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 8:00 -  8:30 Sign-in, Continental Breakfast
 8:30 - 10:00 Session 1
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:45 Session 2
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 -  2:00 Session 3
 2:00 -  2:15 Break
 2:15 -  3:30 Session 4
 3:30 -  4:00 Open Q&A

Location:

Syniverse Technologies  click here for map
8125 Highwoods Palm Way  (in Room 551)
Tampa, Florida 33647-1765


When: Friday July 21st, 2006

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm - Registration
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm - NonStop Hybrid Architecture - Keith Moore - HP
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - "Java on Integrity NonStop" - Sam Ayers - Chase Paymentech
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm – "Managing Open Source As a Solutions Provider" - Doug Bolam - ACI Worldwide Inc.

Bennigan's
18001 Highwoods Preserve P, Tampa, FL 33647
813-971-1797

A USENET-based HP NonStop newsgroup you can access via google is here: comp.sys.tandem (it will open in a new window). This is an un-moderated newsgroup, so there are "spam" usenet messages as well as legitimate ones.

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updated 4/29/06
SunTUG, HP, and Chase Paymentech teamed up to provide a "SunTUG Technical Training Day" on Wed, May 3. This was a "basic" level course that covered Pathway, Guardian and OSS. The course was "Quick NS-series Servers Fundamentals" and was held at Chase Paymentech.

This 1-day course provided an introduction to HP NonStop NS-series servers and to the system software that makes them reliable, scalable, open, and fast. It described goals that have governed and are continuing to govern the evolution of these systems, and it reviewed NonStop server application, database, and operations environments.

We had over 30 people register and attend the class, another great success!

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updated 12/13/05
SunTUG, HP, and Paymentech teamed up to provide a "SunTUG Technical Training Day" on Friday, November 18, 2005. The focus was "porting applications to the HP Integrity (Itanium) Platform," and it was designed for developers who are seriously porting applications to Integrity.


Course Description:

Course #UC414S - Quick HP Integrity NonStop Application Migration - This one day course provides you with the information you need to convert your applications to run on the new HP Integrity NonStop systems. The course starts with an overview of the new hardware architecture and then covers migration information for each of the main languages. Other topics include the debuggers that are available on the new systems, the new linker, and the Enterprise Toolkit (ETK).

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updated 12/13/05
The ITUG Summit 2005 Conference & Trade Show was held October 23 - 27, 2005 in San Jose, California. Information regarding what was discussed is in the invitation from Martin Fink, VP & GM, NonStop Enterprise Servers which you can view or download by clicking here.

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updated 07/18/05
We had our annual SunTUG RoadShow on Friday July 15, with our ever-popular golf event on Saturday, July 16 at Heritage Harbor Golf and Country Club.

Participants listened to HP's Abbott Smith and Derek Ginger discuss the Adaptive Enterprise and Intel Itanium 2 - based NonStop servers. Syniverse, a local company and Tandem shop, gave a presentation on the "Amber Alert" system they are developing. Attendees also had the opportunity to meet with vendors to hear the latest product updates, get an HP & ITUG update, and learn about using Web Services to enable HP NonStop Server applications.

We want to thank our 2005 Golf sponsors:

our Titanium sponsor is:    HP


our Gold sponsor is:
  Tributary Systems     

and our Silver sponsors are:
 XYPRO

 Insession Technologies

 GoldenGate   Attunity   

Prerequisites:
• Six months experience as a NonStop administrator
• Experience with system management tools, such as SMA/SCM, SCF, and Safeguard
• UNIX fundamentals for OSS or six months of UNIX experience

Audience:
• HP NonStop system administrators

Course Objectives:
• HP NonStop Kernel Open System Services (OSS) subsystem installation and configuration
• Creation of OSS users environment
• Maintenance of OSS subsystem resources

Course Outline:
• Module 1 - OSS Overview
• Module 2 - Pre-Installation Considerations
• Module 3 - OSS Installation - EasySetup Method
• Module 4 - Configuring the OSS Subsystem
• Module 5 - Filesets
• Module 6 - Post-Installation Topics

Friday July 16, 2004, SunTUG hosted another successful HP/ITUG Roadshow with the main topic being Enterprise Storage and Data Replication. Attendees had the opportunity to meet with vendors, such as CAIL, HP, Dynamic Computing Services Corporation, Insession Technologies Inc., ITI Shadowbase - a division of Gravic Inc., and Tributary Systems, Inc. to hear the latest product updates, get an HP & ITUG update, and learn about using Web Services to enable HP NonStop Server applications. There were over 60 people in attendance at the Marriott Tampa Westshore Hotel, and they were treated to a continental breakfast as well as many other goodies.


Please be sure to visit our Southeastern Roadshow sponsors:

 HP NonStop Computing

 Insession Technologies

 ITI Shadowbase


...and our sponsors:


 CAIL

 DCS

 GoldenGate

 NTI

 System Connections

 Tributary Systems, Inc.


The following day, there was a golf outing, where many of our participants and vendors got together and had some fun on the links!

We want to thank our 2004 Golf sponsors for their support:

Our Tournament Sponsor is once again HP


our Titanium sponsor is:      JPMorgan Chase


our Platinum sponsors are:
Tributary Systems
Attunity

and our Silver sponsors are:
CAIL
Insession Technologies
GoldenGate
XYPRO

We would also like to thank the following companies for for supporting our tournament with their excellent prizes:
Integrated Research
Computer Security Products
HP Education
Tape Labs


The April 21, 2004 "Open Systems Services (OSS) Programming Fundamentals" technical training day was a tremendous success.    Demand for the class was so overwhelming, the location had to be changed!    Thanks to HP and Raymond James for coordinating the changes in location and to Raymond James for hosting the new location.


Pictures from the class are here.
We had a great presentation by Sam Ayers, in addition to the class, and many thanks go to him as well. The slides from his presentation, "Using NonStop Java and JToolkit to Web-enable Enscribe Databases", can be downloaded by right-clicking here and choosing "save" from the pop-up window.

Sam's presentation was great, the OSS class was great (and FREE), the food was great and plentiful, and the location was was really nice.     What more could you ask for?

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Our June 13th, 2003 Summit was a huge success!

Thankyou to those of you who filled out and sent in ITUG's event evaluation form. We will be working with ITUG to use the information you gave us to make our next event even better than this one.

For those who may have missed the event, HP's Derek Ginger has been kind enough to pass along the latest HP Roadmap.   Please click here to view it.   The file is 2 Meg, so if you'd rather download it to your PC for later viewing, right click on the previous link and choose "save target as..." (for Netscape users it would say "save link target as...").

HP has also been kind enough to provide a copy of the "Web Services on the NonStop platform" presentation - please click here to view it. The file is rather large (7.24 Meg), so if you have a dial-up connection, you will probably want to download the file rather than trying to view it online. To download it, right click on the previous link and choose "save target as..." (for Netscape users it would say "save link target as...").

The above files are in PDF format which requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader to view. If you do not have the Adobe® Reader®, you can download it from Adobe's site by clicking  here.

In addition to the representatives from each of our sponsors, we had 88 people in attendance:

1 from 5th 3rd Bank
1 from Bank of America
4 from Concord EFS
1 from Critical Path Consulting
1 from ETI-NET
2 from HP
3 from Insession Technologies
4 from JPMorgan Chase
1 from Lee County Sheriff's Office
7 from Paymentech
23 from Raymond James
1 from S.T.J.
10 from Telecommunications Services
2 from U.S. Consulting Services
6 from Verizon Data Services
1 from Viking Technical Services
and 20 who were self-employed or who did not say what company they work for.


This time around, ITUG and HP were doing a "Southeastern Regional NonStop Roadshow" which traveled from city to city June 9 – 13, 2003. We were their last stop, but definitely not least!   Each attendee received a goodie bag including a sponsorship recognition page, membership and event information, the Connection, and an ITUG 25th Anniversary t-shirt.

Each of the vendors in attendance also brought great information packets and lots of really cool goodies.

In addition, the Marriott Tampa Westshore provided plenty of excellent food and drink. Those folks who were unable to attend just don't know what they missed!

A big THANKYOU to HP and ITUG for doing such a great job with the registration and coordination efforts.

We would also like to give special thanks to our sponsors:

 HP NonStop Computing

 Computer Security Products, Inc.


...our sponsors:

CAIL
Golden Gate Software
Insession Technologies
Network Technologies International, Inc.
System Connections
Tape Laboratories
TIBCO Software
Tributary Systems Inc.
XYPRO

...and our Bronze-level sponsors: Transaction Design, Inc.; and Unlimited Software Associates.


The theme for this year was Web Services on the NonStop platform    click here for a quick summary
by HP's Narendra Goyal (click here for bio).     HP has been kind enough to provide a copy of the presentation - please click here to view it. The file is rather large (7.24 Meg), so if you have a dial-up connection, you will probably want to download the file rather than trying to view it online. To download it, right click on the previous link and choose "save target as..." (for Netscape users it would say "save link target as...").

HP's Derek Ginger ( click here for bio) provided the HP Roadmap.

There was a presentation by Brad Poole from Insession Technologies, and a presentation by Mary Miglino from Golden Gate Software.


     Even though ITUG handled the "main event", we still had our Golf Outing! The Golf Outing was held on Saturday, June 14th, at Heritage Harbor Golf and Country Club with an 8:00 a.m. shotgun start. You may remember Heritage Harbor from last year's popular golf outing. The cost was $40 per player, and included lunch, greens fees, carts, and range balls.

The Golf Outing results:
First place Team:
David Lorenz, Marck Barnard, Tim Eitel, Matt Eitel with a 66

Last place Team:
Gary Stanton, Gustavo Gomez, Emily Gomez, Edward Serrano with a 77

Closest to hole:
Hole #3: Kevin Connor
Hole #16: Bill Lee

Long Drive:
Hole #6. Mike Fussner
Hole #10: Doug Mobley


Now is a great time to think about signing up to participate in our Golf Sponsorship program for next year!   This is a great time and place for some additional, low-cost advertising.   Please click here for information regarding this excellent advertising opportunity.   Remember, the earlier you sign up for sponsorship the longer your ad will be seen on SunTUG, so sign up today!

We want to thank our 2003 Golf sponsors:

   Our Tournament Sponsor is once again HP,
   JPMorgan Chase is once again a Titanium sponsor,
   XYPRO and Tributary Systems are Platinum sponsors.

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We had a terrific turnout for the Intro to NonStop SQLMX class on March 12, 2003 - thankyou to HP and to all who participated to make it such a success!

To get a glimpse of what you missed at this class, click here to view some pictures.

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Click here to see John T. Rodda's excellent notes from the TCP/IP class that was held October 2, 2002.

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Check it out!      has opened up their discussion forums to non-ITUG-members. You can go straight to the forums by clicking on this link: http://neo3.sba.com/forums/index.cfm?CFApp=54 (it takes a minute or two for their discussion board to load, and will open up in a new window, so please be patient). You can also register for the discussion boards without having to be an ITUG member, so that you can post messages.

There is also a USENET-based HP NonStop newsgroup you can access via google by clicking here: comp.sys.tandem (it will open in a new window). This is an un-moderated newsgroup, so there are "spam" usenet messages as well as legitimate ones.

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Be sure to visit HP's Nonstop Computing Update Newsletter at http://nonstop.compaq.com/view.asp?PAGE=himupdate to get the latest news each month. They have archives of past issues as well as the current issue online, or you can subscribe to their newsletter from there.

last modified Friday, November 17, 2006