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Eric Mandel
President, BlackMesh

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Eric Mandel is the CEO and co-founder of BlackMesh, a provider of information technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. Since 2003, Mandel has led the strategic direction of the company, building a strong base of global, diverse customers and growing the company by 100 percent each year. With over 16 years of experience, Mandel is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, addressing the many technology issues that face today’s emerging companies.

Prior to BlackMesh, Mandel served as development manager at Andrew Corporation, where he managed the maintenance and support of their E911 Emergency Cellular Location solution, and at ScoreBoard, Inc., where he managed development for ScoreBoard’s IS-136 product.

Sessions

1:45pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Automating System Builds and Maintenance with Cobbler and Puppet

Administration, Programming, Security
Location: Ballroom A8

Eric Mandel (BlackMesh), Jason Ford (BlackMesh)

Average rating:

(3.00, 4 ratings)

Quickly, accurately, and reliably deploying new systems, across the entire spectrum of production, test, and development systems, is a constant challenge for system administrators and developers. We leveraged Cobbler and Puppet to overcome these challenges and will show attendees how they can use Cobbler and Puppet to quickly, accurately, and reliably deploy new systems. Read more.

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