New at LISA '05: The Hit the Ground Running Track We all know that staying ahead of the game in this dynamic industry is always a challenge. New technologies mean spending hours researching what they do and how best to use them. This year, technical sessions attendees have the opportunity to get a head start on key technologies with 15-minute talks in the new Hit the Ground Running Track. Imagine someone coming up to you and saying, "OK, here are the top 5 things you have to know to get started with topic x. Here are the acronyms you'll encounter, here are the two basic concepts, and here are some good Web sites and books you'll want to look at to get deeper into this topic." You'll get that and more from this new track. With three different sessions covering multiple topics, the Hit the Ground Running Track provides ample opportunities to get a jump start on the must-know topics. Presentation slides in PDF are now available for selected topics: Wednesday, December 7, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. AFS Esther Filderman, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Backups W. Curtis Preston, GlassHouse Technologies Cfengine Edward Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory Storage Networking Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer VoIP Robert Sparks, Vice President, Research and Development, Estacado Thursday, December 8, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Configuration Management Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh DNS Bill LeFebvre, Independent Consultant Dtrace Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems Identity Management Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spam Fighting Rowan Littell, Earlham College Friday, December 9, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Certificates Greg Rose, VP of Product Security, QUALCOMM Inc. Network Security Tools Rik Farrow, Security Consultant NFSv4 Michael Eisler, NetApp Mac OS X Leon Towns-von Stauber, Occam's Razor Time Management Tom Limoncelli, Cibernet Corp. Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to get a quick heads-up on the latest technologies heading your way.