The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. ----- Next Meeting: Topic: Data Deduplication Speaker: Steve Lytle and Vic Heng, Data Domain Date/Time: May 21, 2009 7:00 pm Location: France Place Main Floor Conference Room Synopsis: Steve and Vic from Data Domain will talk about Data Deduplication. Data Domain has been in the Deduplication business since 2001 and owns over 50% of the entire data deduplication market from SMB to Enterprise datacenters. Their appliances are Linux-based inside, but present a simple user interface to the outside world, making them an easy plug-and-play solution. About the Speaker: Steve Lytle is the Strategic Account Manager for Data Domain in Minnesota. He has been with Data Domain for 4 years which was when data deduplication first hit the SMB market. Steve was previously a Sr. Account Executive with McData Corp (now Brocade), EMC & Xiotech. He has his BA in Business Economics from South Dakota State University. Vic is the Principal Systems Engineer for Data Domain concentrating on strategic accounts in Minnesota. Vic has been with Data Domain since 2005 which puts him at the forefront of data deduplication. Vic has held System Engineering positions with several storage and switching companies including EMC, McData, Brocade, Nishan Systems and Qlogic. Vic has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Main Floor Conference Room France Place 3601 Minnesota Drive Bloomington, MN 55435 Tentative Meeting Schedule June 18, 2009 - July 16, 2009 - Directions: The France Place Building is at 3601 Minnesota Drive on the northeast corner of Hwy 494 and France Avenue in the Bloomington business district. From 494, go north on France Ave. to Minnesota Drive (the first streetlight north of 494). Take a right (east) onto Minnesota Drive and immediately take another right into the parking lot. The building sign is visible from 494 and shares a parking lot with Fuddruckers. France Place is a nine story brown brick building. - Parking Free parking is available in the main lot. - Web map is at: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=3601+minnesota+drive&city=bloomington&state=mn&zipcode=55435 For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: http://www.tcsa.org/ To subscribe to the TCSA or TCSA-JOBS mailing lists, follow the TCSA or TCSA-JOBS link from: http://tcsa.org/mailman/listinfo For any other information, please send email to: djb at umn.edu or contact: Dave Bianchi 651-260-1770 -- Dave Bianchi djb at umn.edu 651-260-1770