The program is still being finalized, but will include:

• David Follis from IBM will present “Weird Tales of Websphere: Secrets of the Lost (SMF) Records”.
• Our own Board Member Dr. Steve Guendert will be presenting an entertaining talk on management.
• Metron-Athene is sponsoring the conference and will be presenting some excellent information in two sessions.

Our spectacular speaker list was:

• Frank Bereznay (National CMG Vice President) – How to Build Tabular Dashboards Using Proc Report (CMG’10 Best Paper Award)
• Keith Tidballl and Lori Zaremba (Progressive Insurance) – Application Development Success Stores for DB2 Performance Issues
• Eva Tuczai (Optier) – Optier Vendor Presentation
• Ann Knapik (Progressive Insurance and OHVCMG Director) – SYSPLEX Aggregation with help from ASC Software from SoftwareonZ – A user’s experience
•  Frank Bereznay (National CMG Vice President) – Automatic Monitoring of Continuous Processes

We will put any softcopies of presentations in our download section  in category ’20110915′ (located at bottom of download page).

With the economy as it is, this is a very efficient way to gain valuable information to help you in your career as a Computer Performance professional.

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Ohio Valley Computer Measurement Group OHVCMG is a not-for-profit organization focused on providing members interested in enterprise computing systems, capacity planning, and performance evaluation with a means to share, learn, and exchange knowledge on modeling and measurement techniques and other areas of interest.

Present your paper or topic at our Regional Meeting and the national conference: If you have a topic that you believe members of OHVCMG would benefit by hearing, please contact us to submit your abstract and presentation for consideration. Our group generally meets twice a year and we generally have four or five presentation sessions and a vendor sponsored lunch presentation.  The 2011 annual Computer Measurement Conference is being held December 5-9 in Washington DC area.

Sponsorship opportunities: The OHVCMG Region is proud to continue its tradition and commitment of providing the best of CMG to Ohio and the surrounding states. Opportunities exist for companies, organizations and individuals who wish to show their support of our group throughout the year that will continue to help us provide the high quality sessions our membership deserves.

If you are looking for a targeted demographic to share your product and services message with, we invite you to contact us to learn about sponsorship options. Many members of OHVCMG are working professionals spanning multiple disciplines of Information Technology and are employed at some of the largest companies and organizations throughout Ohio and surrounding states.

Become a Board Member: Those interested in joining the OHVCMG Board, sponsoring a conference, or becoming a OHVCMG member please contact Tim Follen. Ohio Valley Computer Measurement Group is affiliated with the Computer Measurement Group, Inc..