I really look forward to seeing everyone at the Connect OpenVMS Boot Camp next week!  I think back at all the years, the laughter and a few tears that made this event so special and am excited that we will have such a great turnout this year!

When I first enterred the VMS realm, my company was operating on a couple of VAX 11/750's (2 side by side refrigerators!) which probably combined had less processing power than my pda :-) Oh how times have changed! And every night, I would change the tapes on the 'fridges' and store them. I also had to run the programs that built our documentation. It seems like an eternity ago but at times, like the Boot Camp, it seems like yesterday!

The Connect staff and volunteers have workded tirelessly on this event to make it a great experience for all. So when you run into Kristi, Suzanne, Shari (Connect staff) and of course our wonderful volunteers: Bill Pederson, Sue Skonetski, Greg Guthman, Signe Maximous, and Michelle Popejoy. They all deserve kudos and a hug!!

See you at the castle!

Nina Buik

 

 

1788	Introduction to SDA by viewing OpenVMS Process Internals	Hands-on Lab (2 hours)	Add To My Interests
1789	Using Free Tools to Analyze OpenVMS Performance	Breakout	Add To My Interests
1846	Using an IP Network as an OpenVMS Cluster Interconnect	Breakout	Add To My Interests
1848	Case Studies of Disaster Tolerance and Disaster Recovery with OpenVMS	Breakout	Add To My Interests
1884	Launch, Strategy and Roadmap: With OpenVMS Your Future IS Secure	Breakout	Add To My Interests
1887	OpenVMS 8.4 on Tukwila Quad Core 9300 – Blazing Performance	Breakout	Add To My Interests
1888	System management on OpenVMS	Breakout	Add To My Interests
1891	OpenVMS as a Guest on HPVM	Hands-on Lab (2 hours)	Add To My Interests
1945	Best Practices for OpenVMS System Management for the 21st Century	Breakout	Add To My Interests
2945	OpenVMS SIG	User Group Meeting	Add To My Interests
AM3105	Disaster Tolerance and Disaster Recovery with OpenVMS	Ambassador Meeting	Add To My Interests
AM3112	OpenVMS Clusters	Ambassador Meeting	Add To My Interests
AM4561	Migrations – Reasons to move to OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers	Ambassador Meeting	Add To My Interests
AM4563	Open Source with OpenVMS	Ambassador Meeting	Add To My Interests

A joint SIG and Chapter event on February 32nd and 33rd wrapped up 
Connect's OpenVMS Month. That's right, we had such great participation 
that we had to extend the month!


We'd like to express our sincere gratitude to all of the contributors, 
some of whom delivered presentations with very little lead time. Many 
were able to deliver their presentations in two sessions to better serve 
the world wide community, in some cases at quite inconvenient times for 
themselves, such as Prashanth K E speaking to us about IPCI at 01:45 
Saturday morning!


Specifically, we'd like to thank (in order of first appearance)...

Sujatha Ramani, the Office of OpenVMS Programs and the OpenVMS 
Engineering team for their continuation of the OpenVMS Technology 
Webinar series they began in December, including sessions on the 3rd 
on GNV and the 17th with CipherSoft, Inc.

Keith Parris (HP) for his webinars on the 10th and 11th titled 
"Achieving the Highest Possible Availability in your OpenVMS Cluster” 
and on the 32nd and 33rd on "4+ Member Shadowsets”

Colin Butcher (XDELTA) for 'Networking with OpenVMS” webinars on the 
12th

Ian Miller (HP) for assisting Colin on the 12th and for other behind the 
scenes assistance through the month (and always)

CipherSoft, Inc for their participation on the 17th in HP's OpenVMS 
Technology Webinar series

Pieter Hintjens and Martin Sustrik (iMatix) and Brett Cameron (HP) for 
"HP - Low Latency, High Throughput, Durable, RESTful, Open, Standards, 
...: What is messaging, where does it fit, what does it today?” on the 
18th

Rob Eulenstein (HP) for "OpenVMS Alpha Crash Dump Analysis” on the 19th

Brad McCusker, Software Concepts International, for "OpenVMS Integrity 
Migrations – Real World Experiences” on the 22nd

Attunity for hosting and delivering "OpenVMS - Keep It. Modernise It. 
Integrate It.” on the 23rd

Barry Kierstein (eCube & Migration Specialties) for "Overview of 
Availability Manager Functionality, Installation and Configuration" on 
the 24th

John Egolf (HP) for "OpenVMS V8.4 and more...” on the 32nd and 33rd and 
for his idea for the creative dates

Prashanth K E (HP) for "Clusters Over IP (IPCI)” on the 32nd and 33rd


And...

Erin Anderson of Connect for scheduling, publicizing, creating & 
maintaining calendar entries, hosting, recording, posting recordings &
presentations, and not going completely insane from all we threw at her 
over the month

To all of the other volunteer speakers that we weren't able to fit in 
during February. We look forward to their sessions in the upcoming 
months


Sincerely,
Bill Pedersen, John Apps, and Michelle Popejoy
Self appointed OpenVMS Month organizers

P.S. We plan to continue frequent webinars (2-3 per month). While we 
have quite a few speakers and topics lined up, we'd love to get more 
input from the community. A forum has been created on the SIG page for
speaker/topic requests and offers: http://goo.gl/Mcz2 (http://www.connect-community.org/members/forums/topics.asp?forum=91911&group=52672)

Note: An account on the Connect web site is required to access the SIG 
page and the forums. Don't have an account? You may also contribute here on the Connect Public OpenVMS Blog by replying to the post just prior to this one: http://goo.gl/Z4X0 (http://www.connect-community.org/members/blog_view.asp?id=511058&post=94220&#comments)

Share best practices with the OpenVMS engineering team and ambassadors.

Please join HP, Software Concepts International and Nemonix for the 2010 OpenVMS Technical Update Days. During this event the OpenVMS engineering team and its partners will:
• Address critical technical issues to help drive higher productivity
• Discuss innovative solutions and best practices
• Provide a Strategy Update for OpenVMS and HP Integrity servers

OpenVMS Technical Update Days is also an ideal platform for networking with other OpenVMS users.

Some information you receive during this session is HP confidential. As such you
will need to sign a Confidential Disclosure Agreement available from the registration page.

Dates & Locations:

See attached Invitation with links to venue and agenda details and to register.

(posted by request)
To: Valued HP OpenVMS Customers
Date: February 8, 2010

Here’s a compelling fact: HP OpenVMS powers the world’s largest manufacturers, hundreds of major hospitals, telecommunications giants, major stock exchanges, and sizable transportation networks. That’s impressive!

OpenVMS is deployed at the core of these mission-critical environments that require up to 100 percent application availability, rigorous data integrity, and scalability to millions of users. In short, customers turn to OpenVMS when their uptime and security cannot be compromised.

OpenVMS continues to be a strategic offering within the HP BCS portfolio, and HP is committed to OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers for the long run. As noted in recent OpenVMS launch news, the OpenVMS team is two months into a successful field trial of OpenVMS v8.4 in which hundreds of customers are testing this next release of OpenVMS, due out in 2010. This is the most customers to participate in a beta trial in VMS history which demonstrates the continued use of OpenVMS for customers’ mission critical needs. OpenVMS v8.4 which will support the next generation of Integrity servers will deliver virtualization, clusters over TCP/IP, 2-terabyte volumes, and key performance improvements. And, HP continues to invest in OpenVMS to help customers receive lasting value with their investment.

Planning has already begun on the next major release of OpenVMS which will offer further enhancements in virtualization, systems management, security, and additional improvements in open source capabilities. Expect to see this release in approximately 18-24 months.

Be sure to spend some time at the Connect website this month and take a look at the latest on OpenVMS, including:

• Three new OpenVMS success stories on performance and TCO gains of customers migrating to Integrity
• Recent Gartner report on OpenVMS that cites numerous customers reporting easy migration to Integrity

Thanks for visiting Connect this month!

Lorraine Bartlett
VP, Marketing and Strategy/Operations
Business Critical Systems
Hewlett Packard