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SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG’s Fall 2021 Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:STLCMG’s Fall 2021 Virtual Conference meeting will be held on Wednesday\, December 8th. This free virtual ½ day event.  Our sponsor is : ZETALY \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTLCMG Quarterly Meeting Agenda\n\n\n\n\nTime\nTopic\n \nPresenter\n\n\n\n8:30 -8:50\nLogon and Virtual Networking\n\n\n\n8:50 – 9:00\nWelcome and Introductions \n  \nNote: All participants will be muted upon entry to Zoom. \nYou may unmute yourselves to ask questions anytime throughout the meeting or use “Chat” to post a question for the speakers. \n  \nAlso\, please turn off your PC video-cameras during the event.\n\n\n\n9:00 – 9:55\n10 tips to reach Mainframe Operational Excellence (or not)!\nMarc Beschi\, Zetaly \n\n\n10:00 – 10:55\nFinOps\, the prerequisite for mainframe modernization!\nRoberto Pacheco\, Zetaly\n\n\n\n11:00 – 11:30\nA Word from our Sponsor \nControl Costs & Keep Track of your Budget! \nBrian Hoare\, & Roberto Pacheco\, Zetaly \n \n\n\n\n11:30\nClosing Remarks \n \nMeeting Sponsored by:  ZETALY\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n REGISTER\n \nHope to see you virtually on December 8th. \nCheers\,\nWayne Allen\nChapter President – STLCMG\n2200 MasterCard Blvd.\nO’Fallon\, Missouri 63368-7263
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmgs-fall-2021-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Region,Virtual Conference
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210824T123000
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SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG Summer 2021 Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:STLCMG Quarterly Meeting Agenda\n\n\n\nTime\nTopic\n \nPresenter\n\n\n\n8:30 -8:50\nLogon and Virtual Networking\n\n\n8:50 – 9:00\nWelcome and Introductions \n  \nMeeting Theme:  \nA Holistic Approach to System Performance \n  \nNote: All participants will be muted upon entry to Zoom. \nYou may unmute yourselves to ask questions anytime throughout the meeting or use “Chat” to post a question for the speakers. \n  \nAlso\, please turn off your PC video-cameras during the event.\n\n\n9:00 – 9:55\nTake Back Control of Your Mainframe Budget\nBrian Hoare\, Zetaly \n\n\n10:00 – 10:55\nTailored Fit Pricing (TFP)\nTom Herlihy\, IBM\n\n\n11:00 – 11:55\nCapacity and performance management across mainframe and distributed platforms with IT Business Intelligence (ITBITM)\nSteven Thomas\, CTO\, SMT Data\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30\nA Word from our Sponsor   \nWhy is everyone talking about In-Memory Processing? \nLarry Strickland\, \nChief Product Officer\, DataKinetics\n\n\n12:30\nClosing Remarks \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nEvent Sponsor: \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nNote: You need to register to receive the link for the Zoom meeting. \nRegister Now!
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmg-summer-2021-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Region,Virtual Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="Wayne Allen":MAILTO:stlcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210819T093000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210819T110000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20210726T173348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T200348Z
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SUMMARY:CMG Australia Virtual Event: Modern Observability Management
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, Aug 18\, 2021 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT (Eastern Time Zone)\nor\nThu\, Aug 19\, 2021 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM AEST (Australia Time Zone)  \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin CMG Australia for this event on Modern Observability Management. We will feature two speakers talking about their own experiences with observability programs and how to manage outsourced observability. \nWatch These Videos:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMuch Observability\, Such Wow!\nPresented by Pranavi Chandramohan – Observability Platform Lead at Canva\nOver the last few years\, Observability has become a critical aspect of software development and systems design. Good Observability practices\, coupled with effective design and tools provide software development teams\, both large and small with a significant competitive advantage. Come learn about my experience with Observability as I went from being a software engineer to an SRE and most recently an Observability engineer. \n\nAbout the Presenter:\n \nPranavi Chandramohan is a professional software engineer with significant experience in web development\, infrastructure design and operation. She has more than 10 years’ experience in software engineering and development with companies like Intel Corporation and Campaign Monitor. In her current role at Canva\, she serves as a Technical Lead working on the company’s Observability Platform. Pravani enjoys presenting and writing about her work to share her knowledge with others. She resides in Sydney. \n  \n\n\nGreat! Your Mainframe is outsourced. What is next in a digital future? Your outsourcer is your partner. How can you avoid common expensive hiccups?\nPresented by Brian Hoare – Analytics Solutions Specialist at ZETALY\nOutsourcer’s do a good job\, but to make the business relationship work equally\, checks and balances must be conducted.\nIn most parts\, the relationship with the outsourcer is positive\, but do you receive all the cost savings expected?\nOnly regular due diligence with the outsourcer will ensure you do.\nCovid has changed the world we live in and companies have moved forward at a ferocious pace\, especially with digitalization\, your outsourcer is no different.\nIn this session\, we will explore the relevant checks and balances\, digitalization\, and some of the benefits that working closer to your outsourcer can bring to you. \nThe future is digital\, are you ready for the change? \n\nAbout the Presenter:\n \nBrian Hoare has seen the z platform grow from OS/390 to today’s z/OS. He has introduced new solutions into the USA and worked with several startups. He has presented at local/annual CMG’s\, Share and many other conferences discussing cost reduction (IBM/MLC)\, performance and is now his focused on analytical data on “z”. Mainframe analytics are his latest passion\, especially as Z is the richest source of data there is. So why not use the richest source of data we have for helping to run the business? Brian now lives in Florida\, but lived in Sydney and Melbourne for 20+ years and is a passionate fan of Rugby and Football (Soccer) with several refereeing and coaching badges. \n  \n\n\n\n\n  \nRegister Now!
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-australia-virtual-event-modern-observability-management/
CATEGORIES:Meetup,ONLINE,Region,Virtual Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="CMG Headquarters":MAILTO:cmghq@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20210518T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20210518T123000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20210412T140012Z
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SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG Spring 2021 Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:  \nSt. Louis CMG will be having a virtual ½ day event on May 18th! \nTime: 8:30 AM — 12:30 PM CDT\nThe theme of the meeting will be Data Center Resiliency.\nTopics will include: AI-Ops\, Capacity/Performance and Cyber Recovery. \nOur sponsor for the meeting will be : IBM \n  \n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\nTime\nTopic\n \nPresenter\n\n\n\n8:30 -8:50\nLogon and Virtual Networking\n\n\n8:50 – 9:00\nWelcome and Introductions \nNote: All will be muted on entry to WebEx but feel free to unmute (red microphone symbol) yourselves to ask questions throughout the day or use the “Chat” to post a question for a speaker.  Also\, please turn off your PC video-cameras today.\n\n\n9:00 – 9:55\nData Center Resiliency:  AI-OPs\nDan Wiegand\, IBM \n\n\n10:00 – 10:55\nData Center Resiliency:  Capacity & Performance Analytics\nChris Walker\, IBM\n\n\n11:00 – 11:55\nData Center Resiliency:  Cyber Recovery\nDiego Bessone\, IBM\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30\nA Word from our Sponsor   \nIBM Data Center Resiliency…Innovation that Matters \nCliff Koch\, \nIBM z Systems Software Leader\n\n\n12:30\nClosing Remarks \n \n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n Closed\n \n\nContact: Wayne Allen\, Chapter President – STLCMG Email: stlcmg@cmg.org \n\n\n Abstracts and Bio’s\nChris Walker\nData Center Resiliency: Capacity & Performance Analytics \nThe modern needs for performance and capacity management on IBM Z \nThe role of the performance analyst has been critical to ensure capital and operational costs are accurately managed and performance is optimized. The skills required are often learned over many years and are dependent on multiple\, often homegrown\, tooling. In the modern hybrid cloud world\, the ability for a those responsible for performance management and capacity planning to understand and make informed decisions as workloads become interconnected and less predictable is essential. The session will cover the skills needed by the modern performance analyst and capacity planner on the IBM Z\, including how the increased use of analytics and machine learning technologies help inform decision making and ensure the mainframe remains a key part of the enterprise architecture. \nBio\nChris Walker is a Senior Offering Manager with IBM. Over 20 years at IBM he has cover many roles and products across the Z portfolio\, and currently responsible for multiple offerings within IBM’s Z AIOps covering performance analysis\, capacity planning and cost management. \n\nDan Wiegand\nData Center Resiliency: AI-Ops  \nToday’s application landscapes are increasingly hybrid\, complex\, and often include IBM Z in large enterprises. With limited staff\, how do you effectively sift through terabytes of data in real-time to identify an issue before it becomes an outage? That’s why organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to leverage AI-driven intelligence to make quick and accurate decisions to maintain resiliency. This session looks at how you can accelerate your journey to AIOps by leveraging the wealth of operational data on IBM Z. Cut through the noise to Detect problems faster\, determine root cause to Decide best course of action\, Act in collaborative and automated way to reduce customer impact. \nBio\nDan Wiegand is the Senior Offering Manager for IBM Z Common Data Provider and IBM Z Operations Analytics\, bringing visibility and insight into IBM Z.   In his 23 years at IBM\, he has performed multiple roles across development\, architecture\, and offering strategy for both IBM Z and IBM Cloud solutions.   Dan has an extensive background in IT Service Management. \n\nDiego Bessone\nData Center Resiliency: Cyber Recovery   \nIn 2020\, the Average Cost of Data Breach in USA was $8.64 million —Ponemon Institute Study\nEnhancing your data and operations security…Reduce the time to recovery from days to minutes\, by implementing a Data Corruption Mitigation solution as part of your HA/DR strategy \nBio\nWith over 34 years of experience in Mainframe environments acquired in data centers of multinational companies\, banks and government agencies\, Diego Bessone is currently an IBM Global Sales Business Unit Executive for IBM Z Systems Software. In his 22+ year career at IBM he has led the sales strategy for these products in Argentina\, then in Latin America\, and for the last 12 years worldwide\, growing market share for the platform year after year\, while helping our customers maximize the value they get from their mainframes. \n\nCliff Koch\nIBM Data Center Resiliency…Innovation that Matters  \nA series of quick hits with solution names that speak for themselves. \nBio\nCliff Koch has over 18 years of experience at IBM\, providing solutions that evolve\, expose\, optimize and manage System z and Linux systems\, spanning Hybrid Cloud & AI-Ops.  He has collaborated with numerous customers on DevSecOps\, Digital Transformation\, Data Center Resiliency\, Application Performance Management\, Automation\, Machine Learning\, and Storage/DR initiatives. \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmg-spring-2021-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Meetup,ONLINE,Region,Virtual Conference
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ORGANIZER;CN="Wayne Allen":MAILTO:stlcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210408T120000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
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SUMMARY:Ohio Valley CMG 2021 Spring Teleconference
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\nOhio Valley CMG is planning a teleconference for April 8\, 2021. This meeting will be conducted over Zoom\, and will have two presentations and a panel discussion about how COVID-19 has changed IT. Admission is free but we do ask that you register. Zoom details will be sent out a day or two before our meeting. We expect to start at 9:00 EDT and finish by about noon. \n  \n08:30 Early gathering for those who want to network before the meeting \n09:00 Introductions and Kickoff \n09:05 What is possible for z/OS development\, even offline or remote? \n10:00 Predict Bad Things Before They Happen… Even if You Haven’t Seen Them Before \n11:00 How COVID-19 Has Changed IT (Panel Discussion) \n12:00ish Wrapup \n  \n\nSpeakers\nJerry Edgington (Western Southern Insurance): What is possible for z/OS development\, even offline or remote? \nIn this presentation we will explore what is possible in the day in the life of a modern programmer.  Showing how a developer might work\, even offline/remote from z/OS\, including testing.  How would they get their work? Where would they find problems or issues to fix? What can be developed and tested\, even when disconnected and only running locally.  Could the developer\, try some new “things” out\, without impacting anyone\, including in CICS\, DB2\, or IMS? What would the pipeline\, workflow or life cycle management\, look like? Could a developer\, develop an application from end to end? Could we remove all the manual steps from development to production deployment? How could multiple developers work on the same source code\, at the same time\, and not impact each other? \nThese are some of the questions\, I hope we will be able to answer or show a path to answering these questions\, but the end of the session. \nNigel Slinger (BMC) Predict Bad Things Before They Happen… Even if You Haven’t Seen Them Before \nBad things just happen. Whether it’s a performance slow down or a service disruption\, it has an impact on our enterprises whether it be revenue\, productivity or both. Over the decades we’ve built our monitors to help ease that problem\, but it is only most effective if we’ve experienced the problem before. Machine Learning solutions learn from past events including performance slowdowns and service disruptions much like humans would. In other words\, many machine learning solutions out there today would have to experience the problem at least once before it can predict it. What if there was a combination of machine learning components\, that when put together\, are able to see those bad things even if you’ve never encountered them before? We’ll talk about those machine learning components and examples of how they can deliver truly predictive machine learning solutions. \nPanel Discussion: How COVID-19 Has Changed IT \nHave you experienced changes in the way you manager performance and capacity for your systems as a result of the COVID-19 impacts?  Have you been wondering if other sites are seeing impacts?  Looking for additional ideas\, including what worked and what didn’t work\, on how to address the changes imposed by the pandemic?  Are recent changes just anomalies\, or will the future of IT be changed permanently? Join us for a panel discussion of the impacts and changes of COVID on IT.  Several IT professionals from organizations in our area will be answering these questions and more in this special session. \n\nAttendance is free\, so register now!\n\nQuestions\, please contact: Ann Knapik\, ann@ohvcmg.org
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/ohio-valley-cmg-2021-spring-teleconference/
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Region,Virtual Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T124500
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20210210T175415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210210T195304Z
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SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG Winter 2021 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Enterprise Performance Strategies\, (EPS). \nLocation:  Zoom\nCost: $0 \nRegistration:\nAll attendees must use this link to register in order to receive the Zoom link to join the meeting. You will receive the Zoom join link closer to the day of the meeting st-louis-cmg.ticketleap.com/2021-winter-conference/ \n\nSTLCMG Quarterly Meeting Agenda\n\n\n\nTime\nTopic\n \nPresenter\n\n\n\n8:40 -9:00\nLogon and Virtual Networking: \nMembers of STLCMG\, prospective members and friends.\n\n\n\n9:00 – 12:45\nIntroductions\, Presentations and Closing Remarks\n\n\n\n9:05 – 10:00\nMeasuring z/OS Performance for Mainframe Rookies\nScott Chapman\n\n\n\n10:05 – 10:35\nA Word from our Sponsor   \nEPS says\, “But wait there is more about Performance and Capacity Analytics!” \nPeter Enrico\, Principal  \nEnterprise Performance Strategies\n\n\n\n10:40 – 11:35\nControversial z/OS Performance Topics and Guidelines\nPeter Enrico &  \nScott Chapman\n\n\n\n11:40 – 12:35\nMainframe Performance Metrics and Observations in the Real World\nScott Chapman\n\n\n\n12:40\nClosing Remarks \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmg-winter-2021-conference/
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Region,Virtual Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kuala_Lumpur:20201215T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kuala_Lumpur:20201215T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20201102T204641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T202513Z
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SUMMARY:CMG Malaysia International Webinar: Future of Finance
DESCRIPTION:Webinar: Future of Finance\nDecember 15\, 2020\n2:30 PM to 4:30 PM  (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone)\n1:30 AM to 3:30 AM (Eastern Standard Time Zone)\nAbout This Webinar:\nDo you know that almost all the US and European digital payment is dominated by Cards (Visa\, Mastercard\, American Express\, etc.)\, while their Asian counterpart is mostly dominated by Phone (Alipay\, Wechat Pay\, etc.)? \nWhat is Banking 4.0? \nWhat are the future digital banking and the financial issues? \nHow could blockchain help to solve said issues and who is adopting this technology and what’s in store down the line for it? \nLet find the answers in CMG Malaysia webinar\, “Future of Finance” presenting by Bin “Robin” Xie\, Chief Executive Officer\, TIDEiSun Group and Effendy Zulkifly\, Founder of Crypto Valley Malaysia / CEO of Blockworq.” \n\nKeynote Speakers\n  \n \nThe Digital Payment Divergence  Card or Phone?\nPresenter: Bin “Robin” Xie\, Chief Executive Officer\, TIDEiSun Group\nDo you know that almost all the US and European digital payment is dominated by Cards (Visa\, Mastercard\, American Express\, etc.)\, while their Asian counterpart is mostly dominated by Phone (Alipay\, Wechat Pay\, etc.)? As a global citizen as well as a FinTech executive\, Robin constantly experiences the difference and deeply understand the digital payment divergence. In this lecture\, she will walk you through the payment evolution from cash to cashless\, how and why there is such a distinctive divergence between the evolution of the west and the east. To understand the root cause\, we will need to trace back to the essentials\, which is\, how the banking system works\, where the true asset is physically and digitally stored in custody\, and how financial institutions choose to share or not to share individual’s information. \nAs of this moment\, Paypal with millions of users announce the adoption of bitcoin\, and the market capitalization of Square once exceeds that of American Express. Beyond divergence\, she foresees the trend as an emerging smarter and more credible digital payment integration. She explains how they started their payment startup\, iSunOne\, to enable digital payment on both smartphone and through debit card. Built on the immutable blockchain\, iSunOne realizes asset instant payment\, instant swap\, and instant investment. \nAbout the Presenter:\nBin “Robin” Xie \nBin “Robin” Xie specializes in turnkey solutions and startup success. Her experience includes FinTech\, strategic investing\, commodities and derivatives\, cryptocurrency and blockchain. She firmly believes that the financial services should not only benefit the elites\, but also the unbanked and underprivileged. That is the main reason she ventured into blockchain technology with an aim to create credibility in the erratic environment we live in. In TIDEiSun\, they utilize blockchain and cryptocurrency in a wide array of ways — to achieve financial inclusion for 2 billion underbanked population beyond borders\, to create smart contracts\, machine auditing and mutual insurance service\, to support time-based distribution of streaming and advertisement solutions\, and more. Currently\, TIDEiSun operates as one of the largest safest cryptocurrency to fiat currency exchange platform in Asia as TideBit. They build the global digital asset management platform\, iSunOne — Spend anywhere\, save anytime\, and send to anyone. https://isun.one \nBefore TIDEiSun\, she was in a hedge fund evaluating blockchain projects for investment. She has years of executive management experience in NYSE-listed Fortune 500 companies. \n  \n\n  \n \nBlockchain and Banking 4.0\nPresenter: Effendy Zulkifly\, Founder of Crypto Valley Malaysia / CEO of Blockworq\nOne of the industries that could especially benefit from blockchain is the financial world. This industry faces a range of problems that this technological innovation could mend to a great degree. \nSo\, in this lecture\, we are going to respond: What is blockchain ecosystem? What is Banking 4.0? What are the future digital banking and the financial issues? How could blockchain help to solve said issues? Furthermore\, who is adopting this technology and what’s in store down the line for it? \nAbout the Presenter:\nEffendy Zulkifly \nEffendy Zulkifly is holding Bachelor in Legal Studies and obtained Certificate of FinTech Program from Oxford University. He is Certified Blockchain Expert from The Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. He raised Diploma in Information Technology (IT) Management from ALISON Academy\, the e-learning provider and academy founded in Galway\, Ireland and learnt coding and programming languages such as Python and JavaScript from Codecademy (USA). \nIn December 2014\, he established ASEAN Youthpreneur Community (AYPC) as the Chairman. AYPC is the Non Profit Technology Chamber of Commerce that consists of the Technopreneurs from 10 ASEAN Countries promoting Blockchain and Digital Entrepreneurship. In January 2017\, he was appointed as Director of Blockchain Development for AGA Global Associate Holding based in Kuala Lumpur. In January 2018\, he founded Blockowrq Sdn Bhd and Blockchain Research Center Malaysia (BRCM) to build more professional and educated people in the Blockchain and IR4.0 Ecosystem. \nHe is also the Co-Founder of Crypto Valley Malaysia as a technology chamber of commerce with Blockchain and Emerging Technologies as the enabler for Industry 4.0. \nIn January 2020\, he founded the World Robotics and IoT Association (WORIA). World Robotics and IOT Association (WORIA) is the premier global organization dedicated to the advancement of Robotics and IoT Industry. \nAuthor of two books\, ‘The Techno Revolution\, Blockchain Manual 101’ and ‘ABCDs that are changing the world’.\nNow he actively promoting the value of Industry Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0)\, Blockchain and Emerging Technologies that involving the development of Halal Blockchain and Food Supply Chain\, Decentralized Mobile Wallet and Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)\, Industrial IoT and Emerging Technologies for Academic and Industry. \n\n\nRegister FREE Now
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-malaysia-international-webinar-future-of-finance/
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Region,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Greater Boston CMG Online Event -  Monthly Roundtable: SRE\, Performance and Scalability in the Age of the Cloud
DESCRIPTION:This will be a roundtable discussion focused on modern day Site Reliability\, Performance and Scalability concerns including Analytics\, IOT\, Cloud\, Blockchain\, Machine Learning/Big data/AI \nRegister\, here. \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/greater-boston-cmg-online-event-monthly-roundtable-sre-performance-and-scalability-in-the-age-of-the-cloud/
CATEGORIES:Expert Roundtables,Meetup,ONLINE,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="CMG Headquarters":MAILTO:cmghq@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201027T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201027T123000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20201008T130425Z
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SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG Fall 2020 Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:STLCMG’s Fall 2020 meeting is set for a Virtual ½ day meeting on Tuesday\, October 27th. \nOur sponsor for the meeting will be : Turbonomic \nAll registrants will be connected via WebEx. You need to register to receive an official meeting invite and WebEx link. \n  \n  \n Register here\n \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmg-fall-2020-virtual-conference/
CATEGORIES:Region,Virtual Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="Wayne Allen":MAILTO:stlcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kuala_Lumpur:20201008T193000
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SUMMARY:CMG Malaysia Webinar: Digital World Skills
DESCRIPTION:Check out CMG’s Malaysia’s page for videos\n  \nA live webinar to find out more about the skills needed for Digital Careers.  7:30 PM to 10:30 PM  (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone) \nThe digital revolution in parallel with Covid 19 pandemic has greatly impacted the careers all over the world. CMG Malaysia looks at the changes brought about in the digitalization related competences and skills required by the main professional profiles\, to draw a map of the competence needs that will provide employees\, but also unemployed\, self-employed\, low-skilled employees and university students the opportunity to update their professional skills and knowledge. \nDuring this webinar\, the following points will be discussed: \n–       How universities can support young people in thinking about their career direction in a new digital world. \n–       What innovation means for career development in the age of Industry 4.0. \n–       What are the key digital and IT infrastructural required skills? \n–       The key suggestions for young generation and the successful roadmap ahead. \nDuring the online conference delegates will be able to discuss and sharing their ideas. \n\nRegister FREE Now\n \n\n\nOur Keynote Speakers\n  \n \nDigital Transformation in TIME dotCom\nTIME dotCom Berhad is a Malaysian-based telecommunications provider with an interesting transformation story and continues to grow domestically and regionally. In this lecture\, Mr. Afzal Abdul Rahim will discuss the digital transformation of TIME dotCom\, its priorities and the skills he considers important in a rapidly developing industry. \n  \nAfzal Abdul Rahim\, Chief Executive Officer\, Time Dotcom BHD\nMember of Digital Economy Task Force (DETF) \nAfzal holds a Degree in Mechanical Engineering with Electronics\, specialising in Acoustic Wave Theory from the University of Sussex\, United Kingdom. He started his career in the automotive industry culminating in a regional role with Group Lotus PLC. A technology entrepreneur\, he also founded the Malaysian Internet Exchange (MyIX)\, which was established in 2006. He currently sits on the Boards of CIMB Group Holdings Berhad\, Symphony Communication Public Company Limited\, CMC Telecommunication Infrastructure Corporation\, Megawisra Investments Limited\, Megawisra Sdn Bhd\, Global Transit International Sdn Bhd and Pulau Kapas Ventures Sdn Bhd. \n  \n7:30 pm to 7:55 pm (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone) / 7:30 am to 7:55 am (EDT Time Zone) \n\n \nThriving Digital Transformations Relies on Human Transformation\nTransforming leadership is an important ingredient in successful digital transformations. Too often digital transformation projects are considered as purely digital and then struggle with inspiring and engaging people in the implementation phase. What can we do to create a more holistic process\, where human transformation is considered and supported as part of the evolution? \n  \nHeidi Gutekunst\, CEO/Co-founder\, Amara Collaboration \nHeidi has a M.Sc. (Econ.). She has worked most of her career in traditional and digital advertising agencies. Heidi has several national and international awards in innovative advertising\, branding\, design and digital service design. She started her career working as a Human Resource Manager and continued from there to key account management\, strategic advertising and branding. \nThe last three years Heidi has served as a CEO for a digital advertising agency. During Heidi’s time as a CEO the company went through a transformation with results in financial performance\, employee satisfaction\, conquering new offerings\, turning customers into accounts and winning both national and international awards for the first time in years. \nIn 1997-1998 Heidi travelled with people around the world with 170 youth from 24 different countries. The group managed and performed a 2-hour musical\, did community service and lived in host families in each of the 90 places the group visited. This experience did not only result in contacts all over the world\, but also in becoming highly flexible and adaptive to new situations and cultures.\nHeidi is a regular speaker at Business Forums interested in her personal entrepreneurship and transforming ability. \n  \n8:00 pm to 8:25 pm (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone) /  8:00 am to 8:25 am (EDT Time Zone) \n\n \nIR 4.0 and its system application Issues and Challenges\nIR 4.0 represents the integration of tools already used in the past (big data\, cloud\, robot\, 3D printing\, simulation\, etc.) that are now connected into a global network by transmitting digital data. The implementation of this new paradigm represents a huge change for companies\, which are faced with big investments. In order to benefit from the opportunities offered by the smart revolution\, companies must have the prerequisites needed to withstand changes generated by “smart” system. \n  \nProf. Rusli Haji Abdullah\, Dean in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology\, UPM \nProf. Rusli Abdullah is currently Professor of Knowledge Management at Software Engineering and Information System Department\, as well as the Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology\, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). \nSpecialized in Knowledge Management\, he has completed his PhD in Computer Science at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)\, Johor\, Malaysia in 2006. Starting his career as a lecturer in 2006 after serving as System Analyst for 8 years at UPM. He has published over 14 books and over 100 journal papers\, conference publications and other academic research publications. He has also received numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career that includes Silver Medal for University Research Invention in 2008 and 2009\, Gold Medal for University Research Invention 2005\, Silver Medal for Invention of Technology and Exposition I-TEX (2009)\, Silver Medal for Malaysian Research Invention and Exposition – MTE (2010\, 2012\, 2014) and Certification of University Excellent Services of Lecturer Service for many years since 1999. \n  \n8:30 pm to 8:55 pm (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone) / 8:30 am to 8:55 am (EDT Time Zone) \n\n \nFull Computer Automation in Enterprise Management in IR4.0\nTraditionally companies are being run based on departments and in fact many companies are still running in Silos. Industrial Revolution 4.0 will break these silos by having the computers to do almost all the transactions that were normally done by human. We are looking at full automation in the areas between sales and accounting\, marketing to sales\, purchasing to accounting\, online payment and automated payment\, B2C and B2B portals that are integrated to ERP system\, automated staff management\, integration of POS and online e-commerce and others. We are looking at re-organisation of human functions in companies due to the impact of IR4.0 \n  \nAziz Ismail\, Founder and CEO\, Authentic Venture Sdn Bhd \nIr Aziz Ismail is a Techpreneur focusing on enterprise management and automation. He is the past President of TeAM and VP of NEF in Malaysia. His working experience spans from working for Government GLC and Multination companies. He was also in the government committees for entrepreneur grant under MDEC and Cradle Fund. He was involved in automation of many major industrial plants in Malaysia in the early period of his work life.. For many years now he focuses on enterprise solutions to help SMEs and large companies to benefit fully from the advancements in internet and cloud technologies. He also contributes as Adjunct Professor and Advisor in a number of Universities in Malaysia. \n  \n9:00 pm to 9:25 pm (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone) / 9:00 am to 9:25 am (EDT Time Zone) \n\n \nFuture-Proof Your Technology Career\nIn this presentation\, Amanda Hendley will discuss the impact of advancing technologies on the workforce and employer needs. She will talk about shifts in infrastructure\, development methodologies\, skilled labor markets\, and consumers have changed the way companies must do business and the way technologists must evolve to stay in-demand. \n  \nAmanda Hendley\, President & Managing Director\, Computer Measurement Group (CMG) \nAs President and Managing Director of Computer Measurement Group\, Inc\, Amanda Hendley provides resources and facilitates connections to give CMG members a competitive edge. With her vast experience launching and refining events and programs\, Amanda is positioning CMG for exponential growth and supporting member companies in their digital transformations. \nPrior to her role at CMG\, Amanda Hendley was Chief Operating Officer of Technology Association of Georgia\, the nation’s fastest growing technology trade association. In her tenure at Technology Association of Georgia\, membership grew from 1\,800 members to 35\,000 and revenues quadrupled. \nMrs. Hendley is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology where she studied Business. She resides in Atlanta\, Georgia. \n  \n9:30 pm to 9:55 pm (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone) / 9:30 am to 9:55 am (EDT Time Zone) \n\nQ&A Session\n10:00 pm  to 10:30 pm (Kuala Lumpur Time Zone) / 10:00 am  to 10:30 am (EDT Time Zone) \n\n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-malaysia-webinar-digital-world-skills/
CATEGORIES:ONLINE,Region,Webinar
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SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG’s Summer 2020 Virtual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:STLCMG Quarterly Meeting Agenda\n  \n8:30 am  – 8:50 am        Logon and Virtual Networking (WebEx)\n8:50 am  – 9:00 am        Welcome and Introductions\n9:00 am  – 9:55 am       Encryption Everywhere – Moving Data Safely in the Enterprise – by Roy Panting\, IBM\n10:00am  – 10:55 am    Java Performance and Managing Java Batch on zOS – by Joran Siu & David Follis\, IBM\n11:00 am  – 11:55 am    Key Metrics for z/OS System and Workload Performance – by Bradley Snyder\, IBM\n12:00pm  – 12:30 pm     A Word from our Sponsor\nIBM Data Privacy Passports\, JVM Monitoring on zOS\, and Performance and Capacity Analytics – Clifff Koch\, IBM z Systems Software Leader\n12:30 pm                          Closing Remarks\n  \nNOTE: All registrants will receive a link to the WebEx meeting a few days prior to the event.
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmgs-summer-2020-virtual-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Meetup,ONLINE,Region,Virtual Conference,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
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SUMMARY:Virtual- How top executives are working through a Digital Transformation.
DESCRIPTION:Now a virtual event! \nJoin us on the afternoon of April 23 for virtual networking and one top executive discussing their digital transformation process. There is no cost to attend this event\, but you must register online\, you will receive a link via email to join us before the event. We will have 30 minutes of networking before and after the session. \nKeynote Session: \n“Digital Transformation: Technology Doesn’t Transform Organizations\, People Do”: Jarrod Bell\, Chief Technology Officer\, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America \n[hubspot type=form portal=7370862 id=6caf6a1a-ff2d-4d21-af30-634fd1af3667] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank You to Our event Partners:
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/implementation-migration-and-talent-how-top-local-companies-are-working-through-a-digital-transformation/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Conference,Meetup,ONLINE,Region,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/North_Dakota/Center:20200420T100000
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DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
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SUMMARY:ONLINE: Southwest CMG - Performance & Cost Optimization
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual meeting of the Southwest CMG. We have three presentations that look at system performance and cost optimization from different application perspectives. \n  \nCheck out the Recordings! \nNote: To view the video you must have a CMG membership. Sign up today! Click here to join for as low as $20/month. \nWatch Now\n\n#1 – VPN is the New Toilet Paper – Leveraging Helix Optimize to Understand the Impact of Employees Working from Home on Businesses due to COVID-19 \nApril 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am CDT \nSpeaker: Karen Hughes\, Sr. Principle Software Consultant\, BMC Software \nAbstract: COVID-19 has completely disrupted the location of where employees work.  Organizations that used to require employees to come to the office now are forced to have them work remotely\, and they have little experience in understanding the impact it will have on their networks.  Other organizations have experience with some employees working from home\, but not 100% of their workforce.  In this session we will discuss how to manage\, plan\, and validate your network with Helix Optimize.  It will show 4 actual use cases that BMC IT leveraged in order to properly plan for the increase in remote workers\, understand the impact on their network\, and model business continuity scenarios.  Learn what data and metrics are needed to be collected\, where to get the from\, and how to analyze them. \nAbout the Speaker:  Karen Hughes has worked with the BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization product line since 1996. During that time Karen has had many roles including QA\, development\, marketing and solution engineering. Prior to BMC\, Karen worked for AGFA\, a division of the Bayer Corporation as a software developer\, (utilizing her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science) and focused her efforts on coding automation tools for their engineering department. Karen has tremendous domain knowledge\, is a subject matter expert on Capacity Planning and is certified by ITIL as an ITIL Capacity Management Practitioner. \n  \n\nWatch Now\n\n#2 – Save MSUs and Reduce Run-Times for Analytics and MXG Reporting \nApril 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT \nSpeaker: Paul Massengill\, Systems Engineer\, Mainframe Analytics Specialist\, Luminex Software \nAbstract: The mainframe team of a Fortune 500 Transportation Provider was tasked with conflicting goals: (1) increase the frequency and variety of reporting and analytics\, and (2) avoid an upgrade of their already overtaxed mainframe. Learn how you can apply their success with off-host processing to your operations for faster analytics and MXG reporting\, all while retaining mainframe control of scheduling\, execution and security. \nAbout the Speaker: Paul Massengill has spent most of this 30-year IT career in Solutions Architecture and Data Analytics for Mainframe and Open Systems.  He spent his early years in IT working for top tier banks in Storage Administration\, Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning.  For the last two decades\, Paul has specialized in using Data Analytics coupled with customer business forecasts to bring Enterprise solutions to many TOP 100 customers.  He provided these solutions while working for companies such as Wachovia\, Bank of America\, StorageTek\, SUN\, Oracle\, Hitachi and currently Luminex Software. \n\nWatch Now\n\n#3 – How to Apply Modeling and Optimization to Select the Appropriate Cloud Platform \nApril 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CDT \nSpeaker: Dr. Boris Zibitsker\, CEO of BEZNext \nAbstract: Organizations want to take advantage of the flexibility and scalability of Cloud platforms. By migrating to the Cloud\, they hope to develop and implement new applications faster with lower cost.  Amazon AWS\, Microsoft Azure\, Google\, IBM\, Oracle and others Cloud providers support different DBMS like Snowflake\, Redshift\, Teradata Vantage\, and others. These platforms have different architecture\, mechanism of allocation and management of resources\, and sophistication of DBMS optimizers which affect performance\, scalability and cost.  As a result\, the response time\, CPU Service Time and the number of I/Os for the same query\, accessing the similar table in the Cloud could be significantly different than On Prem. \nIn order to select the appropriate Cloud platform\, we use modeling and optimization. \n\nFirst\, we perform a Workload Characterization for On Prem Data Warehouse. Each Data Warehouse workload represents a specific line of business and includes activity of many users generating concurrently simple and complex queries accessing data from different tables. Each workload has different demand for resources and different Response Time and Throughput Service Level Goals.\nSecondly\, we must collect measurement data for standard TPC-DS benchmark tests performed in AWS Vantage\, Redshift and Snowflake Cloud platform for different sizes of the data sets and different number of concurrent users.\nDuring third step we use the results of the workload characterization and measurement data collected during the benchmark to modify BEZNext On Prem Closed Queueing model to model individual Clouds.\nAnd finally\, during the fourth step we use the Model to take into consideration differences in concurrency\, priorities and resource allocation to different workloads. BEZNext Capacity Planning optimization algorithms incorporate Graduate search mechanism to find the AWS instance type and minimum number of instances which will be required to meet SLGs for each of the workloads. Publicly available information about the cost of the different AWS instances is used to predict the cost of supporting workloads in the Cloud month by month during next 12 months.\n\nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Boris Zibitsker is a CEO of BEZNext. His focus is on the development of performance assurance\, performance engineering\, dynamic performance management and long-term capacity planning software tools for big data\, data warehouse and cloud applications. He is a member of SPEC Big Data Research Group. Boris consults with many Fortune 500 companies\, and he manages Capstone projects for graduate students in MS in Analytics at University of Chicago. Boris a Honorable Doctor of BGUIR and during last 5 years he was a co-chairman of Big Data Advanced Analytics Conference. \n\n  \n#4 – Expecting the Unexpected \nApril 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CDT \nSpeaker: Kareem Mroue\, HelpSystems \nAbstract:  The medical device manufacturing field is one of high risk and high demand. Manufacturers often experience peaks and valleys in the demand for their products and therefore are required to remain flexible in their operations to accommodate these fluctuations. Indeed\, the situation that we are in right now show that these peaks can be massive and unexpected. Additionally\, these companies are highly averse to risk.  Producing defective products will not only cost a company the confidence and loyalty of medical professionals in the field but could also initiate costly regulatory infractions and in some case can even cost the lives of patients. For these reasons it is imperative that a medical device manufacturer possess the tools and abilities necessary to educate themselves regarding their needs in personnel\, materials and equipment for various levels of demand. \nOur presentation aims to show a case study from last year\, interestingly many months before the current crisis\, for creating a plan regarding the management of the technical equipment associated with highly risk averse manufacturing.  The case study will use Capacity Management methodologies (including tools) within an enterprise environment to aid in the what-if planning of on-premise equipment augmentations as well as the utilization of public-cloud platform elasticity.  The desired outcome and deliverables being an understanding of the investment necessary to accommodate various peaks in demand\, as well as a method in providing the needed documentation to execute such an investment within an enterprise environment. \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/save-the-date-southwest-cmg-performance-engineering-capacity-planning/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Meetup,ONLINE,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Richard Gimarc":MAILTO:rgimarc@earthlink.net
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20191205T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20191205T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20191029T124907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T124907Z
UID:23099-1575533700-1575563400@www.cmg.org
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
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20191015T152321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191015T152321Z
UID:23098-1572372000-1572381000@www.cmg.org
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:20260501T102411
CREATED:20191007T154937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T154937Z
UID:23095-1572338700-1572363000@www.cmg.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190923T131223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190923T131223Z
UID:23091-1571733000-1571763600@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:2019 CMG Canada Fall Conference
DESCRIPTION:This is the 34th Year of the CMG Canada Fall Conference \nA Plan for Java Performance Training (a remote presentation)\nErik Ostermueller \n(Tentatively) Two mainframe presentations\nScott Chapman of EPS \nThe new z15’s\nJohn Baker of Intellimagic \nPlease visit our webpage and click on “Current Agenda” link in the left panel to get more information.\nOne or two others waiting on details. Please check at website periodically for further updates. \nIf you have a Topic you would like to share contact peter.livingston@bmo.com or Johnathan.gladstone@bmo.com or John.slobodnik@cogeco.com
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/2019-cmg-cananda-fall-day-1-conference/
LOCATION:Ces’t What Restuarant\, 67 Front Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conference,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Livingston":MAILTO:peter.livingston@bmo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190910T155856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190910T155856Z
UID:23089-1571128200-1571153400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG Fall 2019 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSTLCMG Quarterly Meeting Agenda\n\n\n\nTime\nTopic\n \nPresenter\n\n\n\n8:30 -8:50\nSign-In\, Breakfast and Networking\n\n\n8:50 – 9:00\nWelcome and Introductions\n\n\n9:00 – 10:00\nHybrid Cloud & Operational Analytics\nDaniel Wiegand IBM\n\n\n10:15 – 11:15\nPerformance Reporting & Capacity Planning – How Analytics has improved for System z customers\nGonzalo Espinoza\, 21st Century & Mary Book\, IBM MLC & Tailored Fit Pricing Specialist\n\n\n11:30 – 12:00\nA Word from our Sponsor   \nIBM’s New Suite for Z Operations Insight & Batch Resiliency \nDan & Gonzalo\n\n\n12:00 – 1:00\nLunch\n\n\n1:00 – 2:30\nzOS v2\,4 Upgrades & Other zUpdates\nMark Wallen\, IBM\n\n\n2:15 – 3:15\nOpening up System z – API Enablement & Management\nCliff Koch\, IBM\n\n\n3:30\nClosing Remarks \nPARS Location:  O’Fallon Brewery \n45 Progress Pkwy\, Maryland Heights\, MO 63043 \nAppetizers & Drinks!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeeting Sponsored by:  IBM\n  \n—————————————————————— \nPerformance Analysis Relaxation Sessions (PARS) \nSTLCMG will host PARS right after the meeting.  Time to take a breather\, network with other attendees and speakers\, and just relax. \nEnjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres and two drinks.   \n\n\n\n\nRegistration Link:  ALL Registrations and Payment options are available at  STLCMG 2019 Fall Conference Link \nCost: $25  Fee waived if you are out of work or a full-time college student with ID. \nSt Louis CMG needs to receive RSVP 3 days prior to meeting \n  \nPayment: All payments can be made through the website using Chrome browser at: https://st-louis-cmg.ticketleap.com/2019-fall-conference/ \nFor alternative payment arrangements contact: stlcmg@cmg.org \n  \nAbstracts and Bio’s\n \nDan Wiegand\, Senior Offering Manager for IBM Z Cognitive Operations Analytics IBM Research Triangle Park\, Raleigh\, NC         zITSM Newsletter: ibm.biz/ZOperations\nAbstracts \nHybrid Cloud and Operational Analytics  \nThe days of wasting time and valuable resources by reacting to issues in a war room are numbered.  Mainframe customers will need to be more proactive in identifying potential issues before their end-users are impacted.  The journey to hybrid and multicloud will require continued real time analysis of both message and metric data that can be used to detect when operations begin to deviate from a company’s normal operational baseline. \nBio \nDan Wiegand is the Senior Offering Manager for IBM Z Common Data Provider and IBM Z Operations Analytics\, bringing visibility and insight into IBM Z.   In his 21 years at IBM\, he has performed multiple roles across development\, architecture\, and offering strategy for both IBM Z and IBM Cloud solutions.   Dan has an extensive background in IT Service Management. \n  \nGonzalo Espinoza\, 21st Century WW Sales Liason\n 940 West Valley Rd. | Suite 1604 | Wayne\, PA 19087 | USA        www.21CSW.com\nAbstracts \nPerformance Reporting & Capacity Planning – How Analytics has improved for System z clients \nThe role of the capacity planner\, especially on the mainframe\, has been critical to ensure capital and operational costs are accurately managed and performance is optimized. The skills required are often learned over many years and are dependent on multiple\, often homegrown\, tooling. In the modern hybrid cloud world\, the ability for a capacity planner to understand and advocate for the mainframe is essential as workloads become interconnected and less predictable. The session will cover the skills needed by the modern capacity planner on the mainframe\, including how the increased use of analytics and machine learning technologies help inform decision making and ensure the mainframe remains a key part of the enterprise architecture. \nRealize Mainframe Optimization and Risk Avoidance through Reliability\, Resiliency and Repeatability \nBio \nExperienced Software Sales Manger \nComputer engineer with over 30 years of experience in the software industry \nMore than 20 years in systems management \n14+ years experience with IBM software \n  \nMary Book\, MLC Software Client Leader\nIBM St. Louis\, MO  mabook@us.ibm.com  314-324-8345\nAbstract \nTailored Fit Pricing \nTailored Fit Pricing was announced in May 2019 as a new option for licensing z Monthly License Charge software.  The differences between this new ‘consumption based’ model will be discussed\, in contrast to the most currently used sub-capacity “Four Hour Rolling Average” methodology in use today. \nBio \nMary Book is an MLC Software Client Leader\, responsible for helping clients in the Retail and Travel & Transportation industries in the US with their mainframe software needs.  Mary has extensive experience with IBM software in all areas of sales\, technical sales and management; she has led Proof of Concept teams on application development and analytics software on both mainframe and distributed platforms.  Mary is a resident of St. Louis\, MO. \n  \nMark Wallen\,  z/OS System Installation and Upgrade Technical Specialist\nIBM Poughkeepsie\, NY     mwallem@us.ibm.com\nAbstract \nzOS v2\,4 Upgrades & Other zUpdates \n Upgrading to z/OS V2.4 – Planning Actions.  Time permitting\, Mark can discuss zOSMF Installation Strategy. \n Bio \nMark Wallen is a member of the z/OS Development organization in IBM Systems in Poughkeepsie\, New York. His current responsibility includes z/OS release upgrade and installation. \n  \nCliff Koch\,  N.A. zSystems Software Sales Leader\nIBM St. Louis\, MO     cjkoch@us.ibm.com\nAbstract \nOpening up System z – API Enablement & Management \nWe realize that our clients have a huge investment in Z and they still have a huge amount of their mission-critical systems that drive their business on a day to day basis on Z. Because of that\, we believe that this hybrid approach is the right one to help you get the most out of the existing investment you’ve got. In general\, we see the days of rip and replace long gone. It’s too costly\, it takes too much time and ultimately\, if everything works as planned\, after two or three years\, you still have the same base capability that you did before. The world is moving way too fast\, the lines of business need action now. So\, what you see here today\, is really a simple story that lays out the strategy to unify connectivity to System z\, open up the platform\, and securely manage in hybrid cloud world. \nBio \nCliff Koch has over 15 years of experience with IBM.  Most recently\, Cliff has been focused enabling digital transformation towards hybrid cloud computing services for IBM System z customers across all industry sectors in North America.  Providing solutions that evolve\, expose\, optimize and manage System z and Linux systems\, spanning Dev/Ops\, zAPI Enablement\, Cloud & Cognitive Patterns\, Block Chain\, Cyber Security\, Production Operations… Performance Management/Analytics\, Automation\, Machine Learning\, and zOS Storage Management solutions. \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/fall-2019-st-louis-cmg-meeting/
LOCATION:Edward Jones North Campus St. Louis\, 130 Edward Jones Blvd\, Maryland Heights\, MO\, 63043\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Wayne Allen":MAILTO:stlcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190910T153157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190910T153157Z
UID:23088-1569488400-1569513600@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Ohio Valley CMG Fall 2019 Conference
DESCRIPTION:Agenda \nOhio Valley CMG is planning our fall conference. This meeting will focus on IT areas other than mainframe. How do you manage a heterogenous IT? What are the issues with moving to the cloud? How are empathy and storytelling important to performance management? These and other topics are currently being planned. The full slate of presentations is still being worked on but we do have a date: September 26th\, 2019. Admission is free but we do ask that you register so we can make sure we have sufficient food available. We’re still getting the details of all the presentations\, but we’re sure it will be a great day! \nBMC will be our sponsor and will have two presentations: \nBuying and Managing Cloud Resources.  It’s Complicated.  \nWith the need for agility\, scalability and reduced costs\, companies are counting on cloud computing to help with their IT and digital transformation.  But without the right planning and tools\, companies will not and are not achieving these goals.  According to Gartner\, about 80 percent of the organizations adopting cloud are overspending.   Learn what makes managing cloud costs so challenging. \nControlling Cloud Costs. (Vendor Lunch Session) \nManaging and especially saving on cloud costs requires visibility into daily spend – across all cloud service providers – and the ability to adopt new optimization techniques and plan for upcoming spend.  Learn about how BMC Helix Cloud Cost can help you optimize and control your cloud spend and operational budgets using algorithms which have been industry leading for a decade. \nJacob Hinton (Nationwide Insurance) Empathy and Storytelling’s Role in Performance Engineering \nWe have a tendency to geek out on the numbers\, assume business partners know micro level details of their product\, and assume others read our summaries of findings the way we do. Viewing and retelling the results from a different perspective can positively impact communication with product owners\, developers\, and customers. \nJohn Flanders (DataDog) Observability and the 3 Pillars (Logging\, Metrics\, and Traces) \n A common mistake that engineers can make is to look at each of the pillars in isolation\, and then simply evaluating and implementing individual solutions to address each pillar. Instead of looking for a holistic approach. We can discuss the challenges we’ve seen organizations go through when moving to the cloud. \nVamsi Kondapalli (Grange Insurance )  – Monitoring and Managing a Heterogenous IT Environment \nPresenting  Enterprise Performance at Grange. This will be a high level of how Grange monitors and troubleshoots performance issues in the Distributed environment \n  \nAttendance is free\, so register now! \nstart at 9:00 and finish before 4:00 \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/ohio-valley-cmg-fall-2019-conference/
LOCATION:Microsoft\, 8800 Lyra Drive\, #400\, Columbus\, OH\, 43240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Ann Knapik":MAILTO:ann@ohvcmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190827T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190827T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190815T171210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190815T171210Z
UID:23086-1566910800-1566914400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:A New Model for Cloud Adoption - Southwest CMG Webinar
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to a 1-hour Southwest CMG webinar.  We’re excited to have a presentation by Anthony “TJ” Johnson\, the Managing Partner and Founder of Cloud Sherpa Consulting \nInnovation is at the core of all technologists\, and we want to understand and apply innovation to create value for our organizations.  With almost 10 years of cloud experience\, Tony Johnson has created a cloud adoption model based on best practices and a wide variety of cloud estates consuming thousands of services called the “6 principles of a successful cloud strategy”. \nPlease register for this upcoming webinar to learn how cloud leaders establish a best practice model to overcome cloud adoption challenges with value governance. \nBy attending the webinar\, you will learn about: \n\n\n\n\n\nHow to implement proper strategy\, process\, technology and economics to build and manage your operating model for cloud.\nApply resource optimization and cost management capabilities that support the management of cloud.\nManage your multi-cloud journey that can enable automation\, lifecycle management\, and governance across cloud environments.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo Register\, click here. \nAbout our speaker: Tony Johnson (TJ) has over 25 years of technology experience from CIO\, to managing data centers\, to global speaker\, and to cloud expert to name a few.  He started his professional career in finance and migrated to technology.  Currently TJ is the Managing Partner for Cloud Sherpa Consulting and supports organizations around the world with their cloud adoption and financial management of Cloud to better understand how to use and buy cloud better. \n  \nAbout Southwest CMG: \n\nSouthwest CMG regional chapter page:\n\nhttps://www.cmg.org/us-regions-2/cmg-southwest-2/ \n\nMeetup – Southwest CMG – Performance Engineering & Capacity Planning:\n\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Southwest-Computer-Measurement-Group-SWCMG/ \n  \nRichard Gimarc \n(512) 413-0405 \nrgimarc@featherfall.com
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/a-new-model-for-cloud-adoption-southwest-cmg-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Region,Webinar
ORGANIZER;CN="Southwest CMG":MAILTO:aspellmann@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190821
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190805T153402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190805T153402Z
UID:23084-1566259200-1566345599@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:SAVE THE DATE: St. Louis CMG Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars for an extra STLCMG meeting on Tuesday\, August 20th. \nIt will be an all VMware meeting. \nSo\, tell your friends and colleagues. \nSpecial Note: There is no cost to register. \nAn agenda and link to register will be sent out soon. \n  \nMeeting Location\nEdward Jones\n130 Edward Jones Blvd.\nMaryland Heights\, MO\, 63043\nVisitor parking is available in the garages located on either side of building 130.
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/save-the-date-st-louis-cmg-meeting/
LOCATION:Edward Jones North Campus St. Louis\, 130 Edward Jones Blvd\, Maryland Heights\, MO\, 63043\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Wayne Allen":MAILTO:stlcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190816
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190703T142042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190703T142042Z
UID:23080-1565827200-1565913599@www.cmg.org
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:20190716T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190716T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190620T202825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190620T202825Z
UID:23079-1563264000-1563296400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:St Louis CMG Summer Meeting
DESCRIPTION:St Louis CMG Summer Meeting\nSponsored by VMware \n  \nFeaturing Glenn Anderson\, formerly of IBM\, who will share how we can be better communicators and deal with change.  \n  \n\n\n\n\nSTLCMG Quarterly Meeting Agenda\n\n\n\nTime\nTopic\n \nPresenter\n\n\n\n8:30 -8:50\nSign-In\, Breakfast and Networking\n\n\n8:50 – 9:00\nWelcome and Introductions\n\n\n9:00 – 10:00\nPublic & Private Cloud Capacity Planning\nNathan Schroeder\, VMware\n\n\n10:15 – 11:15\nLet’s Change How We Think About Change\nGlenn Anderson\, The Performance Catalyst Speaker\n\n\n11:30 – 12:00\nA Word from our Sponsor   \nVMware Solutions to Make It Easier \nNathan Schroeder\, VMware\n\n\n12:00 – 1:00\nLunch\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00\nCloud Maturity Model\nNathan Schroeder\, VMware\n\n\n2:15 – 3:15\nAre You Still Confusing? 14 Tricks for Connecting and Communicating\nGlenn Anderson\, The Performance Catalyst Speaker\n\n\n3:30\nClosing Remarks \nPARS Location:  O’Fallon Brewery \n45 Progress Pkwy\, Maryland Heights\, MO 63043 \nAppetizers & Drinks!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeeting Sponsored by: \nEnterprise Performance Strategies Inc. \n\n\n\n  \nPerformance Analysis Relaxation Sessions (PARS) \nSTLCMG will host PARS right after the meeting.  Time to take a breather\, network with other attendees and speakers\, and just relax. Enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres and two drinks. \nRegistrations and Payment options are available at  STLCMG 2019 Summer Conference Payment Link  (Only $25) \n\nPlease register in order for us to create a nametag for you and have a headcount for our breakfast and lunch meals\nFee waived if you are out of work or a full-time college student with ID\nSt Louis CMG needs to receive RSVP 3 days prior to meeting\n\nPayment: All payments can be made through the website using Chrome browser at: https://st-louis-cmg.ticketleap.com/st-louis-cmg-2019-summer-conference/ \nFor alternative payment arrangements contact: stlcmg@cmg.org \nMeeting Location: (See Edward Jones North Campus Map) *** \nEdward Jones\, 130 Edward Jones Blvd.\, Maryland Heights\, MO\, 63043 \nVisitor parking is available in the garages located on either side of building 130. \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmg-summer-meeting-feat-glenn-anderson/
LOCATION:Edward Jones North Campus St. Louis\, 130 Edward Jones Blvd\, Maryland Heights\, MO\, 63043\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190618T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190618T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190528T132544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190528T132544Z
UID:23078-1560846600-1560873600@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Midwest CMG Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Get ready to spend a day with our speakers and up to date information on topics useful to your work. \n\nLocation: 2001 Butterfield Rd\, Suite 740\, Downers Grove\, IL Map to June MCMG meeting\nCost (covers Breakfast snacks\, coffee\, lunch\, and breaks): $25 in advance; $35 at the door\nDoors open at 8:30 Meeting is from 9 – 4\nFor your convenience\, there will be internet access for the entire day.\n\nSPONSORS \n\nRoom and Facilities provided by BMC Software\nLunch and snacks will be provided by Enterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.\, Creators of Pivotor®\n\nConfirmed speakers/topics \nTitle: z/OS WLM – Revisiting Goals Over Time – Peter Enrico – Enterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.\, Creators of Pivotor® \nThere are many reasons to “open up” a WLM service definition. Some changes need to be made for Tuning\, others for clean-up\, and still others because the goals are outdated. An examination needs to be performed for planned environmental changes or changes to business priorities. The point is that there are many reasons to open up the WLM service definition for examination and potential changes. During this presentation\, Peter Enrico reviews the different reasons to roll up your sleeves and analyze your WLM service definition. During this presentation\, you are sure to learn a lot about a wide variety of areas related to WLM management on z/OS. \nThe speaker\, Peter Enrico\, has strong and diverse experience with the IBM zArchitecture platforms\, and a solid background in z/OS\, Workload Manager\, Parallel Sysplex\, UNIX System Services\, and WebSphere e-business performance. Peter also has extensive experience measuring\, analyzing\, and tuning z/OS systems\, Sysplexes\, and subsystems. Peter’s abilities extend beyond just z/OS performance and capacity planning. He is considered a highly qualified and effective communicator and seminar instructor. \nPeter is the lead designer and developer for Pivotor®. Pivotor® is a web-based z/OS SMF performance data mining\, reporting\, and analysis solution for daily\, weekly\, monthly\, and yearly z/OS performance and capacity reporting. Since Pivotor® also includes a subcomponent to extract SMF data\, it is a very powerful SMF data reporting and analysis solution. \nPeter regularly teaches z/OS performance classes and as a member of Enterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.\, he works as a performance consultant for companies interested in optimizing their performance z/OS systems. Due to his diverse and unique set of both technical and communication skills\, on a regular basis\, many customers\, vendors\, and even IBM\, tap Peter’s zArchitecture\, z/OS Workload Manager\, WebSphere on z/OS\, e-business\, Parallel Sysplex\, and UNIX Systems Services performance knowledge. \n  \nTitle: Microseconds Matter – Optimizing the Value of Your z Systems Processor with the IBM DS8880 Mark Wells – IBM \nDiscussing the value of minimizing DASD response times from a lost CPU processing time perspective and how IBM focuses on that aspect through our z and DS8000 co-developed synergy functions. Including current offerings including zHyperwrite\, zHyperlink and our use of Flash technology in the current iteration of the DS8880s. \n  \nMark Wells is an Executive IT Specialist working in the United States. As a Client Technical Specialist since 2005\, he provides storage solution design\, technical consulting\, and implementation support to his customers. He has extensive experience on the DS8000 platform in large-scale replication environments. Mark has worked for IBM since 1997 in various roles and has worked in the IBM System z® and Enterprise environments for over 30\nyears. He is co-author of three IBM Redbook publications\nIBM DS8870 Copy Services for IBM z Systems\nIBM DS8870 Copy Services for Open Systems\nIBM DS8870 Data Migration Techniques \n  \nLunch and Demo Provided by Enterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.\, Creators of Pivotor® \nPeter Enrico – Enterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.\, Creators of Pivotor®\nPivotor®\, z/OS Performance reporting for today! Better\, faster\, easier…. Smarter.\nThis will be a demo of the EPS product and how to get an analysis of your data. \n  \nTitle: WLM – Deciding Between Velocity Goals and Response Time Goals – Peter Enrico – Enterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.\, Creators of Pivotor® \nWLM Velocity and Response Time goals are the most proper goal types for most workloads in the z/OS environment. Deciding which one to use is typically very straightforward. Long-running work should be assigned velocity goals\, and short running work should be assigned response time goals. However\, there are other deciding factors. For example\, the frequency of transactions\, the amount of CPU consumed by the workload\, the relative number of using and delay samples\, and more. During this back-to-basics presentation Peter Enrico will help you better understand velocity and response time goals\, considerations when choosing each\, and some measurement and tuning tips as well. This presentation will also touch on the topic of whether or not response time goals should be used for CICS and IMS transactions\, or if it’s better to allow the regions to be managed towards velocity goals. \nThe speaker\, Peter Enrico\, has strong and diverse experience with the IBM zArchitecture platforms\, and a solid background in z/OS\, Workload Manager\, Parallel Sysplex\, UNIX System Services\, and WebSphere e-business performance. Peter also has extensive experience measuring\, analyzing\, and tuning z/OS systems\, Sysplexes\, and subsystems. Peter’s abilities extend beyond just z/OS performance and capacity planning. He is considered a highly qualified and effective communicator and seminar instructor. \nPeter is the lead designer and developer for Pivotor®. Pivotor® is a web-based z/OS SMF performance data mining\, reporting\, and analysis solution for daily\, weekly\, monthly\, and yearly z/OS performance and capacity reporting. Since Pivotor® also includes a subcomponent to extract SMF data\, it is a very powerful SMF data reporting and analysis solution. \nPeter regularly teaches z/OS performance classes and as a member of Enterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.\, he works as a performance consultant for companies interested in optimizing their performance z/OS systems. Due to his diverse and unique set of both technical and communication skills\, on a regular basis\, many customers\, vendors\, and even IBM\, tap Peter’s zArchitecture\, z/OS Workload Manager\, WebSphere on z/OS\, e-business\, Parallel Sysplex\, and UNIX Systems Services performance knowledge. \n  \nTitle: Understanding MLC Cost Impact of Performance and Capacity Management   Don Zeunert – BMC \nOur old methodologies are obsolete.  Managing for best response time or postponing hardware upgrades is not what is driving IT costs.  We need to start managing the rolling 4hr MSU MLC costs.  Do you know what is driving your MLC costs?  You might be surprised at what and how easily you can cut them by 10% without any additional software.  This session will discuss common issues and mechanisms available to solve them with PR/SM\, WLM and other simple changes\, without hurting SLAs. \n  \nThanks\, in advance\, for your past participation. We hope to see you there. \nDirect questions to Greg_Scriba@bmc.com
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/mcmg-meeting-save-the-date-june-18/
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Greg Scriba":MAILTO:greg_scriba@bmc.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190530
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190516T122311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190516T122311Z
UID:23075-1559001600-1559174399@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:CMG Canada Spring 2 Day Conference
DESCRIPTION:May 28 & 29\, 2019 (Tuesday & Wednesday) \nThis is the 34th  Year of the CMG Canada Spring Conference \nPlease visit our webpage and click on “Current Agenda” link in the left panel to get more information. \nSome of the presentations over the two days include: \nJohn Baker  –  Intellimagic      \n           (Road) Rage against the machine: Understanding – and dealing with – z14 traffic patterns \n  \nBrett Allison  –  Intellimagic           \n           Storage Performance Best Practices \n                                                 \n Larry Strickland  –  DataKinetics          \n           Problems with In Memory Processing \n  \nLarry Strickland  –  DataKinetics         \n           Recent advances in Computer Vision – and what you can do with it \n  \nJonathan Gladstone  –  Bank of Montreal         \n           Business Continuity & Contingency Planning \n  \nAlice Wah\, Paul Liao  & Kenneth Tse    –   Royal Bank of Canada                                           \nRMF III & RMFDDS for Performance and Capacity Planning  –  User experience \n  \nJake Amaral    –   WeTradeHQ     \n           Algorithmic trading and Artificial Intelligence \n                                                 \n John Baker  –   Intellimagic                          \n           And now for something completely different: IBM rolls the ‘four-hour’ out the door! \n  \n  Jim Elliott    –   Mainframe Consultant\, GlassHouse Systems Inc.                \n           Enhancements in IBM z/OS 2.4 \n  \nPlease check at website periodically for further updates. \nIf you have a Topic you would like to share contact peter.livingston@bmo.com or Johnathan.gladstone@bmo.com or John.slobodnik@cogeco.com \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-canada-spring-2-day-conference-2/
LOCATION:Ces’t What Restuarant\, 67 Front Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conference,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Livingston":MAILTO:peter.livingston@bmo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190516T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190327T154505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190327T154505Z
UID:23063-1557993600-1558022400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Ohio Valley CMG and Central Ohio Mainframe Users Group Conference
DESCRIPTION:Ohio Valley CMG and Central Ohio Mainframe Users Group are teaming up to deliver you a full day of great mainframe performance content on Thursday\, May 16\, 2019. This is a no-cost event for COMUGers\, OHVCMG members\, and guests who are IBM customers or IBM business partners. \nWe’ve put together a great agenda. To attend\, simply register by 5/10\, for the low\, low cost of $0. \n \nThe primary meeting location will be the IBM campus in Dublin Ohio\, with the satellite location being Progressive Insurance in Mayfield Village Ohio. BMC and IBM have sponsored breakfast and lunch. \nAgenda: \n08:00 – Gathering and breakfast (Sponsored by IBM) \n08:30 – Introductions and opening remarks (Monte / Scott) \n09:00 – Monte Bauman – Moore’s Law… More MIPS… More Better \n\nThe numbers\, they do tell a tale. This talk will examine the evolution of CMOS microprocessor technology on the mainframe platform. We will examine the intriguing relationship between MIPS and MHz\, and between transistors\, chips\, and cores. We will observe the past and current effects of “Moore’s Law”\, and we will look at equations (yes\, equations!) suggesting how to combat computer science physics. Microprocessor engineers have quite a challenge ahead\, what will they think of next\n\n10:10 – Susan Fassette (Erie Insurance): Insight into how Erie Insurance “SPlunks” the Mainframe \n\nIn this session\, you’ll learn how a Fortune 500 Insurance Company uses Ironstream and Splunk to monitor mainframe performance and capacity data real-time. The inclusion of filtering criteria on dashboards allows for easier\, quicker reporting. Details including how to create exception and audit reporting as well\, historical trending using drill-down capabilities\, lessons learned\, recommendations\, and tracking adoption rates will all be discussed.\n\n11:20 – Don Zeunert (BMC): Understanding MLC Cost Impact of Performance and Capacity Management \n\nOur old methodologies are obsolete. Managing for best response time or postponing hardware upgrades is not what is driving IT costs. We need to start managing the rolling 4hr MSU MLC costs. Do you know what is driving your MLC costs? You might be surprised at what and how easily you can cut them by 10% without any additional software. This session will discuss common issues and mechanisms available to solve them with PR/SM\, WLM\, and other simple changes\, without hurting SLAs.\n\n12:30 – Lunch and a discussion with our sponsor\, BMC: How do you like to learn about Mainframe performance topics? \n13:30 – Scott Chapman (Enterprise Performance Strategies): Revisiting WLM Options for the Modern Mainframe \n\nWLM was introduced in the early 1990s and most sites implemented goal mode in the late 90s or early 2000s. A lot has changed since then. New WLM features have been introduced. Options and features are enabled (or not) either when defining a new policy or when a new feature becomes available but then never reviewed for applicability in the face of significant changes in the hardware and software environment.\nJust like regularly reviewing your goals\, revisiting your WLM options periodically is a good thing as well. Join Scott Chapman in this session as he reviews the WLM options and shows how one long-standing recommendation is now perhaps skewing results in a counter-productive fashion.\n\n14:40 – TBD – COMUG User Session TBD \nTimes and order subject to change \nAttendance is free\, so register now! \nMain Location \nIBM Columbus / Dublin Branch Office\n6060 Britton Parkway\nDublin OH 43016 \nDirections \nHead to Dublin area via I-270 (northwest quadrant of greater Columbus).\nExit I-270 onto Tuttle Parkway and head west (outside the loop).\nTurn Right onto Emerald Parkway (1st big light past the highway interchange).\nTurn Right (right away) into the IBM Sterling Campus.\nTurn Right (right away) to park near Building ONE. (6060 Britton Plwy) \nLook for signs providing entry assistance.
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/ohio-valley-cmg-and-central-ohio-mainframe-users-group-conference/
LOCATION:IBM Columbus / Dublin Branch Office\, 6060 Britton Parkway \, Dublin\, OH\, 43016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190515
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190503T175718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190503T175718Z
UID:23071-1557792000-1557878399@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:CMG Austria and Eastern Europe Event: Spotlight "IT & Accessibility"
DESCRIPTION:May 14  4:00 – 8.00 pm Vienne \nHilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Austria\, Jägerstraße 36\, 1200 Vienna \nWe thank our host: Hilfsgemeinschaft \nIT and accessibility terms are inseparable.The growing impact of information technology in daily life and the advances in digitalization require more understanding in this area.What companies need to pay attention to In this CMG Spotlight you will learn what regulations and laws There are all around this topic and where companies are concretely held by the legislature in the obligation.Contact\nwith relevant stakeholders in the conversation!
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-austria-and-eastern-europe-event-spotlight-it-accessibility/
CATEGORIES:Region
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T102411
CREATED:20190408T190517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T190517Z
UID:23066-1557221400-1557246600@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:St. Louis CMG - Spring Conference
DESCRIPTION:May 7 – 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM CENTRAL \n$25 \nEdward Jones\, 130 Edward Jones Blvd. \, Maryland Heights\, MO\, 63043  (View Map) \nSponsored by Enterprise Performance Strategies (EPS) \n\nPerformance Analysis Relaxation Sessions (PARS)\nSTLCMG will host PARS right after the meeting. Time to take a breather\, network with\nother attendees and speakers\, and just relax.\nEnjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres and two drinks. \n>>Registration Link:  ALL Registrations and Payment options are available at  STLCMG 2019 Spring Conference Payment Link<<< Please register at least 3 days prior to the event. \n\nDownload the Flyer \n\n\n\n\nSTLCMG Quarterly Meeting Agenda\n\n\n\nTime\nTopic\n\nPresenter\n\n\n8:30 -8:50\nRegistration and Networking\n\n\n8:50 – 9:00\nWelcome and Introductions\n\n\n9:00 – 10:00\nDeriving and Understanding CPU Capacity Measurements\nPeter Enrico\, EPS\n\n\n10:15 – 11:15\nMainframe Performance Metrics and Observations in the Real World\nScott Chapman\, EPS\n\n\n11:30 – 12:00\nA Word from our Sponsor   \nPeter Enrico \nEnterprise Performance Strategies\, Inc.  (EPS)\n\n\n12:00 – 1:00\nLunch\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00\nz/OS WLM – Revisiting Goals Over Time\nPeter Enrico\, EPS\n\n\n2:15 – 3:15\nMore/Slower vs. Fewer/Faster CPUs: Practical Considerations\nScott Chapman\, EPS\n\n\n3:30\nClosing Remarks \nPARS Location:  O’Fallon Brewery \n45 Progress Pkwy\, Maryland Heights\, MO 63043 \nAppetizers & Drinks!
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/st-louis-cmg-spring-conference/
CATEGORIES:Region
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