[SC.LUG] FW: High-Availability & Reliability Conference: Bournemouth, 25-26 Feb (UKUUG)

[Ewan Leith]

i'd like to, but bournemouth seems a mad place to hold it, means driving 
down on the tuesday night and back on the thursday night or miss another 
day at work, which would be a pain.

Jason Lucas wrote:

> Thanks to Alasdair for the heads-up on that one. Is anyone planning on
> going to it?
> 
> Jason.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 21:09, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> 
>>UK Unix User Group LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial: 
>>  High-Availability and Reliability
>>  Bournemouth, UK, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th February 2004
>>
>>http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/
>>
>>The main theme of the conference is High-Availability and Reliability,
>>with topics including large-scale email services, High-Availability
>>Linux, storage replication, MySQL, and choosing reliable hardware.
>>The conference starts in the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 February and
>>will be preceded by a half-day tutorial on High-Availability Linux
>>clusters, and the Heartbeat cluster monitoring software.  This is
>>being given by Alan Robertson and Lars Marowsky-Bree, who will both
>>also deliver talks in the main conference.
>>
>>Lars currently works as technical lead and developer for the SUSE
>>Labs.  His main areas of expertise are high-availability and cluster
>>related topics, ranging from storage (multi-pathing, RAID, and
>>replication) over network load balancing to cluster infrastructure
>>service, resource management and administration.
>>
>>Alan, who is now based at IBM's Linux Technology Center, has been an
>>active developer and project leader for High-Availability Linux for
>>several years.  He maintains the Linux-HA project web
>>(www.linux-ha.org), and has been a key developer for the open source
>>Heartbeat program.
>>
>>The technical talks of the conference run from the Wednesday afternoon
>>and will finish late afternoon on the Thursday.  The provisional
>>programme includes:
>>
>>Matt Asay               Open Source Capitalism: Innovation Business Models 
>>(Novell)                for an Innovative Development Methodology
>>
>>David Axmark            MySQL High-Availability Features
>>(MySQL)
>>
>>Mark Baker and          javaGMA: A lightweight implementation of   
>>Matthew Grove           the Grid Monitoring Architecture
>>(University of Portsmouth) 
>>
>>Matthew Bloch	        Getting the best from your server with  
>>(Bytemark Hosting)	User-Mode Linux
>>
>>Peter T. Breuer         NetRAID
>>(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
>>
>>Tim Chown               IPv6 Deployment Status
>>(University of Southampton)
>>
>>Julian Field            MailScanner
>>(University of Southampton)
>>
>>Tony Finch              Scaling up Cambridge University's email service
>>(University of Cambridge)
>>
>>Niall Mansfield         Experiences with the Sobig worms and 
>>(UIT Cambridge Ltd)     how we combatted them (and other Spam)
>>
>>Lars Marowsky-Bree      High-Availability Cluster Design and 
>>(SUSE LINUX AG)         Set-up
>>
>>Stephen Mayo            Hardware for high-availability
>>(Hewlett-Packard)
>>
>>Richard J. Moore        Preparing Linux for the Enterprise
>>(IBM Linux technology Centre)
>>
>>Philipp Reisner         Storage Replication with DRBD
>>(LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH)
>>
>>Alan Robertson          Heartbeat
>>(IBM Linux Technology Centre)
>>
>>Steve Whitehouse        Cluster filesystems
>>(ChyGwyn Ltd)
>>
>>The event is open to both members and non-members of the
>>UKUUG. Bookings must be received by 18 February 2004, and a discounted
>>early booking rate is available until 23 January 2004.
>>A limited number of free and subsidised places is available for those
>>who would otherwise be unable to attend.
>>
>>See <http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/> for booking information
>>and full details of the programme including abstracts and speaker
>>biographies.
>>
>>For further information, contact:
>>  Jane Morrison
>>  UKUUG Secretariat
>>  PO Box 37
>>  Buntingford
>>  Herts SG9 9UQ
>>
>>  Tel:  01763 273 475
>>  Fax:  01763 273 255
>>
>>  office at ukuug.org
>>  www.ukuug.org
>>
>>The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in
>>the UK.  It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and
>>is completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors.
>>Any profits are used to further the activities of the organisation.
>>
>>
>>Provisional dates for Linux 2004 conference in Leeds:
>>  29th July - 1st August 2004
>>
>>
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