HP/Works Technical Focus Day

Linux Technical Focus Day

HP Pinewood - 26 November 2002

HP/Works members, colleagues from member organisations, and non-members are most welcome to attend. Please note, members of Interex-Europe, HP-CUO, BITUG and HPCUA are welcome to attend at member rates. Please book early to secure your place(s).

The provisional agenda (re-issued 16 October) is:

9.30am Registration and coffee

10.00am Security and Linux Systems - Howard Wilkinson, Coherent Technology

A discussion of why Linux is a good basis for securing networked systems and building appliances.

11.00am Coffee

11.15am Securing Linux Servers - Nigel Edwards, HP Infrastructure Solutions Division

This talk will give an overview of various Linux security strategies and tools, and discuss their deficiencies.

12.15pm Lunch

1.00pm Achieving Highly Available Linux systems with LifeKeeper - Bipen Patel, Open Minds HA Solutions

LifeKeeper increases reliability by providing failover clustering for a wide range of applications and environments. This talk discusses how High Availability clustering can be achieved with LifeKeeper. (Including demo.)

2.45pm Tea

3.00pm Customer Experience with Linux and Oracle 9iRAC - Richard Kirkwood, HP

A look at customers experiences in the real world, the good news and issues to plan around. A non-technical presentation.

3.45pm Perl in Business - Simon Cozens, Oxford University

Thinking about collaborative development? Do you immediately think of Java, C or C++? We'll look at some business case studies of how to get Perl's rapid prototyping without losing enterprise readiness, along with some collaborative development techniques for Perl programmers.

4.30pm (approx) Close

Tea and coffee are included in the price and lunch is available in a well-subsidised canteen.

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PAYMENT

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FURTHER INFORMATION

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CONTACT POINTS

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Email:	kernel@hpworks.demon.co.uk
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