Press Release
2003-12-22

UKUUG
LISA/Winter Conference & Tutorial

UKUUG Secretariat
PO Box 37
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9UQ

Tel: 01763 273 475
Fax: 01763 273 255

office@ukuug.org

www.ukuug.org

High-Availability and Reliability

Bournemouth, UK
25 and 26 February 2004

 

www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/

The UKUUG (UK Unix User Group) recently announced the full programme for its next LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial, to be held in Bournemouth, UK on 25 and 26 February 2004. The conference has a very good set of international speakers. We ask you to give a few minutes looking over the programme and speakers and give this event some publicity in your publication.

The main theme of the conference is High-Availability and Reliability, with very good papers on topics including large-scale email services, High-Availability Linux, storage replication, MySQL, and choosing reliable hardware. The conference starts in the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 February and will be preceded by a half-day tutorial on High-Availability Linux clusters, and the Heartbeat cluster monitoring software. This is being given by Alan Robertson and Lars Marowsky-Bree, who will both deliver talks in the main conference.

Lars currently works as technical lead and developer for the SUSE Labs. His main areas of expertise are high-availability and cluster related topics, ranging from storage (multi-pathing, RAID, and replication) over network load balancing to cluster infrastructure service, resource management and administration.

Alan, who is now based at IBM's Linux Technology Center, has been an active developer and project leader for High-Availability Linux for several years. He maintains the Linux-HA project web (www.linux-ha.org), and has been a key developer for the open source Heartbeat program.

The technical talks of the conference run from the Wednesday afternoon and will finish late afternoon on the Thursday. The provisional programme includes:

  Matt Asay
Novell		Open Source Capitalism: Innovation Business Models for an Innovative Development Methodology
  David Axmark,
MySQL		MySQL High Availability Features

  Mark Baker,
&   Matthew Grove,
University of Portsmouth

javaGMA: A lightweight implementation of the Grid Monitoring Architecture
  Matthew Bloch,
Bytemark Hosting

Getting the best from your server with User-Mode Linux

  Peter T. Breuer,
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid		NetRAID
  Tim Chown,
University of Southampton		IPv6 Deployment Status
  Julian Field,
University of Southampton		MailScanner
  Tony Finch,
University of Cambridge

Scaling up Cambridge University's email service

  Niall Mansfield,
UIT Cambridge Ltd		Experiences with the Sobig worms and how we combatted them (and other Spam)
 Lars Marowsky-Bree,
SUSE LINUX AG		High Availability Cluster Design and Set-up
  Stephen Mayo,
Hewlett-Packard		Hardware for high availability
 Richard J. Moore,
IBM

Preparing Linux for the Enterprise

  Philipp Reisner,
LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH		Storage Replication with DRBD
 Alan Robertson,
IBM Linux Technology Centre		The Evolution of the Linux-HA Project
 Steve Whitehouse,
ChyGwyn Ltd		Cluster filesystems

 

The event is open to both members and non-members of the UKUUG. Bookings must be received by 18 February 200; a discounted early booking rate is available until 30 January 2004.

See the website -- www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/ -- for booking information and full details of the programme including abstracts and speaker biographies.

Notes to editors

Complimentary press passes for those willing to write up the event, etc can be arranged via the Secretariat.

Media Sponsorship

Please contact the office if you are interested in becoming a media sponsor for this event. We will be happy to reciprocate by using your logo and link on our website. Publicity buttons such as can be found be found in www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/publicity/. For others, just ask.

For further information, contact

Jane Morrison , UKUUG Administration. Tel: 01763 273 475. E-mail: office@ukuug.org

(UKUUG Chairman: Charles Curran, Tel: 07973 231 870 / +34 645 94 30 69 , E-mail: charles.curran @ ukuug.org)

UKUUG

The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in the UK. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and is completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors. Any profits from events are used to further the activities of the organisation.

RM/CC, 2003-12-22