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Monday

09.15-09.30

Welcome Plenary - UKCMG Committee

TRACK A
MAINFRAME
TRACK B
BEGINNERS
TRACK C
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT
TRACK D
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
TRACK E
DISTRIBUTED
09.30-10.30

1A1: Opening the Bonnet on Application Performance

Philip Mann
Macro 4

1B1: The Capacity Management Process from A to A

Adam Grummitt
Metron

1C1: Successfully establishing Capacity Management processes

Per Bauer
TeamQuest

1D1: Managing Change & Capacity in the Data Centre

David Cuthbertson
Square Mile

1E1: Headroom - as measure of Server Capacity

Dr Prem S Sinha
Perfcap Corporation

10.30-10.45 Tea/Coffee & Exhibition
10.45-11.45

1A2: Much Ado about CPU - Now with z9 Too

Martin Packer
IBM

1B2: The Capacity Management Process from A to A

Adam Grummitt
Metron

1C2: Automated detection of exception patterns

James Bouhana
Performance Int

1D2: What Performance and Capacity Management People Need to Know About Finanace

Chris Molloy
IBM

1E2: Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" Performance

Paul Seaton-Smith
Capacitas

11.45-12.45

1A3: Memory Matters in 2007

Martin Packer
IBM

1B3: The Capacity Management Process from A to A

Adam Grummitt
Metron

1C3: MULLEN AWARD WINNER "Did something change? Using Statistical Techniques to Interpret Service and Resource Metrics"

Frank Bereznay
Kaiser Permanente MULLEN AWARD WINNER

1D3: From Silos to Services

Norman Wilkinson
IBM

1E3: Will SOA mean the end of Capacity Management as we know it?

Bob Torz
TeamQuest

12.45-14.00 Lunch & Exhibition
13.25-13.55 Vendor Session
14.00-15.00

1A4: Mining Gold from the RMF Data Mountain

Ivan Gelb
Gelb Information Systems

1B4: The Roadmap for Full Lifecycle Perfomance Engineering

Adrian Johnson
Hyperformix Inc

1C4: Lessons Learned about Capacity Management from ITIL Training - Both as a Student and Teacher

Richard Fronhesier
Metron Technology

1D4: ITIL Version 3

Steve Lawless
Purple Griffon

1E4: Capacity Planning for Blade Servers

Paul O'Sullivan
Positech Consulting

15.05-16.05

1A5: SAS Tips

Phil Mason
Wood Street Consultants

1B5: Lifecycle Performance Management - NEVER have a Performance Problem Again in (pre) Production

Graham Parsons
Reflective Solutions

1C5: Building Relationships to Support Capacity Management

Sally Fitzroy and Ian Martin
Friends Provident

1D5: Method-based Troubleshooting - Rapid Resolution of IT Performance and Stability Problems

Paul Offord
Advance Seven

1E5: Rethinking Capacity Planning in a Multi-core, Multi Threaded Environment

Adrian Johnson
Hyperformix Inc

16.05-16.25 Tea/Coffee & Exhibition
16.25-17.25

1A6: MXG Update (Live Link)

Barry Merrill
MXG

1B6: How to Select Significant Workloads in Performance Models

Paolo Cremonoesi
Polotecnico di Milano

1C6: Using ITIL to build a successful Capacity Management Process

Neil McMenemy
Capacitas

1D6: ITIL v3 - It's impact on the Capacity Management process, function and interfaces

Rob Young
Fox IT

1E6: Where Performance Problems and Solutions are Beyond Normal Sight and Sound

Kevin Corcoran
CPT Global

Tuesday

TRACK A
MAINFRAME
TRACK B
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE
TRACK C
VIRTUALISATION
TRACK D
SLM
TRACK E
DISTRIBUTED
09.00-10.00

2A1: Uncaptured CPU Overheads, SRM/RMPTTOM, and evolution to the IBM System z9 EC Processor

Geoff Adams
National Australia Bank Ltd

2B1: Analytic Techniniques to Improve Your Application Profile

Adrian Johnson
Hyperformix Inc

2C1: Virtulisation - Inhibitors to Server and Storage Virtulization, and How to Mitigate Them

Chris Molloy
IBM

2D1: Understable Targets;The Key to a Good Service Level Agreement

Andy Packham
HCL

2E1: A Large Systems Guy Discovers Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM)

Glenn Anderson
IBM

10.05-11.05

2A2: I thought it was in Derby. A Successful Mainframe Consolidation Project

Steve Brodie
BT

2B2: Making Sense out of the Spaghetti

Kobi Korsah
Wily Technology Division, CA

2C2: Virtualisation in Practise: Current Usage and Future Plans

Des Atkinson
Metron

2D2: Managing services: ITIL, SLM, ITSM... and all that Jazz

Aurora Dell'Anno
Compuware

2E2: Reporting/Modeling for AIX Partitioned Environments

Debbie Sheetz
BMC Software

11.05-11.35 Tea/Coffee & Exhibition
11.35-12.35

2A3: z/OS Tuning Bootcamp: Back to Basics

Glenn Anderson
IBM

2B3: Integrating Enterprise Applications - SOA what?

David Hawkin
Severn Trent Waters

2C3: Application Virtualisation - the future of distributed computing?

Andy Bolton
Capacitas

2D3: Service Level reporting, is it worth the effort?

Steve Lawless
Purple Griffon

2E3: AIX performance tuning

Jaqui Lynch
Circle 4

12.35-14.00 Lunch & Exhibition
13.25-13.55 Vendor Session
14.00-15.00

2A4: DB2 Data Sharing Performance for Beginners

Martin Packer
IBM

2B4: Validating functionality and performance of SOA services

Paul Murray
IBM

2C4: Virtulisation Part1

Richard Talaber
VMware

2D4: SLM Through "Software as a service"

Steve Ingall
Fox IT

2E4: Principles of Availability

Colin Butcher
xDelta

15.05-16.05

2A5: Reclaim your performance of DB2 V8

William R Miller
CPT Global

2B5: Get the Wagons in a Circle - Running a Centralised Perfomance Testing Service

Mo Parker/Pete Pinto
Friends Provident

2C5: Virtulisation Part 2

Richard Talaber
VMware

2D5: Defining Availability for an IT Service

Stuart Rance
Hewlett Packard

2E5: Fast track you server consolidation analysis

Walter Katz
Ideas International

16.05-16.30 Tea/Coffee & Exhibition
16.30-17.30

2A6: WLM Caused Pain and Pleasure

Ivan Gelb
Gelb Information Systems

2B6: Synthetic user Testing: An Evaluation of Windows User Simulation Strategies

Neil Coleman
IBM

2C6: Little Boxes all the Same?.. Consolidation in the Virtual World

Bob Torz
TeamQuest

2D6: Underneath the spin a practical look at service levels

Malcolm Gunn
Barclays

2E6: Principles of Performance

Colin Butcher
xDelta

Wednesday

TRACK A
MAINFRAME
TRACK B
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE
TRACK C
VIRTUALISATION
TRACK D
SERVICE MANAGEMENT
09.00-10.00

3A1: WebSphere App Server for z/OS Ver 6 Perfmormace Tuning

Glenn Anderson
IBM

3B1: Get more performance and stability by tuning your Java implementations

Graham Parsons
Reflective Solutions

3C1: Capacity Management in the Virtual World

Matthew Auchincloss
BMC Software

3D1: Achieving IT Service Excellence Through Effective Performance Management

Richard Seery
SAS

10.05-11.05

3A2: Paper on z/OS performance/capacity

Tony Ruberry
John Lewis

3B2: MULLEN AWARD WINNER "Java Performance Analysis 301" Part 1

Peter Johnson
Unisys

3C2: Planning/Sizing for Virtualization (capacity planning for consolidating machines)

Jaqui Lynch
Cirlce 4

3D2: Making Profits More Profitbale Using Metrics

Jon Ward
Severn Group

11.05-11.30 Tea/Coffee & Exhibition
11.30-12.30

3A3: Time is our most precious resource: Assuring Application Performance Using Automated Quality Management

Markus Bauer
TRILOGexpert

3B3: MULLEN AWARD WINNER"Java Performance Analysis 301" Part 2

Peter Johnson
Unisys

3C3: Do CPUs Count? Understanding Resource Utilisation on Virtualised Systems

Debbie Sheetz
BMC Software

3D3: Open Analytics - Exploiting Performance and Avaialbility Models to Reduce Stakeholder Dissonance

Dr Chris Tofts
Hewlett Packard

12.30-14.00 Lunch & Exhibition
13.35-13.55 UKCMG - AGM
14.00-17.00

3WKS1: Advanced WLM

Glenn Anderson
IBM

3WKS2: Performance Engineering

Adrian Johnson
Hyperformix

3WKS3: Virtualisation and its Impact on Capacity & Performance Management

Paul Seaton-Smith
Capacitas

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