Join us for an exclusive technology briefing on Oracle’s unique vision for simplifying IT. See how Oracle's engineered systems and storage bring this unique vision to life today. Hear first-hand how Oracle’s ongoing investment in innovation across the technology stack is creating new opportunities for your business. You’ll learn about the latest Oracle announcements:

New Engineered Systems to keep Exadata & Exalogic company

SPARC SuperCluster -- consolidate your Oracle and/or third party software on Oracle's first general purpose engineered system built on a new generation of high-performance Oracle SPARC servers. Oracle Database Appliance -- highly available Oracle database that is simple to deploy and manage from the factory with integrated hardware and software. Oracle Exalytics -- an appliance for better decision making that leverages Oracle's Business Intelligence software in an optimized, ready to deploy, integration of hardware and software. Oracle Big Data -- extract business information from substantial amounts of unstructured data using an integrated hardware and software appliance, including Oracle NoSQL database and Oracle Hadoop software. Oracle Solaris 11 -- enhanced availability, complete, built-in virtualization, unified software administration, additional security and improved data management.
Oracle's Storage for managing all of your data assets

Oracle's 3rd generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliances -- deliver best-in-class performance, efficiency, and Oracle software integration
Pillar Axiom 600 Storage Family -- enables Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) in a box. This SAN based block storage array distinguishes itself with its unique engineered-in Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities. Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression (EHCC) -- a unique Oracle differentiator that dramatically reduces capital expenditure on disk capacity. Available on Oracle's Exadata or any server running Oracle 11gR2 and attached to the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance or the Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c manages the cloud lifecycle

Oracle EM 12c with Ops Center delivers the industry’s first complete cloud lifecycle management solution. With Ops Center, Oracle EM 12c provides solutions to centralize and automate discovery, provisioning, updating and monitoring of physical and virtual systems.

The Gluster Community will be holding a workshop in Portland, Oregon, US on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. We welcome wide participation by all community members interested in GlusterFS and the Gluster Forge projects.

If you can join us at the Mission Theatre on Tuesday, July 23rd and would like to share your passion for all things Gluster, please come for a day of learning and fun.

Full agenda and registration available at glusterday-pdx.eventbrite.com

Registration is free of charge (and we'll have free beer) but please make sure to RSVP.

Free and open to the public The Red Lion charges the OCCA for using their ballroom. Please help us defray this cost by buying food and beverages. Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of the month (except December).

RSVP to meetup.com/itpro-70 Agenda: 6:00--6:20 Networking 6:20--7:00 No-host dinner 7:00--7:30 Introductions and announcements 7:30--8:30 Main Presentation (followed by Q&A):

The Benefits of cloud services for small business and consultants

Agenda:

Introductions and expectations. Questions any time. Interruptions are OK and expected.
What are Cloud Services Anyway?
How can offering Cloud Services benefit small business (client)?
How can offering Cloud Services benefit a computer support business?
Data programs email, storage, backup, etc.
Voice programs hosted PBX, hosted paperless fax
Individual hosted applications
How to plan for migration to the cloud without killing your client's business
Who is the Target Market
Referrals can pay off
Q & A

Presented by Tom Rich, owner Worry-Free Workplace Http://www.Worry-FreeWorkplace.com Guiding Small businesses to the Cloud

Tom began in the computer industry in 1978 (Portland Byte Shop). He started Mt. Hood Computer Services in 1980 to support the computer needs of Small Businesses.

Certifications over the years: Novell CNE, Microsoft MCSE, Citrix CCEA Microsoft Partner since 2003 Microsoft Small Business Specialist since 2004 Started Worry-Free Workplace April 1, 2013

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics

Who: Roundtable discussion, moderated by Brian Martin and Michael Dexter
What: Smarter S.M.A.R.T. and related storage challenges
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
When: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live/

We are addicted to storage devices like hard and solid state disks.

Modern computing begins with storage and could survive quite some time without the computing part, as demonstrated by past storage devices like the Rosetta Stone for which we struggle to decode.

This means HDD's and SSD's are reliable, right?

Alas, they are not. In fact the situation is somewhat terrifying. File systems have made significant progress in the last decade but remarkably, there are still significant issues surrounding the devices they inhabit.

Storage devices are inconsistent, to put it politely, about notifying the user of existing, potential and impending problems. Built-in, standard-ish reporting mechanisms like S.M.A.R.T. exist but pose as many challenges as they address. Some storage "health" monitoring data is straight-forward, some is not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

Bring your storage-related questions, war stories and gadgets!

Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. after the meeting.

Rideshares Available

PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings.

F2F Events, Inc. (F2F) produces CPE-accredited educational conferences for IT professionals focusing on the latest developments in information security, IT infrastructure and communications. F2F’s TechJunction conference series is dedicated to providing both attending delegates and sponsors a strong return on their investment of time and resources. With a “by invitation-only” format, cutting-edge content, interactive labs & exhibits, and other complimentary delegate benefits (coffee, lunch, cocktails; etc.) TechJunction has earned the reputation as “THE technology conference” for IT professionals across the country.

Please join us for the Intel Builders Developer Summit, where you'll hear directly from Intel architects and engineers on topics spanning the data center, from cloud and fabric, to network and storage. The Summit's full-day agenda will deliver technical presentations and deep dives into Intel and industry standard technologies as well as showcase demos highlighting technology from the sessions.

Sessions include:
- Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Platform Architecture Deep Dive
- Intel Hardware Root of Trust Attestation Solution with One Touch Activation
- Network Services Benchmark: Set up, Configuration and VNF Optimization with OPNFV
- Platform Optimization, Cache Coherency and DPDK
- SPDK and Intel® Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (Intel® ISA-L) - Overview and Roadmap Update
- Deep Dive on Blob Store and Logical Volumes
- Designing Intel® Omni-Path Architecture into Your Cluster
- Optimizing Software Solutions for Intel Omni-Path Architecture

This event is free, but spaces are limited.

IT Professionals: Join Xiologix along with our sponsors Dell EMC and Fortinet for an informative and fun afternoon! TopGolf Thursday, September 14, 2017 12:00-3:00pm

Enjoy lunch, mingling with your peers and learning more about Dell EMC, Fortinet and Xiologix while experiencing Top Golf! Space is limited so register today!

(To attend you must have a corporate email address and hold an active role in your organization’s IT department.)

We will be holding a Spectrum Protect user group meeting April 26th. Please RSVP via the Registration link if you plan on attending.

Agenda:

10:00 am - Introductions 10:10 am - Spectrum Protect (TSM) Product updates 10:40 am - Spectrum Protect Plus Overview & Demo 11:00 am - Connecting Spectrum Protect to enterprise monitoring via RESTful API’s 11:45 am - Lunch 12:15 pm - Rocket Product Updates 01:00 pm - Open forum 02:00 pm – Close

Please RSVP using the link below or the survey on the IMWUC group page. https://www.imwuc.org/p/su/rd/survey=8c1a2651-314e-11e8-a995-bc764e103d0b

IT Professionals, join us at the Yard House for informal IT conversation, appetizers and tastings with Xiologix, Fortinet and Dell EMC! Just for stopping by, you will receive a complimentary 64 oz growler filled with your choice of beverage on tap from the Yard House!

Thursday, April 18, 2019 3:00-6:00pm

Yard House 888 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 2004 Portland, OR 97204

Registration Required – 21 And Over Please - Registration closes 4/17/2019

To attend you must have a corporate email address and hold an active role in your organization’s IT department. Confirmed attendees will receive confirmation within 2 business days.