Central California .Net User Group

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This group is based in Fresno and surrounding areas. The purpose of the group is to be a resource for developers, designers, architects, and managers with a specific interest in Microsoft .NET Technologies. Presentations will be given by world-class speakers from Microsoft, from leader software companies, and also, by the group's own members.

We meet every second Thursday of every month, at the California State University, Fresno (Business Center, room 192). On non-sponsored meetings attendees are asked to contribute with $5 to cover pizza and drinks. If you plan to attend please send an email to rsvp@centralcaldotnet.com. This will help us choose a room according to the attendance.
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More information about the meetings...

6:00-6:30: Pizza, drinks, networking
6:30-6:45: Introductions, announcements
6:45-8:45: Presentation
8:45-9:00: Raffles

UPCOMING MEETINGS
Date	Presenter	Topics
July/09/2009	Steve Evans	Can Cloud Computing Save the World?

Paul

Steve Evans bridges the world between Developers and IT Pros.

Steve is in the process of starting Serk (http://serktools.com), a company to write tools for IT Pros. With 10 years of IT experience he is taking that expertise and applying it to the creation of tools and services to help his IT brethren do their jobs more effectively.

Steve speaks at Code Camps and User Groups up and down California helping developers better understand the world of IT Pros and teaching them what they need to know about Operating Systems, Directories, and Servers, oh my.

When not doing something related to work he has a wife that is a full time student, two young daughters, a house addition he is building himself, and a plethora of pets.

All the information you need to interact with Steve online can be found at http://serktools.com.

Presentation Synopsis

There’s a lot of confusion on where to deploy your application. Physical Server? Virtual Server? Cloud?

Cloud computing is Hot. Never before have we spent so much time ranting about how the cloud can’t provide us 99.999% uptime, all at the same time ignoring that it’s very unlikely we’re getting 99.999% uptime now, or that we even need it. Different apps have different requirements, and different environments offer different benefits.

Let’s discuss the pros and cons of all solutions available to developers today. Uptime, costs, regulatory issues, security . . . no topic is off topic.

Steve will discuss Azure, EC2, GoGrid, VMware, Hyper-V, Shared Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Physical Servers, and anything else that comes up. After that it turns into a discussion, so be prepared to share your own thoughts.