August 19, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
For our August, 2010 Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group meeting, Kevin Brown, Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Symform, will be presenting and demonstrating their new v2.0 version of their affordable online data storage and disaster recovery solution.
Symform claims the new version is 10X faster and full of new features including:
- Flexible Contribution - contribute from anywhere – including the MSP’s office
- Resource Groups - pool bandwidth and storage across multiple nodes
- Instant Restore – keep a hot copy of the client’s data at the MSP’s office, the owner’s home, wherever…
- Laptop backup support
Symform will be covering the food/drinks for the evening and bringing a door prize.
In addition to Symform, we will also have two special guests in attendance. SBS Microsoft Most Valued Professionals, Philip Elder, and Jason Miller, are both in town working on a project over at Microsoft this week along with Steve Banks, and are excited to spend time with the group sharing the latest on the recently announced Aurora beta (http://connect.microsoft.com/sbs to sign up for it). With Symform’s Kevin Brown, and Philip and Jason all here, it will prove to be an incredible evening, so looking forward to seeing everyone there. Will be at our usual location,
at Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices in downtown Bellevue (700 Bellevue Way NE - Lincoln Square, Bellevue, WA 98004).
Park in the Lincoln Square garage and meet at the elevators on the first floor by 6 PM to head up to the meeting (take a ticket when you enter the garage, but parking will be free for the evening).
Meeting will be from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
July 15, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
For the July 15, 2010 PSSBS meeting, Bernardo Munoz, Microsoft’s Product Manager focusing on Azure in the SMB space, joined the group for a very interactive white board session.
Bernardo talked with the group about Azure and how it is going to impact SMB focused IT consulting practices.
While the general tone at the beginning of the meeting was not one of excitement about Azure, as attendees saw it as a possible thread to their business, at the end of the evening, the group left the meeting excited about the possibilities Azure has to offer to them and their clients. Bernardo and the group talked about how small businesses can use Azure for backup and recovery, discussed pricing, etc…
The group provided great feedback for Bernardo and his team. So much so, that Bernardo would like to come back in October and report back to the group.
June 17, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
For our June 17, 2010 PSSBS Meeting, Steve Banks covered his recent trip to meet with Trend Micro’s R&D team and upper management involved with the SMB space, at their offices in Taipei, Taiwan. Covered Trend’s efforts to combat FakeAV, and what they are doing to improve their Worry Free Business Security (WFBS) line of products.
May 20, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
For our May, 2010 meeting, Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group member, Judith H. Maier, Attorney at Law, back from the ABA TechShow in Chicago, presented to the PSSBS Group on Electronic Discovery and Digital Signatures.
