Technology CloseUp: Managing System Performance & Availability
                           Wednesday, April 19, 1995
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ANNOUNCING:   This is to announce the fourth broadcast in HP's popular
              Technology Closeup series of interactive television broadcasts.
              This series of programs is available to all HP 3000 customers
              at no charge, with videotapes to be made available through the
              Customer Connection Hotline.  As always, your host will be George
              Stachnik, the HP 3000 Product Champion from HP.
 
DESCRIPTION:  This Technology CloseUp will be focused primarily on
              High Availability on the HP 3000, with an additional
              discussion on managing system performance.  The
              program will walk you through a story about a customer
              experiencing the need for managing performance (using
              Glance, Workload Manager & analysing disc arrangements)
              growing into the need for a system that is higher in
              availability.  We will walk through growing from a basic
              system to a high availability system then completing
              with a disaster tolerant SharePlex/iX complete solution.
              The high availability complete solution covers periph-
              erals, performance, processes and products.
 
              This will be a three hour broadcast.  In the first hour we'll
              begin by examining the performance issues that sometimes arise on
              large HP 3000 systems, particularly on systems that have
              undergone a major consolidation.  We'll see how to use
              performance tools such as Glance and Laser RX to diagnose
              some of these problems.  You'll learn how to determine if a
              performance problem is being caused by an overall shortage of
              resources, by a particular component of the system (such as a
              disk array), or by a particular application (even a client/server
              application).  We'll also look at ways to use tools such as HP's
              Workload Manager to manage your way around some of these
              situations.
 
              In the second hour we'll focus on the high availability issues
              that sometimes arise on large or consolidated HP 3000 systems.
              We'll review some of the system management "best practices", such
              as the use of user volume sets, and examine step by step
              procedures for migrating to user volume sets.  We'll also begin
              to explore some of the high availability products that are
              available for the HP 3000, including RAID disks, mirrored disks
              and a number of others, with a special emphasis on understanding
              when each of these products makes economic sense.
 
              Finally, in the third hour we'll see how HP 3000s can be used in
              a disaster tolerant environment.  We'll see how solutions such as
              SharePlex can be used to recover from disasters that can
              potentially result in the destruction of the physical datacenter.
 
DATE/TIME:    Wednesday, April 19, 1995
Registration: 8:30 Pacific; 9:30 Mountain; 10:30 Central; 11:30 Eastern
Program Time: 9:00-12:00 Pacific; 10:00-1:00 Mountain; 11:00-2:00 Central
              12:00-3:00 Eastern
 
TARGET AUDIENCE:  Technical experts and implementers in HP3000 MIS
                  shops.
 
REGISTRATION PHONE NUMBER: 1/800-224-HP3K
 
 
                      POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY CLOSE UP SITES
               4/19/ MANAGING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE & AVAILABILITY
 
We do not yet have confirmation of which HP sites will be acting as hosts for
this broadcast.  The following sites have the necessary facilities available,
but we cannot tie up a site if only one or two people register.  So make sure
you get your registration in early.
 
 
Albany, NY          Falls Church, VA    Naperville, IL
Albuquerque, NM     Ft Lauderdale, FL   New Orleans, LA   Rockville, MD
Atlanta, GA         Fullerton, CA       Norcross, GA      Rolling Meadows, IL
Austin, TX          Glastonbury, CT     Novi, MI          Salt Lake City, UT
Baltimore, MD       Grand Rapids, MI    Omaha, NE         San Antonio, TX
Bellevue, WA        Houston, TX         Orlando, FL       San Diego, CA
                    Huntington, NY      Paramus, NJ       St. Louis, MO
Bloomington, IL     Huntsville, AL      Phoenix, AZ       St. Paul, MN
Burlington, MA      Indianapolis, IN    Pittsburgh, PA    Tampa, FL
Cedar Rapids, IA    Kansas City, MO     Piscataway, NJ    Tulsa, OK
Cincinnati, OH      Las Colinas, TX     Pleasanton, CA    Valley Forge, PA
Cleveland, OH       Los Angeles, CA     Portland, OR
Columbus, OH        Manhattan, NY       Raleigh, NC
Dayton, OH          Miami, FL           Richardson, TX
El Paso, TX         Milwaukee, WI       Richmond, VA
Englewood, CO       Mt View, CA         Rochester, NY
 
 
REQUESTED AMERICAS SITES OUTSIDE THE US
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Calgary, Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Montreal, Quebec
Ottawa, Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
Vancouver, BC
Winnipeg, Manitoba
 
We are also looking into the possibility of hosting this broadcast for the
first time at the HP office in Mexico City.