Peter Desnoyers

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Peter Desnoyers is a member of the Mass Open Cloud leadership team and an associate professor at Northeastern University, where his work has focused on operating systems, flash storage, and most recently cloud computing. He holds a PhD from UMass (2008) and a BS and MS from MIT (1988); in the intervening years he worked at companies ranging from Apple to VMware.

Linked Presentation: 
Building a "Multi-Landlord" Public Cloud