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From customer experience to data integration, to business intelligence and beyond, digital transformation has come to represent true modern business. However, though the world has now firmly rooted...

Bitcoin mining is one of the ways to make money from the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Mining calculators are available that enable you to estimate your earning potential. This presentation will show...

The role of the Chief Information Security Officer has continued to evolve since it first arose in the mid-90's after a Russian cyber attack on Citigroup lead the bank to create the world’s first...

It is now 2020 and good DevOps practices are no longer just nice to have. It is absolutely necessary to continuously deliver value to our end users. Yet this isn't easy to do right. Unfortunately,...

Dr. James McCaffrey is a senior research scientist engineer in the artificial intelligence group at Microsoft Research. James will describe four recent advances in machine learning and AI that have...

The mainframe team of a Fortune 500 Transportation Provider was tasked with conflicting goals: (1) increase the frequency and variety of reporting and analytics, and (2) avoid an upgrade of their...

Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics are changing the way enterprises manage their IT operations by helping to automatically find hidden insights and data relationships faster. But by itself,...

Server/VM-level measurements notify the capacity/performance analyst of resource usage patterns during (1) capacity threshold breaches (2) SLA breaches (3) other significant changes, but not how/why...

The advent of agile DevSecOps code development questions the validity of traditional capacity planning and performance management techniques. Many think ITIL is no longer valid in today's...

Are you new to the mainframe and interested in what makes a mainframe tick from a performance perspective? Confused about why certain capacity decisions are made? Not sure about what the different...

An overloaded computer must finish what it starts and not start what will fail or hang. Our presenter developed a congestion control algorithm that manages overload with its unique formulation of...

During this session, our speakers will present a set of open-source tools widely adopted and compatible with most environments including data centers, clouds, and mainframes. Cloud services or even...

<Digital Badge Opportunity> If you are tackling many servers in the data center, saving a small percentage of those servers can bring significant return. In this training session, participants...

DevOps is becoming the new norm for many software development shops. An extension of Agile thinking, DevOps emphasizes constant testing and embedding operations in the team to internalize expertise...

Want to learn more about trends like AI, IoT and wearable tech? In one hour, we will cut through the hype by building a “smart” fitness tracker using your own mobile device. This session is full of...

As companies innovate with their infrastructure configurations, the variety of tools to manage these systems grows immensely. During this IMPACT 2020 session, participants will learn more about...

In the early days of IT, it was enough to get our very expensive processors and code to run efficiently, when they worked at all. Over the past few decades, our concerns have grown from reliability,...

In the rush to control costs and deliver faster, many companies look to the cloud as the go-to strategy to support DevOps. Unfortunately, market research shows that some organizations start the...

The public cloud has unlimited capacity if you have an unlimited budget to buy it. But the reality is that budgets are never truly unlimited and one needs to do rightsizing of the cloud objects to...

Today’s business dynamics have changed the way software is developed and shipped, especially within the Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline in a DevOps world. This means...

In the 1960s and 1970s, mainframe computing was the dominant paradigm in information processing. Rapid and continuing developments have changed the focus to distributed systems, but mainframes...

This “Birds of a Feather” session will kick off with a brief presentation on “A Short History of Performance Engineering” by Alex Podelko. In this introductory session, Alex will briefly cover the...

Join Amy Peck and Igor Trubin for this birds-of-a-feather session on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL). During this hour-long, casual session, participants...

Got a burning problem you’d like to bounce off colleagues? Want to catch up on the latest ideas with your Peers? Join us for this hour-long, casual session, where you can engage in an open forum and...

Deep Learning is a branch of Artificial and Machine Learning that has surpassed the performance of traditional machine learning algorithms for specific applications by a considerable percentage. The...

Are you prepared for the next wave of technology? We spend a lot of time following futurists and tech experts who “predict” the future. However, we are in the throes of an old concept: Life Imitates...

What if you improved your site's speed so that you saw boosted ranking for mobile search results, higher traffic, and lowered bounce rates? Unless you think your online product could get by without...

The effective utilization of data might be one of the single biggest advantages of undergoing a digital transformation, but many companies struggle with the changes required to stream and process...

Since their invention in the 1950s, workload planning and cost management has been the primary challenge of mainframe professionals. Now, Tailored Fit Pricing represents the biggest change to...

In this session, Pietro Tiberi and Marco Capotosto of Banca d'Italia will present a case study of their production implementation of a log analysis system based on ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash and...

In a landscape where things change constantly, be it the hardware, software, or workload and performance profiles, how do we maximize resources and minimize the cost to serve? Change is the only...

As performance practitioners we have always applied engineering principles to deliver value outside our organization. But with this growing technology landscape, companies are keen on driving...

Presented by former FBI Special Agent Stacy Arruda, the purpose of this session is to demonstrate how terrorists, spies and criminals, the “bad guys,” take the seemingly innocuous information you...

Performance testing has often been the last step before deployment. Due to time constraints, many projects have been focused on one single metric: Response time. Response time is obviously important...

The complexity of modern IT stack optimization, across both on-premises and hybrid cloud environments, has grown exponentially with the interplay of hundreds of tuning parameters across each layer...

In today’s fast-paced development environments, companies tend to focus on feature delivery speed so much that reliability can often be overlooked. Keeping up with reliability goals, however, is of...

In the age of DevOps, “infrastructure as code” (IaC) is an emerging practice in which infrastructure is treated as versioned code. This practice reduces the effort required to create and manage...

Groundbreaking theory, big data, and computing power—with this trifecta, the extraordinary advent of deep learning seems almost inevitable. It propels computer vision and real-time operational and...

A lot is changing in the world, driving tremendous uncertainty and volatility in IT demand. These growing influences have created an increased demand for performance management and optimization. ...

Performance is everything for an e-commerce company like Wayfair. The global e-commerce retailer employs more than 2,300 engineers and has dozens of software engineering teams to maintain their IT...

The IT operations team at Cerner, a leading supplier of health information technology, faced many challenges including a growing user base, new IT environments, constantly changing application...

Presented by former FBI Special Agent Stacy Arruda, the purpose of this session is to demonstrate how terrorists, spies and criminals, the “bad guys,” take the seemingly innocuous information you...

In this collaborative Escape Room experience, participants play the roles of newly hired z/OS security professionals at the fictitious company, Mock-Up Services Enterprises (M.U.S.E.), investigating...

Since 2013, 14.7 billion records have been breached and the average cost of a breach was $3.86 million. In this session, participants will learn methods to strategically secure their data and move...

In his role at Caesars Entertainment Corporation, Jay is responsible for all aspects of technology infrastructure and reliable operations. He has designed and deployed solutions for the hotel, food...

Heather Wilde is a multiple–award winning, six-time CTO and 5x-certified executive coach. Heather was an early employee of Spirit Airlines and a founding member of Evernote, where she oversaw the...

At Netflix we’re focused on running our service as efficiently as possible to serve our more than 150 million members around the world. We are always looking for ways to highlight and fix...