NCCMG
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
COMPUTER MEASUREMENT GROUP
February 3, 2004
5960 Inglewood Drive, Ste
150
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 469-4000
9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 PILS Management – Requirement or Option for “Best-in-Class”?
Speaker: Michael Swanson, Information Systems Asset Management (ISAM)
“Best-in-Class” companies spend less than half of an “average” data center in software costs! An average data center would have to negotiate all their ISV software for “free” if they were to get to the cost structure of best-in-class. Since best-in-class companies spend between 40-50% of their total software costs on ISV software, how are they are able to manage their costs? Best-in-Class companies have perfected the practice of product image licensing (PILS) to keep their software costs down. PILS management is the most effective tool to reduce software costs. For every $1 saved from traditional negotiated discounts or process improvements, companies can save $10 by utilizing PILS management. This presentation will reveal the secrets from the best to help you dramatically reduce your software costs by means of PILS management.
10:45 – 11:45 Automatic Generation of Benchmark Workloads
Speaker: Dr. Jozo Dujmovic, San Francisco State University
In this presentation, Dr. Dujmovic will discuss the use of BenchMaker, a generator of benchmarks that provides generation of scalable benchmarks according to user's specification. A new version of BenchMaker is designed primarily to serve remote web users. The users get the graphical interface that is used to specify the structure, functions, size, and the number of desired benchmark programs. Benchmaker server receives the user’s request, generates benchmarks, and delivers them to the user as e-mail attachments containing source code.
11:45 - 12:45 NCCMG Business Meeting ** Lunch provided by BMC Corporation **
12:45 - 1:45 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, Web Services Are From Betelgeuse
Speaker: Denise Kalm, BMC Corporation
Having trouble making robust legacy applications talk to hot new Web applications? Trying to manage business transactions with your partners when everyone is running their proprietary software on different platforms? Simple, flexible interoperability is the “holy grail” and happens to be analogous to the challenges we all face when we try to communicate with the opposite sex. Using the Mars-Venus theme, we will explain the basics, value and challenge of creating, or migrating to a Web services standard-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA.) We will extend that theme to communication with people from other cultures/languages as an analogy to cross enterprises B2B Web Services.
2:00 – 3:00 Designing for Performance
We live in a world that stores magnetically, one and a half billion terabytes of information each year. In just the last five years major changes have been made to disk drives and databases. Operating systems now use a 64-bit word and server memory is often in the multiple gigabyte range.
How do you design a disk subsystem to manage this data today? Is RAID1 really better than RAID5? Did large caches on our disk arrays ever give us the performance advantage we thought they did? And what about future technologies that are just around the corner? Mr. Oatway answers these questions and more and discusses storage solutions and designs for today and tomorrow.
Please pre-register by contacting Keith McAndrew at 916-286-5929 or Keith_McAndrew@StorageTek.com by Friday January 30, 2004. Registration is $25.00 paid at the door.
Report from the November, 2003 meeting:
Speakers: Catherine Liu, Dr. Leo Lo, Rich Olcott and Shennon Shen
Call for speakers in 2004. 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 2, 2004.
Reminders! 2004 REGIONAL NCCMG MEETINGS:
February 3
May 4
August 3
November 2