LinuxCon Europe takes place October 26 -28, 2011 in Prague at the Clarion Congress Hotel.
LinuxCon is the premiere Linux conference in North America, South America and Asia, providing an unmatched collaboration and education space for all matters Linux, and The Linux Foundation is now for the first time organizing LinuxCon in Europe.
LinuxCon Europe will bring together the best and brightest that the Linux community has to offer, including community developers, system administrators, business executives and operations experts. LinuxCon Europe will deliver attendees top notch speaking talent (from across Europe and around the globe), innovative and abundant program content, and a wide variety of opportunities to connect with peers. LinuxCon Europe is co-located with the Linux Kernel Summit and GStreamer Conference (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For more information about this event and to register, go here (link resides outside of ibm.com).
As a Gold Sponsor of LinuxCon Europe IBM has several presentations.
IBM Presentations
Linux in Growth Markets: The Kazakhstan Experience
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
17:15 – 18:15
Room: Aquarius
Presenter:
Yekaterina Menovchshikova
Program Coordinator at Linux Center Kazakhstan, IBM Sales & Distribution
Abstract:
Kazakhstan is one of the lesser known emerging markets, yet it is the 9th largest nation in the world, bigger in size than Western Europe and with a strong economy thanks to it's vast oil and gas resources. Like many emerging markets, Kazakhstan faces the ambitious task of growing and enhancing its IT infrastructure rapidly to match the demands of a new economy. Kazakhstan's IT infrastructure however is not mature, with a lag of about 3 to 5 years in software adoption; virtualization and cloud computing are just getting started. Traditionally there has been a high level of piracy of commercial software. The Kazakhstan government is making efforts to force copyright law and encourage OSS usage in government and educational organizations, yet one of the main challenges is a lack of knowledge and experience with Linux and OSS. As a result only a few local companies offer Linux-based solutions. In this session we will talk about IBM's experience with Linux-based projects in Kazakhstan, and we will discuss best practices and lessons learned. This session will be especially of interest to companies that want to enter the Kazakhstan market and gain a strong foothold there with their Linux based solutions.
The Brand New Software Development Kit for Linux on POWER
Thursday, October 27, 2011
16:00 – 17:00
Room: Leo
Presenter:
Richard Moore
Open Source Software Developer, IBM Sales & Distribution
Abstract:
IBM has recently released a brand new Eclipse-based SDK for Linux on POWER. If you are at all interested in developing for POWER you need to be aware of what's been put into this SDK. This just what will be discussed in this talk. Performance under POWER can be impressive, especially under the recent P7 processor. To exploit the best from your P7 you'll need to have the right versions of the development tools and use the right parameters. The IBM SDK pulls all of this neatly together under one development framework. Not only do you get the usual convenience of source code and project management but you also have integrated some of the most powerful analytical tools available to the developer. And some of these - FDPR - uniquely exploit the POWER architecture. Get the low down on what cool and new for POWER development in this talk.
Managing KVM with Open Source Projects and Closed Source Projects
Friday, October 28, 2011
17:00 – 18:00
Room: Virgo
Presenter:
Tony Gargya
KVM Systems Management Architect, IBM Systems &Technology Group, Systems Software Development
Abstract:
The key to successful virtualization deployment is its management. The IBM Compute Cloud and many private clouds being built today are based on KVM. Since KVM is an open source hypervisor there is also a choice in management tools. This talk will focus on management of KVM via open source projects and closed source products. It is geared to IT Administrators and Operations Experts intending to deploy KVM based environments.
Presenter:
Yekaterina Menovchshikova
Program Coordinator at Linux Center Kazakhstan, IBM Sales & Distribution
Biography
Yekaterina Menovchshikova is a program coordinator in the IBM Center of Innovation for Linux and Open Standards in Astana, Kazakhstan. The mission of the Center is to drive the development and adoption of open standards and open source technologies among businesses and government organizations of Kazakhstan. The Center helps local software developers increase their Linux and open standards expertise and better connect them to the worldwide Linux community. Before joining IBM, Yekaterina had significant experience in implementing and managing innovative projects in various commercial institutions and organizations in Kazakhstan.
Presenter:
Richard Moore
Open Source Software Developer, IBM Sales & Distribution
Biography
Richard J Moore is a senior engineer with IBM's Linux Technology Center. He has worked with Linux since 2000, initially as the maintainer for dprobes and later kprobes. He has a long experience developing and supporting operating systems that goes back 30 years. Richard has recently developed the Live Guest Relocation facility, which is part of IBM's Statement of Direction for a future release of zVM. He has also spent the last year working on Z microprocessor development. Richard returned to Linux earlier this year to work on the SDK for Linux on POWER. He has been a regular face on the conference platform having spoken at ALS, FREENIX, ACCU, UKUUG, FOSDEM, LinuxTag, LinuxExpo, LinuxConf.eu (tutorials and talks), NordU, and chaired the RAS BoFs at OLS.
Presenter:
Tony Gargya
KVM Systems Management Architect, IBM Systems &Technology Group, Systems Software Development
Biography
Tony is a systems management architect with a focus on systems management and virtualization in the IBM Systems and Technology Group. My focus is primarily platform management with a focus on standards based open source projects and their integration with commercial products. I am working on the management of KVM based hypervisors since the past 2 years. He is also working closely with numerous clients to help them manage their data centers.
