Events 2011

End-to-End IT Service Quality: NEXThink, delivering the missing link in Basel on May19th

“Get an accurate and global visibility of your end-users desktops, applications and infrastructure”

The enterprise IT workplace is changing. End-user desktops infrastructure have become highly interconnected and dynamic environments with servers become more and more virtual or somewhere in the cloud bringing business agility/flexibility value for end-users, but IT department are losing visibility and control over their end-users IT environments: that becomes costly to manage, insecurely used and hard to support.

- How can you assess activity at the end-user level to plan and manage infrastructure changes on time and on budget?
- How do you insure security compliance at all time at the desktop to manage business risks?
- How do you know the impact of an outage or if the issue is related to the desktop itself (network card issue, application conflict, disk space,...)?

We at adhoc International and at SOLVIS Ltd., independent consulting firms, found the missing link and invite you for a 1/2 conference on May 19th from 08h30-11h30 in Basel!

Agenda and registration now online!

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Application Performance Management Workshops in Zurich on June 16th and in Basel on June 17th

Selected experienced specialists of performance, IT Managers and Technology Leaders will actively participate to this workshop, with presentations addressing critical issues and proposing innovative approaches to master application performance from several perspectives: architecture, testing, analysis, monitoring and governance.

By participating, we propose you to be in the center of an international workgroup, aiming at building a platform for the exchange and the promotion of patterns and best practices, and the proposal of standards in the area of application performance.

June 16th, World Trade Center - Zurich (Agenda)
June 17th, UBS Center - Basel (Agenda)

Featuring prominent guest speakers from Credit Suisse together with researchers and technology leaders experts.

This Workshop is powered by:

Registrations online or +41(0) 61 723 01 88

Application Performance Management Workshop, March 11th in Munich!

Register now to the APM Workshop!

EuroCMG 2011 March 09th-11th

"Performing IT - Requirements and Reality".

Maritim Hotel Munich

Download the agenda.

Speaker	Intervention	Biography
Torsten Haibach Head Global Service Monitoring Credit Suisse AG	Industrializing Application Performance Management - How to monitor and manage performance in large and complex environments? Complex applications spanning multiple tiers using a variety of different technologies are more and more challenging global testing, monitoring engineering and operations. Time-to-market enforces a standardized and optimized process to provide efficacious services for providing monitors across the company. Credit Suisse integrates its monitoring suite into its platforms and standard application stack to mask complexity and provide a fast, on-demand tool suite throughout the entire software development cycle. Ensuring drill-down analysis capabilities leads to strong dependencies of the monitors with the applications. Hence, monitors are not only delivering data for testing, but also have to be part of the testing cycle itself. Credit Suisse tackles the problem by pre-packing technology-specific instrumentation sets which are tested on functionality and overhead before going into production. Consequently, software architecture has to consider specific requirements that ensure the testability of applications and define rules to ensure analyzability.	Dr. T. Haibach has worked as lecturer and scientist from 1993 till 2000 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich on developing algorithms for high performance computing, was heading the Midrange engineering at SegaIntersettle from 2000 till 2006 providing high availability services for the Swiss Value Chain. After two years as strategy consultant (LC Systems), he joined Credit Suisse in 2007 and is now heading the Global Service Monitoring and architect of end to end monitoring solutions. Learning points: 1. The interrelation between application performance testing and service monitoring and the resulting consequences for large organizations is pointed out. 2. Challenges arising from large-scale modern application architecture in the fields of testing and monitoring are explained based on Credit Suisse examples. 3. Requirements concerning testability and analyzability of modern applications in IT platforms are discussed.
Michael Kopp Product Development dynaTRACE	The End of Load Testing - How Agile and DevOps change the game Agile Development allows us to react to business needs faster. It requires us to change our traditional thinking of operations giving rise to the idea of DevOps. But how to we ensure performance in an environment with daily releases and ever changing requirements? Learn how to optimize your testing processes and the 5 things you need to do to do successful continuous performance management.	Michael Kopp has 10 years of experience as an architect and developer in the Java/JEE space. Before coming to dynaTrace he has been the Chief Architect at GoldenSource, a major player in the EDM space. In this role one special focus has always been performance and scalability of their enterprise offering. In 2009 Michael joined dynaTrace as a product evangelist in the dynaTrace center of excellence where he specializes on large scale production environments.
Pieter Van Heck European Technical Specialist Compuware Corp.	Understand End-User Experience and become more effective What does it mean to measure the performance from an End-User Perspective? Monitoring applications from a “classical” system point of view may help to pinpoint issues, but the current challenges with a distributed architecture, virtualization and cloud delivery makes application performance management a difficult tasks. How do you prioritize issues? Which issues have the most impact? This presentation gives an overview of the importance of End-User Experience and the different techniques that can be used to improve the overall service delivery.	Pieter Van Heck has worked in the IT Industry for the past 12 years, from which more than 7 years in the IT Service Management space. Pieter joined Compuware more than 8 years ago, where he started his career as a consultant in Germany. In his current role as European Technical Specialist he supports the Compuware’s Application Performance Management Solution and is a trusted advisor to the Product Management Team.
Martin Quinson Researcher INRIA France	HP* (High Performance everywhere) High Performance Computing and Exascale simulation, High Throughput, Computing and Grid Computing, High Availability Computing and Clouds, High Resilience Computing and Peer-to-peer... The performance considerations are pervasive in every branches of modern distributed computing. But how exactly all these definitions of "performance" relate to each other can remain puzzling at first glance. In this presentation, I will try to give a broad overview of the current and expected "high performance" systems in the major research communities, compare the fundamental goals of each of them, and explain the implications on the definition of performance for these systems.	Martin Quinson is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Applications of Lorraine at University of Nancy. His research interests are the performance assessment methodologies for distributed, grid and internet computing. In particular his research emphasizes on the development of simulation and emulation tools and experimental platforms and facilities. He has published over 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He obtained his B.S from Universite Jean Monet of Saint Etienne, France in 1999, his M.S from the Ecole Nationale Superieure of Lyon, France in 2000, and his Ph.D. from the Ecole Nationale Superieure of Lyon, France in 2003. He was a program committee member of the SIMUTools conference in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and of the CCGrid conference in 2009 and 2011.
Johannes Peeters Founder and MD zIT Consulting GmbH	Application Performance Management on the zMainframe? Now more than ever! Johannes Peeters explains why there is an end to the old mentality of 'buying new iron' on the z/OS platform and how financially rewarding APM strategies on the mainframe can be. Take a look at the broad perspective of IT costs and IT savings on the 'Big Iron'.	Johannes Peeters, born 1961 in the Netherlands, studied marketing and - as many people - got tied up in IT in the very early 80s. After working in several countries like the Netherlands, USA, South Africa, Finland and Switzerland he settled down in the Germanic region. Hans has been self-employed since the mid-80s and has founded and/or shaped several companies like APM AG (merged into Trilog), Data Base Solutions AG and lately zIT Consulting GmbH. Hans is specialized on issues directly or indirectly related to costs on IBM's z/Platform and as such very experienced in doing application tuning projects.

This event is sponsored by:

Become Proficient in Java Performance Tuning - 5 days course in Basel starting June 27th 2011

Save the dates for this in-depth training course now! Agenda now online!

Schedule and Participations fees:

27th-30 st June 2011

4 days JAVA Performance Tuning Training

2500 Euro per person

July 1st

1 day Extending VisualVM

625 euros per person

Special offers

Save up to 5.6% for the 5 days training: 2950 euros

Group discounts are available for two or more people attending the same training course.
2 attendees from the same company= 10%
3 or more = 15%

Limited number of participants! So please register early...

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Stephanie Liebing at adhoc International!

adhoc International @ ESE Conferences Zurich, 12-14 April 2011

Tuesday April 12th - 14:15

Embedding Performance into Continuous Integration: an innovative approach for efficient quality and performance assurance in Java development projects

While state-of-the art application performance technologies reached production operations and performance testers, JEE developers and architects are still showing some resistance to adopt performance engineering technologies mainly because of the high overhead and effort they experienced with “traditional” approaches and technologies. Embedding Performance into Continuous Integration is a valuable and efficient approach to get JEE developers and architects on the “performance engineering board”. Since, Software developers and architects have a difficult challenge: they have to change, add, improve code that other developers in the team will use, but if they introduce functional or performance problems, or they break the build, everyone will suffer. This presentation introduces an innovative approach and essential technical elements to enable the industrialization of application performance and quality assurance for JEE development projects.

Level:		Intermediate
Topics:		Performance Assurance in Java development Projects, Service Quality, best practices, methodologies, continuous integration, industrialization
Speaker		Makram Hanin, Managing Director adhoc International
Language:		English