Conference Themes

In addition to the wide variety of topics covered in the LISA ’12 program, the program committee has created three specific conference themes, or tracks, for those looking to focus on a key subject area. Whether you’re hoping to hone your Super Sysadmin skills, want to dive deeper into Cloud Computing, or are looking for more info on IPv6 and DNSSEC, a complete path is laid out below. You can combine days of training or workshops with content from the technical sessions to build the conference that meets your needs. Pick and choose the sessions that best fit your interest—focus on just one topic or mix and match themes.

Training T1 High-Availability Linux Clustering with ricci and luci
Joshua Jensen, Cisco Systems

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Training M2 Updated! Using and Migrating to IPv6
Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania

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Training T2 New! DNS and DNSSEC
Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania

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Training M3 New! vCloud Advanced Topics 1: Compliance, Security, and Networking with VMware Network and Security Technologies
Mahesh Rajani, VMware, Wade Holmes, VMware

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Training T3 New! PowerShell Fundamentals
Steven Murawski, Edgenet

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Training S3 Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, and Tools of the Trade
Lee Damon, University of Washington, Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd

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Training W3 New! Root Cause Analysis
Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Training T4 Updated! Next-Generation Storage Networking: Beyond Conventional SAN and NAS
Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services

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Training S4 New! VMware vCloud Concepts, Technology, and Operations
John Arrasjid, VMware, Ben Lin, VMware

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Training M5 Introduction to Time Management for System Administrators
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google, Inc.

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Training S5 RPM Packaging for Sysadmins
David Nalley, Apache CloudStack/Fedora

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Training T5 A Sysadmin's Guide to Navigating the Business World
Mark Burgess, CFEngine, Inc., Carolyn Rowland

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Training T6 New! Networking in the Cloud Age
David Nalley, Apache CloudStack/Fedora, Chiradeep Vittal, Citrix Systems

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Training M6 New! Building a Massively Scalable, Geographically Disparate IaaS Cloud
David Nalley, Apache CloudStack/Fedora

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Training S7 New! vCloud Architecture Design with vCAT (vCloud Architecture Toolkit)
Ben Lin, VMware, David Hill, VMware

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Training M8 New! vCloud Advanced Topics 2: Availability, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery
David Hill, VMware, Mahesh Rajani, VMware

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Training T9 New! Ganeti: Your Private Virtualization Cloud "the Way Google Does It"
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google, Inc., Guido Trotter, Google, Inc.

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Training M10 Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google, Inc.

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Training T10 Backups, Archiving, and Life Cycle Management: Riding the Wave of Data Proliferation
Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services

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Training M12 New! The First Hundred Days
Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group

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Papers DNSSEC Deployment in .gov: Progress and Lessons Learned

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Invited Talks System Log Analysis Using BigQuery

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Invited Talks Near-Disasters: A Tale in 4 Parts

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Invited Talks OpenStack: Leading the Open Source Cloud Revolution

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Invited Talks IPv6: A Guide to Address Planning

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Invited Talks DNSSEC: What Every Sysadmin Should be Doing to Keep Things Working

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Invited Talks Dude, Where’s My Data? Replicating and Migrating Data Across Data Centers and Clouds

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Keynote The Internet of Things and Sensors and Actuators!

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Guru Sessions IPv6

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Guru Sessions Time Management for System Administrators

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Guru Sessions Datacenter Infrastructure

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Workshops 2: Security

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Workshops 7: State of the Profession: What Are the Unresolved Issues in System Administration?

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Workshops 5: Virtual Infrastructures and Cloud Computing

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