Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:15:52 +0200 From: "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" <Mauelshagen@sistina.com> To: gfs-annouce@borg.umn.edu, gfs-devel@borg.umn.edu, Subject: *** ANNOUCEMENT *** Second Annual Linux Storage Management Workshop ***ANNOUNCEMENT*** (please feel free to repost it on any appropriate list!) Second Annual Linux Storage Management Workshop October 15-19, 2000 Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science University of Miami Miami, Florida Dates: October 15-19, 2000 (one day after the 4th Atlanta Linux Showcase being held in Atlanta, Georgia -- http://www.linuxshowcase.org/) Location: Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science University of Miami Miami, Florida http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/rsmas.html A key enabler for Linux in the enterprise is storage management software (SMS), including journaled and cluster file systems, logical volume managers, RAID software and hardware, backup and recovery utilities, tape archiving and HSM, high availability, SCSI and Fibre Channel, devfs, page cache and buffer cache issues, software RAID via MD, and storage networking infrastructure. The energetic Linux hacker community and leading Linux vendors like VA Linux, Red Hat, and Suse have been very active in this area, and have recently been joined by large OEMs like SGI, HP, and IBM and storage management software specialists like Veritas, Legato and Sistina. As a follow-up to our first meeting in Darmstadt, Germany last September (see http://linux.msede.com/lsmws/), we propose a 4-day workshop in Miami, Florida this October. In this 4-day workshop we propose to review the current state-of-the-art in SMS software. We will invite leading developers from the Linux hacker community as well as these leading OEMs. Stephen Tweedie, Peter Braam, and several other attendees from last year's conference in Germany have already agreed to attend. We believe that storage management software in Linux is evolving very rapidly, and that Linux limitations in this area are being addressed. Leading users are exploiting Linux for managing large storage systems, and their experience will help lead the way to future improvements. We plan to invite speakers from the film industry, web infrastructure companies, and research labs to talk about their needs and experiences as they relate to Linux. If you are interested in attending or presenting at this workshop, please send email to "miami2000@sistina.com". We will create a mailing list and will send information about hotels, agenda, etc. to that list. We are currently finalizing the schedule of events, and anticipate that the first three full days (October 16-18) will be technical sessions and panels, with the fourth day (October 19) dedicated to tutorials. An informal party for speakers and participants will be held on the evening of October 15th at RSMAS, near the beach on Virgina Key. We will post more information about the workshop as it becomes available at the following web sites: <http://www.globalfilesystem.org> or <http://www.linux-lvm.org>. The registration fee for the conference is 390,- USD. Sincerely, The Workshop Organizers Matthew O'Keefe Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software, Inc. Sistina Software, Inc. okeefe@sistina.com mauelshagen@sistina.com http://www.globalfilesystem.org http://www.linux-lvm.org About the Location: The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, founded by F.G. Walton Smith, is the University of Miami's graduate school of marine and atmospheric science. Dr. Otis Brown is the dean of the School. Located on a 16-acre campus on Virginia Key in Miami, it is the only subtropical applied and basic marine and atmospheric research institute of its kind in the continental United States. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/