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www.cmg.org41 ST INTERNATIONALPERFORMANCE & CAPACITY 2015 CONFERENCEis the industry’s TOP EDUCATION EVENT for specialized learning,practice sharing, and solutions providers .THE ONLY CONFERENCE SPECIALIZED FOR PERFORMANCEAND CAPACITY PROFESSIONALSFinding an IT conference that focuses on the platforms you need to know about, whileconnecting you with professionals who share your unique set of challenges, can be hard.CMG’s Performance & Capacity Conference gives today’s performance and capacityprofessionals the specialized learning, practice sharing, and technology solutions that enablethem to make better decisions for their organization.4 daysof Events andSpeakersTOP INDUSTRY90 HoursSolutionsProvidersof Presentationsand DemosWho Should AttendPerformance & Capacity Conference is aimed at providing in-depth content and one-on-onenetworking with professionals from a wide range of roles within the performance industry, including: Capacity Planners Software Developers Performance Engineers Quality Assurance/Engineers Consultants Project Managers Load Testers Database Administrators Systems Administrators Sales & Marketing Professionals Architects

41 ST INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE & CAPACITY CONFERENCENovember 2–5, 2015 The St. Anthony Hotel San Antonio, TXTHE TOP SPEAKERS AND RESEARCHERS INPERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY4 types of sessions that provide you with leading knowledge on the trends driving performance andcapacity planning in the digital age: General Sessions, Keynotes, and Plenary Sessions – Formal presentations on research, casestudies, or technologies shaping the way we approach performance and capacity planning. Birds of a Feather Sessions – Informal sessions organized by attendees to exchange ideas, discusscommon topics, issues and interests in a small group setting. Workshops – Hands-on, practical sessions designed to give you actionable strategies and practicaladvice. CMG Tutorials – Introductory level tutorials that will help people new to a specific area prepare to befunctional quickly. 2015 topics include Tuning of Multi-Tier Applications, Network Performance andCapacity, Windows Performance, Java Performance, Capacity Planning and Z/OS.Whether you’re new to the industry or an experienced professional, our mix of research and practitioner-focusedpresentations will provide new solutions and arm you for future projects in:Functional AreaTopics CoveredServer ComputingWindows UNIX Linux Hardware and Operating SystemsCloud & MobileAndroid iOs Windows Mobile Handheld Devices and OperatingSystems Wearable Technology Cloud Social Media Privacy Big DataVirtualizationVMWare HyperV PowerVM Linux on Zz/OSIBM Mainframe Systems Networking Storage and Backup ApplicationsNetwork Capacity andPerformanceLAN WAN Internet Wireless Networking Capacity andPerformance Monitoring Forecasting Analysis and ReportingStorageManagement Capacity Reporting Performance Analysis andPrediction for Storage on Servers SAN and CloudApplication PerformanceManagement & SPEApplication Performance Testing and Modeling Web Performance Workload Optimization Software Performance Engineering (SPE)IT Service ManagementCapacity and Performance as a Managed ITIL Process ValueCreation and Cost Reduction Through Effective Capacity PlanningAnalysis and Reporting ofEffectively Presenting Data Collecting, Analyzing, Reporting, andCapacity & Performance Data Visualizing DataOrganizational & CulturalIndustry Trends Affecting Capacity and Performance ManagementCultural and Organization Impacts Career ManagementDiscover new technologiesGather information about new solutions providers in our CMG Partners Exhibit Hall, or see them in actionthrough Exhibitor training sessions and presentations.

41 ST INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE & CAPACITY CONFERENCENovember 2–5, 2015 The St. Anthony Hotel San Antonio, TXKeynote: “The Business Justification for Application PerformanceManagement”Jonah Kowall – Vice President of Market DevelopmentAPPDYNAMICSEveryone is talking about and investing in APM but how does it fit into an enterprise monitoring strategyand how does APM deliver value to the business? APM can be a costly and often difficult journey. Creatingthe proper business case which encompasses the other elements of monitoring and root cause isolation iscritical when looking at funding and creating APM capabilities.ABOUT: Jonah Kowall is the Vice President of Market Development and Insights at AppDynamics. Jonah has a diverse backgroundincluding 15 years as an IT practitioner at several startups and larger enterprises with a focus on infrastructure and operations,security, and performance engineering. His experience includes running tactical and strategic operational initiatives andmonitoring of infrastructure and application components.Jonah previously worked at Gartner as a research Vice President, specializing in availability and performance monitoring and IToperations management. His research focused on IT leaders and CIOs and he has spoken at many conferences on these topics.Jonah led Gartner’s influential application performance monitoring and network performance monitoring and diagnostics magicquadrants.Plenary, Opening Session:“Integrating Software andSystems PerformanceEngineering Processes intoSoftware DevelopmentProcesses”Dr. André Bondi - Software ArchitectureImprovementSiemens Corp., Corporate Technology, USAABOUT: André Bondi is a Senior Staff Engineer working inperformance software and systems engineering at SiemensCorp. Dr. Bondi has worked on performance issues intelecommunications, conveyor systems, financial systems,medical systems, railway control, building surveillance andmanagement, and network management. He has developed andtaught corporate training courses on performance requirementsand performance engineering. Prior to joining Siemens, he heldsenior performance positions at startup companies, workedon performance, standards, and operations at AT&T Labs, andtaught courses in performance, simulation, operating systemsprinciples, and computer architecture at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. Dr. Bondi holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. inComputer Science from Purdue University, an M.Sc. in Statisticsfrom University College London, and a B.Sc. in Mathematicsfrom the University of Exeter. He is the author of Foundations ofSoftware and Systems Performance Engineering and holds nineUS patents.Plenary: “The Evolution ofWireShark and NetworkPerformance Diagnosis”Gerald Combs - Director of Open SourceProjectsRiverbed TechnologyABOUT: Gerald is an original developer ofWireshark. He started the project in 1998while working at an ISP. Since then many bright and talentedpeople have contributed to the project, making it the world’spremier network protocol analyzer.He currently works at Riverbed Technology as the Director ofOpen Source Projects, and is the lead developer of Wireshark.In the past he has worked as a consultant for firms in avariety of industries, ranging from telecommunications topharmaceuticals to finance. In 2003 he was the recipient of aUMKC Alumni Achievement Award for his contributions to thefield of computer science.View the full conference program.

41 ST INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE & CAPACITY CONFERENCENovember 2–5, 2015 The St. Anthony Hotel San Antonio, TXThe Languages of CapacityPlanning: Business,Infrastructure & FacilitiesAmy Spellmann of The 451 GroupRichard Gimarc of CA TechnologiesAmy Spellmann is a Global PracticePrincipal with The 451 Group (451 Advisors),where she specializes in cloud and digitalinfrastructure capacity planning andapplication performance. Ms. Spellmann’sexpertise includes modeling IT energyfootprint projections and strategies formanaging IT capacity to reduce space,power and cooling consumption in the datacenter. Her extensive experience in capacityand performance planning guides Fortune500 companies in optimizing and managing complex ITinfrastructures including private/public/hybrid Cloud.Richard Gimarc is a member of the capacity managementservices team at CA Technologies. In that role he works withcustomers during the planning, design, implementation andinstitutionalization of the CA Capacity Management Solution.Richard is a recognized industry expert in capacity planning,performance engineering and performance analysis. Overthe years he has developed and applied his performance andcapacity planning expertise to a variety of complex, diverse andchallenging environments.Plenary: “PerformanceAnalytics”Dr. Raj Jain – Professor of Computer Scienceand EngineeringWashington University in St. LouisABOUT: Raj Jain is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellowof ACM, a Fellow of AAAS, a winner of ACMSIGCOMM Test of Time award, CDAC-ACCSFoundation Award 2009 and ranks among the top 90 inCiteseer’s list of Most Cited Authors in Computer Science.Dr. Jain is currently a Professor of Computer Science andEngineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously,he was one of the Co-founders of Nayna Networks, Inc - anext generation telecommunications systems company inSan Jose, CA. He was a Senior Consulting Engineer at DigitalEquipment Corporation in Littleton, Mass and then a professorof Computer and Information Sciences at Ohio State Universityin Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of Art of ComputerSystems Performance Analysis,’’ which won the 1991 BestAdvanced How-to Book, Systems’’ award from Computer PressAssociation. His fourth book entitled “ High-Performance TCP/IP: Concepts, Issues, and Solutions,” was published by PrenticeHall in November 2003. He has recently co-edited “Qualityof Service Architectures for Wireless Networks: PerformanceMetrics and Management,” published in April 2010.View the full conference program.

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