This talk will cover the advanced features PowerShell provides for doing server management on Windows, including modules, workflow and the new desired state configuration management features introduced in PowerShell V4.

Bio
Bruce Payette is a Principal Developer in the Server Manageability group at Microsoft. He is a founding member of the PowerShell team, and one of the core designers of the PowerShell language. Bruce has been working on shells and management automation tools for over 20 years and is the author of the bestselling book Windows PowerShell in Action. Bruce, along with Jeffrey Snover and Jim Truher, received the 2012 LISA Outstanding Achievement Award for contributions to the system administration community.

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As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.

Every hype cycle has to have it’s buzz word and this year it is Software Defined Networking (SDN). In fact, if you follow the IT press, it’s all becoming software defined: data center, storage, networking … everything. So, what is real about SDN, where did it come from, and why now. Most importantly though, is it really going to change anything?

Bio:
Tom has over 25-years of experience in IT leadership positions and possesses a variety of experience across a broad spectrum of industries including software development, social media, e-commerce, mobile, finance, and IT Services. Tom was a founder and CEO of Lacuna Systems, building software to leverage predictive analytics in the Application Performance Management market. Prior to Lacuna, Tom held senior management positions delivering scalable and reliable networks for Internet leaders including Microsoft, Demand Media, and Infospace.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas. He is inspired by great art, great food, and the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

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As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.

This presentation should provide a brief introduction to GlusterFS as a unified, distributed storage system and how it increases reliability and scale. I’ll also show some simple use cases.

Bio:
Joe Julian is the Senior Systems Administrator for Ed Wyse & Co, Inc., father of 2, GlusterFS expert and board member, and all around cool guy. You’re can find hin on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, or via IRC on irc.freenode.net #gluster where he’s often hanging out and helping people.

Since starting with Ed Wyse in 2006, he has moved their 26 locations off of dedicated frame relay connections and on to DSL or cable based VPN connections saving the company a substantial amount of money. He also cut down the 4 or 5 phone lines at each location to 1 and instead installed and configured FreeSWITCH to be an internal VoIP PBX. He extends the life of equipment by adding redundancy and finding low-cost solutions to extend functionality, such as using MyBookWorld NAS drives to become NFS root drives for what would have been too-small thin clients. He likes to find new and innovative ways to use assets to improve service and offer new services. Ed Wyse as a company strives to meet their customers expectations 100% of the time with the best system availability in their industry. GlusterFS helps them meet that expectation by reducing their exposure to single points of failure by spreading file availability across a triple redundancy pool of servers as well as disks.

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As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.