APM: Fw: July Meeting of the IEEE CTS Consultants Network

[Christopher Baker]

IEEE Central Texas Section Consultants Network Meeting

Date and Time: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Networking at 6:00 pm, business and program from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Cost: spend at least $5 on food
Reservations: Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend.

Meeting Location:  China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX
Directions: Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35

Topic: Design and Implementation of Highly Scalable E-mail Systems
Details fundamental flaws in the current mailbox-per-user paradigm of
standard off-the-shelf Local Delivery
Agent software. It will describe how they can be scaled up to handle
many more users, how virtually all synchronous metadata and file locking
can be eliminated, how storage requirements can be reduced to grow at a
rate less than O(n), and how various services can be broken out and
handled by multiple separate servers.

Speaker: Brad Knowles, Author & Consultant
Member at League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) and at
The System Administrators Guild (SAGE)
Formerly Sr. Consultant at Snow BV, Sr. Systems Architect at Belgacom
Skynet SA/NV,
Sr. Process Consultant at Collective Technologies, Sr. Internet Mail
Systems Administrator at America Online,
and Analyst/Terminal Operator, Computer Scientist at Defense Information
Systems Agency


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