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SUMMARY:CMG CANADA Winter Seminar - Sponsored by Luminex
DESCRIPTION:Formal Agenda – CMG Canada\, Tues. March 3\, 2020 \n08:30    Continental breakfast\, sign-in & registration \n09:00    Welcome          CMG Canada Board \n09:05    Tech1              When a bank sells off a business\, how do you ‘lift & shift’ the core systems that support it? – Udi Fridenshtein & Steve Taite\, MOST Technologies (remote\, with a local representative) \n10:05    Break \n10:15    Tech2              If it’s not IDAA or Db2 Buffers\, then what exactly is In-Memory Processing? – Larry Strickland\, DataKinetics \n11:15    Break \n11:25    Tech3              Save MSUs and Reduce Run-Times for Analytics and MXG Reporting – Paul Massengill\, Luminex Software \n  \n12:25    Lunch               On your own\, at C’est What? or elsewhere \n  \n14:00    Spons1            Luminex Corporate & Solution Overview – Kent Falknor\, Luminex Software (vendor marketing presentation) \n14:30    Break \n14:40    Tech4              Snail4j: Java Performance Education for All – Erik Ostermueller (remote) \n15:40    Break \n15:50    Tech5              Performance and Capacity Planning Overview – Mukund Muralidashan\, HCL Technologies \n16:50    Closing             CMG Canada Board \n16:55    Adjourn             Followed by members’ reception at C’est What? \n  \nContacts: \nJonathan Gladstone      jonathan.gladstone@bmo.com \nPeter Livingston             peter.livingston@bmo.com \nJohn Slobodnik               john.slobodnik@cogeco.com \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-canada-winter-seminar-3/
LOCATION:Ces’t What Restuarant\, 67 Front Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Livingston":MAILTO:peter.livingston@bmo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200123T180000
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SUMMARY:CMG Boston- Implementation\, Migration\, and Talent: How top local companies are working through a Digital Transformation
DESCRIPTION:CMG consistently hears feedback from our executives who are working through a digital transformation\, while each company’s process is different\, three themes remain consistent: implementation\, migration\, and talent. \nJoin us on the afternoon of January 23\, while top local executives discuss their digital transformation process. There is no cost to attend this event\, but you must register online. The event includes keynote and panel sessions\, networking\, appetizers\, and drinks. \nKeynote Session:\nPascal Foelix- VP\, Process Engineer\, Citizen’s Bank \nPanelists include:\nJoey Fernandes: CIO\, Vice President of Information Technology\, Collette\nEugenia Perelman\, Digital Business Transformation Executive\nAnoush Najarian\, Software Engineering Manager\, MathWorks \nRegister Now \n  \nThank you to our sponsors:
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-boston/
LOCATION:Boston College Club\, 100 Federal St 36th Floor\, Boston\, MA\, 02210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Meetup,Region
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191205T163000
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SUMMARY:Rocky Mountain CMG - Winter ‘19 Forum
DESCRIPTION:8:00 Registration\, 8:15 AM – 4:30 PM Presentations \nHeld at: Room 533 \nIBM Corporation\n4700 S. Syracuse\, Denver\, CO 80237 \n719-930-3326  (for directions ONLY) \nHappy Hour/Meet-n-Greet @ The Fresh Fish Co afterwards \nhors d’oeuvres and first round courtesy of our sponsor Syncsort \n  \nRMCMG is proud to present another forum filled with our usual information packed\, relevant\, and actionable presentations.  Please register with us (at dave.halbig@gmail.com; blaine_gaither@gmail.com or 703-652-6293) so we know how many to plan for.  We look forward to seeing you on the 5th of December. \nPlease pass along this invitation to others so we can expand our membership \nBeyond the Agenda Summary below are detailed descriptions of the presentations and biographies of our speakers. \nSpecial notes:  \nRMCMG is offering this seminar series FREE OF CHARGE to any attendee (this includes remote attendees).  This is made possible by the generous support of Syncsort Corporation\, our keynote sponsor\, and by donation of meeting space by IBM Corporation. \nRemote Attendance: Some of our members are tied down on business travel or find a hundred-mile round-trip commute (not unheard of in the Rocky Mountain Region) to be a bit over-the-top….. We attempted Remote Attendance on a trial basis several times in 2011 and 2012 and found it to be quite reliable and effective.  We’re now extending it to our entire membership.  Contact Dave Halbig (dave.halbig@gmail.com or 703-652-6293) for particulars. \nAgenda Summary \n08:00 08:15   Registration (Continental Breakfast provided in adjacent break room)\n08:15 08:20   Welcome\, Agenda Review (Dave Halbig)\n08:20 9:30     Echoes – Thinking about old and new Cybersecurity issues\n9:30  10:00    Break\n10:00 11:30   First Bite of the AI Apple: Capacity Planning for AI deployments\n11:30  1:00    Is Machine Learning the Solution to Your Capacity Management Challenges*\n (and Lunch   – pick up your lunch from the break room next door)\n1:00    2:30    Ansible – Server Administration at Scale\n2:30    3:00    Break\n3:00 – 4:30    How to Scale in the Cloud (Chargeback is Back\, Baby!) \n * – keynote and sponsor \n  \nAgenda Detail \nMorning (1) \nEchoes – Thinking about old and new Cybersecurity issues \nCharles Reddan\, PhD \nColorado Tech University \nAbout the Presentation: \nWith daily news of new cyberattacks\, people may wonder how to keep up with new threats. This presentation will put new events in the context of older better-known threats that we have had to deal with in the past. Is there “nothing new under the sun”\, or are these new and unique? \n About the Speaker: \nCharles Reddan is the campus program chair for Computer Science and Technology at Colorado Technical University. His background is in operating system development and support\, computer networking\, and performance analysis & tuning for MCI\, AT&T Bell Labs\, EDS and HP. Of necessity\, many debugging issues and performance related issues have led down into the murky world of security issues. \nMorning (2) \nFirst Bite of the AI Apple: Capacity Planning for AI deployments \nRick Lebsack \nIBM Corporation \nAbout the Presentation: \nThe discussion of AI solutions has exposed the requirement to plan for capacity.  Historically\, most enterprise workloads come with a degree of consistency along with repeatability from run to run. Well\, in this new age of developing AI assisted applications the development side of the equation has changed. No longer will a test run have consistency\, no longer will resources be shared so that utilization is the primary measure of efficient use of resources. \nThere are two events in the journey to AI where the capacity planner will get involved — initial creation of the resource pool and ongoing measurement of efficiency. This presentation will introduce one approach to capacity planning and ongoing measurement of an AI resource grid. Hopefully we will have spirited discussion on this new topic for capacity planning. \nAbout the Speaker: \nRick Lebsack has been active in IT circles around Denver since 1982.  We could say he cut his teeth on the 3081 processor.  He has worn many hats in his career from SE to Consultant across mainframes to storage to open systems to systems management. He has experience with all.  Currently Rick is an Executive Systems Architect in Denver where he covers the map on Infrastructure and the Software it takes to enable it.  In his spare time he is currently a board member and past-President of CMG working to sustain and enhance the CMG experience for all. \n Noon Keynote  \nIs Machine Learning the Solution to Your Capacity Management Challenges?* \nCharles Johnson\nSyncsort Corporation \nAbout the Presentation: \nToday’s organizations continue to search for ways that technology can provide improve their IT business processes and to find ways IT can provide competitive advantage. Machine Learning is one of the tools that has begun to deliver breakthroughs in delivering the sort of improvements that companies are continually searching to find. \nThere is an increased use of Machine Learning in Capacity Management and Workload Optimization processes. \nWe see an increasing desire in the marketplace for a better understanding of Machine Learning and how it works. Specifically\, there is a need to understand how combining Machine Learning and Capacity Management work together to dramatically improve their Capacity Management efforts. \nJoin us to learn: \n\nWhat is Machine Learning?\nKey terminology used when working with Machine Learning\nBenefits of Machine Learning for Capacity Management\n\nAbout the Presenter:  \nCharles is a Senior Technical Consultant for Professional Services at Syncsort. He has over 30 years professional experience in computer systems performance engineering\, capacity management\, systems\, and database administration. Charles has worked in many industries including Outsourcing\, Financial and Insurance \n* – Keynote and Sponsor \nAfternoon (1) \nAnsible – System Administration at Scale \nRonda McCain \nIBM Corporation \nAbout the Presentation:  \n When Distributed Systems made their stage entrance several decades ago\, System Administrators were dealing with a few interconnected servers. Not a problem for the heroic System Admin.  However\, the ‘few’ became ‘dozens’.  “Dozens’ became ‘hundreds’\, and in some cases\, ‘thousands’.  Maintaining server populations at this scale became the natural domain of automation. \nAnsible provides a flexible approach to automation and execution on accounts.  It provides a straightforward path to cloud implementations. \n About the Presenter:  \nRonda McCain has a background in both Mainframe and Distributed Storage. She has been with IBM 20 years. Ronda is an experienced Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) with over 36+ years of demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. In 2019 Ronda moved into the IBM Automation Innovation team where she is leading a major initiative for North America in the deployment of Ansible Automation. Ronda has been involved with RM-CMG for many years and volunteered as a board member. \n Afternoon (2) \nHow to Scale in the Cloud \n(Chargeback is Back\, Baby!) \nNeil Gunther\, Ph D. \nPerformance Dynamics \nAbout the Presentation: \nThe need for system administrators—especially Linux sys admins—to do performance management has returned with a vengeance. Why? The cloud. Resource consumption in the cloud is all about run now\, pay later (AKA “chargeback” to mainframers). This talk will show you how performance models can help to find the most cost-effective deployment of your applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The same technique should be transferable to other cloud services. \nAbout the Presenter:  \nNeil Gunther\, M.Sc.\, Ph.D.\, has been a member of CMG since 1993. In 1994\, he started his own research\, consulting\, and education company: Performance Dynamics (perfdynamics.com). Prior to that\, he was a researcher at Xerox PARC and manager of the performance group at Pyramid Technology Corp. (acquired by Siemens AG in 1995). Dr. Gunther received the A.A. Michelson Award in 2008 and was elected a senior member of both ACM and IEEE in 2009. He is also a member of American Mathematical Society and the American Physics Society. \nFind him onTwitter: @DrQz. \nCost and Registration Options: \n(A continental breakfast\, a served lunch\, and beverages for all two meals are included in the registration fee – meat and vegetarian options will be available for lunch) \nAnd\, as a bonus\, we’re hosting an off-site meet-n-greet immediately following the seminar – the hors d’oeuvres and first round will be covered by our sponsor.  The off site is at The Fresh Fish Company \n  \nPre-registration fees:                          Pre-registration options \n(NONE… NONE…NONE)                (see below) \n  \nSeating is limited; make your on-line reservations early.  PLEASE send us an email that you intend to come so we can plan accordingly.  Send your intent to: \nblaine_gaither@gmail.com \nor \ndave.halbig@gmail.com \nAbout CMG \nThe Computer Measurement Group is a not-for-profit\, worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to sharing information and best practices focused on ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement\, quantitative analysis and forecasting. \nCMG members are primarily concerned with performance evaluation of existing systems to maximize performance (e.g. response time\, throughput\, etc.) and with capacity management where planned enhancements to existing systems or the design of new systems are evaluated to find the necessary resources required to provide adequate performance at a reasonable cost. \nFor more information about this meeting or for dates and topics for future Rocky Mountain CMG meetings\, please contact: Dave Halbig at (303) 967-7753.  The calendar for this and all other CMG meetings can be found at: http://www.cmg.org/cgi-bin/calendar_2010.pl?format=cal \nAre you on the RMCMG email list? Send your email address and other contact information to Blaine Gaither :  blaine @acm.org \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/rocky-mountain-cmg-winter-19-forum/
LOCATION:IBM Corporation\, 8200 Warden Ave\, Markham\, Ontario\, L6G 1C7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="David Halbig":MAILTO:dave.halbig@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T203000
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SUMMARY:Greater Boston CMG Meetup - Democratizing Performance Testing
DESCRIPTION:We want to invite you to an event for next week\, Tuesday\, October 29\, sponsored by SmartBear Software \nThis is great opportunity to network and learn from a leader in test automation. \n  \nAgenda:\n6-6.30: Networking\n6.30-7.15 – Smartbear presenting “Democratizing Performance Testing”\n7.20-8.00 – RoundTable Discussion — modern day Site Reliability\, Performance and Scalability concerns\n8-8.30 – Networking and Wrapup \n  \nLocation \nSmartBear Software \n450 Artisan Way \nSomerville\, MA \n  \nPlease RSVP on our meetup site \nhttps://www.meetup.com/Performance-Engineering-and-Capacity-Planning/events/lkqqbqyznbfc/ \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/democratizing-performance-testing/
LOCATION:SmartBear Software\, 450 Artisan Way\, Somerville\, MA\, 02145\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Mohit Verma":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T153000
DTSTAMP:20191007T154937Z
CREATED:20191007T154937Z
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SUMMARY:Minneapolis - St. Paul CMG Meeting: Mainframe – Still Innovated At Any Age
DESCRIPTION:The meeting is open to anyone who would like to attend. \nAgenda:\n8:45– 9:00 Business Meeting – CMG Board – Morning coffee \n9:00– 9:45  Really cool Z stuff – James Fyffe Jr.
Enterprise Systems Solution Architect; CISSP-ISSMP \nAbstract:  For those of you that follow IBM Mainframe Technology\, you realize IBM announced a new server on September 12\, 2019. The announcement details are found here – https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/news . Speaking as an IBM Premier Business Partner\, this latest IBM Announcement will offer our client’s some rather unique features. One such feature is referred to as System Recovery Boost.  That is the focus of this session.TBD \nBio: Jim Fyffe works for Evolving Solutions as their Z Systems Solution Architect.  Jim joined Evolving Solutions in 2016 following a 36-year career with IBM working on and supporting IBM’s Z System Server Platform. Needless to say\, Jim is enjoying his new role and having access to an IBM ZR1 Server. \n9:45– 10:00 Break sponsored by Sirius \n10:00 – 11:00  Mainframe innovation is finally on the move – Ken Steinhardt\, Field CTO\, Infinidat \nAbstract: Attend this session to learn about a new solution that will provide you with performance and the flexibility to handle modern workloads without forgetting about your existing applications. At the same time\, you’ll benefit from significantly improved ease-of-use\, integration with your applications\, and the ability to consolidate your older frames into a single floor tile. \nBio: Ken Steinhardt serves as Field CTO at Infinidat. He has held many different roles in the IT industry over the last 45 years\, having started as a mainframe applications programmer and systems analyst\, part-time when he was still in high school. After receiving his BS degree in Computer Science from WPI\, Ken was at Digital Equipment Corporation for 16 years\, EMC Corporation for 20 years\, and most recently joined Infinidat from Pure Storage. His longest-tenured role was as EMC’s Vice President of Enterprise Storage & CTO for Global Product Sales. Specific to IBM Mainframes\, Ken designed and implemented software for S/360 and S/370\, managed DEC’s IBM mainframe competitive effort\, and held multiple management and executive roles at EMC that entailed global responsibility for EMC’s mainframe storage business. He still has his original green S/360 instruction-set card. \n11:00 – 12:00  Model9 Cloud backup for Z – Jimmy Ference – Mainframe Architect Sirius \nAbstract: Model 9 is an alternative solution for mainframe tape backup vs. the traditional vendor hardware solutions. Jimmy will explain some of the solution\, what it does\, how it is set up and demos. \nBio:  Jimmy joined Sirius in 2016. His eleven-year background in the IT industry includes mainframe hardware\, storage\, replication and high availability system solutions\, SAN implementation\, data center design and infrastructure architecture\, as well as management of mainframe engineers. Jimmy is involved with pre-sale\, implementation and post-sale services for new and used mainframes. This includes coordinating the entire preparation and installation of the mainframe. The level of detail of involvement is driven by the client. Jimmy’s background in replication and recovery in addition to mainframe hardware has been utilized early in his career at Sirius to assist in guiding client HA and recovery decisions as well as implementations. For the past year Jimmy has been involved with the research and implementation of Dataset Encryption and other security items under IBM’s Pervasive Encryption umbrella. Prior to joining Sirius\, Jimmy held related roles at a large financial institution including mainframe hardware engineer\, mainframe storage engineer\, and mainframe storage engineering team\nmanager. As a hardware engineer he was responsible for managing five data centers with mainframe footprints totaling nearly one million MIPS\, over 100 Brocade fiber directors\, and 80 DASD subsystems as well as the data center fiber infrastructure for the mainframe environment. During his tenure in storage engineering\, he led the implementation of the first IBM GDPS foursite replication environment in a customer site and four\nsubsequent implementations. Jimmy was involved in numerous sessions with IBM Labs in Poughkeepsie\, Montpellier and Tucson as well as Brocade labs to develop and enhance mainframe\, Fibre Channel director\, and storage products. \n12:00 – 12:30  Lunch – sponsored by Evolving Solutions \n12:30 –1:30  Z15 Update –  Sandy Campbell (Gilson) Sr. Mainframe Engineer – Sirius \nAbstract: TBD \nBio: Sandra C. is a highly skilled and self-motivated IT professional with a 30-year background in the management of mission-critical projects and departments. She is proficient in both existing and emerging technologies\, with the ability to master complex systems quickly. Sandra consistently develops viable and productive solutions to information systems needs within fast-paced environments. She has solid contract negotiation\, licensing management and client-service skills\, is competent to develop new avenues of distribution\, secures long-term client commitments\, and directs departmental efforts for dependable quality service. Sandra is able to bridge communications between technical and non-technical employees and provide comprehensive written documentation. She is comfortable interacting with all levels of her clients’ organization including C-level executives. \n1:30 – 2:00 Break sponsored by Infinidat \n1:30 –2:30 Pervasive Encryption – Sandy Campbell (Gilson) Sr. Mainframe Engineer – Sirius \nAbstract: TBD \nBio: Please see above. \n2:30 –3:30 Planning for Space Efficient Immutable Snapshots  – Mark Grinnell Senior Principal Engineer\, Solutions Architecture Global Specialty Deployment – Dell \nAbstract: Planning for Space Efficient immutable snapshots.  Understanding the space and considerations for cyber protection and logical protection. \nBio:  Mark Grinnell Senior Principal Engineer\, Solutions Architecture Global Specialty Deployment. Areas of focus include VMAX SRDF\, TimeFinder and SnapVX replication solutions for disaster recovery and DASD migration.  22 years at EMC\, now Dell Technologies. Originally worked as a presales systems engineer and moved to Professional Services / Delivery in the early 2000’s aligned primarily with mainframe customers. VMAX performance analysis and capacity planning as well as migration planning and implementation are areas of significant experience. \n  \n  \nLocal Officers\nTo add your name to our email distribution\, contact TBecchetti@gmail.com or MSPCMG@gmail.com or follow us on twitter @MSPCMG.\nOur mailing list is completely confidential. \nChair: Tom Becchetti\nPhone: (612) 638-7095\nE-Mail: TBecchetti@gmail.com mailto:TBecchetti@gmail.com or mailto:mspcmg@gmail.com\nTwitter: @tbecchetti \nTreasurer: Jim Goergen\nE-Mail: jgoergen@acm.org \nDirector: Barry Pieper – CMG member number 6868 (since 1983)\nPhone: (651) 675-7212\nE-Mail: barry.pieper@gmail.com \nDirector: Doug Morris\nPhone: (612)323-4613\nE-Mail: mailto:dmorris@commvault.com \nDirector: Mark Weber\nPhone: (612)991-5404\nE-Mail: markweber@lonstel.com \nAdvisor: Bill Feeney\nPhone: (612)348-6230\nE-Mail: mailto:bill.feeney@co.hennepin.mn.us \nAdvisor: Judy Jones\nPhone: (612)418-6883\nE-Mail: judyjones9@gmail.com \nDirector: Tim Plas\nPhone: (952)843-1148\nE-Mail: mailto:tim.plas@virteva.com\nTwitter: @tjplas \nConnect to our website here: https://www.cmg.org/us-regions-2/cmg-minneapolis-st-paul/
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/save-the-date-minneapolis-st-paul-cmg-meeting/
LOCATION:Delta Airlines\, 1500 Tower View Road\, Bld-J (Data Center)\, Eagan\, MN\, 55122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Tom Becchetti":MAILTO:mspcmg@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:SRE\, Performance\, and Scalability in the age of the Cloud - Greater Boston CMG Regional Conference presented by Dynatrace and Moviri
DESCRIPTION:The next Greater Boston CMG is pleased to present \nSRE\, Performance\, and Scalability in the age of the Cloud\n\n\n\nThis meeting will include presentations on AWS\, DevOps\, and other technologies. Included on the agenda are sessions from Moviri\, a global expert in analytics\, performance engineering\, IoT; and Security\, and Dynatrace\, a software intelligence company providing APM\, AIOps\, cloud infrastructure monitoring\, and digital experience management solutions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen:\nAugust 15; 8:30AM – 1:30PM\nBreakfast and lunch will be provided. \nLocation:\nDynatrace\, 1601 Trapelo Rd #116\, Waltham\, MA 02451\nFree parking is available at this location. Park in the front of the building and come up the front stairs into the main hallway. The building is handicapped accessible with proper identification. Please ring the buzzer at the 1st level parking garage entrance for security. If there is no answer\, please call the office at 781-890-1023 and one of our staff members will assist you. \nRegistration:\nPlease use the meetup link below for registration. Please note that this is a FREE event\, i.e. there is no registration fee. However\, we require prior registration in order to order breakfast and lunch for you. The agenda for the conference will be sent later. Register here \n  \n  \nSponsored By
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/greater-boston-cmg-regional-conference/
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T180000
DTSTAMP:20180713T223914Z
CREATED:20180713T223914Z
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UID:23020-1537459200-1537466400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:CMG in Atlanta - Join us at Tupelo Honey Cafe!
DESCRIPTION:We’ll welcome you with open arms at the Tupelo Honey Cafe\nFeel like heading out for some Southern comfort food with a creative twist\, some craft beer or a cocktail? \nPlease join us. It’s a free event with benefits: you’ll connect with many other CMG members\, learn about new and innovative technologies\, and network with some exceptional technology professionals and local performance experts while enjoying a fun and convivial cafe environment. \nPreregister and you’ll be sure of a spot at the Tupelo Honey Cafe. \n  \nDATE AND TIME: Thu\, September 20\, 2018; 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT \n\nLOCATION: Tupelo Honey Cafe\, 4600 Roswell Road\, #bldg c ste 110\, Sandy Springs\, GA 30342
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-atlanta-meetup/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180508T200000
DTSTAMP:20180430T170552Z
CREATED:20180430T170552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180430T170552Z
UID:23011-1525802400-1525809600@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Performance and Scalability in the age of the Cloud: Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:This will be a roundtable discussion focused on modern day performance and scalability concerns including Predictive Analytics in realtime\, IOT\, Cloud\, Blockchain. Please bring your stories\, concerns and enthusiasm. If you want to present let me know… \nLearn more
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/performance-and-scalability-in-the-age-of-the-cloud-roundtable/
LOCATION:Cambridge Innovation Center\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Mohit Verma":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180403T200000
DTSTAMP:20180320T171414Z
CREATED:20180320T171414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180320T171414Z
UID:23003-1522778400-1522785600@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Greater Boston CMG Meetup: Performance and Scalability in the age of the Cloud: Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:This will be a roundtable discussion focused on modern day performance and scalability concerns including Predictive Analytics in realtime\, IOT\, Cloud\, Blockchain. Please bring your stories\, concerns and enthusiasm
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/performance-scalability-age-cloud-roundtable-2/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
ORGANIZER;CN="Mohit Verma":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T210000
DTSTAMP:20180126T135220Z
CREATED:20180126T135220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180126T135220Z
UID:22993-1519236000-1519246800@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Greater Boston CMG MEETUP on 2/21/18 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
DESCRIPTION:Due to impact from the storm today. I am moving this to Feb 21st – Same location \nSee you then \n——————————————————————– \nThe Greater Boston regional group of the CMG will hold a MeetUp event on the evening of Wednesday\, February 21. This is a FREE event and will include dinner. However\, we need your registration in order to get a headcount. Please use the URL below to register.\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Performance-Engineering-and-Capacity-Planning/events/246446005/ \n  \n  \nWhere: Cambridge Innovation Center\, 101 Main St · Cambridge\, MA\nWhen: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM on Wednesday February 21\, 2018 \n  \n6:00 Networking and general discussion\n6.30 PM : Deepak Mahendarkar will talk about Executable Project Methodologies for Cloud \nDeepak Mahendarkar is CTO of Maniksoft\, Inc and oversees service delivery & IT strategy execution for its various clients. Maniksoft is AWS technology partner and provides IT consulting & staff augmentation services. His talk will encompass Devops\, Executable project Methology for Cloud (AWS) \n7.30 PM – David Soares Cloud Architect of FacilityConnex\, Inc. -https://www.facilityconnex.com/ will talk about Scaling and cost management beyond basic cloud IaaS \nFaciltiyConnex’s SaaS offering is currently built upon legacy (GE Proficy) software which is hosted in AWS EC2. The company is moving in the direction of a cloud-centric architecture to take advantage of the real-time scalability and cost savings it can provide. This talk will cover the continuum of services offered in the cloud\, from virtual (yet traditional) datacenters all the way to “serverless” computing\, and our journey along that continuum with regards to scalability and cost.
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/greater-boston-cmg-meetup-2-7-18-600-pm-900-pm/
LOCATION:Cambridge Innovation Center\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Ankur Hajare":MAILTO:gbcmg1@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T161500
DTSTAMP:20180122T135939Z
CREATED:20180122T135939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T135939Z
UID:22992-1519203600-1519229700@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Dallas – Southwest CMG\, February 21 @ 9:00 am – 4:15 pm CST
DESCRIPTION:Dallas – Southwest CMG\, February 21 @ 9:00 am – 4:15 pm CST \n  \nhttps://www.meetup.com/Southwest-Computer-Measurement-Group-SWCMG/
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/swcmg-onsite-meetup-ibm-february-21-2018/
LOCATION:SouthWest CMG MeetUp\, 1177 South Beltline Road\, Coppell\, TX\, 75019\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171212T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171212T180000
DTSTAMP:20171115T200305Z
CREATED:20171115T200305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171115T200305Z
UID:22979-1513101600-1513101600@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:GREATER BOSTON: Greater Boston CMG Performance Engineering and Capacity Planning December Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Our next Meetup: December 12th – Mark your Calendar \nMore details to follow
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/greate-boston-cmg-performance-engineering-capacity-planning-december-meetup/
LOCATION:Dynatrace\, 400 tottenpond road\, Waltham\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Greater Boston CMG":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T200000
DTSTAMP:20171102T164553Z
CREATED:20171102T164553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T164553Z
UID:22977-1512495000-1512504000@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:ATLANTA - High Performance in Financial Trading Systems
DESCRIPTION:Topic: How Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) used technology\, and high-performance computing in its growth from a 6 person startup to a 25 billion company and the largest financial marketplace in the world\, including the acquisition of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2013. \nSpeaker: Edwin Marcial\, Senior VP  & CTO\, ICE \n6:30 PM: Edwin begins his presentation  \nReminder: For this special Holiday meetup\, we ask that you bring a donation of $10 or a toy for Toys-for-Tots. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/high-performance-financial-trading-systems/
LOCATION:Atlanta Tech Village\, 3423 Piedmont Rd NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup
ORGANIZER;CN="Billy Hoffman":MAILTO:CTO @ Rigor. Hacker
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T160000
DTSTAMP:20170710T140159Z
CREATED:20170710T140159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170710T140159Z
UID:22960-1507024800-1507046400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Prep and Landing Apps in the Cloud: Tips and Tools for a Successful Journey - Kansas City System Capacity and Performance Meetup (KCCMG)
DESCRIPTION:Prep and Landing Apps in the Cloud: Tips and Tools for a Successful Journey\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nOctober 3 @ 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM CDT | Cerner Continuous Campus\, Kansas City\, MO \n  \nThis event presented by KCCMG will include presentations on Performance Management\, Cloud Cost Control\, and Service Based Capacity Management. \nRegister on Meetup!
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/kansas-city-system-capacity-performance-meetup-kccmg-prep-landing-apps-cloud-tips-tools-successful-journey/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
ORGANIZER;CN="Justin Martin":MAILTO:kccmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170923
DTSTAMP:20170720T131810Z
CREATED:20170720T131810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T131810Z
UID:22962-1506038400-1506124799@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Greater Boston CMG Fall Conference (MeetUp)
DESCRIPTION:This meeting of Greater Boston CMG will include presentations on Performance Management\, Benchmarking for Machine Learning\, Capacity Analysis\, and Deep Learning for Engineers. \nEvent Schedule: https://www.cmg.org/regions/fall-2017-meeting/ \nMeetUp Registration: https://www.meetup.com/Performance-Engineering-and-Capacity-Planning/events/242747253/
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/greater-boston-fall-conference/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
ORGANIZER;CN="Mohit Verma":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170510T203000
DTSTAMP:20170417T133446Z
CREATED:20170417T133446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T133446Z
UID:22941-1494441000-1494448200@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:CMG + Atlanta Web Performance Meet Up - IoT Architecture\, Traffic\, and Patterns
DESCRIPTION:Ashu Joshi\, Founder & CEO of Movinture \nOn May 10th\, CMG and Atlanta Web Performance Meet Up are please to present speaker Ashu Joshi\, Ashu is Founder and CEO of Movinture\, an IoT back-end as a service (IBaaS) company. In his presentation\, Ashu will provide an overview of IoT architecture as well as use cases and verticals of IoT. He will also touch on traffic patterns and optimization of the IoT back-end. \nRegister Online on Meetup \n\nAbout Ashu Joshi \nAshu Joshi is the Founder & CEO of Movinture. Movinture is an IoT Backend as a Service (IBaaS) company. Ashu has been working in the Connected Devices & IoT market since 2006. He led Product & Business Strategy for the Consumer & Service Provider IoT business while he was at Cisco Systems. His initial focus was on Smart Home\, and soon diversified into Smart Cities\, Smart Buildings\, Connected Transportation and Industrial IoT. He had the opportunity to work with major customers on IoT applications and in addition he worked closely with the M&A group to invest in and acquire IoT Startups. His experience in IoT spans devices\, gateways and cloud. He has deep understanding of the various device and communication protocols involved in IoT. e has represented his companies at major IoT standards bodies and consortiums.   Ashu is an MBA from GSU and has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from India. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-atlanta-web-performance-meet/
LOCATION:Atlanta Tech Village\, 3423 Piedmont Rd NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup
ORGANIZER;CN="CMG HQ":MAILTO:cmghq@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140604T174500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140604T190000
DTSTAMP:20140409T065737Z
CREATED:20140409T065737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140409T065737Z
UID:22847-1401903900-1401908400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:CMG Australia Meetup
DESCRIPTION:CMG Australia Meetup
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-australia-meetup/
LOCATION:Level 2\, 20-24 Guildford Lane\, Melbourne\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T180000
DTSTAMP:20140409T070101Z
CREATED:20140409T070101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140409T070101Z
UID:22848-1396544400-1396548000@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:NLCMG Spring Meetup
DESCRIPTION:NLCMG spring meetup
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/nlcmg-spring-meetup/
CATEGORIES:Meetup
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