NC System Administrators Meeting - 09/09/96

["Amy K. Kreiling" <kreiling@cs.unc.edu>]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators & Managers 
organization (NC*SA) will be Monday, September 9, 1996, at 6pm.  Details 
about the meeting, our technical program and directions to our meeting 
location are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!!


                             North Carolina 
                  System Administration Interest Group

	        Shared File Service for UNIX and Windows

                        Monday, September 9, 1996 
			    SAS Institute Inc.
			        Cary, NC

                          6 PM - General Session



Our program for the evening:

Shared File Service for UNIX and Windows

Network Appliance builds filers, which are special purpose network
file servers that contain no general purpose operating system.
Because they are designed as special purpose appliances, NetApp
file servers are faster, simpler, and more reliable than file
servers based on general purpose operating systems such as UNIX or
Windows.

This embedded software design allows NetApp filers to support
native implementations of both NFS and CIFS.  CIFS is the standard
Microsoft file service protocol for Windows and NT, also known as
SMB.  This approach avoids the problems of an emulation layer
running on top of UNIX or Windows, such as PC-NFS or Samba.

Shared data access is becoming increasingly important as network
managers try to unify their networking strategy for UNIX and
Windows.

The talk will address the philosophy of the appliance approach, the
use of NetApp filers in UNIX-only networks, and the issue of
supporting both UNIX and Windows clients.


Our Speaker for the evening:
 
David Hitz
Co-Founder, Director of System Architecture

Prior to founding Network Appliance, Dave Hitz worked as a systems
programmer at Auspex and, before that, in a similar position with the
System V kernel group at MIPS Computer. Hitz studied at George
Washington University, Swarthmore College, and Deep Springs College
and received his B.S.E. in computer science from Princeton University.


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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic of
the evening.  We will be providing food and drink for the evening. 
If you have any questions, please contact:

  Amy K. Kreiling          
  SAS Institute Inc. 
  SAS Campus Drive 
  Cary, NC  27513 
  (919) 677-8000 
  After 5 Sept:  kreiling@unx.sas.com
  Before 5 Sept: kreiling@cs.unc.edu

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Have you visited the NC*SA web site, yet?  Visit us at:
	
	http://www.netit.com/ncsa/

Your feedback is appreciated!

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November is our annual NC*SA membership meeting.  Three of the
seven positions on the NC*SA steering committee will be up for
re-election.  If you are interested in volunteering your time
or would like to find out more about the inner workings of NC*SA, 
please contact one of tehe steering committee members or send
e-mail to "ncsa-steer@cs.unc.edu".

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Directions to the SAS Institute:

        Take I40 to exit 287 in Cary (Harrison Ave.) That's one exit east
of the Raleigh airport exit.

        Exit at Harrison Ave and turn towards Cary--That's a Right if you
are coming from Research Triangle Park direction and a Left if you are
coming from Raleigh.

        Go the the first light (about 50 yards past the exit) and turn
Left onto SAS Campus Campus drive. The meeting will be held in Bldg F.
which is the 2nd building on the right. It will be labeled 'Cafe and Training'
Go in the Right entrance to the building facing the building from SAS Campus
Drive. If the entrance gate is closed or if you need further directions,
just stop at the guard house near the entrance and they will guide you.