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Conference Presentations
Sine Nomine Associates have offered presentations given at a number of conferences in the United States, and occasionally, internationally. Slides and outlines from some of these presentations are available here, in PDF format, for the use of our customers. All presentations are Copyright © Sine Nominee Associates.
Conference Presentations 2009
This section contains presentations made by Sine Nomine Associates team members at various conferences, trade shows, and symposia. There are also selected presentations by representatives from other companies, posted here with permission of the authors.
MVMRUG May 2009
At the April 2009 meeting of the Midwest VM Regional User Group (MVMRUG) in Columbus, Ohio, Scott Courtney presented an overview of OpenSolaris for System z and a just-for-fun tutorial on building a low-energy "green" server for use in a home or remote office. The OpenSolaris presentation was originally created by David Boyes.
Conference Presentations 2008
This section contains conference presentations by Sine Nomine Associates staff members, and others who have given us permission to share their publications, in calendar year 2008.
Hillgang Meeting, December 2008
These are presentations from the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area mainframe user group. Some of the material in this section is provided courtesy other organizations, and posted here with permission of the copyright owners.
CA Products for z/VM – Old Dogs with New Tricks
Yvonne DeMeritt, a Senior Sustaining Engineer at Computer Associates Inc., presented "CA Products for z/VM – Old Dogs with New Tricks" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area mainframe user group.
Both Adobe Acrobat (PDF) and Power Point (PPT) versions of the presentation are linked below.
ESALPS For Managing z/Linux and z/VM Performance
Barton Robinson from Velocity Software offered a presentation at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area z/VM user group, on the topic of Velocity's ESA Linux Performance Suite (ESALPS). The presentation is available for download from Velocity Software's web site, at the link below.
The white paper "provides a brief description of the requirements and the hurdles of managing performance for Linux under z/VM."
z/VM Platform Update from Hillgang, December 2008
Richard Lewis of IBM Corporation presented "z/VM Platform Update: Advancing the Art of Virtualization with z/VM Version 5 Release 4" at the December 2008 meeting of the Hillgang, a Washington DC area z/VM user group. Richard has kindly shared his presentation slides for download here.
The presentation deck consists of 35 slides whose topics include:
- z/VM Release History
- z/VM Evaluation Edition Product Overview
- z/VM Version 5 Release 4 Functional Highlights
Conference Presentations 2007
This page lists conference and user group presentations for 2007.
2007 WAVV Meeting Presentations
The files below are the SNA presentations from the 2007 WAVV meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Please feel free to download and share them with your colleages.
IBM System z and zSeries Expo, Munich Germany (April 2007)
Here are the Sine Nomine presentations from the IBM zExpo held in April in Munich. This page provides a way to download the presentations and supporting materials that were not completed by the submission deadline for the conference CD available.
NEUVM Presentation, May 24 2007
The following presentation by David Boyes was given at the NEUVM user group meeting in Boston on May 24, 2007. PDF format.
The presentation included:
- Overview of SSL and the VM Implementation
- Setup Steps for a DIY Version
- SSL Enabler, aka the Easy Way
- A Little Bit About Clients
Conference Presentations 2006
This page lists conference presentations given by SNA employees in 2006.
2006 European zSeries Expo Presentations (March 20 to 24, 2006)
The files below are the Sine Nomine presentations from the 2006 IBM System z9 and zSeries Technical Conference held in Dusseldorf, Germany on March 20 through 24, 2006.
If you attended the conference, please note that L06 and L56 are updated from the versions on your conference CD-ROM, and the other presentations have some minor cosmetic updates to correct some typos found during the presentation.
Feedback is welcome, and we thank you for your attendance and the lively discussion during the sessions in Dusseldorf.
2006 WAVV Chattenooga Presentations
These files are the SNA presentations given at the WAVV conference in Chattenooga, TN. Adam Thornton presented the sessions as a substitute for David Boyes.
Topics included:
- Advanced CUPS
- Automating Linux App Startup
- Creating a Linux Appliance Application Toolkit
- Printing with CUPS
2006 WAVV Draft Requirements
Below are two proposed requirements submitted to WAVV for modifications to IBM products. We would like to solicit comments and feedback from the general community to submit if there are questions from IBM wrt to scope of the requirements.
WAVV 2006 Requirements Drafts
This node holds requirement drafts submitted to WAVV for the 2007 meeting.
Conference Presentations 2005
Conference presentations given by SNA employees during 2005.
A Modular Email System Using Open Source Components
This session was presented by Scott Courtney at the April 22, 2005 meeting of the
Midwest VM Regional Users' Group, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Abstract
Scott presents several variants of a horizontally-scaled email design that can be deployed using distributed Linux, mainframe Linux, or a combination of the two, which provides inbound and outbound SMTP, virus and spam blocking, POP3 and IMAP4 delivery, webmail, and rapid semi-automated deployment of the new servers to meet increased demand.
This is a design that Sine Nomine Associates has successfully deployed at multiple customer sites, scalable to handle in excess of 40,000 users and over 25,000 inbound messages per hour after filtering.
MVMRUG Presentations, January 28,2005
This page contains the presentations from the January 28, 2005 MVMRUG meeting held in Columbus Ohio at NISource.
Server Consolidation with Mainframe Linux
Scott Courtney's presentation from the Ohio Linux Festival (October 1, 2005).
This presentation is an introduction to how Linux runs in virtual hardware on S/390 and z/Series mainframes. It includes a discussion of the benefits and limitations of the mainframe environment relative to distributed RISC and CISC hardware, as well as a brief intro to virtual networking using mainframe hardware features, and discussion of the challenges of managing a virtual server farm.
(Click the attachment link below to retrieve a copy of the PDF. Presentation Copyright © 2005 Sine Nomine Associates. Photos of mainframe hardware Copyright © 2001, 2005 Scott Courtney, and used by permission of the author.)
Conference Presentations 2004
Conference Presentations by SNA employees during 2004.
AFS Client Performance Analysis
A presentation on OpenAFS Client Performance Analysis by Kris Van Hees at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) AFS Best Practices Workshop in March 2004.
PDF
Commercial Support for OpenAFS
Presentation on "Commercial Support for OpenAFS" by Kris Van Hees at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) AFS Best Practices Workshop.
PDF
Mainframe Linux Backups Without Tape Drives
A presentation on mainframe Linux backups by David Boyes given 26 January 2004 at the MVMUA 30th Anniversary Meeting, NYC.
PDF
From the presentation:
Agenda
- The Problem
- The Idea
- The Pieces
- The Experiment
- How-To
- Results
- Q&A
VM Advanced Networking Services
VM Advanced Networking Services is a reference architecture developed by Sine Nomine Associates. It is designed to update the IP-based network applications and services offered by VM systems, using virtual Linux hosts, without disrupting existing CMS applications that rely on the old-style VMTCPIP stack. (PowerPoint, 135 KB)
zExpo Presentations (Miami, Nov 1-5, 2004)
David Boyes attended the IBM zExpo conference in November 2004; these are the conference presentations.
L05: Printing with CUPS
Printing with CUPS presentation by David Boyes at zExpo (Miami, Nov 1-5, 2004).
L51: Automating Linux Application Startup
A presentation by David Boyes on Automating Linux Application Startup given at zExpo (Miami, Nov 1-5, 2004).
L53: LDAP-Based Mail Routing using Linux
A presentation by David Boyes on LDAP-Based Mail Routing using Linux given at zExpo (Miami, Nov 1-5, 2004).
L83: File Level Backup without Tape Drives
A presentation on File Level Backup without Tape Drives pressented by David Boyes at zExpo (Miami, Nov 1-5, 2004).
V86: Supercharging VM Startup with SYSVINIT
Supercharging VM Startup with SYSVINIT presentation by David Boyes at zExpo (Miami, Nov 1-5, 2004).
Conference Presentations 2003
Conference presentations given by SNA employees during 2003.
Linux Management in the Data Center Environment
Presentation by Scott Courtney to Ford Motor Company at the company's Linux Technology Days, December 2003.
PDF
From the presentation:
Contents
- Introduction
- Challenges of Linux in the Data Center
- Management Tools and Methods
- Monitoring Tools
- Backup/Disaster Recovery
Conference Presentations 2002
Presentation handouts (usually PDF files) from conference presentations made by Sine Nomine Associates personnel during calendar year 2002.
Building a Linux Firewall with IPtables
Presented at the ThinkLinux conference in Toledo, Ohio, October 2002 by Scott Courtney. (pdf)