August, 2010
by Denise P. Kalm, Secretary, NCCMG
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
This meeting was at our favorite location - the Carr America Conference Center, which offers a great facility and good food. And, it offers easy parking. We had the usual good crowd of enthusiastic listeners and participants. A new sponsor, SoftwareOnZ, hosted our meeting, providing a great lunch to accompany our business meeting.
First up was Joe Brockert, SoftwareOnZ, who presented, "Sub Capacity Pricing VWLC, Define Capacity and the 4-Hour Rolling Average - Are You STILL Paying Too Much?"
Joe offers ideas beyond "taking the default" to help you gain the cost benefits you expected from VWLC by tuning and managing WLM effectively.
Our own local Michelson Award Winner, Adrian Cockcroft, from Netflix, brought us "Using the Cloud to Crunch Your Data." Most people talk about how to implement a cloud, how to manage security, but Adrian cuts to the chase - WIIFM (what's in it for me). He showed how you can use a cloud to crunch a huge amount of data, cheaply. This kind of talk makes you start asking the question - what else can cloud do for me now?
Time for lunch and our always-short business meeting. It's time to plan for CMG 2010; get your request into the budget process before your company stops funding training for the year. SoftwareOnZ provided an interesting presentation to accompany our networking lunch.
Known more for escaping Michigan winters at our February meetings, Tom Halinski, Compuware, escaped heat and humidity to present, "E2E - Web/Distributed/Mainframe - Visualized." Tom is an expert on APM (application performance management) and this talk described the need for viewing APM holistically, not platform by platform. He described approaches for linking applications to the business and across their platforms and the Net.
Our next meeting will be November 2, 2010 - location to be determined. Any questions or comments, please contact Cathy Nolan at (cathy.nolan@comcast.net or nccmg@cmg.org).