Next User Group Meeting
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Stephen Rose – Virtualization 101
Each year brings a fresh whirl of tech buzzwords. Terms like "proactive", "360-degree view" and "information life cycle management" have all been in vogue in recent history. This year, the technology de jour is "virtualization," a topic that has more than just hype behind it and has broken through into the mainstream. The seminar will discuss: how to use virtualization solutions to reduce information technology costs, mitigate risk and respond to a company's changing business needs and how to save time with easy, client-less, conflict-free application deployment and rollback. It will describe the advantages to developing in a virtual environment, how to reduce costs for support and regression testing by delivering fully tested applications to users – the first time – and how to improve enterprise security with the power to transparently run applications in user-mode on locked-down PCs. It will also cover how to reduce infrastructure requirements and costs with no client or server components to manage or maintain and moving live physical machines into a virtual environment and back again. Tips and tricks to adding virtual environments to your laptops and PCs will be provided.
Stephen is the Senior Network Architect and Partner in The Odyssey Consulting Group in Southern California, a company that specializes in Network Design and Application Development. Stephen has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies as well as speaking at SDWest, TechEd, TechEd Online, GeekSpeek, So Cal Code Camp, Run As Radio, .NET Rocks and many others. His technical certifications include, MCSE, MCT, MCSA, MCP+I as well as a myriad of Comptia certs. Stephen is a two time Microsoft MVP as well as writing both a tech blog for Fast Company Magazine and his own blog at
mcsegeek.wordpress.com. To learn more about Odyssey Consulting Group visit,
www.ocgpros.com
2007/2008 Most Valuable Member Awards
It took a while for the idea to catch on, and I had fears it just wouldn't take. Boy was I wrong! The sponsors started to see what was happening, a buzz started developing and more and more members started participating. Points accumulated started to soar. In March, the highest point total was 7,900. When point collection for this year was stopped on July 3, the highest total was 19,400!
Most Valuable Member 2007/2008. 42 entries and total points of 19,400 - Volkan Uzun
Volkan has been coming to the meetings for several years, working in several levels of the group, most recently developing and teaching a 12 week Beginner’s ASP.NET course affiliated with the IEDOTNET, writing several blog postings per month, and recently received two Microsoft Certifications. He must stay up nights, thinking of new ways to give back to the development community.
MVM Runner Up. 21 entries and total points of 17,840 - Michael Roth
Mike has a ton of great ideas, and will someday make his fortune on the interwebs. He is diligent about submitting his points early, and loves to donate a previously won raffle prize to someone else.
MVM Second Runner Up. 23 entries and total points of 16,110 - Paul Chu
Paul makes the trek from San Gabriel every meeting. He is always here early to help setup, stays late to help tear down, actively participates in discussions during the meetings, and offers to help where ever he can.
Congratulations to all!
And a really big "Thanks!" to the sponsors who came through to help me with this. Rachel Hawley at Red Gate, Britt King at JetBrains, Janine Rood at InnerWorkings, Joseph Anderson at telerik, Marsee Henon at O’Reilly, and Woody Pewitt at Microsoft
See pictures of the MVM event on Flickr
The TechZulu video of the Most Valuable Member event is online! Check it out here.
Free Training from InnerWorkings!
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A big THANK YOU to InnerWorkings for this great opportunity!
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Verio has teamed up with the Inland Empire .NET
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