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SAGE White Papers

We all know that staying ahead of the game is always a challenge. New technologies mean spending hours researching what they do and how best to use them. Imagine someone coming up to you and saying, "OK, here are the top 5 things you have to know to get started with topic x. Here are the acronyms you'll encounter, here are the two basic concepts, and here are some good Web sites and books you'll want to look at to get deeper into this topic."

SAGE White Papers are designed to give you that jumpstart. This series is intended to change frequently, updating old topics and presenting new ones. We welcome papers from anyone in the sysadmin community: just send email with a short bio and your draft or suggested topic to sagepapers@sage.org.

For more information, see our guidelines.

PAPERS:  SAGE-Only | LISA '07 | LISA '06 | LISA '05 | 

SAGE-only Papers

NEW! Papers Presented at LISA '07

Papers Presented at LISA '06

Papers Presented at LISA '05

  • AFS
    Esther Filderman, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  • Certificates
    Greg Rose, VP of Product Security, QUALCOMM Inc., and Ir. Ivana Belgers
  • Cfengine
    Edward Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Configuration Management
    Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh
  • DNS
    William LeFebvre, Independent Consultant
  • Identity Management
    Jon Finke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Mac OS X
    Leon Towns-von Stauber, Occam's Razor
  • Network Security Tools
    Rik Farrow, Security Consultant
  • NFSv4
    Mike Eisler, Network Appliance, Inc.
  • Spam Fighting
    John "Rowan" Littell, Earlham College
  • VoIP
    Robert Sparks, Vice President, Research and Development, Estacado Systems