Central Oregon Information Systems UG
Meetings
Updates: Jobs, Meeting April 16, Books
Mar 24th
We have a couple of new jobs posted, check them out. Both jobs are with Eleven Wireless out of Portland. One is for a Technical Operations Manager and the other, CEO.
The next meeting is coming up on April 16th – put it on your calendar! We are putting book orders in today, 3/24/2008, so send in your orders.
Thanks again and have a great week!
LeftHand Networks this Wednesday
Mar 10th
LeftHand networks is stopping by this Wednesday to speak to their dynamic line of Storage products. Lefthand has a good story to tell about storage and worth keeping on your radar. Without getting into to much detail their core competencies lie in their ability to manage storage from different hardware vendors, be it HP, IBM and others. Lefthand helps you leverage you storage infrastructure with Centralized Management, Snapshots, Synchronous Replicaiton, Remote Copy and Volume Migration and you choose the hardware: your existing hardware might be perfect. Come to the meeting to learn more, network and win one of the many giveaways. Where is your next job? Come to COISUG to find out…Checkout the available jobs in Central oregon here: http://www.coisug.info/?page_id=18
Meeting today with Oracle
Feb 13th
Meeting is today at 1:30 with Oracle. Oracle is very excited to be here and has prepared a great presentation that will appeal to all experience levels. Don’t miss this great opportunity to interact with Oracle one on one.
Special Guest: Due to the interest in Mobile Devices, Evan Erickson (Product and Inventory Manager) from Edge Wireless is going to stop by and talk about some of the available Mobile devices currently available in the Market place. What he likes, dislikes and recommends.
We hope that everyone can make this exciting event. As always there will be free sodas, food, pints, and a few giveaways! Remember, you can stop in at anytime, for all or part of the meeting.
Upcoming Meetings; Oracle, Lefthand, HP, Microsoft, RSA
Jan 30th
It is looking to be a great next few month at COISUG, starting with Oracle in February, Lefthand Networks in March, HP in April, Microsoft in May, and RSA Security in June. Check out the Meetings page for more information. Don’t forget to checkout the available jobs in the area, we try to keep them updated on a monthly basis. Did you know that COISUG consistently has better meeting turnouts than any other group of its kind (Information technology) in
COISUG Meeting Today
Jan 16th
COISUG Meeting Today at 1:00p (feel free to drop in at any time) at the Deschutes Mountain Room, sponsored by Microsoft and Cinetix
Seattle/Portland events in Bend? You bet! Microsoft, and COISUG member Cinetix, is sponsoring the COISUG event this Today (1:00pm) at the Deschutes Mountain Room. This event will be a deep dive into Sharepoint, Exchange and Unified Communications. This is the perfect event to learn more about the technologies and also get an inside look into infrastructure design and deployment. Microsoft and Cinetix has assembled a great team for this event so don’t miss out. Checkout http://coisug.info to learn more. As always, snacks, sodas, and giveaways!
Happy New Year
Jan 2nd
We hope that everyone had a great holiday and that you took some time off to enjoy friends and family. We have an exciting year ahead of us starting the year off with a visit from Microsoft on January 16 at 1:00PM. On the agenda for the January 16 meeting is SharePoint, Exchange, Live Communications server and more. Microsoft has assembled a great team for this event, so bring all of your Microsoft centric questions to the event!
Next up on February 13 we will be hosting Oracle. Oracle is extremely excited about coming out to discuss their suite of services and solutions. I usually align Oracle with Fortune 1000 companies however they have a clear play in the small/medium size business market; this will be a very informative meeting. We look forward to another great year so spread the word and enjoy!
Silicon Mechanics
Dec 14th
Silicon Mechanics (http://www.siliconmechanics.com) outdid themselves with a great presentation on server hardware, including an informational look into the environmental concerns that data centers are facing worldwide. Discussion and participations was excellent. There were a lot of new faces in the crowd, welcome and thank you for your support. Send in your O’Reilly book orders by Wednesday of next week so that they will be in by next meeting (Microsoft – January 16). Remember to write reviews on the books that you receive; let’s try to get at least 4 reviews in before the next order. If you want a shirt from Silicon Mechanics, send in an email with your size. Thanks again for a great meeting, and continue spreading the word!
Thanks to Vmware, December Meeting
Nov 19th
Thanks again to everyone for coming to the last meeting, a very big turnout! The presentation on Vmware was very informative and well received. A big “Thank You†goes out to Vmware and the EMC team from Portland for making this event possible. If you would like additional information from Vmware, please send us an email at info at coisug dot info. Congratulations to those that won the Vmware Workstation licenses and the video iPod!
We are growing fast and people are having a great time networking, sharing ideas and experiences. COISUG is already a huge success; did you know that we have already helped people find and land jobs? If you have yet to come to a meeting, drop in and find out what everyone is talking about. In December we have Silicon Mechanics, out of Washington, stopping by to talk shop about Servers, Blades and where the industry is heading. Have a great month and thanks again.
November Meeting Scheduled
Oct 24th
VMWare is on their way out in November to give a presentation on Virtualization and consolidation. This should be a really informative presentation; so bring your questions and pen/paper. Some of us have already taken the plunge, others have dabbled and a few are still scoping out the landscape. This is the meeting to put your questions on the table and get a good look into extending and building a virtual infrastructure.
October Meeting
Oct 24th
What a cool October meeting on Disaster Recovery. NetApp lead a very informative and eye opening presentation on VTL (Virtual Tape Library) and their associated SAN products. I was completely in the dark on VTL and after their presentation had a good idea on how our company could benefit from such an implementation. NetApp offered up a good solution and a great techncal discussion. A big thanks goes out to all that made the meeting and to NetApp (Clint, Rick, Sam and Ross) for sponsoring a great event. Congrats to Larry at Quantum Communication, the winner of the iPod Zune. We also had many winners of Bluetooth Headsets for bringing a friend to the meeting.
