No, this isn’t the new version of my wife (although there is a new version out and it’s awesome;). Instead, LISA’08 is the 22nd year of the Large Installation System Administration conference in San Diego California. LISA runs from November 9 to November 14th of 2008 and looks to be a conference those who do mass deployment might not want to miss. The biggee this year is virtualization: ESX, ESX 3i, Xen, etc. But there are alos talks on security, forensics, the Linux Kernel, Performance tools for Solaris and Linux, Perl mods, network performance tuning, wireshark, diskless Linux, SELinux, mass deployment of database servers, disk-to-disk backups for Unix, cfengine, directory services, incident response and documentation. Way more stuff too, but what is oddly missing is even a cursory mention of Mac OS X. I suppose the mass deployments that we’re all working on in the Mac world just don’t matter. We did talk about doing something down there, but it doesn’t seem as though the LISA coordinators think there’s much interest in the Mac. Hmmmm… Either way, if you’re a Mac guy, you’re sure to pick up lots of great *nix and network skillz there, so you might as well head down if you can.
