Agenda for the OHVCMG Conference of April 24th 2008

Regional Meeting Registration Form

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Discounted 2008 National CMG Membership offer!!! ($125.00 Instead of $175.00)!! Now's the perfect time to join OR renew - valid ONLY if you complete the form and bring it with you when you attend a regional meeting! If you've been considering joining, please do so! If you are already a member who's fees have lapsed, this is your lucky day!

7:45 Registration and full Breakfast

8:30 Steve Guendert
OHVCMG Chair
Brief opening remarks

8:45 Rick Ralston, Humana Inc.
Topic: Using SAS/Graph to Display Performance and Capacity Data

Abstract:

This presentation shows a few useful tips and information for developing graphs using SAS/Graph. The presentation then focuses on building and using heat charts to display performance and capacity data in an interesting and usable manner. Heat charts provide the ability to visualize 3 dimensional data in 2 dimensions. The techniques used are platform independent, although the work was done on the z/OS platform.

10:00 Break

10:15 Doug Lane, EMC Corporation (Information may be revised)
Topic: Addressing the challenges of Backup, Recovery and Archiving (or) Symmetrix DMX-4 Technical Briefing

Abstract:

Backup, Recovery and Archiving
This briefing will discuss existing and new approaches to meet the challenges of managing the ever increasing volumes of information.

Symmetrix DMX4-Technical Briefing
The EMC Symmetrix DMX4 is the latest edition of the Symmetrix. This technical briefing will also include information regarding the new SSD (Solid State Drives) Flash Drives for "Tier 0" applications, Virtual Provisioning and 1TB SATA drives.

11:30 Lunch  - Sponsor: EMC Corporation

 
1:00 Michael Salsburg, Ph. D.
Topic: Beyond the Hypervisor Hype

Abstract:

This paper provides a simple model of today’s hypervisors.  It then discusses a set of benchmarks that have been published by VMware and XenSource.  The performance implications of the benchmark results are discussed.  Newly emerging virtualization enhancements are appearing on processor vendor roadmaps.  The motivation for these, plus some insights into the announced enhancements are discussed.  Finally, the impact of server virtualization on the role of capacity planning is discussed.

 
2:30 Break

2:45 Montgomery Bauman & John Balis of IBM
Topic: Latest Z10 platform announcement - Technical Briefing

Abstract: "IBM announced on February 26, the IBM System z10 Enterprise
Class Server (Z10 EC). When compared to previous generation System z9
machines, the z10 EC provides 50% more performance for most workloads and
up to 100% more performance for compute intensive jobs. It also delivers
70% more capacity than the z9 EC. Monty will discuss the technical aspects
of this new 'server'."

4:00 Steve Guendert

Brief closing remarks                          

4:10 PARS

Meeting is at: Dave & Buster's:614-771-1515 3665 Park Mill Run Drive Hilliard, OH
43026
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Pretty cool, huh? All that for only $50 (early registration) and it's being held in
nearby Hilliard OH (Dave and Busters), too.  Don't delay - we're getting close to game day!

Yes, yes, yes - we realize that some of you might be thinking, "I just can't get away
for a day". NO GOOD! The question needs to be, "How can I miss it"??? With talent
like that listed above, with the kind of networking opportunity OHVCMG provides, it's a day you simply must schedule for YOU.

A user group like OHVCMG relies solely on its membership in order to survive - you
asked for these kinds of sessions and we've responded - now it's time to step up!
C'mon down and visit with us, huh?

Best to you,

Steve Guendert, Chair
Ohio Valley Computer Measurement Group