Speakers


Adam Fitzgerald

Director of Developer Relations, SpringSource

Adam Fitzgerald
Adam is the Director of Developer Relations at SpringSource and has extensive experience in enterprise Java community management. Prior to joining SpringSource, Adam ran BEA's dev2dev community and was a product evangelist, technology educator and public speaker for BEA's WebLogic products.

Presentations

The ABCs of Management and Monitoring with Hyperic

This session covers the basic concepts used for systems and application monitoring and management and provides a guided introduction to Hyperic HQ. Topics include: agent based architectures, data collection, metric definition & correlation, management operations, control actions and alerts. (Level: Beginner)

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Five Critical Metrics for Web Performance Monitoring

The performance of web architectures vary greatly depending on load, implementation, business function and usage models. This session describes the five critical metrics that are common to all web architectures that operations teams should manage. Understanding these five metrics helps to partition systems and provides faster root cause analysis of when addressing performance problems.

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Building Custom Controls in Hyperic HQ

Improving response time to operational problems is critical to your IT management team. You can use Hyperic HQ control actions to streamline day-to-day operations, reduce the risk of human error or oversight, and respond rapidly when remote control is necessary. This session gives a practical overview of the control system in Hyperic HQ, how to extend it with User-Defined Control Actions and how to tie these controls to the alerting system.

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Inside the Cloud - Measuring Performance of AWS and Google App Engine

Public cloud based services are becoming an increasingly popular deployment choice for IT operations teams looking to reduce total hosting costs and scale systems on demand. But how reliable and responsive are they? The developers behind CloudStatus.com describe how they used Hyperic to monitor cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine and report on the collected performance and availability data.

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Translating Operations Data into Business Metrics

Systems and application monitoring provides massive amounts of data critical for operations team to understand the performance of their web infrastructure. However, this data is often incomprehensible to business owners looking to tie application metrics to business goals. This session describes how to effectively translate operational data into metrics that the business cares about and uses practical examples from Hyperic IQ.

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JMX monitoring with Hyperic HQ

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Building HQU Plugins with Groovy and Hyperic HQ

HQU is a plugin framework for Hyperic HQ which allows custom UI to be inserted into, and interact with various aspects of Hyperic HQ. All HQU plugins have the ability to interact with the entire HQ backend, and come with an API which allows for fast development. This session covers the basic HQU plugin architecture, describes how to get started building custom plugins with Groovy and provides practical examples of what is possible for customization.

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Case Study: SpringSource tc Server

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Case Study: Spring in Practice

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Expert Roundtable: The Future of Enterprise Deployment

Join Javier Soltero, SpringSource CTO of Management Products for an expert panel discussion about the future of enterprise deployment and what IT operations staff should be looking for when considering their production system needs. The panel includes notable industry experts: Michael Cote (Redmonk), Andi Mann (EMA), Dennis Callahan (The 451 Group), Al Hilwa (IDC).

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Special Architecture Session

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A Basic Introduction to Using OSGi in Enterprise Solutions

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Special Topic: Virtualization

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Special Topic: Scalability

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Special Topic: Eclastic Compute Environment

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Special Topic: Enterprise Architecture

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