Engage, Influence and Succeed in the COTS Ecosystem

SA Forum Presents: A high-availability seminar

May 16, 2008, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Preceding ISAS 2008

• Gain insight into how SA Forum drives the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ecosystem
• Learn how you can benefit from SA Forum specifications
• Understand how to engage with SA Forum members, influence the ever-changing industry and take your company to new success

Registration is free of charge.

Hear from:

• Asif Naseem, SA Forum President and GoAhead Software
• Dave Penkler, HP Fellow and Architecture Working Group Leader
• Ulrich Kleber, Technical Chairman and Nokia Siemens Networks
• Jim Lawrence, Member Relations Officer and Enea
• And other leading technical members from the SA Forum

The seminar will be split into two sessions:

SA Forum Overview

9-12 p.m.

• Motivation, mission, objectives
• Standards ecosystem
• Output and roadmap
• Getting engaged
• Architecture overview
• Specification overview
• Planning your engagement

Technical Training

1-4 p.m.

• AIS Programming Model and Conventions
• Availability Management Framework: AMF
• Checkpointing: CKPT
• Cluster Management: CLM
• Messaging: MSG
• Event Management: EVT
  

For more information or to register for either session, contact: admin@saforum.org

The Service Availability Forum™ is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to develop and publish high availability and management software interface specifications. For more information about the SA Forum, visit: http://www.saforum.org

Venue information:

The University of Tokyo

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

Komaba Convention Hall

Building An-2F

4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku,

Tokyo 153-8904 Japan

Directions to the venue:

http://www.rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/isas2008/venue_2.html