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Pre-Conference Workshops:
June 4: 10am - 5pm
Conference Hours:
June 5: 8:45am - 6:30pm
June 6: 9am - 5pm
Expo Hall Hours:
June 5: 11am - 6:30pm
June 6: 11am - 2:30pm
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Conference Agenda
Thursday, June 5, 2003
Exhibit Hall Hours: 11am - 6:30pm
| 7:30am - 6:00pm |
Registration Open |
| 8:45am - 9:00am |
Conference Introduction |
| 9:00am - 9:50am |
Morning Keynote - Technology Evolves: e-business on demand |
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The IT industry is experiencing a tremendous transformation, with open standards based technologies from the open source community like Linux, XML-based Web services, and the Open Grid Services Architecture leading the way. IBM's strategy of e-business has evolved to e-business on demand, but still based on open standards based architectures. This new strategy allows businesses to become on demand - responsive to new challenges and opportunities, focused on core competencies, and employing new variable cost structures. The on demand business is supported by a highly resilient infrastructure that’s integrated, virtual and autonomic because it is built on open standards. This talk will explore this quickly changing landscape for business and IT and its implications.
Speaker:
Daniel A. Powers, Vice President, Grid Computing Strategy, IBM Corporation
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| 10:00am - 10:50am |
Improving Enterprise database Performance On Linux (Track 2) |
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This paper describes a case study of world record TPC-C benchmark on ia64 Linux. The result was achieved by tuning OS performance features and by advanced compiler optimization. In this presentation, Saxena will present several OS features that improved TPC-C significantly, namely huge Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) page to reduce Data Translation Lookaside Buffer (DTLB) misses. This allows the database to use a large amount of shared memory and asynchronous I/O to accommodate a high amount of random I/O, without introducing the overhead of many I/O processes. Also covered will be OS optimizations that have been done by Intel, Redhat and the Linux community to the entire I/O subsystem, starting with block and scsi layer as well as storage device drivers. As a result of these works, a world record of TPC-C benchmark on a 4-way Intel Itanium-2 platform was published in November, 2002, a solid demonstration that Linux is far ready for enterprise class application.
Speaker:
Sunil Saxena, Principal Engineer, Linux OS, Intel Corp
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| 10:00am - 10:50am |
Grid Computing with Commodity Components, Oracle Corporation |
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Oracle enables enterprise computing on commodity clusters and provides the essential Grid concepts of Virtualization and Provisioning. This sessions presents how you can utilize Oracle9i Grid technology for high availability clustering on Linux, and eliminate islands of underutilized resources. Learn how to design your IT infrastructure so you can add hardware as you need without disrupting services.
Speaker:
Brajesh Goyal, Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation
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| 11:00am |
Expo Hall Opens |
| 11:30am - 11:50am |
Product Spotlight Showcase  |
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IBM Cluster for Linux Presentation
Speaker:
Boris Bialek, Senior Manager, DB2 Strategic Technologies
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| 12:00pm - 12:20pm |
Product Spotlight Showcase  |
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Linux and Open Source: How Well Do You Sleep at Night
Speaker:
Ginny Kim
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Lunch Break
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| 1:00pm - 1:50pm |
Afternoon Keynote: The Evolution of the Virtual Environment, Where Does Linux Fit? |
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IDC has been examining the evolution of the virtual environment for quite a number of years. This session will examine IDC's definition of the virtual environment, its roots in techniques developed in the late 1970s, and how Windows, Unix and Linux can be deployed as platforms in the virtual environment.
Speaker:
Dan Kusnetzky, Vice President, System Software Research, IDC
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| 2:00pm - 2:50pm |
Linux and Unix On-Demand Computing |
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The IBM eServer pSeries broad spectrum of servers are ideally suited for Data Center and Enterprise platform support due the highly reliable 64 bitPOWER architecture, low environmental requirements, and extreme performance of Linux and UNIX. With the on-demand capabilities of both Unix and Linux applications, the IBM eServer pSeries is positioned to support expanding needs and dynamic environments. This session will cover the IBM eServer pSeries and it's Linuxsupport.
Speaker:
Milan Patel, Sr. Marketing Manager, pSeries Product Marketing, IBM
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| 2:00pm - 2:50pm |
Case Study: LabCorp Linux Rollout Replaces Legacy Unix (Track 2) |
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One of the world's largest clinical laboratory companies with annual revenues of approximately $2.6 billion, LabCorp performs diagnostic procedures on specimens from approximately 280,000 patients per day. The company operates 24 major laboratories and approximately 1300 patient service centers nationwide. LabCorp has over 26,000 employees and performs more than 4,000 clinical tests. The company has embarked on a project to replace legacy hardware running AT&T System V rel 4 with powerful Dell servers running Linux in a HA clustered environment. Attendees will learn from project manager Lisa Penland about the process of switching out the legacy hardware and porting a variety of applications. Lisa works in the Burlington, North Carolina complex, home of the Powell Laboratory Complex, which houses the firm's Center for Esoteric Testing, which uses a variety of technology to perform rare analyses.
Speaker:
Lisa Penland, Project Manager and Analyst, LabCorp
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| 2:00pm - 2:50pm |
How do you Manage Hundreds of Linux Systems Across your Enterprise and still have Time for Sleep? (Track 1) |
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Enterprise Linux deployments often begin as grass roots or departmental efforts. Unfortunately, these informal implementations do not easily scale to meet the needs of the enterprise. In order for Linux to succeed at the Enterprise level, it must easy to maintain hundreds or thousands of systems in a cost effective way. This session, organized around customer case studies, presents the issues and the evolving technical solutions for managing large numbers of Linux systems - servers and workstations -- across the enterprise.
Speaker:
Keith Erskine, Senior Product Manager, Ximian Red Carpet
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| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
General Session Vendor Panel: Linux and Storage Standards (Track 5) |
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To be a player in the enterprise storage market, Linux must conform to the
standards already entrenched in the well-established storage market. What
sort of standards are in play, and how well-supported are they in the Linux
space? Standard to be discussed will include Intelliband, iSCSI, various
flavors of RAID, and Fibre Channel.
Moderator:
Kevin Reichard
Executive Editor, Jupitermedia
Panelists:
Marshall Eisenberg
Director of Technical Marketing, Force 10 Networks Inc.
Sam Greenblatt
Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of the Linux Technology Group, Computer Associates
Mike Hurley
Linux Product Manager, Storage Division, IBM
Tim Lee
President, CEO and co-founder, Pogo Linux, Inc.
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| 4:40pm - 5:30pm |
Mobile Applications on Linux with the Kannel WAP and SMS Gateway (Track 5) |
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This presentation will high-light the Kannel WAP and SMS Gateway project, www.kannel.org and it's capabilities to serve in the enterprise for mobile communication purposes using SMS (short message service), WAP (wireless application protocoll) and even MMS (multimedia messaging service). This presentation will present real-world examples of applications that use SMS to transport enterprise related data, like vCalendar appointments for Nokia mobile phones or even Email and alert notification services via WAP Push services.
Speaker:
Daniel Lopez Ridruejo
mod_mono and Comanche Develop
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| 4:40pm - 5:30pm |
Sun's Enterprise Linux Strategy |
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This talk will cover Sun's view of the Linux market and its Linux strategy. Among the topics discussed will be differences to the UNIX market, best practices for choosing Operating Systems and a customer case study.
Speaker:
Bill Roth
Group Product Marketing Manager, Sun
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| 4:40pm - 5:30pm |
The New Business Model for a Booming Linux Market |
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Interest in Linux-based systems is coming from every geographic
region in the world, and is pervading every vertical and horizontal
industry segment. In this growing market, learn how Red Hat's business
model has evolved to drive Linux adoption.
Speaker:
Mike Evans, VP, Business Development, Red Hat
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| 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
Networking Reception
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| Click here for Friday, June 6 Agenda |
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Registration questions please contact our Registration Department at
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