BALUG: Tu 2012-03-20: Vision Solutions: Double-Take Availability for Linux; & other BALUG news
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items, details further below: 2012-03-20 Tu: Double-Take Availability for Linux, by Vision Solutions 2012-04-17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, by Grant Bowman & Elizabeth Krumbach 2012-05-15 Salt. Configuration Management and Remote Execution at Scale, by Corey Quinn 2012-02-21 OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai (slides,etc.) CDs, and other "door prizes", etc. volunteering to help BALUG
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For our 2012-03-20 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Vision Solutions[1] technical presentation on: Double-Take Availability for Linux[2] presented by: Shaun Sellers, Linux Product Manager and also on-hand will be: Greg Ross, Solutions Architect for Double-Take software, Western region Brion Donlon, Regional Sales Manager
Double-Take Availability for Linux is a continuous, byte-level replication and failover software product. As it can monitor changes to any data files, it can protect any application - DB or others.
The replication is from source to target server. Each server is licensed and has the software installed. Configuration of what data to replicate and what failover parameters are to be used is accomplished by a universal console that can run on any Windows platform - PC, laptop, server, etc. The console doesn't need to run on the servers being protected. Source and target servers can be in the same room or across any geographic distance - over any TCP/IP network.
As Availability is considered a high availability product, RPOs are typically in the near-zero range because the data changes are captured and transmitted continuously. RTO (or failover) is typically in the seconds to minutes range.
Vision Solutions currently supports most releases of RHEL, Oracle Linux, CentOS, SUSE with the Ext and XFS file systems. These distributions are supported on physical and virtual environments.
Here is a short data sheet on the product[3], and website has several white papers[4] also.
1. http://www.visionsolutions.com/ 2. http://www.visionsolutions.com/Products/DT-Avail-Lin.aspx 3. http://pdf.visionsolutions.com/pdfs/us-double-take-availability-for-linux.pd.... http://www.visionsolutions.com/Popular-Resources/Whitepapers.aspx
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**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 2012-03-20
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue).
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For our 2012-04-17 meeting BALUG is proud to announce:
Ubuntu[1] 12.04[2] LTS[3] Precise Pangolin[2] presented by: Grant Bowman[4] & Elizabeth Krumbach[5]
Ubuntu's newest Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, is scheduled to be released 2012-04-26. At this meeting, we'll have co-presented from two wonderful local Ubuntu experts, information on Ubuntu, and what to find and expect in this latest Ubuntu LTS release. Topics covered will include major improvements to the Unity[6] desktop environment and new features you can expect related to the Ubuntu Server[7] and the new Ubuntu Cloud[8] images.
Grant Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for over twenty years including a former Director of Silicon Valley Public Access Link (SV-PAL)[9] ISP serving Santa Clara County and a present Director of Partimus[10] serving San Francisco and Alameda County middle schools with recycled computers, open source software, training and support. He is an OLPC Developer, Ubuntu Member[11], Fedora[12] Ambassador, Debian[13] Developer and former employee of SUSE[14]. Active Habits[15] is a forthcoming Android app. He is also active with Berkeley Linux Users Group[16], Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG)[17], Noisebridge[18], San Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)[19] and also Diablo Valley Linux Users Group (DVLUG)[20] (every Friday in Walnut Creek).
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Debian[13] Systems Administrator and currently holds a position on the Ubuntu Community Council[21].
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS 4. http://www.grantbow.com/ 5. http://princessleia.com/ 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface) 7. http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/overview 8. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud 9. http://www.svpal.org/ 10. http://partimus.org/ 11. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership 12. http://fedoraproject.org/ 13. http://www.debian.org/ 14. http://www.suse.com/ 15. http://www.activehabits.com/ 16. http://www.berkeleylug.com/ 17. http://www.buug.org/ 18. http://www.noisebridge.net/ 19. http://www.sf-lug.com/ 20. http://www.dvlug.org/ 21. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
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For our 2012-05-15 meeting BALUG is proud to announce:
Corey Quinn: Salt[1]. Configuration Management and Remote Execution at Scale
Corey Quinn has been finding new and better ways to be lazy via configuration management since discovering that "ssh in a for loop" didn't scale. He's a volunteer for the freenode[2] IRC[3] network, and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he's the director of systems operations at Expensify.com[4], helping make expense reports not suck.
1. http://saltstack.org/ 2. http://freenode.net/ 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat 4. https://www.expensify.com/
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2012-02-21 OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai Missed last month's meeting, or want to review the "slides"? have a peek here: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-February/004794.h...
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CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have "door prizes".
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volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities) Drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
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