[BBLISA-announce] October BBLISA talk: Cloud Filesystem HekaFS

[John P. Rouillard]

Hello:

Our October 2011 talk will be:

Title: Cloud Filesystem HekaFS
Speaker: Jeff Darcy
Location: MIT E-51, Room 376
When: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 7PM

About the Talk:

Modern open-source distributed filesystems make it possible to provide
file services at a scale and level of availability that's finally
competitive with proprietary options. What they don't do - yet - is
enable secure sharing of those resources between multiple user bases
or organizations who pay for them. This talk will focus on how
GlusterFS works to solve the first set of problems, and how HekaFS -
which is based on GlusterFS - is solving the second. If you're tired
of having to deal with umpteen departmental file servers, each
configured differently, this approach might provide some relief.

About the Speaker:

Jeff Darcy has been working with network, cluster, and distributed
filesystems for about twenty years - since DECnet was still relevant
and NFSv2 was new. Since then he has gained scars from EMC's MPFS (for
which he was one of the initial developers), Lustre, and GlusterFS. He
is currently at Red Hat, where he's the project lead for HekaFS and
all-around "cloud storage" expert.

I hope to see you there.

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John Rouillard
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