The Conference will be held October 11-12, 2008 at Columbia University.

Jersey City, NJ — October 1, 2008 – DataPipe , a global provider of managed IT services, announced today that it will sponsor the New York City BSD Conference , the main technical conference on the East Coast for the BSD community to collaborate, learn, and network.

“Strategic partnership with the BSD community is a natural fit for us and we’re pleased to be part of this significant event ,” DataPipe CTO Michael Parks said. “DataPipe has been moving many of its internal systems to FreeBSD to take advantage of the superior performance and better security afforded by the platform,” he added.

The Conference will be held October 11-12, 2008 at Columbia University in the Davis Auditorium . Over the course of the two day conference BSD User enthusiasts, System Administrators, and Developers will gather to hear from leading BSD developers and practitioners. Headlining the presentations are well-known developer of the HAMMER file system and DragonFly BSD project director Matthew Dillon, as well as the prominent developer of the ZFS file system Pawel Jakub Dawidek, and Michael Lucas the creator of Absolute FreeBSD and Absolute OpenBSD.

For more information about the NYC BSD Conference, visit www.nycbsdcon.org/2008

About DataPipe
DataPipe provides application management, Web hosting, professional services, and security services for mid to large-sized organizations in a range of vertical industries. The company has over 1500 customers in six data centers and eight office locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. DataPipe was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.
For more information about DataPipe, visit www.datapipe.com