Hal Stern

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Hal Stern is Executive Director of Applied Technology at Merck & Company, where he focuses on building services and applications to define and shape the data-oriented and data-influenced adjacencies to Merck's core markets. Hal was previously a VP at Juniper Networks and spent more than 20 years at Sun Microsystems. He holds a BSE degree from Princeton University and holds four issued and several filed patents in security, identity, user experience, and networking. Hal has been a frequent speaker at industry and technical conferences, and has co-authored three books, "Professional WordPress: Design and Development" (2010), "Blueprints for High Availability" (2001) and "Managing NFS and NIS" (1991). He is an active Kiva microlender and digital photographer, and may be found on the left wing with his adult ice hockey team, cheering for the NJ Devils, building guitar electronics, or playing golf very badly.

Linked Presentation: 
You Have Too Much Data