| Tuesday | Tuesday |
Verisk Analytics
545 Washington BLVD
Jersey City, NJ 07310
21st floor
Meeting Room H
| 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast - Provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc. |
| 9:00 AM | Eric Schuler-Dalverny - IBI - Meeting opening |
| 9:15 AM |
Geoff Cullen
- Cullen Programming - Message Event Automation using PROP with SCIF
I will be using my Linux laptop that runs KVM, for a Windows VPN link to Innovation Data Processing. IDP agreed to let me perform live demos.
Geoff's presentation. 215K |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 AM | Bargav Balakrishnan - IBM - 1Q 2016 z Systems Announcement Overview
In today's digital era, competition is fiercer than ever. Competitive advantage comes from being nimble and agile along with delivering exceptional levels of customer experience. To compete, businesses are adopting cloud to quickly deliver on new opportunities, leveraging analytics to transform decision making and creating mobile services to engage clients with speed and personalization. Learn how the latest set of IBM z Systems announcements can help your enterprise reduce the risk of cyberthreats while pursuing rapid business innovations for competitive success. |
| 12:00 AM | LUNCH Break - Lunch provided by Vicom Infinity, Inc. |
| 1:00 PM |
Lowell Higley - CA - Including z/VM in the Cross Enterprise Monitoring Strategy
As the application economy continues to evolve the way we build applications many enterprises are changing their approach to monitoring in hopes of becoming more efficient. Enterprises are building cross functional monitoring teams made up of IT generalists. Equipped with the right tools these generalists are monitoring the entire enterprise infrastructure, inclusive of z Systems, in a single pane of glass. CA Unified Infrastructure Management for z Systems is helping enterprises of all sizes better adapt to the application economy and monitoring key infrastructure supporting mission critical applications in a single place. Learn how CA UIM for z Systems can monitor z/VM and Linux on z alongside the rest of your enterprise infrastructure. |
| 2:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 2:15 PM | Emily K. Hugenbruch
- IBM - What is OpenStack and why would I want it?
You've probably heard of OpenStack, the open source cloud initiative backed by IBM and many other companies. But what does "cloud" really mean? Does it even apply to mainframes? In this session we'll look at why OpenStack was created, how it's grown and what the latest developments are. We'll explore the structure of the community and the various projects going on in it.
Emily's presentation 1,324K |
| 2:30 PM | Coffee Break |
| 2:45 PM | Emily K. Hugenbruch
- IBM - I want OpenStack on the mainframe, can I have it?
Now that you're convinced OpenStack is the wave of the future, we'll explore the z/VM OpenStack support. We'll talk about our solution's architecture and what it takes to install and configure. Then we'll talk about special features for OpenStack on z/VM and what you can do to bring your existing workload into OpenStack |
| 3:45 PM | Free-for-all / Questions / Comments |
| 4:00 PM | Meeting adjourned and thanks to Verisk Analytics and Vicom Infinity |