From rnovak at indyramp.com Mon Mar 12 11:51:50 2012 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:51:50 -0700 Subject: Reminder: BayLISA meeting this Thursday w/CloudFlare and WARP Mechanics Message-ID: You're invited to this month's BayLISA meeting, coming up this Thursday at LinkedIn. Your RSVP at Meetup will help us plan for refreshments and seating. Where: LinkedIn - 2051 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA When: Thursday, March 15, 7:30pm RSVP:?http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/42776432/ BayLISA Web site:?www.baylisa.org BayLISA is welcoming Matthew Prince of CloudFlare and Josh Judd of WARP Mechanics for the March meeting. War stories from CloudFlare - hear how one of the fastest growing startups went from zero traffic to over 30 billion page views per month in just one year. CloudFlare has seen attacks from everyone from LulzSecurity to the White House. Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, will cover the business and technical sides of building a business to scale to web scale and how CloudFlare is making a faster, safer, better Internet for every website online. WARP Mechanics: How a Supercomputing-style storage solution can now be deployed in a corporate environment without having to hire an army of PhDs to manage it. WARP Mechanics approach is to use fast and cost effective SSD-accelerated RAID controllers combined with parallel filesystems. The presentation and open discussion will cover the technical challenges projected for corporate IT data managers, and how these WARP Mechanics appliances can help to solve them. Some of the applications discussed will include engineering data, VDI repositories, databases, and file archives. We are always looking for interesting speakers and sponsors for our meetings. If you have suggestions, please send them my way. We're particularly interested in some medium-length topics around virtualization for an upcoming meeting, and short topics for our June Short-But-Cool demo-fest, so if someone has recently made your world more manageable, feel free to point me toward them or point them toward me. Thanks, Robert Novak BayLISA President