CMGA 2003 3-5th September 2003 Sydney Marriott Hotel, SYDNEY

Sponsor Profiles

CONFERENCE PARTNERS

EMC Australia
EMC Corporation is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services and the provider of the most robust, secure, and trusted information storage infrastructure in the world. Major customers include the world's largest banks and financial services firms, manufacturers, telecommunications providers, airlines, transportation companies, Internet providers, retailers, educational institutions and regional and national government agencies.

EMC is recognized on the BusinessWeek 50 list of the top-performing companies among the S&P 500, IndustryWeek's World's Best-Managed Companies,and the Fortune 500. EMC is also among Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies, 100 Best Companies to Work For, America's Most Admired and Global Most Admired.

EMC’s total consolidated revenue from 2001 was $7.09 billion. For the full year in 2001, EMC’s revenue from networked information storage grew 26% from 2000, reaching $2.68 billion. The most recent projections from IDC indicate the EMC’s 2001 marketshare in networked information storage (SAN and NAS) was 39%, exceeding the combined revenues of the next three vendors. Revenue from information management software grew 9% in 2001 compared with 2000, reaching a record $1.56 billion and building on EMC’s market leading position in storage management software. EMC’s major investments in customer and professional services also continued to pay off in 2001 as services revenue for the full year reached a record $972 million, 59% higher than 2000.

EMC is represented by more than 100 sales offices and distribution partners in more than 50 countries and has the world's largest storage-dedicated direct sales and service force. Many of the world's major computer companies resell EMC's systems and software, including NEC, Fujitsu Siemens, Unisys, Group Bull and NCR. EMC has also formed alliances with leading software, networking and services companies, including Accenture, KPMG, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle, to better serve customers.

An independent survey underscored EMC's stellar approval ratings. In an InformationWeek survey of 385 IT professionals, EMC was rated the highest in overall satisfaction among nine storage vendors, and No. 1 in five other critically important categories, including product reliability, interoperability standards, service-level guarantees, product innovation and after-sale service.

Wily Technology
Based in Brisbane, CA, Wily Technology, Inc. has become the leader in performance management software for Enterprise Java Applications by helping its customers keep their applications running at peak performance. Wily's comprehensive solution gives customers visibility into their new generation Java applications, integrates into existing IT systems management processes, and when combined with Wily professional services and best-practices, helps enterprise IT personnel become world-class managers of Java applications. Wily has established strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as BEA Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Wily's patented Introscope(r) software monitors large-scale Java applications - isolating bottlenecks and minimizing downtime - in real-time production environments.

Fujitsu Australia
Local leverage on global resources
Fujitsu is a very diverse organisation and a world leader in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Microelectronics industries. Our global network of over 500 companies spans 100 countries and employs more than 180,000 people.

We are playing a major role in bringing the world to the Internet and the Internet to the world. In North America, Fujitsu is the leading supplier of synchronous optical network communications systems that are the backbone of the Internet. In Europe, we are linking homes and businesses to new Internet-based entertainment and commercial services. In Asia, our ultra-high-speed optical networks are supplanting slower electronic networks for Internet transmission and in Japan, Fujitsu is the leading Information Technology company and the No. 1 Internet service provider.

In Australia and New Zealand, we have an enviable track record in transforming the operations of public and private enterprises by delivering the best technology and e-Business solutions available in the world today. Our products and services - from notebooks to PCs and high-speed Intel-based servers, to data centres, award winning call centres, coast-to-coast telecommunications networks, dedicated Retail solutions and sophisticated e-Business applications - are powering the Internet economy.

Our local knowledge and experience is enhanced and complemented by the resources of the Fujitsu group of companies, particularly ICL, one of Europe's leading e-Businesses, the DMR Consulting Group, Amdahl Corporation and Fujitsu's telecommunications subsidiaries in Europe and the USA.

We recognise that no single company has a monopoly on great ideas or great technology. To ensure we can bring the best end-to-end solutions to our customers we partner with some of the most advanced technology companies in the world including Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Our Australasian development centres evidence Fujitsu's commitment to local manufacture and R&D. In Sydney, the Fujitsu Australia Software Technology group develops global software solutions, including the middleware applications that allow companies to maximise online business potential by integrating diverse computing systems. Melbourne is home to our local manufacturing plant as well as R&D engineers developing state-of-the-art telecommunications products for local and world markets

Did you know?

• We are the largest supplier of Retail solutions in Australia and innovators in touchscreen technology at point-of-sale
• We designed, built and now operate the world's first digital interactive TV service for NTL in the UK
• We created the first Internet refrigerator to show how the Internet will merge into our everyday lives
• Fujitsu is one of Australasia's leading providers of outsourcing services including infrastructure management, help desks and call centres. Our contact centre operations won successive Australian ISP Help Desk Awards in 1999, 2000 and 2001
• We are the No. 1 supplier of hard disk drives for desktops in Australia and New Zealand
• Fujitsu is one of the largest suppliers of ATMs in the world with machines dispensing stamps, processing loan applications and booking theatre tickets as well as providing traditional cash dispensing functions
• We were the first supplier to deliver a commercial transmission system offering more than one terabit of data transmission per second over fibre optic cable

CPT Global
Incorporated for more than 10 years and employing over 200 IT experts, CPT Global is the premier supplier of specialist consulting services in Australia. Today, as companies struggle to do more with less, CPT provides the key services that enable businesses to grow while reducing IT spend.

CPT's client list (locally and overseas) includes major blue chip companies across the Telecommunications, Financial, Transport and Government industry sectors.

Core Capabilities Performance Tuning - by helping organisations quickly attack the root causes that drive ITY costs higher. CPT has saved millions of dollars for its clients. CPT can provide risk free tuning services through our Risk/Reward offering.

Capacity Planning - increasing the organisations control and stability through business and focused plans, allows CPT's service to address the real issue of how to grow more business without over-capitalising IT.

Performance Testing - CPT provides services in automated testing and test management to help organisations avoid the cost and embarrassment of failed application deployment which leads to lost revenues.

Management of IT Services - CPT assists many organisations in developing Information Technology strategies, Selective Outsourcing strategies and the transitioning of the IT organisation into an effective IT Service Provider model. PT has a mission to make the CIO successful.

CONFERENCE PARTNERS

Compuware Asia Pacific
Compuware delivers software and professional services that optimise productivity and reduce costs across the application lifecycle. Our tools improve the quality, integration and performance of enterprise and distributed software.

We draw on over 30 years experience in mainframe technologies to offer products, people and processes that deliver real return on IT investment. Visit the Compuware booth to see the latest features and functionality of market-leading File-AID™, Abend-AID™, Xpediter™, STROBE™ and Hiperstation™. Compuware - The Leader in Application Lifecycle Technology.

Mainstar International
General
Mainstar International (Mainstar Software Corporation & Mainstar) is a mainframe and open systems software, consulting and education company, with its principle headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. Mainstar has been in business since 1979 and currently operates seven sales offices in various locations across the U.S., as well as a sales and support office in the U.K and Australia.

Software Background
Beginning in 1979 Mainstar (operating under the corporate name of Software Information Services, Inc.) was primarily an education and services company, specializing in mainframe storage management topics (data and storage management, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery). Throughout the 1980's, Mainstar was a major subcontract vendor to Amdahl and HDS for training services at their respective education centers throughout the world.

In 1989, Mainstar was the first company to bring to market a mainframe (OS/390) HSM reporting product, demonstrating the foresight to recognize a need for HSM tools to better manage an ever-burgeoning DASD environment. This original product, entitled HSM Reporter/Manager, has evolved into a suite of mainframe HSM management products, including HSM FastAudit, Storage Manager, and VSAM Manager.

This expertise led to development of Mainstar's disaster recovery suite of products, including ABARS Manager, ASAP, and a collection of ABARS-related utility products, designed for comprehensive OS/390 disaster recovery support. These products add significant functionality to IBM's base Aggregate Backup And Recovery Support (ABARS) within HSM, and as a result, both IBM and HDS are resellers of this software. ABARS, coupled with the Mainstar ABARS-related products, is rapidly becoming a leader in disaster recovery support, as well as for local recovery, enabling all other forms of disaster backup and recovery software to be discarded.

Large-Scale Consulting Services
Mainstar's consulting division was created in 1991, with the objective of applying our substantial HSM and SMS knowledge to solve our customers' problems. Our consultants are in constant demand. Our engagements have included:

• Full ABARS implementation at Ford and American Express;
• An SMS and ABARS implementation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
• An HSM/SMS/ABARS implementation at Delta Airlines;
• a TMM conversion at Johnson & Johnson;
• SMS implementations at Kaiser Permenente, The Gap, Pioneer Data Systems, and Fingerhut;
• Long-term day-to-day DASD storage management at United Airlines and Pacific Power.

SAS Australia
SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites -- including 90 percent of the Fortune 500 -- to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organisations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For more than 25 years, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®.

BMC Software
BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE:BMC], is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, databases and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2003 revenues of more than $1.3 billion. For more information about BMC Software, visit www.bmc.com.

Merrill Consutlants
To understand what MXG is really all about requires you to know a little about who we are. Our entire company philosophy revolves around several concepts that are near and dear to us. One of them is the ancient concept of Sharing Information. That was what computers were supposed to provide our civilization-a means whereby many users could share and exchange information designed to advance their work and expedite output in a minimum of time. That's exactly what MXG Software does: we share all that we know about Computer Performance Evaluation with bright users who share and contribute their discoveries with us to share with you. [And we give credit in our MXG Newsletter and in Chapter 99 to every user who has contributed to MXG!

We make it easy, since we ALWAYS distribute 100% source code.

Another concept we hold dear is Efficiency. Good quality software does not need to cost an arm and a leg, plus your firstborn child, and should not require multi-page negotiated contracts designed by lawyers. Our price is the same for each data center, and does not depend on the size nor on the number of CPUs at that site. MXG is single priced and will never charge for additional components; it also does not check CPU serial numbers-we trust our honest users. From the smallest computer shop to the largest megadata center with 10-digit budgets, everyone pays the same price, and everyone signs the same agreement.

But most importantly, we are a Service company. Our whole aim in life is to provide support and maintenance to our technical folks who spend their days, nights, and weekends making data centers run smoothly. That's why we often answer our phone on weekends, and have 24-hour fax service, because we believe the Technical CPE person is a data center's most valuable resource. We are devoted to our technical user, and do our best to deliver nearly perfect code, and to document the constant change in hardware, software, and technology through technical MXG Newsletters.

We are a Mom and Dad Texas Software Company, based in Dallas, and we are proud to be a leader in demonstrating that small businesses can provide extremely high quality mainframe software with word-of-mouth marketing! MXG Software has been installed in over 6,000 sites, in all 50 states, and in 52 countries! Our price was changed once since 1984, and we don't plan to change our price again until after the third Woodstock, in August, 2019.

Candle Corporation
Candle Corporation has provided solutions to manage and optimise business-critical infrastructures, systems, service levels and other information technology assets for over 26 years. By enabling companies to manage the performance and availability of their systems and applications across multiple environments, Candle empowers customers to align IT investments with business value.

More than 3,000 of the world's largest companies choose Candle, including 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and 70 percent of the Global 100. Candle solutions are used at more than 5,000 customer facilities in more than 60 countries.

Candle is one of the world's largest independent software and services companies, with global headquarters in El Segundo, California, European headquarters in the United Kingdom and 15 offices, and Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore with 6 offices in the region.

Candle has over 200 worldwide consultants with expertise in Performance and availability management across the enterprise and IBM WebSphere

Candle’s products manage, measure and monitor the end-to-end performance and availability of systems and applications, spanning mainframe, middleware and Web environments

Candle’s Application Infrastructure Management (AIM) family of PathWAI™ solutions cover the entire build-deploy-manage life cycle for IBM Corp.’s industry-leading WebSphere e-business application infrastructure.

For infrastructure developers, PathWAI products and services help design, build, test and deploy WebSphere infrastructures. For infrastructure managers, PathWAI integrated management packages provide a single high-level view of all WebSphere applications and WebSphere MQ activities, enabling managers to align IT performance with business objectives. For managers of WebSphere MQ and the WebSphere Application Server, PathWAI offers in-depth monitoring capabilities that help customers maximize performance, establish service levels and assess results.

These integrated solutions are built on Candle’s industry-leading expertise in IBM's WebSphere MQ and leverage our top-level consulting expertise. They give customers the tools, education and services to realize the full potential of their WebSphere application infrastructure -- and reach their business goals. Candle Corp.'s Data Center Management (DCM) solutions are used in 70 percent of the world's data centers to help customers maximize the real-time performance and availability of their mission-critical systems and applications. Omegamon® XE solutions manage mainframe, distributed, Linux, middleware and web environments. Omegamon DE solutions integrate data from across the enterprise in a single view of system and application performance.

Candle Insight™ solutions identify and resolve service-level problems before they escalate, helping to communicate results to business owners.

Contact Candle Corporation on 02 8912 9800, Level 14, 20 Berry Street, North Sydney

MINOR SPONSOR

Demand Technology Software
Demand Technology Software is the developer of Performance SeNTry® (also known as NTSMF®), the high performance Windows NT/Win2K and Windows 2003 performance monitor designed for systems professionals. We have been active in this area since the release of Windows NT v 3.51. We specialize in Win2K and Windows 2003 performance monitoring. We design, develop, and distribute Performance SeNTry, a unique, distributed solution designed for efficient and cost-effective monitoring of large-scale Windows NT/ Win2K and Windows 2003 networks. It is the only performance monitoring for Win2K and Windows 2003 that is capable of scaling efficiently to meet the needs of some the world's most advanced Microsoft networks. We maintain a close partnership with Microsoft and through this, Performance SeNTry® will continue to develop in line with changes to the operating environment.