Northern California Computer 

Measurement Group

   August 3, 2010

   Agenda 

8:30 – 9:30      Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30 – 10:45    Sub Capacity Pricing vWLC, Define Capacity and the 4-Hour Rolling Average – Are You STILL Paying Too Much?

                        Speaker:  Joe Brockert, SoftwareOnZ

In October of 2000 IBM added the "Define Capacity" setting for Sub-Capacity customers.  How does this affect each LPAR, WLM and the 4 hour rolling average? The dynamics of this and what it will cost you if this is not managed correctly can be significant, as every month companies could be paying less for software costs if the 4-hour rolling average is reduced (and managed more effectively).  During this session, Joe will discuss ideas on managing WLM to reduce costs and to improve performance by ensuring the right MSUs are in the right place, at the right time and for the right cost.

11:00 – 12:15 Using the Cloud to Crunch Your Data

Speaker:  **Michelson Award Winner** Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix

Instead of worrying about what the definition of cloud computing might be, let's focus on how you can use Cloud Computing to do large scale log processing. This tutorial will show how you can upload huge datasets to Amazon S3, crunch them with a large cluster of computers using Amazon EMR, and do it all from your web browser for a handful of dollars charged to a credit card.

12:15 ‑ 1:15    NCCMG Business Meeting/Lunch Sponsored by SoftwareOnZ/Vendor Presentation

1:15 – 2:30      E2E – Web/Distributed/Mainframe – Visualized

Speaker:  Tom Halinski, Compuware Corporation

Application Performance Management has its roots in the enterprise:  Large corporations deploying monitoring tools aligned to the various parts of their infrastructure. Mainframes, databases, switches and routers, middleware and web presentation machines and all of the other layers that exist in the modern data center, each with their corresponding instrumentation providing insight on performance at the component level.  This is useful, but only in a limited fashion.

The industry leaders solved those challenges by shifting the model to provide a unified look at application performance from the perspective of the end-user.  Aligning those applications to the business that they serve provides another layer of insight as real business impact of IT service interruptions or degradation can be assessed so that appropriate action can be taken:  Fixing the application that has the biggest business impact first.

As applications are extended to the public internet -- and the Internet into your datacenter and customers access composite applications from disparate locations, a whole new set of considerations are introduced in to the equation and new solutions are required.  This presentation will cover these topics and more!

Please pre-register by contacting Keith McAndrew at (916) 715-8352 by Friday July 30, 2010. Registration is $25 at the door.

Report from the May 2010 meeting:

   Speakers:  Doug Berg, Neil Gunther and Nalini Elkins

Call for speakers in 2010. If you are interested in speaking, call Cathy Nolan at (925) 675-5308 or (925) 890-8390.

If you have not attended a meeting within the last two years, you will be deleted from the mailing list.  To remain on the mailing list, either attend one meeting or email cathy.nolan@bankofamerica.com by November 1, 2010.