Canadian Tandem User Group

• Event Overview
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• Vendor Tracks

2011 CTUG Fall Conference – Sessions & Speakers

Day 1 – Conference Presentations

Rob Lesan, AOL Inc.

 How AOL upgraded, modernized and migrated a large authentication application on to the NonStop with little cost and no downtime.

The global nature of the Internet has driven the need for 7x24 availability into every aspect of the enterprise. Downtime means loss of revenue, loss of confidence, loss of customers. More and more flexibility, scalability and availability are expected without question. By leveraging HP NonStop technology with advanced replication software, the enterprise can now respond to even the most rapidly changing requirements without foregoing features, functions or missing a single transaction.

Speaker: Rob Lesan

Rob Lesan is a 20+ year NonStop veteran currently managing more than 40 systems handling all of AOL's authentication and legacy email. He lives in Northern Virginia and is the current president of the Mid Atlantic Tandem Users Group. He manages to keep things together working as a systems administrator, systems programmer, DBA, and application developer. He has worked in NonStop industries from telecommunications to finance. He and one other person manage all of AOL's NonStop assets.

 

 Resiliency in The Cloud - Making Certain You Are Not Subject To Someone Else’s Disaster

Speaker: Randall Becker, Nexbridge Inc.

Randall Becker is Managing Director of Nexbridge Inc., a products and services company in the NonStop and ECLIPSE ecosystems. Randall has been in the NonStop community since 1983 in the government, financial, and retail verticals. Randall currently is active development products and providing consulting services for NonStop systems using ECLIPSE. Randall is currently active developing products and providing consulting services for NonStop systems using ECLIPSE.

 

Randy Meyer, Director NED Product Management

 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.

Day 2 – CTUG Education Session

Quick HP Integrity NonStop Application Migration

This one-day course provides you with the information you need to convert your applications to run on the new Integrity NonStop systems. The course starts with an overview of the new hardware architecture 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, and the Enterprise Toolkit (ETK).

2011 CTUG Fall Conference – Vendor Tracks

Sessions 11:20 – 11:50

Pacific Room

Is Your Business Secure?

Vendor: XYPRO Technology Corp.

 

Speaker:Kevin Boham

Kevin Boham first began working with BASE24 development at ACI over 20 years ago. He has had a number of roles within the HP NonStop community. These roles have ranged from software development to technical sales support. Vertical industries include: Banking, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Data Management, Retail, Insurance, Government and Public Services.

New Brunswick Room

Command Stream Replicator and FileSync - They Replicate Everything that Replicators Don’t!

Vendor: TANDsoft Inc.

TANDsoft’s Command Stream Replicator and FileSync products complement all NonStop real-time database replicators to provide comprehensive solutions for maintaining duplicate system and application environments. Command Stream Replicator (CSR) automatically replicates FUP, SQL/MP and SQL/MX DDL structure as well as other environment changes – changes and settings that normally are not replicated because they sit outside the TMF Audit Trail. FileSync automatically monitors, replicates, and synchronizes source files, program environments, application environments, configuration files, programs – anything non-database that needs to be kept current across the network. TANDsoft recently released CSR Version 1.4 and FileSync Version 2.1. Learn more about what makes these two products so attractive.

Speaker:Jack Di Giacomo, President, TANDsoft Inc.

Jack Di Giacomo has over 25 years of experience in the design, development and support of NonStop software solutions. In 1993, Jack founded TANDsoft Inc., a company specializing in interception-based products. TANDsoft delivers quality offerings for virtual clock- and time-zone simulation (OPTA2000), application modernization (Enscribe-2-SQL and TMF-Audit Toolkits and Command Stream Replicator), and business continuity (FileSync).

Nova Scotia Room

Shadowbase Data Replication and Synchronization Solutions

Vendor: Gravic Inc.

Shadowbase, Gravic's real-time data replication and synchronization product, provides business solutions for: Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, Data Integration and Synchronization, Data Warehouse Feeds, Real-Time Business Intelligence, and Application Integration. Shadowbase products support homogeneous and heterogeneous replication projects across a wide variety of platforms and databases, including HP NonStop, Linux, IBM, Unix, and Windows, for Enscribe/SQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, DB2, and MySQL databases. This presentation provides an overview of key Shadowbase solution features, and highlights their use in improving application availability as well as simplifying your data sharing and integration challenges.

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

Mr. Holenstein has direct responsibility for the Gravic Inc. Shadowbase Products Group and is a Senior Fellow at 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 on advanced application availability architectures. He received his BSCE from Bucknell University, a MSCS from Villanova University, and is an HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer (MASE).

 

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Sessions 2:00 – 2:30

Pacific Room

Long Hair and Whiskers

Vendor: Ascert LLC.

 

Speaker:Richard Greene, Ascert LLC.

 

Nova Scotia Room

Encrypting NonStop Backups using Enterprise Key Management

Vendor: ETI-NET Inc.

Securing backups is critical for NonStop systems managers. Use of virtual tape subsystems adds to the challenges. Encryption is the primary tool for protecting both data-at-rest and data-in-motion, but it can be compromised if a robust key management approach is not used. Approaches for S-series as well as NS and NB-series systems will be discussed, with use of HP’s Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM) as well as the emerging KMIP standard.

Speaker:Fernand Lussier, Vice President of Research & Development, ETI-NET Inc.

Mr. Lussier was working in the Banking industry on different Canadian interbank systems before joining ETI-NET the first time in 1986. When he joined ETI-NET he worked on the initial Product Development team. He left ETI-NET to work in lottery, gaming and manufacturing industries in Montreal.

In 2005 he came back to ETI-NET as Vice-President of Research & Development. In the past 25 years he has developed software on numerous platforms including IBM MVS. Tandem NonStop, Windows, Linux and QNX.

New Brunswick Room

NonStop in the Enterprise

Vendor: Cail Inc.

With an Enterprise Client Solution, people utilize information from any or all platforms (including NonStop) to produce more complete reports, analytics, etc. As well, an Enterprise Client Solution makes it easier to address new business needs, move all systems forward, and enable NonStop be part of a Corporate Standard. In conjunction with Attachmate, CAIL enables organizations to realize more value from their considerable investment in enterprise IT infrastructure in the areas of improving Host Access, Security, and Modernizing information services - with all platforms, including NonStop.

Speaker:Ron Thompson, CEO, Cail Inc.

Ron Thompson is CEO of CAIL, a long time HP Partner with Customers around the world. Having a business and technical background, Ron guides product direction with the goal of enabling Customers to produce results quickly, while mitigating risk.

 

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Sessions 3:00 – 3:30

Pacific Room

Protect – a Security Solution for GUARDIAN, OSS and all your UNIX Platforms

Vendor: CSP Inc.

Protect is a security administration tool with an integrated user access matrix function. It makes implementing a security Policy and setting ACL’s easy on any platform. We will discuss the process of implementing a security policy and explain how this is done on NonStop and UNIX servers. Your investment is Protected on the platform you choose.

Speaker:Dave Harper

: David has worked in the computer industry for over 25 years. He is currently the Director of Sales and Marketing at Computer Security Products. He knows computer security is one of the key challenges in the IT industry today which is why CSP is developing better solutions.

Nova Scotia Room

Can SOA Help You Prepare For Converged Infrastructure?

Vendor: NuWave Technologies Inc.

Up to now the IT focus of many organizations has been and continues to be SOA. In this session we will discuss how the investment in SOA and Web services can facilitate a graceful migration to Converged Infrastructure (CI) and/or a unified data center with the minimum, or ideally, no proprietary communication interfaces.

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, he fosters a result oriented environment in which tasks are accomplished through extensive research and a systematic approach to deliver quality solutions.

New Brunswick Room

Developing and Connecting Java and C++ with the Rest of your Application

Vendor: Nexbridge

 

Speaker:Randall Becker, Nexbridge Inc.