[NCSA-discuss] Meeting schedule

[Engle, Victor]

Thanks Len. Sounds like some good topics in the works. 

I had chatted with Lyon late last year about having one of our engineers
do a presentation on FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet. There is a lot
of storage industry interest in FCoE. If that's of interest to the group
I can go back to our Engineer and work out availability dates. Please
let me know.

A couple other interesting topics with regard to Solaris would be
Solaris' new LDom virtualization technology and ZFS. In addition, I
would think the tight integration between zones/containers and ZFS in
the more recent versions of Nevada would be quite an interesting topic
for sys admins.

If I could suggest something and at the same time volunteer my time if
needed. I have been to a few meetings and for the most part they seem
lightly attended. I recall the Lenovo speakers seemed to be openly
disappointed with the attendance. I think we might improve attendance if
we kept the website up to date with meeting / presentation schedules. At
the moment the site says our next meeting is Jan 16, 2008 and no
information regarding future presentations is posted at all.

Thanks,
Vic
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Boyle [mailto:Len.Boyle at sas.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:04 PM
> To: NC*SA Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NCSA-discuss] Meeting schedule
> 
> Feb is scheduled to be Eric of EMC, One of the first ncsa 
> folks when he worked for sun.
> 
> 
> I have a tenative commitment from an sun engineer who is good.
> He just needs to know what topic would the group like.
> 
>      Some things that come to mind for me.
> 
> 1) Open solaris. That is how to work with the source. Maybe 
> this would be a good topic to share with the trilug group.
> 
> 2) Dtrace
> 
> 3) Perforamance issues (amd vs sparc vs the T2 chips vs the others).
> For this we might be able to Jim Mauro who was one of the 
> authors of "Solaris Performance and Tools"
> 
> 3) Virtualization
> 
> 4) other
> 
> - Maybe we could get the IBM guys who said in the backup of 
> the room for the IBM talk on blades to talk. He also teaches 
> at NCSU. Is talk could be on dist computing.
> 
> -Maybe someone from Netapp to talk about the latest NFSv4 support
> 
> -Maybe some from Netapp to talk about the gx support.
> 
> -I know a salesman that moved from veritas to 3par and would 
> like to give a talk.
> 
> -Security issues.
> 
> -Any one that could give a talk on grid computing?
> 
> -Veritas and EMC have new source level dedupe backup systems, 
> that might be a good topic.
> 
> -Maybe a return vist of M. Gettes of Duke Univ.
> 
> -Others
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ncsa-discussion-bounces at ncsysadmin.org] On Behalf Of 
> Engle, Victor
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:46 PM
> To: ncsa-discussion at ncsysadmin.org
> Subject: [NCSA-discuss] Meeting schedule
> 
> 
> Does anyone know if any presentations are scheduled during 
> the next few months. The website only has this with regard to 
> scheduled speakers...
> 
> *************************************
> Upcoming Meetings:
> 
>         We have some things in the works. But, if you have 
> any ideas or suggestions for presentations or topics, please 
> contact the Steering Committee!
> **************************************
> 
> Thanks,
> Vic
> 
> 
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