Feb 15

TURNERSVILLE, N.J. 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 data centers, 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.

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.