The format will be moderated discussion. Stephen M. DiPietro, Compaq Computer Corporation Computing facilities containing a petabyte of storage are currently being planned and constructed. Managing these emerging facilities will present unprecedented challenges to system administrators. In this workshop we will explore the system management issues presented by these very large storage installations. This one-day workshop will focus on the most difficult problems facing system administrators today.
Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a position paper.
Papers should contain a statement of what the author thinks is the most difficult or important issue facing system administrators today. This workshop is for system administrators with many geographically dispersed datacenters of varying sizes. The format will be moderated group discussion. This workshop for AFS administrators will cover current work being done at AFS sites, issues in AFS administration, and where the future of AFS is headed. There is no metric for comparing two organizations, which makes it very difficult to plan for and assess improvements in an IT organization.