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                                     UUASC
                 Unix Users Association of Southern California
                                  May Meeting

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		               High Availability
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                             Monday, May 10, 7-9 pm
                                     I B M
                     600 Anton Bl, second floor, Costa Mesa
                  (NW corner of Anton and Avenue of the Arts)

As Unix servers become larger and more robust, they support more and more
business-critical applications within a business establishment. When
competition in today's business environment means keeping business-critical
Unix applications available to customers and employees twenty-four hours a
day, seven days a week, three hundred sixty-five days a year ... downtime
is not an option. Every second counts ... a system failure, no matter how
small, can interrupt transactions and halt workflow. Your business suffers,
your customers suffer, and your employees suffer.

High-availability describes a number of techniques which can be used to
reduce downtime and keep systems running, and IBM has been a leader in this
area for years. At the UUASC May meeting, member Pokil Wong, an IBM system
architect, will describe the history of Unix high availability, some end-
to-end high availability considerations, and current Unix high availability
products.

Pokil has an educational background in pharmaceutical chemistry and has
been with IBM for 15 years. Product background within IBM includes data
acquisition interfaces, mainframes running VM, and IBM Unix on S/370, PS/2,
RT, and RS/6000. Industry background includes healthcare, publishing, and
local government.

The UUASC is for all persons using Unix either personally or professionally,
or interested in learning more about Unix. We recognize all varieties of
Unix, including (without prejudice) SCO, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, and BSD.
This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your
skills and knowledge. Generally, meetings include a technical presentation
on a hardware or software topic of current interest to the Unix community
and a round-table discussion of current topics of interest to the group.
We are always looking for interesting presentations and your suggestions
are most welcome.

Please join us this month and bring along your friends or co-workers. Also,
please forward this announcement to others who may be interested and feel
free to post it on BBSs, both electronic and physical. If you receive more
than one announcement by email, please let us know so we can keep our lists
current. Thanks for listening.

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        --------+----------+---Sunflower #     Enter from courtyard on
         South  |          |             #     west side of building.
         Coast  |      IBM |             #     Ask guard to take elevator
         Plaza  +----------+---Anton     #     to second floor. Free
                |          | parking     #     parking diagonally across
                |                        #     intersection. **
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                |        Av of           #
             Bristol      Arts          55

   ** PARKING NOTE: Parking is only free if you leave after the lot
   closes for the evening. There are also other nearby lots which may
   have different closing times. Let us know your experience.

   ** BUILDING NOTE: Arrival after 7 pm may require waiting for the
   guard to admit you to the building. Push button and wait.

Check out the UUASC Web site at http://www.UUASC.org/. Many thanks to
Quik Internet (http://www.quik.com/) for sponsoring our site.
-- 
Dave Close, Compata, Costa Mesa CA  "Politics is the business of getting
dave@compata.com, +1 714 434 7359    power and privilege without
dhclose@alumni.caltech.edu           possessing merit." - P. J. O'Rourke