Press Release - July 27, 2009

The Computer Measurement Group Offers Popular Capacity and Performance Management Tutorials at CMG’09

CMG-T Provides Most Comprehensive Training Given by Industry Luminaries

TURNERSVILLE, NJ, July 27, 2009 - The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the IT professionals responsible for planning, measuring and managing the world's largest IT infrastructures, announced today that it is offering CMG Training (CMG-T) at the 35th International Computer Measurement Group annual conference (CMG'08) taking place taking place December 6-11 in Dallas, Texas at the Gaylord Texan.

CMG-T provides a consistent set of tutorials that present information and techniques essential to managing IT capacity and quality of service for today's enterprises. The tutorials are taught by industry luminaries and are designed for all levels including "experts" as well as "rookies" who need to quickly "ramp up" their knowledge of core competencies.

"CMG-T tutorial sessions provide the focused "quick-start" that many newcomers need to accomplish their responsibilities at work.  CMG-T also gives more experienced practitioners the opportunity to learn about areas they haven't dealt with before," said David Thorn, General Chair of the CMG'09 conference. "The variety of topics and a superb roster of people teaching are first rate. We look forward to bringing this incredible educational program to our conference attendees again this year."

The CMG-T program will have several tutorial sessions that cover a variety of topics.

The courses include:

  • Introduction to z/OS Monitoring, Tuning, and the Workload Manager - This tutorial is taught by Glenn Anderson, a Consulting Instructor for IBM's Systems and Technology Group. For those responsible for monitoring and tuning of a mainframe system, this is the place to start.
  • Unix/Linux CMG Quick Start Course - This tutorial is taught by Adrian Cockroft, formerly a distinguished engineer for eBay, and now the performance leader at NetFlix. He is the author of four books that address computer performance analysis, resource management and capacity planning for internet services.
  • Windows System Performance Measurement and Analysis - This tutorial is taught by Jeffrey A. Schwartz, Integrated Services, Inc., a Windows performance specialist with an emphasis on SQL Server performance issues. There is a wealth of metrics available from Windows, but without this course, it can be very hard to know where to start.
  • Introduction to TCP/IP Performance Management - This tutorial focuses on performance measurement, monitoring and analysis of the network protocol that drives the Internet as well as most enterprises today. It is taught by Nalini Elkins, the founder of Inside Products, Inc. Ms. Elkins is an industry leader in the area of network performance analysis, including IP version 6, which is starting to spread across the networked world.
  • Modeling and Forecasting - This tutorial leverages the measurement and analysis techniques to performance "what if" analysis using computer performance modeling and forecasting algorithms and techniques. This is taught by Dr. Michael Salsburg, a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Real-Time Infrastructures and Cloud Computing at Unisys Corporation. He has developed patented techniques and modeling software that are commercially available today.
  • An introduction to VMWare/vSphere Components and Capacity Planning - This tutorial will introduce the various components of the VMware Wintel platform, describing the various virtual contexts, tools, and areas to consider when building VMWare experience. The presenter, John Paul of Siemens, will share the experiences learned from deploying a large, world class virtual infrastructure and share Best Practices in capacity planning.
  • z/OS I/O architecture - This tutorial given by Gilbert Houtekamer of IntelliMagic, will help you understand how to know what benefits to expect from new technologies such as zHPF, MIDAWs and EAV.The session will also discuss a tuning approach to maximize the performance of your FICON infrastructure.

For general information on the CMG '09 conference taking place December 6 though 11 in Dallas, Texas at the Gaylord Texan; go to CMG'09 Conference.

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.

 

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