From dale.heron at verizon.net Mon Jul 5 10:34:53 2010 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (Dale Heron) Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:34:53 -0400 Subject: [BNUG News] **July 6 BNUG Meeting Reminder ** Message-ID: <000501cb1c4f$3ba0f730$6400a8c0@DHERONPC> Just wanted to remind everyone that we are having the monthly meeting tomorrow: Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - July 6 - 6:30-9:00PM ** THIS MONTH: Current State of Wireless LAN Technologies -------------------------------------------------------------- Please join BNUG on July 6 for a presentation on "Current State of Wireless LAN Technologies" given by John Green from Aruba Networks(www.arubanetworks.com ). John will be talking about the current status of wireless LAN technologies and the future developments. BIO: ----- Jon Green first used a wireless LAN in 1997 while working for Bay Networks, and immediately fell in love with the idea. No longer chained to a desk, he experienced the joy of accessing his home ISDN line over a blazing fast 1Mbps wireless link while sitting in front of the TV. Since that time, he has done work for a number of other networking companies including Nortel and Foundry Networks. He is currently a senior Product Manager for Aruba Networks in Sunnyvale, California. Jon earned a BS in IT Security from Western Governor's University and holds CISSP certification. When not playing with technology, he enjoys flying planes, making wine, and cooking competition barbecue. Please join us on Tuesday, July 6st 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. 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URL: From dale.heron at verizon.net Mon Aug 2 14:22:54 2010 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (dale.heron at verizon.net) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:22:54 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [BNUG News] **August 3, BNUG Monthly Meeting Reminder ** Message-ID: <1082934597.1154165.1280773374895.JavaMail.root@vms226.mailsrvcs.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dale.heron at verizon.net Thu Sep 2 22:06:41 2010 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (Dale Heron) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:06:41 -0400 Subject: [BNUG News] *** BNUG September Meeting Announcement *** Message-ID: <000001cb4b0c$a7167a30$6400a8c0@DHERONPC> Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - September 7 - 6:30-9:00PM ** ********************************IMPORTANT****************************** Due to a conflict, we will not be meeting at Microsoft's Offices. We will be meeting at the ColoSpace, in Waltham. Their address is: 265 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451 The entrance is towards the back of the building. Their web site is: http://www.colospace.com/ *********************************************************************** THIS MONTH: Virtualization Best Practices -------------------------------------------------------------- Please join BNUG on September 7th for a presentation on "Virtualization Best Practices"given by Jason Williams of the technical staff of Ipswitch, Inc.. Ipswitch, the developer of the WhatsUp GoldR suite of innovative IT management software, has developed WhatsVirtual 2.0, which natively integrates with the VMware vSphere API and discovers, maps, monitors and manages ESXi hosts and their associated virtual machines from a single console and also delivers accurate and up-to-date availability and performance information across VMware-based virtual server infrastructures. Attendees will be eligible to win a "Flip" camcorder which has been provided as a DOOR PRIZE by Ipswitch. *** Please be sure to bring your business cards for the drawing.*** Ipswitch also is hosting light refreshments for the meeting. BNUG thanks Ipswitch for this support! Ipswitch develops and markets software products and services for businesses worldwide. More than 100 million people use Ipswitch software to monitor their networks with Ipswitch WhatsUpR, transfer files over the Internet using the market-leading Ipswitch WS_FTPR Professional client and Ipswitch WS_FTP Server and communicate via IMailT Server. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Ipswitch also has Research & Development centers in Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia and Madison, Wisconsin, and a European support office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Ipswitch sells its products through distributors, resellers and OEMs in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Jason Williams is Product Manager and Technical Support Specialist for Ipswitch. He is a New England transplant who now resides in Georgia and works at Ipswitch's Atlanta office. Jason commented about his postition at Ipswitch: "As the Product Manager, I feel I can truly make a difference with the software. It allows me to connect with customers, and then translate those conversations into features within the application. I like having some control in the direction of the product." As Ipswitch's official guru, Jason describes himself as "extreme network management/monitoring geek" by day and mobile DJ and avid pool player by night. - - - Please join us on Tuesday, September 7th at 6:30PM where we will be meeting at the ColoSpace, 265 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451. * 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 please visit the BNUG web site at: Web Site: http://www.bnug.org/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2377167 &trk=hb_side_g Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=111329032215557 * FUTURE MEETINGS Here is a tentative schedule of what's being planned for future BNUG meetings: October 5 : Current WAN Technologies - given by NTT November 2 : TBD, given by ColoSpace (www.colospace.com ) 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 smisenberg at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 08:19:23 2010 From: smisenberg at gmail.com (Steve Isenberg) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:19:23 -0400 Subject: [BNUG News] Tuesday meeting -- New Location -- Flipcam giveaway Message-ID: Two important points about Tuesday 9/7/2010 6:30pm BNUG meeting: NEW DIFFERENT LOCATION: ColoSpace, 265 Winter St, Waltham WIN A FLIPCAM: Attendees are eligible to win a "Flip? camcorder (provided as a DOOR PRIZE by Ipswitch.) AND SEVERAL BOOKS will also be given away to lucky attendees. MAP: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Waltham&state=MA&address=265+Winter+St&zipcode=02451-8717&country=US&latitude=42.398771&longitude=-71.253212&geocode=ADDRESS Remember...Monday is a holiday...Tuesday is the first workday next week!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dale Heron Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:06 PM Subject: [BNUG News] *** BNUG September Meeting Announcement *** To: bnug at bgaddict.com Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - September 7 - 6:30-9:00PM ** ********************************IMPORTANT****************************** Due to a conflict, we will not be meeting at Microsoft?s Offices. We will be meeting at the ColoSpace, in Waltham. Their address is: 265 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451 The entrance is towards the back of the building. Their web site is: http://www.colospace.com/ *********************************************************************** THIS MONTH: Virtualization Best Practices -------------------------------------------------------------- Please join BNUG on September 7th for a presentation on ?Virtualization Best Practices?given by Jason Williams of the technical staff of Ipswitch, Inc.. Ipswitch, the developer of the WhatsUp Gold? suite of innovative IT management software, has developed WhatsVirtual 2.0, which natively integrates with the VMware vSphere API and discovers, maps, monitors and manages ESXi hosts and their associated virtual machines from a single console and also delivers accurate and up-to-date availability and performance information across VMware-based virtual server infrastructures. Attendees will be eligible to win a "Flip? camcorder which has been provided as a DOOR PRIZE by Ipswitch. *** Please be sure to bring your business cards for the drawing.*** Ipswitch also is hosting light refreshments for the meeting. BNUG thanks Ipswitch for this support! Ipswitch develops and markets software products and services for businesses worldwide. More than 100 million people use Ipswitch software to monitor their networks with Ipswitch WhatsUp?, transfer files over the Internet using the market-leading Ipswitch WS_FTP? Professional client and Ipswitch WS_FTP Server and communicate via IMail? Server. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Ipswitch also has Research & Development centers in Atlantaand Augusta, Georgia and Madison, Wisconsin, and a European support office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Ipswitch sells its products through distributors, resellers and OEMs in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Jason Williams is Product Manager and Technical Support Specialist for Ipswitch. He is a New England transplant who now resides in Georgia and works at Ipswitch's Atlanta office. Jason commented about his postition at Ipswitch: "As the Product Manager, I feel I can truly make a difference with the software. It allows me to connect with customers, and then translate those conversations into features within the application. I like having some control in the direction of the product." As Ipswitch's official guru, Jason describes himself as "extreme network management/monitoring geek" by day and mobile DJ and avid pool player by night. - - - Please join us on Tuesday, September 7th at 6:30PM where we will be meeting at the ColoSpace, 265 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451. * 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 please visit the BNUG web site at: Web Site: http://www.bnug.org/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2377167&trk=hb_side_g Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=111329032215557 * FUTURE MEETINGS Here is a tentative schedule of what's being planned for future BNUG meetings: October 5 : Current WAN Technologies ? given by NTT November 2 : TBD, given by ColoSpace (www.colospace.com) 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 Mon Sep 6 10:40:17 2010 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (Dale Heron) Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:40:17 -0400 Subject: [BNUG News] ** September 7 BNUG Meeting: "Virtualizaiton Best Practices" held at COLOSPACE in WALTHAM *** Message-ID: <009101cb4dd1$6d146d70$6400a8c0@DHERONPC> ****PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL BE MEETING AT THE COLOSPACE THIS MONTH. THE ADDRESS IS: **** 265 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451 MAP: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Waltham &state=MA&address=265+Winter+St&zipcode=02451-8717&country=US&latitude=42.39 8771&longitude=-71.253212&geocode=ADDRESS *** ALSO NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE A FLIP CAMCORDER PROVIDED BY IPSWITCH, INC THAT WILL BE GIVEN AWAY AT THE END OF THE MEETING. PLEASE BRING YOUR BUSINESS CARDS TO ENTER INTO THE DRAWING. *** THIS MONTH: Virtualization Best Practices -------------------------------------------------------------- Please join BNUG on September 7th for a presentation on "Virtualization Best Practices"given by Jason Williams of the technical staff of Ipswitch, Inc.. Ipswitch, the developer of the WhatsUp GoldR suite of innovative IT management software, has developed WhatsVirtual 2.0, which natively integrates with the VMware vSphere API and discovers, maps, monitors and manages ESXi hosts and their associated virtual machines from a single console and also delivers accurate and up-to-date availability and performance information across VMware-based virtual server infrastructures. Attendees will be eligible to win a "Flip" camcorder which has been provided as a DOOR PRIZE by Ipswitch. *** Please be sure to bring your business cards for the drawing.*** Ipswitch also is hosting light refreshments for the meeting. BNUG thanks Ipswitch for this support! Ipswitch develops and markets software products and services for businesses worldwide. More than 100 million people use Ipswitch software to monitor their networks with Ipswitch WhatsUpR, transfer files over the Internet using the market-leading Ipswitch WS_FTPR Professional client and Ipswitch WS_FTP Server and communicate via IMailT Server. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Ipswitch also has Research & Development centers in Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia and Madison, Wisconsin, and a European support office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Ipswitch sells its products through distributors, resellers and OEMs in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Jason Williams is Product Manager and Technical Support Specialist for Ipswitch. He is a New England transplant who now resides in Georgia and works at Ipswitch's Atlanta office. Jason commented about his postition at Ipswitch: "As the Product Manager, I feel I can truly make a difference with the software. It allows me to connect with customers, and then translate those conversations into features within the application. I like having some control in the direction of the product." As Ipswitch's official guru, Jason describes himself as "extreme network management/monitoring geek" by day and mobile DJ and avid pool player by night. - - - Please join us on Tuesday, September 7th at 6:30PM where we will be meeting at the ColoSpace, 265 Winter Street, Waltham, MA 02451. * Refreshments are served from 6:30 pm. Meeting starts at 7:00pm with the technical presentation concluding at 9:00 pm. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dale.heron at verizon.net Thu Sep 30 22:42:52 2010 From: dale.heron at verizon.net (Dale Heron) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:42:52 -0400 Subject: [BNUG News] *** October 5th BNUG Monthly Meeting *** Message-ID: <000501cb6112$58ee9f10$6400a8c0@DHERONPC> ** Please note that we will be meeting at our normal meeting location in Microsoft's offices at 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA **** Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting THIS MONTH: Current WAN Technologies -------------------------------------------------------------- Please join BNUG on October 5th for a presentation on "WAN Technologies" given by Joey Chia from NTT Communications (www.us.ntt.com ). Joey will be discussing current WAN technologies including MPLS, VPLS and the emergence of Ethernet globally. BIO: Joey Chia is a Senior Network Engineer that has been working on Solution Development with NTT for nearly a decade. About NTT: Ranked 31st overall on the list of Fortune Global 500 companies with nearly $100 billion in operating revenues, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is one of the world's largest information and communi-cations service providers. NTT's service capabilities include fixed lines and mobile communications as well as Internet and systems integration services. With more than 100 years of communications experience and nearly 200,000 dedicated professionals worldwide, NTT has a long history of innovation. NTT Communications covers more than 150 countries worldwide with the most extensive coverage in the Asia-Pacific region. Our strong Asia-Pacific layer 1 network provides redundancy with double triangles connecting major Asian cities and a ladder network to link Japan, the US and Europe. Diverse network paths with auto re-route capability in layer 2 networks guarantee quality and performance. To support rapid growth in Internet traffic, NTT Communications has been continuously upgrading its Global Tier-1 IP backbone with increased bandwidth and direct connections to major ISPs in Asia, the U.S., Europe and Oceania. The network currently boasts the industry's largest dedicated Trans-Pacific Internet bandwidth managed under one single policy with industry leading SLAs. - - - Please join us on Tuesday, October 5th at 6:30PM where we will be meeting at Microsoft's offices on 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA 02451. * 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 please visit the BNUG web site at: Web Site: http://www.bnug.org/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2377167 &trk=hb_side_g Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=111329032215557 * FUTURE MEETINGS Here is a tentative schedule of what's being planned for future BNUG meetings: November 2 : TBD, given by ColoSpace (www.colospace.com ) 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: