NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

The two days ‘National Workshop on System Administration' was inaugurated at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur on 21 st October, 2005. The workshop was organized by Computer Center to discuss the innovative advanced methods and upcoming technologies of System and Network Administration.

Inaugurating the workshop Director IIT Kanpur, Shri Sanjay Govind Dhande stressed upon the power of System Administration, Network Domains and its importance, also explained about the challenges of efficient utilization of resources.

On this occasion, Key Note Address has given by Mr. Faizal Paul, Country Manager, HP India .

Head of Computer Center (IIT Kanpur) Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi welcomed everybody and thanked all the sponsors, HP, SUN, WIPRO, VSNL, DLINK and HCL for sponsoring and supporting the workshop.

Network Manager (IIT Kanpur) Mr. Navpreet Singh gave the details of participants and presentations.

Speakers have come from HP, Sun, Microsoft, Cisco, VSNL, Adobe, Barracuda Networks, Red Hat, AMD, EMC, HCL and NOD 32.

Participants of the workshop are primarily faculty, system administrators and senior students from various engineering colleges and research organizations across the country.

In this two day event, participants will get an opportunity to learn on topics such as Data Center Management, Storage and Backup Solutions, High Performance Computing, Campus Network, Wireless Networks, Email Solutions, Security and Threat Management, Use of Acrobat and Adobe PDF, Use of Windows and Linux Platform, Managing Linux based infrastructure and Outsourcing of Data Center Services.