Stream: Magny-Cours
Time: 12:00 - 12:45
When Scott Chapman joined Enterprise Performance Strategies in 2014, he had over 20 years of IT experience in a z/OS environment. Having never touched “the cloud”, he suddenly found himself running and managing an environment built in AWS. Over the past 12 years as both EPS and the AWS offering catalog have grown, Scott has learned much about AWS and formed some opinions that might be of interest to those who have a mandate for migrating all or part of their mainframe workload to the cloud. Spoiler alert: not all the grass is greener on the other side of the fence! In this session you’ll get a brief but useful introduction to some AWS terms and services which will give you a basis for understanding what those cloud people are talking about. And you may be surprised to hear what Scott misses most from the z/OS mainframe environment.
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Scott Chapman has over three decades of experience in the IBM mainframe environment. Much of this experience has focused on performance, from both the application and systems perspective. He's written COBOL application code and Assembler system exit code. He’s ported Java applications to the mainframe as well as developed unique Java applications. His mainframe responsibilities have spanned application development, performance tuning, capacity planning, software cost management, system tuning, sysplex configuration, WLM configuration, and most other facets of keeping a mainframe environment running effectively. At Enterprise Performance Strategies, Scott has helped customers around the world understand and improve the performance of their z/OS systems. He is one of the principal designers and developers of the Pivotor performance reporting product. Scott has spoken extensively at user group meetings and was honored to receive the Computer Measurement Group's Mullen award, and also co-authored a CMG best paper. He has also received SHARE’s Best Session Award multiple times and SHARE’s Distinguished Speaker award. Scott is a founding steering committee member of the Central Ohio Mainframe User's Group.
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