BayLISA for March 2012: War Stories From CloudFlare; Also, WARP Mechanics

BayLISA is welcoming CloudFlare's Matthew Prince, and Josh Judd WARP Mechanics, for the March 15 monthly meeting. All are welcome; no membership or payment is required to attend.

Please RSVP to help us plan seating and feeding. If you can no longer attend, please update your RSVP to the right.

http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/9/6/a/event_98031562.jpeg (http://www.warpmech.com/index.html?baylisa)
Thanks to WARP Mechanics for sponsoring March's BayLISA meeting.

War stories from CloudFlarehttp://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/a/8/2/event_98031842.jpeg (http://www.cloudflare.com/) - hear how one of the fastest growing startups went from zero traffic to over 30 billion page views per month in just one year. CloudFlare has seen attacks from everyone from LulzSecurity to the White House. Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, will cover the business and technical sides of building a business to scale to web scale and how CloudFlare is making a faster, safer, better Internet for every website online.

Matthew Prince wrote his first computer program when he was 7, and hasn't been able to shake the bug since. After attending the University of Chicago Law School, he worked as an attorney for one day before jumping at the opportunity to be a founding member of a tech startup. He hasn't looked back. CloudFlare is Matthew's third entrepreneurial venture.

WARP Mechanics: http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/9/6/a/event_98031562.jpeg (http://www.warpmech.com/index.html?baylisa)How a Supercomputing-style storage solution can now be deployed in a corporate environment without having to hire an army of PhDs to manage it. WARP Mechanics approach is to use fast and cost effective SSD-accelerated RAID controllers combined with parallel filesystems. The presentation and open discussion will cover the technical challenges projected for corporate IT data managers, and how these WARP Mechanics appliances can help to solve them. Some of the applications discussed will include engineering data, VDI repositories, databases, and file archives.

Josh Judd has been in the IT industry for over 20 years in roles ranging from senior UNIX systems admin, to mechanical engineer and machinist, to programmer, to published author, to Chief Architect and CTO. While at Brocade he helped create the storage networking industry. Josh wrote numerous storage-related patents; invented and created architectural specifications for dozens of award-winning products. He was the go-to technical resource for SAN design and implementation. Currently, he is the CTO of a private VC group in San Francisco and each of its startups.

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.

Please rsvp here on Meetup to help us plan for attendance.