[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. - 7:30pm Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012

[Aaron Ruscetta]

Our Featured Presentation for the
Thursday,  Nov. 15th , 7:30pm
ALE Central meeting will be:

  REDUCTION IN A LAND
  OF VIRTUAL MACHINES
  AND SMALL DEVICES

presented by Brian MacLeod

Synopsis:
-- Files everywhere, multiple computers in rooms, and a network that keeps
falling behind the times.  Sounds like your workplace, right?  For many
of us, this also describes our home.
-- This maddening mix led to a reformulation of my digital home life that
scraps old servers and desktops for Virtual Machines and network "appliance"
devices to restore sanity, reduce power consumption, and improve reliability.
Armed with a little common sense and tools from the Linux sysadmin world,
engineering a better solution comes into reach.
:: Tools mentioned: NFS, Ansible, CFengine, SSH, OpenVPN
:: Tech level: beginner, overview

Bio:
-- Brian MacLeod is a Systems Engineer with PACE at Georgia Tech, working
on OS management, storage, and backup infrastructure for researchers
to use in their computing needs.

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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/?page_id=2">http://ale.org/?page_id=2</a>

As always, the information is also available on our
web site: <http://ale.org>

in peace,
aaron
ale events coordinator (etc)