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Philadelphia CMG Meeting Reminder
Philadelphia Computer Measurement Group
Date: May 3, 2010
To: Philadelphia CMG Members
From: Philadelphia CMG Officers
Subject: PHILACMG Meeting Announcement
Please plan to attend the May 21 meeting of Philadelphia CMG. We have yet
another excellent program that provides training you can rarely find
elsewhere. BMC Software will be onsite as our Featured Vendor
** WIFI will be available in the meeting room. **
Email dthor...@gmail.com for more information.
Date: Friday, May 21, 2010
Place: Holiday Inn
4th & Arch Streets
Philadelphia, PA
Hotel Phone: 215-923-8660
Dress: Casual
Cost: $55.00 pre-registered (includes lunch)
$70.00 at the door
If you are registered for the entire year simply send an email to
dthor...@gmail.com with your lunch choice.
Pre-registration deadline is Friday, May 14, 2010. Use the attached form,
making checks payable to PHILACMG. Mail to: Dave Thorn/PHILACMG, P.O. Box
744, Cherry Hill, N.J. 08003-0744
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A G E N D A
8:30 Continental Breakfast & Check-In
9:00 Greg Caliri - BMC Software
Ten Things Not to Forget in z/OS Capacity Planning
Capacity planning for mainframes has been made easier in recent years.
z/OS and its subsystems now have better activity recording mechanisms.
Software products are better able to analyze the data produced by those
mechanisms. Many users also have a greater understanding of how business
activity drives system activity. All of these factors make it possible
to more accurately formulate a capacity plan, but care must still be
taken to avoid omitting critical factors and causing errors in
predictions.
10:00 Featured Vendor ? BMC Software
Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software. Business thrives when IT
runs smarter, faster, and stronger. That?s why the most demanding IT
organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across both distributed
and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service
Management, BMC provides a comprehensive and unified platform that helps
IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk, and drive business profit. For the
four fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2009, BMC revenue was
approximately $1.90 billion. Visit www.bmc.com for more information.
10:30 Break
11:00 Alon Ben-Shoshan - Correlsense
Discover Business Units of Work to Improve Effectiveness of
Capacity and Performance Management
IT resource consumption metrics are often considered to be the tell-all
?vital signs? of IT systems. But this alone is like checking a patient?s
pulse and respiratory rate and saying that they are healthy even though
the patient may be suffering from an undiscovered terminal disease. The
lights may be on, but are the IT systems you manage perceived as cost
effective, reliable and well performing by the business users? During
this session, attendees will learn from the presented concepts and case
studies about the new techniques which enable analysts to:
- Understand how a specific business unit of work translates
into often numerous IT units of work,
- Discover the flow of the application conversations which
create workload on the IT infrastructure, and
- Improve performance management activities by connecting IT
resource consumption metrics with business units of work.
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 Alfredo Perez - Software Engineering of America
Best Practices in Batch Tuning - Empowering IT Staff to Reduce
CPU and Run-Time in the Enterprise
This session will explore the key factors that often limit the focus of
batch tuning, and discuss the technology framework and methods that
effectively assist performance and capacity staff as well as empower other
key staff members in the identification and resolution of batch tuning
opportunities.
2:05 John Burg - IBM
z10 CPU Measurement Facility Overview and Washington Systems
Center Experiences
The z10 CPU Measurement Facility (CPU MF) is a new hardware
instrumentation facility available on System z10 EC GA2 and z10 BC. This
session wioll describe what CPU MF is, and is not. It will describe
system requirements, configuration steps needed to utilize CPU MF, and
analysis tips. We will then detail Washington Systems Center experiences
and discuss future directions for CPU MF, focusing on Workload
Characterization.
OFFICERS
Dave Thorn 609-781-0353
Ivan Gelb 732-303-1333
Mark Vitale 610-865-0300
Pete Warchol 610-219-8846
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