From rnovak at indyramp.com Wed May 2 21:13:35 2012 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 21:13:35 -0700 Subject: BayLISA for May 2012 - Multi-Hypervisor Virtualization and more news Message-ID: Hi Everyone, Two weeks from tomorrow is the May 2012 BayLISA meeting. We're once again gathering at the 2025 Stierlin building on LinkedIn's campus, same place as the last two months. MAY 2012 BAYLISA MEETING This month's meeting is focused on multi-hypervisor virtualization. Budget issues, licensing, and the popularity of Whatever-As-A-Service platforms are leading many companies to work with hypervisors that don't come from companies whose names start with VMW, often in hybrid environments including that particular hypervisor platform. We have friends from Xangati, Hotlink, and Tegile coming in to present on the challenges around virtualization management and, of course, their particular perspectives and solutions for those challenges. Thanks to Xangati for sponsoring the meeting as well. Be sure to RSVP at?http://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/42776962/?if you'll be joining us, so we can plan seating and refreshments accordingly. BAYLISA SYSADMIN SURVEY We occasionally have speakers or sponsors ask about the makeup of BayLISA attendees and members. I can usually come up with a vague summary, but I'd like to get something more accurate and current, with your help. There will be an online survey coming later this month that I'll ask any available member of these lists to complete. I will also provide printed versions at the meeting, as I know not everyone likes using web forms. The information we gather from these surveys, combined with contact counts between our various venues, will help us attract bigger names as sponsors and presenters at future meetings, and will ultimately VIDEO OF APRIL 2012 MEETING Video from last month's Storage Networking meeting, presented and sponsored by Cambridge Computer and Nimble Storage, will be going up for BayLISA members later this week. If you're a member, you will be receiving a members-only link for the videos. We'll also be sharing the Velocity discount code in that email. BECOMING A MEMBER OF BAYLISA If you're not a member, we invite you to join and help support future BayLISA activities as well as gaining access to discounts and benefits (including early access to videos before they are opened to the general public). Note that signing up for Meetup.com is not the same; Meetup "membership" with BayLISA is merely for the functions of meeting notification, RSVP, and reminders. Visit http://www.baylisa.org/members/join.shtml for details, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions. You can join online, paying via Paypal, or if you prefer, there are PostScript and PDF versions of our membership form on the website. You can bring that form with a check or money order for the membership fee, and give it to any board member at the next meeting (or mail it to our PO Box listed on the form). SHORT BUT COOL - JUNE 2012 BAYLISA MEETING Sure, it's almost two months away, but wouldn't you like to get something planned out well in advance? Your BayLISA board sure would. We're looking for up to half a dozen short demos or talks for the June 21 "Short But Cool" meeting. Contact me directly, or drop a note to directors at baylisa.org, if you'd like to participate. A twenty (20) word synopsys and twenty word bio would be great, as well as any more detail on your presentation, background, etc. Live demos are better than Powerpoint (or Keynote), and topics of interest to a wide range of sysadmins would be best, although this is a good place for an interesting but tightly focused demo as well. UPCOMING MEETINGS Based on past surveys and conversations with members and guests, we're working on a number of themed meetings, including Solaris technology, VMware, and monitoring/metrics. We're always open to your suggestions, whether it's a topic, a technology, a presenter, a sponsor, or a site host. Whether you are one or more of these five things, or just want to suggest one or more, the board would love to hear your feedback. Contact me directly, or drop a note to directors at baylisa.org, with whatever you have in mind. We'll respond to any serious suggestions and see what we can do--no guarantees, of course. That's it for now... thanks all for your attention and support of BayLISA. Stay tuned for more! Robert Novak BayLISA President From lgj at usenix.org Fri May 4 10:52:58 2012 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 10:52:58 -0700 Subject: USENIX LISA '12 Submission Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <8F25566D-8E3B-49A9-B370-3DFD4F73A65F@usenix.org> Hello, Could you please post this LISA call for papers announcement to the Bay LISA list? Thank you! -Andrew +++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++ It's almost here! The submission deadline for the 26th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '12) is less than a month away. Please submit your abstracts and proposals by May 17, 2012. The Call for Participation (CFP), with submission guidelines and sample topics, can be found on the USENIX Web site at: http://www.usenix.org/lisa12/ The annual LISA conference is the meeting place of choice for system administrators, IT architects, and IT engineers. The conference provides a rich mix of technical training by industry experts, dynamic talks that inspire attendees to think beyond today, panel discussions for debate of current issues, ask-the-expert guru sessions, and presentations by people like you who introduce the next generation of methods and solutions. The conference's diverse participants are matched by an equally broad spectrum of activities: * Refereed papers https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/papers * Practice and experience reports https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/per * New this year! We include a review and response period for authors of papers and practice and experience reports (PERs) to provide better transparency in the review process and to increase authors' chances of acceptance into the conference. * Talks https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/talks * Guru sessions https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/guru * Lightning talks https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/lightning * Poster session: https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/posters In addition, LISA welcomes proposals for the following: * Workshops https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/workshops * The training program https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/training * Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) https://www.usenix.org/lisa12/bofs LISA '12 takes place December 9-14, 2012, in San Diego, CA. Still not sure if you should submit? Check out my blog, "Why Sysadmins Should Write" https://www.usenix.org/blog/why-sys-admins-should-write We look forward to hearing from you! On behalf of the LISA '12 Organizers, Carolyn Rowland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) LISA '12 Program Chair lisa12chair at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstracts, papers, experience reports, and proposals for talks, workshops, and tutorials due: May 17, 2012 Paper and experience report authors' review and response period: June 7-13, 2012 Notification to all submitters: June 21, 2012 Final papers and reports due: September 19, 2012 Poster proposals due: October 29, 2012 Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/lisa12 -------------------------------------------------------------