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Contents

 LISA '06 Home
 Conference Overview
 Important Dates/Contact Information
 Conference Organizers
 Refereed Papers
 Training Program
 Invited Talks and Guru Sessions
 Workshops, WiPs, and BoFs
 Suggested Topics
 Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities

Call for Papers
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LISA '06 Call for Papers

SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR AUTHORS AND SPEAKERS

Challenges

  • Architecture: Keeping an infrastructure up to date
  • Autonomic computing: Self-repairing systems, zero administration systems, fail-safe design
  • Configuration management
  • Content and collaborative systems: Building them, managing them, growing them
  • Data center design: Modern methods, upgrading old centers
  • Scaling: Dealing with a doubling in storage, backup, networking, address space, database, etc.
  • Spam: Will we ever be able to control it?
  • Virtualization: Benefit or bane?
  • Viruses: Preparing for the onslaught of UNIX viruses
Profession
  • Information flows: Creating, understanding, and applying them
  • Management: Transitioning from technical to managerial, "managing" your manager, measuring return on investment
  • Metrics: Inventing and applying meaningful metrics
  • Outsourcing/offshoring system administration: Is it possible?
  • Proactive administration: Transitioning from a reactive culture
  • Problem-solving: Training sysadmins to solve problems
  • Quality: Control, measurement, and quality assurance
  • Standardizing methodologies: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), best practices, practical use, applicability
Technologies
  • IPv6: Deployment, large-scale implementation
  • Peer-to-peer networking
  • Scripting languages
  • VoIP
  • XML: Usage for configuration management, other potential applications
Tools
  • Content and collaborative systems
  • Diagnostics: Tools that explain what's wrong
  • Google tools: Making use of them in system administration
  • Tools for system administration: Implementation, use, and applicability
Case Studies
  • Practical implementations and deployments of ideas or tools
  • Scaling and expanding an infrastructure
  • Theory meets practice

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