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These are presentations from the October 2011 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 the permission of the copyright owners.

Come and enjoy two and a half days of technical discussions and presentations with members of the z/VM and Linux on System z community. There's nothing to join, no membership requirements, and it's only $100.00 per person plus transportation and accommodations.

These are presentations from the March 2011 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.

In a July 15, 2010 presentation for Hillgang, the DC Vm and Linux Users' Group, Len Diegel offered a review of current trends and challenges across the IT industry, the impact of
Cloud computing, and a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses that compares running Linux on commodity servers (x86) with other solutions including VMware, z/VM, and public virtual solutions.

From the Hillgang abstract:

In April 2008, Jim Moling offered a presentation on Cloning VM systems for Hillgang, the Washington DC area z/VM user group.

The Windows Enabler Appliance is a self-contained virtual machine appliance that provides the ability to run unmodified Intel-based 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems on System z10 hardware in a virtual machine managed by z/VM

Because z/VM is extremely flexible and can be tailored to meet the diverse needs of many different organizations, it is an excellent platform to host e-business efforts. Sine Nomine Associates brings together a team of experts with decades of experience on every generation of VM, from VM/ESA to z/VM and beyond.