Press Release - October 27, 2008

CMG Announces Sessions that Explore Virtualization/Green IT at 34^th Annual Conference

Attendees will Learn about Performance and Capacity Challenges of Virtualization

TURNERSVILLE, NJ, October 27, 2008 - The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the IT professionals responsible for planning, measuring and managing the world's largest IT infrastructures, announced today that it has added virtualization/green IT sessions at the 34th International Computer Measurement Group annual conference (CMG'08) taking place from December 7-12 in Las Vegas, NV at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.

"Virtualization is one of today’s leading global IT initiatives with Green IT being a major driver. In fact, virtualization has recently been named number one on Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2009 compared to last year when it was ranked number five," said Jaqui Lynch, CMG’08 General Chair and Chief of Staff. "We are thrilled to be able to shed light on the performance and capacity implications of this exciting technology. CMG ’08 will provide you with the real scoop from industry experts as well as peers who are already living the "virtualization experience."

The virtualization/Green IT sessions include one given by Amy Spellman titled, "Green Capacity Planning: Theory and Practice" and another one by Chris Molloy titled, "Green Data Center: A Case Study." Both sessions will show how, by consolidating servers through server virtualization, the datacenter’s power and cooling requirements are reduced.

Other virtualization sessions presented at CMG’08 include:

Robert Johnson: Case Study: Report on a Network Convergence/Virtualization Demonstration at CWID 2008
Peter Weilnau: Understanding the AIX Performance Data in a PowerVM Partition
Tad Kellogg: ESX Guest Capacity Determination using Guest Ready-Time Metric as an Indicator
Debbie Sheetz: Modeling/Sizing Techniques for Different Virtualization Strategies: (a.k.a. One Size Doesn't Fit All)
Desmond Atkinson: Xen - A Real Alternative to VMware?
Jie Lu: Modeling the Performance of Virtual I/O Server
Andrew Hillier: Capacity modeling and Planning in Virtual Environments
Tim Norton: A Simalytic Approach to Modeling Virtualized Environments

These sessions will help provide answers to the following questions that arise regarding capacity and performance issues:

What is the real scoop on planning and managing server virtualization capacity?
How do you know which virtualization method will work for you?
How do you do capacity planning and modeling for virtualization?
Is ZEN really an alternative to VMWare?
How do we compare measurements from different virtualization environments?
How do traditional modeling and planning techniques differ in a virtualized environment?
How do we account for the differences between CPU vendor implementations of chips, cores and threads in a virtualized environment?
What will the impact be of virtualized I/O?
How do we predict which applications and server will work before I virtualize them?

"While various implementations of virtualization have been around for 30 years, virtualization technologies have exploded in the industry because of how they address the very real issue of server sprawl and provide a new level of agility for the infrastructure. Server Virtualization is a transformational technology," said Dr. Michael A. Salsburg, Director for The Computer Measurement Group. "These sessions will examine the performance and capacity challenges of not only providing sufficient, CPU, memory and storage to meet the needs of virtualized resources, they will also include cost effective techniques to balance consumer demands with resources."

For general information on the CMG '08 conference, go to CMG'08 Conference

For information about and to register to attend CMG'08, go to CMG'08 Register

The Computer Measurement Group (www.cmg.org) is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to sharing information and practices focused on ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement, quantitative analysis, and forecasting.

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