Late Breaking Track Finalized for 36th International CMG Conference (CMG'10), December 6-10 in Orlando, Florida

High Response to CMG'10 Late Breaking Call for Papers

TURNERSVILLE, N.J., Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals, has finalized its Late Breaking Track for this year's 36th International CMG conference (CMG'10) taking place December 6-10 in Orlando, Florida.

The unprecedented response to the Late Breaking Call for Papers solicitation has exceeded expectations in both quality and diversity across a wide range of key IT subject areas including: cloud computing, measurement tools and techniques, load and stress testing, performance optimization, software performance engineering, resource management, capacity analysis, applied statistics and forecasting, simulation and analytic modeling, and cost containment and management.

Here are the Late Breaking papers which have been accepted for presentation at CMG'10:

• "Newly Announced IBM zEnterprise System and Platform Performance Management" Glenn Anderson, IBM, Tuesday, December 7, 9:15 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
• "IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer for DB2 for z" William Schray, IBM, Wednesday, December 8, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• "Extreme Capacity Management" Dr. Michael Salsburg and Stephen Guarrieri, Unisys, Thursday, December 9, 9:15 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
• "DB2 10" Akiko Hoshikawa, IBM, Thursday, December 9, 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
• "Fit for Purpose - Workload Based Platform Selection" Joe Temple, IBM, Friday, December 10, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
• "zEnterprise Best Practices" Laura Knapp, AES, Friday, December 10, 10:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m.

In addition, CMG'10 has expanded its Distinguished Speaker offerings to include a sixth session: Annie Shum, Amdocs Corp., "CPU and the Cloud" Monday, December 6, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

"The enthusiastic response is a testament to the focus and expertise that fellow CMG members are willing to share with their IT colleagues, and it highlights the incredible productivity gains to be realized from the adoption of the many optimized processes," said Bill Jouris, General Chair of the CMG'10 conference. "Those who attend CMG '10 will learn and understand key performance and capacity issues and gain insight to the solutions that can control IT expenses."

For general information on the CMG '10 conference taking place December 6 through 10 in Orlando, Florida at the Gaylord Palms, go to http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2010

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.

SOURCE Computer Measurement Group