The international SMB MVP Community Roadshow is coming to Microsoft San Francisco office on Saturday, February 18^th, 2012 for a special all-day event – and you are invited!

This is your last chance to hear first-hand from your peers in the field how they are implementing the New SMB Stack from Microsoft and see it actually demo’d on current shipping HP Hardware. This is not a canned sales pitch, this is a live demo by some of the SMB MVP’s on real world scenarios they are deploying today.

Topics to be covered include:

·        Windows MultiPoint Server

·        HP SMB Server Hardware

·        SBS 2011 Standard/Premium/Essentials

·        Swing Migration

·        Best Practices

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion on real-world application of technology important to the SMB space.

Breakfast and lunch are included – and this is a FREE event, but you must register to attend.  Attendance is strictly limited to 90 attendees.

Register at: http://mvptour2011.sbsmigration.com/event_selector.php?event_id=1 78

RSVP at meetup.com/pacitprosla

For over 10 years, GWAVA http://gwava.com has been focused on providing solutions for e-mail and collaboration systems – providing best of breed archiving software for e-mail systems, anti-spam and anti-virus protection, backup and disaster recovery, and email system management.

Over 10 million end users use GWAVA products to complement their e-mail and collaboration systems. GWAVA has offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, South Africa and Australia. We support Microsoft, Novell, Research in Motion, and other enterprise infrastructure platforms.

Come join GWAVA’s senior engineer, Colin Bretagne, where he will present RETAIN, a best of breed archiving solution for MS Exchange, and soon Office 365 and live@edu

• Learn how to Retain works with Exchange, Office 365 and live@edu
• Prepare your organisation for litigation
• See how Retain can reduce your administrators load by allowing users to retrieve their own archive
• See how Retain implements seamlessly into your environment
• Learn how to reduce your storage needs for your Email system
• Learn how to archive Emails, Journal, Online archive and recoverable items
• Learn about all the components required to run Retain
• Learn how to manage your archive effectively

Colin Bretagne, Senior Engineer & Quality Analyst at GWAVA

Colin Bretagne is a Senior Engineer and Quality Assurance Analyst for GWAVA in Montreal. He has more than 20 years active experience in the computer industry. Before joining GWAVA, Colin implemented systems in over 15 countries for companies like The Ritz Hotel, TTPCom and Motorola for various solutions from Novell to Microsoft and large SANs. He has extensive experience in hardware and software including Novell clustering, HP SANs, NetWare, GroupWise, BorderManager, Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Colin has been involved with GWAVA and GWAVA-related products since 2003 and has implemented GWAVA solutions in very large environments (35000+ users). He is a GWAVA Certified Engineer, and has a BSC in Computer Science.

Technical Presentation: What is Private Cloud?
The technology world is flocking to the Cloud. Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Private Cloud? What exactly is Cloud computing? Why is it so desirable? How will it change the way we do business?

Cloud computing refers to the ability to deploy and consume IT services over the Web; it is based on the concepts of being highly virtualized, managed in a consistent manner, dynamic, and offering elastic scalability. Enterprise interest in cloud computing is growing rapidly, and analysts consistently predict increased spending/adoption over the next few years. Cloud computing can help organizations reduce costs, increase IT efficiency and productivity, deliver continual access for remote users, and increase business agility.

Join us for a fun and informative discussion on the current and future state of Cloud computing and the role that Private cloud will play in that future.

Presenters Bio’s:

Chris Henley is a fun and energetic representative of Microsoft. He works on the Developer Platform Evangelist team at Microsoft as an IT Professional Evangelist in the western region and is the co-author of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Administration Instant Reference from Sybex press. Chris is a regular speaker and presenter at user groups, Technet events, and major conferences around the US.

He has extensive experience in the world of computer networks. He is passionate about the way that technology helps people. He has an entertaining and insightful style of communicating technical information and of making difficult concepts easy to understand. He is an expert in server architecture and network design. He loves to push the envelope of what we think about computers, and what software can do. Chris spends his spare time playing XBOX360 with his wife and kids, fly fishing, camping, hiking, and searching for the best chocolate cake on planet earth.

Giveaway: Regular items to give away

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 Sponsor: nCircle

Sponsor Presentation: Automated Security and Compliance Auditing
nCircle is the leading provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions. More than 5,500 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle’s proactive solutions to manage and reduce security risk and achieve compliance on their networks. nCircle has won numerous awards for growth, innovation, customer satisfaction and technology leadership. nCircle is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with regional offices throughout the United States and in London and Toronto.

Presenters Bio’s:
Eric Hannagan, CISM, CISA, has more than 13 years of experience in IT consulting, operations, security and audit.  In his role at nCircle as Senior Sales Engineer, Mr. Hannagan is responsible for providing sales engineering support the Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Southern California regions of the United States. Prior to joining nCircle, Mr. Hannagan was a manager in Jefferson Wells’ Denver practice of Technology Risk Management and was the PCI subject matter expert for the Western Region of Jefferson Wells.

Giveaway: Regular raffle items – nCircle will have a $100 Apple gift card to give away

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