Program

Platinum Sponsors
Internode
Diaxion - IT Strategy & Optimisation
Media Partner
Computerworld
WiFi  Provider
Xirrus
Thursday, August 12 
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and arrival tea/coffee - Exhibition Foyer
9:00am - 9:15am Conference Welcome
Donna Ashelford, SAGE-AU President
9:15am - 10:30am Keynote Address
Smooth Operations: Stopping the spiral of "Emergency System Administration"

T Limoncelli, Author
10:30am - 11:00am Morning Tea - Exhibition Foyer
11:00am - 12:30pm

Session: IPv6

- IPv6: The Jigsaw Puzzle
F Crawford

Session: IPv6

- IPv6: Where the bloody hell are you?!?
M Newton

Session: Wireless

- Why your super high speed wireless LAN isn't super
David Ross

12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch - Exhibition Foyer
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Session: Open Solaris

- Getting Bits on Disk: New Installation technologies for OpenSolaris
J McPherson

Session: Open Solaris

- ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems
J McPherson

3:00pm - 3:30pm Afternoon Tea - Exhibition Foyer
3:30pm - 5:00pm

Session: Going Green

- Power Challenges: An energy Provider's Perspective
C Robertson

Session: Going Green

- Greening Government: Practical Experience of Greening IT in the Public Service
B Short

Session: Open Source Tools

- Configuration Management and auditing using Open Source tools
Mark Unwin

5:00pm - 6:00pm SAGE-AU AGM (Annual General Meeting)
7:00pm - 11:00pm Conference Dinner
Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Marieville Esplanade, Sandy Bay: Bruni Room

 

Friday, August 13
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and arrival tea/coffee - Exhibition Foyer
9:00am - 9:30am Sponsor Addresses and Prize Draws
9:30am - 10:30am Invited Talk
Windows IntuneTM - Simplifying how businesses manage and secure PC's using Windows Cloud Services and Windows 7

J Alexander, Microsoft
10:30am - 11:00am Morning Tea - Exhibition Foyer
11:00am - 12:30pm

Session: In the Cloud

- Cloud Computing with Oracle
A Miller

Session: Security Landscape

- Not another damn password! It's the 21st Century after all
D Black

12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch - Exhibition Foyer
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Session: Virtualisation

- Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation
David Jorm

Session: Virtualisation

- Virtualisation Pitfalls
Phil Kernick

3:00pm - 3:30pm Afternoon Tea - Exhibition Foyer
3:30pm - 5:00pm Plenary Address
State of the Broadband Nation

S Hackett, Internode