8:00 – 8:45           Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 9:45           **2010 Mullen Award Winner**

An Introduction to Web Analytics for Performance Analysts and Capacity Planners  

Speaker:  Dr. Anna Long, Web Analytica

While web analytics -- the measurement and analysis of web-related activity -- is often considered the realm of marketing, there are important reasons for performance analysts and capacity planners to understand web analytics as well. This session will describe how major web analytics tools work, highlighting factors that can affect performance and system capacity requirements.  Then it will explain how these tools help analysts and planners take quick action when activity spikes, build more realistic benchmark and stress test workloads, and gain insights into trends for workload forecasting.

10:00 – 11:00      I/O, I/O, to Make My Database GO!

Speaker:  Randal Sagrillo, Oracle

Database performance tuning is usually an exercise in SQL client (application) optimization, schema optimization and database software instance tuning.  However, occasionally, it becomes a database deployment platform tuning exercise: servers, networking and most often for systems: storage. This session will focus on using tools like Oracle Diagnostic Pack, specifically its Application Workload Repository (AWR) and Oracle Statspack to identity storage I/O bottlenecks.  Real world use cases, along with actual lab measurements will be examined for single-instance, virtualized and cluster/grid deployments.  Recommendations and their implementation will be explored.  Finally both before and after AWR/Statspack reports will be reviewed along with results against the deployment service level objectives.

11:15 – 12:15      **2011 Mullen Award Winner and 2011 Best Paper Winner**

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

Speaker:  Michael Giglio, Shelter Insurance

Linux for System z has been around for a decade. Lots of companies are running tens or hundreds of Linux virtual servers on a single IBM mainframe. Many enterprises have exploited this technology for server consolidation, cost savings, “green technology” and reducing the size of their data center. This presentation describes the path Shelter Insurance is taking to implement and exploit Linux on System z.  This implementation is more of a journey that a destination, with plans to continue exploring virtualized environments.

12:00 ‑ 1:00          NCCMG Business Meeting/Lunch

1:00 – 2:15           IBM DB2 10 for z/OS:  Performance Improvement

                                Speaker:  Akiko Hoshikawa, IBM

This was originally presented as a late breaking paper at CMG in 2010.  Akiko’s presentation will include the latest information.  This paper offers a look at performance impact of DB2 10 for z/OS, especially performance scalability of online transactions and CPU and elapsed time reduction based on measurements done in Silicon Valley Lab.  Akiko’s presentation will include insight into why you might see improvement at the system and application levels as well as information about monitoring improvement.

2:30 – 3:30           File Systems and Various Approaches in Use Today

Speaker:  Tom Trainer, Red Hat

Tom will continue the discussion started at the November meeting – and will be talking about file systems and various approaches in use today.  He will also be talking about the performance characteristics of a metadata-less file system

Please pre-register by contacting Keith McAndrew at (916) 715-8352 or signing up through PayPal by Friday February 3, 2012. Registration is $25.

Report from the November 2011 meeting:

   Speakers:  Gary Dabb, Pat Crain, Jay Sales, Steve Bidondo and Tom Trainer

Call for speakers in 2012. If you are interested in speaking, call Cathy Nolan at (925) 803-0884 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, 2012.