09:00 –                        Registration & Continental Breakfast – provided by HP

                                    Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ted Padgett, MRTUG President/John Sesolak HP Liaison, kick off the meeting. 

Update from HP NonStop

Tom Moylan, HP NonStop update 

HP Operations Management Update with Vinay Gupta - NonStop Manageability Modernization which talks about HP’s SIM-based Essentials products and integration with HP BTO/OpenView products.

Mid morning break

NuWave - NonStop Application Rejuvenation - Moving Beyond Web Enabling NonStop customers have been web enabling their Pathway applications for nearly a decade with mixed results.  As pressure on IT continues to demand that IT managers do more with less and continue to increase ROI, is it time to consider packaged commercially available Web services?  We’ll present some new approaches that are worthy of your consideration.

VTS Small end footprint – Bob Newsome/Crossroads VTS Users – Discussion of newest low end entry level Virtual Tape Systems offered by Crossroads and how to implement smoothly.  Ease of use and VTS End user experience will also be discussed.

12:15 – 12:45              Working Lunch –

1 – 2pm HP Pathway Product Update – Details TS/MP 2.4 with Keith Evans (Virtual) - Pathway has been turbocharged to take full advantage of the increased power and capacity of the Integrity NonStop server. If you are not running the latest Pathway versions, you are not getting the most from your Integrity NonStop server platform. Come and learn about the latest exciting new features shipping with NonStop TS/MP 2.4.

Xypro – You Cannot Achieve HP NonStop PCI Compliance Without XYGATE - Kevin Boham – Continued pressure to fully comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) poses considerable challenges to users of HP NonStop servers for anything related to credit card data. Of the 12 main requirements and their corresponding 100+ sub-requirements, most apply to the HP NonStop environment and many of these cannot be addressed with the use of Safeguard and Guardian alone.

Mid afternoon break – snacks and beverages

HP RSAA Update – Winston Brown describes and shows how RSAA will be used by NonStop Customers and how it differs from the current ISEE implementation.

End user update - TBD

4:30                            Great Prize drawings and closing –provided HP

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