Unisys and EMC will jointly host the event at the Renault Sport Formula One Team Communications Centre in Enstone, near Oxford in the UK on September 22nd. The centre, located in the middle of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, has a large communications space, with interesting Renault Sport Formula One Team exhibits, where coffee/lunch will be served and whereparticipants are able to meet with Unisys and our partners. This event will be our major event for 2016, covering both Libra / MCPand Dorado / OS2200 programmes. Attendees will also have the opportunity to have a tour of the factory before or after lunch.

Who should attend?

The event is designed to meet the needs of people working in the following roles:

• Technical Support Consultants

• Operations/Service Delivery Managers

• Technical Support Managers

• Architects• Application Development Consultants

The agenda is divided of 2 streams : MCP stream in the morning and OS2200 stream in the afternoon. You may choose to attend one of the stream or the whole day.

2016 UK ClearPath BriefingThursday 22nd September

MCP Stream

08:45 Arrivals / Coffee

09:30 Introductions/Welcome

09:40 Libra / MCP Program Update Steve Koss, Chief Engineer MCP, UnisysAn update covering MCP platform and software, including details on 2016 platform introductions, software release content, and the storage roadmaps for primary, backup and tape storage. Steve will outline the strategy for MCP Virtual software only releases.

10:40 Break

11:00 Reference Architecture for Virtual MCP Mael Rivoal, EMCUsing VxRail Unisys partners with EMC to provide a fully integrated VMware hyper-converged infrastructure as a proven building block for the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). EMCdiscuss how this can be used to host Virtual MCP alongside other business critical applications in a resilient manner to simplify implementation and operations with converged infrastructure solutions.

11:25 Enterprise Infrastructure Management Colin Gray, EMCTogether with Unisys, EMC are extending their Storage Reporting and Management (SRM) solution to Integrate with MCP. SRM provides enterprise wide infrastructure management from mainframe to Windows providing performance monitoring and capacity management through graphical representation of all elements of the infrastructure stack. SRM also provides the basis for automating storage provisioning and so helps organisations maximise efficiency and reduce operating costs.

11:50 Solutions Update for MCP Andy Wardle, Consultant, UnisysA presentation of a customer project showing how Data Exchange accelerates the availability of ClearPath data into SQL databases, providing near real-time information which can be accessed via digital channels. Andy also discusses how customers are using Forward partitions, and an update of recent Agile Business Suite migrations successfully completed.

12:30 Lunch

13:45 Factory Tour

14:55 Drinks & Canapés / Depart

OS2200 Stream

10:40 Arrivals / Coffee

11:30 Factory Tour

12:30 Lunch

13:45 Introductions/Welcome

13:55 Dorado / OS 2200 Program Update Chuck Lefebvre, Engineering Director, UnisysAn update covering OS 2200 platform and software, including details on 2016 platform introductions, software release content, and the storage roadmaps for primary, backup and tape storage. Chuck will outline the strategy for OS 2200 Software Series.

14:55 Break

15:20 Accelerate your core business applications Darren Soothill, EMCFlash storage dramatically improves I/O performance, which in turn can improve application performance. EMC explain how to optimise the use of Flash storage to maximise the benefits, improving service levels to business users. In several recent implementations of all flash arrays on OS2200, physical footprint, power requirements and cooling needs were all reduced resulting in a lower total cost of ownership over traditional disk based arrays.

15:45 Integrating Cloud archive storage to reduce costs Richard Hales, EMCWith datacenters under pressure to reduce cost and take advantage of public and private clouds, find out how Cloudarrary supports you and how it bridges the gap between the two worlds in an efficient and secure way. It addresses a range of different use cases such as low cost private or public cloud archives with industry standard access protocols, offloading or sharing production data with cross platform access and applications. Learn how you can enhance the reach of your mainframes with Cloudarray for VMAX.

16:10 Solutions Update for OS2200 Dave Crawshaw, Consultant, UnisysA presentation of a customer project showing how Data Exchange accelerates the availability of ClearPath data into SQL databases, providing near real-time information which can be accessed via digital channels. Dave also explains where Forward capabilities (EPP’s, ePortal, MQ processors) are being used for application modernisation.

16:50 Drinks & Canapés / Depart

Venue Information

Set in the heart of Oxfordshire, the Renault Sport Formula One™ Team Technical Centre is situated between the villages of Enstoneand Middle Barton. Easily accessible by car from the M4 and M40, the Technical Centre is 30 minutes away from the centre of Oxford and 50 minutes from Newbury and Reading. By taxi, it is located 10 minutes away from Charlbury Train Station and 25 minutes away from Oxford Train Station (trains from London Paddington). For overseas guests, it is located 90 minutes awayfrom London Heathrow and Birmingham International airports.

Address : Renault Sport Formula One Team Whiteways Technical CentreEnstone, Oxfordshire OX7 4EE

Parking : a few parking places are available on-site. For those staying at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Heythrop Park Oxford, shuttles will be organized between the hotel and the event venue.

More information and Registration

Please visit www.clearpathfuturematters.com for further details and registration

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