Program Comments from Dr. Bernie

August, 2007
by Bernie Domanski, CMG‘07 General Chair

About the Author

Bernie Domanski, Professor at The City University of New York / CSI

Dr. Bernie Domanski is one of CMGs most popular speakers. He has published and presented papers at every CMG since 1978. His presentations won him numerous accolades. Dr. Bernie is a tenured Professor of Computer Science with the City University of New York (College of Staten Island campus) where he's been teaching all aspects of Computer Science for nearly 30 years. He has consulted to many Fortune 100 companies and state and federal government agencies as well. He received several awards for his teaching style, and was awarded the A. A. Michelson lifetime achievement award by CMG in 1992. Currently, Dr. Bernie is a Director on CMG’s Board, and is the Program Chair for this year's conference.

We hope those of you who joined us in Reno last year “make your mark”, and enjoyed the immersive learning experience at CMG, the most comprehensive systems management conference offered worldwide. More than 700 attendees, exhibitor partners, journalists, industry analysts, and staff took over Reno for 5½ exciting days. Not to be outdone, what we’ve planned for CMG’07 in San Diego will just blow you away!

CMG’07 attendees will choose from over 150 Technical, Tutorial, Panel andManagement Sessions. Participants will network together, become immersed in new products and services at our world-class Exhibitor Expo, and share experiences with their industry peers in a setting not available anywhere else! With innovation being the most sought after theme for vendors this year,CMGers will be treated to new technologies applied to their problems by our exhibitor partner community.

CMG’07 is for IT Pros. CMG’07 is for IT Managers. And it's for all roles in between. With 7 technical tracks and two special tracks – our conference-in-a-conference and Vendor Training Sessions — you can customize your experience around the most relevant content for you — CMG IS knowledge about tools and techniques, and the key resources for technology professionals of all types to learn how to make an impact. Remember, with change & Social Computing, the pressure is on for corporate IT to change - an urgent issue confronting all IT shops in the not so distant future. CMG’07 has been architected and fine-tuned to get you prepared and ready!

IT Pros come to CMG to:

CMG is for IT Pros		CMG is for IT Managers
Database Administrators		Enterprise Managers
Capacity Analysts		Infrastructure Architects
File/storage Administrators		Software Architects
Performance Analysts		Software Engineers
IT Managers and Directors		Metering and Chargeback
Benchmarking Professionals		Web Development Managers
Model Developers		Business Process Managers
Applied Statistics Specialists		Aligning Business and IT
Server Administrators		Web 2.0 & Social Computing
System Administrators		Governance
VPs of Operations		SOA Service Life Cycle

Improve the management of existing IT infrastructure with the latest system management technologies.
Increase infrastructure capacity and service levels.
Learn what to upgrade to and when to upgrade.
Meet with industry technology gurus.
Prepare to take advantage of new, late breaking technologies and techniques.
Develop end-to-end capacity models to predict performance of critical workloads.
Do it all while increasing productivity in an era of tight budgets, adding business value to your organization, and better preparing your organization for the challenges of the future.

IT Managers come to CMG to:

Meet with industry management gurus.
Check out what new hardware, software, and database platforms have to offer.
Explore advances in modeling and applying statistics to your problems.
Learn how to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise by balancing governance with user empowerment.
Get a first look at the methodology of "Green IT" via virtualization, server consolidation, carbon footprint and power consumption metrics etc.
Learn about Virtualization and what it means to capacity and performance.
Get the inside scoop on the next release of your key performance tools.
Find out how your existing applications can take advantage of newly emerging technologies and tools.
Gain a better understanding of the infrastructure advancements provided in new operating and database management systems.

Do it all while learning how to address issues more easily, improve application performance, develop more accurate workload forecasts, and build scalable architectures.

What else sets CMG apart from other conferences? It’s the Exhibitor Expo - to meet with the exhibitors; to find out about their latest products and technologies; to find solutions; to find out how easy it is to use their products and customize them to meet your specific needs. Bottom line: to find out if solutions exist that can help you solve your problems. By meeting and talking with other attendees and exhibitors at Vendor Sessions AND at the Monday User Group meetings (MUGS) CMGers discover solutions to their problems at home – more so than at other conferences!

Pros go back home with: Techniques to boost productivity. Methods to increase the value IT adds to your organization. Ways to improve the performance and capacity management of existing IT infrastructure solutions. And much more. Returning home from CMG, you'll be ready to make an impact on your organization—you'll be prepared, in other words, to make your mark.

Managers go back home with: Techniques to develop better connected interoperable solutions across the enterprise. Ways to scale your existing applications to increasing demands. Knowledge of the latest trends and upcoming technologies. And much more. Returning home from CMG, you'll be ready to make an impact on your organization—you'll be prepared, in other words, to leave your mark.

What happens at CMG keeps people coming back to CMG. CMG is about meeting new people and getting new ideas. For more than 30 years, technology professionals from around the world find themselves returning for more. What keeps them coming back?

Technical Sessions. Technical, Tutorial, and Management Sessions are where you take a jump in and learn about the very latest products and techniques. This year, you can choose from more than 150 sessions in all, coupled with an exciting array of Panel Sessions.
Conference-in-a-Conference Sessions. Meet with Exhibitor experts in small groups in these sessions where you'll go beyond a ‘regular' session to ask your questions to get specific knowledge about how to apply current techniques and products to your specific problems.
Comprehensive and Hands-on Sunday Workshops. CMG offers opportunities to learn from the pros in focused Sunday Workshops, and where applicable, you'll practice what you learn - bring your laptop!
Connections with the community. Walking around CMG are over 700 minds just like yours. 700 Systems Management IT Pros and Managers to meet. 700 opinions to consider. 700 gurus to engage. Add to the mix well known industry pundits, invited and keynote speakers, and you immediately see why a CMG crowd is like no other.
Vendor Training - Beginning last year, we've woven practical sessions that train you in how to best use commercial products you probably already have in-house. Our exhibitor partners send their best and most knowledgeable instructors to these CMG sessions to make you even more productive than you might have imagined.
CMG-T - For over 30 years, CMG consistently attracts a significant contingent of rookies who simply need core instruction in performance evaluation and capacity management. We've enlisted the services of some of the biggest names in the industry to cover topics in modeling, applied statistics, and other important subjects.

Key benefits for IT professionals and IT Managers:

Gain new solutions and new ideas for being more productive from focused sessions, product assessments, and interaction with experts and peers.
Get real-world learning from IT professionals who work at responding to the same critical issues you face every day.
Experience up to the minute innovation.

Evaluate up-and-coming and released technologies before you roll them out.
Acquire vendor-neutral insights from industry experts on the products you work with every day.
Learn how to solve issues relating to deployment and integration, troubleshooting, and infrastructure management.
Find answers to everyday problems.
Improve your existing IT infrastructure performance and management.
Prepare for the challenges of tomorrow and the changes that Web 2.0 and Social Computing will bring.
Acquire the skills you need to effectively manage performance and plan for capacity.
Learn the latest techniques for modeling and planning for a scalable architecture.

Bottom Line: CMG’07 is the systems management event of the year.
You simply can’t afford to miss it! Be there!