Press Release - October 3, 2007

Computer Measurement Group Announces Keynote Panel for CMG’07 in San Diego, December 2-7, 2007

Past CMG Michelson Award Winners Deliver Interactive Keynote Panel Discussion on Cultivating "Next Practices" Innovative Thinkers

TURNERSVILLE, NJ, October 3, 2007 - The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the Information Technology professionals responsible for planning, measuring and managing the world’s largest IT infrastructures, announced today that it has finalized its keynote panel for the 33rd Computer Measurement Group 2007 annual conference taking place from December 2 -7 in San Diego, CA at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.

CMG’07 is pleased to assemble a panel of past Michelson Award winners who are also well-known CMG veterans, including Dr. Annie Shum, Dr. Jeff Buzen, Dr. Bernie Domanski and Mark Friedman, to present a discussion on Cultivating "Next Practices" Innovative Thinkers.

This inaugural keynote panel will be interactive, packed with insights, and delivered by industry luminaries who will set the stage and tone for the CMG’07 Conference. After examining the key strategies employed by past and present "Next Practices" innovators, the panel will focus on exploring the way current and emerging technologies are likely to play a key role in sustaining "Next Practices" IT-enabled innovations.

"The IT industry is swept up in a perfect storm of technological advances, business, political and social changes in the world. IT professionals must be prepared to re-position, re-educate, re-purpose and above all, innovate to adapt and navigate a sea of changes - technological, cultural, and organizational," said Dr. Annie Shum, panel moderator and past CMG Michelson Award winner. "This keynote panel will provide an exciting and interactive discussion that moves beyond Best Practices to cultivate "Next Practices" innovative thinkers. I am really looking forward to this electric dialogue."

CMG members are experts at evaluating and deploying computer systems optimized for cost and quality of service. Members include professional performance management personnel from the largest corporations around the world. CMG helps its members keep ahead of emerging technologies and meet the challenges of new computing architectures and directions.

The Computer Measurement Group (www.cmg.org) is a not for profit, worldwide organization of data processing professionals committed to the measurement and management of computer systems.

For information about and to register to attend CMG’07, go to
http://www.cmg.org/PRNewswire07-Register

For more information on the conference, see the conference Web page at http://www.cmg.org/PRNewswire07-Conference.

Press Contact:
Lana Torres
301-299-4064

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