PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR  >>  APRIL 24th, 2016
Hilton Rosemont Chicago O'Hare

HP-UX POWER, PERFORMANCE & PRODUCTIVITY

A unique all day seminar covering management and productivity for HP-UX systems. Whether you are beginning HP-UX admin or a seasoned veteran, this seminar is for you. It's true! Bill and Dave are back and running the world famous Bill and Dave Show. Only this time, it's The New Bill and Dave HP-UX Show with even more ideas and procedures.

Bill and Dave bring tips and techniques to give System Administrators (sysadmins) time for a vacation.

Some of the many topics:

• HP-UX is here to stay!
• Centralizing sysadmin tasks
• Setting up remote lights-out data centers
• Handling security audit requirements
• High speed management tools for multiple platforms
• How to minimize reboot time and drop unused services
• Maintaining system documentation files
• When Good Disks Go Bad
• Agile Device Files
• Ignite (for backup/recovery, cloning)
• Patches?
• Virtualization - Good or Bad?
• Network specials
• HP-UX security options
• Tools you must have to preserve your sanity
• HP-UX Performance and Tuning - but  you can't tune a fish
• Scripting with style and performance

Come join us for an all day event with lots of useful tips.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Bill Hassell Service IT Direct Bill Hassell is a senior technical consultant for Service IT Direct. Previously, he worked for HP in various hardware and software support roles including the HP Response Center, specializing in HP-UX software.  Bill was with HP for more than 20 years and is a frequent contributor to The Connect Magazine. He is a frequent speaker at HP-UX interest groups throughout the United States, giving seminars covering system administration and best practices.

David Totsch Gates Corporation Because he enjoys showing others how to manage their HP-UX systems, David was easily enticed away from his daily duties as a Senior UNIX Engineer at Gates Corporation, where he handles all HP-UX tasks and dabbles in Linux.  David will be returning to his roots since he traces the start of being on the speaking circuit to a regional user group in Chicago area.  Between then and now, he has authored magazine articles and columns, regaled audiences about HP-UX capabilities, and guided countless HP-UX system administrators.  He also spent over a decade at HP delivering Technical On-line Seminars and Group Operational Reviews in-between creating Serviceguard clusters, analyzing HP-UX performance, auditing high availability configurations, and proselyting HP-UX system administration best practices.