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LISA '08 Call for Participation
POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR AUTHORS AND SPEAKERS
Technical Challenges
- Authentication and authorization: "Single sign-on" technologies, identity management
- Autonomic computing: Self-repairing systems, zero administration systems, fail-safe design
- Configuration management: Specification languages, configuration deployment
- Data center design: Modern methods, upgrading old centers
- Data management: DBMS management systems, deployment architectures and methods, real world performance
- Email: Mail infrastructures, spam prevention
- Grid computing: Management of grid fabrics and infrastructure
- Hardware: Multicore processor ramifications
- Mobile computing: Supporting and managing laptops and remote communications
- Multiple platforms: Integrating and supporting multiple platforms (e.g., Linux, Windows, Macintosh)
- Networking: New technologies, network management
- Security: Malware and virus prevention, security technologies and procedures, response to cyber attacks targeting individuals
- Service
- Standards: Enabling interoperability of local and remote services and applications
- Storage: New storage technologies, remote filesystems, backups, scaling
- Web 2.0 technologies: Using, supporting, and managing wikis, blogs, and other Web 2.0 applications
- Virtualization: Managing and configuring virtualized resources
Professional Challenges
- Budgeting: Definitions and methods
- Communication: Tools and procedures for improving communication between administrators and users, distribution organizations, or teams
- Consolidation: Merging and standardizing infrastructures and procedures
- Devolution: Managing dependence on devolved services (calendars, mail, Web 2.0, etc.) and users
- Ethics: Common dilemmas and outcomes
- Flexibility: Responding effectively to changes in technology and business demands
- In-house development: The (dis)advantages and pitfalls of in-house technology development
- Legislation: Security, privacy
- Management: The interface and transition between "technical" and "managerial"
- Metrics: Measuring and analyzing the effectiveness of technologies and procedures
- Outsourcing/offshoring system administration: Is it possible?
- Proactive administration: Transitioning from a reactive culture
- Standardizing methodologies: Sharing best practice
- Training and staff development: Developing and retaining good system administrators; certifications
- User support: Systems and procedures for supporting users
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