Presentations and Abstracts

Show & Tell Monsanto 

IBM z10 News and Views

Should businesses considering computer systems acquisitions in general be excited about the IBM z10 announcements? Should performance analysts and capacity planners in particular be more or less excited? These will be the two key questions answered by the presented independent analysis of IBM's announcements. You will get ALL your related questions answered.

Internet 3.0: Performance and Productivity Issues of the Internet and a Proposal for the Next Generation

The productivity of a person, a corporation, and a country depends upon the speed with which information can be communicated.  Rapid communication of information through computer networks has changed our way of conducting business.  Internet is both enabler and the key bottleneck for the productivity of our businesses.  Many parts of the Internet architecture were developed 30+ years ago.  In these 30 years, we have learnt a lot about networking and packet switching.  Is this the way we would design the Internet if we were to start it now? This talk is an attempt to answer this question raised by US National Science Foundation, which has embarked on the design of the next generation Internet testbed called GENI.

In this talk, we will point out key problems with the current Internet and proposed directions for the solutions.  In particular, the next generation of Internet has to be commerce friendly.  It has to be designed to meet the needs of businesses, organizations, and governments.  The next generation Internet should keep the best ideas of the past and add features that will help businesses, organizations, and governments utilize it in the same way they utilize other methods of communication and transport and have the same or superior level of flexibility.  Ten such problems and proposed solutions will be presented in this talk.

IIS/ASP.NET Best Practices

This presentation will provide:

• A brief overview of IIS
• Best practices for reliability
• Best practices for scalability
• When to use Web Gardens
• Capacity and Sizing
• What you should know when speaking with .NET developers

Bibliographies

Ivan Gelb

Ivan Gelb is President of Gelb Information Systems Corporation (http://www.gelbis.com/), a consulting firm that provides management and technical consulting services in the U.S. and internationally. His extensive Information Technology background includes: determination of optimum hardware and software requirements for mainframe and client-server systems; effectiveness evaluation of computer systems and related organizations; data communications systems design and implementation; computer systems end-to-end availability management, performance management and capacity planning; development of software packages and proprietary measurement data analysis techniques.

During his more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Gelb performed technical and management services for more than 100 organizations such as JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo, FBI, State of California, New Jersey State Office of Information Technology, and New York City Board of Education. He is a speaker at various technical conferences, Director of Computer Measurement Group, article writer and editor for a number of trade publications.

Dr. Raj Jain

Raj Jain is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University, St.  Louis, MO.  Dr.  Jain is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM.  He has served on the Board of Technical Advisors to several companies including Nexabit Networks, Westborough, MA acquired by Lucent Corporation.  (March 1997-1999), Amber Networks, Fremont, CA acquired by Nokia (1999-2001).

He is the author of ``Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, which won the 1991 ``Best-Advanced How-to Book, Systems'' award from Computer Press Association.  His fourth book entitled " High-Performance TCP/IP: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions," was published by Prentice Hall in November 2003.

Based on his active participation in the computer industry, Dr. Jain was awarded 1999 siliconindia Leadership Awards for Excellence and Promise in Business and Technology.  He is also a winner of ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time award.

For his publications and talks, see http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/.

Clint Edmonson

Architect Evangelist (blog http://www.notsotrivial.net/blog/) 

Clint Edmonson is an Architect Evangelist in Microsofts North Central District, working with aspiring and seasoned architects to understand Microsofts latest developer and platform offerings and develop strategic roadmaps for their adoption.

Shawn Travers

IT Pro Evangelist (blog http://blogs.technet.com/shawnt)

Shawn Travers has presented more than 500 live events to more than 25,000 IT professionals, partners, and resellers. As a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Shawn enjoys playing with new technologies; however, he finds helping other IT professionals solve problems and tackle unfamiliar products the most rewarding part of his job.

Meeting Details

Date: Tuesday November 18^th

Time: 9am to 4 pm

Cost: $50 by August 5^th; $60 at the door,

Full-time College Students with ID and RSVP are FREE

Location:

MetLife - St Louis Campus

13045 Tesson Ferry Rd

St Louis, MO 63128

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St. Louis Computer Measurement Group

P.O. Box 1474, Maryland Heights, MO  63043

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8:30 9:00                        Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 9:15                        Welcome and Introductions - Ben Geolat

9:15 10:30                      Show & Tell Monsanto Jeetu Singh

10:30 10:45                    Break

10:45 12:00                    Ivan Gelb IBM z10 News and Views

12:00  1:00                      Lunch

1:00  2:30                        Dr. Raj Jain Internet 3.0: Performance and Productivity Issues of the Internet and a Proposal for the Next Generation

2:30 2:45                        Break       

2:45 4:00                        Microsoft IIS/ASP.NET Best Practices

4:00                                   Closing

                                          Optional - Social Gathering at Chevys (Kennerly & Tesson Ferry across from St. Anthonys)