Events

OZTUG 2004
Conference & Trade Show
Stamford Plaza Double Bay Hotel

26 - 27 July
Sydney, Australia

Technical Breakout Sessions

The OZTUG 2004 presentations are linked from the session title. Once you click on the session title, you will be promted to enter your login and password. The login and password will be emailed to every OZTUG attendee in the week following the conference. Presentations will be posted as they become available.

OZTUG 2004 is designed specifically to meet the needs of the HP NonStop™ server user through the latest in technical education.

The OZTUG 2004 tracks are:

Business Solutions
This track will concentrate on solutions to help solve business issues in today's increasingly competitive global environment. Sessions will describe industry-based, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer solutions from finance, retail, Telco, government, healthcare, and other industries, as well as the real-time enterprise. Zero Latency Enterprise (ZLE) solutions and cross-industry solutions for the Internet are also within the scope of this track.

Technical and Development
The focus of this track will be on the NonStop environment and architecture and sessions will focus on the needs of the NonStop developer. Presenters will be covering Middleware and Web products and offering deep insights into flagship infrastructure software. Partner products and professional services to help businesses stay ahead of the competition will also be discussed.

Operations, Systems & Hardware
Attendees will learn what lies ahead for HP's NonStop Enterprise Division products from the resident experts, the HP NonStop Enterprise Division Product Managers. This track will also focus on managing and securing systems for maximum availability within the organisation. These sessions will give insight into tools and strategies for contingency planning, disaster protection and recovery, services, general security aspects, performance enhancement, and operations management.

Featured Speakers

Michael Muller, Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Storage and Servers, Asia Pacific Region

Herbert Zwenger, General Manager, NonStop Enterprise Division, Asia Pacific Region

Chris Rooke, VP, Product Management, Marketing and Solutions, HP
NonStop Enterprise ServersExecutive Update

Rob Lesan, AOL
Extreme Availability at America Online - How Members Can Always Logon to
the World's Largest ISP

Michele Schwappach, Bank of America

Jim Johnson, Standish Group
Vision of Value: A Full-Cost Accounting Strategy

Vendor Track
Vendor presentations offer specially prepared demonstrations and opportunities for in-depth question and answer dialogues. Vendor sessions are a great way to learn about a new product or service in a specially prepared demonstration from the top vendors!

Business Solutions

Why Should Your Management View NonStop Servers as Strategic?
Chris Rooke, HP
Misconceptions could steer new projects away from NonStop servers, even when they would strongly benefit from the unique NonStop server capabilities. This session will give you a set of facts to counter these perceptions and provide several case studies that will detail recent, competitive wins where NonStop servers have replaced mainframes and UNIX systems. They serve as good proof points of the current openness, low TCO, and unique level of availability, scale, and data integrity offered by NonStop servers.

More than Reacting to a Problem with HPS -- New Nonstop Services  
Ari Palandjian, HP
Hardware and software support portfolios traditionally are designed for reactive support. This means that if something breaks, we will fix it as quickly as possible. However, customers' business demands have changed, and they are under pressure to establish service-level agreements with their business divisions demanding 100% applications availability. This has caused customers to examine how they support the whole IT infrastructure and not just the physical hardware and software in order to be successful, but learning how to become proactive in identifying possible future problems and fixing them before they impact availability requires specialised support. HP has recognised this requirement and is launching a whole new range of proactive hardware and software support products to help our customers meet their needs. That portfolio now addresses issues such as vulnerability assessments, ITSM, hardware and software reviews, and technical service credits, all based on a service partnership with HP.  

Understanding the Role of Different Application Architectures in Your Business
Mike Zivkovic , HP
Choosing the right application architecture is the most important decision you will face to achieve scalable, high-performance, and secure applications. Today's technology offers a wide variety of application architectures beyond the simple client/server architecture of the past. You can choose an n -tier architecture where some parts of your application run on a Windows Server–based system, some run on a UNIX or Linux system, and some run on a NonStop system. In this session you'll hear about state-of-the-art application architectures and ways to implement them.

Changing Security Requirements in the Financial Industry  
Glenn Bell, HP
For thirty years, HP Atalla Security Products has provided specialized hardware to securely move funds through networks. Today, the bank payments network is showing its age through the effects of Moore 's Law and slow-moving industry standards.  This presentation discusses how HP Atalla is re-vitalizing the banking security market with exciting, new hardware technologies and leading the industry with innovative, security standards and how these standards can address today's business requirements. 

Technical and Development

Achieving Real-Time Business Agility through Web Services
Mike Zivkovic, HP
Web services technologies such as NonStop SOAP and XML are fundamental for implementing the next generation Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). NonStop SOAP and XML enable rapid and easy implementation of Web services on NonStop servers for both new Java and existing C, C++, COBOL, or even TAL Pathway applications. In only "six clicks," you can Web service-enable your existing or new Pathway applications. Adding third party products to your Web services infrastructure provides an easy way to manage security, load balancing, version control, etc.

NonStop Operation and Performance Management  
Khody Khodayari, HP
This session will discuss the latest Operation and Performance Management products from HP. Background, latest features, and future directions of the following products will be presented: Web ViewPoint, Web ViewPoint plug-ins, Pocket ViewPoint, TPDC/PMC, Visual SPAM, Data Browser, Insight, DiskPro, SPA, and Pathway View.

Java on NonStop Servers: Roadmap and Application Development
Mike Zivkovic, HP
Java standards and implementations are evolving at a fast pace. This session will cover HP's rich offering of Java products on NonStop servers from JVM to Servlets to J2EE to JMS and JDBC today and where are they going. Learn about development tools such as Borland's JBuilder and BEA's WebLogic Workshop that make development for the NonStop server easier than ever, and performance tools for analysing Java applications and identifying bottlenecks. Discover how your applications can benefit from Java technology for messaging and enterprise integration using new products such as BEA WebLogic Integration (WLI 8.1).  

What's New in Database
Tim Keefauver, HP
An overview of recent enhancements and future improvements for database including: peerless availability, scalability and data integrity capabilities, mixed workload improvements, and Java database capabilities, TMF, RDF, optimising total cost of ownership, ODBC and JDBC performance, NonStop SQL/MX, NonStop SQL/MP, and Enscribe performance enhancements. Useful information for immediate implementation on your production systems will be provided as well as a roadmap of future enhancements.

Operations, Systems & Hardware

NonStop Systems Hardware and Enterprise Storage Systems (ESS)
Sanjiv Ghate , HP
Attend this session to learn about the latest hardware offerings for NonStop servers, including details on the next-generation of processor, disk, tape, clustering, and enterprise network storage products, focusing on the S7800 and forthcoming S78000 and S88000 processors. The presentation also will introduce product offerings slated for the Modular IO format, incuding fibre channel disk, gigabit ethernet controllers, and HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP. Performance benefits of these new products will be highlighted.

NonStop System Software Update and NonStop TCP/IPv6
Sanjiv Ghate, HP
Get the key planning information you need for the next twelve months of software releases and the latest system software roadmap, including the plan for the H-series software--the Intel®Itanium ® -based NonStop server software releases. This session will cover the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET add-on Enterprise Toolkit - NonStop Edition (for PC-based NonStop server development), OSM (the replacement for TSM console), new Safeguard capabilities, TMF support for large audit files, and NonStop TCP/IPv6.

Migration to Intel® Itanium®-based NonStop Servers
Sanjiv Ghate, HP
Start planning for the next generation of NonStop servers. This session will give you what you need to start planning your successful evolution beyond S-series. You will get a look at new product introductions that can help you transition to the Intel ® Itanium ® -based servers, plus find out which hardware and software products are migrating forward. This session will include a discussion of hardware configurations and software architecture and application considerations, plus HP Services offerings that will be available to help you with your migration. This session is a must for keeping up-to-date on NonStop servers.

Geographically Dispersed NonStop Clusters  
Tim Keefauver, HP
Includes the use of HP Metrocluster and Continental Clusters for NonStop servers, ServerNet, HP XP enterprise storage, and NonStop RDF/Zero Lost Transactions for the ultimate in disaster tolerance. RDF/ZLT solves the problem of lost 'in-flight' transactions due to latency from the time that a transaction is committed to the primary database until it is transferred to the target system. NonStop RDF zero lost transactions leverages a remote disk mirror to ensure that no committed transaction is left behind.

User Presentations

Outage Window Reduction
Jon McIlveen, IBM Global Services Australia
This presentation will discuss the path that IBM & Westpac are taking, to reduce the length of planned outages by using HBR software with a 'hot' DR site.

Supporting Systems in Africa
Kevin Willemse, Business Connexion, Vodacom South Africa
This session will discuss Vodacom's operations in South Africa , Tanzania and Mozambique and how PROGNOSIS is utilised in those environments.

Vendor Presentations

BEA Systems
How Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) Can Help Companies Adapt to Business Changes
David Sinclair, Regional Alliance Manager – ANZ, BEA Systems
The drive for interoperability between custom built applications and commercial off-the-shelf applications is pushing the industry towards Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  This presentation will cover SOA and how it ultimately proves simpler than traditional Application Integration approaches and helps companies adapt to business changes.

ETI
Configuring BackBox Virtual Tape for Production Operations, Andrew Hall, President
BackBox® provides NonStop users with access to high performance disk, tape, and tape lifecycle management services. Attached to NonStop servers via SCSI or Fibre controllers, each BackBox emulates one to several tape drives while delivering the NSK virtual tape images into a variety of data storage environments. This presentation will review configuration approaches and trade-offs when using BackBox .

Insession Technologies
Advanced Infrastructure Technologies for the HP NonStop Server.  
 Infrastructure solutions provide the underlying foundation for reliable, robust and manageable systems.  In this session we explore the extensive portfolio of solutions from Insession Technologies and demonstrate just how organisations can maximise the return from their HP NonStop Server investments. If you want multiple ideas to take back to your management, then this is for you.  

ITI Shadowbase
Shadowbase Data Replication Solutions
This session will be an overview of ITI Shadowbase's data integration  and synchronization tool, Shadowbase. It will provide an introduction for Shadowbase's use in homogeneous and heterogeneous replication projects including: ODS's, Data  Warehouse Feeds , Business Intelligence, and Business Continuity . The presentation will highlight customer implementations of ITI Shadowbase's patented bi-directional replication technology providing the highest level of disaster  tolerance available, enabling two or more simultaneously active systems within the architecture. Shadowbase's "Live/Live" architecture  allows you to  scale applications and databases across multiple nodes to create one logical system that can scale linearly and survive the failure of an entire node .  This architecture also allows for zero downtime application and system migrations and upgrades.

Knightcraft Technology
Security Compliance for NonStop Servers, Greg Swedosh, Knightcraft Technology and Lisa Partridge, XYPRO Technology
KNIGHTCRAFT TECHNOLOGY is the Asia-Pacific distributor of software from XYPRO Technology. The XYGATE Security Compliance Wizard (XSW) from XYPRO is a Windows-based rule development and compliance tool. It offers a ground breaking approach to security policy management that AUTOMATICALLY discovers and tracks security anomalies, eliminating time-consuming manual research.
Use XSW to discover, describe and monitor your NonStop security policy from your PC.
A few examples of the security anomalies you might find:
- Orphaned files
- Non-authorized Progid'd programs
- Users or aliases with non-authorized access
- Files on system volumes that are unauthorized
- Pathway servers owned by SUPER or any other user
- Licensed or Progid'd Pathway objects
- Expired users or expired passwords
- Network accessible or inaccessible programs

This presentation will show how, over time, you will easily develop, monitor and enforce a security policy for your HP NonStop server environment.

Network Concepts, Inc.
Visual Studio & ETK Cross Compile Strategies, Tom Wanat
The notion of using Visual Studio, HPs Enterprise Toolkit and other PC tools for developing NSK code is attractive. But what are the downsides? For instance, are there ways to coordinate team members, control unrestrained changes and provide reproducible builds for critical systems?

Network Concepts product CONTROL-CS™ now supports the Microsoft SCC interface. As a NonStop alternative to PC products like SourceSafe™, CS can seamlessly monitor and archive changes from PCs to a central secure NSK archive. NCIs parallel intelligent build product nci GENESIS can access the central archive to provide batch control over final production.

This presentation suggests some rational approaches to open software development for the NSK with modern tools.

SeeBeyond
Real Time Integration in a Non Stop World
Ray Gear, Director Technical Services, Asia Pacific, SeeBeyond