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LOPSA-NJ - iSCSI SANs Don't Have To Suck and Data Structures from the Future
June 28th, 2010 | posted by wbilancio09/02/2010 - 7:00pm
09/02/2010 - 9:00pm
Etc/GMT-4
Location(s)
Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library
2751 US Highway 1
Lawrenceville, 08648-4132Date: Thursday September 2nd 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 7:20 PM - Social Time
7:20 PM - 7:30 PM - LOPSA-NJ Business and Announcements
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Main Presentation
This month we have two speakers and two different talks. Both speakers have had there talks accepted by LISA and have agreed to have them heard first here at LOPSA-NJ.
Derek will give a dress rehearsal for his LISA talk, described below:
iSCSI SANs Don't Have To Suck
We have created a iSCSI SAN architecture which permits maintenance of network components without any downtime, thus improving our ability to maintain the SAN beyond iSCSI's mediocre reputation. During development of this architecture we learned three important lessons, which have enabled us to create an architecture that allows for stability, as well as zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance.
Tom will also give a dress rehearsal for his LISA talk, described below:
"Data Structures from the Future"
Greetings earthlings of the year 2010! I've traveled back in time to share with you some of the technologies that system administrators operate in the future. Chances are you know what a "cache" is and how to tune it. In the future, there will be glorious things such as "bloom filters", "distributed hash tables" and "pipelined servers". I will reveal what they are and (more importantly) how to turn how to tune them. (This will be an informal talk with a lot of hand-waving.)
Bios:
Derek J. Balling has been a Linux system administrator since 1996. He has helped build and maintain server infrastructure for companies like Yahoo, and institutions like Vassar College. He is a co-author of the O'Reilly book High Performance MySQL, and serves on the Board of Directors for the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA). He is currently employed as the Data Center Manager for Answers.com.
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