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Video talks by Colin Butcher - June 2009

"System performance" talk by Colin Butcher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Based on a work at xdelta.blip.tv.

"Designing for high-availability" talk by Colin Butcher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
Based on a work at xdelta.blip.tv.

Video production by ArtGal Media

UKCMG EuroTEC 2009 conference - May 2009

18^th May 2009 - Performance testing and monitoring for mission-critical systems

BCS events - 2009

30^th April 2009 - Mission-critical healthcare: NHSBT Pulse for HC2009 conference
17^th February 2009 - Disaster-tolerant systems for BCS Reading Branch

AICS events - 2009

16^th March 2009 - Virtualisation for AICS members

HP UK User Group Seminars - 2009

19^th March 2009 - IPCI (IP Cluster Interconnect) and Volume Shadowing enhancements (slides courtesy of Nilakantan Madahevan of HP OpenVMS Engineering).
19^th March 2009 - OpenVMS performance on Integrity for HPUG OpenVMS update day

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HP Dutchworld - OpenVMS track - November 2008

19^th November 2008 - Networking with OpenVMS systems: DECnet Phase V, DECnet over IP, LAN failover, failsafe IP
20^th November 2008 - Performance: getting the best from your new system platform
20^th November 2008 - IPCI (IP Cluster Interconnect) and Volume Shadowing enhancements (slides courtesy of Nilakantan Madahevan of HP OpenVMS Engineering).
20^th November 2008 - Disaster tolerant clusters

Community Connect Europe - November 2008

11^th November 2008 - Designing virtualised infrastructures
11^th November 2008 - Data networks and storage networks: a technical overview

UKCMG Forum - October 2008

14^th October 2008 - How performance affects service

HP UK User Group Seminars, 2008

1^st October 2008 - Data Networking and Storage Networking

HP Sweden OpenVMS Technical Update - September 2008

September 2008 - Disaster-tolerant clustering with OpenVMS on Integrity
September 2008 - Performance: getting the best from your new system platform

HP OpenVMS Advanced Technical Symposium (bootcamp) - May 2008

June 2008 - Availability Digest article on OpenVMS clustering
This article was based on a two day pre-bootcamp seminar given by Keith Parris and Colin Butcher, attended by Bill Highleyman of the Availability Digest.

May 2008 - Block 249B - Disaster-tolerant clustering with OpenVMS on Integrity - latest version (HP Sweden OpenVMS TUD)
May 2008 - Block 277 - Networking with OpenVMS systems

BCS events - January 2008

23^rd January 2008 - Professionalism and leadership

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NCC EA-SE programme seminars - 2007

6^th November - Performance and Capacity Planning

27^th November - Identifying Risk and Managing Complexity

UKCMG 2 day seminar - Systems Engineering for Availability and Performance - 30^th - 31^st October 2007

Seminar description
Seminar slide set

UKCMG conference - June 2007

June 2007 - Principles of performance
June 2007 - Principles of availability

HP Netherlands OpenVMS Technical Update - October 2007

1^st October 2007 - Availability & Performance: Multi-site disaster-tolerant environments
2^nd October 2007 - Migrating to Integrity

HP OpenVMS Advanced Technical Symposium (bootcamp) - May 2007

May 2007 - A112 Designing OpenVMS systems for availability and performance - updated June 2007
May 2007 - A184 Networking with OpenVMS systems

HP UK User Group Seminars, 2007

4^th October 2007 - Data Networking and Storage Networking - latest version (HPUG October 2008)
19^th July 2007 - Migrating to Integrity - latest version (HP Netherlands OpenVMS TUD)
19^th July 2007 - OpenVMS roadshow: Bootcamp summary
24^th April 2007 - Migrating to Integrity - latest version (HP Netherlands OpenVMS TUD)

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UKCMG conference - June 2006

June 2006 - Hardware architecture and performance

HP UK User Group Seminars, 2006

28^th February 2006 - Implementing OpenVMS systems for availability and performance

Topinterim Seminars, 2006

18^th Sep. 2006 - The well-equipped professional - an independent professional's guide to I.T. survival.
20^th Aug. 2006 - Working as an independent professional - a session for outplacement clients with Jim Currie of DBM, David Pinchard of topinterim and Colin Butcher of XDelta Limited.

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HP OpenVMS Advanced Technical Symposium (bootcamp) - June 2005

June 2005 - DECnet-Plus and DECnet over IP
Feb. 2005 - DECnet-Plus Technical Overview as published in the HP OpenVMS Technical Journal V5

HP UK User Group Seminars, 2005

12^th July 2005 - Building an OpenVMS web server
1^st Mar. 2005 - OpenVMS V8.2 on Integrity - bare metal install

AICS Seminars, 2005

24^th May 2005 - Networks - how they work

Topinterim Seminars, 2005

10^th Mar. 2005 - Taming the technological monster
10^th Mar. 2005 - Small office network functional diagram

BCS Seminars, 2005

18^th Jan. 2005 - High Availability and Disaster Tolerance - Systems Design

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HP UK User Group Seminars, 2004

8^th Dec. 2004 - OpenVMS on VAX, Alpha & Integrity (V7.3, V7.3-2 / E8.2 and E8.2)
28^th Sep. 2004 - Migration issues VAX - Alpha - Integrity
16^th Sep. 2004 - OpenVMS on VAX, Alpha & Integrity (V7.3, V7.3-2 / E8.2 and E8.2)
15^th July 2004 - DECnet and DECnet over IP
29^th Apr. 2004 - Hardware Platform Architecture
3^rd Feb. 2004 - OpenVMS on VAX, Alpha & Integrity (V7.3, V7.3-2 and E8.1)

Topinterim Seminars, 2004

1^st Nov. 2004 - Taming the technological monster
1^st Nov. 2004 - SOHO network functional diagram
2^nd June 2004 - Post seminar notes

FSB Seminars, 2004

16^th July 2004 - Communications

SWIG Seminars, 2004

28^th June 2004 - IT Basics

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HP EMEA Pre-sales Knowledge Transfer Event, Oct 2003 - Böblingen

Networks session
Storage session
VAX hardware upgrades session
OpenVMS High Availability configurations session

Interex Europe Conference, May 2003 - Amsterdam

High Availability Systems & Networks Design session

HP UK User Group Seminars, 2003

7^th Oct. 2003 - Back to Basics: Networks seminar
9^th Sep. 2003 - Back to basics: Storage seminar
11^th Mar. 2003 - Supporting Legacy Systems seminar
11^th Mar. 2003 - Nemonix H/W upgrades (Rich Williams) seminar
18^th Feb. 2003 - Introduction to Systems Design seminar

PCG Conference, 4^th Oct 2003 - Heathrow

A Personal View of the Future for Freelance Working

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HP EMEA Pre-sales Knowledge Transfer Event, Nov 2002 - Loch Lomond

High Availability principles session
Network principles session
Networking with OpenVMS systems session

HP UK User Group Seminars, 2002

26^th Feb. 2002 - DECservers seminar
26^th Feb. 2002- OpenVMS DCL file to Check LAT services

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DECUS Europe Conference, May 2001 - Lisbon

OpenVMS V7.3 Technical Update workshop

HP UK User Group Seminars, 2001

9^th Oct. 2001 - clearVISN V3.1 seminar
20^th Sep. 2001 - DECnet Phase V seminar
24^th Sep. 2001 - DECnet Phase V Overview paper

Communities and user groups are important. They provide a forum for the interchange of ideas and information. This article explores some of the underlying principles that make them so effective:

28^th April 2007 - Building successful User Groups