From dale.heron at verizon.net Sat Oct 3 09:45:59 2009 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (Dale Heron) Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:45:59 -0400 Subject: [BNUG News] **BNUG October 6 Meeting Reminder** Message-ID: <000001ca442f$d7a16230$6500a8c0@DHERONPC> Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - October 6 - 6:30-9:00PM ** THIS MONTH: IT Consulting as a Business --------------------------- Please join BNUG for a presentation on IT Consulting as a business presented by Stuart Zimmerman and David Schrag. Both Stuart and David have their own IT consulting practices and they will be sharing with us their experiences of starting and operating a consulting business. Adam Frost will be the moderator for the discussion and he will be asking questions like: * What led you into the computer consulting business? * What does your practice look like now? * What challenges did you face in building your practice? * What are the biggest challenges that you face today? * What have been the most helpful resources as you've developed your practice? * What direction do you see your practice going over the next 10 - 20 years? Bios: ----- Stuart Zimmerman, Principal at CCZ Consulting, has over twenty years of experience in Technology Leadership and Management in a wide variety of businesses. He received an MBA from the Wharton School, a JD from The George Washington University and a BA Cum Laude in Economics from the University of Maryland where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Director of Information Technology at Travelers Advantage, was CIO at Brand Direct Marketing, was SVP of Technology at Grand Circle Travel, and has consulted to a wide variety of businesses including Priceline and Waterhouse Securities. He assists companies with sales above $5 million in IT Strategy and Management as a Virtual CIO. David Schrag is the founder and sole employee of SCHRAG Inc., which he started in February 2000. His clients are small businesses and nonprofits with between one and thirty-five computers and no dedicated IT staff of their own. SCHRAG Inc. originally accepted anyone with a computer problem and a checkbook as a client. Today, there is a core set of about two dozen clients that use SCHRAG on an ongoing basis. David provides CIO and CTO services as well as some of the actual technical work. He also employs contractors for help desk and server management services. David is a graduate of Harvard College and Boston University Graduate School of Management, and is the author of several blogs on technology and human interest. Adam Frost (moderator) Adam Frost co-ordinates Computer Care and Learning, a computer helping company that serves Greater Boston organizations, home offices, and families (read more at www.ComputerCareAndLearning.cvom). He finds it useful and fascinating to learn about the past, present and future of the computer profession. Please join us on Tuesday, October 6th at 6:30PM where we will be Meeting at Microsoft's Waltham Offices, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, Mass. Please see our web site for directions to the meeting location. http://www.bnug.org/ * Refreshments are served from 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00pm with the technical presentation concluding at 9:00 pm. * BNUG monthly meetings, membership and refreshments are always FREE and you are not required to be a member to attend. If you wish to join BNUG, are interested in more information, or need directions to BNUG's meeting place at Microsoft in Waltham please visit the BNUG web site at: http://www.bnug.org/ * FUTURE MEETINGS Here is a tentative schedule of what's being planned for future BNUG meetings: November 3: Wide Area Network Optimization with Peter Schmidt from Ipanema Technologies. December 1: Windows 7 Networking Overview with Dan Stolts from Microsoft * The LANtern Online is now available at http://bnug.blogspot.com/ * To opt out of this monthly e-mail reminder or change your BNUG e-mail preferences, go to: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dale.heron at verizon.net Sun Nov 1 19:15:17 2009 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (Dale Heron) Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:15:17 -0500 Subject: [BNUG News] ** November Meeting Reminder ** Message-ID: <000101ca5b51$8ef91e90$6400a8c0@DHERONPC> Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - November 3 - 6:30-9:00PM ** THIS MONTH: Ipanema Networking WAN Optimization ----------------------------------- Please join BNUG for a presentation on Ipanema Technologies' unique autonomic network system presented by Peter Schmidt. This system uses a novel architecture to enable it to be self-governing, reacting dynamically and globally to variations in both user demand and network capacity to deliver a constantly evolving, optimal matching of resources to demand. The system is currently deployed at over 10,000 sites worldwide, has been in deployment since 2003, and is on version 6.0. It is a different - and better - way to operate enterprise WANs." Here is a brief outline for the presentation: * Making a 1000 site network feel like one Control, guarantee, accelerate, simplify, reduce costs. * Control the network with Application Service Levels * Guarantee application performance with high level objectives * Manage the network cost / application performance tradeoff * Understand the application delivery chain * Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System * Carrier class central management software and cooperative devices * Global Application Performance Objectives * Manage the traffic dynamically across the entire network * Global drill down views of the whole network in real-time * Visibility into application behavior and performance * Automatically discover applications using Layer 3 to 7 classification * High level application quality scores based on accurate flow metrics * Report on usage and performance throughout the organization * Performance bird's eye views (Maps), alarming and drill down * Optimization to guarantee user experience and Acceleration to minimize response times BIO: ----- Peter H. Schmidt, CTO North America for Ipanema Technologies, is an experienced product architect, executive and entrepreneur in the networking space, having founded and led two networking startups and played significant roles with eight others as an advisor, director or angel investor. He has brought seven networking products to market successfully in the past fifteen years. During the past eight years with Ipanema, he has worked extensively with prospective customers and partners in North America. Previously, Mr. Schmidt led Teradyne NorthStar Internetworking as its co-founder and General Manager. Mr. Schmidt is co-inventor on four patents issued to NorthStar for its unique, network-located active fault isolation system for automating consumer Internet support. In 1998, NorthStar was spun out of Midnight Networks, a company he co-founded in 1992 and which was acquired by Teradyne in 1996 for $20 million. Midnight Networks established its ANVL and Avalanche/RA network testing products as de facto industry standards, selling them to every major network equipment vendor and computer manufacturer, and to over half of all venture-funded startups in datacom/telecom. In 1996, Midnight Networks became the subject of a Harvard Business School case developed by Prof. H. Kent Bowen that profiles the founders' success in creating a new and innovative approach to building a startup company. An analysis of this case was presented in a special section of the Wall Street Journal in June, 1999. Mr. Schmidt has been a speaker, panelist and panel chair at Internet World, Interop, FutureNet and the Mass Telecom Council. In addition, he is frequently invited to speak to classes at MIT, Harvard and the Olin College of Engineering. Prior to the founding of Midnight Networks, Mr. Schmidt was employed as an internal consultant to the CEO of Analog Devices. His early experience was gained at BBN and Cayman Systems, Inc. Mr. Schmidt earned a BS in Computer Science and Engineering and MS in Management, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Please join us on Tuesday, November 3rd at 6:30PM where we will be Meeting at Microsoft's Waltham Offices, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, Mass. Please see our web site for directions to the meeting location. http://www.bnug.org/ * Refreshments are served from 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00pm with the technical presentation concluding at 9:00 pm. * BNUG monthly meetings, membership and refreshments are always FREE and you are not required to be a member to attend. 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URL: From dale.heron at verizon.net Sat Nov 28 13:55:36 2009 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (Dale Heron) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:55:36 -0500 Subject: [BNUG News] **Reminder - BNUG December 1 meeting ** Message-ID: <000001ca705c$5f718de0$6700a8c0@DHERONPC> Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - December 1 - 6:30-9:00PM ** THIS MONTH: Windows 7 - New Network Features ----------------------------------- Please join BNUG for a presentation and demo from Clyde Johnson on the new networking features of Windows 7 including but not limited to "Direct Access", BranchCache, homegroup, QOS enhancements, libraries and wireless networking improvements, etc... BIO: ----- Clyde Johnson is currently president of the Boston Area Windows Server User Group (http://www.windowsboston.org ). Clyde started out as an electronics technician and became SAD (Systems Administrator by Default) in January of 1996. Since then he has performed many different roles in IT. He is currently working as a Senior Network and Systems Administrator for a manufacturing firm in New Bedford, MA. He holds the MCSE, MCSA and A+ certifications and has taught A+ certification classes at Newbury College. He also holds a Bachelor of Fluencing from the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork. Please join us on Tuesday, December 1st at 6:30PM where we will be Meeting at Microsoft's Waltham Offices, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, Mass. Please see our web site for directions to the meeting location. http://www.bnug.org/ * Refreshments are served from 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00pm with the technical presentation concluding at 9:00 pm. * BNUG monthly meetings, membership and refreshments are always FREE and you are not required to be a member to attend. 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