Sponsored by Wells Fargo
August 1, 2006
Wells Fargo Cassie Hill Center
201 North Sunrise Blvd.
Roseville, CA
AGENDA
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 z/OS® Performance on the New Generation of Itanium® 2 Mainframes
Speaker: Irwin Kraus, Platform Solutions, Inc.
Who said the mainframe was dead – not so say industry analysts who are now seeing the demand for mainframes increase as companies move to exploit technologies that best meet their business requirements. While the names of some of the “old” mainframe manufacturers are not heard or seen today, IBM and Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI) are alive and in demand. Irwin’s presentation will give you insight into the how mainframe computers have evolved - from requiring large amounts of real estate, water and air conditioning to the small but mighty powerhouses they are today. Irwin will also describe the architectural and performance characteristics of the PSI mainframe, which is based on Intel Itanium 2 technology. Instruction set architecture realization (how z/Architecture™ is achieved on Itanium), architectural characteristics of Itanium that make it an ideal platform for the mainframe, and implementation of real and virtual I/O subsystems will also be covered in this presentation.
10:15 - 11:15 Encryption of Data at Rest on System z: Technology and Performance Implications
Speaker: Peter Sutton, IBM
Your enterprise may already be studying the State and Federal legislation and industry standards that are driving increased use of encryption to protect data, and be wondering how to meet these requirements. In this presentation Peter covers a brief overview of the motivation for encryption. He provides a broad look at the implications for existing data processing systems including performance and key management. The bulk of the presentation is a deep dive into mainframe capabilities including performance information. The presentation concludes with a brief look a future outboard encrypting capabilities in storage devices. No knowledge of cryptographic protocols is required.
11:30 - 12:30 The Secret for a Successful Data Life Cycle Management Deployment
Speaker: Mike Bombacie, HDS
Data Lifecycle Management is a hot topic nowadays, and the concept of being able to classify and manage data throughout its lifecycle very appealing. Not only does Data Lifecycle Management help organizations classify their data in terms of what is intellectual property, what is personal and confidential or what needs to be retained for regulatory requirements, but it also provides organizations an opportunity to intelligently age data as it becomes older and in less demand. Mike’s presentation will focus on the definition of Data Life Cycle Management, including the required components for a successful deployment. He will also introduce the tiered storage concept and provide a better understanding of how data life cycle affects your applications. The discussion will then move to storage virtualization concepts and options.
12:30 ‑ 1:30 NCCMG Business Meeting/Lunch sponsored by Wells Fargo
1:30 – 3:30 Enhanced I/O Performance on the System z9 with DB2, FICON and the DS8000
Speaker: Jeff Berger, IBM
You may have seen other presentations about IBM storage and FICON technology, including such features as FICON Express 2 & 4, the DS8000 control unit, MIDAWs and Parallel Access Volumes. In this two hour presentation Jeff will provide a DB2-centric point of such I/O and disk storage features. He will explain how Media Manager uses the combination of MIDAWs and track level CCWs to improve the efficiency of FICON channels. He will share with you the results of his laboratory measurements, using DB2 workloads consisting of queries, logging, online reorg, backup and recovery. He will provide you with guidelines how you can determine whether DFSMS striping is helping or will help DB2 performance in your environment.
Jeff will also describe some of features of DB2 Version 8 and Version 9 that affect I/O performance and the utilization of disk space. Version 8 introduced support for large CI sizes, exploitation of Flashcopy, sliding scale space management, long term page fixing, and non-padded indexes. Version 9 focuses on improving the I/O performance of table scans, inserts, and Fast Log Apply. Version 9 also provides some LOB enhancements, enables your archive logs to be compressed or striped, and introduces index compression.