Canadian Tandem User Group

• Event Overview
• Sessions & Speakers
• Vendor Tracks

2009 CTUG Fall Conference – Sessions & Speakers

Day 1 – Presentations

Ron LaPedis, Principal Advisor at Seacliff Partners International

Title:Workforce Continuity

Over the years, companies have moved from high availability systems to fault tolerant systems to geographically distributed systems and storage. But no matter the technology, business continuity is all about the people. Business interruptions such as road closures, transit strikes, pandemics, and severe weather can displace employees from their workplace-without affecting your data center. Is your company ready for smaller disruptions such as workforce relocation, plumbing failures, heating and air conditioning problems, or perhaps a workplace violence incident? This session explores the issues and solutions that will keep your workforce connected, informed, and productive when an event keeps them away from the office for any reason. Like a pancake is not complete without a topping of maple syrup, your business continuity plan is not complete without including the people.

Speaker: Ron LaPedis

Ron LaPedis is Principal Advisor at Seacliff Partners International, LLC. He spent 25 years at HP becoming a business continuity and security specialist marketer, consulting with key customers and partners. At HP his roles were senior product manager for security and business continuity products and headquarters marketing manager for the Asia Pacific region.

Ron is a Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP), a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI), and a CISSP with ISSAP & ISSMP endorsements.

Workforce Continuity Presentation »

 

Randy Meyer, Director NED Product Management

Title: HP NonStop Update

Randy Meyer will provide the latest news from the NonStop Enterprise Division. He will provide an update on the state of the business, key new customers and wins, and on NonStop's continued drive towards a standard, modern hardware & software architecture.

Speaker: Randy Meyer

Randy Meyer leads the Product Management, Strategy and Technology team for the NonStop Enterprise Division. This team drives the overall strategic direction for the NonStop product family, works with enterprise customers and partners to architect, integrate, and test solutions that take advantage of HP NonStop servers, and provides technical education to field support staff.

With more than 22 years experience in the computer industry, Mr. Meyer has held a variety of technical, financial management, product management, and marketing management roles. He originally joined Tandem Computers in 1986 in product management, and returned to the company in 1997. Among other positions in the startup world, he was Vice President of Business Development for NetFRAME Systems, a high-end network server manufacturer.

Mr. Meyer holds Bachelor of Science (Economics) and Bachelor of Arts (Computer Science) degrees from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in Business Administration from Cornell University.

HP 2009 Strategy and Technology Update »

 

Paul J. Holenstein, Executive Vice President, Gravic, Inc

Title: State-of-the-Art Asynchronous and Synchronous Replication

As business needs drive higher and higher application availability requirements, various high and continuous availability architectures have evolved to meet those needs. We describe the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) model businesses use to quantify their needs, discuss the factors (and trade-offs) that affect each objective, and review various architectures in use today to attain these stringent goals. We also look out over the horizon at the next wave of technological advances in the development pipeline to understand how (hopefully) the technology is evolving to eventually deliver true continuous application availability with zero data loss in the event of a disaster.

Speaker: Paul J. Holenstein

Mr. Holenstein has direct responsibility for the Gravic, Inc. Shadowbase Products Group and Gravic Labs, the company’s intellectual property group. He has previously held various positions in technology consulting companies, from software engineer through technical management to business development, beginning his career as a Tandem (HP NonStop) developer in 1980. His technical areas of expertise include high-availability designs and architectures, data replication technologies, heterogeneous application and data integration, and communications and performance analysis. Mr. Holenstein holds many patents in the field of data replication and synchronization, writes extensively on high and continuous availability topics, and co-authored "Breaking the Availability Barrier," a three-volume book series. He received his BSCE from Bucknell University and his MSCS from Villanova University, and is an HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer (MASE).

Gravic Shadowbase Presentation »

 

Connect Update

Speaker: Chris Koppe, Vice President of Connect Worldwide

View the Connect Update Powerpoint Presentation »

 

Day 2 – CTUG Education Session

Quick HP Integrity NonStop Application Migration

This one-day course provides you with the information needed to convert applications to run on the new Integrity NonStop systems and the Integrity NonStop BladeSystem. The course starts with an overview of the new hardware architectures and then covers program migration information for each of the main languages. Other topics include the debuggers that are available on the new systems including the new Native Inspect debugger, the new linker, the changes to the Enterprise Toolkit (ETK), and the Enterprise Plugins for Eclipse (EPE).

Instructor: Serg Koren

Serg Koren started on Tandem Computers as a customer in 1979. In 1986 Tandem hired him as an Account Analyst. He then worked in Professional Services as an Application Designer and Architect. Serg then joined the Education group as an Education Specialist in database and application programming and design.

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2009 CTUG Fall Conference – Vendor Tracks

Sessions 11:20 – 11:50

New Brunswick Room

Vendor: XYPRO Technology Corp.

Title: You Cannot Achieve HP NonStop PCI Compliance Without XYGATE

Continued pressure to fully comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) poses considerable challenges to users of HP NonStop servers for anything related to credit card data. Of the 12 main requirements and their corresponding 200+ sub-requirements, most apply to the HP NonStop environment and many of these cannot be addressed with the use of Safeguard and Guardian alone.

Speaker:Barry Forbes

Barry Forbes manages sales, marketing, services, and support for XYPRO Technology Corporation in Canada and the Eastern United States. XYPRO specializes in Platform Security and Encryption Software to improve HP NonStop server environments.

 

Nova Scotia Room

Vendor: Tandsoft

Title: New Enscribe-2-SQL and TMF-Audit Toolkits

TANDsoft is pleased to introduce two new toolkits for use with HP NonStop servers. Our Enscribe-2-SQL Toolkit permits easy conversion of Enscribe calls to SQL/MP or SQL/MX statements. The TMF-Audit Toolkit provides automatic Transaction Management Facility (TMF) protection for unaudited applications. Both toolkits offer flexible, affordable alternatives to more expensive products or manual techniques, with NO program changes to the application. We’ll also briefly review two other TANDsoft products for HP NonStop servers. They are FileSync, replication and synchronization software for non-database files and application environments, and the OPTA2000 clock and time-zone simulator.

Speaker:Jack Di Giacomo, Principal

Jack Di Giacomo has over 20 years of experience in the design, development and support of NonStop software solutions. In 1993, Jack founded TANDsoft Inc., a company focused on delivering quality NonStop solutions for time virtualization, application modernization and business continuity. Jack also worked as an HP NonStop instructor and as a software architect for ETI.

 

Tom Thompson Room

Vendor: NuWave Technologies, Inc.

Title: Application Rejuvenation – Moving Beyond Web Enabling

NonStop customers have been web enabling their Pathway applications for nearly a decade with mixed results. As pressure on IT continues to demand that IT managers do more with less and continue to increase ROI with every investment, is it time to consider packaged commercially available Web services? We’ll present some new approaches that are worthy of your consideration.

Speaker:Ernie Guerrera, President, NuWave Technologies, Inc.

Ernie Guerrera first began working with NonStop (formerly Tandem) systems at Data Architects (now Logica), designing and deploying highly efficient, secure, and reliable on-line transaction processing (OLTP) systems for the Financial Services industry. Ernie has held key technical and management positions for HP NonStop customers both in the US and the UK since 1980. As NuWave’s President since 1999, Ernie fosters a result oriented environment in which tasks are accomplished through extensive research and a systematic approach to deliver quality solutions.

 

Sessions 14:00 – 14:30

New Brunswick Room

Vendor: CSP

Title: Modernization of Nonstop Security Tools

Security continues to change and evolve. New regulations are getting more complex and fraud attempts becoming more sophisticated. More needs to be done to secure data on Nonstop systems and prevent unauthorized access and loss of data. CSP will deliver a presentation on current trends in data security and demonstrate new products which will help to make Nonstop systems more secure while making security administration easier.

Speaker:David Harper, Director of Sales and Marketing at Computer Security Products

David Harper is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Computer Security Products. He has enjoyed more than 25 years of experience in the Canadian IT industry and is pleased to be part of the Nonstop community. Helping customers deploy secure applications that meet regulatory compliance is his primary goal.

 

Nova Scotia Room

Vendor: ETI-NET

Title: NEW – HP StorageWorks VLS for NonStop

Up to now the backup solutions HP NonStop have been proprietary and dedicated. From now on with the new BackPak product from ETI-NET, your HP NonStop can support the standard and open HP StorageWorks Virtual Library System backup solution. ETI-NET will present its new cost-effective backup solution that allows the HP NonStop to support the same technology that HP Storage group is offering to the open environment. More than ever, the HP NonStop is OPEN.

Speaker:Sylvain Tétreault, Regional Director ETI-NET

Sylvain Tétreault has been with ETI-NET for over 4 years and has a strong knowledge of the backup industry. Sylvain Tétreault also previously worked 15 years for Tandem and understands the customers’ NonStop requirements.

 

Tom Thompson Room

Vendor: Gravic, Inc.

Title: Data Replication and Synchronization Solutions

Shadowbase, Gravic's real-time data integration and synchronization product, is used in homogeneous and heterogeneous replication projects including: ODS's, Data Marts, Data Warehouses, Real-Time Business Intelligence, and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery. We present Shadowbase solutions for common business problems, and new extensions to the Shadowbase Online Loading and Real-Time Business Intelligence capabilities.

Speaker:Richard R.(Dick) Davis

Dick Davis has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing management in the computer industry with firms such as Unisys Corporation and Tandem Computers (now HP), and MAI Systems Corporation. While at Tandem, Dick had sales management positions in both the end user sales division and the Alliance division supporting third party solution developers. He held the position of Director of Computer Systems with Safeguard Business Systems, an original IBM value added reseller. Dick also served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for XRT, Inc., a Tandem Alliance Partner, providing software solutions for the cash management and commercial paper trading requirements of major Fortune 200 companies. Currently Dick is the Sales Manager for the Shadowbase Products Group of Gravic, Inc. Dick has a BA in History from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Washington.

 

15:00 – 15:30

New Brunswick Room

Vendor: Crossroads Systems, Inc.

Title: New HP VTS Entry Level Model for NS and NB systems

This presentation will feature the newly released HP VTS model which will be used to support data protection activities and requirements for the NS1200, NS2000, and NB50000 Blade Server environments.

Speaker:Karl Burns – Senior Presales Engineer - Crossroads Systems, Inc.

Prior to Crossroads acquiring Tape Laboratories in April 2006, Karl was the Director of Engineering Services for TapeLabs (where VTS originated). While at TapeLabs, Karl provided presales expertise and managed the development and support of VTS. In the last six years, Karl has worked with the Crossroads and HP NED groups to successfully sell and implement more than 150 VTS systems.

Before TapeLabs, Karl held positions as a network administrator, systems programmer and voice/data communication specialist. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Clarion University as well as numerous industry certifications. In total, Karl has spent the last 20 years working in the computing industry.

 

Nova Scotia Room

Vendor: Carr Scott Software, Inc.

Title: Tools for modernizing and automating your NonStop server applications

Carr Scott will describe some of the tools they have employed to modernize and automate 100's of NonStop customers around the world. Specifically, Harry will discuss how to modernize Enscribe applications to NS SQL, add TMF without reprogramming and automate file and SQL DDL replication.

Speaker:Harry Scott

Harry Scott, Co-founder & Director of Sales ( harry.scott@CarrScott.com ) Carr Scott Software Incorporated - Duxbury Massachusetts USA

Harry co-founded Carr Scott Software in 1996 as a software spin-off company from Tandem Computers with Dr. Richard Carr (formerly Director of Tandem Labs, Tandem's research organization). Prior to Carr Scott Software, Harry was employed by Tandem from 1983 to 1996 in a number of positions including Business Unit, Sales and Support Management for the Eastern US.

 

Tom Thompson Room

Vendor: Canam Solutions, Inc.

Title: XML and NonStop? Solution = XML Thunder!

As more and more customer, supplier and standards organizations move to XML as the standard format for data exchange, the need to XML-enable existing production applications has been growing.

Bringing XML into your NonStop COBOL environment doesn't have to be a challenge. We'll show you how XML Thunder can modernize your existing COBOL and C applications to consume and create XML documents quickly and easily.

Speaker:Mike Bonham, Sales & Marketing

TIC Software has been leading the way in modernizing Nonstop Applications with innovative solutions since 1983. TIC Software is quickly becoming known as the NonStop XML Experts, leading the way in bringing this new technology to the NonStop platform. If you are currently working with or just starting to look at Web Services, XML Integration or Application Modernization, call us today and see how we can help you.