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Welcome to the BayBunch home page! BayBunch is a regional group in Northern California consisting of zSeries and Linux enthusiasts. If you are interested in issues relating to zSeries and Linux, you won't want to miss this exciting quarterly get-together! Please contact us with any suggestions for meeting locations and speakers. This is your user group so make sure to give us your feedback!

Presentations:


• Overview of New Release 4.1 of Velocity's zVPS and zPRO Tools
  By Rich Smrcina, Velocity Software, Inc.
• z196 Hardware Overview and Upgrade Experiences
  By Kathy Amos, Mainline Information Systems
• Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension
  By Mike Friesenegger - Technical Specialist, Novell, Inc.

Presentations:


• Linux on System z - A Strategic View
  By Jim Elliot, IBM Consultant IT Specialist
• z/VM Update
  By Alan Altmark, Senior Software Engineer, IBM z/VM Development
• Securing Linux with RACF on z/VM
  By Alan Altmark, Senior Software Engineer, IBM z/VM Development

Presentations:


• z9 Update
  By Jose Carrasco, Jeskell, Inc.
• Consolidating Oracle Databases to Linux on System z
  By Denny Dutcavich, IBM
• Suse Linux Enterprise 10
  By Tony Kubinski, Linux Specialist, Novell, Inc.

Presentations:


• z/VM Performance Update
  By Bill Bitner, Senior Sofware Engineer in the IBM Systems Technology Group, Endicott NY
• Onstage Overview and Demo
  By Tony Tomarchio, Technical Account Manager, Aduva
• Storage Update
  By Tracy Dean, Brand Manager, IBM
  Tape and Backup Handouts
  Operations and Archive Handouts
  

Presentations:


• z/VM Platform Update: Introducing z/VM V5.2
  By Alan Altmark, z/VM Development IBM Endicott
• z/VM zSeries Linux at CA through the years
  By Brian Jagos, Senior Consultant z/OS - MVS z/VM / Linux, Computer Associates Internationsl
• Linux on zSeries
  By Bill Reeder, zSeries Linux Sales and Strategy, IBM
• XIP (eXecute In Place) for Linux on z/VM Implementation and Analysis
  By Tony Noto, Senior Developer, Velocity Software, Inc.

Presentations:


• A Technical Overview of Flex-ES/zFrames
  By Mike Hammock, Cornerstone Systems
• IBM Communication Controller for Linux on zSeries (CCL) - a new platform for your NCP
  By Alfred Bundgaard Christensen, IBM
• Disaster Recovery, Backup & Restore for z/VM & Linux
  By John Hall, Safe Software
• Network Connection Alternatives for Linux on zSeries
  By Richard Lewis, IBM

Presentations:


• Using z/VM in SCSI Environment
  
• Linux: A User Story
  
• A Presentation and Demo by Aduva
  

Presentations:


• Linux High Availability with IBM Tivoli Systems Automation for Linux
  
• What-s New with z/VM - The latest announcements from IBM
  
• Effectively Running Linux on z/VM & Performance Monitoring
  

Presentations:


• Measuring and monitoring Linux on z/VM applications
  Barton Robinson, President, Velocity Software
  
  
• Performance considerations for Linux guests of z/VM
  Bill Bittner, IBM Senior Software Engineer
  
  
• eServer and Linux solutions group
  Bob Kusche, DSG General Manager
  

Presentations:


• Storage Solutions for z/Linux Environments (PDF)
  By Curtis Neil, IBM
  
  
• Storage Management -- "Backing Up the Linux/MF & Distributed Environments to One Place"
  By Tim O'Brien, Computer Associates (PPT)   (PDF)
  
  
• z/VM System Management (PDF)
  By Christine Casey, IBM

Contact baybunch@baybunch.org for more information.

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