January BayLISA Events - Register now!

Tue Jan 17 15:18:49 PST 2006

2 meetings, 4 great talks this month!  Thursday is Enterprise Grade 
Virtualization with Open Source Technologies, and NetBSD 3.0 for System 
Administrators at the Apple Campus.  Next Thursday is Google Site 
Reliability and Open Source @ 20 at Google.  Details following. PLEASE 
RSVP.  For the Google event, it's especially important as it will make it 
much easier to get in (you will be pre-signed in rather than having to 
sign up at the door).

January 19, 2005
Location: Garage 1, upstairs room in Building 4 on Apple Campus. 4 
Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California 95014
Time: 7:30-9:45pm
Enterprise Grade Virtualization with Open Source Technologies
RSVP: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/23223462

Virtualization is a new and hot item to the world of Linux and Windows. 
There have been, however, virtualization technologies for over 40 years, 
starting with the IBM emulators for mainframes, and later with the CP67 
and VM virtualizing operating systems. Open Source operating systems like 
Linux offer the potential to make virtualization fast, easy and a 
commodity by introducing the required changes into the OS as part of the 
standard kernel. Fast virtualization with a low overhead, furthermore 
makes it possible for the first time to use it in production environments 
(rather than just test and development). Xen, the leading Open Source 
virtualization technology has quickly become a standard adopted by many 
leading ISVs to build comprehensive data center efficiency and management 
solutions. This presentation will provide an overview of Xen and discuss 
best practices for deploying it to achieve enterprise grade 
virtualization.

NetBSD 3 for System Administrators: an Overview

You may be familiar with NetBSD as an excellent platform for embedded
systems development, or as a highly portable OS which supports legacy
hardware ranging from the Sun 3 to the Alpha. But did you know
that NetBSD is a full-featured, modern OS that also works very well as
a general-purpose OS? See what NetBSD 3.0 has to offer
from a system administrator's perspective in this brief overview
designed to highlight some of NetBSD's distinctive features.

Meeting sponsored by XenSource

January 26, 2006 - BayLISA Special Event
Location: Building 43, Google Campus, Mountain View, CA
RSVP: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/23334795

Google Site Reliability
Google's reputation for high reliability is achieved through a
combination of commodity hardware, resilient software, and elbow
grease. We'll discuss some key principles underlying Google's
production architecture, and highlight some of the challenges of
keeping www.google.com available to its end users.

Open Source @20, A New Game with New Players - Bernard Golden, CEO Navica
Open Source @ 20: A New Game with New Players

Open Source has traditionally been the province of early adopters.
Today pragmatic IT organizations are beginning to implement open
source solutions. "Open Source @ 20: A New Game with New Players"
will discuss the expectations that pragmatists bring to the game, the
challenges open source presents to them, and describes the Open
Source Maturity Model as a tool to bridge the gap between
expectations and challenges.

Meeting sponsored by Google.