Speaker Bio:
 
Mark Karier is the Product Manager for TriTune.   He has over 25 years of industry experience including Application Programming, Systems Programming, R&D Quality Assurance, and Product Management.



10:00  Break sponsored by CA -



10:30 - 11:30  IBM Tivoli -  zVM and Z/Linux Performance Monitoring and System Management

Mike Sine   
IBM SW IT Specialist-Software, Tivoli-zSeries Software

Issues and approaches to managing Linux when running under VM.  What are the measurements?  How do we mange work to provide adequate performance and service to Linux guest applications.

 


 

Local Officers

 

To add your name to our email distribution, contact TBecchetti@sjm.com

 

 

Chair: Tom Becchetti

St. Jude Medical

Phone: (651)415-7092

E-Mail: TBecchetti@sjm.com <mailto:TBecchetti@sjm.com>

 

Advisor: Judy Jones

E-Mail: judyjones9@gmail.com <mailto: judyjones9@gmail.com>

 

Treasurer: Dez Kristof

Acxiom

Phone: (651)787-5242

E-Mail: dez.kristof@acxiom.com <mailto:dez.kristof@acxiom.com>

 

Director: Doug Morris

Phone: 

E-Mail: dmorris@datadomain.com

 

Director: Mark Weber

Xiotech Corporation

Phone: (952)983-2306

E-Mail: mark_weber@xiotech.com <mailto:mark_weber@xiotech.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: Bob Kunzer

Phone: (651) 787-2027

E-Mail: bob.kunzer@deluxe.com

 

Check out our Web page at:

http://regions.cmg.org/regions/mspcmg/index.html

 

 

 

 

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