Inland Empire NPA and ISSA     Inland Empire Chapter

Tuesday 11/24/09 - Tuesday 11/24/09   5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Coco's Restaurant and Bakery - Upland

Inland Empire NPA will be joining
Inland Empire ISSA for November 2009 Meeting

Guest Speaker --

Andy Spruill, Encase Software

Speaker Bio--
Andy currently serves as the head of Risk Management for Guidance Software, the maker of EnCase(r)- the world's leading digital investigative platform. In this position, Andy combines his expertise as a security professional and digital forensic investigator to help Guidance identify and mitigate areas of potential risk.

Andy began his professional career by serving overseas as a Special Agent with US Army Intelligence. During his time in the military he actively took part in numerous intelligence operations in support of the Cold War and the first Gulf War. After several years of distinguished service, Andy left the military and entered into the information technology industry.

In 2001, after establishing a successful career in the IT industry, Andy was approached by the Westminster, California Police Department to help them create a unit specializing in computer forensics and high technology crime. Andy also makes time to share his knowledge and experience by teaching a year long Computer Forensics certificate course at California State University, Fullerton. This course focuses on preparing students for entry into the Digital Forensics discipline.

Topic -- e-Discovery

Fees:     Member-Fee/ Student Fee $15.00     Non-Member Fee $20

Payment Types Accepted:     Checks        Cash

Monthly Meeting (lunch)    San Diego Chapter

Tuesday 11/03/09 - Tuesday 11/03/09   11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Coco's Bakery Restaurant

Building a toolkit (or a trunk of stuff) for the IT Diagnostician

You are a consultant or techncian. You need to appropriately diagnose, treat the issues and protect the data of your client. What tools and practivces are ranked best by your peers?

Join us for lunch and a panel discussion.

NPA On The Town    San Diego Chapter

Tuesday 10/27/09 - Tuesday 10/27/09   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Tip Top Meats & European Deli - (our bit of October fest)

On The Town
San Diego Chapter

Tuesday 10/27/09 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Dine with fellow IT business professionals. Designed to provide opportunities to reflect and socialize, this open community group plans to meets at various locations about San Diego for an event of food and enjoyment. Spouse, partners, and guests welcome. Diner's expected cost $20-$40 usually an open menu.

Lunch and Learn - Antivirus/Spam protections    San Diego Chapter

Tuesday 10/06/09 - Tuesday 10/06/09   11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: UTC Area

Antivirus and Spam protections for networks and endpoints or individual PCs

The members of the San Diego Chapter of the Network Professional Association are meeting for an open discussion over lunch about antivirus and spam protections for networks and endpoints or individual PCs. Network administrators are asked to share their solutions and concerns. Consultants and integrators are asked to share their recommendations and what they seeing at different installations.

Entrance fee required

NPA Inland Empire Kick Off     Inland Empire Chapter

Wednesday 09/30/09 - Wednesday 09/30/09   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: BBK Law Firm in Riverside

NPA Inland Empire Kick Off

Meeting: Come join us for “Wine and Cheese”

The Inland Empire Network Professional Association Chapter

Presents: VMWARE and NetApp

Join us for a discussion and demonstration on how virtualization can help your company:

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and energy costs by 80%, saving you more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized
• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and built-in data disaster recovery
• Increase utilization of existing hardware from 5-15% up to 80%
• Eliminate planned downtime for common maintenance operations
• Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better
• Recover rapidly from server failures with automatic restart of systems
• Reduce the cost of disaster recovery

On The Town    San Diego Chapter

Tuesday 09/22/09 - Tuesday 09/22/09   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Chin's Szechwan Cuisine - Escondido - traditional Szechwan Chinese

IT Professionals meet over dinner for social networking and contacts

NPA On the Town

Dine with fellow IT business professionals. Designed to provide opportunities to reflect and socialize, this open community group plans to meets at various locations about San Diego for an event of food and enjoyment. Spouse, partners, and guests welcome. Diner's expected cost $20-$40 usually an open menu.

Arrivals at the door welcome; please arrive early so we can add a seat at the table for you.

Non-NPA members are asked to contribute $10 to the San Diego NPA Chapter in addition to the cost of the meal.

SDNPA Chapter Lunch & Learn    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 09/09/09 - Wednesday 09/09/09   11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Coco's Bakery Restaurant - (858) 597-0284

The members of the San Diego Chapter of the Network Professional Association are meeting over lunch Wednesday September 9.

This meeting will be conducted by NPA member Joe Clark. He will present for our discussion:

"Forecast of Economic Recovery and Emerging Markets - The Hood Robbin Campaign"
and Joe's viewpoint, "Rebuilding the American Dream" by establishing principles of integrity at all levels and within all segments of the Economy.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Workshop     Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 07/22/09 - Wednesday 07/22/09   11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Santa Ana, California

Presented by: Dell EqualLogic, Force10 Networks and Telekenex

Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN
This workshop provides the opportunity for attendees to see and experience the data protection and recovery functions of the pS Series Storage Array in a real world scenarios. In this live workshop, use the features of the PS Series solution to recover individual files, entire volumes, collections of volumes, bootable volumes, and SQL databases. We’ll showcase how to capture and recover data and from crash consistent and application consistent snapshots and replicas. You’ll learn how to save and restore data locally using snapshots, as well as across WAN links using Deplication.

Why Force10 Networks with Dell EqualLogic?
Performance, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness have made Ethernet the networking technology of choice in the Enterprise. Each new generation of Ethernet has proven this value proposition to be a constant. And with the increasing volume of data traffic in the enterprise, the decision has already been made: 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) will be the next backbone technology. High-performance 10 GbE from Force10 Networks gives Enterprises the functionality and scalability they need to build their next-generation backbones cost-effectively. And as the world and workforces disperse, there must be fast and reliable connections from anywhere at any time for the data center to help increase efficiency and competitiveness.

Learn how Force10 can answer the challenges from the following technology changes: High performance, cost-effective computing; High-speed storage access and backup; Embedded security and dynamic denial of service protection; High-speed, congestion-free networks; Virtualizing a centralized network and assets.

TELEKENEX
Data Centers offer a secure environment to host your servers, mission critical applications and private data. Many data centers also offer redundant power feeds and fiber feeds into the building with back up generators which for all intent and purposes should keep your company up 99.999% of the time. Come learn how data center colocation plays an integral part in every companies disaster recovery plan.

Telekenex Data Center Colocation helps organizations establish a physical presence in a new market without the expenses related to additional staffing and office space. We offer customers the option to lease space in our Point-of-Presence POP) to securely place your own telecommunications equipment to increase network reliability and drive down costs.

NPA Los Angeles Chapter Meeting    Los Angeles Chapter

Tuesday 05/26/09 - Tuesday 05/26/09   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: LA Law Library (213) 785 - 2550

Topic to be announced

Introducing Asempra - Instant Recovery solution for Microsoft® Server    Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 05/20/09 - Wednesday 05/20/09   11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Location: USC Orange County Center

What would happen if your Exchange or SQL servers crashed?  How long would it take to restart the application, put all the data back and get users back on line?  If you’ve ever experienced an outage you know the pain of this scenario.  As Exchange and SQL become mission-critical applications in your IT infrastructure, what are you doing to safeguard your business from loss of data and the associated costs of downtime? 

Introducing Asempra - The industry's only OneClick, Instant Recovery solution for Microsoft® Exchange, SQL applications and Windows File Servers.  Come and join us in our product demo presentation and learn how you can accomplish the following:

• Restores Exchange and SQL applications to service in 30 seconds
• Delivers instant recovery of data from any point in time
• Eliminates the risk of data loss
• Simplifies operations via automated protection and one-click recovery
• Integrated, easy to manage storage reduces complexity
• Dramatically cuts IT costs for protection and recovery

Join us and discover some new technology that will allow you to restart your Exchange and SQL applications within 30 seconds, after a failure or corruption, and get users back online and productive immediately.   Come learn how you can protect your most critical applications at a very reasonable cost.

Awards for Professionalism Recognition Dinner and 2009 NPA Annual Meeting

Wednesday 05/20/09 - Wednesday 05/20/09   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Isla Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar

Lunch and Learn with Telekenex includes Data Center Tour    Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 04/29/09 - Wednesday 04/29/09   11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Telekenex - Data Center

"What is Data Center Colocation?
      -Colocation and Business Continuity
- Data Center Tours"

SPEAKER(s): Joel Ciniero
Director of Solution Architecture- Telekenex
 
Aaron Kanahele
Senior IP Consultant- Telekenex   akanahele@telekenex.com

Telekenex Data Center Colocation helps organizations establish a physical presence in a new market without the expenses related to additional staffing and office space. We offer customers the option to lease space in our Point-of-Presence (POP) to securely place your own telecommunications equipment to increase network reliability and drive down costs.

Data Centers offer a secure environment to host your servers, mission critical applications and private data.  Many data centers also offer redundant power feeds and fiber feeds into the building with back up generators which for all intensive purposes should keep your company up 99.999% of the time.

Come learn how data center colocation plays an integral part in every companies disaster recovery plan.  And please stay and join us for complementary data center tours at the end of our session.

MORE INFORMATION: Visit: www.telekenex.com Delivering World Class IP Solutions"

Lunch & Learn w/ SharePoint    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 04/08/09 - Wednesday 04/08/09   11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Coco's Bakery Restaurant - (858) 597-0284

Join your fellow IT Professionals for the April technology meeting of the Network Professional Association - San Diego Chapter. This month we will look at case studies of SharePoint installations looking to observe the best practices and qualities when building SharePoint Solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner DynTek, Inc. leads a 45 minute exploration of how it used MOSS 2007 to transform cash flow processes for two different companies and saved them both millions of dollars.

Dinner & Learn w/ Laserfiche - Document Management     Los Angeles Chapter

Tuesday 03/24/09 - Tuesday 03/24/09   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: LA Law Library (213) 785 - 2550

Join your fellow IT Professionals for the March technology meeting of the Network Professional Association - Los Angeles Chapter.

TOPIC: "Laserfiche - Document Management for Today"

SPEAKER(S): Allen Adjamian, President & Pat Kinnard, Senior Sales Executive of Adjamian Affiliated, Inc. Adjamian Affiliated is an authorized Laserfiche re-seller

Our speaker, Allen Adjamian, graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Information & Operations Management from the Marshall School of Business. He also holds an e-business certificate from University of California, Los Angeles. In addition, Mr. Adjamian is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and a Certified Document Imaging Architect.

NPA On The Town    San Diego Chapter

Monday 03/23/09 - Monday 03/23/09   6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Jake's Del Mar

Dine with fellow IT business professionals. Designed to provide opportunities to reflect and socialize, this open community group meets at locations about San Diego for fine dining and enjoyment. Spouse, partners, and guests welcome.

Reservations please
Diner's expected cost $25-$40.

Lunch & Learn w/ Laserfiche - Document Management     Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 03/18/09 - Wednesday 03/18/09   11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Location: USC - Orange County Center

Join your fellow IT Professionals for the March technology meeting of the Network Professional Association - Orange County Chapter. Pat Kinnard of Adjamian Affiliated Inc. will present the latest in document management and Laserfiche Adjamian Affiliated, Inc. is one of the most successful Laserfiche resellers in the country.

Lunch & Learn w/ Laserfiche - Document Management     San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 03/11/09 - Wednesday 03/11/09   11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Coco's Bakery Restaurant - (858) 597-0284

Join your fellow IT Professionals for the March technology meeting of the Network Professional Association - San Diego Chapter. Pat Kinnard of Adjamian Affiliated Inc. will present the latest in document management and Laserfiche Adjamian Affiliated, Inc. is one of the most successful Laserfiche resellers in the country.

NPA On The Town    San Diego Chapter

Monday 02/23/09 - Monday 02/23/09   6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Shogun Japanese Restaurant

Dine with fellow IT business professionals. Designed to provide opportunities to reflect and socialize, this open community group plans to meets at various locations about San Diego for an event of food and enjoyment. Spouse, partners, and guests welcome.

Reservations are required by February 20th please
Diner's expected cost $25-$40.

Lunch & Learn w/ ExaGrid Disk-based Backup System     Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 02/18/09 - Wednesday 02/18/09   11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Location: USC - Orange County Center

In the storage world, one can be certain that the quantity of data that must be managed and be protected will never go down. A major factor that is adding to this data growth is that many of the same or similar files are being stored over and over again and then repeatedly copied into the backup and archive storage. Significant savings could be possible if the redundancy could be reduced or eliminated.   This is the promise of data deduplication - an enabling technology that offers the potential for taming the growth of data.

This lunch & learn event  will highlight new data protection solution and technology like data deduplication, data compression & replication to help accomplish the following:

• Reduce backup windows
• Improve data recovery speeds
• Simplify data retention
• Provide cost-effective disaster recovery
• And more

Lunch and Learn - EMC    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 02/11/09 - Wednesday 02/11/09   11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Location: Coco's Bakery Restaurant - (858) 597-0284

"How to integrate, extend and accelerate your Virtual infrastructure with EMC".

EMC Integrates, Extends and Accelerates VMware Infrastructure 

•  Storage Technology Innovations
•  Backup and De-duplication built for VMware
•  Disaster Recovery with Site Recovery Manager
• Mission Critical Applications on VMware with EMC
  Management tools for VMware Infrastructure

NPA On The Town    San Diego Chapter

Monday 01/26/09 - Monday 01/26/09   6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Chin's Seafood and Grill

Dine with fellow IT business professionals. Designed to provide opportunities to reflect and socialize, this open community group plans to meets at various locations about San Diego for an event of food and enjoyment. Spouse and guests welcome.
Please join us for our first event: January26 (Chinese New Year) at Chins Restaurant .... Miramar Rd. Reservations are required by January 23rd. Diner's expected cost $25-$40.
This is the inaugural event of NPA On The Town.

NPA Elections for Board of Directors - Balloting Open

Monday 01/12/09 - Thursday 01/15/09   8:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Location: Vote in Members Section NPA web site

NPA members (current in dues) cast your ballot for new members to the Board of Directors. Elections close Thursday 2/15/09 Midnight Pacific time.

Chapter Leadership and Organization meetings

Thursday 01/01/09 - Wednesday 04/01/09  
Location:

Join your local chapter or form a chapter - Rocky Mountain Chapter, WiPro Chapter (virtual), Raleigh Chapter(NC) now starting

Holiday Party    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 12/10/08 - Wednesday 12/10/08   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Fidel's Little Mexico, Solana Beach

Join the NPA for HOLIDAY FESTIVITY at:

Fidel's Little Mexico             Directions
607 Valley Ave
Solana Beach, CA 92075
(858) 755-5292

We need a head count! Please RSVP before 12/8 to rsvp-sd@npa.org

Hors d'oeuvres provided.

Holiday Prize Raffle. (donations accepted)

NPA Monthly Network Meeting - Tentative     DANPA Chapter

Thursday 11/06/08 - Thursday 11/06/08   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: New Horizons Computer Learning Center

DANPA meetings are the first Thursday of every month at 7:00PM at New Horizons in Fairborn, OH. Please join us for presentations, people networking, refreshments, door prizes, and opportunities for involvement.

NPA Monthly Network Meeting - Tentative    Inland Empire Chapter

Tuesday 10/14/08 - Tuesday 10/14/08   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Computek in Rancho Cucamonga, California

Come join your fellow Inland Empire Network professionals for a FREE Dinner and Learn opportunity.

Final Part of our Virtualization Serie - SUSE Linux    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 10/08/08 - Wednesday 10/08/08   11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Vortex Data Systems

Join the NPA and Global Document Storage Systems (GDS2) at our October Kunch and Learn.

This month is the Final Part of our Virtualization Series.

Part Four focuses on the technical features and benefits of SUSE Linux Virtualization.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 is an open source virtualization solution.
What is the open source answer to proprietary virtualization implementations?
How does the SUSE Linux Xen virtualization compare and contrast to other solutions?

Antony Atkinson
President, San Diego Chapter
MCSE MCDBA MCNE CISSP CCA

NPA Monthly Network Meeting - LANDesk®     DANPA Chapter

Thursday 10/02/08 - Thursday 10/02/08   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: New Horizons Computer Learning Center

Presenting LANDesk
Speaker: Doug Burgdorf
Please join us on Thursday October 2nd 7-9pm when Doug Burgdorf will present LANDesk.

Easy-to-use LANDesk® systems, security and process management solutions are developed to help you and your enterprise do more with less effort, expense and training—and with little or no new infrastructure.
Experience an enterprise management platform that helps make your workdays less stressful and the value you bring your enterprise more noticeable.

Manage All Your Systems : Get a grip on IT Inventory, What’s on your network and asset and license compliance.

Keep your Systems Secure – Detect vulnerabilities and deploy patches with security management from a single console.

Automate Redundant Tasks – Create consistent, predictable IT workflows to streamline manual tasks, reduce errors and manage change.

This is a great opportunity for learing about Landesk and to network with your peers. You won't want to miss it!

Lunch and Learn with Telekennex    Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 08/20/08 - Wednesday 08/20/08   11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Telekenex - Data Center

Cisco Hosted VoIP
Data Center Tour
3D Holographic Video Conferencing (High Def 1080p)

Internet Explorer 8.0     DANPA Chapter

Thursday 08/14/08 - Thursday 08/14/08   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: New Horizons Computer Learning Center

Coming Back to my roots at DANPA - August 14th
Matt Hester - Microsoft will be at the meeting on the 14th. "It has been too long since I have been back and I am very excited that I have the opportunity to reconnect with everyone!"

"Dawn Gordon (Digital Controls Corp.) and I will be having a fun conversation with you about Internet Explorer 8. We are going to be talking about some of the great enhancements around security, easier use and reliability. So if your in the area, please come out and have some fun! I look forward to seeing you!"

Part Three of Virtualization Series - Hyper-V    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 08/13/08 - Wednesday 08/13/08   11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Vortex Data Systems

Join the NPA and Gilham Consulting at our August Lunch & Learn. We continue this month with Part Three of our Virtualization Series focusing on the technical features and benefits of Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization, as well as a brief introduction to App-V (formerly SoftGrid) and System Center Virtualization Manager 2008.

Part Two of Virtualization Series - Citrix    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 07/09/08 - Wednesday 07/09/08   11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Vortex Data Systems

Join the NPA and GTC Systems at our July Lunch & Learn. We continue this month with Part Two of our Virtualization Series. Part Two focuses on the technical features and benefits of Citrix Virtualization.

Vista Adoption Event     Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 06/25/08 - Wednesday 06/25/08   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: USC  Orange County Center

Dinner and Learn Meeting - Join your fellow IT Professionals for the next technology meeting of the Network Professional Association - Orange County Chapter. Speaker: Boris Jocoy, and Richard Allan Kelley presenting Microsoft Vista Adoption Event. Door Prize Microsoft Software provided by Culminis

Part One of Virtualization Series - VMware    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 06/11/08 - Wednesday 06/11/08   11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Vortex Data Systems

Join the NPA and GTC Systems at our June Lunch & Learn. Over the next few months we will present our Virtualization Series. Part one of the Virtualization Series focuses on technical discussions of VMware.

Network cameras, Video Servers and NVRs Convergence is here!    San Diego Chapter

Wednesday 05/14/08 - Wednesday 05/14/08   11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Vortex Data Systems

By 2010, IP systems will make up about 1/3 of the security cameras shipped. The combined market for network cameras, video servers and NVRs is forecast to exceed $2.6 billion in 2010. Convergence is here, are you prepared?

Join the NPA and SimplexGrinnell at our May Lunch & Learn.

Awards for Professionalism

Sunday 04/27/08 - Friday 05/02/08  
Location: INTEROP Las Vegas, Nevada

The Network Professional Association® (NPA), in conjunction with Interop, Network World Magazine, Culminis, Cisco Press, and InformationWeek is proud to announce the winners of NPA's seventh annual Awards for Professionalism program, which honors individuals for their outstanding achievements as professionals within the network computing industry.

NPA Monthly Network Meeting    Inland Empire Chapter

Friday 03/28/08 - Friday 03/28/08   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Computek in Rancho Cucamonga, California

Come join your fellow Inland Empire Network professionals for a FREE Dinner and Learn opportunity sponsored by Time Warner Cable Business Services and Cisco System Inc.

Cisco System, Inc.
Cisco Self Defending Network Secure Wireless

- The Business Case For Wireless

Enterprise-wide Wireless and Mobility Deliver Benefits for Everyday Workers via Business Process Improvement, Sustained Competitive Advantage, and Revenue Growth

- Wireless Security Risks

Open air, Standard 802.11 protocol, Unlicensed and Wi-Fi Security Myths

- Self Defending Network - Secure Wireless

Mobility dissolves traditional security boundaries and drives a shift towards securing information as opposed to securing perimeters

Speaker : Damon D. Bagley
Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems

Time Warner
- Business Class data rates on their Hybrid Fiber Coax (cable modem) infrastructure from 3 Mbps X 384 Kbps to 10 M

Dinner and Learn with Computek and VMware    Inland Empire Chapter

Tuesday 03/18/08 - Tuesday 03/18/08   6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Computek in Rancho Cucamonga, California

VMware Infrastructure 3 offers SMB organizations a scalable and cost-effective way to optimize utilization of technology assets, simplify IT management and protect the data and IT environments that run their businesses.

SPEAKER: John Ridgeway of VMWare

VMWare ESX Server allows IT organizations to:

Increase Hardware uitlization and dramatically decreases capital and operating cost by sharing hardware resources across a large number of virtual machines that run side-by-side on the same server

Improve service levels even to the most resource-intensive applications with advanced resource management, high availability, and security features.


The use of VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise:

Implement Production Server Consolidation and Containment. Contain server sprawl by running software applications in virtual machines on fewer, highly scalable, reliable enterprise-class servers.

Provide Advance Business Continuity Protect

Lunch and Learn at the Data Protection Summit 2008    Orange County Chapter

Wednesday 03/12/08 - Wednesday 03/12/08   12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Data Protection Summit 2008, Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport

TOPIC: Securing the Virtual Client

DOOR PRIZE: Microsoft Software

SPEAKERS: Feliciano Rivera, CTO of Secuware

MPLS & Verizon Private IP Services    Los Angeles Chapter

Wednesday 02/20/08 - Wednesday 02/20/08  
Location:

Dinner Meeting

MPLS – Multi-Protocol Label Switching and Verizon Private IP and Secure Gateway Firewall Services

Verizon Business and The Beacon Group
DOOR PRIZE: Apple iPod Shuffle
SPEAKERS: Jim McElwain, Verizon Eric Lehwald, The Beacon Group

Learn about Verizon Private IP Service is based on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology and how it works

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Spread the Word!

Join IT Professionals for happy hour with an eye to opening the Orange County NPA Chapter for business this September. Join the leaders - be a leader - volunteer or be part of the interested. We need you and your IT friends.

Time:
Wednesday September 22nd, 2005 6:00pm-7:30pm

Location: Atrium Hotel
Address: 18700 MacArthur Blvd Irvine , CA 92612 -
Phone: (949) 833-2770 or (800) 854-3012
Sponsors: Aruba Networks

Jeff Posner of Nextlevel Internet leads the team to launch an NPA Chapter in Irvine.

• October Event Interested Sponsor Neat-Patch and Graybar.

We are looking for ideas, high energy, interest, topics, facilities, venue, and leaders.

This is a great opportunity to build relationships and improve your professional position.

To learn more about NPA:  888-NPA-NPA0

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San Diego Chapter promotes balance of work and fun. Our chapter is providing a Happy Hour for NPA memebrs and guests. Reservations are required. Join us for a hosted social event to meet and greet new and old acquaintances.

www.sdnpa.org

Time: August 4, 2005 5:00p.m.

Location:  94th Aero Squadron
Address:  8885 Balboa Ave   San Diego, CA 92123
Cost: Your Business Card
Sponsor: APC/Southland Technologies, RedRock Cabling, Inc. and Microsoft

There's education, too. Visit the truck for to see and touch an APC ISX -- Complete rack based systems with power, cooling, management and services fully integrated
Door Prize:    A very nice backpack!

Door Prize:  Two Padre tickets on the field lower box - Winner chooses game (subject availability)

Door Prize:  Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit

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Spread the Word!

Join IT Professionals for happy hour with an eye to opening the Orange County NPA Chapter for business this September. Join the leaders - be a leader - volunteer or be part of the interested. We need you and your IT friends.

Time:
Wednesday July 16th, 2005 6:00pm-7:30pm

Location: 
El Torito Mexican Restaurant & Cantina
18512 MacArthur Blvd Irvine , CA 92612 (949) 833-8230

Jeff Posner of Nextlevel Internet leads the team to launch an NPA Chapter in Irvine.

• Meet Jeff at El Torito's for happy hour.
• This will be our third meeting and things are looking very good.
• Help define the future of the chapter.
• Finalize plans for the first technology event in Sept '05

We are looking for ideas, high energy, interest, topics, facilities, venue, and leaders.

This is a great opportunity to build relationships and improve your professional position.

To learn more about NPA:  888-NPA-NPA0

Let us know you are coming:  rsvp-oc@npa.org

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e-Gov Forum & Expo

2005 Government & Health Technologies Forums. The Leading IT Event for Government & Health Sectors August 30-31, 2005, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa , Canada

http://gov.wowgao.com

The 2005 Government Technologies Forum and 2005 Health Technologies Forum are the premier learning and networking events for IT professionals from all levels of government and health services in Canada , including the federal and MASH (Municipalities, Academic Institutions, Schools and Hospitals) sectors. Both of these important IT conferences will be hosted simultaneously at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Ottawa . Delegates at these events will discuss many Government and Health initiatives and solutions, including Information Management, Privacy, Security, Government to Citizen (G2C) Electronic Service Delivery, e-Health, Government Portals, Health Technologies, IT Outsourcing and many others.

Login to receive your promotion code and receive a free 1-Session Conference Pass or to purchase Conference Day passes.

For more information about the 2005 Government & Health Technologies Forums , please contact 1-416-292-0038 ext. 821 or visit: http://gov.wowgao.com

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June 13-15, 2005, Hyatt Regency Scottsdale at Gainey Ranch, Scottsdale, Arizona

Why You Should Attend
Are mobile and wireless technologies pushing your enterprise envelope? Is the proliferation of more devices challenging your organization's ability to stay on the cutting edge? Do you need to learn how other companies and industries apply the latest and greatest mobile and wireless tools? Then attend Computerworld's Mobile & Wireless World Conference, the place where you can gain first-hand, cutting-edge knowledge that can enhance your organization's mobile and wireless strategies.

Learn more

NPA MEMBERSHIP MEETING
May 4, 2005 - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Excalibur Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas , NV

June 23, 2004 12PM EST- NPA Webcast - Windows malware likes to hide and how to eradicate it. The Network Professional Associaton and Windows & .Net Magazine invite the network computing technical community.

This event will take place on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 (12:00 pm EDT)

Join us for a quick and fact-filled journey detailing where

Also, hear about the NPA "2004 Awards for Professionalism" winners.

Speaker: Roger A. Grimes, Senior Computer Security Consultant
(CPA, CISSP, MCSE: Security (NT/2000/2003/MVP), TICSA) Windows computer security consultant. Recently awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Windows Server 2003 Security. Author of Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows (O'Reilly) and Honeypots for Windows (Apress).

To see the details and register for the open event jump to: http://www.winnetmag.com/seminars/npa/malware

** Product discount included with webcast

May 10-11, 2004 - Member Meeting and Awards for Professionalism The NPA at Las Vegas: Come to the party Awards

March 31, 2004 3PM EST- NPA Webcast - Batten Down the Hatches: Patch Management with Software Update Services provided by Windows & .NET Magazine Info You may now view the archive of this event.  Find yourself surrounded in relevant, timely, how-to information with a subscription to Windows & .NET Magazine, or one of their other products.

October 17, 2003 10:00 AM - Web Cast The NPA and Microsoft Present: Microsoft Office System Sneak Preview
The Network Professional Association (NPA) is privileged to provide, in coordination with Microsoft and launch of Office Pro 2003, NPA members a free copy of Office Pro Enterprise. Participation in this webcast fulfills one of the requirements to be eligible.

May 28, 2003 2:30 PM - Web Cast The NPA and Microsoft Present: Windows Server 2003 Security Enhancements
The Network Professional Association (NPA) is privileged to provide, in coordination with Microsoft and Launch Server 2003, NPA members a free copy of Server 2003. Participation in this webcast fulfills one of the requirements to be eligible.

April 29, 2003 - Las Vegas, Nevada The Network Professional Association (NPA) presents the second annual Awards for Professionalism ceremony at NetWorld+ Interop 2003. The awards program, in cooperation with NetWorld+Interop, honors individuals for their outstanding achievements within the network computing industry. Each winner received a specially designed, personalized trophy.

November 20, 2002 - Herndon, Virginia The NPA and Network Computing Magazine Present: Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
The Network Professional Association (NPA), in coordination with Network Computing Magazine, held a highly successful seminar that addressed tactics and technologies available to ensure business continuity and safeguard mission critical information assets.

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