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

 

Just a reminder that it is time to pay for memberships. 

View or Print the Membership form for this year:

            Membership_11'12.docx  or  Membership_11'12.pdf

A CMG Canada membership is from September to August. 

 

Future CMG Canada meeting dates:

The scheduled dates for future meetings are 

 

October 18, 2011    February 21, 2012     April 17 & 18, 2012

 

A detailed agenda for the October 18 meeting can be downloaded from one of these files. 

            agendaOct182011-TM.doc  or  agendaOct182011-TM.pdf    

9:05 AM          Discover Active Capacity Planning: – What you, the capacity planner,

can do to impact your company’s bottom line

Greg Scriba – BMC

10:15 AM        A Usage Based Approach to Updating the FICON Infrastructure

Anthony G. Mungal

1:30 PM          X-ray your systems

                                    Danilo Gipponi  - EPV Technologies

2:30 PM          Collecting and using SMF 113 and other MF metrics

                                    Danilo Gipponi, Fabio Massimo Ottaviani - EPV Technologies

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

 

 

Past CMG Canada Meetings and Agendas

April 19 & 20, 2011

 

(Posted Apr 15) CMG Canada has finalized arrangements for our April 19 and 20 seminar. We are especially fortunate to have both 2010 Mullin award winners and a variety of very experienced speakers. The theme for the 19th is Open Systems, and for the 20th Mainframes.

The detailed agenda is available for download.

agendaApr19202011-Final1.pdf   or    agendaApr19202011-Final1.doc   

 

February 22, 2011  view detailed agenda in - agendaFeb222011.doc or agendaFeb222011.pdf

Sponsored by:           

BMC Software

 

  • Slash Your Monthly Software Costs    pdf file
    • Martin Wills - MVS Solutions 
  • Virtualization Performance and Capacity Data Classification Schema
    • Debbie Sheetz - BMC
  • Predicting the Relative Performance of CPU
    • Debbie Sheetz - BMC
  • How To Take Over A Nuclear Power Plant
    • Kellman Meghu - Checkpoint

 

October 19, 2010  detailed agenda - agendaOct192010rev.doc or agendaOct192010rev.pdf   

Note that the order of the morning presentations has been flipped.  (Oct 15th update)

 

  • Discover Business Units of Work to Improve Effectiveness of Capacity and Performance Management
      • Alon Ben-Shoshan – Correlsense
  • Inifiniband Networking - The Need for Speed
      • Ron Marshall - Oracle
  • Workload Performance Management
      • Fabio Gammerino and Dilara Buyuk – ORSYP
  • IT Performance Management in a Financial Crisis
      • Fernando Martinez - CGI

 

 

More meetings and presentations

 

 

Membership

 

View or Print the Membership form for this year – Membership_10'11.DOC  or  Membership_10'11.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. 

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 2011 International conference will be on December 5 - 9 at the Gaylord in Washington DC. 

If you can not attend the conference, then consider a CMG membership. 

 

CMG International Home Page / Information about Other CMG Groups

 

 

Contact the CMG Canada President and Directors

 

E-mail the webmaster. Suggestions and questions are appreciated.

Site updated on Oct 5, 2011.