Mark Burgess, originator of Cfengine and Professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College, will attend the Configuration Management Summit in Boston on 24th-25th June. Cfengine was the original Free and Open Source configuration management software, and is the undisputable leader in Open Source data center automation, running on millions of computers world-wide, representing all major operating systems, and many legacy systems.
Mark Burgess gives a presentation on the new version of Cfengine, Cfengine 3. He outlines the new possibilities offered by this version and compares fundamental concepts with other existing solutions. This presentation was kindly hosted by Octo Technology.
Regular training sessions are now available directly from Cfengine in Florida.
In addition to the usual annual presence at the USENIX LISA show, Cfengine exhibited for the first time at the USENIX LISA 2009 Vendor Exhibition last week. Shortly after the press release of the improved Cfengine Nova Knowledge Map, more than a hundred attendees from a wide variety of companies visited the stand and attended the Cfengine 3 training session and left their cards. Mugs, pens and T-shirts were handed out with the Cfengine logo, and the second in a series of collectable T-shirts was also released for the conference. The Cfengine training was amongst the best attended at the conference.
Brendan Strejcek talks Cfengine and configuration management with the founders of other open source tools at Open Source Bridge in Portland.
Mark Burgess, author of cfengine presented the cfengine vision of "promised equilibrium" in datacentres to attendees of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing, in Chicago in June. Amongst the audience were key figures from IBM's autonomic computing initiative, Motorola, Sun Microsystems and scientists and academics from many institutions.