BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS (BOFS)

Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.

Vendor BoFs
Want to demonstrate a new product or discuss your company's latest technologies with USENIX Annual Tech attendees? Host a Vendor BoF! These sponsored one-hour sessions give companies a chance to talk about products and proprietary technology—and they include promotional benefits. Email sponsorship@usenix.org if you're interested in sponsoring a Vendor BoF. Click here for more information about sponsorship opportunities.

Scheduling a BoF
To schedule a BoF, simply write the BoF title as well as your name and affiliation on one of the BoF Boards located in the registration area. If you have a description of a BoF you'd like posted on this Web page, please schedule your BoF on the BoF board, then send its title, the organizer's name and affiliation, and the date, time, and location of the BoF to bofs@usenix.org with "USENIX '08 BoF" in the subject line.

BoF Schedule (Current as of June 25, 2008, 10:30 a.m. EDT)
For the most current schedule, please see the BoF Boards in the registration area.

BoF Descriptions

Challenges in Large-Scale Application Hosting and Virtualization
Organizer: Evangelos Kotsovinos, Morgan Stanley
Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Independence East

Global-scale enterprise application hosting presents a number of challenges related to manageability, scalability, security, and ease of deployment.

Can virtualization be part of the solution, and if so how and to what extent? Will cloud computing provide answers to some of these challenges?

Google Vendor BoF
Thursday, June 26, 2008, 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Independence West

Solaris BoF
Organizer: Peter Baer Galvin, Corporate Technologies
Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Republic B

Come hang out with other Solaris-interested folks, ask questions, answer questions and find out what's going on in the world of Solaris.

USENIX Annual Meeting
Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m., Constitution B

Grab a beer and meet the USENIX Association Board of Directors and staff. Get an update on USENIX activities and events. Tell us how we're doing and give us feedback on the conference.

USENIX Student BoF
Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Constitution B

Attention Students: Don't miss the Student BoF.

We're looking for a little student input here at the USENIX office. Join us for beer and a lively discussion about current USENIX student offerings. Tell us what is working, what can be improved, and how we can help you.

VMWare Vendor BoF
Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Independence West

Engineers from VMware's Cambridge (MA) office will give a 10-minute overview of the company and its products. Next, we will present some exciting VMware technology including Storage VMotion and Distributed Power Management. We'll conclude with some thoughts on interesting research areas for the entire system virtualization community, and we'll leave the remainder of the session for informal discussion and questions.