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CMGA 2002

11-13th September 2002
Sydney Marriott Hotel, SYDNEY

FINAL Timetable

Wednesday 11th September

Thursday 12th September

Friday 13th September



  WEDNESDAY 11th September (Seminar Day)
Start tIme Cook 1 (Level Two) Cook 2 (Level Two)
09:00 Enrico: Performance Tuning Considerations for WebSphere on z/OS Samson: Conversion to Goal Mode Workshop
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Gunther: Application Scalability Analysis Buzen: The Pricing Revolution and its Implications for Performance Management (ILM)
17:30-19:00 Registration Drinks - Level One Foyer


  THURSDAY 12th September (Seminar Day)
Start Time Ibis I (Level One) - Storage Ibis 2 (Level One) - Enterprise Management Cook 1 (Level Two) - Open Systems Cook 2 (Level Two) - S/390
08:30 Ibis 2 - 101: Keynote - Jeff Buzen: Factors Shaping the Performance of Content Delivery Network
09:30 111: Ernst: What's New in Storage - 2002 Review, 2003 Preview 112: Heers: One Year Later - A Review of Business Continuance 113: Robinson: Managing Server (Unix, Linux, NT) Consolidation to S/390 114: Ferguson: ICF Catalog Performance Tuning
10:30 Morning Tea
11:00 121 Beretvas: Storage Processor (DASD) tuning process (a tutorial) 122 Griffiths: ITIL and Your Service Desk - Are they Married, Divorced, or Yet to Meet? 123: Faini: MidRange Capacity Planning: Establishing the Foundation 124: Enrico: WLM - How to Start Figuring Out Why Strange Things Happen
12:00 Lunch
13:00 131 Vendor Session - CPT Global:
Slash your IT infrastructure costs
132 Vendor Session - Integrated Research: Next-Generation Enterprise Management Architecture 133 Vendor Session - EMC Australia 134 Vendor Session - Fujitsu Australia
14:00 141 TBC 142: Jones: It Metrics: Issues, Options and Implementation 143: Robinson: Analyzing Performance of UNIX, Linux and NT Machines in a Network 144: Bruhahn: Taming the "Rolling Disaster"
15:00 Afternoon Tea
15:30 151 Ferguson: The Performance Aspects of Point-in-Time Copies for Mirrored Volumes 152 Ames: Managing Data Security in the Internetwork Environment 153: Smith: Performance Analysis Case Studies 154: Shediak: Performance Tuning Mainframe Applications
16:30 Ibis 2 - 161: Plenary session - John Venema: Welcome to the new E
17:30 171: AGM
18:00-19:00 Happy Hour: Vendor Area - Level One Foyer
19:30 Conference Dinner: The Terrace and Cooks Rooms (Level Two), Sydney Marriott


  FRIDAY 13th September
Start Time Ibis I (Level One) - Internet/E-Business Ibis 2 (Level One) - Planning and Reporting Cook 1 (Level Two) - Open Sytems Cook 2 (Level Two) - S/390
09:00 Ibis II - 201: Keynote - Steve Samson: Analysis of Workload Manager Recent Announcements and Advanced Topics
10:00 211 Linn: Web Caching: A Survey from Passive to Active Pull 212: Chu: A Four Sigma Quality Service Level Agreement 213: Enrico: Tuning UNIX Systems Services - A Cookbook Approach 214: McMenemy: Performance and Stress Testing of a New Mainframe Application - A Case Study
11:00 Morning Tea - Sponsored by Mainstar International
11:30 221: Vendor Session - Mainstar International: System Programmer ToolKit -- A New Feature Set in Mainstar's Catalog RecoveryPlus 222 Vendor Session - Merrill Consultants 223 Vendor Session - Rufunsa Technology: The IT Jobs Recession: Hope for the Future? 224 Vendor Session - ASG Software: Infrastructure Management - How does your user community rate your performance?
12:30 Lunch
13:30 231 Allan: Application Instrumentation: How to swim in a sea of data 232 Tsykin: An Approach to Automated Monitoring of End-to-End Service Level Agreements 233: Beretvas: Performance of Linux Systems with Emphasis on I/O 234: Li: Designing CICS Applications for Performance
14:30 Afternoon Tea
15:00 241 Scott: Is That All There Is? (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML) 242 Davies: Accessing Your Performance SAS Data 243 Lee: A performance model for a fair share scheduler 244: Gunther: Celebrity Boxing and Sizing: Alan Greenspan vs. Gene Amdahl!
16:00 Ibis 2 - 251: Locknote - Ron Ferguson: Metadata - It's Importance, and How it Affects System Performance
17:00 Conference Closes - Happy Hour: Level One Foyer