====== UKUUG Spring Conference 2011 ======


I recently attended UKUUG’s annual [[http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2011/|Large Installation Systems Administration]] (LISA) conference, this year hosted in Leeds over 2 days.

Overall I was very impressed with the event, at some points I was torn with that track to go on. In the end I attended the following:

  * A bird’s-eye view on DNSSEC (Jan-Piet Mens)
  * Managing distributed web services with OpenNMS (Dr. Craig Gallen)
  * Unbound as a caching validating DNSSEC resolver (Jan-Piet Mens)
  * IPv6 update from a broadband ISP (Adrian Kennard)
  * The Future of Configuration Management – Latest developments from Cfengine (Mark Burgess)
  * FusionInventory and GLPI (Fabrice Flore-Thebault)
  * The benefit of BGP for every service provider (Thomas Mangin)
  * DNSSEC zone-signing tool chest (Jan-Piet Mens)
  * Scale out Datacenter Architecture (Bernd Erk)
  * Digital Forensics in Large Scale Environments (Si Biles)
  * Large Scale file storage with MogileFS (Stuart Teasdale)
  * OpenStack: Towards a fully open cloud (Thierry Carrez)
  * PostgreSQL: New features for Large Systems Administration (Simon Riggs)


Some of the above were very interesting, which I hope to blog about in detail in the near future.

The evening was very enjoyable and I fully enjoyed taking to like minded people. Although not a HE based conference, I was pleasantly suprised to meet fellow sysadmins from other Universities. Some as close as Bath, yes it takes a trip up to the north to meet people from a city on my doorstep.