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The Golden Era of AI and Machine Learning: The case for on-premise AI resources
We truly are experiencing AI’s golden era. The confluence of AI algorithms coming to reality,...
Fireside Chat with Harry Moseley, CIO of Zoom Video Communications
Speaker Harry D. Moseley Global Chief Information Officer, Zoom Track Modern Enterprise IT /...
Technical methods to solve performance issues
Based on a case study that involves reporting and automation with zWR and zGuard, this session...
Surfacing Mainframe Hidden Costs and Operational Gaps
“Help! My management wants yet another opex report”. With all of the data that’s available in your...
Enable Your DevOps Transformation
Rapid delivery of core business systems needs to be enterprise-wide, and DevOps is now mainstream,...
Locating CICS Abnormal Reponse Times
Most of z/OS sites run CICS to serve transactional applications. These CICS environments are often...
Java performance in 2021: How AI optimization will debunk 4 long-standing Java tuning myths
Java is ubiquitous in online services, yet ensuring Java applications’ availability and...
Everything I Need To Know About AIOps I Learned From My Rice Cooker
It seems you can’t throw a rock these days without it glancing off a shiny new application of...
Practical Ways to Leverage AI in your IT Operations
Join this session for a technical deep dive on practical ways to leverage AI in your IT...
Capacity Management in a Changing World or Turning the Lights on in Capacity Management
Capacity Management process maturity includes aligning capacity, performance and cost. This...
Anomalies Detection and Cloud Platform Selection During DevOps
In this session, the presenters will review the challenges of anomaly detection during DevOps and...
Mainframe Modernization, a trusted comprehensive approach
The Mainframe applications that are critical to many of the businesses and governmental functions...
Mainframe Modernization Success Use Cases
Every journey is different, and theoretically ongoing. Smart Digital Transformation is strategic,...
Failing over without falling over – Adrian Cockcroft
In this keynote presentation, Adrian Cockroft will talk about failing over without falling over;...
Capacity Analysis Techniques for VMware VM I/O
The methodology previously presented for VMware capacity/performance analysis is extended to I/O...
Performance Engineering – FinOps
This session will talk about how performance engineering is related to Fin Ops and especially in...
AI Data Acquisition and Governance: Considerations for Success
Data is the new IP - AI can’t exist without a strong data acquisition and curation strategy....
Cost-to-Serve: Computing Transaction Efficiency
In a cloud operating environment, it is of utmost importance to understand performance, capacity...
DevOps: Delivering Relationships and Solutions
In this talk, I will discuss novel deliverables from a DevOps perspective; delivering people...
Using an Open Architecture to Accelerate AIOps Value
Use of AIOps to augment IT functions such as event correlation and analysis, anomaly detection and...
Determining the Best Use of AI to Meet Your IT Ops Needs
There is a misconception that AI is about replacing people, but it’s more about using technology...
Introduction to Precision Time Protocol (PTP) on IBM Z
To help IBM Z clients in the financial industry better comply with increasingly stringent time...
Using Machine Learning for Software Capacity Planning
In this session, I would be sharing some insight into how machine learning is impacting the areas...
Proactive Capacity Management is dead; long live Capacity Management!
The long held notion that a proactive Capacity Management strategy is IT's nirvana is no longer...
Providing Business Value Through Observability
When we look at business value, we often assume that the product we are building, that app which...
Observability for Microservices
For the last few years, the buzzword of 'observability' has stood in for heavy, expensive Service...
How Deep Learning Model Architecture Impacts Optimal Training Configuration in the Cloud
This session is part of a long research program aimed at scrutinizing how different components of...
Life Cycle of a Query in SQL Server
Many Developers work with SQL Server but don’t fully understand how it really works behind the...
Performance Engineering Maturity Model: The Four Stages of Performance Culture
As organizations shift towards agile and CI/CD approaches, performance engineering must change....
Transforming humanity with Lean, Agile and DevOps methodologies during a global pandemic
COVID19 has become a compelling event for many organizations to rapidly transform their...
Dynamic Capacity Management for Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environment
IT Managers, Architects, DBAs and Systems Analysts involved in Cloud Selection often perform POC...
Capacity and performance before and after a major infrastructure transition
Major infrastructure transitions like moving to a new data center, outsourcing or changing...
Improving Forecasting for Capacity Management Using Segmented Regression
One problem with the use of linear regression for capacity planning forecasting is that step...
z14 and z15 Pipelines
The z13 can execute about 12% more [1.695/1.514] Instructions than the zEC12, although its Cycle...
Overcoming Automation Fear in Infrastructure as Code
Following the same research line (IaC), this year I would like to address how to deal with the...
Three Tricky Performance Problems Solved with Oracle Trace Data
The Oracle Database kernel has a rich tracing feature built into it, but many analysts choose...