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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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Attendee FAQ
Why Enterprise Linux?
Why Should My Company (or Clients) Attend this Event?
Who Should Attend?
What You Will Learn
Track 1: Operations, Management and Infrastructure
Track 2: Clustered, Grid and High-Performance Computing
Track 3: Linux Application Development
Track 4: Linux Security
Track 5: Linux Storage and Database Management
Track 6: Special Interests
Call for Presentations
Why Enterprise Linux?
Why Linux in the enterprise? Because it works, and it works well. Combining stability and flexibility, Linux has been embraced by all major hardware and software vendors, who have responded to the needs of the market with a dazzling array of Linux products and services. Ranging from Linux-supported hardware to advanced database support to application-development environments, the range of Linux support for the enterprise is wide and deep. In addition, Linux has proved its mettle working under greater network and server workloads in a highly reliable fashion, making it the new choice for hosting mission-critical applications on big iron. Today's Linux is robust, flexible, and applicable for a wide variety of enterprise situations.
This flexibility allows Linux to be deployed on a cost-effective basis in a wide variety of situations:
- Application Server
- Database Server
- Online Transaction System
- Mainframe Operating System
- File and Print Server
- Network Operating System
- High-Performance Computing
- Distributed Computing
- Desktop Operating System
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Why Should My Company (or clients) Attend This Event? What Is The Competitive Differentiator Or Unique Value Proposition For The Event?
Jupitermedia's Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo is the only event dedicated to providing IT and business professionals with an understanding of all the issues related to Linux and Linux-related enterprise solutions - and how Linux can be used to cut costs, increase architectural flexibility and deliver real business value.
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Who Should Attend?
The targeted conference attendees are business executives, IT professionals, and decision-makers from Global 2000 organizations and mid-sized businesses chartered with evaluating, purchasing and utilizing Linux as a cost-effective platform for building the next generation of enterprise systems.
- Executive and Corporate Management: CEO, Chairman, President, Vice President, COO
- Information Technology Executives: CIO, CTO, Chief of Information Technology, VP, Director
- Architecture, Infrastructure and Operations Personnel: VPs and Directors of IT Operations, Enterprise Management Architects, Senior Software Architect
- Strategic Business Development Executives: Business Development Executive, Director of Sales, Director of Strategy & Business Development, Manager of eBusiness, Venture Partner
- IT Management: Database Engineer, Director of Systems Engineering, Director of IT Platform Engineering, Information Analyst, Information Architect, IS Director, IS Engineer, Network Systems Manager, Network Engineer, Principal Oracle DBA, Senior Analyst
- Technical Professionals: Advanced Server Technology Project Leader, System Analyst, Application Developer, Cluster System Administrator, Director of Technology, Director of Software Development, Software Engineer, I/T Specialist, Lead Developer
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What You Will Learn
Attendees of the Enterprise Linux Forum will:
- Learn how Linux-based technologies, techniques and services can be applied to mainstream corporate and commercial business systems to cut operating costs and increase architectural flexibility
- See the entire range of Linux solutions available in the marketplace
- Discover how to assess a company's need for a particular class of Linux solution
- Gain knowledge of all the options for Linux usage in server consolidation
- Gauge the readiness of Linux as an enterprise-scale server OS
- Learn how to achieve maximum system reliability, availability, scalability, performance and manageability in Linux systems
- Network with industry leaders in the analyst, vendor, and end-user communities to discuss and evaluate Linux solutions.
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Track 1: Operations, Management and Infrastructure
Linux is now a firmly established player in the corporate data center: it is used extensively as a "glue" operating system - used for services like file serving and mail - and it is now used more often for mission-critical support applications in large corporations. Such enterprise-class computing environments call for highly reliable systems that are built for high performance, high availability, and high scalability. To meet these demands, many Linux operations, management, and infrastructure issues must be addressed.
The challenge of maintaining enterprise-class Linux operating encompasses many traditional information-technology disciplines. Yet for Linux systems, some older management and operations practices have been made obsolete and a need for new classes of tools, techniques, and services has emerged. Solution providers have responded by offering Linux management tools focused on delivering high levels of availability, performance, and manageability. Moreover, new patters of Linux support infrastructure are emerging, and with it Linux management and operations standardization will follow.
The Operations, Management, and Infrastructure track covers the full range of Linux support and implementation strategies and tools to maintain high-end Linux business systems. Topics will include the following:
- Is Linux enterprise ready?
- Linux system administration in enterprise environments
- Ensuring reliability, availability, and serviceability
- Migrating IT infrastructure to Linux
- Managing Linux distributions
- Linux rollout and implementation
- Selecting a Linux distribution partner
- Linux ROI and TCO studies
- Potential and pitfalls of early adoption
- Selecting, managing and developing for multiple Linux distributions
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Track 2: Clustered, Grid and High-Performance Computing
Linux has seen tremendous growth as a server operating system deployed to power enterprise-level applications like databases, e-commerce systems, data modeling, financial services, and scientific calculations. To meet the increased workload requirements, Linux environments are often scaled via clustering, where a group of lower-priced PC-based hardware works in tandem as a single, continuously available systems. A cluster arrangement leads to greater availability by providing duplicate servers, interconnections, storage and even controllers and adapters. This redundancy allows work to continue transparently whenever one or more of the components in a cluster fail. In addition to this fail over support, clusters can be aggregated using a scaling-out approach to achieve the highest possible levels of workload scalability with unmatched price/performance.
The Clustered, Grid and High-Performance Computing track is designed to highlight the full range of Linux clustering and distributed-computing solutions as they apply to today's enterprise, and to educate corporate managers as to the potential and the pitfalls of utilizing these solutions. Topics in the Clustered, Grid and High-Performance Computing track include:
- Commodity off-the-shelf clustering
- Commercial application of Beowulf clusters
- High-performance journalled file systems
- Evaluating cluster-based network servers
- Selecting cluster hardware technologies
- Modular server architectures and horizontal scaling approaches
- Cluster interconnections (Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, etc.)
- Parallel and distributed clustering
- Linux on the mainframe
- Commercial grid computing
- Clustering scenarios: High-availability clustering, administrative clustering, application clustering, computation clustering and scalability clustering
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Track 3: Linux Application Development
Linux is widely deployed as a development platform that can create code that works across a wide variety of operating systems, including UNIX and Microsoft Windows. And as Linux popularity increases, so does the number of development tools available for it. High-level compilers, debuggers, RAD, and IDE tools for Linux can address any number of needs for the enterprise developer.
The Linux Application Development track is designed to address issues developers and system analysts need to know when using Linux as a development platform in the enterprise. No simple "Hello World" examples here: the discussion will be high-level and aimed toward professionals. Topics in the Linux Application Development track include:
- Linux system programming essentials
- Linux IDEs: what's the state of the art?
- Linux and open software support for Web services
- Debugging tools
- Cross-platform Linux/Windows/UNIX development
- Free and commercial Linux development tools
- Developing Java applications in Linux
- A Linux development toolkit: C, perl, python, and more
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Track 4: Linux Security
Linux has a reputation as an operating system that puts a premium on secure
computing. And while no operating system is perfect when it comes to
security, Linux has several advantages over competitors: it's open source,
which means a large number of people can view how Linux works and implement
improvements; secure Linux development has been funding by the National
Security Agency; and Linux vendors place a high premium on security.
Track 4 sessions will discuss securing systems with Linux. Topics to be covered
include:
- General security principles and how they apply to Linux
- Securing a Linux box in an insecure world
- Secure Linux distributions and how to implement them
- Open source and security
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Track 5: Linux Storage and Database Management
Virtually every enterprise database and storage vendor supports Linux on some level. Moreover, the number of available enterprise solutions is increasing rapidly - a sure sign of Linux's wide acceptance in the corporate data center.
What sort of applications are we discussing? Solutions range from traditional big-iron applications like relational databases to ERP, online transaction processing (OLTP), e-commerce, systems management, and backup and archival solutions of all sorts. In these situations, customer service and application support are paramount.
Sessions in the Linux Storage and Database Management track will cover the full range of Linux storage and database solutions on the market today:
- Are Linux databases like MySQL ready for mission-critical usage?
- Implementing a Linux-based storage strategy
- Linux storage area networks (SANs)
- Data storage and management techniques for Linux systems
- Evaluation, integration and interoperability strategies
- Application availability and response-time monitoring
- Distributed data management, database parallel processing and parallel storage systems
- Implementing a Linux-based application-server strategy
- Data warehousing and mining under Linux
- Linux and telecommunications systems
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Track 6: Special Interests
The use of Linux in the enterprise is blossoming into so many areas that it's hard to keep track of what's happening. The presentations in this session will cover a wide variety of topics, including:
- Linux on the desktop: what's the reality?
- GNOME, KDE, and desktop applications
- Linux futures: Kernel, distributions, vendor and partnering trends
- Integrating Linux with Windows environments
- Embedded Linux
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