OK, we'll be in room EE/CSCI 3-125 for tomorrow's meeting. I also added some background information about the speaker and his company... Next TCLUG Meeting When: Saturday November 6th, noon-2pm Topic: Real-time data replication for Linux, presented by El Haddi from Constant Data. At the end of his talk, he will be having a drawing to give two copies of Constant Replicator for Linux. Real time data replication for and from Linux Or Migrating one customer two servers at a time! Abstract Constant Data (CDI)designs and develops real-time data replication products. I will focus on CDI's Constant Replicator(CR) product. It allows users to mirror data changes between servers(in real-time) as the changes occur. This talk will cover the design and several use cases of CR: (a) Using Linux Constant replicator for disaster avoidance (b) real-time content distribution (Telecoms for example) (c) backup consolidation (many windows or Linux servers to a remote Linux server). (d) data migration from other OSs to Linux The talk will also include some stories about how we started with Linux and then found out that many customers use multiple OSs for daily activities. Today Constant Replicator is cross platform and runs on existing servers. I will discuss how some customers reduced Total Cost of Ownership(TCO) by replacing their windows file servers with Linux based file servers. A free demo of CR is available from www.constantdata.com/products/download.php About A. A. El Haddi Installed the first Linux server at the Weather Service in march 1994. Has some hair, loves to write code in C, perl and once in a while in Java Holds MS in computer science and a Docteur Ingenieur in soil physics 20 years experience in Unix System admin and in software development (U of M, NOAA, Reuters/Bridge, Tricord)D Where: University of Minnesota Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Building Room EE/CSCI 3-125 Map: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/EECSci/index.html _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Announcements - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-announce mailing list tclug-announce at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-announce