2015 Boot Camp Sessions |
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APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT | ![]() |
Big Data |
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Migration and Porting |
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Network and Cluster Communications | ![]() |
Open Source Development |
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Security & Compliance |
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09/27/2015 | |||||||
7:00 am - 8:00 am | Ballroom Foyer | Registration and Breakfast | |||||
8:00 am - 11:30 am | Bedford Room | Pre-Conference Seminar |
| Pre-Conference Seminar - Morning Session [More Info] | |||
![]() | 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Bedford Room | Pre-Conference Seminar |
| Pre-Conference Seminar | ||
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Bedford Room | Pre-Conference Seminar - Lunch | |||||
12:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Bedford Room | Pre-Conference Seminar |
| Pre-Conference Seminar - Afternoon Session [More Info] | |||
![]() | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Bedford Room | Keynote / General Session | First Timers Meeting [More Info] | |||
09/28/2015 | |||||||
7:30 am - 8:00 am | Ashwood Court | Registration and Breakfast | |||||
![]() | 8:00 am - 10:00 am | Nashua South | Keynote / General Session | VSI Company strategy and directions; HP-VSI partnership | |||
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Ashwood Court | Break | |||||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Amherst |
| ACME and LDAP authentication on OpenVMS [More Info] Dan Buckley, software consultant, HP | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Bedford Room |
| Current State of Open Source on OpenVMS Project [More Info] Bill Pedersen, Consultant/OpenVMS Evangelist, CCSS, LLC | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Chesterfield Room |
| HP Integrity Superdome X [More Info] Leo Demers, Mission Critical Product Manager, HP | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Hollis Room |
| Introduction to AST Programming [More Info] Robert Gezelter, Principal, Robert Gezelter Software Consultant | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Northwood Suite |
| OpenVMS Management – Do you have Peace of Mind? [More Info] Brad Mccusker, VP VMS System Services, Software Concepts International | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Nashua South |
| The OpenVMS Performance show [More Info] Christain Moser, CTO, Maklee Engineering Guy Peleg, President, Maklee Engineering | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Amherst |
| Continuing with Alpha and OVMS [More Info] Joe Kilcullen, Data Center Remarketing Consultant, HP Enterprise | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| HP PERFDAT - an OpenVMS performance solution [More Info] Wolfgang Burger, Technical Consultant, HP | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Integrating HP StoreOnce Technology with OpenVMS [More Info] Eamonn Fitzmaurice, Master Technologist, HP | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Nashua South |
| Performance Analysis and Resource Contention Detection Using the Availability Manager [More Info] Barry Kierstein, Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Hollis Room | Repopulating the OpenVMS Community [More Info] Jeff Shelby, Director, Advanced Application Modernization Dennis O'Brien, President, BRUDEN | ||||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| Using BLOBs in ACMS applications – an Open Source-based approach for dealing with the 64K workspace limit [More Info] Brett Cameron, Senior Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Nashua Center | Lunch | |||||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Amherst |
| FAD - A Tool to Provide OpenVMS File System Insight [More Info] Gregory Jordan, Lead Systems Engineer, FactSet | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| Migrating from Ingres to Oracle on OpenVMS [More Info] Scott Knutsen, Software Engineer, DoD | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Nashua South |
| OpenVMS meets GitHub – an overview of modern source code control systems for OpenVMS [More Info] Brett Cameron, Senior Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Troubleshooting with SDA extensions [More Info] Jim Mehlhop, Sr. Support Manager, PARSEC | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| vtAlpha/vtVAX@work [More Info] Joe Graziano, VP of Sales, MS Consulting Services, Inc. John Spitkovsky, CTO, MS Consulting Services, Inc. | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Amherst |
| A practical guide to getting RMS statistics in your T4 [More Info] Duncan Morris, Senior VMS Engineer, CDL | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| Charon AXP Plus – Breaking the 1 Ghz speed barrier [More Info] Thomas Siebold, Managing Consultant, S.IT.CO. | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Nashua South |
| Cluster Communications Improvements [More Info] Richard Stockdale, Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Controlled Customization using Hierarchical Logical Names [More Info] Robert Gezelter, Principal, Robert Gezelter Software Consultant | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Hollis Room |
| Moving OpenVMS C to ANSI/C [More Info] Jon Power, CEO, Sector7 | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| Secure file sharing via OpenVMS (SAMBA, NFS & Pathworks) [More Info] Greg Guthman, Systems Administrator, Software Concepts International | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| CHARON Virtualization Strategies and Techniques [More Info] Brad Mccusker, VP VMS System Services, Software Concepts International | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Free performance management tools [More Info] Jim Mehlhop, Sr. Support Manager, PARSEC | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Hollis Room |
| Maintain your OpenVMS environment and expand your IT Infrastructure with HP Renew [More Info] Eileen Thompson, Renew Sales Development, Hewlett Packard | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Amherst |
| OpenVMS Clusters, Long Distance, and Disaster Tolerance Updates [More Info] Keith Parris, Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Nashua South |
| Running and managing Oracle databases on OpenVMS [More Info] Christain Moser, CTO, Maklee Engineering Guy Peleg, President, Maklee Engineering | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| The Smarts Behind Smart Cards [More Info] Bill Highleyman, Managing Editor, Availability Digest | |||
![]() | 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Nashua South | Keynote / General Session |
| HP i4 HW update and Integrity server roadmap | ||
![]() | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Wentworth | Partner Roundhouse & Dinner Reception | ||||
09/29/2015 | |||||||
7:30 am - 8:00 am | Ashwood Court | Registration and Breakfast | |||||
![]() | 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Nashua South | Keynote / General Session | VSI Roadmap | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Amherst |
| Beginning Perl for VMS System Managers [More Info] Carl Friedberg, President, Comet & Company | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Bedford Room |
| Delivering mission-critical systems [More Info] Colin Butcher, Technical Director, XDelta Limited | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Chesterfield Room |
| Implementation of a DropBox Client on OpenVMS [More Info] Bill Pedersen, Consultant/OpenVMS Evangelist, CCSS, LLC | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Nashua South |
| Introduction to the x86 Architecture [More Info] Camiel Vanderhoeven, software engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Hollis Room |
| Migrating from Alpha to Integrity: A Real life experience [More Info] Aubrey Howe, Principle Programmer Analyst, Skyworks, Inc | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Northwood Suite |
| OpenVMS: Securing “The Cloud” and “The World” [More Info] TW Heim Jr, Grand Wazoo, Heim EnterpriZes | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Amherst |
| AVTware Bare Metal Emulation, the making of [More Info] Arie de Groot, Managing Partner, AVTware | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Nashua South |
| Developing iOS applications using OpenVMS Database [More Info] Guy Peleg, President, Maklee Engineering | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Hollis Room |
| DevOps For OpenVMS [More Info] Robert Doyle, Chief Architect, eCube Systems Kevin Barnes, Manager, eCube Systems | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Bedford Room |
| How to simulate "Chaos" to recreate those odd and strange problems [More Info] Robert Nydahl, VMS Support Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Sverige AB | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Northwood Suite |
| OpenVMS Performance & Availability Updates - Part 1 of 2 [More Info] Speaker: Rob Eulenstein, Master Technologist, Hewlett-Packard Company Speaker: Keith Parris, Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Chesterfield Room |
| Secure Data Exchange with OPC UA on OpenVMS [More Info] Brian Segulin, Sr. Software Developer, RoviSys | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Nashua Center | BOF | Availability Manager feedback on future directions [More Info] Barry Kierstein, Software Engineer, VMS Software, Inc | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Amherst |
| Beginning AWK/GAWK for VMS System Managers [More Info] Carl Friedberg, President, Comet & Company | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| OpenVMS Performance & Availability Updates - Part 2 of 2 [More Info] Rob Eulenstein, Master Technologist, Hewlett-Packard Company Keith Parris, Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Nashua South |
| OpenVMS VSI Compiler and RTL Update [More Info] John Reagan, Principal Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Hollis Room |
| Profiting from Using VSI and Stromasys [More Info] Dave Estes, Senior Sales Engineer, Stromasys | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| What you always wanted to know about OpenVMS Service Control, but were afraid to ask! [More Info] John Dite, Technical Consultant, Compinia GmbH; CO KG | |||
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Nashua Center | Lunch | |||||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Amherst |
| Implementing Dynamic Web Pages on OpenVMS using Apache and DCL [More Info] TW Heim Jr, Grand Wazoo, Heim EnterpriZes | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| Introduction to the Poulson (Intel 9500 series) Processor [More Info] Keith Parris, Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Company | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Nashua South |
| Porting OpenVMS to x86 [More Info] Clair Grant, Director R&D, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Understanding the Integrity Console [More Info] Jim Mehlhop, Sr. Support Manager, PARSEC | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| Disaster tolerance with OpenVMS, Part 1 of 2 [More Info] Colin Butcher, Technical Director, XDelta Limited | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Amherst |
| Extending DCL With Command Files [More Info] Robert Gezelter, Principal, Robert Gezelter Software Consultant | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| i4 vs. i2 - A Performance evaluation based on a real-world application [More Info] Thilo Lauer, OpenVMS Technical Consultant IV, HP Martin Zinser, Senior Expert Performance/Infrastructure, Eurex | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Hollis Room |
| Moving OpenVMS COBOL to ANSI COBOL [More Info] James Hale, CTO, Sector 7 | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Nashua South |
| OpenVMS VSI Compilers Future Directions [More Info] John Reagan, Principal Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| Disaster tolerance with OpenVMS, Part 2 of 2 [More Info] Colin Butcher, Technical Director, XDelta Limited | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Amherst |
| Distributed Lock Manager v8.3 and beyond (Pool Zones and Remaster weight) [More Info] Jim Mehlhop, Sr. Support Manager, PARSEC | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Nashua South |
| Extending WSIT using RabbitMQ and AMQP - getting creative with code generation and integration [More Info] Brett Cameron, Senior Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Hollis Room | Overcoming corporate objections to retaining OpenVMS platform and applications [More Info] Nick Kudrycz, Solutions Architect, Advanced Application Modernization | ||||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| RTR - An Introduction and Demonstration [More Info] Robert Nydahl, VMS Support Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Sverige AB | |||
![]() | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Nashua South | Keynote / General Session | OpenVMS is on track. Now here’s what you need to know about servers. [More Info] Ken Surplice, Category Manager, Mission-Critical Servers, HP EMEA, HP | |||
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Nashua South | Keynote / General Session | Next Generation Global Online PC Gaming Platform (yes, using OpenVMS) [More Info] | ||||
![]() | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Wentworth | VMS Reunion and Future Leaders Scholarship Dinner | ||||
09/30/2015 | |||||||
7:30 am - 8:00 am | Ashwood Court | Registration and Breakfast | |||||
![]() | 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Nashua South | Keynote / General Session | Future OpenVMS Product Directions [More Info] | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Chesterfield Room |
| Increase productivity of your OpenVMS applications [More Info] Nick Kudrycz, Solutions Architect, Advanced Application Modernization | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Amherst |
| Introduction to the x86 Architecture [More Info] Camiel Vanderhoeven, software engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Bedford Room |
| Migration to HP Integrity -i4 servers and beyond [More Info] Colin Butcher, Technical Director, XDelta Limited | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Northwood Suite |
| OpenVMS Backup Strategies [More Info] Bill Smoldt, President & CEO, STORServer, Inc. | |||
![]() | 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Nashua South |
| Oracle Database and Oracle Rdb on OpenVMS Product Update [More Info] Kevin Duffy, Senior Director, Oracle Gary Huffman, Senior Manager, Oracle | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Chesterfield Room |
| Migrating your OpenVMS cluster to virtual hardware with no downtime [More Info] Darrell Wright, Senior Systems Engineer, Stromasys, Inc. | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Northwood Suite |
| Modern OpenVMS Systems Management [More Info] Johan Michiels, OpenVMS Consultant, HP | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Amherst |
| Porting OpenVMS to x86 [More Info] Clair Grant, Director R&D, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Bedford Room | VMS Invent ? [More Info] Gérard Calliet, ceo, pia-sofer | ||||
![]() | 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Nashua South |
| VSI's Open Source Strategy - plans and schemes for Open Source software on OpenVMS [More Info] Brett Cameron, Senior Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| A BLISS Primer [More Info] Norman Lastovica, Engineer, Software Concepts International | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Nashua Center | BOF |
| Application Orchestration [More Info] Kevin Barnes, Manager, eCube Systems | ||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Enhancing OpenVMS security with PointSecure System Detective and PointAudit [More Info] Colin Butcher, Technical Director, XDelta Limited | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Nashua South | How Much Does That Computer Really Cost [More Info] Eddie Orcutt, Vice President of Software Engineering, VMS Software | ||||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Amherst |
| OpenVMS VSI Compilers Future Directions [More Info] John Reagan, Principal Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| Performance Analysis and Resource Contention Detection Using the Availability Manager [More Info] Barry Kierstein, Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Nashua Center | Lunch | |||||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Amherst |
| Ada on OpenVMS, filling the gap [More Info] Gérard Calliet, ceo, pia-sofer | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Nashua South |
| Adventures of VMS Moves, Migrations and Rehosting... [More Info] Brad Mccusker, VP VMS System Services, Software Concepts International | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Mirroring *dissimilar* database technologies on the fly [More Info] Bryan Holland, President, Software Concepts International, LLC | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| MQTT: A protocol for communicating with your things [More Info] Brett Cameron, Senior Software Engineer, VMS Software Robert Nydahl, VMS Support Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Sverige AB | |||
![]() | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| Using OpenVMS to Build an Agile Computing Base [More Info] Robert Gezelter, Principal, Robert Gezelter Software Consultant | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Amherst |
| Migrating SQLMODs from Rdb to Oracle [More Info] Denys Beauchemin, Account Executive, Sector7 | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| Network integration of OpenVMS with other platforms [More Info] Colin Butcher, Technical Director, XDelta Limited | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Nashua South |
| Oracle Database 11g and Rdb 7.3 Feature Highlights [More Info] Kevin Duffy, Senior Director, Oracle Gary Huffman, Senior Manager, Oracle | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| Rebranding: What is it? Why and how did VSI provide it? [More Info] Richard Bishop, Software Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| Rejuvenating your OpenVMS Applications [More Info] Paul Holland, Vice President, Advanced Application Modernization | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Nashua South |
| LAN Driver Performance Improvements [More Info] Richard Stockdale, Engineer, VMS Software | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Amherst |
| Slow only wins in fairy tales [More Info] Norman Lastovica, Engineer, Software Concepts International | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Bedford Room |
| SYSMAN for Improved Management of Restarts [More Info] Robert Gezelter, Principal, Robert Gezelter Software Consultant | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Chesterfield Room |
| The OpenVMS Fast I/O Facility [More Info] James Preciado, Principal, James J. Preciado, LLC | |||
![]() | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Northwood Suite |
| Topics in OpenVMS System and Network Security [More Info] Stephen Hoffman, DRI, HoffmanLabs LLC | |||
![]() | 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Nashua South | Keynote / General Session | VSI Panel | |||
6:00 pm | No location | BOF | Sushi BoF [More Info] |