SCMG
Meeting Atlanta
October 28, 2004

Location:
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Bellsouth
725 W. Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA
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Agenda:

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 1980s.
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:
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BMC
Software enables you to monitor and manage business services,
along with the technology infrastructure supporting themapplications,
data, systems and networkssimultaneously.
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William Data
Systems specializes in the development of leading edge tools
for z/OS network management, security, and problem determination.
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