Modern Trends in UNIX and Linux Infrastructure Management

One of the biggest trends in the industry today is a divergence in the approaches to deploying and managing complex infrastructure: horizontal vs. vertical scaling, server consolidation vs. increasing complexity, and blade servers vs. virtualization. Everyone claims that their solution is the best, but for which problem?

We'll also talk about the proliferation of Web interfaces, architecture alternatives to the conventional e-commerce platform, and the debate between congruent and convergent configuration management.

Finally, we'll look to the future and consider the hype surrounding grid computing and what impact it will have on the theory and practice of infrastructure architecture.