Just a reminder! The next COISUG meeting is today at 2pm. Chad from Equallogic will be onsite with a SAN for us to play with and explore. This is a new hands on format and a new location to mix it up. Check the website in the next couple of days for a few new job postings.

Topic: Hands on Storage Area Network Lab and Discussion

When: Today October 14th 2pm

Where: Environmental Center Bend, OR

Food: Snacks provided by Fresh Indulgence, including homemade granola bars

“Happy Hour” immediately following at McMenamins ~4pm-5pm

If you can’t make the whole event, stop by when you can. Spread the word and see you on Thursday at 2pm!

We are excited to announce that Equallogic will be hosting the next COISUG event – a SAN and Disc Golf extravaganza! This will be a hands-on exploration into one of their leading storage area network devices; focusing on the hardware, software and key benefits of a storage strategy. Also, we will have a couple local companies speak to their technologies and to make announcements.

After the meeting, we will head up to COCC for a round of Disc Golf. Anyone that heads up for golf will get their own shiny new Disc Golf disc!

Time: 2pm

Place: Bend, OR – Central Oregon Environmental Center, 16 NW Kansas Avenue Bend, OR 97701

Food and Snacks provided

COISUG Members,

Do not miss the next PubTalk event hosted by EDCO. Also, EDCO has extended their member rate to COISUG members!

Keynote Presenter: Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software
Central Oregon PubTalk kicks off its fall lineup with keynote speaker Sabrina Parsons, CEO of software specialist Palo Alto Software.  Palo Alto Software creates the most widely-used business plan software in the world.  Despite its name, the company is now headquartered in Eugene Oregon with international offices in London and Ireland.

An Internet expert, Parson s will share lessons she’s gleaned from her career with such companies as at Epinions, Commtouch, Zapzone Network, and en Commerce.  A frequent coach to startup businesses, Parsons will discuss how early stage companies can stay alive in this challenging financial environment.  Parsons will also talk candidly about how she balances being a CEO with being a full-throttle mom, the tension she captures so well in her blog Mommy CEO.
Early stage presenter: John MacDougall, MacDougall and Sons Bat Company
“CRACK!”  The classic sound of a base hit off a wood bat.  In 2008, John MacDougall, a custom home builder for 30 years, decided to apply his architectural knowledge and wood-working skills to the design of the best wood bat ever, developing patent-protected technology the Baseball Research Center says yields bats 5-1 0 times more durable than solid wood bats. The company is in production, has achieved initial sales, and seeks financing to grow.

Thursday | September 17 | 5-7:30 pm | McMenamins | Downtown Bend
$15 EDCO Members | $25 Non-members

Beer/Wine, appetizers, networking and two speakers

The Tech Alliance of Central Oregon, will host Roger McNamee as a guest speaker for our kickoff event from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at Silver Moon Brewery before his band Moonalice performs for the public at 9:00 p.m. Roger will speak about Mobile Web Innovation, and draw from his extensive background in technology startups to talk about innovation in the industry. The Tech Alliance supports the existing Central Oregon technology community and helps build the emerging technology infrastructure for our region. The Tech Talk is free, but the concert is $10. For more info please see the summary of the event specifcs and more about the Tech Alliance, and Roger McNamee here: http://businessnetwork.meetup.com/53/calendar/10985579/

Please join us for our user group meeting this Friday, Aug 7. Vulcan Power has graciously offered to host the meeting at their offices. Barb Troyer from Cinetix Solutions will get you started customizing and branding your SharePoint site! Please feel free to bring your own lunch.

User group: Bend SharePoint User Group

Event name: Bend SharePoint User Group Meeting – August

Time period: 07 August 2009 11:30 till 07 August 2009 13:00 (GMT -8)

Location: 775 SW Bonnett Way, Suite 210. Bend. United States.

Description: This month’s topic: Barb Troyer from Cinetix Solutions will be presenting “Getting started with SharePoint Branding using SharePoint and SharePoint Designer.” Have you ever wondered how to customize your SharePoint portal or site so that is doesn’t look like every other SharePoint site? Have you been put in charge of “branding” your company portal with a custom look and feel? Are you wondering what master pages, page layouts, themes, and style sheets have to do with SharePoint? Barb will demonstrate a few quick wins for the end user affecting visual impact and usability of a SharePoint site, and also point you in the right direction should you want to dive in and customize your site with style sheets (or find someone to do it for you!)

Hope everyone is having a great summer. COISUG will be picking back up in September with another great lineup of presenters. If there is a technology or presenter that you would like to see, please send us an email. In the mean time, stop by the job board and checkout the new opportunities: http://www.coisug.info/?page_id=18 .

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, 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.