Meeting Date and Time April 2nd, 2013 – 6:30pm

Topic: Veeam – Modern Data Protection with Veeam Backup Cloud Edition
It’s a virtual world out there. Ever smaller, and more powerful, devices rely on distributed services to provide truly amazing functions with truly staggering amounts of data. The question is how to protect that critical data? Join us for a fun filled and informative hands on look at modern data protection strategies with Veeam.

Company Info: Veeam® Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance partner and a Microsoft managed partner, develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Customers can reduce costs, minimize risks and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.
Presenters Bio’s: Chris Henley

Chris Henley is a fun and energetic product strategy specialist for Veeam Software. He is focused on Hyper-V and Virtualization solutions from Microsoft. He has a talent for making difficult technical concepts easy to understand. He is a published technical author who loves writing. He has spent more than 2 decades working in technology, most recently
completing an 8 year stint with Microsoft. He loves the amazing things that technology can do to make our lives better. He enjoys spending time outdoors, camping, fishing, hunting, hiking, and bicycling with his wife and their 3 great kids. He is currently on a quest to find the best chocolate cake on planet Earth!

Giveaway: Regular items + Veeam is giving away a backpack and they will have USB 8G flash drives with their software available!

REMINDER: RSVP so we know how much pizza to order! Food arrives between 5:30 and 6pm.

Location:

Microsoft, San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103

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- Doug, Ed and Jennelle

Meeting Date and Time March 5th, 2013 – 6:30pm

Topic: Meraki Wireless

Join us for a deep dive into Meraki’s cloud managed networking products, including wireless access points, security appliances, and switches. We will review how cloud networking offers greater reliability, easier management – and we’ll show you a live demo of the exciting features in the Meraki dashboard.
Presenters Bio’s: Katie Lane

Katie Lane is a Product Marketing Manager at Meraki where she is responsible for the technical messaging of the Meraki products.  Prior to joining Meraki, Katie got an early start in networking, gaining her first networking certification in high school and going on to study Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas in Austin.  Katie has spent time implementing a variety of networking environments from datacenters to campus networks during her time as an SE at Brocade.  She enjoys all things outdoors from surfing to skiing to mnt. biking, while continuing her studies of all things tech.

Giveaway: Regular items + Meraki will be doing a drawing for 2 of their wireless access points!

REMINDER: RSVP so we know how much pizza to order! Food arrives between 5:30 and 6pm.

Location:

Microsoft, San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103

Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook!

- Doug, Ed and Jennelle

Addendum – Meraki Wireless offer to Pacific IT Professionas:

Attached is a link to the Meraki webinar page that will be tracked and tied to this particular event.  Any member from your organization that represents a qualifying end user and attends one of the qualifying Meraki webinars during the month of March will be entered into a drawing for an MX60 with 3 yr advanced security license.

As an added kicker, any end user who has not attended a qualifying Meraki webinar yet should do so from the same below link since they will have the option to contact Meraki after attending and get a free MR12 with 3 yr license!

We look forward to tracking the success following our event and assisting with you group moving forward.  Thanks

http://www.meraki.com/company/webinars?ref=WxHqfh

Qualifying Details

IT professionals receive a FREE Meraki access point with a 3-year Enterprise Cloud Controller license, a $699 value.

While Meraki webinars are open to all audiences, to be eligible for a free access point, participants must:

·         Attend the webinar in its entirety

• Enter a valid company name
• Be an IT professional
• Register with a shipping address in the US, Canada, or the European Economic Area. We cannot ship free APs outside of these regions, and cannot ship to post office boxes.
• European Economic Zone countries: a valid VAT ID is required for shipment.
• Register with their organization’s email address
• Confirm eligibility and shipping address with a Meraki representative by phone
• If you are unable to accept your AP due to restrictions, (e.g. Erate), we will be happy to provide you with a trial AP, which can be returned following your evaluation of our solution

As APs are provided as an educational tool to those new to the Meraki platform, individuals and organizations who have received a free access point through other promotions are not eligible. Limit one free AP per organization and per individual. Due to abuse, we cannot provide free access points to individuals who register with yahoo, gmail, hotmail, and other similar email addresses.