The Computer Measurement Group Announces 'Call for Papers and Presentations' for its 34th Annual CMG'08 Conference on December 7-12 in Las Vegas at Paris Hotel

CMG is Source for Unbiased, Objective Expert Information and Practical, Real Life Experiences for IT Professionals

TURNERSVILLE, N.J., Feb. 8 -- The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the Information Technology professionals responsible for planning, measuring, analyzing, and managing the world's largest IT infrastructures, announced today its call for papers and presentations for the 34th International Conference to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 7th through 12th, 2008 at the Paris Hotel.

The 2008 CMG conference will cover load and stress testing, benchmarking, performance optimization, software performance engineering, resource management, capacity analysis, modeling, and cost management with special emphasis on Virtualization, Capacity Planning for green datacenters, IT and Business Service Management, Performance Visualization and Service Oriented Infrastructures and Architectures.

"For over 30 years, CMG continues to be the source of unbiased and objective expert information and practical, real life experiences," said Jaqui Lynch, CMG'08 general chair and chief of staff, "Submissions for papers and presentations at all levels are welcome and we especially encourage papers on user experiences as well as ones that share one's knowledge and expertise."

All paper and presentation submissions will be evaluated through a blind peer-referee process. These presentations inform attendees from various levels of expertise, including Introductory, Tutorial, Advanced, and Management levels. Editorial assistance is available for accepted papers. Mentors are available for writing assistance. Mentor assistance may be requested at any point in the writing process, including before the paper is started.

  Subject Areas      Suggested topics (but not limited to)

  Hot Topics         Virtualization, Capacity Planning for green
                     datacenters, Performance Visualization, SOA, Web
                     Services, Model-Driven Architectures, Real-Time
                     Infrastructures, RFID, Server Consolidation,
                     Blade Servers, Grid Computing, Clustering and
                     Emerging Technologies, etc.

  Management         ITIL processes and IT Service Management, asset
                     management, BPM, BAM, corporate governance
                     (HIPAA, HEPA, SOX), CPM, dashboards, KPIs, etc.
                     zSeries z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, Batch, WLM,
                     Capacity on Demand,  software licensing, zIIPs,
                     zAAPs, etc.

  Linux and Unix     Proprietary and commodity platforms, open source,
                     management stacks, application servers, J2EE, file
                     systems, etc.

  Windows            Windows Operating Systems, SQL Server, IIS, Exchange,
                     .NET, DSI, Desktop Environments, etc.

  Storage            Disk and tape technologies, NAS, SAN, iSCSi, Fibre
                     Channel, backup, recovery, storage management,
                     Storage Performance Council, SNIA, MAID, SATA, etc.

  Computer           Stress/load testing, benchmarking, reporting,
  Performance        capacity planning, applied statistics/forecasting,
  Evaluation         simulation, analytic & hybrid modeling, collection
  (CPE)              and analysis of performance statistics, Software
                     Performance Engineering (SPE), etc.

  Network/           Network performance, IPv6, WebSphere, Internet
  Internet           security, LAN, WAN, semantic networks, Web2.0, XML,
                     RSS, podcasts, blogs, eCommerce, etc.


                   Important Paper Submission Dates

  Paper Abstract Due                               May 16, 2008

  Paper Due                                       June 13, 2008

  Referee Review Period                 June 16 - July 11, 2008

  Author Acceptance
  Notification                         July 28 - August 1, 2008

  Editorial Review Period         August 4 - September 12, 2008

  Final Camera Ready Copy Due                September 12, 2008

For more information about paper and presentation submission processes, please visit: http://www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2008/call-for-papers.html

CMG, (http://www.cmg.org/) is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement, quantitative analysis, and modeling.

For more information on the conference, see the conference Web page at http://www.cmg.org/PRNewswire13-Conference.