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TRAINING PROGRAM

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To meet your needs, the training program at USENIX '09 provides in-depth, immediately useful training in the latest techniques, effective tools, and best strategies. The program offers 3 days of tutorials, with over 15 full- and half-day sessions to choose from. This year, the training program provides unlimited opportunities to gain insight into a variety of different must-know topics, including:

Sysadmin Security Virtualization Coding
Open Source Networking Cloud Computing

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USENIX tutorials survey the topic, then dive into the specifics of what to do and how to do it. Instructors are well-known experts in their fields, selected for their ability to teach complex subjects. Attend tutorials at USENIX '09 and take valuable skills back to your company or organization. New topics are woven in with old favorites to create the most comprehensive training program to date.

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Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

USENIX provides Continuing Education Units for a small additional administrative fee. The CEU is a nationally recognized standard unit of measure for continuing education and training and is used by thousands of organizations.
    Each full-day tutorial qualifies for 0.6 CEUs. You can request CEU credit by completing the CEU section on the registration form. USENIX provides a certificate for each attendee taking a tutorial for CEU credit and maintains transcripts for all CEU students. CEUs are not the same as college credits. Consult your employer or school to determine their applicability.

Sunday, June 14, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
S2
Royal Palm Salon 1/2

NEW! ZFS: A File System for Modern Hardware

Richard Elling

Open Source
S3
Royal Palm Salon 3

NEW! Practical Problem Solving with Hadoop & Pig

Milind Bhandarkar

Cloud
S5
Royal Palm Salon 4

NEW! The Python Programming Language

David Beazley

Coding
S6
Royal Palm Salon 5

NEW! Implementing Security the Right Way

Abe Singer

Security
Monday, June 15, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
M1
Royal Palm Salon 1

System and Network Performance Tuning

Marc Staveley

Sysadmin Networking
M2
Royal Palm Salon 2

Introduction to the Open Source Xen Hypervisor

Zach Shepherd and Wenjin Hu

Virtual
M3
Royal Palm Salon 3

NEW! Care and Feeding of Hadoop Clusters

Marco Nicosia

Cloud
M4
Royal Palm Salon 4

Administering Linux in Production Environments

Theodore Ts'o

Sysadmin Open Source
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
M5
Royal Palm Salon 5

NEW! Introduction to Python Concurrency

David Beazley

Coding
M6
Royal Palm Salon 6

Security Without Firewalls

Abe Singer

Security Networking
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
M7
Royal Palm Salon 5

NEW! Python Generator Hacking

David Beazley

Coding
M8
Royal Palm Salon 6

Building a Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis for Security

Abe Singer

Security Networking
Tuesday, June 16, 2009    
 Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
T2
Royal Palm Salon 1

Virtualization with VMware ESX 3i for UNIX Administrators: The Fundamentals

Dan Anderson

Virtual
T3
Royal Palm Salon 2

NEW! Replacing Real Servers with Virtual Machines Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) (Hands-on; laptop with wireless access required)

David J. Malan

Virtual Cloud
T4
Royal Palm Salon 3

Inside the Linux 2.6 Kernel

Theodore Ts'o

Open Source
T6
Royal Palm Salon 4

Performance Tools, Metrics, and Tuning for Solaris/Linux

Adrian Cockcroft

Open Source
 Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    
T7
Royal Palm Salon 5

UPDATED FOR 2009! Disk-to-Disk Backup and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks

Jacob Farmer

Sysadmin Networking
 Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    
T8
Royal Palm Salon 5

UPDATED FOR 2009! Next-Generation Storage Networking

Jacob Farmer

Sysadmin Networking
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