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Seminar slide sets, Articles and Webinars

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Business and technical topics

BCS Consultancy SIG - 2021

• Webinar recording - "Leading mission-critical systems projects" - BCS YouTube channel.


• Slide set - "Leading mission-critical systems projects".

BCS Wiltshire - 2021

• Webinar recording - "Technology and working from home" - BCS YouTube channel.


• Slide set - "Technology and working from home".

BCS Consultancy SIG - 2020

• Webinar recording - "Running a consulting business" - BCS YouTube channel.


• Slide set - "Running a consulting business".

BCS Wiltshire - 2019

• Video recording - "Systems performance engineering" (for BCS Edinburgh, August 2018).


• Slide set - "Systems performance engineering".

OpenVMS topics

Connect Deutschland - 2021

• Slide set - "OpenVMS clusters best practice" - hints and tips for OpenVMS systems and clusters.


• Slide set - "New open source T4 viewer" by Paul Dolan of Feasible IT.

OpenVMS Advanced Technical Symposium - 2017

• Slide set - "Designing for performance with OpenVMS (session 234)".


• Slide set - "Data networking with OpenVMS (session 237)".

Oracle Rdb Forum - 2016

• Webinar recording - "Planning your migration to VSI OpenVMS".


• Slide set - "Planning your migration to VSI OpenVMS".


• Slide set (Japanese) - "Planning your migration to VSI OpenVMS".
• Translation to Japanese and presentation in Osaka by Akira Yamamoto of HPE.

OpenVMS Advanced Technical Symposium - 2005

• Slide set - "DECnet-Plus and DECnet over IP".


• White paper - "DECnet-Plus Technical Overview" as published in the HPE OpenVMS Technical Journal V5.