UKUUG LISA Winter Conference and Tutorial

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UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial: 
High-Availability and Reliability

Bournemouth, UK, 25 and 26 February 2004


The UKUUG (UK Unix User Group) recently announced the full programme
for its next LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial, to be held in

 25 and 26 February 2004.

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
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.

See <http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/> for booking information
and full details of the programme including abstracts and speaker
biographies.
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Notes to editors:

Complimentary press passes for those willing to write up the event or
interviews with speakers can be arranged via the Secretariat.

Media Sponsorship: Please contact the office if you are interested in
becoming a media sponsor for this event.  We will be happy to
reciprocate by using your logo and link on our website.

For further information, contact:

UKUUG Administration: Jane Morrison
Tel:  01763 273 475
E-mail: office@ukuug.org

(UKUUG Chairman: Charles Curran
 Tel:  07973 231 870 / +34 645 94 30 69
 E-mail: charles.curran@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.

UKUUG Secretariat
PO Box 37
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9UQ
Tel:  01763 273 475
Fax:  01763 273 255
office@ukuug.org
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