[ Thanks to Con
Zymaris for this information. ]
This is the first call for papers for the first AUUG System
Administration symposium to be held on April 9th in Melbourne at
the Australian Industry Group’s conference facilities and themed to
try to canvas new challenges in Systems Admin being brought to us
by new technologies or new application of existing
technologies.
AUUG welcomes proposals on any subject related to systems
administration in general or the theme of future systems
administration in particular. Some ideas for potential topics are
presented below but these are by no means intended to be exhaustive
or limiting. In particular, those with expertise in specific areas
or generalists who wish to speak outside these areas should not
feel constrained from responding.
- Open Source: how is it changing the playing field…
- Database: open source d/bs vs. established commercial
players,
oracle 9i-rack in the field, - New PC I/O technologies: PCI-X, Infiniband, HyperTransport (aka
LDT) - Integrating PCs and UNIX systems: where are we
- Storage: how will new technologies like firewire, iSCSI and
Infiniband change NAS, SAN, and direct attached storage. - Backup: where are tape technologies headed? will they catch
disks? - Networks: zeroconf.org (Apple Rendezvous product)
- Communications: 10gig ether, 1gig ether, wireless, QoS, VoIP,
VPNs - Clusters: 6 oxen vs. 1000 chickens? does it work.
- Spam: new challenges, new solutions? (Bayesian filtering?)
- LDAP: The promise of an open directory meets vendors and
implementors,where is single sign on? (Is it dead?) - Security: what’s new? what’s old? how do you get there from
here…secure PC platforms and their implications for us… - Capacity planning: how to do it for clusters and distributed
solutions - Web & e-Everything: new trends, old trends.
Those of you interested in participating are invited to supply an
abstract of your presentation of 100-500 words and possibly a short
biography if you feel that will help in your successful selection.
Papers are encouraged but not mandatory for the
symposium proper and will only be published online on the AUUG web
site for conference delegates to access there. Please forward all
proposals/abstracts to sysadm@vic.auug.org.au by
Monday 24th March, 2003