Computer Measurement Group Announces the Storage Management and Storage Performance Program for CMG'07 in San Diego, December 2-7, 2007
Track Covers Wide Variety of Storage Topics Regardless of Platform
TURNERSVILLE, NJ, November 30, 2007 - The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the Information Technology professionals responsible for planning, measuring and managing the world's largest IT infrastructures, announced today its storage management and storage performance prog
The storage management and storage performance program features sessions for everyone regardless of platform. CMG'07 has both open systems and mainframe-centric storage sessions, with topics including disk and tape storage as well as storage networking.
"We are pleased to offer a wide variety of sessions on storage with excellent speakers who are truly in the trenches and understand the many issues of storage management and performance," said Steve Guendert, CMG'07's subject area chair for storage.
Some of the excellent storage sessions include:
1) Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer - Presenting "The DARK side of FICON."
2) Tom Clark - New Developments in Storage Area Network Protocols. Mr. Clark will review recent innovations in SAN transport protocols, including iSCSI/iSER, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over IP, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE).
3) Randy Kerns - Performance Considerations for Archiving Data. This session will highlight the important performance considerations for archiving data and will use real-world examples to aid in understanding.
4) Bill Gray - A Queueing Analysis of Selected Performance Issues with Virtual Tape and Robotics. Mr. Gray examines important issues surrounding virtual and robotic tape systems.
4) Greg Schulz - Storage and Networking Technologies Update. Greg will talk about the exciting new technologies to expect in the marketplace for 2008.
5) Steve Guendert -"Understanding the Performance Implications of Buffer to Buffer Credit Starvation in a FICON Environment: Frame Pacing Delay." Mr. Guendert will review BB credits including current schema for allocating/assigning them.
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/PRNewswire11-Register
For more information on the conference, see the conference Web page at
http://www.cmg.org/PRNewswire11-Conference.
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