ATA over Ethernet & SysAdmins in the Post-Cloud Era

John Masci of Coraid will be talking about ATA over Ethernet in the context of datacenter IP storage, the benefits it offers over Fiber Channel and iSCSI for performance and management, and Coraid's unique technology in this area.

James Thomason of Gale Technologies will be speaking on SysAdmins in the Post-Cloud Era. James Thomason is the CTO of Gale Technologies, a provider of orchestration and automation software for creating cloud-like infrastructures.

Thanks to Coraid (http://www.coraid.com/products) for sponsoring this month's meeting. Please talk with their representatives about their Ethernet SAN offerings, and thank them for their generous support of BayLISA.

Our meetings are scheduled for 7:30pm on the third Thursday of each month, LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View. Note that we are in a different building at LinkedIn as of April 2011.

For directions, point your map tool at:
2051 Stierlin Ct.
Mountain View, CA 94043

BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets to discuss topics of interest to system administrators and managers. The meetings are free and open to the public.

Recent topics have included OpenStack Nova, Dynamic Tracing and dtrace, ISC's BIND 10, new developments in LAN/top-of-rack networking, and cloud computing at Netflix.

We always welcome presentation topics and volunteer speakers. Use the "Contact us" link on this page to get in touch with BayLISA's directors.

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