MVMUA Meeting 154

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MVMUA Meeting 154

Metropolitan VM Users Association 154

Tuesday

Tuesday

July 16th, 2013

Marist College
3399 North Road
Kondysar Presentation Room, HC 2023
Hancock Center
Poughkeepsie, New York

Directions to Marist College

8:30 AM	Continental Breakfast - Breakfast provided by Marist College
9:00 AM	Bill Munson - Brown Brothers Harriman & CO. - Meeting Opening
9:15 AM	Howard Baker - IBM - Marist/IBM Joint Study Program 9:15 to 9:30 - Intro and Joint Study Overview 9:30 to 9:50 - Overview of JT Study Projects in the Hancock ECRL - Junaid 9:50 to 10:05 - Update on the defect Analytics project - Andrew - Latest developments 10:05 to 10:15 - Digital Archives Project - Rebecca 10:15 to 10:25 - SDN Overview - Kevin 10:25 to 10:35 - ADVA use cases/ADVA setup - ARCHON - Mary/Zach 10:35 to 10:45 - AVIOR2 - How and Why - Devin/Kevin Howard's presentation 13,315K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
10:45 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 AM	Thang Pham - IBM - xCAT for z/VM Cloud computing is a hot topic in today's IT industry, with several cloud computing solutions currently offered by the commercial and open source community. However, most of these solutions revolve around x86_64 and VMware/KVM/Hyper-V. xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is the first open-source cloud solution that supports System z and z/VM. Moreover, it is the only open-source solution supporting IBM System x, p, and z - leveraging years of systems management best practices and experience to make it as usable as it is powerful. Thang's presentation 201K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
12:00 PM	LUNCH Break - Provided by Marist College
1:00 PM	Mike MacIssac - IBM - Mz a new open source systems management package "Mz" (Managing z) is an experimental, lightweight set of Linux bash scripts that provide both a command line and Web interface for systems management of z/VM and Linux. These scripts work well between LPARs and CECs. The package was recently "open-sourced" and is available for free download. This presentation will describe the solution in detail, and, network-permitting, show a live demonstration. Mike's presentation 197K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
2:00 PM	Coffee Break
2:15 PM	Steve Conger - ADP - "Big Things are Happening at ADP" Steve will take you through ADP's journey over the past few years to leverage the System Z Enterprise Servers for a large scale virtualization project. Covering topics related to TCO/TCA, Change (people's concepts of a mainframe) Management, Open Source and Cloud concepts, Virtualization vs. Consolidation, overall Benefits and Challenges as we continue to push system and software limitations. Steve's presentation 1,247K Visit our viewers page to download a viewer.
3:15 PM	Coffee Break
3:30 PM	Len Santalucia - Vicom Infinity, INC. - Effective IT Optimization with IBM System z Consolidation, Cloud, Analytics In 1999 Linux on System z was just getting started and was also struggling to be accepted in the marketplace. Linux on System z/VM supported only SAMBA, DNS, Apache, and limited ISV and IBM software. Today, Linux on System z/VM has advanced remarkably and is growing in the marketplace at an exponential rate. The System z Linux Advisory Council has grown to over 160 members from its meager start of only 4 clients. There are many customer references as well as many IBM and ISV software solutions. This presentation will provide insights and many scenarios on how Linux on System z/VM earned its present status from a business, technical, and financial perspective and why it has such a bright future.
4:30 PM	Closing / Questions / Comments and anything else we think of ?!.
5:00 PM	Meeting adjourned and thanks to Marist College for everything.