Bitcoin spectaculary came to mainstream prominence a few months ago when a US senator raised (specious) concerns about it being used to anonymously procure drugs over the internet.
Come along for a lively discussion about fiat money, how it is created, central banking, quantitive easing, and what bitcoin can do about it all.
From a computing perspective, Alan will discuss the public key cryptography behind bitcoin, demonstrate the bitcoin desktop client and then go on to demonstrate the process of actually generating bitcoins - mining! This will be an in-depth discussion around modern GPU's, setting them up, and presenting a couple of the most popular mining software solutions.
If you are thinking about mining (or are a gamer), then you may also be interested in a discussion around the different chipsets in popular NVidia and ATI/AMD offerings and Alan's own mining rig.
Bio
Alan Milligan has spent many years doing trading systems for investment banks globally and has a keen interest in finance and monetary policy. Having been hacking his own flavour of Linux for years, he's taken an interest in bitcoin to delve into GPU-computing.
]]>While there is a veritable storm of software addressing the project management space, there are few reasonably priced offerings for programme management.
PMOboss is an enterprise class Programme Management Office Portal application, the result of collaboration between a niche programme management consultancy and an innovative open source enterprise application development company.
We are very interested in discussing opportunities to partner with project and programme consulting practices to enter the Australian marketplace. Come along and see an end-to-end demonstration of best-practice programme management.
Speaker Bio
Alan Milligan is the convenor of the Open Source SIG, and Enterprise Architect at Last Bastion Networks where he has recently been integrating cloud capability within their flagship BastionLinux operating system. Alan has twenty years of application and infrastructure development with leading financial institutions and telecommunication companies.
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We will cover PKI, direct management of your cloud with popular Ruby and Python application languages, and creating and deploying custom kernel/images. Finally, we will demonstrate automated large-scale configuration with Chef, and systems and capacity management with Zenoss.
Bio
Alan Milligan is the Enterprise Architect at Last Bastion Networks where he has recently been integrating cloud features within the flagship BastionLinux operating system.
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A look at Plone, a powerful enterprise content management system used to create intranets and public sites everywhere from cia.gov to 131500.com.au.
We'll look into why it's unique architecture makes it one of the most secure CMS systems available as well as makes for a simple UX.
This talk will cover creating a simple Plone site and how a vendor neutral open source project like Plone delivers quality software.
Dylan Jay is Technical Director at PretaWeb since 2004 and is responsible for managing the development and support of Plone sites within key PretaWeb partners such as the NSW Government, Victorian Government and CSIRO.
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Michael is a 20-year veteran of the IT market. With a career starting in New Zealand as a "Junior Salesperson" with ERP vendor, SSA, various management roles in SSA brought him to Australia then to a Regional Management role for Aspect Communications, a leading supplier of contact centre solutions. Michael recently joined Jaspersoft charged with delivering Business Intelligence to ANZ knowledge workers with the most widely used Business Intelligence software in the world.
Pentaho is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of global organisations deploy Pentaho software to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive BI suite that includes capabilities for data integration/ETL,modelling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards.
The Pentaho BI suite supports the company's Agile BI initiative, which enables organisations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors.
Zachary Zeus is the CEO of BizCubed Pty Ltd and Head of Distribution for Pentaho Australia/NZ. Zach has led Business Intelligence solutions for more than 10 years, delivering consulting,process design and business intelligence projects to small and large organisations across a range of industries from local to federal government,manufacturing to financial services, and from individual departments to large multi-billion dollar organisaitons.
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Jeff Watts, Solutions Architect at Red Hat is going to showcase the RHEV hypervisor and systems management suite. The presentation will cover the following:
where he focused on the Data Centre Consulting and Infrastructure Consulting domains. During his time at BearingPoint, he consulted to clients in data centre strategies, emerging technologies and infrastructure solutions. Jeff worked with major enterprises and government organisations to improve IT sustainability and transform IT infrastructure by the introduction and adaption of emerging technologies and processes to align with the customers business objectives and the corporate social responsibilities.
Prior to BearingPoint, Jeff was a Senior Technical Consultant with Intel
. Jeff was the practice lead in the Data Centre of the Future and Technology Migration domains. Jeff consulted on Data Centre and IT strategies as well as the integrating new and emerging IT capabilities/technologies into a customers environment. Jeff delivered solutions designed to promote and drive technology transitions and overall adoption of Intel architecture through engagements that often involved “unproven” technologies and included verification and optimisation strategies to support the solution.
Prior to Intel, Jeff was a Senior Technical Consultant with Qantas. Jeff's role was to provide a technical architect function for the Open Systems Software department. This department was comprised of UNIX, Linux and Windows systems administrators. Though the primary function of Jeff's role was to size and specify all new enterprise (non-Internet related) UNIX servers for the company; ranging from the high-end enterprise models to the desktop, Jeff also provided expert assistance for the UNIX systems administrators for Solaris and Linux. He provided analysis for performance and capacity problems and recommended solutions. Most importantly, Jeff advised Qantas IT and Qantas business management on UNIX and Linux infrastructure to keep them current with technology and trends.]]>
Martin has been part of the
IT industry for the past 17 years in
various technical, sales and
management roles, leading initiatives in Europe,
North America and
Australia. His current position with Pythian is one of
relationship
building, business development and sales; growing a successful arm
of
a world class services company.
Alan Milligan is uniquely placed to present Zenoss because the open source architecture upon which it's based, Zope, has been the core of Last Bastion offerings for a decade. Alan will be presenting this architecture and explaining Last Bastion Network's Zenoss deployment infrastructure, the Zenoss Enterprise value proposition, and how you can migrate from expensive proprietry systems without risking the server farm.
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Neil Marquardt has been working in IT since 1991. He joined Novell in 1999 as a Systems Engineer with an Internet focus. Neil has held several positions while at Novell ranging from APAC Technical Strategist, and APAC Training and Enablement Manager to his current position of Technology Specialist Data Centre concentrating on SUSE Linux, Platespin Workload Management and Business Service Management. Prior to Novell he worked as a Field Engineer at several IT Resellers with responsibility to design, build and maintain customer environments.
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Marc has over 20 years experience in high end enterprise computing.
Having
worked in Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific as a Technical
Architect, Marc has deployed large Enterprise systems for companies
such as Virgin Mobile, Bank Paribas, Citibank, Irish Revenue, Etisalat,
DHS, Telstra and Qantas.
He is passionate about ITIL/ITSM
service delivery & Service Orientated Architecture. Marc joined
Ingres from HP in 2006 as a Lead Technical Architect and was promoted
to Director of Services in 2007.