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May 24^th 2008, last week we had BCS AGM in Dubai. This was the annual meeting where all the members were invited and given the report of the last year activities and the fund generated and spent by the BCS. There were a good number of BCS member and we had good exchange of thoughts in the form of comments, suggestions and questions etc.

I was myself there and very happy to know that BCS is now active in Dubai and planning to have more events in Dubai. Now we will have the opportunity to organize the events ourselves and work independently. I’m very excited to know that BUid (British University in Dubai) has signed the MoU with BCS to provide their auditorium available for BCS activities in Dubai. This will help us to organize the regular events in the future.

During the AGM some new positions were announced for the year of 2008-2009 while we do have Engr. Adel Alkaf as our BCS ME Chairman. I myself have been appointed for BCS YPG and Event coordinator in the Dubai. The AGM was ended with a very cool presentation done by Apple Computers. I really liked their new notebook J yes very cool.

So if you are a speaker/trainer/SME interested to speak in one of our event or a vendor who is interested to sponsor the event then do feel free to contact us.

http://me.bcs.org

I forgot to mention that all the active members were given the award by BCS-ME. I’ll update the pics as soon as I get it.

cheersJ

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You are invited to Party with the Pros! at TechEd 2008 in Orlando. 

This event takes place Monday, June 9th, from 19.00-23.00 (7 pm – 11pm) the night before TechEd begins at International Drive, just two blocks from the convention center.

In order to attend, you must present a Golden Ticket. 

Request your ticket here

So who else is going to be there?

Your fellow IT Professionals, including IT Managers, TechEd Speakers, MCTs, and IT Pro User Group leaders from around the world, as well as Microsoft MVPs (past and present) and TechEd Sponsors.

You should attend if:  you need a beverage,  have a burning tech question,  have questions about TechEd or you  want to know which sessions and speakers are hot.  Find out about local IT Professional associations and user groups.  Or just mingle with your fellow IT Pros.  We’ve invited Tech Ed sponsors and will have some nice give-a-ways for attending, including an IT Pros Network Troubleshooting Tool Kit.

Who is sponsoring this event?  Party with the Pros is brainchild of Doug Spindler, President of Pacific IT Professionals (http://www.pacitpros.org)) an independent non-profit association based in San Francisco. In cooperation with CommunityWorks (http://www.communityworks.eu), the independent user group association for user group leaders of Bart Martens the party is developed and promoted. At TechEd 2007 in Barcelona Bart Martens, jointly with Microsoft, organized the very successful MS Influencer party.

Currently
BitCricket, TechSmith, Network Protocols Specialists, Fluke Networks,
eNews Generator
and
Quest are sponsors, but we would like to get more sponsors on board. If your company is interested, please contact us.

How is our event different from all the rest?  We have asked sponsors to cover the cost of Party with the Pros.  But unlike TechEd where you will be marketed to all week long, this event is for you, the IT Pro.  Here you are in control and in a more relaxed atmosphere where you talk to sponsors on your terms.  We think you will appreciate the difference. 

And looking ahead, we hope you will enjoy this year’s Party with the Pros and plan on attending next year at Tech Ed 2009.  Attending TechEd Europe in Barcelona? We are already committed to hosting Party with the Pros Barcelona. Party tickets will be available on this site http://www.partywiththepros.org/ as TechEd Europe approaches.

If you would like to help make Party with the Pros a success or have a suggestion for the event, email us at party@partwywiththepros.org.

Hope to see you there!

Doug Spindler                           Bart Martens

IT Professional                         CommunityWorks

http://www.pacitpros.org                http://www.communityworks.eu

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I’m very thankful to Abed Chehab (ASBISME) who invited me to attend this event and I feel very sorry for his family back in Lebanon. This event was outstanding I must say and would give 4 out 5 points. I missed the welcome note by Michael Collins but continued from the Keynote till the end of the day. The overall event was successful and outcome was good too. This is my very first experience with any DELL event in UAE. The good thing I like about the event that I gained enough information especially about the less power consumption in computing or DELL’s way FUTURE OF COMPUTING. I had many question and most of them were answered. DELL claimed that their servers are 25% efficient than HP servers and 29% than IBM servers.

I asked the speaker (Ed English) how- because DELL uses the same processor (Intel/AMD) and other peripherals as used by HP and IBM. So what makes DELL to achieve this?

The answer was DELL is involved in designing the peripherals and not only the CPU is consuming all the powers but things like HDD, Memory, Power Supply etc are also consuming the power. So DELL is involved in the designing of their server. DELL offers the 2 types of Servers now PowerConnect and the Standrad server. PowerConnect are energy efficient servers. Technically there will be 3-5% less performance in the PowerConnect server as compare to the Standard servers but it will be more energy efficient, told by DELL. I think this is a fair deal because this how we can contribute the GREEN Computing or GREEN IT.

DELL introduces something very attractive about their switches, where an additional module can be added anytime rather replacing the whole switch. DELL theme was about GREENING THE IT and thus VURTUALIZATION was another discussion. The overall event went very fine and with more knowledge and better idea about DELL products. I’ve seen DELL very active in the last couple of months in UAE and I think now they are ready to ACT. I’ve not come across any event from HP in the last year and so and now I think DELL is going to as active as they are in USA. So if you have missed this event then you’ve missed a lot I must say.

One thing I’ve noticed during the DELL presentation was the color these theme they used during their presentation. I’m sure there is a meaning behind it because all the speaker used the same color theme i.e. Blue, Red, Yellow and Green while Black was common with all the color scheme. I’ll try to get the answer from one of them.

What we will see in the future is that virtualization at the desktop level. AMD has already produced 2 processors in the month of April for desktop. Have a look here.

Cheers J

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DELL Future of Computing –inviting you. This event is invitation only. If interested write me an email.

See you.

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The NPA awards for professionals demonstrate the best balance of professional responsibilities including technical competency, ethics and a proper professional, education and industry credentials, community and industry contributions, leadership, professional affiliation.

Best Networking Professional Career Achievement Award
Debra Rowe – Knowledge Management Lead for the Operations Group, Information Technology Directorate, Air Traffic Organization of the Federal Aviation Administration, West Columbia, South Carolina.

Best Mentor Award
Boris Jocoy
- President, Tech Brainy Consulting, Aliso Viejo, California

Read more about the Awards For Professionalism.

TECHIES UG is organizing a social networking event for all the Techie people (only Techies ug members). This event is organized so that the members can know each and have better communication. We all have a very busy life and hardly get the chance to see each other so this way we could know peer members. This get-together is invitation only and for the existing members.

We’re very excited to invite you to the first ever

     TECHIES TechNight event!

Join us for an evening of fun and networking, where you can meet with and befriend other IT Professionals just like yourself.

This is no regular IT event! You can discuss topics of interest with your fellow peers; learn of what’s new in the IT world; and most importantly – just come to enjoy a relaxing evening out.

There will also be exciting prizes to be won!

So don’t miss out, register now by

(This is a no-charge event, courtesy of the Techies User Group)

CheersJ

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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.

There are six categories Best Networking Professional – Career Achievement Award, Professional Excellence and Innovation Award, Education, Government, Best Mentor Award, Top of the Mark – Volunteer Award. I’m so happy to receive of the award which is under the category of Top of the Mark – Volunteer Award. MORE DETAILS

Noteworthy

• NPJ – Awards Winners! – (414 kb PDF. Requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer) more…
  
• CNP – British Computer Society’s (BCS) Chartered IT Professional (CITP) standard has been adopted by the US based International Network Professional Association.
  
• Certified Network Professional – the professional international network designation for Network Information Technology (IT) professionals in the world. Receive the top designation. Apply tyo be the best , a Certified Network Professional or CNP. Be recognized as a professional!
  
• Distinguished Fellows Program – The Network Professional Association is pleased to announce the “Fellows” Program to past Awards for Professionalism winners.
  

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Dear visitor, thanks for visiting the blog. For the last couple of week I’m going quite busy and yet not able to update my blog but you soon you will find some very exciting update, hopefully next week. So stay tuned J

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