| Tuesday | Tuesday |
Information Builders Corporate Headquarters
27th Floor - 2 Penn Plaza
7th Ave, and 32nd St.
New York City, New York
(Right above Penn Station)
Note: You have to follow the security guidelines for IBI.
| 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast - Breakfast provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc. |
| 9:30 AM | Eric Schuler-Dalverny - IBI - Meeting Opening |
| 9:45 AM | Rita Guidry - CA - CA VM:Backup r3.6
CA will review and demonstrate select new features of CA VM:Backup r3.6 planned for release in Fall 2014. (Including NEW DASDTape commands) Rita's presentation 407K |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM | Romney White - IBM - z/VM CPU Pooling
z/VM CPU Pools were introduced in z/VM 6.3 via an SPE that became available in June, 2014. Then in August, support was released for the IBM License Metric Tool to recognize CPU Pools as containers that can be used to provide software sub-capacity pricing boundaries. This presentation will describe both of these technologies and explore potential customer use cases and the benefits they can provide. Romney's presentation 1,179K |
| 1200 AM | LUNCH Break - Lunch provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc. |
| 1:00 PM | Romney White - IBM - z/VM Scheduler Overview
The z/VM Scheduler determines how resources are delivered to virtual machines. This presentation will describe at a high level how the Scheduler works and how SRM and SHARE settings affect its behavior. Romney's presentation 542K |
| 2:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 2:15 PM | Chris von Koschembahr - Eagle Team - IT Economics of the Mainframe Understanding the True Value of the Platform
This presentation focuses on the comprehensive TCO considerations that IT Executives need to consider, competitive claims and IBM responses, and real customer examples from our IBM Competitive Project Office (CPO) Eagle TCO assessments |
| 3:15 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 PM | Joe Comitini ADP SCSI in a z/LINUX Oracle environment
Taking a deep dive into how ADP uses/configures FCP SCSI disks for an Oracle DB implementation Joe's presentation 352K |
| 4:30 PM | Questions or Comments |
| 5:00 PM | Meeting adjourned and thanks to IBI and Vicom Infinity, Inc. |