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.
