The MOSES Whitepapers

Just Published by UniForum!

The Collected Whitepapers from the Massive Open Systems

Environment Standard

For the first time in one volume, the collected Whitepapers from MOSES: The Massive Open Systems Environment Standard are now available from UniForum.

The MOSES Project is a collective effort by large open systems shops to define the operational production environment needed to ensure the highest levels of system availability and reliability. The Whitepapers are aimed primarily at MIS professionals who operate large data centers, especially those in UNIX environments. The contributors are all experts who wrote the selections as part of their efforts to improve their own shops and to create a dialog on the best practices for perfecting the UNIX data center. The Whitepapers, while written by and for UNIX operations, are largely applicable to any operating system or database.

The MOSES Whitepapers are arranged as 12 stand-alone chapters that can be used individually or as a collection to provide data center operators with the guidelines they need to perform their duties more efficiently.

General Introduction

     John C. Black, US WEST NewVector Group, Inc.

Service Level Support Agreements

     Bill Holt, US WEST NewVector Group, Inc.

Event Monitoring and Alarming

     Steve Starck, US WEST NewVector Group, Inc.

Backup and Recovery Requirements

     Mike Farnham, Burlington Coat Factory

Change Management

     Michelle L. Trout, Sequent Computer Systems

Benchmark Standards/Metrics and Capacity Planning

     Paul McKenney, Sequent Computer Systems

Data Archiving Requirements
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     Ron Hawkins, Millipore 
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Job Scheduling
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     Dan Poulin, Millipore 
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Interface and Infrastructure Requirements

     Bill Hughes, Sequent Computer Systems

Security
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     Barry Harness, British Telecom 
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Disaster Planning/Recovery
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     Scott McMahan, Oracle Corporation
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UNIX System Administration Hiring Process

     Bill Holt, US WEST NewVector Group, Inc.

All General Members of UniForum will receive a copy of The MOSES Whitepapers as part of their membership benefits.

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