FW: [AZSage] AZSAGE ANNOUNCEMENT: This Thursday Evening Oct. 29th => Top Features of Your Favorite OS's as Presented by HP, IBM, Red Hat, and Sun @ University of Advancing Technology‏ (fwd)

der.hans PLUGd at LuftHans.com
Thu Oct 29 01:41:13 MST 2009


moin moin,

AZSAGE has an event tonight. Red Hat will be there representing Linux.
It's at UAT, so we all know how to get there :).

ciao,

der.hans
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From: theresekrueger at hotmail.com
To: azsagel at azsage.org
Subject: [AZSage] AZSAGE ANNOUNCEMENT: This Thursday Evening Oct. 29th => Top Features of Your Favorite OS's as Presented by HP, IBM, Red Hat, and Sun @ University of Advancing Technology?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:32:14 -0600





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Please email your RSVPs to steering at azsage.org
RSVPs greatly help to ensure we have accommodating facilities and materials.

University of Advancing Technology Students you are welcome to RSVP and join in this special event as well!

=====================

AZSAGE'S October?s EVENT

WHAT:    &n! bsp;              Top Features of Your Favorite OS's

WHEN:                   Thursday, October 29
                               Doors open at 6:30 / Presentation starts at 7 PM

WHERE:                 University of Advancing Technology (http://www.uat.edu/)


Parking should not be a concern. UAT has plenty of parking around the campus and there is a retail mall close by that parking is also available during evening presentational time if required.

2625 W Baseline Rd
Tempe, AZ 85283
(602) 383-8228

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS345&q=University+of+Advancing+Technology

PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Join us for an exciting evening of short presentations and a panel discussion by your favorite OS vendors: HP (HP-UX), IBM (AIX ), Red Hat (RHEL), and Sun (SOLARIS) !

Each OS speaker will present 20 minutes on the features, reasons, and capabilities that differentiate their respective OS which make it the most valuable OS platform for the industry. The content will be directed to an audience comprised of IT Professionals including Architects, Developers, Administrators, Managers, and Students.

Following the presentation, there will be a 20 minute panel discussion where the presenters will respond to questions from the audience.

The speakers and agenda content as follows:

HP Presentation Discussion points:
          - Short look at the history of UNIX and at the history of HP-UX
          - HP-UX software roadmap
          - HP-UX virtualization
          - HP-UX 11iv3 new features - moving towards boot once and only once


BIOs:
Wayne West, Hewlett-Packard

Wayne joined HP in the professional services organization 14 years ago. Most of that time was spent working on HP-UX systems with Department of Energy Labs.  He later moved into the Pre-sales role as a Systems Engineer and focused on large, Federal customers. After moving to Phoenix 10 years ago, Wayne began working with HP?s Global 100 accounts focused on highly available systems built on HP-UX.  Wayne is currently a Solutions Architect working with one of HP?s largest accounts in the areas of Manufacturing and high performance computing.


Bob Yarwood, Hewlett-Packard

Bob has 25 years of Enterprise experience selling large mission critical UNIX solutions.  He is in his 4th year with HP as a Business Critical Server (BCS).  As BCS Specialist, Bob has covered some of HP?s largest customers in Arizona, Nevada and Utah.  Bob also spent 7 years at Sun Microsystems in the Bay Area.  Additionally, while in the Bay Area, Bob was the Director of OEM Sales at a Silicon Valley start-up.  Bob also spent significant time at Dell and also Data General selling Enterprise solutions to commercial accounts.  Bob and his family live in the Scottsdale area.

IBM Presentation Discussion points:

The presentation will cover an introduction to AIX with a focus on the new features found in AIX 6.1 in the areas of functionality, manageability, security and virtualization within the OS while also discussing virtualization in conjunction with the Power hardware.

BIO:
David Sinnott, IBM

26 years with IBM in the IT industry. Formerly a VM and SNA systems programmer before moving to Phoenix and taking a technical sales role supporting AIX and Linux on Power hardware 19 years ago.


Red Hat Presentation Discussion points:

* Who is Red Hat?
* The power of Open Source and Red Hat's Development model
* Red Hat's product line and how Red Hat is able to bring value to customers
* RHEL 5.4 features, advancements, performance

BIO:
Akash Chandrashekar - Red Hat

Is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Red Hat Linux. RHCE

Thomas Cameron - Red Hat

  Is a seasoned Solutions Architect at Red Hat. RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT



Sun Presentation Discussion points:

Sun Microsystems, will describe in detail some of Solaris's notable features, including:

- World-record performance on a wide range of application and platform combinations.
- High-availability features for fault-tolerance.
- Advanced resource management, diagnostic and observability features like DTrace.
- Built-in virtualization at no extra cost, permitting large scale consolidation with native performance.
- An advanced filesystem, ZFS, that eliminates the risk, complexity and limitations of competitive filesystems.
- Broad hardware platform support, on SPARC, Intel, AMD.
- DoD-level security.
- Long-term enterprise support, product lifecycle, and guaranteed compatibility.
- Broadest portfolio of applications for open systems OS.
- OpenSolaris with a growing open source community.

BIO
Jeff Savit is a Sun Microsystems Principal Field Technologist working in areas including Solaris, Virtualization, performance, Java, migration, and application and system architecture. Jeff is expert in virtualization and systems performance on multiple platforms, and has internals-level experience ranging from mainframe OSes like MVS and VM, to Linux, and of course Solaris and other Unix variants.


20 Minute Q&A Panel All

DRAWINGS:

O'Reilly Books for review and to be be given away at our October event!
X Power Tools
By Chris Tyler

Security Power Tools
By Bryan Burns, Jennifer Stisa Granick, Steve Manzuik, Paul Guersch,
Dave Killion, Nicolas Beauchesne, Eric Moret, Julien Sobrier,
Michael Lynn, Eric Markham, Chris Iezzoni, Philippe Biondi

Unix Power Tools, Third Edition
By Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides

Practical UNIX and Internet Security, Third Edition
By Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz
UNIX in a Nutshell
By Arnold Robbins
LINUX Kernel in a nutshell
By Greg Kroah-Hatman
For latest O'Reilly news; go to ?http://oreilly.com/? anytime?

Don't forget ? UAT and AZSAGE Members get 35% off O'Reilly's books and Free ground shipping on orders of $29.95 or more in the US





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From: theresekrueger at hotmail.com<BR>To: azsagel at azsage.org<BR>Subject: [AZSage] AZSAGE ANNOUNCEMENT: This Thursday Evening Oct. 29th =&gt; Top Features of Your Favorite OS's as Presented by HP, IBM, Red Hat, and Sun @ University of Advancing Technology? <BR>Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:32:14 -0600<BR><BR>
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<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">================================================</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><B>Please email your RSVPs to <A href="mailto:steering at azsage.org"><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">steering at azsage.org</SPAN></A><BR></B>RSVPs greatly help to ensure we have accommodating facilities and materials.<BR><BR><A href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=university+of+advancing+technology&amp;sll=33.367237,-111.949997&amp;sspn=0.103079,0.132008&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=33.375122,-111.949997&amp;spn=0.099486,0.132008&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=A"><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">University of Advancing Technology</SPAN></A> Students you are welcome to RSVP and join in this special event as well! <BR><BR>=====================<BR><BR><B>AZSAGE'S October?s EVENT</B><BR><BR>WHAT: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&amp;n! bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Top Features of Your Favorite OS's </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>WHEN: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thursday, October 29<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Doors open at 6:30 / Presentation starts at 7 PM<BR><BR>WHERE:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; University of Advancing Technology (<A href="http://www.uat.edu/"><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">http://www.uat.edu/</SPAN></A>)</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Parking should not be a concern. UAT has plenty of parking around the campus and there is a retail mall close by that parking is also available during evening presentational time if required.</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2625 W Baseline Rd</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tempe</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, AZ 85283</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(602) 383-8228&nbsp; </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><A href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;gfns=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS345&amp;q=University+of+Advancing+Technology"><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&amp;gfns=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS345&amp;q=University+of+Advancing+Technology</SPAN></A></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;<BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">PRESENTATION SUMMARY </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Join us for an exciting evening of short presentations and a panel discussion by your favorite OS vendors: HP (HP-UX), IBM (AIX ), Red Hat (RHEL), and Sun (SOLARIS) !<BR><BR>Each OS speaker will present 20 minutes on the features, reasons, and capabilities that differentiate their respective OS which make it the most valuable OS platform for the industry. The content will be directed to an audience comprised of IT Professionals including Architects, Developers, Administrators, Managers, and Students. <BR><BR>Following the presentation, there will be a 20 minute panel discussion where the presenters will respond to questions from the audience. </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>The speakers and agenda content as follows: </SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; tab-stops: list 1.25in"><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">HP Presentation Discussion points</SPAN></U></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- Short look at the history of UNIX and at the history of HP-UX</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- HP-UX software roadmap</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- HP-UX virtualization</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;- HP-UX 11iv3 new features - moving towards boot once and only once</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BIOs:</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wayne West, Hewlett-Packard</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wayne</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> joined HP in the professional services organization 14 years ago. Most of that time was spent working on HP-UX systems with Department of Energy Labs. &nbsp;He later moved into the Pre-sales role as a Systems Engineer and focused on large, Federal customers. After moving to Phoenix 10 years ago, Wayne began working with HP?s Global 100 accounts focused on highly available systems built on HP-UX. &nbsp;Wayne is currently a Solutions Architect working with one of HP?s largest accounts in the areas of Manufacturing and high performance computing. </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob Yarwood, Hewlett-Packard</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob has 25 years of Enterprise experience selling large mission critical UNIX solutions.&nbsp; He is in his 4<SUP>th</SUP> year with HP as a Business Critical Server (BCS).&nbsp; As BCS Specialist, Bob has covered some of HP?s largest customers in Arizona, Nevada and Utah.&nbsp; Bob also spent 7 years at Sun Microsystems in the Bay Area.&nbsp; Additionally, while in the Bay Area, Bob was the Director of OEM Sales at a Silicon Valley start-up.&nbsp; Bob also spent significant time at Dell and also Data General selling Enterprise solutions to commercial accounts.&nbsp; Bob and his family live in the Scottsdale area. &nbsp;</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IBM Presentation Discussion points:</SPAN></U></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The presentation will cover an introduction to AIX with a focus on the new features found in AIX 6.1 in the areas of functionality, manageability, security and virtualization within the OS while also discussing virtualization in conjunction with the Power hardware.</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BIO</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">:</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">David Sinnott, IBM<BR><BR>26 years with IBM in the IT industry. Formerly a VM and SNA systems programmer before moving to Phoenix and taking a technical sales role supporting AIX and Linux on Power hardware 19 years ago.</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><B><U>Red Hat Presentation Discussion points:</U></B></SPAN></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">* Who is Red Hat? <BR>* The power of Open Source and Red Hat's Development model <BR>* Red Hat's product line and how Red Hat is able to bring value to customers<BR>* RHEL 5.4 features, advancements, performance <BR><BR><U>BIO:</U> </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Akash Chandrashekar - Red Hat</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Red Hat Linux. RHCE </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thomas Cameron - Red Hat</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;Is a seasoned Solutions Architect at Red Hat. RHCE, RHCX, CNE, MCSE, MCT <BR><BR><BR></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sun Presentation Discussion points:</SPAN></U></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxecxmsonormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sun Microsystems, will describe in detail some of Solaris's notable features, including:</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>- World-record performance on a wide range of application and platform combinations.<BR>- High-availability features for fault-tolerance.<BR>- Advanced resource management, diagnostic and observability features like DTrace.<BR>- Built-in virtualization at no extra cost, permitting large scale consolidation with native performance.<BR>- An advanced filesystem, ZFS, that eliminates the risk, complexity and limitations of competitive filesystems.<BR>- Broad hardware platform support, on SPARC, Intel, AMD.<BR>- DoD-level security.<BR>- Long-term enterprise support, product lifecycle, and guaranteed compatibility.<BR>- Broadest portfolio of applications for open systems OS.<BR>- OpenSolaris with a growing open source community.</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">BIO</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jeff Savit is a Sun Microsystems Principal Field Technologist working in areas including&nbsp;Solaris, Virtualization, performance, Java, migration, and application and system architecture.&nbsp;Jeff is expert in virtualization and systems performance on multiple platforms, and has&nbsp;internals-level experience ranging from mainframe OSes like MVS and VM, to Linux, and&nbsp;of course Solaris and other Unix variants.&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><BR><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">20 Minute Q&amp;A Panel All </SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DRAWINGS:</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">O'Reilly Books for review and to be be given away at our October event!</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxecxmsonormal style="BACKGROUND: white"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">X Power Tools </SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>By Chris Tyler<BR><U><BR>Security Power Tools </U><BR>By Bryan Burns, Jennifer Stisa Granick, Steve Manzuik, Paul Guersch, <BR>Dave Killion, Nicolas Beauchesne, Eric Moret, Julien Sobrier, <BR>Michael Lynn, Eric Markham, Chris Iezzoni, Philippe Biondi<BR><U><BR>Unix Power Tools, Third Edition</U><BR>By Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides<BR><U><BR>Practical UNIX and Internet Security, Third Edition</U><BR>By Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz <BR><U>UNIX in a Nutshell </U><BR>By Arnold Robbins<BR>LINUX Kernel in a nutshell<BR>By Greg Kroah-Hatman</SPAN></P>
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Windows 7: It helps you do more. <A href="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen3:102009">Explore Windows 7.</A> 		 	   		  <br /><hr />Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. <a href='http://microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx?h=myidea?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_myidea:102009' target='_new'>Wow!</a></body>
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