Canadian Computer Measurement Group

CMG Canada was formed in 1985 by: Gabe Gewurtz, Bill Gray, Harry Zimmer, Tony Mungal, Mick Devereau, Geoff Senson, and Mike Osborn.
The Computer Measurement Group evolved out of the need to provide an exchange forum for ideas and methodologies amongst data processing professionals in an unbiased, non-vendor setting. From the formation of the first CMG group in 1975 in the United States, it's dedication to providing education, networking, leadership opportunities, and reliable technical information has been exemplary.

CMG Focus

The focus of CMG has evolved over the years to reflect the changing trends and climate of this dynamic IS industry. Today the focus is on providing information on at least the following:

  • traditional mainframe computer systems (Enterprise Systems)
  • Open Systems
  • emerging technologies
  • networks
  • I/O subsystems
  • performance methodologies
  • capacity planning methodologies
  • management skills and career enrichment

Future CMG Canada meeting dates:

The next meeting will likely be in October, 2009. 

Please e-mail carl.kyonka@enbridge.com for more information about the meeting agendas. 

View or Print the Membership form for this year:

Membership_09'10.DOC  or  Membership_09'10.pdf

 

 

Past CMG Canada Meetings and Agendas

April 14 and 15, 2009   detailed agenda - agendaApr14152009.doc or agendaApr14152009.pdf

Tuesday

  • ESCON, FICON and Mainframe Performance    ppt file
      • Steve Guendert – Brocade
  • Multi-Core Computing and the Tiered Storage Model    pdf file
      • Anthony G. Mungal – EMC Corporation
  • Automating Batch and Saving Money    pdf file 4.8 MB
      • Martin Wills – MVS Solutions
  • Building a Dynamic Infrastructure –

Trends and Directions for System z   presentation is on Jim's website

      • Jim Elliott - IBM   
  • Linux on System z - A Strategic View   presentation is on Jim's website  
      • Jim Elliott – IBM
  • CMG Canada Members’ Networking Session – all invited

 

Wednesday

  • Software Blades
      • Kellman Meghu – Check Point Software Technologies Inc.
  • Using TeamQuest Model in an Oracle 10G RAC Environment    zipped pdf file 7 MB
      • John Slobodnik – CGI
  • Business Transaction Management –

The Next Generation of IT Performance Management    ppt file

      • Alon Ben-Shoshan - Correlsense Ltd
§         Performance Testing vs. Performance Monitoring    ppt file
      • Jan Warren – Enbridge
  • Don's Diatribe IX    pdf file
      • Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

February 17, 2009 - cancelled

October 21, 2008                   detailed agenda

  • Performance Analysis of WAN based application delivery networks    pdf file 7 MB
        • Wilfried van Haeren – NetDialog Inc. Canada
  • Real Application Testing - with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition.    pdf file
        • Oleksiy Razborshchuk - Oracle
  • Trending or Modeling for z/OS Systems - One, the Other, or Both?    Word doc
        • Greg Caliri - BMC.
  • Predictive Analysis in a Multi-Tier environment using Modeling.    ppt presentation
        • John Slobodnik - CGI
  • Open Forum – Questions and Answers

 

 

April 15 / 16   detailed agenda.doc or detailed agenda.pdf  Sponsored in part by CA Inc.

 

Tuesday

  • Z10     pdf file 2MB
    • Tom Russell – IBM
  • Besides The Processor...  pdf file 1MB
    • Gord Neill – IBM
  • Regulatory Compliance and the IBM Mainframe: Key Requirements  pdf file
    • Reg Harbeck – CA
  • Adjusting RMPTTOM to Reduce SRM Overhead  ppt presentation or pdf file
    • Kevin Martin - McKesson
  • On the Importance of I/O Parallelism and I/O Priority structures in z/OS Environments.
    • Anthony G. Mungal - EMC Corporation

CMG Canada Members’ Networking Session

 

Wednesday

  • Seeing it All at Once with Barry  pdf file 4MB
    • Mario Jauvin – MFJ Associates
  • THE MINIMUM DAILY ADULT The Right Metrics and the Wrong Metrics  pdf file
    • Denise P. Kalm – CA Inc.
  • Solaris Virtualization
    • Scott Wardley – Royal Bank of Canada
  • Open Performance Security Architecture Past and Future
    • Kellman Meghu – Checkpoint
  • Don's Diatribe VII  pdf file
    • Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

Feb'08 Welcome Letter.doc

March 18, 2008  detailed agenda Mar182008.doc

§         Secure Network Access: Real-time measurement of users compliance to policy

§         Vitaly Levin, Nortel

§         Network Application Monitoring

§         Carey McClymont, Radware

Oct'07 welcome letter

Our Oct. 30,2007 seminar focused on Z series topics:    agendaOct302007.doc  (detailed agenda)

§         Tom Russell of IBM will present "How Mainframe CPUs Work"

§         Peter Enrico of Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc   will present "zIIPs and zAAPs - Understanding Transaction Flows and CPU    Measurements"
and he will also present "Introduction to Websphere MQ Performance"

§         Tony Mungal of EMC will present “Mainframe relevant features of the DASD subsystem”
We will also have a Q&A session.

More meetings and presentations

 

 

Membership

 

View or Print the Membership form for this year – Membership_09'10.DOC  or  Membership_09'10.pdf

A CMG Canada membership is from September to August. 

 

Membership Benefits

CMG Canada provides three seminars per year (usually Nov, Feb, April) as follows:

October – half day or full day seminar.

February – half day or full day seminar.

April – 2 full days featuring 9 -10 speakers total.   

The cost is $100 Canadian for an individual membership.

 

 

Other Meetings and Affiliations:

(for CMG and other organizations with reciprocal notification)

COUG (Central Ontario Users Group) – for users of z/OS, UNIX and Linux on enterprise servers.  The next COUG seminars are scheduled for May 14th and June 11th.  E-mail: Michael Hurley or Dennis Chitussi    

NaSPA Ontario (Network and Systems Professionals Association).  See http://www.cartagena.com/naspa/contents.html 

TASS (Toronto Area SAS Society).  See www.torsas.org

CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society).  See www.cipstoronto.ca

Canadian Software Asset Management Users' Group.  See http://www.tam-inc.com/canadiansoftware.htm

FSP (Federation of Security Professionals).  See www.intiss.com\fsp

 

CMG 2009 International conference will be December 6 - 11 at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas. 

If you can not attend the conference, then consider a CMG membership.  The cost is $175 US for a membership in 2009. 

 

CMG International Home Page / Information about Other CMG Groups

 

 

Contact the CMG Canada President and Directors

 

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Site updated on May 4, 2009.