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 scheduled dates for future meetings are 

April 13 & 14, 2010 

 

April 13 & 14, 2010  detailed agenda - agendaApr13142010a.doc or agendaApr13142010a.pdf

          Sponsored by Senmesoft

 

Tuesday

  • Fibre Channel storage and SAN infrastructure optimization using instrumentation in real-time
    • Eric Robitaille – Virtual Instruments
  • How Many JES2 or WLM Initiators Are Right?
    • Martin Wills – MVS Solutions
  • R – What every Capacity Planner and Performance Analysts Needs to Know
    • David Banham – CIBC
  • System z Family Product Update
    • Jim Elliot – IBM Canada, Ltd.
  • Saving Money (and your mainframe)
    • Danilo Gipponi - EPV Technologies
  • Capacity Planning Issues in 2010
    • Danilo Gipponi -  EPV Technologies
  • EPV – This marketing session is by today’s sponsor – Senmesoft
    • Gilles Senecal - SenmeSoft

Members Reception

 

Wednesday

  • Changing perspective on database performance and capacity planning with Oracle Exadata technology
    • Oleksiy Razborshchuk – Oracle
  • Changing in a Flash - The Impact of Flash and Solid State Disks on Capacity and Performance Planning  
    • Ron Marshall – Oracle
  • Forecasting Data Center Power Requirements: Tips from the Trenches
    • Frank Bereznay  - IBM / Kaiser Permanente
  • Capacity Planning - Why do it?                  
    • John Slobodnik – Toronto Hydro
  • Network Latency and Application Performance
    • Wilfried von Haren – Predictive Networks
  • Don's Diatribe XI
    • Don Melton – Vatic Technologies

 

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

February 23, 2010  detailed agenda - agendaFeb232010.doc or agendaFeb232010.pdf

          Sponsored by Intellimagic

 

§         Performance Comparison: Migrating from IBM System z9 to z10

    • Jonathan Gladstone – BMO
  • Load Testing Is Easy. Good Load Testing Is Not.  Preparation is the Difference.
    • Chris Lynn –  Safeway
  • A New Perspective on Enterprise Storage Tiers
    • John Baker – Intellimagic
  • Fibre Channel storage and SAN infrastructure optimization using instrumentation in real-time
    • Eric Robitaille – Virtual Instruments

 

 

October 20, 2009  detailed agenda - agendaOct202009.doc

  • Event Profiling Versus State Profiling, on z/OS
    • David A. Day- Cole Software
  • Performance Management in Virtualized Environments (IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, VMware ESX specifics and similarities)
    • Emmanuel Sauvion – Sysload
  • The Stork correlation Use & Abuse of Statistics in Performance & Capacity Planning
    • Denise P. Kalm – CA
  • IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS V4R2
    • Mike Goodman – IBM
  • IBM System z Update
    • Jim Elliot – IBM Canada

 

 

 

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.  E-mail: Michael Hurley or Dennis Chitussi for information.  Future meetings are scheduled for May 6 and June 10. 

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 2010 International conference will be December 5 - 10 at the Gaylord in Orlando. 

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

 

CMG International Home Page / Information about Other CMG Groups

 

 

Contact the CMG Canada President and Directors

 

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Site updated on April 3, 2010.