[Announce] November 7, 2012 CINLUG Meeting at Glendale Branch, IMCPL

[Michael Schultheiss]

Mr. Bowling has provided an updated outline on his presentation for our
November 7, 2012 meeting:

Demystifying Gluster: Red Hat Storage Server and GlusterFS for the system                                                                                                                                          
administrator                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Red Hat® Storage Server represents a dramatic departure from traditional                                                                                                                                           
back-end storage solutions. In this webinar, you’ll get a technical dive into                                                                                                                                      
Red Hat Storage Server from the system admin perspective, including a study of                                                                                                                                     
implementation scenarios.                                                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
We'll explore such topics as:                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
  • Enterprise storage strategy.                                                                                                                                                                                   
  • Data access methods.                                                                                                                                                                                           
  • The elegant simplicity of scaling both out and up.                                                                                                                                                             
  • The strength of redundancy and fault tolerance.                                                                                                                                                                
  • Introduction to the user interface.                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Speakers:                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Terry Bowling, Technical Account Manager, Red Hat                                                                                                                                                                  
Terry has been a UNIX/Linux admin for the past 13 years.  He currently works                                                                                                                                       
out of Indianapolis as a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat, Inc.

Michael Schultheiss wrote:
> The November meeting of CINLUG, the Central Indiana Linux Users' Group,
> is scheduled for 6:00PM on Wednesday, November 7, 2012.  The meeting is
> being held at the Glendale Mall branch of the Indianapolis-Marion County
> Public Library (IMCPL) - 6101 N. Keystone Avenue, Indianapolis, IN
> 46220.
> 
> Directions can be found at
> http://www.cinlug.org/about/directions/Glendale
> 
> Anyone is welcome to attend the meeting.  Terry Bowling will be giving a
> presentation on Red Hat Storage (GlusterFS), a powerful network/cluster
> filesystem written in user space which uses FUSE to hook itself with VFS
> layer. GlusterFS takes a layered approach to the file system, where
> features are added/removed as per the requirement. Though GlusterFS is a
> File System, it uses already tried and tested disk file systems like
> ext3, ext4, xfs, etc. to store the data. It can easily scale up to
> petabytes of storage which is available to user under a single mount
> point. More information on Red Hat Storage is available at
> http://www.redhat.com/products/storage-server/ and more information on
> GlusterFS is available at http://www.gluster.org/
> 
> Terry Bowling has been a UNIX/Linux admin for the past 12 years. He
> currently works out of Indianapolis as a Technical Account Manager for
> Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> The meeting agenda includes:
> 
> Call to order
> Summary of the board meeting minutes
> Discussion of upcoming events
> Introduction of Meeting Attendees
> Red Hat Storage/GlusterFS presentation by Terry Bowling
> Close of meeting
> 
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> 
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