March, 2008
by Kathy Steffens, OHVCMG Secretary/Treasurer
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.
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Kathy Steffens
The Ohio Valley CMG region will hold its 2008 spring conference April 24 in Columbus, OH, at the west-Columbus Dave and Buster's restaurant from 8 AM to 5 PM. A full breakfast and buffet lunch is provided for all attendees in the registration fee of $50 (payment received prior to April 18) or $65 at the door. Also included is a Performance Analyst Relaxation Session (PARS) at the end of the day's sessions. OHVCMG is now accepting PayPal payments for additional ease in registering.
Our Italian buffet lunch will be generously provided by sponsor EMC Corporation, which also will present a product overview session during the lunch hour. Ohio Valley thanks EMC for their support of CMG!
Outstanding speakers for this conference:
Rick Ralston, Humana Inc.
Topic: Using SAS/Graph to Display Performance and Capacity Data
Doug Lane, EMC Corporation
Topic: Addressing the challenges of Backup, Recovery and Archiving (or)
Symmetrix DMX-4 Technical Briefing
Michael Salsburg, Ph. D., 2007 winner of the CMG Mullen Award
Topic: Beyond the Hypervisor Hype
Montgomery Bauman & John Balis of IBM
Topic: Latest Z10 platform announcement - Technical Briefing
Check out our website at www.ohvcmg.org for more details on the speakers and topics as well as how to register!
Looking ahead to Fall 2008, Ohio Valley will host the second conference on September 11. Format and attendee cost ($50 for early registration and $65 for same-day registration) will be the same as the April 24 conference.
Respectfully submitted by the OHVCMG Secretary/Treasurer Kathy Steffens.