February 17, 2011 PSSBS Meeting
Thursday, February 17th, the Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group welcomes Marlon Hines, the West Coast Channel Manager for Kerio Technologies, Inc. Kerio provides Internet messaging and firewall products designed for the SMB market. Join us for a technical look at their product line, including their Kerio Connect messaging solution, Kerio Control unified threat management offering, Kerio Operator IP PBX system, and Kerio Workspace.
Dinner will be provided by Kerio, and the meeting space and beverages graciously provided by Microsoft.
We will meet 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.
January 20, 2011 PSSBS Meeting and SMB Nation-Spam Soap BeerFest
Quick update to all of you. The SMB Nation / Spam Soap BeerFest will be held at our regular location, and our regular meeting time, tomorrow evening at 6 PM at Lincoln Square in Bellevue. Meet down in the lobby by the elevators and Tully’s to be escorted up to our meeting space.
We’ll be hanging out in our normal conference room and the great room area outside of it.
Come enjoy some refreshments, pizza, social time with Spam Soap and SMB Nation, and our regular group meeting to follow. Bring your questions, and your war stories!
See you at 6 PM tomorrow night!
Steve
http://www.smbnation.com
http://www.spamsoap.com
Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices are 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.
October 21, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
Simplifying High Availability and Virtualization
For those not attending SMB Nation this weekend, the Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group October meeting will include a presentation by VM6 Software, a provider of an ‘all in one’ software solution that virtualizes storage, servers and desktops all at the same time, on a single server, without the complexity and costs.
By leveraging Microsoft Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and using any x86-64 servers, VM6 VMex creates a completely virtualized IT infrastructure with the simplest high availability solution in less than three hours without requiring the purchase of a complex SAN. It also comes with its own clustering technology and management console.
VM6 Software is the perfect solution for IT environments that:
• Have less than 50 servers per site
• Have virtualized or have a project to migrate to a virtualized environment
• Require high availability for planned or unplanned downtime
• Have challenges justifying the cost of a SAN
Join us for a presentation that will demonstrate how VM6 VMex can:
· Optimize the capacity utilization of your IT infrastructure
· Simplify and improve IT service availability for small IT environments
· Eliminate the need for shared storage (SAN)
John Cloutier (VM6 Software Technical Evangelist) and Bruce Smith (Microsoft Alliance Manager and Business Development) will be presenting.
VM6 will be providing pizza for the group, and Microsoft will be providing the room and drinks. 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.
September 16, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
Paul Bourgeau, the lead for the Windows Intune project (www.windowsintune.com) will be speaking with the group, followed by a general group discussion.
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.
April 15, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
Taxes done yet? If not, file an extension and get over to Microsoft’s Lincoln Square offices for this month’s Puget Sound Small Business Server User Group Meeting.
Matt Beyer will be presenting this evening on behalf of Zenith Infotech. Matt builds Zenith’s partnership base within several states throughout the greater Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.
Zenith Infotech is an international company serving IT Service Providers worldwide. Their US-based headquarters is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Zenith provides three separate and distinct services. A Managed Service Infrastructure, a Virtual Help Desk and a Business Continuity Solution. Zenith’s mission is to help IT Service Providers grow their business without increasing their overhead.
Thank you to Microsoft’s WSSG (WHS, SBS, EBS) and Windows Server teams for providing the room and beverages, and to Zenith for covering the cost of the pizza for tonight’s meeting!
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Microsoft’s Lincoln Square Offices, Bellevue, WA
Street: 700 Bellevue Way NE
City/Town: Bellevue, WA
March 18, 2010 PSSBS Meeting
Nancy Williams, Vice President, Community Relations, with Cloud Services Depot, Inc. presenting Cloud Services Depot’s offerings.
About Nancy Williams -
●2004 Started at SMB Nation as first employee. Hired to ship books while finishing graduate school
●2006 Started working as independent contractor for MSPSN and SBSmigration.com
●2009 Hired as Vice President – Community Relations for Cloud Services Depot, formerly known as Securemycompany.com
Cloud Services Depot (www.cloudservicesdepot.com) is a wholesale distributor of Managed Services software and private-label services for Managed Services Providers (MSPs). In addition to providing IT Center powered by Kaseya, Cloud Services Depot provides private-label 24/7 Help Desk, Project and NOC services for Managed Services Providers. Cloud Services Depot’s combination of Managed Services software and private-label services offers MSPs a flexible, turnkey Managed Services solution without any minimum purchase or long-term commitments.
Cloud Services Depot is sponsoring the dinner, and Microsoft is providing the room and beverages.
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Microsoft’s Lincoln Square Offices, Bellevue, WA
Street: 700 Bellevue Way NE
City/Town: Bellevue, WA
