USENIX Blog

Join us in San Francisco, CA, February 24-27, 2009, for the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. On Tuesday, February 24, FAST '09 offers ground-breaking file and storage tutorials by industry leaders such as Brent Welch, Marc Unangst, Simson Garfinkel, and more. This year's innovative 3-day technical program includes 23 technical papers, as well as a Keynote Address, Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs), and a Poster Session. Don't miss out on opportunities for peer interaction on the topics that mean the most to you.

The December 2008 edition of ;login: is now available online.  This issue features five security articles covering topics such as highly predictive blacklisting to threat analysis of a campus wireless network and more. This issue also contains reports from five of the USENIX conferences and columns by David N. Blank-Edelman and Peter Baer Galvin, just to name a few. Check it out here.

The  submission deadline for the First Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP ’09) is December 5, 2008, 11:59 p.m. PST.

We invite submissions addressing research problems involving provenance in any area of computer science, including but not limited to: databases, programming languages and software engineering, systems and security, and workflows/scientific computation.

More information and submission guidelines can be found here.

TaPP ’09 will take place February 23, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

Booklet #19, Configuration Management with Bcfg2, by Narayan Desai and Cory Lueninghoener, is now online for members and available for purchase. Whether you're wondering which configuration management tool—if any—is for you, or you've settled on Bcfg2 and are already deploying it, this booklet by Bcfg2 authors Narayan Desai and Cory Lueninghoener will provide you with valuable insights and advice. Take a look now!