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replacing outdated HVAC equipment, moving to open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
http://www.merit.edu/learning
learning@xxxxxxxxx
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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