Software Defined Mainframe Summit

How a Software Defined Mainframe Can Liberate Enterprise Workloads from the Clutches of Proprietary Legacy Technology

 

Thursday, 19th January 2017, St. James Sofitel Hotel, 6 Waterloo Place, London SW1Y 4AN

 

The summit, which will comprise a full day of technical and strategic sesssions  (including live demonstrations), will explore how staffing demographics and the price-performance ratio of traditional hardware mainframes, have dramatically increased the pressure to modernize legacy workloads. We will discuss how advances in technology such as containerization and instruction set architecture translation, alongside the inexorable pressure of Moore's law, have finally made it possible for legacy applications to be liberated easily from the clutches of expensive and outdated legacy hardware mainframe architectures.

Here is the Agenda

09:30 – 10:30   Coffee and croissants for the early arriving attendees.

10:30 – 10:45   Welcome & Introduction, by LzLabs.

Speaker: Thilo Rockmann / LzLabs

10:45 – 11:15   Mainframe Migration Strategies

Speaker: Dale Vecchio / Gartner

11:15 – 11:30   Morning Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00   LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe® (SDM) 

Speaker: Mark Cresswell / LzLabs

12:00 – 12:30   Workload Automation on the SDM

Speakers: Michael Taylor (CEO) and Paul Wade (VP Products) / SMA

12:30 – 13:30   Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:00   The Fujitsu approach to Application Transformation

Speaker: Geoff Peters / Fujitsu UK

14:00 – 14:30   Live Demonstration of LzLabs SDM 

Speaker: Christian Wehrli / LzLabs

14:30 – 15:00   Benchmarking the LzLabs SDM

Speaker: Jan Jaeger / LzLabs

15:00 – 15:15   Afternoon Coffee Break

15:15 – 15:45   Overview and Introduction to Microsoft Azure

Speaker: David Kurth / Microsoft

15:45 – 16:15   The Cloud as a Platform for Legacy Modernization

Speaker: Dale Vecchio / Gartner

16:15 – 16:30   Wrap Up

16:30 – 18:00   Networking Reception