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GHRUG INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2008
          DAY 1 - Friday March 14, 2008

 

 

 

TRACK 1 – Room 2311
HP3000

Homestead

Michael Anderson

TRACK 2 – Rm2512
Other Systems
Migration

Steve Figueroa

TRACK 3 – Rm 3326
 

Blades

Anne Howard

TRACK 4 - Rm 2524
Linux / Unix

Systems

James Bowens

TRACK 5 - Rm 1313
New Technologies
& Best Practices

Gokhan Gerkec

 

7:30

8:30

Breakfast1 Buffet (Set up near Vendor Floor and GHRUG Booth)

 

7:50

8:50

WELCOME and ORIENTATION  GHRUG BOD

 

8:50

9:00

Break 1 - Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by:  HP

Fr

9:00

9:45

1a  Brian Edminster

Applied Technologies

2a  Elizabeth Gaal

      Migration solutions

3a  Mike Montez (HP)

 HP BladeSystems.  Introduction to the comprehensive suite of HP BladeSystem solutions. 
Which systems are right for me?  

4a  Red Hat 5 - Prime time

5a  OPEN

 

9:45

10:00

Break 1 - Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by:   HP

Fr

10:00

10:45

1b  Alan Yeo – Screenjet

DDS backup’s with Network Attached Storage

2b  Birket Foster

From budget to decommissioning getting application migrations right

3b  Mike Montez (HP)

 BladeSystems Administration
 (OA, iLO) (Best practices)

4b  Bill Hassell

           UNIX Security

5b  OPEN

 

10:45

11:00

Break 1 - Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by:   HP

Fr

11:00

11:45

1c  Jennie Hou (HP)

HP e3000 business update

2c  Patricia A. Hood  Migration to a Simplified, Reliable, Secure, Supported Environment.

3c   Doron Chosnek (HP)

Switching for the enclosure

(a) Virtual Connect for Ethernet and FC
(b) switching inside the enclosure

4c  Bill Hassell
            UNIX Security

5c  Elizabeth Gaal

       APM

 

11:45

12:30

Lunch 1 - Sponsored by:  SPEEDWARE

 

12:30

1:00

Special Vendor Demo  by:  William Howard (TSA)  - Vmware Vmotion

Fr

1:00

1:45

1d Paul Edwards

2d  Alvina Nishimoto

HP recommended HP e3000 migration options

3d   William  Howard (TSA) BladeSystems

Workstations - 1

4d  Bill Hassell

Adv. Script Writing
  (Linux and HP-UX)

5d Anne  Howard

Disaster recovery  and practices

 

1:45

2:00

Break 2 -  Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by: HP

Fr

2:00

2:45

1e  Paul Edwards

2e  Michael  Marxmeier

Eloquence as an Image Replacement

3e    William  Howard (TSA) BladeSystems Workstations – 2

Virtualized Workstations

4e  Bill Hassell

Adv. Script Writing
  (Linux and HP-UX)

5e VMWARE

 

2:45

3:00

Break 2 -  Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by: HP

Fr

3:00

3:45

1f  Casey Crellin

State of the 3000 market

2f  Brad Tashenberg

Bradmark Technology

3f   Steve Figueroa (HP)

BladeSystems

Storage

4f   Bill Hassell

Adv. Script Writing
  (Linux and HP-UX)

5f  VMWARE

 

3:45

4:00

Break 2 – Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by  HP

 

4:00

4:30

SOCIAL/NETWORKING  with Door Prizes   (Click Here to donate Door Prizes)

 

DAY 1 - FRIDAY – MARCH 14, 2008
EXTENDED SESSIONS

 

These sessions will be filled during the conference if there is a need that arises from one of the other presentations.  They are for Round table discussions as well as special requests or may be filled with last minutes presenters.  Please continue to check at the GHRUG registration table throughout the day to see what extended sessions are available.

 

 

 

TRACK 1 – Room 2311
HP3000

Homestead

Michael Anderson

TRACK 2 – Rm2512
Other Systems
Migration

Steve Figueroa

TRACK 3 – Rm 3326
 

Blades

Anne Howard

TRACK 4 - 2524
Linux / Unix

Systems

James Bowens

TRACK 5 - 1313
New Technologies
& Best Practices

Gokhan Gerkec

 

Fr

4:30

5:00

1g  Click Here request session

(45 MINUTES)

2g  Birket Foster

Should I stay or should I go … building sustainability plans, and mitigating risk.

3g Click Here request session

(45 MINUTES)

4g Click Here request session

(45 MINUTES)

5g Click Here request session

(45 MINUTES)

 

5:00

5:15

Break 2 – Beverages Available

Fr

5:15

6:15

1h  Click Here request session

(1 HOUR)

2h   Alan Yeo
Michael
  Marxmeier
Migration Round Table Session 

3h Click Here request session

(1 HOUR)

4h Click Here request session

(1 HOUR)

5h Click Here request session

(1 HOUR)

 

6:15

6:30

Travel time to hotel

 

6:30

10:00

Special Barbeque sponsored by Paul Edwards and Birket Foster for anyone interested.

 

DAY 2 - SATURDAY – MARCH 15, 2008

 

 

 

TRACK 1 – Room 2311
HP3000

Homestead

Michael Anderson

TRACK 2 – Rm2512
Other Systems
Migration

Steve Figueroa

TRACK 3 – Rm 3326
 

Blades

Anne Howard

TRACK 4 - 2524
Linux / Unix

Systems

James Bowens

TRACK 5 - 1313
New Technologies
& Best Practices

Gokhan Gerkec

 

7:45

7:50

Special Introductions

 

7:50

8:50

Key Note Speaker –  ALFREDO REGO

 

8:50

9:00

Break 1 - Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by:  GHRUG

Sa

9:00

9:45

1i  Birket Foster

Sustainability planning – mitigating risk for your applications

2i   Louis Degiulio -

Unlock the Power of Legacy Systems

3i  Anne Howard (NDS)

System Insight Manager

4i   Bill Hassell

    Adv. Script Writing
    (Linux and HP-UX)

5i   Load Balancing

 

9:45

10:00

Break 3 - Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by: GHRUG

Sa

10:00

10:45

1j  Gilles Schipper

a baker's dozen HP3000 tips for effective HP3000 System Administration - Part 1

2j   Denys Beauchemin
Migrating to a real RDBMS (Part 1)

3j Anne Howard (NDS)

Rapid Deployment Pack

4j    Bill Hassell

Adv. Script Writing
    (Linux and HP-UX)

5j   HP Storage Solutions

 

10:45

11:00

Break 3 - Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by: GHRUG

Sa

11:00

11:45

1k   Gilles Schipper

a baker's dozen HP3000 tips for effective HP3000 System Administration – Part 2

2k   Denys Beauchemin
Migrating to a real RDBMS (Part 2)

3k Anne Howard (NDS)

OPENVIEW and System Insight Manager

4k    Bill Hassell

    Adv. Script Writing
    (Linux and HP-UX)

5k    Clustering

 

11:45

12:30

Lunch 2 - Sponsored by:  Marxmeier & Screenjet

 

12:30

1:00

Special Vendor Demo  by

Sa

1:00

1:45

1l    Paul Edwards

2l    Reese Gautschi
The Support Group, inc.

HP3000 Ready State

3l  Ed Kwan (HP)

Blades in a Virtual Environment
(VMware/VSE/Windows)

4l     Denny Allain

HP-UX Kernel Tuning

5l   Anne  Howard

Disaster recovery and practices

 

1:45

2:00

Break 4 -  Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by: Applied Technologies

Sa

2:00

2:45

1m  Paul Edwards

2m   Alan Yeo – Screenjet

User Interface Migration

3m Anne Howard (NDS)  Performance Monitor Pack and Vulnerability Patch Management

4m   Denny Allain

HP-UX Kernel Tuning

5m  Ed Stein

 Make Your MANMAN Speak: Computer Telephony Integration Technology

 

2:45

3:00

Break 4 -  Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by: Applied Technologies

Sa

3:00

3:45

1n    OPEN

2n   Ken Porter

Migration Project

3n Anne Howard (NDS) Preparing your data center for dense server environment

4n   Denny Allain

HP-UX Kernel Tuning

5n  OPEN

 

3:45

4:00

Break 4 – Vendor Floor  with Snacks sponsored by: Applied Technologies

 

4:00

4:30