Past meetings:

February 18^th 1997 - agenda / April 15-16^th 1997 - agenda

November 18^th 1997 - agenda / April 14-15^th 1998 - agenda

April 13-14^th 1999 - agenda

February 22, 2000 - agenda / April 18, 2000 - Detailed agenda

November 7^th, 2000 - Detailed agenda / Welcome letter

· ESS Performance - Bill Nevill, IBM

· Data Protection solutions that support customer's " Always on" demands - Paul Patterson, HP

· Storage Networks-Promises and Pitfalls - Ted Kicey, BMC

March 6^th, 2001 – Detailed Agenda

· Performance characteristics of Windows operating systems - Jeff Lawson, Cogent Logic

· Insights into WWW Server Performance using Busy-Period Analysis - Pierre Fiorini, BMC Software

· Inside Lotus Domino Server - Saqib Syed, BMC Software

April 17-18^th, 2001 - Detailed Agenda

Tuesday, April 17 (There will be a reception after the presentations.)

• Workload License Charge and the XSLM Standard - John Anderson, IBM
• Z900 presentation by John Anderson, IBM
• Is Data Mining Merely Hype? - David Yeo, SAS Institute
• Insights into WWW Server Performance using Busy-Period Analysis - Pierre Fiorini, BMC Software
• Benchmarking eSoftware – Brian O’Neill, TGT Software

Wednesday, April 18

• Impact of the Itanium Processor on Server Capacity - Steve Shaw, Hewlett Packard (Canada)
• People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World - Joseph Belsanti, Hewlet Packard (Canada)

• VTS presentation – Bill Hart or associate, ISM -

• Workload Manager (WLM) in Goal Mode - User Experience Update - Ted MacNeil, Bank of Nova Scotia
• FICON: Not Your Father's ESCON - Darrell P. Faulkner, Computer Associates

November 6 - Detailed Agenda / Welcome Letter

· Large Capacity Actuator Considerations – Anthony Mungal

· Introduction to SAN Capacity Planning – Mark Friedman

February 19, 2002 - Detailed Agenda

· Distributed Application Performance Troubleshooting: A Guaranteed Approach - Gary Kaiser, Compuware

· Distributed Availability - Joe Calcada, Candle Corp.

April 23/24, 2002 - Detailed Agenda

Welcome Letter and Detailed Agenda for November 14^th, 2002

Thursday, November 14^th, 2002: Storage and Workload Manager topics

· Storage Strategy for the New Millennium (zipped ppt file - 2.02 MB)

Kevin Mann and Straty Demakos – STK

· Switched Storage Architecture Benefits & Storage Management Open Framework (ppt file - 2.73 MB)

Yves Coderre - HDS

· WLM & Database Management – DB2 & Oracle (pdf file - 137KB)

Tom Russell – IBM

· Workload Manager: Goal Mode Quickly!!! – A User Experience (ppt file - 439 KB)

John Slobodnik - CGI

Tuesday, February 18^th 2003: Detailed Agenda

· Accelerating Security

Kellman Meghu – Checkpoint

· Measuring Portal Usage

Robert Haddad – Project Performance Corporation

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