LISA Lab

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.

Back for 2014! The LISA Lab is a dedicated “hack space” positioned right in the middle of the LISA conference. The Lab is uniquely equipped to allow you to dive deeper into topics you have explored throughout LISA. It’s also a great place to collaborate with your fellow attendees to develop, visualize, and test solutions to the challenges you face back at the office.

Hours:

The LISA Lab will be open 24 hours per day beginning Wednesday, November 12 at 9:00 am and ending Friday, November 14 at 5:00 pm.

Office Hours:

Join us in the Lab Wednesday through Friday at specified times to take part in discussions with speakers and authors. We'll have LISA14 speakers on hand to answer your questions and continue the conversations after their talks. For a full list of the Office Hours schedule, click here, and check back often as additional speakers are confirmed.

Develop, prototype, and test using the Lab’s provided infrastructure:

  • Wired high-speed Internet access
  • Multiple large monitors and a projector
  • Gigabit switches and network cables
  • Whiteboards, courtesy of Google, Inc
  • Linux virtual machines, courtesy of Dreamhost
  • NetApp storage system, courtesy of Berkeley Communications
  • On-premesis OpenStack Infrastructure, courtesy of Piston Cloud Computing

Stick around for other Lab content:

  • Worksheets that walk you through new technology in a hands-on setting
  • Informal continuations of invited talks and refereed paper presentations
  • Work-in-progress demos
  • “Office hours” with experts from around the world
  • Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions

LISA Lab Sponsors

  • Berkeley Communications
  • Google, Inc
  • Microsoft Research
  • OpenStack and Dreamhost
  • Piston Cloud Computing
  • VMware

Interested in Sponsoring or Donating Equipment?

Please contact [email protected]

Would you like to provide a Worksheet for the Lab?

Please contact [email protected]

Questions for the LISA Lab coordinators?

Please contact [email protected]