Storage and Backup Innovations
Shane Moore - EMC
This session will discuss recent innovations in the storage and backup market that are designed to save administrators time and money. These innovations include solid state drives, spin down, virtual provisioning, data de-duplication and single instance storage. As an example, I will show how an Australian customer was able to reduce their full backups from 1.5TB to 150GB and from 6 hours to 30 minutes using some of these new technologies.
NetApp Capabilities
Cameron Huysmans - TRT (Total RISC Technology)
NetApp provides an integrated solution that enables storage, delivery, and management of network data and content to achieve your business goals. This presentation will cover the various NetApps products and services and explain the main capabilities these provide.
Routing and Security Platforms
Lachlan Kidd - Cisco
This presentation will focus on two main areas. Firstly, an update on new ISR routing platforms (ISR 880 and 860), IOS features and deployment scenarios. Secondly, the ASA 5580 is a 10Gbps firewall, capable of high level security functions at wire rate. This presentation will cover platform details, software features and deployment guidelines.
Lachlan Kidd is a Systems Engineer with Cisco Systems based in the Melbourne Enterprise team. Lachlan has been with Cisco for 3.5 years, focusing on higher education and specializing in routing and switching, security and data center. He has 10 years experience working for a number of systems integrators as a pre and post sales engineer and an R&D organization developing cryptographic products. Lachlan holds a BEng (Hons) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Swinburne University and is CCIE #8250.
Life-cycle management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with RHN Satellite
Michael Wahren - Solution Architect - RedHat
This session will discuss the requirements and use cases for life-cycle management of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment. A live-demonstration of Red Hat Network Satellite will put the theory into action by going through a couple of management scenarios. We will also briefly explore the clustering management "Conga" as well
Michael's career has spanned 15 years spent mainly with UNIX and Linux technologies at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq and most recently HP where he was the Australian Linux Ambassador. Michael recently joined Red Hat as a Solution Architect where he provides Solution support for Red Hat's top tier customers.
Apple Technology Update
Joseph Cox - Apple
Some of the topics that will be covered in this presentation will be:
- OS X 10.5 (Leopard) under the hood
- Hardware update
- iPod Touch/iPhone - a new platform
- Developing for iPhone
An Illustrated History of Software Failure
Paul Fenwick - Paul Training Australia
The average individual is given little scope for failure, at least not the type that really matters. However in recent times we have developed a profession who have the opportunity to fail like never before. The few, the proud, the Software Developers. Join us for a voyage of discovery, as we travel back through history to some of the most monumental failures the world has ever seen.
Paul Fenwick is the managing director of Perl Training Australia, and is an experienced speaker at technical conferences worldwide. His interests include security, mycology, cycling, coffee, scuba diving, and lexically scoped user pragmata.
