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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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CREATED:20191213T143518Z
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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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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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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T153000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
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:20260507T103257
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T153000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
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:20260507T103257
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:20260507T103257
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/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Region,Webinar
ORGANIZER;CN="Southwest CMG":MAILTO:aspellmann@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190821
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
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:20260507T103257
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/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190716T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190716T170000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
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:20260507T103257
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/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Greg Scriba":MAILTO:greg_scriba@bmc.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190530
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
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:20260507T103257
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190515
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
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/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Region
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T163000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
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/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Region
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
CREATED:20190325T132257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T132257Z
UID:23062-1555495200-1555522200@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:SWCMG Meeting - Wed\, April 17 - Data Lakes\, Analytics\, Serverless & z/OS Best Practices
DESCRIPTION:SWCMG Meeting – Wed\, April 17 – Data Lakes\, Analytics\, Serverless & z/OS Best Practices\nRSVP required on Meetup \n  \nOur next SWCMG meeting will be on Wednesday\, April 17 at the IBM Innovation Center in Coppell\, TX. \nThe meeting will start at 9:00am and end around 4:30pm \nRSVP required on Meetup \nHere’s our agenda:\n– “The Road to Hell is Paved with Average” – Ben Davies (Moviri)\n– “Data Lakes to AI/Analytics” – Anthony Maiello (VNC Technologies)\n– “Best Practices in 2019 for z/OS Application Infrastructure Availability” – Brent Phillips & Jack Opgenorth (IntelliMagic)\n>>> Lunch sponsored by Moviri<<<\n– “MXG Genesis” – Interview with Barry Merrill\n– “Text Mining the CMG Archives” – Richard Gimarc\n– “Adventures with Charge Back and the Value of a Useful Consistent Lie” – Ben Davies (Moviri)\n– “Is Capacity Planning Required for Serverless?” – Amy Spellmann & Richard Gimarc
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/southwest-cmg-data-lakes-analytics-z-os-best-practices/
LOCATION:IBM Innovation Center\, 1177 South Beltline Road\, Coppell\, TX\, 75019\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Southwest CMG":MAILTO:aspellmann@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T170000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
CREATED:20190207T200218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190207T200218Z
UID:23050-1551772800-1551805200@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:CANCELLED - CMG CANADA Winter Seminar
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled.
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-canada-winter-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Ces’t What Restuarant\, 67 Front Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter Livingston":MAILTO:peter.livingston@bmo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T173000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
CREATED:20181112T194541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181112T194541Z
UID:23037-1544085000-1544117400@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Greater Boston CMG presents Modern Applications and SRE\, Performance and Scalability
DESCRIPTION:Register Today! \nThis is an all day event focused on modern-day Site Reliability\, Performance and Scalability concerns including Analytics\, IOT\, Cloud\, Blockchain\, Machine Learning/Big data/AI. \nBelow are the bios of some of the speakers:\nAndrea Vasco\, Moviri\nIT professional with 10+ years of experience in the industry\, innovator\, leader\, influencer\, analytics and data engineering enthusiast. My experience is characterized by a strong link between the academic and the IT industry: I started working as Politecnico di Milano intern for the Italian Space Agency and then moved into the Consulting business working with the most IT-intensive firms in the World. As Architect and Team Leader I delivered dozens of successful initiatives for several Fortune 100 companies worldwide\, and mentored several young stars. As Head of Operations\, I lead an international team of engineers\, support the hiring process and look for innovation opportunities being the main point of contact for the most important universities in the Country. I am responsible for the fulfillment of the Company revenue and growth expected results\, reporting directly to the Executive Board. \nBen Davies\, Moviri\nBen Davies – An IT professional with 20+ years of information technology management experience. Starting in the US Navy and progressing though technical support with an early Internet Service Provider\, Fortune 100 oil and gas company\, large health insurance corporation\, and now with an international IT consulting firm. Certified security professional\, certified audit professional and frequent presenter at information technology conferences\, Mr. Ben provides insightful\, relevant and actionable ideas\, tools and techniques that can be implemented ‘right away’. He welcomes you to come join in on the conversation to deliver actionable intelligence. \nRobert Jahn\, Dynatrace \nDebbie Sheetz\nIs my Vware VM Getting the CPU it Needs?\nDebbie Sheetz joined the Capacity Practice of MBI Solutions\, LLC as a Principal Consultant in 2015. She provides in and out-of-the-box solutions for capacity and performance questions as a Professional Service\, specializing in Distributed Systems platforms and BMC Software’s Capacity Management software. \nOriginally hired to work on the first version of BEST/1 at BGS Systems\, she had 38 years of experience developing and supporting capacity and performance analysis software with BMC Software/BGS Systems. She provided applied solutions for performance analysis and capacity planning challenges for customers\, partners\, and BMC field consultants. Based in Customer Support\, she worked with product engineering and marketing on refining existing solutions and designing new solutions. Prior to working on Distributed Systems performance management products\, she had extensive involvement with AS/400 and mainframe product support and development. \nIf you are interested in presenting\, please contact our program chair\, Mohit Verma (mverma1968@yahoo.com). \nRegister Today!
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/greater-boston-cmg-conference-save-the-date/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Greater Boston CMG":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20181206T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20181206T163000
DTSTAMP:20260507T103257
CREATED:20181112T192156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181112T192156Z
UID:23036-1544084100-1544113800@www.cmg.org
SUMMARY:Rocky Mountain CMG - Winter ‘18 Forum - ONLINE ACCESS NOW AVAILABLE
DESCRIPTION:Check Out the Live Broadcast \nThursday\, Dec 6\, 2018\nHeld at: \nCharles SCHWAB  \n9899 Schwab Way \nLone Tree\, CO 80124 \n(Note: this is a NEW LOCATION) \n8:00 Registration\, \n8:15 AM – 4:30PM Presentations \nRMCMG is proud to present another forum filled with our usual information packed\, relevant\, and actionable presentations.  Please register with us (see very bottom of this message for how to) so we know how many to plan for\, and pass along this invitation to others so we can expand our membership.  We look forward to seeing you on the 6th of December. \nBeyond the Agenda Summary below are detailed descriptions of the presentations and biographies of our speakers (as well as registration information) \nThis seminar continues our expansion into Cyber Security from CMG’s legacy focus on computer performance and capacity planning. This new topic space is experiencing explosive growth and dramatic changes to both the constituent base and sophistication of the technologies involved.  We’ve asked the speakers (Chris Gorog and Darla Lindt) who brought us into this space to continue their coaching \nSpecial notes:  \nRMCMG Fees: RMCMG is offering this seminar series FREE OF CHARGE to any attendee.  This is made possible by the generous support of Charles SCHWAB\, our sponsor and keynote speaker provider.  Our sponsor contact and corporate champion is: Andrea Larson (AAMS®\, CFP®)\, VP – Financial Consultant.   Andrea’s contact information is at the bottom of this flyer. \nImportant stuff about the SCHWAB Lone Tree location \nThis SCHWAB office is a retail brokerage with an excellent (and large) meeting room facility.  Ask at the front desk when you enter where to find the RMCMG meeting room \nFood Particulars: A light continental breakfast with beverages will be provided.  Lunch with beverages will be provided.  We’re working on an afternoon snack. \nLight Rail Access: Take the E line\, F line\, or R line SOUTH to the Lincoln Light Rail station.  The SCHWAB office is a healthy walking distance from the light rail stop.  There is also the Lone Tree Link (green free shuttle service)…. See the map at the very bottom of this notice. \nArriving By Car:  Take I-25 to Lincoln Avenue (Exit 193).  Head West on Lincoln Avenue to Park Meadows Blvd(1/4 mile).  Turn left on Park Meadows Blvd (you’ll see a building on the corner with the Schwab logo.. that’s it.. don’t go doodling off into the larger campus – you’ll get lost)\, and then an immediate right on Schwab Way.  The solar collector canopy is the customer parking area for the building.  The building number is 9899 (as in: 9899 Schwab Way) \nIf you have any trouble\, please call the Schwab Lone Tree Branch at: 720-895-3400. \nRemote Attendance: If you plan on attending remotely\, send your request to Dave Halbig (dave.halbig@gmail.com) several days before the seminar (NLT Monday\, Dec 3) to receive the remote attendance instructions \nHappy Hour/Meet n Greet:  The meet-and-greet (aka Happy Hour) will be announced just prior to the last afternoon session on the seminar day.  Sorry\, no rainchecks for remote attendees \nWe are seeking a sponsor for the happy hour event.  \nAgenda Summary \n08:00 08:15   Registration (Continental Breakfast provided outside presentation room)\n08:15 08:20   Welcome\, Agenda Review (Halbig)\n08:20 9:30     Security and Privacy in Culture (Gorog)\n9:30  10:00    Break\n10:00 11:30   CyberInsurance (Part 2) (Lindt)\n11:30  1:00    Keynote (Choices of topics – please vote when you register – see below) (Schwab)*\n(and Lunch   (grab one immediately outside meeting room))\n1:00    2:30    Project Enigma: Exploring the AI Continuum (Lebsack)\n2:30    3:00    Break\n3:00 – 4:30    First Bite of the AI Apple: Sizing an AI deployment (Lebsack) \n* – keynote speaker provider and sponsor \n Agenda Detail \nMorning (1) \nSecurity and Privacy in Culture\nChris Gorog\nColorado Tech University \nAbout the Presentation: \nAs the discussion of privacy panicles with showdowns in Congress\, and clashes on a global scale with extreme differences between the United States\, and European Union\, we often wonder how we got to this point. This session will provide a history of events relating to the progression and current direction of Cybersecurity and Privacy and shed some light on what we should look for with future technologies and methods to take control of our individual security and privacy. \nAbout the Speaker:  \nChristopher Gorog is the Lead Faculty for CS/IT/Cyber Security at Colorado Technical University\, CTO of BlockFrame Inc.\, he is the founder of Logic Central Online and the host of the New Cyber Frontier Podcast.\, Published Author\, Board of Advisors to Cyber Institute of the National Cybersecurity Center\, Board of Directors at Cyber Resilience Institute\, BlockChain SME to Colorado Legislator\, and Research Partner at both Arizona State University and Colorado State University Pueblo. \nChristopher is a prior Navy Nuclear Engineer and has 25+ years in engineering facets including Nuclear Engineering\, Computer Engineering\, Civil Engineering\, Electronic Design\, Critical Infrastructure\, Computer Science\, Information Technology\, and Cyber Security. \nHe holds a BS in Computer Engineering\, a Masters of Computer Science with a concentration in Computer System Security\, and a Masters of Business Administration from Colorado Technical University and is a candidate for PhD at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Considered an expert in the field of cyber security he has numerous publications and releases in Technological Era Leadership\, and in nearly every aspect of cyber security. His primary focus has been developing best practices for designing next generation cyber security by the integration of business cyber risks and cyber physical systems using cryptographic key management. \nAs the evolving world of technology continue to touch our lives\, the next generation of cyber security needs to include the millions of micro-controlled devices which automate and add comfort to our lives. Christopher is bringing his expertise in both cyber physical systems and business infrastructure together. His programs and research are utilizing blockchain technology for logistics\, and cyber security solutions to the secure and enable privacy to massive amounts of IoT devices. \nMorning (2) \nCyberInsurance – Part 2\nDarla Lindt\nThe Woodlands Financial Group \nAbout the Presentation: \nThe unparalleled convenience and increasing dependence on technology has spurred on a new risk exposure.  Cyber insurance is new to the insurance market compared to other lines of cover; however\, it is evolving to meet these modern exposures.  Cyber Insurance is a key strategic consideration in an organizations cyber resilience profile.  Darla Lindt\, CyRM is a leading cyber insurance expert educating business leaders on cyber policies as part of their cyber protection plan. \nThe speaker extends earlier concepts of CyberInsurance and Risk Assessment with actual use cases from current customers. \n“Cyber Insurance is the lifeline to businesses that have experienced a cyberattack…it’s that important”\, Darla Lindt\, CyRM \nAbout the Presenter:  \nDarla Lindt\, a designated Cyber Risk Manager (CyRM)\, serves the National Cyber Exchange (NCX) as the Director of Risk Management\, offering nearly 30 years of experience in Leadership\, Business Development and Strategic Planning. Darla is the Branch Owner of TWFG Insurance Services\, an independent insurance agency specializing in cyber insurance. Extending her reach beyond advising clients\, Darla is a dynamic presenter helping various groups gain valuable understanding of cyber insurance. Darla equips Business Owners\, C-Suite Executives\, and Board of Directors with the necessary tools to position their companies with a competitive edge by incorporating cyber insurance in their cybersecurity profile. \nNCX: The National Cyber Exchange is a non-profit member organization providing a communication platform by way of our website\, NCX Forum\, Mobile Apps and ISAO.  This communication platform serves as a trusted resource for cyber information featuring Subject Matter Experts\, Webinars\, Trainings\, Information\, How To’s and most notably a National Alert Notification capability which has demonstrated a high impact on awareness. \nThe state of our Nation remains extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks.  We need to rapidly advance the cybersecurity movement in order to secure our Nation.  This is not just the responsibility of our Government Agencies but of every individual utilizing technology.  Cybersecurity begins with each individual taking responsibility to steward the opportunity technology affords us.  Starting with increased awareness\, the right information\, training and tools; NCX endeavors to participate in equipping the nation\n \nNoon Keynote  \nKeynote Presentation* \nTo Be Announced \nCharles SCHWAB Corporation \nAbout the Presentation: \nThere are two presentations being offered by our sponsor.  The sponsor has asked that we help in choosing the one right for us. \nThe first presentation choice is “Preparing for a Bear Market”.  While we’ve had quite a run (Spring 2009)\, there’s no assurance the bull market will continue.  History\, however\, suggests that one could beset us in the next several years or months.  None of the prior bear markets snuck up on us; each provided some warnings\, if we were looking for them.  The defensive posture a prudent investor can take can dramatically reduce the adverse impacts of a bear market.  Precursor indicators of a bear market and things you can do to defend your portfolio are discussed. \nThe second presentation choice is a rather standard discussion of fixed income choices for a retirement portfolio that is either about to be used\, or is in active use.  Active and passive portfolio strategies are discussed. \nOK.. now it’s up to you … which one would you like to hear about?  Let us know (soon). \nAbout the Presenter:  \n(TBD) \n*- Keynote Address and Sponsor \nAfternoon (1) \nProject Enigma: Exploring the AI Continuum\nRick Lebsack\nIBM Corporation \nAbout the Presentation:   \nThe Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning (/AI/ML/DL) domain has moved from High Performance Computing (HPC) scientists to everyday conversation. Language and technology of Cognitive and AI solution flavors are spanning infrastructure options — System z\, POWER and x86. Fold in the DL frameworks and algorithms and whole new taxonomy and considerations need to be understood. There is a continuum where all of these platforms can work together — be it training performance\, development functionality or scoring latency. This overview session will explain\, explore\, document and place the continuum of AI approaches and use cases into context for non-data scientists. . \nAbout the Speaker:   \nRick Lebsack has been active in IT circles around Denver since 1982.  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.  \nAfternoon (2) \nFirst Bite of the AI Apple: Sizing an AI deployment\nRick Lebsack\nIBM Corporation \nAbout the Presentation:  \nThe discussion of Artificial Intelligence (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. There 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 Presenter:  \nRick Lebsack has been active in IT circles around Denver since 1982.  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. \nCost and Registration Options: \n(A continental breakfast\, a buffet 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 – still trying to get a sponsor for this\, but attend anyway.  The off site Happy Hour location will be announced during the afternoon session. \nPre-registration fees:                          Pre-registration options \n(NONE… NONE…NONE)                (see below) \nOur ability to offer this event cost free to attendees is due to the generous support of our sponsor\, Charles SCHWAB.  Our sponsor representative and corporate champion is Andrea Larson\, VP – financial consultant.  You can contact Andrea at: \nAndrea.Larson@Schwab.com\n9899 Schwab Way\,\nLone Tree\, CO 80124\n(720) 895-3409. \nSeating is (still) 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@acm.org\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 (703) 652-6293.  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 \nLincoln Ave Station Shuttle Bus Map
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/rocky-mountain-cmg-winter-18-forum/
LOCATION:Charles SCHWAB\, 9899 Schwab Way\, Lone Tree\, CO\, 80124\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
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SUMMARY:IT Security in 2019 – CMG in Atlanta
DESCRIPTION:Join CMG in Atlanta for an exciting Panel Discussion on IT Security in 2019.\nAs strategic planning discussions are occurring and budgets are being finalized\, join us as we talk to three security executives about their plans and goals for 2019. This event will offer insights into the challenges that companies of all sizes and types are facing and the solutions that are coming up for the future. During our PanelDiscussion\, we will also discuss how companies are exploring use cases for technologies such as AI\, anomaly detection\, and blockchain. \nKeynote Speaker \nWe’re delighted to announce our first event keynote speaker: \nKenneth Foster – Head Global Cyber Risk Governance at First Data Corporation \nAccomplished US Navy Veteran\, information technology professional\, and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)\, Kenneth has more than 20 years of experience in the public and private sector. As a transformational leader\, he excels at developing and implementing strategic\, technical\, and operational security/infrastructure architectures that are properly aligned with the organization’s business goals and objectives. Kenneth has an established history of innovation\, while utilizing technology and processes effectively to minimize operational cost and to strategically align Information systems with corporate goals. \nAgenda \n\n4:30 p.m. Registration and Networking\n5:00 p.m. Opening Remarks and First Speaker\n5:50 p.m. Panel Discussion\n6:20 p.m. Closing Remarks\n\nCost \nSpeaker Sponsor – $1\,000 \n\nLogo placement online\, at the event\, and in emails\nA seat on the panel/speaker\n\nPromotional Partner – $500 \n\nLogo placement online\, at the event\, and in emails\nRole at the Podium\n\n\n+CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/it-security-in-2019-cmg-in-atlanta/
LOCATION:Heritage Sandy Springs\, 6110 Bluestone Road\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30328\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="CMG Headquarters":MAILTO:cmghq@cmg.org
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SUMMARY:STLCMG Q4 2018 Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting is Tuesday\, October 2nd .\nOnce again\, we will have great speakers with awesome topics.\n(See full agenda) \nOur sponsor for the meeting is : SYNCSORT \n====================================\nMeeting Location \nPanera Support Center\n3630 South Geyer Road\nSunset Hills\, MO 63127\n====================================\nRegistration Info: ALL Registrations and Payment options available at this link.  STLCMG 2018 Fall Conference Payment Link \nEveryone must register regardless of payment option. \nRemember is only $25 per person.\n==================================== \nHope to see you on October 2nd. \nCheers\,\nWayne Allen\nChapter President – STLCMG\n2200 MasterCard Blvd.\nO’Fallon\, Missouri 63368-7263\nPhone: 636-722-6667\nEmail: wayne_allen@mastercard.com
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/stlcmg-q4-2018-meeting/
LOCATION:Panera Bread Co. Support Center\, 3630 S Geyer Rd #100\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
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SUMMARY:CMG AE conference - "Digital Transition"  New ways for future changes
DESCRIPTION:CMG conference “Digital Transition”  New ways for future changes\n27.9.2018\, 9:00 – 14:00 Uhr\nExpat Center of the Business Agency\, Schmerlingplatz 3\, 1010 Vienna \nWe thank our cooperation partner: \n\nAll companies and organizations are currently subject to the effects of Digital Transition. On the one hand\, there are further significant optimization potentials that must be realized for the competitiveness of the companies. On the other hand\, digitization and its consequences can literally turn existing business models on their heads in many industries. This often threatens massive structural adjustment. \nIn the course of Digital Transition\, both aspects – efficiency and innovation – must always be kept in mind. However\, this can shake up some organizations in terms of their structure and hierarchy. Helpful experiences\, DOs & DONTs as well as technical and methodical procedures are content of the CMG conference “Digital Transition”.
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-ae-conference-digital-transition-new-ways-for-future-changes/
LOCATION:Expat Center of the Business Agency\, Schmerlingplatz\, Vienna\, 1010
CATEGORIES:Region
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SUMMARY:CMG AE - 1st Working Group Meeting of the CMG Topic Panel "Lean-Management and IT"
DESCRIPTION:1st Working Group Meeting of the CMG Topic Panel “Lean-Management and IT” \n18.09.2018\, 16:00 pm \nForum EPU\, Operngasse 17-21\, 1040 Wien \n“Lean management” is an “operational excellence” strategy that leads to a change for the better. Reason enough for the CMG to set up the new topic panel “Lean Management and IT” and to illuminate the most important topics in this context with experts from different industries. \n“Lean” works in all industries and areas . In production\, administration and service\, in industrial enterprises\, administrations\, banks and insurances\, even hospitals and the formula 1 show the very wide field of application of “lean”. Increasingly\, companies are discovering lean principles for internal services as well. In the area of ​​IT service management in particular\, many of these methods can be meaningfully implemented. \nWe are looking for people with experience in IT\, service or administration and sustainable lean management processes \, for brainstorming\, deepening\, exchange of experience and finding a topic for spotlights and\, if necessary\, creating a guideline for specific applications in specific environments. \nWe personally invite you to actively contribute to this topic panel. Bring in your expertise and benefit from the experiences of others.
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/cmg-ae-1st-working-group-meeting-of-the-cmg-topic-panel-lean-management-and-it/
LOCATION:Forum EPU\, Operngasse 17-21\, Wien\, 1040
CATEGORIES:Region
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180822T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180822T210000
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CREATED:20180731T192457Z
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SUMMARY:Greater Boston CMG: SRE\, Performance and Scalability in the age of the Cloud: Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:This will be a roundtable discussion focused on modern day Site Reliability\, Performance and Scalability concerns including Predictive Analytics in realtime\, IOT\, Cloud\, Blockchain\, Machine Learning/Big data.\nPlease bring your stories\, concerns and enthusiasm. If you want to present let me know\nMohit
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/greater-boston-cmg-sre-performance-and-scalability-in-the-age-of-the-cloud-roundtable/
LOCATION:Cambridge Innovation Center\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Mohit Verma":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180725T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180725T210000
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SUMMARY:SRE\, Performance and Scalability in the age of the Cloud: Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:This will be a roundtable discussion focused on modern day Site Reliability\, Performance and Scalability concerns including Predictive Analytics in realtime\, IOT\, Cloud\, Blockchain\, Machine Learning/Big data.\nPlease bring your stories\, concerns and enthusiasm. If you want to present let me know\nMohit
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/sre-performance-and-scalability-in-the-age-of-the-cloud-roundtable/
LOCATION:Cambridge Innovation Center\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Mohit Verma":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180717T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180717T170000
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SUMMARY:Summer 2018 Meeting featuring sessions on Actionable Intelligence\, Capacity Optimization\, and Modeling - ST. Louis CMG
DESCRIPTION:Date: July 17\, 2018 \nLocation: Panera Bread Co.\, 3630 S. Geyer Road\, Sunset Hills\, MO 63127 \nFee and Deadline: $25. Please register by July 14. Fee waived if you are out of work or a full-time college student with ID. \nRegistration:  All registration & payments can be made through the website at: https://st-louis-cmg.ticketleap.com/2018-summer-conference/     For alternative payment arrangements contact: stlcmg@cmg.org \n  \nSponsored by \n \n  \nThe Summer 2018 STLCMG meeting will feature:\n9:15 – 10:15:  Actionable Intelligence Demands ACTION to Address Business Risk  – Ben Davies\, Senior Consultant\, Moviri \nA conversation that explores the investigation mission you SHOULD be on as a capacity manager or performance manager\, and shows tools and techniques to leverage senior level authority to drive ACTION. Every investigation should result in some documented action. Every investigation should be focused on business risk\, stated as business risk\, and addressed as business risk. \n10:30 – 11:30: Capacity Optimization Tool: What you should expect from a good capacity optimization tool and a surprising benefit of having a good tool – Ben Davies\, Senior Consultant\, Moviri \nThis is a conversation about what to expect from a capacity optimization tool. We use BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization in our examples\, but that tool is not the focus. And we discuss that with good tool and various data inputs\, the tool becomes a unique data set “different and apart from the sum of its parts”\, which provides significant business value\, independent of the original capacity mission. \n11:45 – 12:15: A Word from our Sponsor – Moviri \n12:15 – 1:15: Lunch & Networking \n1:15 – 2:15: Modeling and Forecasting Part 1 – Dr. Michael Salsburg \nAlthough most computing environments are heterogeneous\, computer system modeling is\, in most ways\, platform neutral.  The same techniques and tools can be used to model zSeries\, Unix / Linux\, and Windows.  At the heart of these models is the essential queueing network.  This two-hour presentation provides the details of the essential queueing network\, including the necessary statistics that need to be collected from the system\, as well as various modeling techniques that yield insights that cannot be gleaned from observing the actual computer system.  Once the model is validated\, it can be used to explore “what-if” scenarios where either the workload or the underlying configuration can be changed in the model so that the resulting service levels can be observed.  If time permits\, an additional section on the subject of time series estimation and forecasting will be presented.  This course will not teach you everything you need\, but it will give you’re a full survey of the various approaches with a full bibliography for future reference. \nMichael Salsburg is an independent consultant\, focused on IT performance measurement\, analysis\, modeling and optimization. Previously\, Dr. Salsburg was a Unisys Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Unisys Technology Products. He was for many years an international thought-leader in Cloud Computing and Agile Development processes. \nDr. Salsburg has been awarded four international patents in the area of infrastructure performance modeling algorithms and software. In addition\, he has published over 70 papers and has lectured world-wide on the topics of Real-Time Infrastructure\, Cloud Computing and Infrastructure Optimization. In 2010\, the Computer Measurement Group awarded Dr. Salsburg the A. A. Michelson Award – its highest award for lifetime achievement. \nDr. Salsburg received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in Mathematics in August 1972.He received his Masters of Science from the University of Delaware in Computer Science (Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence) in 1982 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics from Drexel University (Probability and Statistics) in 1992. \nDr. Salsburg is extremely active in the local Philadelphia music scene and often plays with various bands\, including the legendary Ferko String Band. You can find music clips and videos at www.msalsburg.com. \n2:30 – 3:30: Modeling and Forecasting Part 2 – Dr. Michael Salsburg \n3:30: Closing Remarks \nImmediately following the meeting\, we will host a Performance Analysis Relaxation Sessions (PARS) at Helen Fitzgerald’s located at 3650 South Lindbergh Blvd.\, Sunset Hills. Take a breather\, network with other attendees\, or just relax after a long day.  Enjoy complimentary hors-d’oeuvres and drinks.  You will receive two complimentary drinks \n  \nCannot attend? Check out Michael Salsburg’s Modeling and Forecasting training offered by CMG. \n 
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/stlcmg-save-date-4/
LOCATION:Panera Bread Co. Support Center\, 3630 S Geyer Rd #100\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Wayne Allen":MAILTO:stlcmg@cmg.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180508T200000
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SUMMARY:Performance and Scalability in the age of the Cloud: Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:This will be a roundtable discussion focused on modern day performance and scalability concerns including Predictive Analytics in realtime\, IOT\, Cloud\, Blockchain. Please bring your stories\, concerns and enthusiasm. If you want to present let me know… \nLearn more
URL:https://www.cmg.org/event/performance-and-scalability-in-the-age-of-the-cloud-roundtable/
LOCATION:Cambridge Innovation Center\, One Broadway\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Region
ORGANIZER;CN="Mohit Verma":MAILTO:gbcmg@cmg.org
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