Early registration discounts for LISA '03, taking place October 26-31,2003 in San Diego, CA are available now!
Register by Friday, October 11 and save up to $300! http://www.usenix.org/lisa03/ For the past 17 years LISA has been the focal point for the global community of system and network administrators. This year LISA continues that tradition, featuring innovative tools and techniques essential to your professional and technical development. * Select from 39 tutorials taught by highly expert instructors, including: - Marcus Ranum on Intrusion Detection and Prevention. - Trent Hein and Ned McClain on Advanced Administration and Security Topics and Techniques. - Gerald Carter on LDAP and on the latest Samba release. - Mark Burgess on Cfengine. - Mike DeGraw-Bertsch on IPsec and on FreeBSD's Advanced Security Features. - David Blank-Edelman and also Mark-Jason Dominus on Perl for System Administration. - David Skoll on Combating Spam. Other tutorial topics include DNS, DHCP, Solaris Internals, Mac OS X, System and Network Performance Tuning Backups, Managing Storage, Advanced Shell Programming and Time Management. Our Invited Talks are our most impressive slate of speakers yet. They include: * Keynote Speaker Paul Kilmartin, eBay's Director of Availability and Performance Engineering, discussing the challenges of his company's highly complex real-time computing demands. * Networking maven k c claffey on how system administrators and researchers can help solve pressing Internet problems. * Security expert Gene Kim on what everyone else can learn from the organizations with the very best security. * Remy Evard will describe how his team addressed and overcame serious security problems at Argonne National Laboratory, without loss of services. * Moshe Bar will discuss recent advances in Linux clustering for the enterprise. LISA is the premier forum for presenting new research in system administration. We selected papers from over 90 submissions, showcasing state-of-the-art work, including: * Xev Gittler and Ken Beer discuss designing and deploying Deutsche Bank's configuration monitoring and reporting system. * Elizabeth Zwicky will present the results of her most recent examination of backup tools. * The practice and theory of large scale configuration management * Crucial networking topics including diagnosing BGP configuration errors, IPsec remote access, and automating switch/port configuration management. Spam Mini Symposium The conference also includes a half-day symposium focused on fighting Spam. Leading Spam experts will present the lastest research findings and counter-spam techniques. In addition, epresentatives from anti-spam organizations and commercial vendors will join them in a panel discussion to address your questions and concerns. And Much More ... - Bring your perplexing technical questions to experts at LISA's unique "The Guru Is In" sessions - Explore the latest commercial innovations at the Vendor Exhibition - Bring a costume for the "Pre-Halloween" party on 10/30 For complete program information and to register, visit http://www.usenix.org/lisa03/ We look forward to seeing you in sunny San Diego! --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
