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SCMG Meeting Atlanta
October 28, 2004

Location:

Bellsouth
725 W. Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA

 


Agenda:

Time Session Presenter
8:00 – 8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Sponsor: William Data Systems
8:30-9:00
Vendor Presentation
Pete Milano, William Data Systems
9:10 – 10:00 Aspects, Annotations, and EJB 3 Marc Fleury
10:00 - 10:50 Software Performance Engineering Failure Modes and Effects Kevin Mobley
10:50 - 11:10
Break

11:10 - 12:00 Mainframe Capacity Planning Marty Deitch
12:00-1:00
Lunch

Sponsor: BMC

12:30 - 1:00
Vendor Presentation Shelby A. Barras, BMC
1:30 - 2:20
Capacity and Performance Free-for-all
 
2:30 - 3:20
Viruses, Hackers, and DoS, Oh No!"
Richard Austin
3:30 - 4:20
Benchmarking a Networked Backup System Using Natural Workloads

Bryan Drake

4:20 - 4:30 Concluding Remarks and Giveaways  

Speakers:

Pete Milano
During the past 20 years Pete Milano has performed in various management and technical roles supporting networking environments. His experience with research, design, development and implementation of network solutions has involved large scale SNA, X.25, Frame Relay and TCP/IP network topologies utilizing all well-known protocols and other protocols too. Mr. Milano has developed business critical PPSN rating and invoicing systems, network performance reporting systems, SNA network modeling, and performance enhancements to IBM network management exits.

Mr. Milano designed the network management environment for MCI and the SNA network design and rollout for Immigration and Naturalization Service during the 1980’s.

His experience includes tenures with MCI, Marriott, Citigroup, PRC and Memorex.

Bryan Drake
Bryan Drake is currently Vice President of CMG USA and Regional Chair of the CMG USA Southern region. He has worked in the IT field for over 25 years in a variety of positions including programming, technical support, storage administration and systems programming. Bryan works for the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) for the Commonwealth of Virginia USA. VITA is a consolidate information systems technologies agency for State government in Virginia. Bryan currently supports mainframe, UNIX and Windows systems automation and recovery software including Candle monitors, BMC Control products and NetBackup. He has presented at a number of CMG USA conferences and CMG Austria/Central Europe and is a member of the CMG USA Conference committee.

Abstracts:

Benchmarking a Networked Backup System Using Natural Workload
Bryan Drake - CMG Vice President
This presentation discusses an actual benchmarking experience of a networked backup system servicing UNIX and Wintel clients. Focus is on converting the interesting data collected during the benchmark into useful information and practical application of the results.
(Presentation)

Software Performance Engineering Failure Modes and Effects
(Presentation)

Mainframe Capacity Planning
(Presentation)


Sponsors:

BMC Software enables you to monitor and manage business services, along with the technology infrastructure supporting them—applications, data, systems and networks—simultaneously.
William Data Systems

William Data Systems specializes in the development of leading edge tools for z/OS network management, security, and problem determination.