COISUG

Meeting June 18 Data Domain 1:30 - Mcmenamins Ramble Room

Data Domain is stopping by on June 18 (1:30) to talk about dedeuplication technologies. As always, there will be food, giveaways and drinks. It should be a good time - spread the word.

Deduplication technology has changed the economics of storage to help you build a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective data protection architecture. Enterprises of all sizes are using deduplication storage to reduce backup costs and simplify data recovery.  Learn about five areas where you can leverage the power of deduplication in your environment:

Backup and Recovery (By Application such as Oracle and Exchange or by Environment such as NAS and VMware)

•  Disaster Recovery
•  Tape Consolidation
•  Remote Site Replication
•  Archiving & Compliance

Have a great week,
COISUG

COCC IS Department Meeting Lunch

COCC, COISUG and the SharePoint Users Group are hosting a meeting on May 1st to help grow and evolve the COCC Information Systems department. This important forum will help COCC identify emerging business trends and how they can better prepare thier graduates for the business world. As part of this conversation we will also explore job coop opportunities, part-time positions to assist in new curriculum development and volunteer opportunties. We are excited to be part of the dialogue exploring partnership oportunities and to give feedback to the college with regards to their current and future programs.

Meeting will start at 11:00am and end at or around 1:00pm. Buffet lunch will be provided. Please spread the word; this will be a great event and a wonderful way to help build and develop our community.

Agenda and Location can be found here.

COISUG Meeting this week - Thursday April 16

Microsoft is stopping by to host a great event this Thursday (April 16 - 1:30pm) to talk Collaboration, Business Intelligence and Server Management. There will be great food, giveaways, and alot of innovative conversations.

Open Source Bridge

Open Source Bridge - June 17-19 Portland, OR
http://opensourcebridge.org

Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events.

Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference.

Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology.

We’re still seeking session proposals, so submit yours by the end of March 31st.

Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed “for the cloud”; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what’s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/)

In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated “hacker lounge” at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night.

Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend.

Thanks!

Members:

One Open Source Bridge Conference Pass will be given away at the next COISUG event on April 16. COWPU (http://cowpu.com) will also be giving away a conference pass so don’t miss this chance!

Contact info at coisug dot info for discount code.

COISUG Meeting April 16 - Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Server Management

Microsoft - Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Server Management April 16 1:30pm - McMenamins Movie Theater

There’s no doubt that the current economic situation presents difficult challenges for businesses of all kinds, in every industry. Thoughtful business leaders must carefully assess how to best utilize their resources to weather the uncertainty that lies ahead.

At Microsoft, we believe these resources include both people and technology. A new generation of technology innovations is enabling forward-looking businesses to build information systems that are more flexible, more cost effective, and that enable people to understand and respond to changing business conditions with greater insight and speed than ever before.

Meeting Topics include:

• Increasing employee productivity and lowering travel costs with Microsoft Collaboration Tools.
• Gaining a competitive advantage in an economic downturn with Business Solutions and Business Intelligence.
• Reducing your company’s carbon footprint with Microsoft Virtualization and Server Management Technologies.

COISUG Meeting today - Open Source Solutions - 1:00 PM

COISUG meeting today at 1:00PM focusing on enterprise grade open source solutions designed to improve productivity and drive down costs. Mark Teter, author of Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions, will be speaking on this subject and hosting a discussion on these and other items. Don’t miss this event, and spread the word - Have a great week.

COISUG Technology Summit with Mark Teter - March 18

Mark Teter, author of Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions, is dropping by COISUG on March 18 to explore ways to lower both operating and capital IT costs. While IT processing requirements continue to increase, Mark Teter continues to identify ways to leverage new cost reduction strategies and solutions. This session will address how to lower your server, storage, data protection, security and networking expenses. The topics will include best practices for server virtualization, state of union with the storage industry, what people are currently doing for backups, to providing the latest trends in information security. Please join us to hear this action packed session that will cover several areas for IT cost reduction and process improvements.

Who is Mark Teter?
Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at ASG. He is an internationally recognized authority on information technology, advising IT organizations, vendors and government agencies on a broad range of information management issues. Each year, Mark conducts dozens of seminars and training programs for corporate and government institutions. He sits on several financial industry advisory boards and has recently published Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions.

About The Sponsor
ASG is equipped with a high-end computing facility that provides testing, benchmarks, demonstrations and an executive briefing center. ASG maintains the highest level of engineering certifications with our partners and vendor community. From our active involvement in the industry, ASG has been acknowledged by Computer Reseller News as one of the Top Ten Storage Solution Providers.

SharePoint Users Group Meeting

The 2nd meeting of the Bend SharePoint User Group will be held Friday. Bank of the Cascades has generously agreed to host the meeting at their training facility.

Topic: Workflow in SharePoint
Date: Feb 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m
Location: Bank of the Cascades Training Center is located at 1125 NW Bond, but the entrance is on Greenwood. Please don’t use bank
customer parking - there is 2 hr street parking available nearby.
Map: http://tinyurl.com/sharepoint-venue
Audience: Anybody interested in SharePoint
Lunch Details: Please bring a brown bag lunch.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the user group or the meeting, please contact:

Barb Troyer: barb.troyer @cinetixsolutions.com, 541.306.6532
Jason Hamlin: Jason.E.Hamlin @lesschwab.com

Please forward to any interested parties.

Hope to see you all there!

Barb Troyer
Cinetix Solutions

Meeting today at 1:00pm - McMenamins Bend

COISUG is two years old and the limited edition shirts turned out
great! The first 29 people will get one free. These shirts are only
available for a limited time, so be early!

The COISUG meeting is today in Bend, 1:00pm McMenamins Old St. Francis
School Rambler Room - sponsored by BendBroadband. BendBroadband is
going to be discussing Metro-Ethernet and a few other cutting edge
broadband technologies, how they are similar, how they differ, and
what to consider when building multiple paths to promote redundancy.
This will be a great event and as always food will be provided!

COISUG Meeting Metro Ethernet Wednesday January 14 - Lunch Provided - Celebrating 2 Years

The next COISUG meeting, sponsored by Bend Broadband, is coming up next week and will start at 1:00pm. This should be a very fun event, technical in nature and very applicable to businesses that continue to demand more bandwidth to support their critical applications…and not so critical applications As always there will be food and drinks - pizza and tater tots, how can you pass that up!

Topic: Metro Ethernet and Fiber Technologies
When: Wednesday, January 14 1:00PM
Where: McMenamins Old St. Francais School - Rambler Room Bend, OR

COISUG is 2 years old!!! Can you believe it? Lets celebrate! Limited edition COISUG shirts will be available to the first 30 members that show up, so don’t miss out!

Spread the news about this event, we want to pack the room. As always, there will be great giveaways!

See you next week,
Lewis