It's LISA time again. Join us in San Diego, CA, November 9–14, 2008. Why LISA? It's created just for you! LISA is designed for and by leading system administrators. Where else can you find 1,000 peers gathered together talking about the problems you face every day?

But that's just the beginning . . . check out 5 more reasons why LISA provides the most in-depth, practical system administration information available.

1. Top-Notch Training

Highly respected experts provide you with new information and skills you can take back to work to tomorrow. This year's program includes:

• Mark Burgess on Integrating Cfengine into Organizational Service Management
  
• Tom Christiansen on Advanced Perl

• Richard McDougall on VMware ESX Performance and Tuning
• James Mauro on Solaris 10 Performance, Observability, and Debugging

2. Invited Talks

Industry luminaries discuss timely and important topics such as:

• Keynote Address: "Implementing Intellipedia Within a 'Need to Know' Culture," by Sean Dennehy, Chief of Intellipedia Development, Directorate of Intelligence, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
• Plenary Session: "Reconceptualizing Security," by Bruce Schneier, Chief Security Technology Officer, BT
• Plenary Session: "The State of Electronic Voting, 2008," by David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley
• "Inside DreamWorks Animation Studios: A Look at Past, Present, and Future Challenges," by Sean Kamath and Mike Cutler, PDI/DreamWorks
• And more . . .

3. You'll See It Here First

Cutting-edge practices and new or developing work are presented in the Refereed Papers Track, the Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs), and the Poster Session.

4. Get Answers to Your Toughest Questions in the Guru Is In Sessions

Topics include:

• Managing Large (to Massive) Storage Systems by Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer Services
• VMware by Richard McDougall and John Y. Arrasjid, VMware
• Time Management by Tom Limoncelli, Google NYC
• And more . . .

Check out the full technical program.

5. Mingle with Industry Leaders

The "hallway track," evening events, and the Vendor Exhibition offer additional opportunities to network with peers to gain that all-important insider IT knowledge. Take a look at the entire list of activities.

Finally, LISA '08 will also offer live streaming of the invited talks. Please check back soon for details.

Register online by October 17 and save up to $300!

See you in San Diego!