May, 2009
by Denise P. Kalm, Managing Editor
Denise Kalm has 30 years experience in IT including application programming, enterprise systems management and performance management/capacity planning at Pacific Telephone and Bank of America. She moved to vendor land in 2000, spending 5 ½ years with BMC on the EPA product line, then recently became the senior product marketing manager for enterprise job scheduling products at CA, Inc., formerly Cybermation. She is a regional officer of CMG, has held many volunteer positions within that organization and is a frequent contributing author. Prior to entering the IT profession, she was a biochemical geneticist. Her hobbies include flying, Jazzercise, writing and scuba diving. Her book, Lifestorm, on the Oakland Hills fire, is available on Amazon. She is an executive and personal coach as well, offering phone and in-person coaching.
About the Author
Denise P. Kalm, CA, Inc. formerly Cybermation
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Ray Wicks continues his series called the "Capacity Planning Primer." In Part 4, he shows us a mini-capacity plan and how to present the data.
To highlight the value of CMG for those who aren't current members, we are including a past Mullen Award winner's paper. Ron Kaminski won this award in 2003; it is given to those who not only create an important paper, but show incredible talent in presenting it. His paper, "Time Stable Workload Characterization Techniques," explains a good way to characterize business workloads. Join us in December if you like what you see here.
Alex Bakman writes on "How to Resolve Capacity Bottlenecks and Ensure Great Performance in your VMware ESX Environment - A VMWARE System Administrator's Guide to Identifying Capacity Bottlenecks, Predicting Future Capacity Bottlenecks, and Removing Them." What more do you need to know?
Robert Anderson offers just the help you need to recover from PC woes with"Exorcise Your Demons: Reclaiming Your PC After It's Been Infected with Viruses and Spyware." With the number of viruses and malware increasing, it is only a matter of time before you need this article.
Michael Hines brings us two great book reviews this month. The first is a review of the book, "The Art of Application Performance Testing: Help for Programmers and Quality Assurance," by Ian Molyneaux. He makes the argument that this process isn't done early enough or often enough and shows you how to make it work for you. The second is "Succeeding at SaaS: Computing in the Cloud," by Amy Wohl, one of our keynote speakers at CMG 2009. Everything you need to know to get started with SaaS in a quick read.
Margaret Greenberg had a long phone interview with our 2008 Michelson award winner, Dr. Neil Gunther. Read Part 2 of this interview; part 1 is in the April edition.
Do you find you dread the need to speak up in meetings, interviews and special occasions? Denise Kalm suggests a way you can learn to speak extemporaneously with skill in "Practice Makes Perfect."
Our financial gurus are on hiatus this month - we hope to see them back soon.
Another new feature is the CMG Forum. Become a part of our new social network. www.cmg.org/forum. It is open to everyone and you will be hearing more about it in the coming weeks.
It's not too early to start thinking about CMG 2009. Read about the plans for the conference in a great article by General Chair, Dave Thorn.
The call for workshops and papers is already out on www.cmg.org. Start writing now. The call for workshops has been extended, so if you were thinking about doing one, please read the workshop article and submit one now.
Inside the CMG Bulletin we have the following CMG News items:
Tom Kelman gives you the calendar for your local CMG in Upcoming CMG Regional Meetings. Mark your calendar with the regional meeting in your neighborhood and plan on attending and bringing a colleague. Both North American and International meetings are highlighted.
We have reviews of the following recent Regional and International meetings:
Please consider writing up a meeting you attend and sending it to us.
We are always interested in receiving your comments, suggestions, and submitted articles. Help us make MeasureIT even better in 2009.
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