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Cartel '09

The conference will be held July 20th-22nd, 2009 in the Dome at Arbor Lakes. The Dome is in Building 3 and there are signs to direct you once you arrive.

Visitor parking is marked in the first row of the parking lot in front of Building 1. Additional parking is available behind the buildings. Visitors should come in through the Building 3 entrance and tell security you are attending Cartel 2009. If you park in the back you can call security from the Building 2 entrance in order to get into the building.

Monday, July 20
9:00a – 10:30a Public Computing
Presenter: Steve Sarrica and Kevin Jones from the University of Michigan on Sites usage and Virtual Sites
Possible roundtable topics: provisioning kiosks and public desktops, workstation OSes, security and maintenance of workstations, print queue management and metering...
10:30a – 11:00a Coffee break
11:00a – 12:30p Managing Identity (People)
Presenter: Vasilios Pliakas from the University of Michigan on MCommunity (Novell-based Enterprise Directory for Campus)

Possible roundtable topics: Kerberos, Active Directory, authorization strategies, integrating authorization systems, data exchange with HR systems, multi-factor authentication, PKI
12:30p – 1:30p Lunch
1:30p – 3:00p Email
Presenter: Sean Sweda from the University of Michigan on Cost-effective scaling and redundancy of Cyrus IMAP

Possible roundtable topics: filtering, PDAs, mass mail, calendar integration, directory integration, HIPAA secure e-mail, Exchange
3:00p – 3:30p Coffee break
3:30p – 5:00p Virtualization
Presenter: Russ Allbery from Stanford University on Deploying VMWare Services

Possible roundtable topics: virtualization and provisioning, VMware (ESX and not), Xen, Solaris zones, other virtualization methods, virtual to physical ratios, tracking virtual machines for configuration management
Tuesday, July 21
9:00a – 10:30a File Storage
Presenter: Steve Simmons from University of Michigan on Pushing AFS on Campus
Presenter: Derrick Brashear with an OpenAFS development update

Possible roundtable topics: backups, storage cost, CIFS, NFS, encryption at rest, SANs, iSCSI, AFS, FileDrawers, Lustre, cluster file systems
10:30a – 11:00a Coffee break
11:00a – 12:30p Data Centers
Presenter: Rene Gobeyn from University of Michigan on Data Center Challenges

Possible roundtable topics: power and cooling infrastructure and analysis, data center design and scaling, disaster recovery sites, power management techniques for servers, modular data centers
12:30p – 1:30p Lunch
1:30p – 3:00p Server Provisioning
Presenter: Gabrielle Singleton from University of Michigan on Radmind

Possible roundtable topics: FAI, Kickstart, Jumpstart, Red Hat Satellite server and Spacewalk, cobbler, Windows server installation, Puppet and other configuration management systems
3:00p – 3:30p Coffee break
3:30p – 5:00p Web Applications & Web Development
Presenter: Ziba Scott and Kris Steinhoff from University of Michigan on RoundCube and Collage

Possible roundtable topics: Webmail, blogs, wikis, content management, document management, instant messaging, SharePoint, Confluence, WebEx, video conferencing, survey tools, form builders
Wednesday, July 22
9:00a – 10:30a Asset Tracking, Change and Incident Management
Presenter: Jon Pilat from Stanford University on CMDB/CMDBf implementation

Possible roundtable topics: asset management, tracking changes, tracking incidents, incident communication, software solutions
10:30a – 11:00a Coffee break
11:00a – 12:30p High Performance Computing
Presenter: David Braun from the University of Michigan on Deploying and Managing Clusters

Possible roundtable topics: hardware, software, management, funding models, barriers
12:30p – 12:45p Administrivia
12:45p – 1:30p Lunch
1:30p – 3:00p Budget Challenges, Staff Constraints, Service for Fee
Presenter: Andrew Inman from the University of Michigan on Turning around TSM

Possible roundtable topics: hiring freezes, budget cuts, staff recruitment and attrition, leveraging student staff, cost recovery, outsourcing, 'moving to the cloud'