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