Feb 17th meeting: UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP
Jeff Jonas
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - FEBRUARY 2011 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S FEBRUARY 2011 MEETING NOTICE
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When: THURSDAY, February 17th, 2011 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)
Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: LL101_CS (LL1=Lower Level)
** Please RSVP **
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.
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Topic: HP Unix and Hardware Briefing:
(1) BCS Roadmap (Integrity i2, SD2, DL980)
(2) HP/UX v3 Roadmap/Update
(3) HP/UX Comparison to Oracle/Sun Solaris
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Speakers: Members of the HP BCS Competitive Solutions Team:
Billy Garcia,
Tariq Khan,
John Kuhr.
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INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup is pleased to announce our February 2011 meeting on
HP Unix and Hardware Briefing. Instead of making a Field Trip
over to HP, HP is instead coming to Unigroup @ The Cooper Union.
We will still treat this meeting in the spirit of the Unigroup
Field Trip, meaning that the vendor will be presenting topics
in a vendor-specific and product-specific manner, rather than
giving us a vendor-neutral technology talk.
Our tentative next meeting schedule is:
17-MAR-2011: Open Source Cluster Parallel File Systems
(Speaker: RAID Inc.)
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.
Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list".
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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: HP Unix and Hardware Briefing:
(1) BCS Roadmap (Integrity i2, SD2, DL980)
(2) HP/UX v3 Roadmap/Update
(3) HP/UX Comparison to Oracle/Sun Solaris
Introduction & Description of Talk:
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Three Technical Presentations.
Outline of Talk:
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To-be-announced.
References & Web Resources:
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HP Products and Services:
http://www.hp.com
HP UNIX - HP/UX:
http://www.hp.com/go/unix
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Speaker Biographies:
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Billy Garcia:
Billy Garcia has been employed at Hewlett-Packard since November,
1993 and has served in many job functions during this time. Some
of his previous experience with HP include: Medical CE, BCS
Systems CE, BCS Hardware Support Specialist, and Network &
Systems Administrator for the PTAC (Partner Technology Center)
in Paramus, NJ.
Billy is now serving as Pre-Sales SA and a charter member of the
newly formed BCS competitive sales team, reporting to Gene Ng.
He is also serves as a Blades Ambassador and Network Ambassador
and is active in helping to educate fellow SA's, Sales Reps,
HP Partners and customers on HP technology.
Billy has hands on expertise in HP-UX, Windows & Linux as well
as being an avid Linux enthusiast. Billy also holds a Master's
of Science Degree in Internet & Network Security from the New
York Institute of Technology.
Billy is a US Army Veteran who served in the Mechanized Infantry
Division.
Tariq Kahn:
Tariq Kahn has over 20 years of experience in consulting and
pre-sales roles which involved solution and enterprise
architecture, business development and consulting. Tariq joined
the BCS Competitive Solution Architecture team in June 2010 to
support expanding HP's business in new accounts. Tariq is a
member of the Americas Cloud SWAT team and the Americas
Application Transformation team. He is also a member of the HPIT
SWAT team for the past 4 years and has presented the HPIT
Transformation story to over 50 customers.
Prior to joining BCS, Tariq was a Master Architect with HP's
Data Center Transformation practice where he led various projects
addressing solution areas such as data center transformation,
server consolidation, enterprise architecture, application &
systems architecture and IT service management. Tariq has
published numerous technical papers, webcasts, podcasts and case
studies. He has also spoken at various HP and Industry events.
John Kuhr:
John Kuhr is a Solutions Architect with the BCS East Competitive
Team and is based in New York supporting the Integrity and HP-UX
product portfolio. John joined HP in 2010.
Prior to joining HP, John was with Sun Microsystems as a Sr.
Technical Specialist supporting high-end Solaris SPARC hardware
platforms (E25K, M-Series) in both a pre-sales and hands-on
implementation professional services role covering the US east
coast.
Prior to joining Sun, John was with Bell Atlantic (Verizon) as
a Sr. Technical Staff Member working in the area of mainframe
and Unix performance and systems management. Prior to Bell
Atlantic, John was with IBM Corp. where he worked in a variety
of positions in systems programming and engineering (MVS and AIX)
at IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York lab.
John attended Baruch College - City University of New York.
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Company Biography:
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For information about HP, visit:
http://www.hp.com.
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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.
We have some Solaris Related CD-ROMs from our friends at the
local NYC Sun Microsystems Office.
(Note: We are running low on books right now.)
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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,
NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.
Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This
includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna
and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato,
tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and
assorted SOFT beverages.
HP will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting!
Thanks HP!
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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street).
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!
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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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There's a very busy event schedule for 2011...
USER GROUPS:
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a) NYLUG
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: From: NYLUG Announcements
: Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: 2/16 @ 6:30PM
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: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
: IBM
: 590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
: corner of 57th Street
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: *** RSVP Closes at 4:30 PM the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
: Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time.
: Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
: Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge.
:
: Daniel Grippi and Raphael Sofaer
: - on -
: Diaspora: Federated social networking
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: This presentation will outline the different standards Diaspora is using to
: federate data between pods and how the core Diaspora team maintains its pod
: at joindiaspora.com. The presentation will end with a section on how to
: get involved as a contributor to the Diaspora code-base.
For information about NYLUG visit: http://nylug.org
EVENTS:
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a) High Performance Computing 2011
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Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011
Where: Roosevelt Hotel,
NYC
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/linux
b) A-Team Insight Event:
The Business and Technology of Low-Latency Trading
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Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011
Where: Crowne Plaza
1605 Broadway, Times Square, NYC
Free Workshop Sessions, Free Exhibition.
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/insightevents/
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/insightevents/2011/nyc-btll/register/
c) LOPSA-NJ PICC 2011:
PICC - Professional IT Community Conference
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Dates: Fri, Apr 29, 2011
Sat, Apr 30, 2011
Where: Hyatt Regency,
New Brunswick, NJ
This is a technical conference put on by our friends at
the LOPSA NJ User Group.
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.picconf.org
d) A-Team Insight Event:
Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations
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Date: Tue, May 17, 2011
Where: Park Central New York,
870 Seventh Avenue, NYC
Free Workshop Sessions, Free Exhibition.
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/insightevents/
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/insightevents/2011/nyc-dmrav/register/
e) Cloud Expo and Cloud Camp NY
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Cloud Expo New York,
Cloud Computing Bootcamp,
Virtualization Conference & Expo.
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Dates: Mon, Jun 6, 2011
Tue, Jun 7, 2011
Wed, Jun 8, 2011
Where: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
NYC
For information and online registration visit:
http://cloudcomputingexpo.com
CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo New York
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Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.cloudcamp.org/ny
** Just like last year, free registration for CloudCamp
includes a complimentary VIP pass to Cloud Expo!
There is a limited number of VIP passes - Don't Wait!
f) SIFMA Financial Services Technology Expo 2011
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Dates: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thu, Jun 16, 2011 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
NYC 10019
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.sifma.org/FSTE2011
g) High Performance Financial Markets 2011
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Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011
Where: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/hpc
h) A-Team Insight Event:
Strategies for Deploying Low-Latency Technologies
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Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2011
Where: ??,
NYC
For information and online registration visit:
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/insightevents/
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/insightevents/2011/nyc-wsll/
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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Oracle/Sun VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS
- Planning: IPsec and IPv6 and VPNs (possibly 3 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Fibrechannel and Infiniband
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- The latest on *BSD (NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, and other new peripheral technologies
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.
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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix
and the Unix/Linux/BSD User Community.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.
Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
2/17/2011, 3/17/2011, 5/20/2011, 7/21/2011, 9/15/2011,...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.
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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!
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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org