The UKUUG Files and Backup event took place in London on Tuesday and yesterday.
There were some excellent talks on various subjects including high availability clustering, ZFS, GFS2, OpenAFS and Bacula.
The "other Charles Curran" from CERN gave a most amusing talk on the problems and challenges of storing vast amounts of experimental data.
Adam Spiers and Jo de Baer of Novell spoke about the emerging technologies around virtualisation management and storage virtualisation.