Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium , Europe and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits.

Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen ,used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences.

He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both High Availability, Scalability and HPC), Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud.

His blog titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

Howto - FAQ

• openMosix HOWTO
• Linux Netstation mini-HOWTO
• Linux NCD mini-HOWTO
• NeoLinux HOWTO Collection (DRAFT)
• INN and Suck Mini Howto (DRAFT)
• Notes Troubleshooting Faq on Linux
• FireWire DV Camera HOWTO (DRAFT)
• Proximus GPRS Howto (DRAFT)
• Linux and the SonyEricsson K700i (DRAFT)

Over the past decade I've been writing articles for diffrent offline and online publications such as : Open Magazine, O'Reilly GMT, O'Reilly Network, and Virtualization.com

• Open Magazine,Issue 2.3 March 2001, Cyber-glue for authentication, Local Copy
• Open Magazine,Issue 2.4 April 2001, WAP Is Dead Long Live XML!
• Open Magazine, Issue 2.5 May 2001, Beyond Saying "Look Out," How to you treat a Virus ?
• E-Open, Issue 13, January 2002, Email Architecture, A Roundup of MTAs and IMAP alternatives (Local Copy)
• Open, Vol 39, September 2002, Fighting Spam (Local Copy)
• Open, Vol 47, December 2002 , Wiki Wiki (Local Copy )
• April 2003 Increasing openMosix performance with FireWire
• Augustus 2003, MySQL Benchmarks
• October 2003 , Linuxkongress Saarbrucken, Germany , migShm Experiences
• O'Reilly Network, February 2004 , Introducing openMosix
• June 2004, LinuxTag Karlsruhe, Germany, openMosix: Past Present and Future
• October 2004, Sane, Amsterdam , The Netherlands: openMosix: Past Present and Future
• April 2005, Linux.conf.au ,Canberra, Australia , openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6
• Aug 2005, UKUUG Linux Technical Conference ,Swansea , UK, openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6 (updated)
• October 2005, Linux-Kongress,Hamburg, Germany : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• January 2006, LinuxDays,LuxemBourg : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• O'Reilly Network, January 2006 , Linux Virtualisation with Xen
• O'Reilly Network, February 2006 , Building a High-Available MySQL Cluster
• March 2006, UKUUG LISA Conference 2006 Durham, UK : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment (UPDATED)
• O'Reilly Network, February 2007 , An Inrtroduction to openQRM
• NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie on Virtualisation, May 2007, Using openQRM as a Virtual Machine Manager
• Syngress Media, June 2007 , CoAuthor of Virtualization with Xen
• Syngress Media, Fall 2007 , CoAuthor of The Best Damn Server Virtualization Book Period: Including Vmware, Xen, and Microsoft Virtual Server
• O'Reilly Network, February 2008 , Using Xen for High Availability Clusters
• Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008, Open Source Monitoring Tool Shootout

I've also acted as a technical reviewer for different books including "High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI" the "MySQL Cluster Study Guide" and "Zabbix 1.6 Network Monitoring"

• 3 March 2003, L2U Leuven , An introduction to openMosix
• 16 October 2003, Linuxkongress , Saarbrucken, Germany , migShm Experiences

• February 2004, Fosdem, Brussels, Belgium, An introduction to openMosix
• 25 June 2004, LinuxTag , Karlsurhe, Germany , openMosix, Past Present and Future
• 1 Oct 2004, Sane , Amsterdam, the Netherlands , openMosix, Past Present and Future

• 22 April 2005, Linux.conf.au ,Canberra, Australia , openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6
• 16 June 2005, Linux on the Desktop and Opensquare, Brussels , Infrastructure Requirements for Linux on the Desktop
• 6 augustus 2005, UKUUG Linux Technical Conference, Swansea ,UK openMosix, Past Present and Future a peek at 2.6
• 13 october 2005, Linux-Kongress,Hamburg, Germany : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• 16 november 2005, L2U , Leuven, An introduction to Xen
• 14 december 2005, L2U , Leuven, Large Scale System Deployment with System Imager Suite

• 27 January 2006, LinuxDays.lu 2006, Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• 9 February 2006, Novell On Tour, Brussels, An introduction to Xen
• 23 march 2006, UKUUG Lisa 2006, Durham , UK , Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• 4 april 2006 , TMAB Open Source , Brussels, Contributing to Open Source
• 20 June 2006, HP Linux Roadshow, Brussels, An introduction to Xen
• 12 October 2006, LinuxWorldExpo , Utrecht, Large Scale Xen Deployments

• 5 may 2007, Barcamp Brussels , Scaling MySQL with MySQL Cluster
• 10 may 2007, NLUUG Voorjaarsconference on Virtualisation, Ede,Using openQRM to manage a Virtual Environment
• 20 juni 2007 , IT Works virtualisation, Brussels,A Xen Case Study

• 22 january 2008,Profoss on Virtualisation,Brussels, A Xen Case Study
• 19 february 2008, LinuxDays.lu 2008, Luxembourg,MySQL HA
• 24 february 2008, Fosdem 2008, DrupalRoom , Brussels, Drupal and MySQL Cluster Experiences
• 13 march 2008, OSBC.nl , Eindhoven, The Netherlands, A Xen Case Study
• 20 march 2008, LinuxWorldExpo Brussels, Using openQRM to manage a Virtual Environment
• 29 march 2008, Barcamp Ghent, Gent, What The Web 2.0 Should Look Like
• 22 july 2008, OLS Virtualization Mini Summit,Ottawa, Canada openQRM is NOT dead
• 25 july 2008, Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008, Ottawa, Canada Monitoring Tool Shootout
• 13 september 2008, OpenExpo Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland openQRM, the Lightning Edition
• 14 september 2008, OpenExpo Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Open Source Virtualization
• 3 october 2008, Open Source Days 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark Open Source Virtualization
• 25 october 2008, T-Dose 2008, Eindhoven ,The Netherlands, Drupal and MySQL Cluster Experiences
• 26 october 2008, T-Dose 2008, Eindhoven ,The Netherlands, Open Source Virtualization

• 8 february 2009, Fosdem 2009, Brussels ,Belgium, Monitoring MySQL, The Open Source Way
• 13 march 2009, L-Sec , Brussels ,Belgium, VirtSec, and the Open Source Impact, or the Lack thereof
• 26 march 2009, UKUUG 2009 , London United Kingdom, Open Source Virtualization, an overview
• 4 october 2009, T-Dose 2009 , Eindhoven , The Netherlands VirtSec, and the Open Source Impact, or the Lack thereof
• 19 december 2009, Barcamp Gent 2009 , Gent , Belgium Devops, the start of a new Movement

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