[Wylug-announce] FAB 2008 - Call for Abstracts (File Storage and Backups)

[Nigel Metheringham]

[Forwarded - with stripping of initial intro - from Zeth Green on
Lugmaster list -- Nigel]


FAB 2008 - File Storage and Backup Seminars - Call for Papers

Disk storage capacities have taken off enormously in the past few
years, while user expectations of data storage have become more
exacting as data is being produced at a frantic rate and the
management of this data has become critical to the core functions of
many organisations. This has changed the problems of data management
that the system administrator has to cope with. These seminars, held
in Central London, is a review of current best practice and
technologies for the system administrator.

The seminar consists of two parts: Wednesday February 19th looks at
storage, Thursday February 20th looks at backups and recovery. We need
your presentations!

Suitable topics for FAB presentations include, but are not limited to:

    * Storage in the Data Centre
    * Backups in the Data Centre
    * High availability
    * High performance
    * Replication
    * SANs
    * File systems
    * Media: Tape/CD/DVD/rsync/etc
    * Backup suites
    * Disaster Recovery
    * Disk failure: detection and recovery
    * Case studies/Experience with deployed systems
    * Experiences of disasters and recoveries
    * Papers based on real, practical experience will be especially  
welcome!

Key dates

February 1st 2008 - Deadline for seminar materials
Wednesday February 19th 2008 - FAB1 - Files and Storage
Thursday February 20th 2008 - FAB2 - Backups and Recovery

Please send abstracts or questions to fab at ukuug.org. You can also
visit the homepage at http://www.ukuug.org/events/seminars/fab/