NCCMG  

Northern California

Computer Measurement Group

 

 

 

 

May 27, 2003 

                            

 

                                               

Sun Microsystems

16 Network Circle

Menlo Park, CA

                                

8:30 - 9:30    Registration and Continental Breakfast      

9:30 - 10:30  The Complexity of Web Transaction End-to-End Response Times

Speaker: Roger Kovach, Applied Expert Systems

 

In today's global economy, eBusiness is a vital component of corporate success. In the eBusiness economy a slow Web site is a fast way to lose money. Overall site performance and availability can either attract users or frustrate them. The difference lies in the ability to maintain

consistent, reliable Web site performance despite ever-increasing demands of innovation, performance, and complexity. More often than not, many separate interactions are required within a single transaction. Pop-ups, frames and multiple page downloads are just the start. In order to accurately assess Web site performance, the entire transaction needs to be measured from end to end. Discussion will cover the importance of total response time measurement, the complexity of nesting within web operations, the diagnostic value of historical analysis, and the benefits of establishing and adjusting a performance baseline. Sample logs and reports will be used to show how key performance indicators can be used to manage Web performance.

 

10:45 - 11:45 Exploiting z/OS Workload Manager

Speaker: Steve Samson, Candle Corporation

Steve Samson, well-known author and consultant, will present a briefing

based on recent experiences, announcements and the presentations of others.

Topics include but are not limited to: fear of Discretionary and how to

overcome it; safe and sane classification of started tasks; how to make a

z900 run like a G5 ('Short Engines'); how to get back as much as possible

(IRD); and getting to response time goals in CICS and IMS without risk, and

analysis of the z990 announcement.

 

11:45 - 12:30 NCCMG Business Meeting - Lunch sponsored by Sun Microsystems

12:30 - 1:30 Exploiting z/OS Workload Manager - Continued

Speaker: Steve Samson, Candle Corporation

1:45 - 2:45 A New Approach to Meeting SLAs Through Managing IT

Resources.

Speaker: Amir Raz, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Today's static IT architectures do not provide users with the ability to

meet dynamic application requirements, or to utilize their IT resources in a

cost-effective manner. The service-level objectives users are specifying for

applications drive the requirements for compute, networking and storage

components of IT environments. N1is a solution where these three components

are virtualized and managed holistically to meet service objectives

optimally. Amir's presentation will present a new vision for the data center

as a system. He will talk about how N1 plays into that vision, and how it

will change the way data centers are operated.

 

Please pre-register by contacting Keith McAndrew at 916-286-5929 or

Keith_McAndrew@StorageTek.com <mailto:McAndKA@NORTHAMERICA.Stortek.com> by

Friday May 23, 2003. Registration is $25.00 paid at the door.

 

This mailing compliments of 3PARdata, Inc.

Report from the February Meeting:

Speakers: Doug Dittrich, Philip Joung and Nalini Elkins.

Call for speakers in 2003. If you are interested in speaking, call Cathy

Nolan (510) 668-9222.

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 write Cathy Nolan by November 4, 2003. Send E-mail to

Internet ID cathy.nolan@3pardata.com <mailto:cathy.nolan@3pardata.com> .

 

 

 

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