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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Third IBM Leadership Seminar on Systems and Storage Technology November 28, 2004 Organized by the IBM Research Lab in Haifa You are cordially invited to participate in a one-day Leadership Seminar on Systems and Storage Technology, to be held Sunday, November 28, 2004 at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa, located on the Haifa University campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel. This full-day seminar provides a forum for the research and development communities from both academia and industry to share their work, exchange ideas, and discuss issues, problems, and work-in-progress, as well as future research directions and trends. The Leadership Seminar will focus on the following major challenges in the field of systems and storage technologies: Simplified Management The rapid growth of IT system complexity, together with customer requirements for short service time, pose challenges for more efficient management structure?to reduce system maintenance costs and the need for increasingly specialized personnel. The wide range of storage, network, and computing resources provided by various vendors raise the need for simple and unified management of all resources. Technology Deployment in Large IT Centers Nowadays, with information technology essential to every industry, companies are finding new ways to use technologies to achieve their goals. Understanding the challenges and problems these companies face is crucial for future investments in research and development. Virtualized Systems and Storage Virtualization allows efficient and dynamic utilization of the available computing and data resources thereby reducing the cost of the IT centers. Virtualized systems and storage has become a hot topic in today?s IT industry. Virtualization presents computing resources in ways that provide added value for users and applications, rather than presenting them in the manner dictated by their implementation, geographic location, or physical packaging. Business Continuity As organizations become increasingly dependent on a continuous flow of information across distributed heterogeneous environments, disruptions to that flow become more and more intolerable. Minimizing data loss, rapid recovery to a consistent state, and reduction in security risks are essential for preserving business continuity. The Leadership Seminar will cover new storage systems, as well as advanced system technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Simplified Management * Integrated server, network, and storage management * Problem determination and resolution * Resource and operation modeling * Self-management Technology Deployment in Large IT Centers * Storage and systems integration * Grid computing in the industry * Usage of new storage technologies in large data centers Virtualized Systems and Storage * Virtualization techniques and approaches in systems and storage * Performance considerations in virtualized systems * Virtualization aspects in Grid computing * Usage of virtualization techniques for system security Business Continuity * High availability and scalability * End-to-end availability and quality of service * Data replication and copy services * Disaster recovery New Storage System Technologies * Object storage * Reference data and persistence archive * iSCSI technologies The Leadership Seminar will take place in the auditorium (room L100) of the IBM Research Lab in Haifa. Participation is free of charge. A detailed agenda and participation information will be distributed at a later date. The official language of the workshop is English. Please feel free to further distribute this invitation to students and fellow researchers/developers. Important dates: October 25, 2004: Abstracts due November 10, 2004: Notification of paper acceptance November 28, 2004: Workshop gathering and presentations (Sunday) What to submit Please send an abstract describing your work, up to one page in 11 pt font, in either MSWord (*.doc) or PDF format. Where to submit Send your submission to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] When to submit Please send your submission before October 25, 2004. Seminar Organizers: Shachar Fienblit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zorik Machulsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. --- -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
