by I’ve been asked by Hans to blog my experiences at Phoenix SysAdmin Days, so here’s the first installment. Watch for more as the days go on.
I got in last night to warm, sunny Phoenix, a very welcome change from cold, windy Nebraska. Had a few “hydraulic sandwiches” with the other folks from #lopsa — my first chance to meet many of them.
This morning, I took a class on compliance for SAs — nasty things like HIPAA, FERPA, SOX, GLBA, and an alphabet soup of other acronyms. It was pretty depressing, since I know we’re no where near complying with most of those, but the presenter gave us some good tools (and great arguments) to bring back and sell to management.
I’ve been very impressed with how well the LOPSA and LOPSA-Phoenix crews have pulled this off; everything has gone very smoothly. There are lots of Arizonans here, which gives SAD a nice local feel, even if a bunch of us are foreign invaders.
I don’t have much else to report at this point, but the remainder of the day holds three hours of virtualization training, invited talks, BoFs, and free dinner grace a Google, so this evening’s post should be bigger.