[Alex Walker <alex at usenix.org>] 17th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2003)

Tue Aug 12 09:21:05 PDT 2003

I think many of us are interested in this ... :D

-* Heather Stern * Arch (secretary) BayLISA Board * http://www.baylisa.org/ *-

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  Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
  From: Alex Walker <alex at usenix.org>
  Message-Id: <200308081824.h78IOoZm007706 at voyager.usenix.org>
  SUBJECT: 17th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2003)

Early registration discounts for LISA '03, taking place October 26-31,2003 
in San Diego, CA are available now!

Register by Friday, October 11 and save up to $300!
http://www.usenix.org/lisa03/

For the past 17 years LISA has been the focal point for the global
community of system and network administrators.  This year LISA continues
that tradition, featuring innovative tools and techniques essential to
your professional and technical development.

* Select from 39 tutorials taught by highly expert instructors, including:
-   Marcus Ranum on Intrusion Detection and Prevention.
-  Trent Hein and Ned McClain on Advanced Administration and Security
    Topics and Techniques.
-  Gerald Carter on LDAP and on the latest Samba release.
-  Mark Burgess on Cfengine.
-  Mike DeGraw-Bertsch on IPsec and on FreeBSD's Advanced
    Security Features.
-  David Blank-Edelman and also Mark-Jason Dominus on Perl for System
    Administration.
-  David Skoll on Combating Spam.
Other tutorial topics include DNS, DHCP, Solaris Internals, Mac OS X,
System and Network Performance Tuning Backups, Managing Storage,
Advanced Shell Programming and Time Management.

Our Invited Talks are our most impressive slate of speakers yet. They include:
*   Keynote Speaker Paul Kilmartin,  eBay's Director of Availability and
    Performance Engineering, discussing the challenges of his company's
    highly complex real-time computing demands.
*   Networking maven k c claffey on how system administrators and
    researchers can help solve pressing Internet problems.
*   Security expert Gene Kim on what everyone else can learn from the
    organizations with the very best security.
*   Remy Evard will describe how his team addressed and overcame serious
    security problems at Argonne National Laboratory, without loss of services.
*   Moshe Bar will discuss recent advances in Linux clustering for 
    the enterprise.

LISA is the premier forum for presenting new research in system
administration. We selected papers from over 90 submissions, 
showcasing state-of-the-art work, including:
* Xev Gittler and Ken Beer discuss designing and deploying Deutsche
    Bank's configuration monitoring and reporting system.
* Elizabeth Zwicky will present the results of her most recent
    examination of backup tools.
* The practice and theory of large scale configuration management
* Crucial networking topics including diagnosing BGP
    configuration errors, IPsec remote access, and automating
    switch/port configuration management.

Spam Mini Symposium
The conference also includes a half-day symposium focused on fighting
Spam. Leading Spam experts will present the lastest  research findings
and counter-spam techniques. In addition,  epresentatives from
anti-spam organizations and commercial vendors will join them in a panel
discussion to address your questions and concerns.

And Much More ...
- Bring your perplexing technical questions to experts at LISA's unique 
"The Guru Is In" sessions
- Explore the latest commercial innovations at the Vendor Exhibition
- Bring a costume for the "Pre-Halloween" party on 10/30

For complete program information and to register, visit
http://www.usenix.org/lisa03/ 

We look forward to seeing you in sunny San Diego!

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