Surge — A Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI.

Surge 2011 Call forProposals

Interested in Speaking at Surge?

We are now accepting proposals for conference sessions at the Surge Conference. The deadline for all proposals is 23:59 EDT on April 17, 2011. Please send proposals to surge@omniti.com, titled Surge 2011 Session Proposal.

Presentations should last approximately 45 minutes with time for 10 minutes of audience Q&A. Each abstract should be approximately 100-200 words. We want to hear about your failures, your successes and everything in-between. Accepted proposals will demonstrate real-life scalability challenges and creative solutions. We love case studies and learning from our mistakes. Show us what you've got.

Suggested topics and themes:

• Database Scaling
• Distributed Compute
• Distributed Storage
• Implementing Holistic Quality of Service
• Seamless Technology Migration Techniques

• Virtualization at Scale
• Networking Techniques
• Continuous Code Deployments
• Case Study: Choosing the Wrong Technology
• Monitoring Techniques
• Root Cause Analysis

• Geographically Redundant Systems
• Predictive Scaling
• Designing and Troubleshooting Asynchronous Systems
• Evolution of Service-Oriented Architectures