NC*SA Meeting - Monday, February 12, 2001 - EMC Clariion

[Stephen.Schaefer@emis-intl.com]

Greetings!

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is upcoming.  Details about the meeting and
directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!

                   NC*SA General Meeting
             6:00 p.m., Monday, February 12, 2001
                     Dreyfus Laboratory
                 Research Triangle Institute
                  Research Triangle Park, NC
                     (directions below)

        Topic:  "EMC Clariion Network-Attached Storage Systems"
 
        Speaker:  Tim Hicks
                  EMC     

        Sponsors:  Please see the end of this announcement for a list of
                   our sponsors.

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Presentation abstract:

  EMC Corporation will present the EMC CLARiiON IP4700 network attached 
  storage system.  This new product targets the mid-range NAS market 
  with an unprecedented combination of technology, high availability, 
  and customer service.  The product, code named Chameleon, can easily 
  be converted to direct attached storage for production database 
  requirements.

Speaker bio:

  Tim Hicks is a seasoned veteran of the computer industry with 
  experience in mainframe, distributed systems, unix systems, networks, 
  and NT administration.  Throughout his career, Tim has served in 
  numerous consulting, technical sales, and systems engineering
  positions for Compaq, DEC, Wang and Sperry UNIVAC.   Tim currently is 
  based in Raleigh for EMC and serves as a technical consultant for 
  enterprise storage applications.

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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
contact:

  Lisa Lorenzin 
  Utenzi
  (919) 852-0690
  lorenzin@utenzi.com

or the Steering Committee at:

  ncsa-steer@ncsysadmin.org

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For information about the NC System Administrators group, please see
our web site at <http://www.ncsysadmin.org>.

We have several usually-low-volume mailing lists that you can join:

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Directions to Research Triangle Institute:

Please see this page on our web site for directions to the meeting:
<http://www.ncsysadmin.org/directions.html>.  If you do not have web
access, please send e-mail to <ncsa-steer@ncsysadmins.org>, and we
will send them to you.

For a map of RTI, please see: <http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif>.

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Sponsors and Underwriters
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Gold Sponsors 
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The following organizations have been major contributors to NC*SA.
Their generous contributions and funding have been instrumental in the
continued success of NC*SA:

    Auspex 
    Dot Hill 
    Duke University Computer Science Lab 
    Network Computing Solutions, Inc.
    Pencom 
    StorNet 

Silver Sponsors 
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The following organizations and individuals have made significant
contributions to and have underwritten meetings of NC*SA.

    Research Triangle Institute ........ provide our meeting space
    eMerging Information Systems ....... host our mailing lists
    WebslingerZ, Inc. .................. host our web site


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