08:30 – 09:00          Registration & Continental Breakfast

09:00 – 09:15          Welcome, Opening Remarks, MITUG business

Steve Geimer, MITUG president, will kick off the meeting. 

09:15 – 10:00          Partner presentation  -  Network Technologies.  Alain de Clerfayt, Director of Sales for NTI will present a survey of Disaster Recovery Trends around the NonStop World. Topics will include a

DRNet product update, Zero Downtime Migration Trend, Active/Active Update, and NonStop Trends around the World.

10:00 – 10:15          Mid morning break

10:15 – 11:30          HP presentation  -  Manageability solutions.   Vinay Gupta will discuss NonStop Manageability Modernization which talks about HP’s SIM-based Essentials products and integration with HP BTO/OpenView products (TENTATIVE).

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11:30 – 11:45          Partner presentation  -  NuWave Technologies.   Darryl Porter will provide a high level introduction to the current products and solutions offered by NuWave.

11:45 – 12:30          Lunch

12:30 – 1:30            HP/Partner Presentation – Bob Loftis from HP and a representative from ESQ will discuss the Self Service Terminal products and conduct a demonstration. (TENTATIVE)

1:30 – 2:15             Partner Presentation - Gravic.   Dick Davis will discuss Shadowbase, Gravic's real-time data integration and synchronization product, which is used in homogeneous and heterogeneous replication projects. Dick will present Shadowbase solutions for common business problems, and new extensions to the Shadowbase On-line Loading and Real-Time Business Intelligence capabilities.                         

2:15 – 2:30             Mid afternoon break

2:30 – 3:15             Partner/End User Presentation  – XYPRO.  Ken Choike, formerly of Tandem/HP and now with Raymond James Inc., will present “Addressing HP NonStop Security Requirements Today, and Tomorrow”

3:15 – 4:00             HP presentation – HP Remote Support.  The presentation will discuss the new Remote Support solutions that will replace the current modem-based support and the Internet-based ISEE support.

4:00 – 4:15             Prize drawings and closing. 

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