* LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit is this week
If you are in the New York area this week, or have the means to get there on short-notice, you’ll want to swing down to the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit. The event runs from Feb. 14-15, at the New York Marriott Marquis.
While LinuxWorld hosted a full-blown event in Boston last winter, the event this year replaces the traditional East coast, winter Linux world with a smaller, more enterprise-focused show. The show includes education tracks on specific technologies with an enterprise slant – security, virtualization, network management, and application best practices, among them. The conference also focuses on the use of Linux in specific vertical industries, such as financial services, retail, pharmaceutical, healthcare, and federal/state/local governments. (IT architects from Nationwide Insurance and the Department of Defense will be among those giving case-study overviews and best-practices of their respective Linux deployments.)
Keynote speakers include Bruce Schneier, the outspoken security expert, founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security. His talk – 9 a.m. on Feb. 14 – will focus on the “Economics of Information Security.” Debra Anderson, CIO of Novell, will talk about Novell eating its own Linux dog food at 9 a.m. on Feb. 15. On Feb. 14 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., an “Ask the Experts” session will be open, where show attendees can run their open source problems, technology deployment plans, and other questions by a group of experts from LinuxWorld.com, open source developers, and IT and security technologists.
Around 50 exhibiting companies will also be part of the event, including AMD, Egenera, EMC, IBM, Dell, Google, Ubuntu, XenSource among them.
