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  • From: Merit Network Professional Learning
  • Date: Fri Aug 26 08:36:02 2011


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Merit Network is pleased to announce presentation topics for the fall MJTS meeting, to be held on Tuesday, September 27, at locations in East Lansing, Escanaba and Gaylord. All Merit Member organizations are encouraged to attend for a free day of learning.

The meeting will gather at the MSU Union in East Lansing,
Bay de Noc Community College in Escanaba and the University Center in Gaylord. The three locations will be joined by video. The multiple locations will help you take part in the interactions that are an important part of MJTS, regardless of where you live and work. The meeting will run from 9:30 a.m. to about 3:00 p.m.

Registration for all locations is available at:

  http://www.merit.edu/mjts

This meeting will also be webcast. On the day of the event there will be a link to the stream on the above page.

Presentations will include the following and more:
  • John Marra and Chris Lewis from Northern Michigan University will talk about cost-saving measures undertaken in IT operations over the past two years. They will review those efforts--including powering down equipment, raising thermostats in the summer, replacing outdated HVAC equipment, moving to open source LMS software--and the savings that resulted.
  • Philippe Laurens, a research specialist at the department of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University, will discuss the department's work on the international ATLAS Experiment, a particle physics project at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The project relies on passing massive data sets between institutions, and Philippe will discuss the networking and tools involved, particularly the use of perfSONAR to detect and diagnose networking problems.
  • Derek Harkness from Merit will discuss techniques for creating and managing virtual data centers.
  • Allen Kluender from Cisco will present methods for ensuring that an organization's web site and other services can be reached by IPv6 users. He will discuss address translation techniques as well as DNS considerations and options for directly enabling IPv6 on web servers.
  • Merit staff will discuss backbone network developments and recent activities related to Merit's broadband stimulus projects.
  • Randy Jobski from Lansing Community College will discuss Higher Education Application Tracker (HEAT), an application initiated by the college that helps higher education institutions collaborate on technology projects. HEAT tracks applications and services that institutions have installed or will install; participating institutions can use HEAT to find collaborators and assistance with their own projects.
MJTS meetings are open only to Merit Member organizations. We encourage you to invite others from your organization to attend the meeting, in this case especially those who have interests in IT operations, network performance, IPv6 and virtualization. Registration is free, and we ask that you register in advance. You can register at:

  http://www.merit.edu/learning/mjts/

Merit Network Professional Learning
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Other upcoming events from Merit Professional Learning:
Are You Managing Your Vendors? (Webinar Series)
  Featuring Theresa Rowe, CIO, Oakland University
  September 15, 11:00 a.m. EDT
  http://www.merit.edu/webinarseries

Fall MITE Forum meeting
  September 28, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/resources/mite  

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [5.0]
  October 3-7, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/vsphere2011

Introduction to DNS and BIND
  Learn from ISC, the developers of BIND
  October 24-25, 2011, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/dns2011

DNSSEC Implementation and Deployment Workshop
  Important new skills for DNS operators, from ISC
  October 26-28, 2011, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/dnssec2011



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