Computer Measurement Group Announces Keynote and Plenary Speakers for CMG'08 in Las Vegas, December 7-12, 2008
Keynote Speaker - Steve Sams,VP for Site and Facilities Services Worldwide, IBM
Plenary Speaker - Paul Strong, Distinguished Research Scientist, eBay, Inc.
TURNERSVILLE, NJ, March 31, 2008 - The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the Information Technology professionals responsible for planning, measuring and managing the world's largest IT infrastructures, announced today that it has finalized its keynote and plenary speakers for the 34th International Computer Measurement Group annual conference (CMG'08) taking place from December 7-12 in Las Vegas, NV at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.
Steve Sams, IBM Vice President for Site and Facilities Services Worldwide, is the keynote speaker at CMG'08. IBM's Site and Facilities Services Worldwide has designed and built over 30 million square feet of raised floor, including five of Japan's top 14 green buildings, the largest data center in Egypt, and a supercomputing center in Barcelona. Mr. Sams has been influential in setting direction for IBM having served as vice president of strategy for IBM's server group, and vice president of IBM's corporate strategy.
His topic, "Think Green - How Green Computing can Pay for Itself" will examine five areas that could improve a data center's energy management through the process of diagnosing, building, virtualizing, cooling, managing and measuring. Attendees will learn how other clients - and IBM - have implemented these areas to gain immediate business benefit to double their IT capacity, reduce operational costs by 50% annually, while having a positive impact on the environment. There will be a discussion of the roles of the CIO, CFO and CEO can contribute to going green.
Paul Strong, distinguished research scientist at eBay, Inc., is the plenary speaker at CMG'08. His work is focused on enterprise grid architectures and technologies, and he is driving the long term vision and strategy for eBay's infrastructure management within that context.
His topic, "The Shape of Infrastructure to Come," will provide a brief overview of eBay, the world's largest virtual economy, enabling 240+ million registered users to trade a vast array of goods, with about 110 million individual items available on the site at any one time. Mr. Strong will discuss its infrastructure, how it has evolved, the future data center infrastructure and the challenges ahead.
The keynote address will take place on Monday, December 8 at 1:15 p.m. and the plenary session is scheduled for Tuesday, December 9 at 10:30 a.m.
"We're extremely honored to have Steve Sams as this year's keynote speaker and Paul Strong as our plenary speaker," said Jaqui Lynch, General Chair of the CMG'08 conference. "Both are well-respected leaders and have made significant impacts in their fields. We're looking forward to having them speak to CMG attendees and share their experiences."
The Computer Measurement Group (www.cmg.org) is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to sharing information and practices focused on ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement, quantitative analysis, and forecasting.
For more information on the conference, see the conference Web page at CMG'08
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