SCMG Meeting Richmond
May 24, 2005

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Speakers:

Paul Strong
Sun Microsystems

Joe Francis
Joe Francis is a pre-sales engineer with Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft for 13 years and has been focused on core infrastructure products (Windows Servers, Active Directory, Exchange, and Virtual Server 2005) for his entire time at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft he worked for 8 years at Hewlett Packard as a Systems Engineer on the HP3000 and HP9000 product lines.

Kathy Walsh
IBM Corporation
Kathy is an IBM Distinguished Engineer who supports the zSeries platform with a special focus on performance and capacity planning for zSeries servers and the z/OS operating system. Provides technical and project leadership to IBM clients on the use, deployment and benefits of zSeries technology. Extensive experience consulting with clients on the performance and management of their z/OS environments, often in support of customer critical situations. Areas of focus include support for zSeries processors including LPAR and zAAPs, Parallel Sysplex, Workload Manager, RMF, Batch Window issues, Processor Sizing, and support for software pricing. Kathy is a member of IBM's Academy of Technology and has spent the past several years working on the issues of skills development and collaboration technologies to foster distance learning.

Reed Mullen
IBM Corporation

Brian Wade
IBM Corporation

Abstracts:

Virtual Server 2005 technical Overview
Joe Francis, Principal Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft's virtual machine solution for Windows Server 2003 was designed to increase operational efficiency in legacy application migration, server consolidation and test and development scenarios. Come and learn how Virtual Server 2005 can help you:

• Run your NT4 legacy applications in virtual machines on Windows Server 2003 and consolidate those servers to increase manageability and free up space in your datacenter
• Consolidate underutilized servers in your test lab and branch office environments, improving hardware efficiency and administrator productivity
• Quickly create virtual test and development environments, speeding application development time
• Deploy new servers in minutes instead of days or weeks

(Presentation 5M)

IBM zSeries z990 and z890 zAAP - What It Can Do For You
Kathy Walsh, IBM
This session will review the latest planning for the IBM zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP). The zAAP is an attractively priced, specialized processing assist unit that provides a strategic z/OS Java execution environment for customers who desire the powerful integration advantages and traditional Quality of Service (QoS) of the zSeries platform.

When configured with general purpose processors within logical partitions running z/OS, zAAPs can help customers strategically integrate new Web applications with mission-critical data, increase system productivity, and lower the overall cost of computing for running Java technology-based applications on z/OS. IBM does not impose software charges on zAAP capacity.

zAAPs are designed to operate asynchronously with the general purpose processors to execute Java programming under control of the IBM Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This can help reduce the demands and capacity requirements on general purpose processors which may then be available for reallocation to other zSeries workloads.

The focus of this session will be an introduction to the zAAP, and will include the latest information on planning, migration, performance and configuration. It will include IBM Washington Systems Center experiences using the zAAP.

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