OpenSAF Conference 2011: Key Event for the High-Availability (HA) Middleware Community

By Jonathan Fournier, OpenSAF Technical Leadership Council Co-Chair

The OpenSAF Foundation is kicking planning into high gear for the 2011 OpenSAF Conference, a technical event for developers, users, engineering managers, and press involved in the open source HA middleware community. OpenSAF is an organization established by leading communications and computing companies, including Ericsson, GoAhead Software, HP, and Wind River. The project strives to encourage development of HA middleware compliant with the Service Availability Forum specifications.

This will be the conference’s fourth year, and OpenSAF hopes to build on momentum and success from its 2008, 2009, and 2010 events. This year’s conference will be held May 17-18, 2011, in Cambridge, MA at MIT. It will feature many new sessions and discussions led by well-known technologists, experts, and architects in the HA ecosystem.

The event will benefit attendees by helping them to understand and incorporate the industry’s fastest growing service availability technology, which is becoming crucial to the success of many businesses. Participants will be able to exchange ideas, learn about current implementations of HA middleware, and share experiences and information with community experts. They will also learn how to be part of the OpenSAF project.  

Additionally, the event will educate developers on the OpenSAF project architecture and will provide information on best practices for using and augmenting the code base. The event will also benefit developers and experts who want to gain practical exposure to the OpenSAF software and the development of OpenSAF-based highly available applications. Featured sessions for the 2011 conference include:

• OpenSAF technical overview and status update
• Case study on migrating from legacy applications to OpenSAF
• Presentation on how OpenSAF can complement other technologies such as virtualization
• Series of use case examples modeling real applications

Ericsson, GoAhead Software, Hewlett-Packard, and Wind River Systems will be among the presenting companies. For more information on the 2011 OpenSAF Conference and to register, please visit the OpenSAF website at www.opensaf.org

Jonathan Fournier is Co-Chair of the OpenSAF Technical Leadership Council and an active maintainer of the project. He is also a Member of Technical Staff at Wind River. You can reach him via Mary Slonske at nereus@saforum.org.