7:30 AM – 8:00 AM Registration and Breakfast
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM General Session featuring Nina Buik, Encompass President and Joey Asher, President of Speechworks and author of "Even Geeks Can Speak!"
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Break
9:15 AM – 11:15 AM Breakout Sessions – Choose from:
11:15 AM – 1:00 PM LUNCH and Expo
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Breakout Sessions – Choose From
3:15 PM – 4:15 Closing General Session
4:15 PM - 6:00 Cocktail Reception
General Session
Nina Buik – Nina currently serves as Encompass president as well as chair of the local Atlanta chapter of Encompass, ATALUG. She is also senior vice president of MindIQ, an IT training and eLearning company based in Norcross, GA.
Joe Asher - Joey is a professional communication and selling skills coach who has worked with executives, managers, and salespeople at dozens of firms including The Home Depot, Global Payments, The Weather Channel, UPS, Kimberly-Clark, Alston & Bird, PricewaterhouseCoopers, NDCHEALTH, INVESCO, BellSouth, UPS, MCI, Scientific-Atlanta and Kurt Salmon Associates.
His first book, "Even a Geek Can Speak: Low-Tech Presentation Skills For High-Tech People," was published by Longstreet Press in 2001. His latest book "Selling and Communication Skills for Lawyers" was released in 2005 by American Lawyer Media.
Joey’s background is both as an attorney and as a newspaper reporter. He worked as an adjunct professor of law at Emory University School of law and was an attorney at Troutman Sanders L.L.P in Atlanta. Prior to law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Gannett newspaper chain in Georgia and New York. Joey graduated from Cornell University and Emory University Law School.
Abstract: Joey will discuss and present tips from his latest book "Even a Geek Can Speak". In today's high tech world, it's cool to be a geek. But it's not cool to talk like one. "Even a Geek Can Speak" shows anyone how to express complex ideas in ways that are simple, that connect with listeners, and that persuade.
From a nationally renowned communication consultant comes a book that outlines a Formula for simple communications. This formula has benefited companies such as Scientific Atlanta, CheckFree, ChoicePoint, Internet Security Systems, and Equifax. Weaving together case studies, quotes and often hilarious interviews, "Even a Geek Can Speak" is a how-to for high-tech individuals looking to speak simply and persuasively about any complex topic.
AM Breakouts
How to use modern development tools and integrated development environments with existing OpenVMS codebases.
Powell Hazzard – HP OpenVMS engineer
Abstract: Most Software development in the 1990s was shaped by two major influences: internally, object-oriented programming (OOP) replaced procedural programming as the programming paradigm favored by some in the industry; externally, the rise of the Internet and the "dot com" boom emphasized speed-to-market and company-growth as competitive business factors. Rapidly-changing requirements demanded shorter product life-cycles, and were often incompatible with traditional methods of software development.
OOP is at the heart of modern software development...The most popular OOP languages are Java, C++, C#. In addition, the open source software movement took hold and really began to flourish. This allowed the free flow of new tools and products into the software development landscape.
All of these factors brought about not only changes in the design of modern systems, but also the software development methodologies used to create them.
Current software designs are usually distributed systems, with the user interface or presentation layer on a browser and the business logic and data access on a middle tier or server. Various pieces of software run on the server to provide what is basically remote procedure call-type access to business logic functions. Today's technology is JSPs (Java Server Pages), Servlets, Enterprise Java Beans, and Web Services.
And perhaps of most import, modern development methodologies are used to create these applications in a rapid fashion...today's popular methods are known as "Agile" methodologies. These are new in the last 6 years and gaining steadily in popularity, and more importantly, success.
In this talk, we'll discuss solutions to two problems common to the OpenVMS customer base:
1) How to use modern development tools and integrated development environments with existing OpenVMS codebases.
2) How to modernize these existing (or legacy) applications and bring them into the 21st century without throwing out the competitive advantage that these applications afford us.
The Home Depot: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Modern Development Practices
Grady Keith – Senior Developer, Tandem
Abstract: The Home Depot handles 1.5 trillion customer transactions per year and, HP NonStop is at the heart of those transactions. This presentation will show how the team migrated from a legacy environment to HP NonStop Services Oriented Architecture using Web Services and modern development practices. We will describe how the architecture was implemented and how it has enabled The Home Depot to quickly get new systems online in a fraction of the time previously required. It will also show how the new architecture puts The Home Depot in a position to quickly answer the customer demands in the ever changing retail market.
HP-UX Security
Bill Hassell - Bill Hassell Consulting, Inc.
Bill Hassell is president of his consulting firm and specializes in HP-UX system administration, system architecture and design, performance and security. Previously, he worked for HP in various hardware and software support roles including the HP Response Center. Bill was with HP for more than 20 years and was a frequent contributor to worldwide Interex User group conferences and publications. Bill is a past member of the Interex Board of Directors and is a Certified HP-UX SysAdmin Professional.
Abstract: With electronic information and access becoming easily available, security of this information is a major topic of discussion. This paper will discuss the steps needed to secure HP-UX systems and what side effects these steps might create. An overview of the major security tools such as Bastille, Secure Shell, and the security patch checker will be discussed. Not every system needs a full security implementation and these levels will be identified and explained. A series of security scripts to check and report on vulnerabilities will be presented.
LUNCH
PM Breakouts
OpenVMS 30th Anniversary Update and Roadmap – Tony Payne and Paul Lacombe
Paul Lacombe is the Director of Engineering in Hewlett Packard’s OpenVMS Systems Group. Paul is responsible for the quality and support of the OpenVMS family of products. The product portfolio includes the OpenVMS Operating System, OpenVMS Clusters, OpenVMS Network Software, OpenVMS Standards Integration, and numerous other Hewlett Packard OpenVMS software layered products.
Since joining Digital Equipment Corporation in 1975, Paul has held a number of positions in the quality and customer support space. After joining the OpenVMS team in the late 80’s, Paul and his team have been responsible for driving quality processes to ensure that OpenVMS products maintain high availability and quality standards. In addition, Paul and his team streamlined the customer support model to improve response times and to increase customer satisfaction. He is an active member of the BCS TCE (Total Customer Experience) quality forums and has helped drive customer initiative best practices across BCS.
Tony Payne Group Manager, OpenVMS Manageability & Offshore Labs
Tony manages the OpenVMS Manageability R&D team. This team does the engineering development for all system management tools, virtualization and integration with OpenView. Tony is also responsible for most of the OpenVMS layered products, including DECnet, RTR, DECwindows, DECset, ACMS, Mail & Messaging and Advance Server. Tony started with Digital in 1974 and has held many management positions in manufacturing, Services and Software engineering. Tony joined VMS in 1989 in the sustaining group and then moved to the System Management and Utilities team as the manager for the OpenVMS management Station. Since then Tony has held a variety of engineering management positions in the VMS development space.
Abstract: Tony and Paul will provide an update on recent product features and plans for many of the System, Server and Enterprise management products for OpenVMS. Products will include Integration with HP OpenView, Systems Insight Manager support for OpenVMS, Availability Manager, Performance Management and Managing Integrity Blades.
Performance Tips on HP-UX
Bill Hassell - Bill Hassell is president of his consulting firm and specializes in HP-UX system administration, system architecture and design, performance and security. Previously, he worked for HP in various hardware and software support roles including the HP Response Center. Bill was with HP for more than 20 years and was a frequent contributor to worldwide Interex User group conferences and publications. Bill is a past member of the Interex Board of Directors and is a Certified HP-UX SysAdmin Professional.
Abstract: Often, HP-UX systems may seem to run poorly with the reason somewhat obscured by the complexity of a multi-user, multi-process system. With knowledge about kernel tuning and the performance utilities available on HP-UX, system administrators can often determine the reason for the slow responses and take appropriate steps to fix these areas. This paper will discuss the many tools and techniques that can improve system performance and the handouts can aid the system administrator in solving performance and planning issues. We will cover issues with databases such as Oracle, focusing in on memory issues and disk and LAN I/O.
Infrastructure Management with Risk, Compliance, and Security in mind for Blades, Itanium and Proliant Servers
Bill Johnson - President and Chief Executive Officer, TECSys Development
Mr. Johnson founded TDi in 1993 and has served as its President and CEO. Prior to TDi Mr. Johnson founded and managed Johnson & Associates, a management consultant firm specializing in network integration and design for enterprise computing. Mr. Johnson also held key positions at The Federal Land Bank, Mostek Semiconductor, International Telecharge, and Alcatel.
Mr. Johnson holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville with more than 20 years of experience in the information-technology field. He is a regular speaker for professional IT organizations regarding data center automation and enterprise computing.
His experience with IT Technology, Security, Networks provides for a technical discussion around managing the IT infrastructure with Security, Risk and Compliance in mind. Be prepared for a lively presentation, that energetic, fun and informative based on real world experience – not death by PowerPoint.
Abstract: New hardware being delivered by HP or other vendors all have network enabled consoles. These consoles (Itanium, Proliant, Blades) allow a user to access them remotely via a telnet or SSH session to their RILO or ILO network interface to shutdown, startup, login and configure. Some customer configure Systems Insight Manager to “poll” the ILO for status and configuration data – this is usually done once per day.
These same consoles are exposed to discovery, brute force login attacks, unauthorized access and ultimately risk to the datacenter infrastructure. While the new method of using the ILO and ultimately the capabilities of IPMI, the baseboard management controller and intelligence being built in are key to running a datacenter, we still must have secure, persistent monitoring and management with security, encryption and logging for all console access.
This session covers the risk of not managing the network enabled console, some methods of solving the problem and the real value of implementing a console management solution along with SIM, OpenView or other management frameworks. We will be discussing ConsoleWorks and how it has helped HP customers resolve the concerns of risk, secure remote access, logging and compliance reporting in the IT infrastructure for Firewalls, IDS, SEM, Routers, Servers, Fabric, and Storage Controllers.
Closing General Session
David McBride – HP Business Critical Systems
David will close the day with a view into what we all can expect from HP’s Business Critical Systems in terms of direction, technology, and focus. David brings a wealth of experience and expertise and will provide a path for HP BCS customers that will help them make informed decisions about the technology they currently using or that they are considering to purchase.
Cocktail Reception on ITEC Expo Floor (cash bar)