[advocacy-discuss] Meet Steve McKinty and learn more about Open High Availability Clustering

[Sidsel Jensen]

Talk on Open High Availability Clustering
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Steve McKinty, Sun Microsystems will be in Denmark, because he is speaking at 
the Open Source Days 2008 conference and has offered to give an extra talk the 
day before the conference on Open High Availability Clustering. Steve has led 
The Solaris Clustering Geographic Edition team since 2005.

Open High Availability Cluster (OHAC) is the open-source code base of Solaris 
Cluster1, a high availability (HA) clustering solution from Sun Microsystems. 
The main difference between Open HA Cluster and Solaris Cluster is that Open HA 
Cluster doesn't provide an end-user product or complete distribution. Instead, 
it is an open source code base, along with build tools necessary to develop, 
build, and use the code.

The talk will take place Thursday October 2nd at the IT-University,
Rued Langgaardsvej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S, in room 2A12 at 16.00

Please RSVP to:
http://osum.sun.com/events/event/show?id=2181626:Event:4657

Abstract
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The term cluster is often associated today with High Performance Computing 
(HPC), but it also has a key role to play in the area of Business Continuity 
and High Availability. There is a lot of commercial interest in developing 
innovative solutions to these problems.

This talk will start with a brief description of the fundamentals of Business 
Continuity and how a High Availability framework such as Solaris Cluster can be 
used in that area, when combined with data replication technologies.

It will  describe in more detail some of the work being done through the Open 
HA Cluster (OHAC) and related communities, and then will look at the technical 
details and progress of some projects that have been recently started by 
community contributors.

Lastly I'll discuss other opportunities for joint work and contributions with 
the OHAC members.

There will be time for questions on any aspects of Open HA Cluster and Business 
Community.

About the speaker
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Steve McKinty joined Sun in 1991 to work on telecommunications protocol stacks, 
after 9 years developing software for a large UK telecom-
munications company. He is based at the Grenoble Engineering Centre (GEC) in SE 
France. Originally created in 1990 to develop products for the 
telecommunications industry, GEC now hosts teams developing Directory Server, 
Java/JDMK, and High-Availability products, among others, including the Open 
Source versions of many of these.

Steve took over as architect of Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in 2004, and 
has led the SCGE development team since 2005. He is always willing to meet with 
developers and customers to discuss disaster recovery.

Steve holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from The Queen's 
University of Belfast. He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the IET and 
IEEE.

Best,
    Sidsel Jensen

Sun Campus Ambassador @ KU
http://blogs.sun.com/cphcampus/
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