MVMUA Meeting 105

MVMUA 105, July 17, 2000


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                   Metropolitan VM Users Association    105
 
                                July 17, 2000
 
               Sheraton University City Hotel 36th & Chestnut
                     Philadelphia, PA  phone 215-387-8000
 
 
   The time will be from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
 
 
   8:30 AM     Continental Breakfast
 
   9:15 AM     Opening Session and Announcements
               Bill Munson
 
   9:30 AM     CA what can we expect?
               Sterling Software is now Computer Associates so
               Phillip H. Smith III will talk to us about what
               the plans are for the current products and the future
               directions.  Jorgen Christiansen, CA's VP of Research
               and Development, was in the UK recently to give this
               talk.  Fortunately we have our good friend .. phsiii
               presenting this talk.
 
   10:30 AM    Break
 
   10:45 AM    MORE   Phil        MORE   Sterling (CA)  !!!!
               VM:Backup and VM:Backup Hidro for Disaster Recovery
               by Phill Smith of CA's  Senior Technical Support staff.
 
               How to decide what to backup, how to back it up, and
               the priorities for restoring in the event of a disaster.
               These are the key elements for producing a workable
               Disaster Recovery procedure.
 
               Phil has spoken at SHARE, MVMUA, the VM technical
               Conference, the VM workshop.  He is a published author,
               Book editor, and a regular contributor to trade journals.
               And a VM advocate from way back.
 
   12:00 noon     LUNCH break
 
    1:30 PM    Disaster Recovery from a user's side.
               Eric Schuler-Dalverny of Information Builders has been
               the Operations Manager, Disaster Recovery Coordinator,
               and Lead Senior Systems Programmer at Information Builders
               longer than most people have been in data processing.
               He will give a Disaster Recovery check list and how to us
               VM:backup for Disaster Recovery.
 
    2:30 PM    Break
 
    2:45 PM    HIDRO what is it and is it better?
               Bill Munson of Information Builders will talk about
               introducing HIDRO to the Disaster Recovery procedures
               at Information Builders.
 
    3:30 PM    Break
 
    3:45 PM    Storage Management of a Shared File System.
               Eric will discus how to manage a SHARED FILE system.
               What to do, What to look out for, and what to avoid.
 
    4:45 PM    Question, Discussion
 
    5:00 PM    thank you very much.