T-Talks 1a Open Source Identity Management in the Enterprise Invited Talk Brian J. Atkisson, Red Hat Brian J. Atkisson has 15 years of production systems engineering and operations experience, focusing primarily on identity management and virtualization solutions. He has worked in these roles for the University of California, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Red Hat, Inc. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect and Engineer, in addition to holding many other certifications and a B.S. in Microbiology. He currently is a Principal Systems Engineer on the Identity and Access Management team within Red Hat IT. This talk will discuss how Red Hat IT utilizes and integrates open source solutions to offer a seamless experience for internal users. Specifically, we will cover how Red Hat incorporates SAML, Kerberos, LDAP, Two-Factor Authentication, PKI certificates, and how end-user systems are able to function in this multi-platform, fluid BYOD environment. Recent experiences will be shared on how Red Hat is scaling this identity management platform to utilize true single sign-on in cloud environments. Finally, best practices and future plans will be discussed as part of a Q&A session. This talk will discuss how Red Hat IT utilizes and integrates open source solutions to offer a seamless experience for internal users. Specifically, we will cover how Red Hat incorporates SAML, Kerberos, LDAP, Two-Factor Authentication, PKI certificates, and how end-user systems are able to function in this multi-platform, fluid BYOD environment. Recent experiences will be shared on how Red Hat is scaling this identity management platform to utilize true single sign-on in cloud environments. Finally, best practices and future plans will be discussed as part of a Q&A session. Available Media

T-Talks 1b Remote Work Panel Panel Moderator: Doug Hughes, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC. Panelists: Mark Imbriaco, DigitalOcean; Bill Lincoln, Pythian; H. Wade Minter, Adwerx; Michael Rembetsy, Etsy Doug Hughes graduated from Penn State University with a BE in Computer Engineering in 1991. He has worked for GE Aerospace at the network operations center, worked six years at Auburn University College of Engineering managing the infrastructure for the college of engineering, and spent six years at Global Crossing supporting the global IP infrastructure. Currently he works at D. E. Shaw Research, LLC where he leads a multi-national team of seven System Administrators covering all aspects of data, networking, and clustering infrastructure. Mark Imbriaco has been in the Internet industry for over 20 years, working in roles running the gamut of software development and operations. He's worked in infrastructure for companies like America Online, LivingSocial, 37signals, Heroku, and GitHub. Currently, he serves as the VP of Technical Operations at DigitalOcean managing operations for their fast growing IaaS cloud. Bill Lincoln is a Service Delivery Manager & Business Advocate at Pythian, a worldwide organization providing Managed Services and Project Consulting to companies whose data availability, reliability, and integrity are critical to their business. Pythian targets the top 5% of talent in the world, as a result 2/3 of our workforce works remote/from home. H. Wade Minter is the Chief Technology Officer at TeamSnap, a company that makes life easier for people who participate in youth and adult recreational sports. He is also the ring announcer for a professional wrestling federation. The two roles may or may not be related. Michael has worked in technical operations for more than 10 years in the web, healthcare, online media and financial industries. He started out in the help desk area, but moved to operations shortly after starting, and has been building and running data center and operations teams ever since. In previous jobs he worked for NBC Universal, iVillage and McDonalds online game, Monopoly. Currently, Michael is the VP, Technical Operations for Etsy. This panel will focus on how companies big and small (check) handle the remote workers in Ops roles. Doug Hughes graduated from Penn State University with a BE in Computer Engineering in 1991. He has worked for GE Aerospace at the network operations center, worked six years at Auburn University College of Engineering managing the infrastructure for the college of engineering, and spent six years at Global Crossing supporting the global IP infrastructure. Currently he works at D. E. Shaw Research, LLC where he leads a multi-national team of seven System Administrators covering all aspects of data, networking, and clustering infrastructure. This panel will focus on how companies big and small (check) handle the remote workers in Ops roles. Doug Hughes graduated from Penn State University with a BE in Computer Engineering in 1991. He has worked for GE Aerospace at the network operations center, worked six years at Auburn University College of Engineering managing the infrastructure for the college of engineering, and spent six years at Global Crossing supporting the global IP infrastructure. Currently he works at D. E. Shaw Research, LLC where he leads a multi-national team of seven System Administrators covering all aspects of data, networking, and clustering infrastructure. Mark Imbriaco has been in the Internet industry for over 20 years, working in roles running the gamut of software development and operations. He's worked in infrastructure for companies like America Online, LivingSocial, 37signals, Heroku, and GitHub. Currently, he serves as the VP of Technical Operations at DigitalOcean managing operations for their fast growing IaaS cloud. Bill Lincoln is a Service Delivery Manager & Business Advocate at Pythian, a worldwide organization providing Managed Services and Project Consulting to companies whose data availability, reliability, and integrity are critical to their business. Pythian targets the top 5% of talent in the world, as a result 2/3 of our workforce works remote/from home. H. Wade Minter is the Chief Technology Officer at TeamSnap, a company that makes life easier for people who participate in youth and adult recreational sports. He is also the ring announcer for a professional wrestling federation. The two roles may or may not be related.

Michael Rembetsy has worked in technical operations for more than 10 years in the web, healthcare, online media and financial industries. He started out in the help desk area, but moved to operations shortly after starting, and has been building and running data center and operations teams ever since. In previous jobs he worked for NBC Universal, iVillage and McDonalds online game, Monopoly. Currently, Michael is the VP, Technical Operations for Etsy. Available Media

T-Talks 1c Hardware Design for Cloud Scale Datacenters Invited Talk Kushagra Vaid, Microsoft Kushagra Vaid is the General Manager for Server Engineering in Microsoft’s Cloud & Enterprise division. He is responsible for driving hardware R&D, engineering designs, deployments and support for Microsoft’s cloud scale services (such as Bing, Azure, Office 365, and others) across a global datacenter footprint. Kushagra has published several papers in international research conferences, and is also the holder of over 25 patents in the field of computer architecture and datacenter design. He is a featured speaker in industry conferences on cloud services, hardware engineering and datacenter architecture. Cloud computing is growing at an exponential pace with ever more applications being hosted in mega-scale public clouds such as Microsoft Azure. Designing and operating such large infrastructures requires not only significant investments in datacenters, servers, networking and operating systems, but also new paradigms for seamlessly integrating technologies and supply chains to drive higher efficiency and lower overall TCO. In this talk, we will present learnings from Microsoft’s vast experience in operating large scale cloud services on an installed base of 1M+ servers and how those learnings translate into architecture and operational principles for designing hardware infrastructure. Cloud computing is growing at an exponential pace with ever more applications being hosted in mega-scale public clouds such as Microsoft Azure. Designing and operating such large infrastructures requires not only significant investments in datacenters, servers, networking and operating systems, but also new paradigms for seamlessly integrating technologies and supply chains to drive higher efficiency and lower overall TCO. In this talk, we will present learnings from Microsoft’s vast experience in operating large scale cloud services on an installed base of 1M+ servers and how those learnings translate into architecture and operational principles for designing hardware infrastructure. Available Media A New Age in Alerting with Bosun: The First Alerting IDE Invited Talk Kyle Brandt, Stack Exchange, Inc. Kyle Brandt is the co-author of the Bosun monitoring system and the Director of Site Reliability at Stack Exchange (the company behind Stack Overflow and Server Fault). He will talk to you about monitoring until he starts to lose his voice. He also enjoys spending time with his wife and pets (2 cats and a dog), video games, weight lifting, and road trips on his Harley. At conferences we are told to "Be an Engineer!". Being an engineer with alerts means creating accurate and informative alerts so we can own and direct attention. The tools available to us fall short of empowering us to do this. That is why we created Bosun, a free and open source alerting IDE. Bosun has an expression language that decouples alerts from the metrics collected. It allows you to use methods including statistics, forecasts, boolean operations, and anomaly detection to define accurate alerts. You can then create rich and informative notifications. It also lets you experiment with how alerts would have behaved over history. Alerting is now an engineering discipline - come join me in exploring the implications of these new possibilities. At conferences we are told to "Be an Engineer!". Being an engineer with alerts means creating accurate and informative alerts so we can own and direct attention. The tools available to us fall short of empowering us to do this. That is why we created Bosun, a free and open source alerting IDE. Bosun has an expression language that decouples alerts from the metrics collected. It allows you to use methods including statistics, forecasts, boolean operations, and anomaly detection to define accurate alerts. You can then create rich and informative notifications. It also lets you experiment with how alerts would have behaved over history. Alerting is now an engineering discipline - come join me in exploring the implications of these new possibilities. Available Media

T-Mini Tutorials 1b Building PowerShell Commands Mini Tutorial Steven Murawski, Chef Steven is a Technical Community Manager for Chef and a Microsoft MVP in PowerShell. Steven is a co-host of the Ops All The Things podcast.

T-Mini Tutorials 2b Networking in the Cloud Age Mini Tutorial David Nalley, Apache CloudStack David Nalley is a recovering systems administrator of 10 years. He's currently employed by Citrix Systems in the Open Source Business Office. David is the Vice President, Infrastructure at the Apache Software Foundation, and a Project Management Committee Member for Apache CloudStack and Apache jclouds. David is a frequent author for development, sysadmin, and Linux magazines and speaks at numerous IT conferences.

LISA Lab Session 4 LISA Lab Office Hours The LISA Lab will offer continued training from speakers and instructors, as well as give attendees the chance to investigate and test new technologies, watch demos, participate in live experiments, and mentor others. Attending Office Hours or not—the Lab is open for all, so stop by to check it out! State of Monitoring

Caskey Dickson, Google, Inc. Too Much Data

Hal Stern, Merck & Co