CMG 2003  |  DECEMBER 7 - 12  |  Dallas, TX
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Past CMG conference evaluation forms were a great resource for redesigning the conference (yes, we really do read those forms!) Your wish for CMG to involve some ‘industry heavyweights’ has been granted as we’ve gotten terrific feedback and cooperation from some of the top executives in the System Management industry.

These sessions have been scheduled for all day Tuesday, and offer a unique opportunity to hear where the System Management industry is headed from not just one, but five people who will take us there.

Session: 303
Tuesday 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Reunion H

Today's global realities are creating a new challenge for today's corporations. The combination of global economic uncertainty with an IT environment where there are heightened expectations, tight budgets and greater business ownership, creates new demands on IT. IT and business operations are now inseparable. To align IT with business and fill the gap between the business and supporting technology, companies are turning to Business Service Management (BSM).

This session will review the current industry and IT conditions that are driving the shift to BSM. It will also address the three essential components of BSM: IT Operations and Infrastructure Management; IT Service and Applications Management; and Service Impact Management; and how a customers' environment determines how these components align to achieve BSM.

Session: 343
Tuesday 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Reunion H

Autonomic computing writes business policies and goals to let the infrastructure configure, heal and optimize based on those business policies and to protect itself. The speaker will demonstrate how IT infrastructure can manage itself and reduce the cost of owning and operating computer systems. The cost challenges that today’s companies face and how autonomic computing can improve their return on investment by: reducing the total cost of ownership, improving the quality of service, accelerating the time to value, alleviating the shortage of IT skills and managing IT complexity.

Session: 363
Tuesday 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Reunion H

In today's highly distributed environment of intranets, extranets, insourcing, outsourcing, hacktivism and flash crowds, it is not possible to fully understand the performance and availability of your systems using software tools alone. While it is a straightforward matter to know the performance and availability of any particular piece, getting an overall view can be quite problematic. What's worse, there's no way to know in advance how the entire system will respond in the case of a hacktivist attack or a flash crowd without appropriate load testing.

In this talk, Lloyd Taylor, Keynote's vice president of technology & operations, will review what has been learned about managing highly distributed business systems in the face of great uncertainty and rapidly changing internet and business environments. An overview of the best practices of the most successful Internet properties and businesses will help you better prepare yourself for unexpected and unpredictable events, usually without having to spend a great deal of additional capital!

Session: 373
Tuesday 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Reunion H

The storage hardware and software industry is expected to undergo significant change by 2005. The advent of new interconnect devices such as intelligent switches, less expensive disk media such as serial-ATA devices, and innovations in storage management software will change the way IT organizations manage their storage and data. This presentation will explore the macro technical developments taking shape and how they are reshaping IT environments. This presentation will also examine how data will be managed through its whole lifecycle, including data management functions from protection, mobility of data, aging, retention and archiving to elimination when needed. Over the coming years, IT managers will move towards managing their information in a holistic manner, gradually moving away from treating storage management as a set of separate actions such as backup, replication, migration, etc. This presentation will look at how this change will come about and its implications for today.

Session: 383
Tuesday 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Reunion H

The IT industry is under pressure to perform, doing even more with even less. To successfully cope with these demands, IT organizations must understand and implement strategies that provide better service, consolidation, integration and ultimately the flexibility and adaptability that customers require. The new paradigm of utility or on-demand computing requires the allocation of IT resources - systems, storage, bandwidth - to be sufficiently flexible to meet changing business needs. Computer Associates International’s (CA) vision in this challenging dynamic IT environment is that you can utilize existing assets to achieve the benefits of on-demand computing today. Successful on-demand implementations will be dependent on three significant factors: delivery of IT as a service, a self managing infrastructure, and a service-oriented architecture. Our vision includes strategies to help you maximize the utilization of enterprise computing resources in your business environment and map those resources directly to the specific elements of the business supported.