CMG (Computer Management Group) '08
Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Friday, December 12, 2008
Paris Las Vegas Hotel , Las Vegas, Nev.
The 34th Computer Measurement Group annual conference will focus on the explosive growth in the use of virtualization to add new levels of efficiency to the infrastructure. CMG'08 is positioned to help enterprise architects and administrators plan their infrastructure and take advantage of these new virtualization technologies.
A major theme for the conference will be planning for green data centers. Companies worldwide are struggling with ways to reduce the costs of power and cooling through new levels of efficiency. CMG'08 will have multiple sessions to help companies integrate new technologies along with virtualization into their data centers to reduce their carbon footprints.
CMG'08 includes content for every level, from industry veterans to new practitioners. There is a full day of pre-conference workshops as well as CMG-T, which is training given by industry experts for rookies who need to quickly come up to speed in their knowledge of core competencies.
This year's keynote speaker is Steve Sams, IBM vice president for Site and Facilities Services Worldwide. His topic, "Think Green -- How Green Computing Can Pay for Itself," examines five areas that can improve a data center's energy management through diagnosing, building, virtualizing, managing and measuring.
This year's plenary speaker is Paul Strong, a research scientist at eBay, Inc., where his work focuses on enterprise grid architectures and technologies. His topic, "The Shape of Infrastructure to Come," will provide a brief overview of eBay, the world's largest virtual economy, as well as its infrastructure, evolution and future data center infrastructure.
The keynote address occurs at 1:15 p.m. Monday, December 8, 2008, and the plenary session occurs at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, December 9, 2008.
