Reminder: BayLISA meeting this Thursday w/CloudFlare and WARP Mechanics

Mon Mar 12 11:51:50 PDT 2012

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