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Usenix LISA 2013 Presentations about Cloud System Administration:

Sunday, Nov 3, 2013:

• 9am-5pm:
• SRE Classroom: Non-Abstract Large System Design for Sysadmins
• John Looney, Google
• Format: Full Day Training Class

Monday, Nov 4, 2013:

• 9am-5pm:
• The Cloud Workshop
• Facilitated by: Lorin Hochstein, Nimbis Services; Scott Devoid, Argonne National Laboratory
• Format: Day-long workshop (mix of presentations and discussion)

• 9:00 am-5:00 pm
• Using and Migrating to IPv6
• Shumon Huque, University of Pennsylvania
• Format: Full Day Training Class

• 9:00 am-12:30 pm
• Building a Big IaaS Cloud: Building a Massively Scalable, Geographically Disparate, IaaS Cloud Using Apache CloudStack
• David Nalley, Apache CloudStack
• Format: Half Day Training Class

• 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
• Networking in the Cloud Age
• David Nalley, Apache CloudStack, Chiradeep Vittal, Citrix Systems
• Format: Half Day Training Class

Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013:

• 9:00 am-5:00 pm
• Ganeti: Your Private Virtualization Cloud the Way Google Does It
• Guido Trotter, Google; Helga Velroyen, GoogleVittal, Citrix Systems
• Format: Full Day Training Class

• 9am-12:30pm:
• Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency
• Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
• Format: Half Day Training Class

[A big part of cloud administration is working as a team to build large systems. This year I've rewritten much of this talk to be examples drawn from my experience on such teams.]

• 1:30am-5pm:
• Evil Genius 101
• Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
• Format: Half Day Training Class

[While not directly about cloud computing, all the skills in this tutorial will help anyone building private or public clouds.]

• 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
• Disaster Recovery Plans: Design, Implementation and Maintenance Using the ITIL Framework
• Jeanne Schock, Afilias
• Format: Half Day Training Class

• 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
• High-Availability Linux Clustering
• Joshua Jensen, Sirius Computer Solutions
• Format: Half Day Training Class

Wednesday, Nov 6, 2013:

• 8:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Modern Infrastructure: The Convergence of Network, Compute, and Data
• Jason Hoffman, Founder, Joyent
• Format: Opening Plenary

• 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Our Jobs Are Evolving: Can We Keep Up?
• Mandi Walls, Senior Consultant, Opscode Inc.
• Format: Invited Talk

• 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Effective Configuration Management
• Mandi Walls, Senior Consultant, Opscode Inc.
• Format: Invited Talk

• 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
• Introduction to Chef
• Nathen Harvey, Opscode
• Format: Full Day Training Class

• 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• User Space
• Noah Zoschke, Sr. Platform Engineer, Heroku
• Format: Invited Talk

• 2:45 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• How Netflix Embraces Failure to Improve Resilience and Maximize Availability
• Ariel Tseitlin, Director, Cloud Solutions, Netflix
• Format: Invited Talk

• 4:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Storage Performance Testing in the Cloud
• Jeff Darcy, Red Hat
• Format: Invited Talk

• 4:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Leveraging In-Memory Key Value Stores for Large-Scale Operations
• Mike Svoboda, Staff Systems and Automation Engineer, LinkedIn; Diego Zamboni, Senior Security Advisor, CFEngine
• Format: Invited Talk

• 4:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• What We Learned at Spotify, Navigating the Clouds
• Noa Resare and Ramon van Alteren, Spotify
• Format: Invited Talk

• 4:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Observing and Understanding Behavior in Complex Systems
• Theo Schlossnagle, CEO, Circonus
• Format: Invited Talk

Thursday, Nov 7, 2013:

• 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Data Engineering for Complex Systems
• Hilary Mason, bitly
• Format: Plenary Session

• 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Poncho: Enabling Smart Administration of Full Private Clouds
• Scott Devoid and Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory; Lorin Hochstein, Nimbis Services
• Format: Research Paper

• 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• LEAN Operations: Applying 100 Years of Manufacturing Knowledge to Modern IT
• Ben Rockwood, Joyent
• Format: Invited Talk

• 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Secure Linux Containers
• Daniel J Walsh, Red Hat
• Format: Guru Session

• 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m..
• Back to the Future: Fault-tolerant Live Update with Time-traveling State Transfer
• Cristiano Giuffrida, Calin Iorgulescu, Anton Kuijsten, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
• Format: Research Paper

• 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• A Guide to SDN: Building DevOps for Networks
• Rob Sherwood, Big Switch
• Format: Invited Talk

• 4:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• The Emergence of the Cloud Computer
• Chris C. Kemp, Founder and CEO, Nebula
• Format: Invited Talk

Friday, Nov 9, 2013:

• 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
• Time Management for System Administrators
• Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Exchange
• Format: "Guru" Session

• 9:00 am-5:00 pm
• Introduction to Puppet Enterprise
• James Sweeny, Puppet Labs
• Format: Full Day Training Class

• 9:00 am-9:30 am
• Challenges to Error Diagnosis in Hadoop Ecosystems
• Jim (Zhanwen) Li, NICTA; Siyuan He, Citibank; Liming Zhu, NICTA and University of New South Wales; Xiwei Xu, NICTA; Min Fu, University of New South Wales; Len Bass and Anna Liu, NICTA and University of New South Wales; An Binh Tran, University of New South Wales
• Format: Research paper

• 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Apache Hadoop for System Administrators
• Allen Wittenauer, LinkedIn, Inc.
• Format: Invited Talk

• 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• *aaS: Building and Maintaining the Cloud
• David Nalley, Apache Cloudstack
• Format: Guru Session

• 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
• Optimizing VM Images for OpenStack with KVM/QEMU Fall 2013
• Chet Burgess, Senior Director, Engineering, and Brian Wellman, Director, Operations, Metacloud, Inc.
• Format: Invited Talk

• 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Cloud/IaaS Platforms: I/O Virtualization and Scheduling
• Dave Cohen, Office of the CTO, EMC
• Format: Invited Talk

• 2:45 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Cluster Management at Google
• John Wilkes, Google
• Invited Talk

• 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Scaling User Security: Lessons Learned from Shipping Security Features at Etsy
• Zane Lackey, Director of Security Engineering, and Kyle Barry, Security Engineering Manager, Etsy
• Invited Talk

• 2:45 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Secure Linux Containers
• Daniel J Walsh, Red Hat
• Invited Talk

• 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• PostOps: A Non-Surgical Tale of Software, Fragility, and Reliability
• Todd Underwood, Google
• Closing Plenary