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February 7, 2012

 

Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Center

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. An Introduction to Web Analytics for Performance Analysts and Capacity Planners

  2. I/O, I/O, to Make My Database GO!

  3. The Penguins Have Landed - Getting started with Linux on System z

  4. IBM DB2 10 for z/OS:  Performance Improvement

  5. File Systems and Various Approaches in Use Today

November 1, 2011

Hosted by VSP

3333 Quality Drive

Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

  1. Resizing the DB2 Buffer Pool for Performance Testing
  2. Skills Transformation – From Performance Tester to Performance Engineer
  3. The Devil is in the Details
  4. File Systems and Various Approaches in Use Today
August 2, 2011

Sponsored by Data Kinetics

Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Center

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. In-Memory Tables and DB2 Optimization
  2. Introduction to Business Transaction Management
  3. IT Performance Management in a Financial Crisis: An informal                          SCCMG Aug 2011 & PDF Report
May 3, 2011

Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Center

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. Machine Learning, Capacity and Performance Analysis, and R
  2. Considerations for Flash Storage
  3. Preparing for IPv6
February 1, 2011

Sponsored by Applied Expert Systems

149 Commonwealth Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025

  1. zEnterprise Best Practices

  2. Performance Engineering for Cloud Services

  3. CEP Driven: Capacity, Performance and Transaction measurement in the Datacenter and Cloud

  4. Keeping your Network at Peak Performance as you Virtualize the Data Center

November 9, 2010

Sponsored by Compuware

4733 Chabot Drive, Suite 100

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. How to Build Tabular Dashboards using Proc Report
  2. How not to run a performance benchmark
  3. Automatic Generation of Benchmark and Test Workloads

August 3, 2010


Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Room

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. Sub Capacity Pricing vWLC, Define Capacity and the 4-Hour Rolling Average – Are You STILL Paying Too Much?
  2. Using the Cloud to Crunch Your Data
  3. E2E – Web/Distributed/Mainframe – Visualized
May 4, 2010

Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Room

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. Today’s Job Search, the Do’s and Don’ts

  2. What's New in PDQ 5.0?

  3. SSL Handshake Analysis

February 2, 2010

Sponsored by Compuware

4733 Chabot Drive, Suite 100

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1.  Performance Improvements from the “Things I Wish They’d Told Me 8 years Ago” - Visualized

  2.  zWhole Wide World of Specialty Processors

  3. Best Practices in Batch Tuning – Empowering IT Staff to reduce CPU and Run-Time in the Enterprise

  4. Benchmarking the Efficiency of Array Processing for Various Types of Language Processors

  5. Load Testing is Easy.  Good Load Testing is Not.  Preparation is the Difference  

November 3, 2009

Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Room

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. Performance Management in Virtualized Environments

  2. Event Profiling in z/OS

  3.  Business Transaction Management - The Evolution of End User Monitoring

  4. Survival Analysis in Computer Performance Analysis

August 8, 2009

Sponsored by Mainline

Information Systems

Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Center

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. Linux Measurement and Performance Tuning
  2. Understanding the Performance and Management Implications of FICON/FCP Protocol Intermix Mode (PIM)
  3. Telling Compelling Stories with Numbers
  4. PowerVM Virtualization and Planning
May 5, 2009

Sponsored by Wily Corporation

Magnolia Room

Carr America Conference Center

4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. Application Monitoring in the Cloud
  2. Nanotechnology Is Coming To Storage
  3. Death to Dashboards:  Alarming, Performance Management

          Based on Variance, System Priorization and Other Thoughts on

          Data Visualization

February 3, 2009

Sponsored by Compuware

4733 Chabot Drive, Suite 100

Pleasanton, CA 94588

  1. Mongo* Measurement Requires Mongo Capacity Management
  2. Wasted MIPS, Wanton MIPS: a MIPS Recovery Initiative
  3. The Apdex Index Revealed
November 4, 2008 Carr America Conference Center
4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588
  1. Business Service Management, the End User, the Business and IT
  2. Performance Management with Free and Bundled Tools
  3. A Load Balance Index - the Missing Metric
  4. Techniques for Reducing Data Center Power Consumption
August 5, 2008 Carr America Conference Center
4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588
  1. Forecasting Data Center Power Requirements:  Tips from the Trenches  
  2. Using SAS/Graph to Display Performance and Capacity Data
  3. Greening your Data Center
  4. To CUP or Not CUP
May 6, 2008 Carr America Conference Center
4400 Rosewood Drive

Pleasanton, CA 94588
  1. Performance Management In The VMware World
  2. Visual Diagnostic Language (VDL) for TCP/IP Trace Analysis
  3. Managing the Customer Experience
  4. Business Service Management (BSM)
February 5, 2008

San Ramon Marriott

2600 Bishop Drive

San Ramon, CA

  1. Storage Virtualization: Look Before You Leap
  2. Positioning for Retirement
  3. Best in Class” SAM Practices in a changing Software Industry
November 6, 2007

San Ramon Marriott

2600 Bishop Drive

San Ramon, CA

  1. AIX Performance Tuning
  2. Planning for Virtualization
  3. Evolution of a Scalability Solution for a Simulation Application
  4. Data Encryption, the Last Line of Defense
August 7, 2007

Wells Fargo Bank Cassie Hill Data Center

201 North Sunrise Blvd.

Roseville, CA 

  1. Planning our Retirements
  2. Where’s Waldo: Uncovering Hard-to-Find Application Killers
  3. Did Something Change?  Using Statistical Techniques to Interpret Service and Resource Metrics
May 1, 2007

eBay

Town Hall Building

Round Table Conference Room

2161 North First Street

San Jose

  1. How eBay Works and Scales
  2. Performance tuning experience with SQL Server 2005 in an Engineering Modeling Environment
  3. End-to-End Performance Monitoring to the Mth Tier (Mainframe Integrated) – The New Industry Standard via the Apdex Alliance

  4. Unix/Linux Quick Start Course

February 6, 2007

Bank of America

Transamerica Building

655 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
CA

  1. Achieving Business Agility with SOA: Governance & SLA Management of Shared Service Ecosystems
  2. A Primer on How to Pinpoint Storage Network Problems Before Application Performance is Affected
  3. SOA Monitoring & Performance Management Challenges
November 7, 2006

Marriott Courtyard Pleasanton

5059 Hopyard Road

Pleasanton, CA 

 
August 1, 2006

Wells Fargo Bank Cassie Hill Data Center

201 North Sunrise Blvd.

Roseville, CA

 
May 2, 2006

Marriott Hotel

2600 Bishop Drive

San Ramon, California

 
February 7, 2006

SAS Institute, Inc.

Post Montgomery Center
One Montgomery Street, 34th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94104

 
November 1, 2005

Marriott Hotel

2600 Bishop Drive

San Ramon, CA

 
August 2, 2005

Wells Fargo Bank Cassie Hill Data Center

201 North Sunrise Blvd.

Roseville, CA 

 
May 3, 2005

Crowne Plaza

11950 Dublin Canyon Road

Pleasanton, CA 94588

 
February 1, 2005

Hilton Hotel

7050 Johnson Drive
Pleasanton, CA 94588

 
November 2, 2004

Remedy Corporation

5960 Inglewood Drive, Suite 150
Pleasanton, CA 94588

 
August 3, 2004

Wells Fargo Cassie Hill Data Center

201 North Sunrise Avenue

Roseville, CA

 
May 4, 2004

Compuware Corporation

1300 Clay Street, Suite 700

Oakland, CA  94612

 
February 3, 2004

Remedy Corporation

5960 Inglewood Drive, Ste 150
Pleasanton, CA 94588

 
November 4, 2003

Applied Expert Systems

149 Commonwealth Drive
Menlo Park, CA
 

1. It’s All About Performance
2.
The Dimensions of Service - Exploring WLM's Solution Space
3.
Enterprise Web Architecture and Its Performance
August 5, 2003

Wells Fargo Cassie Hill Data Center

201 North Sunrise Avenue

Roseville, CA

 
May 27, 2003

Sun Microsystems

16 Network Circle

Menlo Park, CA

 
February 4, 2003

Compuware Corporation

1300 Clay Street, Suite 700

Oakland, CA

 

 

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