Final Agenda CMG Canada Seminar: November 6Th 2001 (Toronto)

CMG Canada Seminar: Tuesday February 18th 1997

TIME: 8:30a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Board of Trade (Downtown) - The Council Chamber

1 First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario (Tel: 416-366-6811)

Enter First Canadian Place (FCP) via any of King, Adelaide, Bay or York Street entrances and stay on the main (street) level; go in to the special Board of Trade elevators near the Timothy's Expresso Bar. (Street level of FCP in the Northeast Quadrant)

ATTIRE: Business attire or Business casual (hard soled shoes, slacks, collared shirt) If this program is not of interest to you, please pass it on to the appropriate group within your organization ... Thanks for your prompt attention. Agenda:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM President's Welcome - Anthony Mungal

9:15 AM Capacity Planning Experiences at the Royal Bank - CMOS, Parallel Sysplex

Simon Cheung - Royal Bank of Canada

With the introduction of CMOS processors over the last couple of years, Royal Bank, like many other companies, has taken advantage of the cost savings resulting from the implementation of this technology. In addition, the implementation of MVS 5.2.2 and parallel sysplex has brought further opportunities for cost saving through PSLC pricing options. This presentation will describe the results of these 2 important implementations, not from a cost perspective, but from a capacity planning perspective. Questions we'll try and answer from our experience include:  What is the capacity of the generation 2 (Rn3) and generation 3 (Rn4) CMOS processors? How well do these processors run RB workloads?  What was the capacity impact of implementing MVS 5.2.2 with a basic sysplex and with data sharing?  What capacity information is available on coupling facilities?  How does RB use this information to forecast coupling facility size?

Simon Cheung is a Team Leader in Capacity Management for the Royal bank of Canada. Simon leads a team of three people and is responsible for producing the mainframe capacity plan for the Royal Bank's four computing centres, capacity methodologies and optimization. The capacity plan is reviewed and revised if needed, twice yearly. Simon has been with Royal Bank Financial Group (RBFG) (Royal Bank and Royal Trust) for 8 years working as a Senior Consultant is various functions such as software support, systems performance, application optimization and capacity management. Prior to joining RBFG, he worked for IBM for 6 years in various positions in large systems marketing support, systems development and testing. Simon holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A.

10:30 AM Coffee

11:00 AM "RMF and SAR"

Tim Michalski - EMC Corporation

This informative presentation entitled "RMF and SAR" is a roadmap for MVS performance analysts to understand how to apply their skill set to Open System Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning. It is a must for those with the MVS background seeking to understand the Open Environment, and even vice-versa. It draws similarities, parallels and highlights the differences between the various measurements and techniques employed between the two monitors. This presentation was extremely well-received at the Rocky Mountain CMG Seminar in September last year.

Tim Michalski is a System Engineer with the EMC Corporation in Pittsburg, where for the last three years he has done customer pre and post sales support on Plug compatible DASD Subsystems. Prior to joining EMC he spent five years in Systems Engineering with the Amdahl Corporation in a similar role on supporting Plug compatible Mainframes, DASD Subsystems, and Plug Compatible Communication Processors. Prior to Amdahl, he spent twelve years with the Memorex Corporation in Systems Engineering supporting Plug compatible DASD, Tape, and Communications equipment, as well as various other Customer Service and Technical Support Positions.

He is currently the Advisory Council Representative for the Mid-Atlantic CMG (MACMG), with which he has been actively involved in for almost 18 years in various capacities, including Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Program Chairman. 12:15 PM Lunch (make your own arrangements)

1:30 PM RAID: Past, Present, and Future

Brett A. Quinn - EMC Corporation

This presentation will begin with a brief review of the historical RAID 'levels' defined a decade ago at University of California at Berkeley. Recent advances in RAID technology (e.g. microcode functionality, distributed XOR), which contribute to the view that state of the art storage is as much software as hardware, will be discussed in detail. The presentation will conclude with a review of the recently announced RAID Classification Program currently being implemented by the RAID Advisory Board. The goal of this Classification Program is to help users distinguish RAID storage subsystems, one from another, based on the level of data availability and protection they are intended to provide.

Brett Quinn is a Corporate Systems Engineer for EMC Corporation in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He provides technical marketing support on the Symmetrix series of Integrated Cached Disk Arrays to EMC's worldwide Systems Engineering force. In addition, Brett represents EMC on the RAID Advisory Board, an industry association which promotes the understanding and use of RAID and related storage technologies.

Prior to joining EMC in 1994, Brett was a technical support manager and spent nine years with IBM as a Large Systems SE.

2:45 PM Coffee

3:15 PM "Virtual Tape Subsystem"

Frank Vonasek - StorageTek Canada - Toronto

Recent vendor announcements have paved the way for the introduction of the 'Virtual Tape Subsystem' into the Enterprise. This presentation discusses the virtualization of data and more specifically the high level conceptual architecture of virtual tape subsystems. The speaker will discuss the benefits of 'Virtual Tape' as well as the performance and capacity considerations for evaluating a 'Virtual Tape Subsystem' solution.

Frank Vonasek has 18 years experience in the Data Processing industry and is currently a Systems Engineer with StorageTek Canada in Toronto. Previously, he was a Senior Consultant with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, Performance Analyst in the Open Systems arena with Toronto Stock Exchange and Capacity and Performance Analyst at the T. Eaton Company. 4:30 PM Adjourn

Dates worth Remembering: April 15-16th 1997 CMG Canada 2 day Seminar - Toronto

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