SCMG Meeting Raleigh
September 28, 2007

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Peter Sevcik
Peter Sevcik is president of NetForecast and is a leading authority on network traffic, performance, and technology. Peter has contributed to the design of more than 100 networks, including the Internet, and holds the patent on application response-time prediction. He tries to separate fact from hype and describe a vision of the networked future in his Business Communications Review magazine column. Peter is a senior member of the IEEE and serves on the conference advisory boards of Next Generation Networks and Networld+Interop.

Rick Ralston
Rick Ralston has worked in Data processing for over 30 years. He's spent 26 of those years working in performance management and capacity planning, mostly on IBM mainframes. He's a contributor to the MXG-L listserv and an editor of CMG's web-zine Measure IT. Recently he has been involved with the IBM Sub-Capacity License Charge offering for z/OS.

Chris Molloy
Chris is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM working in the outsourcing area. With over 65,000 people supporting outsourcing worldwide for IBM, Chris' role is to inject innovation and new technology into the accounts in order to provide them a competitive advantage. Chris focuses on improving system management solutions for his customers. He is a frequent speaker at CMG, and holds a patent for some of his work in performance management and capacity planning.

Frank Bereznay
Frank is a long time member of the Computer Measurement Group and an active volunteer at the national and regional level. He, and his wife Shana, have supported the Southern California region for more than 20 years. Frank is currently with Kaiser Permanente, a large vertically integrated provider of health care services. He supports the National Information Technology Business Unit and is helping to implement an Electronic Medical Record application for the more than 8 million members who receive healthcare services from the Kaiser program. Previously, Frank was at the Automobile Club of Southern California for 13 years and held a variety of Data Center management positions.

Susan Schreitmueller    
Susan Schreitmueller is a Distinguished Engineer for IBM with over 25 years in Information Technology. Although Susan has managed a variety of platforms including the IBM mainframe, Solaris, HP and IBM midranges and various other, now obsolete systems, she now specializes in system's management, availability and the IBM System p platform. She is an internationally recognized speaker for IBM and she is the Chief Technical Strategist for Power Systems client care.      

Abstracts:

Using SAS/Graph to Display Performance and Capacity Data
Rick Ralston, IBM
This presentation briefly describes how to use SAS/Graph on z/OS to build graphs and display them using the HTTP server. z/OS is the author’s principle SAS platform. The majority of the presentation tells how to build and use heat charts to display 3 dimensional data in 2 dimension graphs. This is not platform specific.
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The “Powerful” Capacity Manager
Chris Molloy, IBM
Recent studies have indicated that servers in US data centers consume over one percent of the electrical power generated in the US. With increased demand for IT applications, many data centers are not prepared for the growth. This paper analyzes the characteristics associated with IT electrical power, and how the capacity planner is uniquely positioned to apply their process, procedures, and products previously used on IT resources to data center resources. It also discusses technologies that the capacity manager may already be advocating to mitigate the projected data center constraints.

Did Something Change? Using Statistical Techniques to Interpret Service and Resource Metrics.
Frank Bereznay, Kaiser Permanente
Frank Bereznay, Kaiser Permanente
In a perfect world, one would always know the answer to that question. Unfortunately, nobody works in a perfect world. This paper will explore statistical techniques used to look for deviations in metrics that are due to assignable causes as opposed to the period to period variation that is normally present. Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Process Control, Multivariate Adaptive Statistical Filtering, and Analysis of Variance will be compared and contrasted. SAS code will be used to perform the analysis. Exploratory analysis techniques will be used to build populations for analysis purposes.

This paper received the J. William Mullen award at the 2006 CMG Conference in Reno, Nevada.
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The Myth of MSU or How Big is the Bucket?
Jim Horne, Lowe's
Knowing how big your mainframe is may sound simple, but is it? If you are only looking at it today, and not looking at yesterday or tomorrow it is, but how do you compare it to the way it used to look or the way it may look in the future? IBM’s Intelligent Resource Director and new specialty engines may be a good thing but they also mean new challenges for capacity planning and performance reporting. This session is intended to offer a review of the RMF TYPE70 and TYPE72 records, and point out why what you actually get may not be what you think it is.

Virtualized Capacity - Myth or Reality?
Susan Schreitmueller, IBM    
This session will explore the role of virtualization in capacity planning. How does the paradigm shift with the advent of capacity upgrade on demand, the role of availability and dynamic partitioning?

Sponsors:

	MVS Solutions Inc. provides software solutions for the improvement of batch processing in a JES2 and Workload Manager environment.
	BMC Software enables you to monitor and manage business services, along with the technology infrastructure supporting them—applications, data, systems and networks—simultaneously.