New England Midrange Users
Group
Meeting Announcement
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Date:
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Wednesday,
May 18, 2011 |
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Time:
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Sign
In 5:15 p.m.; Speaker 6:00-7:00 p.m., Dinner to Follow |
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Place:
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Ramada Inn, 940 Fall
River Avenue, Seekonk, MA |
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Topic: |
IBM Power Systems
Announcement Overview
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Speaker:
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Rick Cowles, IBM. |
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Dinner: |
Steak
Tips with mashed potato and vegetable or Salmon Limon with mashed potato and
vegetable or Cheese Ravioli with marinara sauce (our Vegetarian option) all
served with soup, salad, and dessert. |
R.S.V.P. to
Include the information
listed below. We must receive your reply
no later than Friday, May 13, 2011.
** No shows will be billed,
unless cancellation is received by Tuesday, May 17, 2011. **
IBM Power Systems Announcement Overview
Please join us at the May 18th meeting to hear from
IBM about the new POWER announcements. POWER
is performance redefined!
New
throughput intensive POWER7 blade servers that can automatically optimize
performance and capacity at either a system or virtual machine level.
New POWER7 processor options for the
Power 750 and Power 755 for additional performance.
New IBM Systems Director Management
Console (SDMC), the next-generation Hardware Management Console (HMC)
New
hardware including, new I/O features, new storage drawers and enhanced SSD
options.
Rick Cowles
has been with IBM for 13+ years, all spent in technical support on the AS/400,
iSeries, System i, POWER platform.
In his current role as POWER FTSS
(Field Technical Sales Specialist) he works with IBM i operating system
customers throughout
New England specializing in server consolidation
and virtualization on POWER.
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Contact
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Beef
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Cost: NEMUG Members $30, Guests $40, Students $10. Make check payable to: NEMUG
Mail to Aurora Technologies,
c/o NEMUG, 5 Old Nasonville Road, Harrisville, RI 02830,
or register on the NEMUG web
site, www.nemug.com
NEMUG Officers
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President |
Dick Ferrara, |
(401) 828-0300, ext. 442 |
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Vice President |
Brian Siwicke, |
(508) 880-1450 |
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Secretary |
Faith Lamprey, |
(401) 765-3721, (401) 766-4591 FAX |
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Treasurer |
Eileen Newell, |
(401) 719-2337 |
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IBM Liaison |
Rick Cowles, IBM |
(781) 895-4714 |
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Webmaster |
Jerry Perreault |
(401) 949-2613 |
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NE Conference Liaison |
Chip DiFolco, |
(781) 815-1360 |
Message
from the President
At our
March meeting, Mark Middendorf, of Compu-Call, Inc., delivered a session on
Optimizing Business Communications.
Because of a family emergency I was not able to attend, but from what
I’ve been told, the meeting was well presented, well received, and very well
attended. Thank you, Mark Middendorf,
for your presentation. And thank you, Paul Picard, for your efforts to bring
this meeting together.
This month
at our May 18th meeting, Rick Cowles of IBM is presenting what’s new in IBM’s
POWER7 series. He will debut new, more
powerful processor options for the POWER7.
From how, at system or virtual levels, the POWER7 can automatically
optimize its performance, to the new Systems Director Management Console, to the
next-generation Hardware Management Console, to new hardware, new I/O
features, new storage drawers, to enhanced SSD options, and…
Rick has
been with IBM, in technical support of the evolving AS/400, to the iSeries, to
the POWER* platforms, for 13 years. He
is currently a Field Technical Sales Specialist for IBM (POWER FTSS) here in
New England, concentrating on POWER. Rick
has been associated with NEMUG for quite
awhile. He attends our yearly planning
meetings and contributes his thoughts; he attends and speaks at our
meetings. He is one of us! Join with us, find the edge…..
May The
Force be with us!
Dick Ferrara
Election of Officers
Nominations are open and need to be in for the May Meeting. Elections will be held at the meeting. If anyone knows of someone who would be interested in serving on the Board for a year, please contact Jerry Perreault (gjpfromri@cox.net) before the meeting.
E-mail
Notification
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Welcome
to the following New and Renewing Member Companies
(as
of 2/16/11)
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Thank you for your support of NEMUG!
Schedule
(Schedule is subject to change)
June 15 — BYOT — Meeting without a Meeting, Bring Your Own Topic