Open Source Solutions Stage
Ohio LinuxFest 2012

The Open Source Solutions Stage is a place for our sponsors to talk about their products, or information relative to them.

Friday
A special presentation on the Early Penguins stage

4 PM: MySQL Replication (Keith Larson, Oracle) - MySQL Replication is a native feature of MySQL. This session will give a broad overview of replication within MySQL as well as a simple real world configuration example to get you started. We will then continue with a more in-depth investigation of the MySQL Replication Features in MySQL 5.6.

 

Saturday

10 AM: Advancements in Open-Source Virtualization with KVM (Mike Day, IBM) - KVM is the only hypervisor that leverages both the scalability of Linux and the performance of hardware virtualization. As a result KVM is gaining adoption for some unique workloads. In addition, KVM is pressuring proprietary hypervisor vendors to be more open and competitive in their market practices. IBM has been actively developing and using KVM internally and in products since 2007 for several key reasons. Over the past two years we have seen customers and organizations expand their use of KVM into some interesting and forward-looking use cases. Todays challenge for the KVM development community is to make the hypervisor easier to use, more self-aware (in the sense that it can tune itself), and to enable an ISV ecosystem around the oVirt and OpenStack infrastructures. Until this happens KVM will be used largely by infrastructure providers and sophisticated organizations.

11 AM:  Bringing Linux Essentials to the Classroom (Medina Dupuis, LPI) - Following up on "Catching the Wave of Open Source Careers", Medina Dupuis, LPI's Project Manager, will talk about the importance of "Bringing Linux Essentials to the Classroom". Calling on research from the international LPI community, this presentation will explain why something so simple has had to wait so long. More than just a certificate, this new program partners with educators and governments in removing barriers to education in Linux and Open Source and preparing the next generation of IT workers for today's mixed environments.

Noon:   BREAK

1 PM: Open Source Initiatives at HP (Phil Robb, HP) - This talk outlines the major open source initiates within HP over the past 12 months, including: Project Odyssey, Project Moonshot, OpenStack, OpenWebOS, & Enyo. 

2 PM: Help a Sysadmin Out!  Some things to consider as your team pushes out your next project  (Alex Juarez, Rackspace) - Being a system admin in a hosting environment can present some different challenges.  By getting the chance to see multiple environments every day we begin to see a commonality in the types of { issues | pitfalls | challenges } that companies face often.  We'll go over some of these topics and pair them up with potential solutions.

3 PM:  Cloud Monitoring in 15 Minutes or Less (Rob Booth, Zenoss) - Are you tired of installing multiple open source products to monitor your network? When someone asks you to monitor a new metric on a switch do you twitch with pain when you think about the amount of work it takes?  Well put that all behind you and come see how Zenoss Core 4 can put the zen back in your infrastructure.  In less than 15 minutes we will have you up and running  with the Zenoss Core 4 monitoring system. Following the install we will dive into the interface for a quick overview and demonstration on how to monitor your Amazon AWS infrastructure. If we have time we will also try to demo how to monitor a RaspberryPI with Zenoss.  Come join us or stop by our booth for a quick demo and chat with one of our Zenoss experts.

4 PM:  Arista Networks Extensible Operating System (Darrin Machay, Arista) - This talk will have an overview of Arista EOS - a unique next generation data center switching platform operating system built on unmodified Linux Kernel.  It will include a brief demo.