IT professionals responsible for today’s fast paced, complex computing environments know the only constant is change. Today’s leading edge competitive advantage will quickly become tomorrow’s legacy liability. To learn new techniques, improve or maintain your skills in the fast moving area of performance optimization, resource management, capacity planning, modeling and cost management, access to information from industry leaders is no longer an option but a requirement.

For over 25 years, CMG has been the key source of this expert information, capturing the collective wisdom of the best in the industry. Please consider sharing your knowledge and experiences by writing a paper and submitting it to our peer-review evaluation process for presentation at CMG2004. Submissions at all levels are requested: tutorial, technical, managerial and advanced.

• z/OS - CICS, IMS, DB2, Batch, WLM, Capacity on Demand, Software Licensing, etc.
• Open and Emerging Enterprise Operating Systems (Open Source, .NET, J2EE, Web Services, Intel, Unisys, IBM, HP and Sun)
• Websphere / Web / eBusiness - eCommerce, Java, .NET, Web Services, SOAP, XML, etc.
• Future Technologies - Grid / autonomic computing, applications of AI in performance, etc.
• Executive Management - Issues facing upper level management/CIO such as finance, cost recovery, ROI, staffing, etc.
• Storage - Tape and disk technologies, SANs, Storage Performance Council issues, etc.
• Network Performance - Log file analysis, obtainable performance goals, etc.
• Modeling / Statistics / Applied Math - Simulation and analytic modeling, practical applications of performance statistics, workload forecasting, etc.
• Database Performance - Database performance evaluation of DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, etc.

Please note: the Abstract Due date is the date to submit a brief idea or summarization of your paper. There is no acceptance process for abstracts; they simply indicate your intent to submit a paper. The Paper Due date is the date the paper must be submitted by for the referee process. The Camera Ready Due date is after the paper has been refereed, accepted and reviewed by an Editor, re-submitted with any updates, corrections or modifications and is ready for publication in the CMG Proceedings.