Registration's just opened for LISA: the 17th Annual Large Installation System Administration Conference.
LISA returns to San Diego for October 26-31, 2003. As always, the breadth and quality of this year’s tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and participants is excellent.
WHAT: Usenix's 17th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA)
WHEN: October 26-31, 2003
WHERE: San Diego, CA, Town & Country Resort Hotel
WHO: System Administrators, Network Administrators, CIOs, CTOs, Researchers, Tool Providers, Support and Help Desk personnel, etc.
WHY: To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer system administration
HOW: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/
TUTORIALS: experts such as Marcus Ranum, Trent Hein, Ned McClain, Gerald Carter, David Skoll, Mike DeGraw Bertsch and David Rhoades will give you the information, techniques, tools, and strategies you need to practice effective system administration today and tomorrow.
PAPERS and INVITED TALKS: luminaries such as Gene Kim, kc claffy, Remy Evard and Moshe Bar will present cutting-edge issues in topics such as:
o computer security without loss of services
o Linux clustering for the enterprise
o real-world comparison of commercial backup and recovery tools
o designing and deploying a configuration and monitoring system at a global bank
o the theory and practice of large-scale configuration management
o automating switch and port configuration
o supporting IPsec remote access
Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Work-in-Progress reports give you a preview of next year's news, or present fledgling work of your own and get feedback from the audience.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: eBay's Director of Availability and Performance Engineering, Paul Kilmartin, will discuss the challenges of the auction site's highly complex real-time computing demands.
For more information and to register for the 17th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) visit:
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/
Multiple Employee Discount: Usenix offers a $195 per-person discount to organizations sending 5 or more employees to LISA: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this discount for your group.
Register now for the best pricing! Feel free to contact me anytime with questions.
Cheers, -Peter
Peter Mui USENIX Association 2560 9th Street STE 215 Berkeley, CA 94710 510 548 8649 ext. 28 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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