LISA 2013 - 27th Large Installation System Administration Conference

The annual USENIX LISA conference is the meeting place for professionals who make computing work and understand how it fails. Every year, LISA attracts system administrators, architects, site reliability engineers, software engineers, and researchers, from organizations ranging from small IT-shops to the largest computing infrastructures in the world. Attendees learn from industry experts about emerging trends and topics in software, hardware, and operations strategy and methodologies. The LISA community is very diverse; attendees have responsibilities in a range of areas, including system and site reliability, security, cloud, high performance computing (HPC), Web, networking, and storage administration.
At LISA, systems theory meets operational practice. This is an ideal environment for both researchers and practitioners to identify the key operational and system problems being faced by industry today, and to form partnerships within the community. Presentation at LISA is a path to real-world impact for leading research. Submissions in research areas such as cloud computing, software-defined networking, DevOps, large-scale computing, distributed systems, security, visualization, and management methods are encouraged. Alongside the LISA refereed papers track, posters and work-in-progress sessions provide a valuable avenue for early researcher feedback. USENIX supports open access to research via its conference publications and also awards grants to enable participation by students.
The LISA program is a rich mix of technical talks and training, panel discussions of important topics, ask-the-experts Guru sessions, and presentations by people who make things work?just like you. In addition, attendees can network with experts in a variety of fields. These relationships provide great value to organizations as they encounter subtle technical issues. The expertise gained by LISA attendees has a long-term impact on their careers and organizations. These factors make LISA the premiere event for our community.