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20050323 Wednesday March 23, 2005

 Just back from SunLive 05!

...Which is the UK's main 'event' of the year from Sun's perspective. Close to a 1000 industry leaders present at a favourite old London venue... The Brewery.

Kicked off by our new leader Trudy Norris-Grey and the CEO of Voca, the event got underway. There were a number of interesting sessions, I was doing my part in the Breakouts, with a 40 min presentation on Identity Management. It was good to see that an Identity subject was being covered in each breakout period, so people could move around and catch the other areas that interested them too.

Two notable presos caught my interest. First was the second half of the 'Compliance' presentation by Steve Mason, Barrister. Very interesting to see how litigation applies to IT. Did you know, for example, that typing your name at the bottom of an email is effectively the same as placing your signature at the bottom of a piece of paper? That's true that is! Also, system administrators must be able to prove that *ALL* their actions are auditing on a system they are managing, otherwise all evidence on that system becomes worthless. Lots of food for thought here, and a good speaker.

The other preso was by a chap from Nottingham University on how they have made a grid system out of a whole bunch of our Opteron machines and can now provide huge teraflop processing power to their facilities. A bonus for me was that he was an Astronomer and was working on the 'Gaseous Universe' problem, simulating tens of billions of particles. Fascinating.

All in all a good day, we're all pretty tired out! Thanks to all the techies and sales guys manning the stands downstairs, and of course to all our customers!

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