August, 2007
by Kathy Steffens, CMG‘07 Program Chair
Kathy was first-line manager of the Defense Department's Defense Logistics Agency corporate office of capacity management from 1992 until 2004. Prior to that, she was the lead capacity planning technician (mainframe platform) in that office from 1987 to 1992. She was the Program Chair for CMG2002.
About the Author
Kathy Steffens
Late-Breaking Technology Paper Submission: If you have a paper (or PowerPoint presentation with substantive notes) focusing on technology either recently introduced or to-be-announced before October, we invite you to submit your paper for presentation at CMG'07. Deadline for submission of title/abstract/paper is October 1, although the earlier the better! Details are available here: Call for Late-Breaking Papers.
Conference : CMG'07 will offer 156 program presentations Monday afternoon through Friday morning, December 2-7, focusing on information systems performance and management. These sessions include nearly 100 presentations which have been peer-reviewed using our blind-referee process. There will be over 35 invited industry expert sessions as well as a number of panels with experts discussing issues of relevance to IT performance practitioners. Also included will be 24 CMG-T (training) sessions offered by 8 industry luminaries presenting courses on core competencies for all levels of interest of the attendees from ‘rookie' to ‘expert'.
CMG'07 program presentations cover zSeries, UNIX/LINUX, network/Internet, storage, and Windows platform performance topics as well as business performance management and computer performance evaluation. The latest ‘hot' topics and late-breaking technologies will be discussed, and perhaps even announced, during the conference.
Reprising a popular new entry in 2006, we will offer several conference-within-a-conference programs with leading vendors and IT organizations. Also, throughout the conference week, technical training will be offered by our exhibitors with sessions on tools of interest to IT performance practitioners.
In addition, CMG offers a set of separately-priced Sunday Workshops consisting of 7 parallel morning and afternoon half-day sessions for in-depth training on a wide range of capacity and performance topics. Each workshop will be 3 hours in length, with 7 offered in the morning and 7 in the afternoon, lunch provided.
For viewing the conference program online, and creating a personal schedule based on sessions you plan to attend, please go to the CMG'07 Home Page.
With this year's quality and breadth of offerings, CMG is positioning itself as the premiere source for ‘one-stop shopping' of education for the computer performance professional. Plan to attend CMG'07!