Stream: Woodcote
Time: 11:00 - 11:45
You might think virtual storage is a blast from the past - but it's every bit as relevant today. All systems have it - and you can't buy more. So you'd better manage it carefully. But what is virtual storage? It's a key mechanism for optimising the use of physical memory - and so is central to system performance. Virtual storage has evolved considerably over the decades - an evolution which has been essential to growth. This is true not just of z/OS but also middleware such as Db2. Join Alice and Martin as they: * Introduce virtual storage and its constituent parts. * Describe how it continuously evolved over the decades while preserving the fundamentals. * Show how you can manage it with sophisticated instrumentation and along the way they'll share a few examples of when things don't go quite to plan.
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Alice has spent the past two years working as a Z Hardware Technical Specialist at IBM, driven by a fascination with what's really happening under the covers of the machines that power the global economy. Her focus is on the technology that has always been central to the mainframe and how it's being modernised to stay essential in a rapidly changing landscape.
Performance specialist since the late 1980's with IBM.