2008| Sponsor: None
Presenter: Mike Hansen and Doug Spindler
Network tips and tricks for Server 2003.
Presentation Topic: General network hacks Giveaway: None Technical Presenter: None
Technical Topic: None REMINDER: MEETINGS ARE AT A NEW LOCATION!!! - Instructions on getting to the new meeting location are below.
Microsoft, San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103
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| Sponsor: Dell
Presenter: Northern California Dell Channels Team
Dell is presenting on their new channel program and products and services.
Presentation Topic: Dell - New Channel Program Giveaway: None Technical Presenter: Mike Pennacchi
Technical Topic: Network Troubleshooting REMINDER: MEETINGS ARE AT A NEW LOCATION!!! - Instructions on getting to the new meeting location are below.
Microsoft, San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103
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| Sponsor: Asempra
Presenter: Eric Herzog - Vice President of Operations, Product Marketing and Channel Marketing, Asempra
Asempra's Business Continuity Server ensures that your customers and employees have uninterrupted 24x7 access to critical Exchange and Windows services. Avoid application outages and achieve near-zero data loss with instant recovery of usable data - while the application is running. Protect sensitive documents, email messages, applications and transactional events continuously and completely - allowing you to roll-back to uncorrupted data covering any point in time. Eric Herzog is Vice President of Operations, Product Marketing and Channel Marketing for Asempra. Mr. Herzog has 20 years of marketing, sales, and operations experience in the storage software and storage systems markets. Prior to joining Asempra, Mr. Herzog was vice president of product line management for desktop and mobile storage, vice president of worldwide channel marketing, and vice president of corporate communications at Maxtor (recently acquired by Seagate Technology). Mr. Herzog holds a B.A. degree in history from the University of California, Davis, where he graduated cum laude and studied towards a M.A. degree in Chinese history. Presentation Topic: Asempra - Challenges of Continuous Availability and Protection for Exchange Environments Giveaway: Garmin Nüvi 650 GPS - Yes, a very cool GPS unit! Technical Presenter: None
Technical Topic: None REMINDER: MEETINGS ARE AT A NEW LOCATION!!! - Instructions on getting to the new meeting location are below.
Microsoft, San Francisco Office
835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103
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| Sponsor: Pano Logic
Presenter: Aly Orady - Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Pano Logic
Commercial desktop customers are facing an ever complex problem in managing traditional PC environments. They are faced with serious issues around desktop acquisition costs, system management, infrastructure utilization, security, client mobility, system upgradeability, help desk infrastructure, and downtime and productivity. Ultimately each of these makes the total cost of ownership for traditional desktop solutions exorbitant and unscalable. Pano Logic will give an overview of desktop virtualization and explain how Pano Logic leverages standard virtualization technologies to create a new approach to desktop computing that dramatically lowers total cost of ownership while increasing security, management and mobility. Aly will also demonstrate the Pano Logic solution and conclude with a Q&A session. Aly is co-founder and CTO of Pano Logic where he is leading current and future technology direction. Aly has previously held engineering leadership positions at Silicon Valley start-up Kealia, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems) where he architected the world's highest capacity video-on-demand distribution platform. Aly began his career at HP designing high-performance I/O and network sub-systems. He earned an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and a B.Eng. in computer engineering from McMaster University.
Presentation Topic: Pano Logic - Desktop Virtualization
Giveaway: Xbox 360 - yes, you read that right, an Xbox 360.
Technical Presenter: None
Technical Topic: None
Giveaway: nothing REMINDER: MEETINGS ARE AT A NEW LOCATION!!! 835 Market Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94103 |
| January 1
| Sponsor: No Meeting - New Years Holiday Presenter: none
Happy New Year! See you on Feb 5th!
| 2007
| December 4
| Sponsor: No Meeting - Microsoft is moving offices Presenter: none
Happy Holidays everyone - see you in 2008.
| | November 6
| Sponsor: Grouplink
Presenter: Jared Gilleland
Can a help desk solution really increase your IT staff’s productivity? Can it transform your users from tech dependant to self-sufficient? Can it produce the critical reports you need? How do you justify a help desk purchase when the IT budget is already tight? Come listen to Jared Gilleland, Sales Associate at GroupLink, answer these questions and talk about how organizations like yourself have benefitted from using a uniformed help desk software and what realistic expectations you should have when you purchase one.
Presentation Topic: Help Desk Software - Can It Be "More Than Meets The Eye"?
Giveaway: TBA
Technical Presenter: None
Technical Topic: None
Giveaway: nothing | | October 16 | OCS 2007 Launch Event in San Francisco - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Presenter: Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes Ed Horley and Doug Spindler are coordinating a booth at the OCS 2007 Launch event. Also, please pass on the registration for the event is open at: http://www.besreg.com/uclaunch/index.aspx We hope to see all our members at the launch event as this is a big deal to Microsoft. Post show notes: Thanks everyone!! I saw a ton of you at the event and Kevin Engman (w. Microsoft) and crew all noticed that PacITPros had a huge showing. Hope everyone had a great time. | | October 2
| Sponsor: Raxco
Presenter: Greg Hayes, Microsoft MVP 2004-2007
Greg will be speaking on Windows File Systems and Performance - providing a glimpse into some of the internals of the NTFS file system and how to get the best performance possible. For over 25 years, Raxco Software has been a leading provider of system administration software and resource management solutions for medium- to large-sized organizations as well as home users around the world. Greg first became a Microsoft MVP in 2003 with an area of expertise in Windows File Systems. Greg is very active and known in the online community - helping to answer questions and solve problems for users of all levels.
Presentation Topic: Windows File Systems and Performance
Giveaway: Raxco software - of course
Technical Presenter: None
Technical Topic: None
Giveaway: nothing | | September 4
| Sponsor: None
Presenter: Doug Spindler, Ed Horley and others
We will be having a Tech Round table discussion for the duration of the meeting.
Presentation Topic: Whatever we want
Giveaway: nothing
Technical Presenter: Ed Horley Technical Topic: Updates on Microsoft OCS 2007 and the Launch Event Giveaway: nothing | | August 7
| Sponsor: Infoblox
Presenter: Cricket Liu, Vice President, Architecture
Infoblox will be presenting on their unique network service appliances for DNS, IP Management, DHCP and Radius solutions.
Presentation Topic: DNS, DHCP, IPAM, Radius
Giveaway: nothing
Technical Presenter: Cricket Liu
We are extremely excited to have Cricket come present to the group and talk about all things related to DNS. Cricket Liu is an authority on the Domain Name System and the co-author of all of O'Reilly & Associates' Nutshell Handbooks on DNS, including the classic DNS and BIND.
Cricket helps guide the development of Infoblox's product strategy and service offerings, and serves as a liaison between Infoblox and the technical community. He worked for Hewlett-Packard for nearly ten years, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world, and helped found HP's Internet consulting business. Cricket later co-founded his own Internet consulting and training company, Acme Byte & Wire. After Network Solutions acquired Acme Byte & Wire, Cricket became Director of DNS Product Management.
Technical Topic: DNS
Giveaway: nothing | | July 3rd
| Sponsor: None
Presenter: No meeting this month due to the July 4th Holiday. Presentation Topic: None Giveaway: nothing | | June 5
| Sponsor: Network Instruments
Presenter: Charles Thompson, Manager, Sales Engineering Network Instruments Network Instruments will be speaking about Retrospective Network Analysis -- the ability to go "back-in-time" on your network to solve those illusive, intermittent problems. RNA has saved countless hours of problem resolution time and proving to be a necessary tool in compliance, security, and forensic investigations. RNA technology keeps a watch over your network traffic, helps identify and resolve security problems, and provides evidence for compliance investigations. Learn why this technology has become the most requested feature in our industry. Get a live demonstration and see how it can impact your business. Presentation Topic: Retrospective Network Analysis Giveaway: nothing Technical Presenter: Marc Perkel Junk Email Filter Marc will be giving a technical presentation on junk mail, the issues, current conditions and other aspects of junk mail. Technical Topic: Junk Email Giveaway: nothing | | May 1st
| Sponsor:
XenSource Presenter: Frank Artale
Xen has rapidly become the most promising competitor today to VMware in part because of Xen's universal, open source virtualization platform that offers near "bare metal" performance to virtualized guest operating systems. Xen is of key importance to the industry because its paravirtualization architecture, also called enlightenment by Microsoft, has been adopted by all OS vendors. Since Microsoft and XenSource announced their partnership in July of 2006, XenSource's goal has been to create one of the most affordable, highest performing server virtualization offerings for the Windows operating system. While XenEnterprise can accommodate Linux and multi-OS environments as well, the recently released XenEnterprise 3.2 includes several Windows specific features including support for Windows 2000, 2003 virtual servers,multi-processor support (SMP) for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP guests, and enhanced Windows guest support. This talk will provide an overview of XenSource's current support for Windows OS, the product roadmap, plans for interoperability with Windows Longhorn server and a product demonstration.
Presentation Topic: XenSource Virtualization
Giveaway: XenExpress for everyone and an iPod plus the regular raffle | | April 3rd
| Sponsor: NO MEETING
Presenter: None
There is no meeting this month
Presentation Topic: None
Giveaway: nothing | | Mar 6th
| Sponsor: Juniper
Presenter: Kelly Brazil Juniper will demonstrate on “Overcoming Poor Application Performance” and you will learn how to ensuring end-to-end application delivery across the enterprise and enable key IT initiatives. Specifically, you’ll learn about how you can:
o Increase WAN capacity to overcome limited WAN bandwidth with compression and caching capabilities
o Speed transmissions to minimize the impact of latency by accelerating transport and application protocols
o Provide QoS and bandwidth management features to ensure delivery of real-time and mission-critical applications
o Offer flexible and scalable deployments that work with existing network designs
o Provide greater visibility into WAN and application performance
o Web-enable your applications in less time, with fewer risks, and at a lower cost—while consistently delivering greater user satisfaction
o Use application-fluent server load balancing platforms—a next-generation technology—to facilitate the new data center and offer higher performance with the same or fewer servers Presentation Topic: Overcoming Poor Application Performance
Giveaway: the regular stuff to give away | | Feb 6th
| Sponsor: Teneros
Technical Presenter: Spencer Doherty, Doug Howell, and Cathy Jones, Teneros' Northern California team Teneros will demonstrate how Teneros Application Continuity Appliances assure end-user email continuity during planned or unplanned Microsoft Exchange outages. They will also discuss: How Teneros' - No intrusion to your Exchange Server approach keeps your environment stable What are the trends for continuity solutions in high transaction environments and what are your peers doing today to ensure they have a plan in place How Teneros Appliances keep database corruption at bay with Integrity Validation technology that checks email data before replication Presentation Topic: Teneros Giveaway: an iPod and they will have some t-shirts and stuff to give away | | Jan 3
| Technical Presentionr: "Useful things to do with retired computers" and "Tools to make our (IT Pros) lives easier" All of us have old retired computers lying around. Tonight I thought we would discuss ways to use those retired machine to provide business solutions, such as a full feature phone system, Video Streaming Server, Network or server performance monitoring web server. Bring in your suggestions and ideas - share your ideas with the rest of us. If you have something you would like to share with your peers, make sure it runs on an older machine, it's free (or requires a minimal dollar investment) and makes the machine useful to the business. (No aquariums, door stops or automated dog feeders.) If you are uncomfortable demoing the software just mention it at the meeting and I'll give it a try. I was also thinking we should expand on this idea a little. Bring in your suggestions for software tools (or inexpensive hardware) to make your life as an IT Professional easier. You are welcome to share the good as well as the ugly. Speaker(s): Doug Spindler Presentation Topic: Open
Giveaway: We will think of something! Happy New Year!!!!!
| | | 2006
| Dec 5
| Sponsor: Alexander LAN Technical Presenter: Dirk Smith, President of Alexander LAN Alexander LAN, Inc. has been developing software utilities to prevent, recover from, and resolve the cause of system failures since 1991. Its latest release, Alexander SMK (System Management Kit), was introduced for Windows and Linux in 2005. SMK automatically alerts IT staff when changing conditions threaten system stability before it is too late. It also provides both Asset Tracking and Power Management, all from a simple browser. Presentation Topic: Alexander SMK Software
Giveaway: They will have a full server license of Alexander SMK with 5 client licenses plus some shirts to give away at the meeting. | | Nov 7
| Sponsor: Microsoft - Longhorn Server Team Technical Presenter: Lars Giusti, Angela Nelson, Ashish Parikh Please join us in welcoming Lars Giusti, Angela Nelson, and Ashish Parikh with the Longhorn Server Team, who will be presenting on all things new with Longhorn Server.
This is your chance to get the newest info about Microsoft's next generation Server OS and also to give feedback directly to the team.
To top it all off, we will have Longhorn Server install discs with product keys for the first 150 folks at the meeting! Presentation Topic: Longhorn Server Microsoft Corporation
Giveaway: Windows 2003 R2+25 client seats, Age of Empires v3.0, MS One Note - sorry, no xbox folks - you are going to have to buy one of those on your own! | | Oct 3
| Sponsor: Mimosa Technical Presenter: Bob Spurzem, Sr. Product Manager Mimosa Systems will present its next-generation email archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange. Mimosa Systems is a three-year-old software company based in Santa Clara, CA. It flagship product, NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange has been taking the market by storm for its advanced new architecture that captures all Exchange information (without journaling), indexes it and provides powerful search and discovery for litigation support. In addition NearPoint delivers important benefits for Exchange recovery, disaster recovery and mailbox management - all in a single integrated solution.
Presentation Topic: Exchange Server email archiving Mimosa
Giveaway: The regular items
| | Sept 5
| Sponsor: Unitrends Technical Presenter: Sean Ooghe, Regional Sales Manager Please join us in welcoming Sean Ooghe, Regional Sales Manager with Unitrends, who will be presenting, along with an SE flown in from back East just for us, on the Unitrends product line of Rapid Recovery appliances.
Unitrends provides both data and system protection with on and off-site Rapid Recovery appliances, delivering everything a Small to Mid-sized Business (SMB) or departmental IT requires in a Business Systems Continuity solution, to get them back in business FAST when their systems and servers fail.
Unitrends really specializes in small and medium sized businesses so I really think it will be worth everyone's time to come out and check out their products. If you want to escape from traditional tape backup solutions and want something that can restore a system from bare metal you definitely want to attend this meeting.
Presentation Topic: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Unitrends
Giveaway: The regular items
| | August 1
| Sponsor: NeverFail Group Technical Presenter: Mark Rhoden, West Coast Regional Manager Neverfail is a leading global software company providing affordable cluster-class high availability and disaster recovery solutions for Windows-based applications including Exchange, SQL Server, File Server, IIS, SharePoint, RIM BlackBerry, Oracle database and IBM Lotus Domino. With failover measured in seconds rather than minutes, Neverfail's solutions enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or network failures. Neverfail's mission of eliminating application downtime delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime and enables the more productive use of IT resources. More information can be found on our website at www.neverfailgroup.com.
Presentation Topic: NeverFail Technical Presenter: xxx xxx
2nd Presentation Topic: Attend the meeting and you will get to see! He is a lock picking expert and an attorney!
Giveaway: The regular items
| | July 4
| Sponsor: No Meeting - July 4th Holiday Technical Presenter: None
| | June 6
| Sponsor: No Sponsor this month Technical Presenter: Ed Horley & Mike Hansen Ed Horley and Mike Hansen will be giving a hands on presentation on VMware ESX. They will go over the technology that make VMware ESX unique, what the best practices are to get it up and running in a production environment and what new and improved things are coming out with ESX 3.0.
Mike Hansen is a Sr. Network Engineer with Peak IP Solutions located in Livermore, CA. He has extensive experience with Microsoft OS's,Linux and FreeBSD. He is married to his wonderful wife Jeniffer and just recently moved to the Bay Area from Fresno.
Ed Horley is a Sr. Network Engineer with j2 Global Communications, more commonly known as efax.com. Ed is a Microsoft MVP and has spend many years working on Cisco routers, switches and firewalls, primarily in data center environments. He lives and works in Walnut Creek, CA. He is married to his wonderful wife Krys and has two daughters, Briana and Aisha.
1st Presentation Topic: Hands on with VMware ESX server configuration and building Virtual Machines. If time permits we will try and also go over Virtual Center to manage the two servers. We will not be able to show VMotion doing anything in real time as we do NOT have a SAN available (bummer). Technical Presenter: Mike Pennacchi Mike will be doing a remote presentation on Network Troubleshooting. Mike is an expert in packet analysis and troubleshooting. He has worked on a wide array of networks and has been a presenter at InterOp for more years then is worth mentioning! He has consistantly gotten the highest ratings as a presenter at every technical trade show he has presented at and is also a Microsoft MVP.
2nd Presentation Topic: Attend the meeting and you will get to see! Mike always has something cool and exciting to share with us. Giveaway: The regular items
| | May 2
| Sponsor: TBA Speaker(s): TBA
Presentation Topic: TBA
Technical Presenter: Victor Oppleman Victor Oppleman is an accomplished author, speaker, and teacher in the field of network security and a specialized consultant to some of the world's most admired companies. Mr. Oppleman's open source software has been distributed to hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and some is used in graduate-level college curricula to demonstrate advanced networking techniques.
Some of the largest global companies frequently call upon VOSTROM, the network security company Mr. Oppleman founded in 2001, to perform advanced vulnerability assessments, provide expert counsel, and navigate complex regulatory issues concerning information security.
An accomplished executive and engineer in network security, data hosting services, and software development, Mr. Oppleman also holds US intellectual property patents in distributed adaptive routing and wireless consumer applications. Much of Mr. Oppleman's open source software is available for download from the Prefix WhoIs project at http://www.pwhois.org His popular traceroute tool, LFT can be found at http://pwhois.org/lft
Presentation Topic: Defeating Denial of Service, Decreasing False Positives, and Enriching Network Intelligence using IP Sinkholes. Abstract: The audience will learn how IP sinkholes can be used as an alternative to, or to augment expensive and sophisticated network intrusion detection/prevention systems for detecting malware scanning and performing other advanced network security activities. Additionally, the audience will learn about decoy network deployment, backscatter analysis, and an effective means of defending against denial of service attacks, all using IP sinkholes. Giveaway: The regular items
| | April 4
| Sponsor: APC APC American Power Conversion, West Kingston Rhode Island, is the premier solution provider in the data center power, cooling and management industry. The only complete solution provider, end to end of NCPI ( Network Critical Physical Infrastructure) in the world today. Featuring modular and scalable power and cooling solutions that offer improved availability, lower total cost of ownership, faster speed of deployment and complete management and security capability.
APC is the industry leader in terms of revenue ( $2B in 2005) Kva shipments and installed base, the largest UPS ( 1.6 mega watts ) available in the world today, and the industry thought leader in terms of data center design and deployment for the future.
Jeff Polick, Regional Manager Enterprise Team West Coast will present an overview of APC, the story of modular/scalable power and cooling. Jason Patnoude, Account Manager Netbotz will present the management solution, offering the latest in lights out data center management and security.
Speaker(s): Jeff Polick and Jason Patnoude
Presentation Topic: Modular Power/Cooling and Netbotz Giveaway: The regular items
| | March 7
| Sponsor: EqualLogic EqualLogic, Inc., is the leading provider of intelligent, all-inclusive iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to realize the economic benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage. The PS Series of storage arrays, based on the company's patented peer storage architecture, is the industry's only enterprise-grade, automatic storage platform that delivers operational simplicity, comprehensive data services, and high data availability in a single, scalable pool of storage.
Focus of the meeting:
iSCSI market growth, trends and anatomy of an iSCSI SAN
Tools for Microsoft environments such VSS, VDS, MPIO and Simple SAN
iSCSI in applications such as Exchange and SQL
Product demonstration Speaker(s): John Mallory
Presentation Topic: iSCSI Storage
Technical Presenter: Jennifer Stisa Granick, Esq. Jennifer is the Executive Director at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society Cyberlaw Clinic and will be having an open session on Law and the Internet. Bring plenty of questions as this will be an open format with Q&A.
Giveaway: The regular items
| | Feb 7
| Technical Presention: Windows Vista We will be providing a preview of Windows Vista - a live demo of the product with a Q&A. Also, we will have Mike Pennacchi speaking on some network troubleshooting problems and how to solve them.
Speaker(s): Doug Spindler and Mike Pennacchi
Presentation Topic: Windows Vista and Network Troubleshooting
Giveaway: The regular items
| | Jan 3
| Technical Presenter: Microsoft - ISA Server If you are running Server 2003 in an enterprise environment or running Small Business Server Premium then you definately want to show up for the January meeting! We will be having a technical presentation on ISA Server directly from Microsoft. Everything you wanted to know about getting Microsoft's firewall and proxy server up and running properly. Speaker(s):
Chris Avis Presentation Topic: ISA Server
Giveaway: We will think of something! Happy New Year!!!!!
| | | 2005 Dec 6 Presenter: Zenprise Zenprise provides faster time to resolution by automatically diagnosing and resolving email problems. The solution compliments system monitoring solutions by automatically identifying the interdependencies between problems, determining their underlying cause, and providing detailed resolution instructions. Learn more at www.zenprise.com. Speaker(s):
Sekou Page, Columnist, MCP Online Magazine and Principal Exchange Architect and
Ahmed Datoo, Vice President, Product Management Presentation Topic: Troubleshooting email-related DNS problems
Making sure that your Exchange environment is healthy begins with DNS. This presentation will focus on how to troubleshoot DNS issues as they relate to email – specifically, Microsoft Exchange. We will walk through common methods of identifying and approaching Exchange-related DNS issues. Giveaway: • A free copy of Zenprise Software • A Whitepaper on how to troubleshoot DNS problems • Zenprise T-shirts
Technical Speaker: Jim Wilson with Groove
For those not familiar with Groove (which was aquired by Microsoft - you know who they are right?) we encourge you to show up for this rare advanced look at a very cool product. We will be hearing from Jim Wilson who will be going over some of the new features and improvements soon to come out in Groove 4.0 and hopeful wrestle some information out of him about the roadmap for the product and how it will be integrated into the Office product line. Nov 1 Presenter: GreenBorder GreenBorder, the first Desktop DMZ software for Windows, keeps Internet invaders out and enterprise data in, continuously preventing corruption, theft and invasion of data systems. GreenBorder never needs updating, eliminates the repeated cleaning/reimaging of PCs, provides breathing room for patching sanely, and keeps confidential data safe from Internet attack. Speaker(s): Matt Hiltebrand, CISSP Presentation Topic: Desktop DMZ software for Windows Giveaway: $50 Amazon Gift Certificate
Oct 4 Presenter: SANRAD SANRAD is a leading provider of iSCSI IP-SAN solutions. SANRAD V-Switch products are high performance mulit-protocol/ mulit-port 1U intelligent switches. V-Switch's provide network based storage services: storage provisioning, remote data replication, site failover, data mirroring, access security, high availability, and protocol bridging to FC, SCSI and iSCSI storage systems or fabrics. Speaker(s): Zophar Sante, VP of Market Development Presentation Topic: iSCSI Protocol Overview, Server OS and Application Support, iSCSI Multi-pathing and Failure Recovery, Clustering iSCSI IP-SAN Elements for Redundancy, Mirroring Data at the Network Layer, Performance Tuning, Remote Replication for DR and Site Failover iSCSI Case Studies Sept 6 Presenter: Quest Software Messaging administrators and directors struggle daily with the many complexities associated with managing e-mail storage growth, policy enforcement, archiving, and other related issues. Exchange storage management is becoming increasingly important, and organizations understand that they must create a true storage management plan. Quest outlines the steps to implementing best practices for Exchange storage management, including a solution that captures, indexes, and automates archiving of historical Exchange data to meet your retention and compliance needs. Speaker(s): Dave Champine Presentation Topic: Exchange Storage Management August 2 Presenter: Autonomic Software Autonomic Software builds a vulnerability management solution which includes, Security Patch Management, Asset Management and Software Distribution.
They also support a cross platform environment such as Windows, Mac, Linux and UNIX.
This will be a technical demo of the Autonomic Solution for Patch and Asset Management along with Software Distribution. Speakers: Tony Gigliotti - CEO and Steve Hassfeld - CTO Presentation Topic: Vulnerability Management By Autonomic Software Giveaway: Free iPod! July 5 Presenter: No Meeting There will be no meeting this month due to the July 4th Holiday. June 7 Presenter: Microsoft Corporation Kern Sutton is an Account Technology Specialist with Microsoft Corporation, currently focused on technical solutions for K-12 and higher education customers in Northern California. Kern has been a Technology Specialist with Microsoft Northern California since 2001, with prior areas of focus on Windows Server infrastructure as well as knowledge worker productivity solutions such as the SharePoint technologies. Kern's presentation to the SFNTUG on June 7th will be an overview and exploration of the Windows SharePoint technologies, covering SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). The presentation will include an informational slide deck, live demonstrations and will offer Q&A opportunities throughout May 3 Presenter: CallTower "CallTower provides outsourced VoIP services to small and medium sized businesses. The CallTower Solution is the hosted and managed communications bundle based on Cisco's voice technology platform, AVVID. The CallTower VoIP solution provides the end user with all their voice and data needs from one vendor and with one single point of responsibility. This includes all equipment, services and management." Technical Presenter: Que & Sams Publishing - Author: Leo Laporte Leo is the author of several books and will be presenting on a varity of topics. Some of his titles include: Guide to TiVo Tech Almanac Gadget Guide Mac Gadget Guide Que & Sam Publishing will be providing some promotional books for the event also. April 5 Presenters: WildPackets Technical Presentation: J. Scott Haugdahl will present "mini" case studies to teach you how solve a variety of networking problems using protocol analysis and expert systems. Using trace files from the actual analysis, the case studies include "MS SQL slow response time analysis: Is it the network or the server?", "What's wrong with the web?", and "The DHCP accept and reject mystery." Rather then burden you with a boring PowerPoint presentation, the speaker will go through each trace live, using actual analysis tools. General familiarity with protocol analyzers would be helpful. Speaker Bio: J. Scott Haugdahl, CTO at WildPackets, Inc., was fundamental in developing the company's expert system and has been involved in the network industry by way of learning, doing, teaching, solving and applying for nearly twenty-five years. About WildPackets Since 1990, WildPackets has been delivering real-time fault analysis solutions that enable the world's organizations to keep their networks running securely and reliably, day after day. Drawing WildPackets will hold a drawing for two separate software products (one winner for each product): 1. AiroPeek SE Wireless LAN Protocol Analyzer http://www.wildpackets.com/products/airopeek 2. EtherPeek SE 10/100/1000 Ethernet Protocol Analyzer http://www.wildpackets.com/products/etherpeek March 1 Presenters: Neon Software Craig Isaacs from Neon Software will present LANsurveyor and CyberGauge. LANsurveyor's extensive feature set (including automatic network diagrams, system monitoring, and intrusion detection) has led to many awards, including the Editor's Choice Award from Network Computing Magazine. CyberGauge monitors bandwidth usage and creates Quality of Service reports. Craig Isaacs is Neon Software's president and has over 20 years experience demonstrating software to active and inquisitive audiences. February 1 Presenters: Joel Ciniero, Expedient This month we welcome Joel Ciniero, who will be presenting a new product that will be available here in San Francisco called Ethernet Anywhere: Ethernet Anywhere is provisioned over the existing copper infrastructure and is for any company that is dissatisfied with the usefulness provided by traditional telephony connections. Expedient supplies companies with Internet and Point-to-Point solutions over Ethernet that are more flexible, scalable and reliable than anything currently available in today's market while working within your current budget. Unlike T-1 and DS-3 lines that are ridged in their delivery and limited in their flexibility, our products take full advantage of the inherent superiority built into Ethernet technology. Speeds of between 2 Mbps and 90 Mbps are easily achievable for a price schedule that is comparable to today's ILEC T1. See Expedient's Presentation from this meeting as well as the Ethernet Anywhere product information.
January 4 Presenters: Ed Horley, j2 Global Communications This month we welcome Ed Horley who will be giving a presentation on SPAM Prevention using DNS. It will also be an open discussion of tools and techniques to stop SPAM. So bring your favorite list of SPAM filters, software and tools that you use to avoid getting SPAM. Ed Horley is a Sr. Network Engineer for j2 Global Communications, better known as eFax. Ed currently designs, supports and maintains j2's 58+ international and domestic collocation sites along with j2's core data center IP infrastructure. He is experienced in e-commerce web content delivery, large scale e-mail delivery, firewalls, IPSec VPN's, and specializes in routing and switching. Ed is a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). When he is not playing on network gear you can find him out on the lacrosse field as an Umpire for Women's Lacrosse. He is currently married to his wonderful wife Krys and has two children, Briana and Aisha. He lives and works in Walnut Creek, CA. See Ed's presentation "SPAM Prevention using DNS."
2004 | November 2 | Presenters: Snap Appliance This month we welcome Drew Meyer's with Adaptec (Snap Appliance). Drew's presentation will focus on the Adaptec GuardianOS and include a product demonstration of GuardianOS running on the Snap Server(tm) 4500. GuardianOS cost-effectively delivers capacity and access, and integrates all data types in a single, intelligently managed solution. Specifically designed for next-generation data management for the distributed enterprise, GuardianOS combines seamless cross-platform file sharing with block-level data access on a single device. Powered by GuardianOS, the Snap Server 4500 is a rack-optimized 1U server that combines industry-leading performance and scalability with an unbeatable feature set. Adaptec provides end-to-end storage solutions that reliably move, manage and protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec delivers components, external storage systems and software solutions to meet diverse business needs worldwide. In 2004, Adaptec acquired Snap Appliance, the number-one volume leader in network-attached storage, further extending the Adaptec product offering. Drew Meyer brings a range of experience in networked storage, with emphasis on NAS, IP SAN, Ethernet and backup concepts and technologies. Before joining Adaptec, Drew held product management, product and field marketing positions at Several leading technology providers, most recently Snap Appliance, Quantum and Micron Electronics, where he was responsible for the envisioning, introduction and communication of cutting edge information technology products to the worldwide marketplace. Prior to his high-tech involvement, he spent several years as a whitewater raft guide in the U.S. and Latin America. Drew holds a BA in Political Science with minors in French and English from the University of Puget Sound. | | | October 5 | Presenters: FBI This month we have a special guest speaker, Special Agent X from the FBI. Prior to being a Special Agent investigating Computer Intrusion matters X was a manager at Accenture (Andersen Consulting) and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT field and also happens to be a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer! Our meeting will focus on several items. What role is the FBI playing in the current environment regarding fraud, identity theft issues, corporate theft, and especially cyber attacks. What agencies have jurisdiction over what areas will be discussed. Also, how do you ask the FBI for help, what to expect from them if they can help, and what information would you need to keep track of to give the best chance of resolving an issue. This one should be a great question and answer meeting and a rare chance to see what our government is doing about cyber issues. | | September 7 | Presenters: Wyse Technologies and Citrix This month we welcome Eric Buecheler, Regional Sales Manager with Wyse Technology and Brad Tompkins, Northern California Citrix Field Sales Manager with Citrix Systems. Eric and Brad will be presenting on the Wyse-Citrix solution combination utilizing Wyse Winterm thin clients and Citrix MetaFrame. Some information about the companies and products: Wyse Technology is the leader in server-centric solutions that make users more productive and reduce IT cost and complexity. As the world's leading provider of thin-client solutions, Wyse provides end-user systems that can be centrally managed and controlled to conserve resources and increase performance. Citrix Systems is the global leader in access infrastructure. The Citrix family of access products offers both access to centralized applications through the Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite and remote access to individual desktop computers through the products of the Citrix Online Division. Wyse(r) Winterm(tm) thin clients are designed to perform. We deliver access to Windows(r), Linux/UNIX, and web applications. Whether providing access from the desktop, powering mobile medical carts, or driving online hiring center kiosks, Wyse thin-client devices lead the industry in improving productivity, increasing security, and optimizing your bottom line. And because they utilize the Citrix ICA protocol, they work seamlessly with MetaFrame Presentation Server, increasing your performance, productivity, and enabling your organization to provide information access, on-demand. Technical Speaker: Christa Anderson, Senior Technologist for triCerat. Christa Anderson will present followup information regarding the timeline for Windows Server and TS capabilities.
Christa's Terminal Services Enhancements Presentation. | | August 3 | Technical Speaker: Christa Anderson, triCerat, Inc. Christa Anderson is an internationally known authority on server-based computing, presenting at conferences such as CeBIT, Comdex, and iForum. A senior contributing editor for Windows and .NET Magazine, she is also the author of several books, including The Definitive Guide to MetaFrame XP, Windows Terminal Services, and co-author of the best-selling Mastering Windows Server 2003. Her free Terminal Services newsletter and links to Webcasts and moderated technical forum are available at www.termservhub.com. Terminal servers allow you to get the most out of server resources and to simplify application management, but also introduce some new security problems that you'll need to address, such as controlling application access, the dangers of malicious software on the terminal server, and the need to control access to the terminal server itself so you're not losing TSCALs to machines that shouldn't have them. Come learn how editing user settings, group policies, and the software restriction policies found in Windows Server 2003 can--and can't--help you. Vendor Presention: FalconStor
FalconStor Software, Inc., (Nasdaq: FALC) develops industrial strength network storage infrastructure solutions that are deployed by a wide range of Fortune 1000 companies, including leading health care organizations, financial institutions, government agencies, xSPs, e-commerce businesses, and educational institutions. FalconStor's presentation will provide insight into technology available today that enables the deployment of a network storage solution over existing Ethernet. This allows companies to realize better storage utilization, simplified management, rich storage features, and cost savings. | | July 6 | Technical Speaker: Mike Wolfe, Microsoft
Mike Wolfe is a CISSP and MCSE certified Strategic Security Advisor with Microsoft who is also on the National Security Team. Vendor Presentation: Sybari Software
Sybari is a global provider of antivirus, antispam and content-filtering security software products that are used in electronic messaging and collaboration environments to protect organizations from viruses, spam and the transmission of other forms of inappropriate content. Our products integrate multiple third-party antivirus and antispam technologies with content-filtering and policy enablement tools to strengthen the security of complex electronic messaging andcollaboration systems. Sybari will be talking about its antivirus and antispam security solutions including the new Sybari Enterprise Manager and Advanced Spam Manager. The Sybari Enterprise Manager is a platform that provides administrators with centralized deployment and reporting for all servers and utilizes the Sybari Centralized Optimum Update Technology for centralized scan engine updates. Sybari's Advanced Spam Manager is an enterprise class, high-performance, anti-spam, and content-filtering solution. | | June 1 | Presenter: EqualLogic
EqualLogic is a three year old company manufacturing the ONLY Peer Storage Array in the iSCSI market place. EqualLogic will discuss the advantages of iSCSI versus other traditional SAN's, NAS and DAS storage solutions. Topics that will be covered include SAN boot, Multipath I/O, integration of Microsoft 2003 and iSCSI under SQL and Exchange applications. EqualLogic will demonstrate it's Peer Storage Array with a live demo including the features native to their product such as iSCSI storage virtualization, storage management, Snap Shots and Asynchronous Replication. In addition they discuss disaster recovery, storage consolidation and back-up/restore. | | May 4 | Presenter: Mercury Interactive
Mercury Interactive, the global leader in business technology optimization (BTO), is committed to helping customers optimize the business value of information technology. Mercury's Product line is made up of four Business Centers: - MercuryTM IT Governance Center - optimizes IT strategy and execution
- MercuryTM Quality Center - optimizes the delivery and quality of software applications
- MercuryTM Performance Center - optimizes the delivery and performance of software applications
- MercuryTM Business Availability Center - optimizes the management and availability of business applications and systems in production
Mercury Interactive provides software and services to govern the priorities, people, and practices of IT; deliver and manage applications; and integrate IT strategy and execution. Mercury will be discussing how IT and Operations can run IT operations as a business service, manage service levels and meet service level objectives. The topic for May's sponsor presentation will be the Mercury Business Availability Center. Mercury will be demonstrating their systems monitoring software, SiteScope, used by IT groups to alert and report on infrastructure and application availability. The interactive discussion will be mostly technical in nature coming from IT and Operations perspective, discussing how to use SiteScope and Topaz to monitor business availability and provide better quality of service for IT customers. | | April 6 | Presenter: Sonasoft
Sonasoft revolutionized the backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafeTM Point-Click RecoveryTM solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and cost-effectively provide a turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes. For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com. In this presentation, we will show how to automate the process of backup/recovery of Exchange Servers. We will discuss how to recover to the point of failure or to a point in time automatically with no email loss. Backup/recovery of Active Directory and IIS Metabase is also included as part of the process. The ability to easily backup/recover single mailboxes, folders and individual mail messages will also be discussed. | | March 2 | Presenter: VMware, Inc.
VMware builds innovative and useful software products that leverage the state-of-the-art technology in several areas, most notably in the virtualization of the x86 architecture and in full hardware resource management. | | Febuary 3 | Meeting Topics: - Exchange 2003 - New features - Ken vonBerg
- Dr. Derek Wong will discuss recently-released and future file storage technologies from Microsoft including:
- Virtual Shadow Copy Services (Windows Server 2003)
- Distributed File System (Windows Server 2000/2003)
- WinFS (future release in Longhorn)
- will describe the FileIQ enterprise file management system from Radiance Networks
| | January 6 | Presenter: Version3, Inc.
See how to use an active directory integrated product to manage access to your applications. Version3 Simple Sign-On is an "application access management" solution for active directory networks. Simple Sign-On contains multiple features including windows and web SSO, application publishing, connection management, and application monitoring all tightly integrated into Microsoft's active directory. Combining these features along with delegated administration, self-service capabilities, provisioning, and aliasing/impersonation make Simple Sign-On a unique product for application access management. |
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