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Come on down to TechSpace Bend for Art Hop – Beer and Art anyone?

- Keenan Hall

Bend Broadband’s Green Data Center – August 12 4pm TechSpace Bend

Date: August 12 (Thursday)

Topic: Enterprise-Class Green “Vault” Data Centers (Bend Broadband)

Location: TechSpace Bend (906 Harriman – Old Cigar Building – Across from Blacksmith) Time: 4pm

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Reminder: Meeting today 4pm TechSpace Bend – Bend Broadband’s Green Data Center

COISUG jobs are moving to our LinkedIn Group. If you would like to post a job, please visit the group and choose the jobs tab to post. If you are looking for a job, that’s where they will be!

Time to kick it up into high gear – we have 2 meetings lined up for August and September, and a couple in the planning stages for October/November.

The first meeting will be Thursday August 12th and split across two topics – Bend Broadband’s new Green Data center (Part 1) and new developments in the Open Source Arena (Part 2). Bend Broadband will have their Data Center consultant present to talk about the DC and to field questions – design, build and what makes a green data center. In Part 2, Mark Turner will be presenting on some new developments in the Open Source arena. This is a new “special topics” format to be hosted at TechSpace Bend.

Date:August 12 (Thursday)
Topic: Part 1: Enterprise-Class Green “Vault” Data Centers (Bend Broadband) – Part 2: Open Source Developments
Location: TechSpace Bend (906 Harriman – Old Cigar Building – Across from Blacksmith)
Time: 4pm

Results are in! The second meeting is on Desktop Virtualization and hosted by Structured. Structured is on top of their game in Desktop Virtualization and will have an expert onsite to dig deep into this topic. This will be the traditional format hosted at McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room – lunch, giveaways etc.

Date: September 10th
Topic:Desktop Virtualization
Location: McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room
Time: 1pm
- Lunch and giveaways

The October meeting is still in the planning stages – look for a topic survey soon.

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Thanks,
Lewis Howell
- COISUG

Our friends at O’Reilly sent me (Abbott) info about a webinar you may be interested. The registration link is:

https://oreilly.connectsolutions.com/datadestruction/event/registration.html

Changes in data storage technologies, new Federal and State data privacy regulations and other factors have created an urgent need to have effective electronic records destruction practices. This session will detail the specifics of these changes and how organizations can protect themselves from huge financial liabilities. Having a defined data destruction strategy not only ensures a greener environment, but also ensures that the terabytes of stored data on the hardware are completely and permanently deleted. This session will discuss: legally compliant electronic records destruction policy; effective data destruction methods; degaussing, dismantling and refining; documentation and reporting; hardware & software vendors.

About Ben Rothke

Ben Rothke, CISSP QSA is a New York City based senior security consultant with BT Professional Services and has over 15 years of industry experience in information systems security and privacy.

His areas of expertise are in risk management and mitigation, security and privacy regulatory issues, design & implementation of systems security, encryption, cryptography and security policy development, with a specialization in the financial services and aviation sectors.

Ben is the author of Computer Security – 20 Things Every Employee Should Know and a speaker at industry conferences, such as RSA and MISTI, and is a CISSP and PCI QSA (Qualified Security Assessor).

The clock is ticking, and we’re busy clicking to tally our Q2 fiscal results. Looks like we’re headed for our best quarter ever. Let the fireworks begin.
Happy Independence Day to all – from Team G5

G5 is still growing. And growing. And growing…

The Portland Business Journal has recently announced that we’re the 3rd fastest-growing private company in Oregon/Southwest Washington. With revenue growth of 413.47% and employee count increase of 390%, we shouldn’t be too surprised. See our press release for all the details.

We know, of course, that we’re growing because we’re helping our clients grow their business. Their success is our success. Team G5 is committed to staying at the top of the list – year after year.

This is a repost of this CodeBenders article

Well it must have been a slow news day in Bend, because the Bulletin came through on their threat and actually published a piece on CodeBenders. Thanks to David Holley for letting us rant about everything but technology and writing a nice piece that covers a lot of ground.

If you’re a subscriber, you can access the article here. If you’re not, we ripped a copy from their site and posted the complete article here.

This is a repost of this TechSpaceBend article

“Co-Work Spaces Thrive” talks about the SF co-working scene, although the company they highlight, i/o ventures, is more an incubator than a co-work space (to my mind anyway):

After receiving 300 applications, they accepted their first five startups. The incubator will also rent spaces and have a café, a company representative said.

Regardless, i’s always fun learning about new projects like this.  Every one takes a different approach and I nearly always find them humbling reads. TechSpaceBend is still one of the smallest undertakings I’ve seen. But we’ve got a great vibe going and it’s a ton of fun (still!)  I’m also very proud of our model – completely non-profit, and still the most affordable by a long shot.  Our $150/month price point for desks is typically 1/2 to 1/3rd what is being charged elsewhere.