September, 2007
by Linwood Merritt
Lin started his data processing career in 1970 as a Simulation Analyst, has been a US CMG member since CMG84, and has been the Project Manager of the "Enterprise Wide Capacity and Performance" project of SHARE since August 1994.
Lin has published 14 CMG papers (not counting 1 additional for UKCMG 2003) and presented at 25 SHARE conferences. He won the CMG97 Mullen award for the presentation "Performance Data from the Server to the Intranet: Getting the Data and Reporting It," and presented it at UKCMG in 1998. He is now working as a mainframe Capacity Planner at Bank of America in Richmond, Virginia.
About the Author
Linwood Merritt, Bank of America
Frank Bereznay and Rick Ralston, having presented together at two regional CMG meetings (MCMG and Philadelphia) this year, are bringing their act to Southern CMG in Richmond, VA on September 27 and Raleigh, NC on September 28, 2007. Frank Bereznay will present his Mullen Award paper, "Using Statistical Techniques to Interpret Service and Resource Metrics" and Rick Ralston will present "Using SAS/Graph to Display Performance and Capacity Data." In addition, Peter Sevcik will present "Benchmarking APM Best Practices," which will use benchmarking results (anonymous survey completed by attendees before the meetings from www.surveymonkey.com...) to understand what proactive application performance management (APM) processes our members have in place.
The line-up for the two meetings (including our three featured speakers) will be:
September 27, 2007, Richmond at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
September 28, 2007
Raleigh at the Capital City Club
Presentation and registration details can be found at the Southern CMG web site (http://regions.cmg.org/regions/scmg/index.html). Registration is only $20.00 in advance (by September 21, 2007) and $30.00 at the door. The registration includes a continental breakfast and lunch.
Join us at one or both meetings!
Linwood Merritt
Regional Chair
Southern Computer Measurement Group