Date: Jun 06/01/11 9:06 PM Subject: [BNUG News] ** BNUG June Meeting Notice ** From: "Dale Heron" Boston Network Users Group Monthly General Meeting ** Tuesday - June 7 - 6:30-9:00PM ** THIS MONTH: ExaGrid Backup and Archiving Appliances ---------------------------------------- Glenn Fund, Former BNUG President and Director of Field Engineering at Burlington, MA Systems Integrator, Broadleaf Services, will be presenting this month on the ExaGrid disk based backup with deduplication appliances. Have you ever had performance, reliability or compatibility issues with your tape backup system? How do you deal with an ever increasing data store with a constant or shrinking backup window. Do you wish there was a better way? There is … Glenn will discuss the ExaGrid product, and why it might just revolutionize the way you look at backup and archiving. With ExaGrid, you use your familiar backup software, most are supported, to backup and retain your data onto fast and reliable NAS shares on a grid of one or more fault tolerant, intelligent NAS appliances. Store weeks and even months of backups in a low space utilization, deduplicated format. Optionally, replicate that deduped data to another ExaGrid located at your remote DR site. We will discuss how the ExaGrid does what it does and then conclude with an actual case study. Glenn will be joined at the BNUG meeting by Jeff Crum, Senior Product Manager at ExaGrid Systems, Inc. No technical question will go unanswered. Please join us on Tuesday, June 7th at 6:30PM where we will be meeting at Microsoft's Waltham Offices, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, Mass. * 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: July ?? : “Your Favorite Networking Tools” given by group members 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: _______________________________________________ BNUG mailing list BNUG@bgaddict.com http://bgaddict.com/mailman/listinfo/bnug