Connecticut Computer Measurement Group
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Spring Conference and Vendor Day Meeting
Friday April 17, 2015
To be held at the Courtyard by Marriott, Cromwell. All are welcome and Wi-Fi is available.
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The first Connecticut Computer Measurement Group conference for the year is slated for Friday, April 17th. This Spring
Meeting brings back our popular Vendor Day format, to which we invite many software and hardware companies to exhibit
their offerings. Coffee and refreshments are served in the Vendor Hall, and a little more time is permitted between
sessions for you to investigate their services. Fees earned on Vendor Day help us to keep our admission prices low
during the rest of the year, as well. We have a really outstanding program this year. Please consider attending.
Our spring vendor day conference is made possible with the help of our participating vendors. This year the
following vendors will be exhibiting and providing information on their products and services:
DataKinetics ♦ Dynatrace ♦ HP ♦ IBM ♦ Moviri ♦ CA ♦ Compuware ♦ MVS Solutions
CCMG AGENDA Friday, April 17, 2015, Cromwell, CT
Time
Activity
7:45 – 8:15
Registration & Continental Breakfast (provided)
8:15 – 8:30
Introductory Remarks & Business Agenda
8:30 – 9:40
9:40 – 10:10
10:10– 11:20
11:20 – 12:30
12:30 – 1:40
1:40 – 2:10
2:10 – 3:20
Track 1
Track 2
Proactively managing Monthly License
Charge for IBM mainframe software
Managing Capacity and Performance for IBM PowerVM
Virtualization
z13 Hot Topics
Capacity Management and Big-Data
Andrew Jepeal – Compuware
Debbie Sheetz – BMC
Break -- Refreshments in the Exhibit Area
Track 1
Track 2
Carol Creter – IBM
Lunch (Provided) -- Dessert and Refreshments in the Exhibit Area
Track 1
Track 2
5 Ingredients to Execute Application
Performance Management on z/OS
The Internet of Things and Its Impact on Our Application
Economy
Mike Horwitz – Dynatrace
Jeremy Rossbach – CA Technologies
Break -- Refreshments in the Exhibit Area
Combined Sessions
What’s in Your Nest? More than Ever – Less
Is More!
John Baker – MVS Solutions
3:20 – 3:25
Renato Bonomini – Moviri
Presenting Your IT Business Case To Your Finance
Partner
Randy McCoy – DataKinetics
Closing Remarks
Preregistration Cost: $25 ∞ Preregister via email: Send a “Preregister me” email to: [email protected]
8:30 – Dual Track
Come learn ways to proactively manage Monthly License Charge (MLC) for IBM mainframe software Andrew Jepeal, Compuware
Mainframe workloads are growing significantly as web, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) applications drive
increasing transaction volumes. Capabilities offered on the newly-debuted IBM z13 are also likely to attract new
workloads—including high-performance analytics, Java and Linux®. This workload growth is precipitously
driving up the Monthly License Charge (MLC) for IBM mainframe software, which for sub-capacity environments
is generally impacted by the highest rolling four-hour average (R4HA) of mainframe utilization for all
applications on each LPAR—measured in MSUs. Therefore IT can most effectively reduce its sizable IBM z
Systems software costs by both 1) tuning each application to minimize its individual consumption of mainframe
resources and 2) orchestrating application workloads to minimize the LPAR utilization peaks they generate
collectively at any given time.
Andrew Jepeal has over 30 years of experience in Mainframe Information Technology. A large part of Andrew’s career
was spent as an MVS Systems Programmer with an emphasis on Performance Management and Capacity Planning. Just
prior to joining the Compuware team, Andrew provided technical leadership to the MVS Systems Programming team for a
major US retailer. Andrew has been a part of the Compuware team for over 15 years. During this time, he has held various
positions, primarily related to Compuware’s Application Performance Management products. He has worked with many
companies across various industries to help them achieve their mainframe APM objective and maximize their results.
Managing Capacity and Performance for IBM PowerVM Virtualization - Debbie Sheetz, BMC
What are the specific characteristics of IBM’s PowerVM virtualization? How do you apply capacity planning,
performance analysis, or modeling techniques to this platform? What are some of the typical use cases for
AIX? Two case studies demonstrating applying the techniques are presented.
Debbie Sheetz is a Capacity Management Architect and Support Analyst based in BMC Customer Support, at the
Waltham, Massachusetts/USA location. She provides applied solutions for performance analysis and capacity planning
challenges for customers, business partners, and BMC field consultants. She works with product R&D and marketing on
refining existing solutions and designing new solutions. Prior to working with Distributed Systems performance
management products, she had extensive involvement with AS/400 and mainframe product support and development.
Originally hired to work on the first version of BEST/1 at BGS Systems, she has 32 years of experience developing and
supporting performance analysis software with BMC Software/BGS Systems.
10:10 – Dual Track
z13 Hot Topics - Carol Creter, IBM
In this fast paced, always new presentation the speaker will provide the latest information on System z and
z/OS performance and capacity planning issues. Recent performance enhancements, gotchas, and
recommendations will be reviewed with a focus on the z13 processor announcement. Also covered will be the
latest information relating to recent performance APARs and ATS performance offerings.
Carol Creter has spent 30 years in z/OS performance and Capacity Planning, with the last 23 focused on providing these
services to IBM clients worldwide.
Capacity Management and Big-Data - Renato Bonomini, Moviri
Big-data solutions, led by Hadoop, are rapidly extending its footprint in large enterprises which are investing
huge budgets to support new initiatives. For the ‘enterprise capacity planner’, Hadoop is a zoo of different types
of workloads; even if companies are simply using Hadoop to store information (HDFS) there are many other
applications (hdfs, hive, pig, impala, spark, solr, flume, to name a few).
The traditional capacity questions still exist. However, each animal in this zoo behaves differently and, for
example, there are significant differences in the two most common workloads “MapReduce” and “HBase. This
leads to mainly three points of views for analysis to make sure service levels are achieved. This presentation
focuses on providing guidelines for the capacity planner to understand how to translate existing techniques and
framework and to adapt them to these new technologies: in most cases “what’s old is new again”.
Renato Bonomini leads Moviri Inc., the US subsidiary of Moviri SpA headquartered in Milan Italy. A Digital Signal
Processing engineer by training and big-data ante litteram while performing R&D for a major European oil and gas
company, his expertise focus on: architecture and design of capacity optimization systems for large and very large
enterprises; design or assessment of capacity management processes; capacity planning analysis for large-scale
architectures; data crunching and visualization; High Performance Computing.
His industry experience spans telco, oil and gas, finance, banking and insurance, leisure and travel, retail and public
sectors.
12:30 – Dual Track
5 Ingredients to Execute Application Performance Management (APM) on z/OS - Mike Horwitz,
Dynatrace
“The translation of IT metrics into business meaning (value) is what APM is all about.”
We will discuss the 5 most important and absolute necessary ingredients to get sustained APM done on the
mainframe: 1) One view - Over all departments/teams, end-to-end from the tab on the mobile device down to
the backend. 2) Top down - Start on 30.000 FT identifying the area of interest and dig into the details for root
cause analysis. 3) Start early- Catch performance issues as early as possible and provide as much
information as possible. 4) Focus - on the most critical applications/transactions and have a close watch on the
key metrics. 5) Always on - monitor 100% of the transactions 24x7 to identify the root cause for unexpected
increases.
Mike Horwitz has spent 30 years in the software tool development industry, with the last 15 focused in the APM sector. As
a senior Architect at Compuware and now Dynatrace, he has architected two different APM solutions, covering both java
and z/OS (CICS and IMS). He truly bridges the gap between the “mainframe” and “distributed” worlds. He has a Computer
Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, and holds several patents in software development.
The Internet of Things and Its Impact on Our Application Economy - Jeremy Rossbach, CA
Technologies
The IoT wave is predicted to deliver almost 30 billion new connected devices. That’s a lot of new data fighting
for capacity with existing enterprise systems. How will you process IoT data points based on business
needs? How will you ensure sufficient data center and compute capacity for the applications that depend on
IoT data? Learn how a more forward-looking capacity planning strategy is needed now more than ever to
guarantee you will be able to ride the IoT wave.
Jeremy Rossbach has spent the last 8 years at CA Technologies in a variety of roles, including Pre Sales Engineer to
Product Management. Prior to CA, he spent 15 years in IT, across public and private sectors, managing data centers for
startups, healthcare, financial and federal system integrators. Previous roles as data center administrator, engineer,
architect and manager have provided him invaluable insights into the challenges and goals of IT consumers.
2:10 Dual Track
What’s in Your Nest? More than Ever – Less Is More! – John Baker, MVS Solutions
In RNI context, IBM says the number of concurrent tasks is the primary factor in workload performance,
particularly with today’s high frequency processors. The z13 architecture has a vast capacity to serve multiple,
concurrent applications. Regardless of the amount of work you throw at it, z/OS will do its best to provide some
service to all workloads. As result, we generally throw all the work at the machine at once. Are you running
too much or too little? Let’s look at some measurements and techniques to control how much concurrent work
you are running. Cycles per instruction, Initiators, LPARs, Logical Processors and Weights are a few of the
topics we’ll explore. You will find techniques to improve performance, throughput and efficiencies of your
mainframe. Come and see just how much less you should be doing.
John Baker has 20 years in the IT industry as both a customer and consultant. 15 years specializing in mainframe
performance at a large international bank and 6 years in enterprise I/O performance with IntelliMagic. As a customer, John
designed, implemented and maintained many critical projects such as WLM Goal Mode and GDPS/Data Mirroring. He has
extensive experience with many performance analysis tools and techniques at the hardware, OS, and application levels.
As a consultant, John has assisted many of the world's largest datacenters with their z/OS performance challenges and
held Subject Area Chair positions with CMG for both Storage and Capacity Planning for several years. John has hosted
many sessions at CMG, SHARE, etc. as well as several regional user groups. In 2013, John joined MVS Solutions as their
Principal z Performance specialist.
Presenting Your IT Business Case to Your Finance Partner - Randy McCoy, DataKinetics
This presentation provides suggestions for IT personnel on how to present their business case to a finance
partner to help increase the likelihood of getting the request for funding approved. The presentation provides a
practical framework for presenting a business case, defines key finance terms, and gives illustrations and
examples.
Randy McCoy joined Ottawa based DataKinetics as CFO in June 2011. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA,
CA) with over twenty years of experience in financial reporting and management for software, manufacturing, and
professional services businesses. Prior to joining DataKinetics, Randy served as Finance Director at Kinaxis and as Sr.
Finance Manager at Autodesk.
Venue
Courtyard by Marriott, Cromwell 4 Sebethe Drive · Cromwell, Connecticut 06416
Phone: (860) 635-1001
Preregistration Cost: $25 ∞ Preregister via email: Send a “Preregister me” email to: [email protected]