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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - NOVEMBER 2015 ANNOUNCEMENTS =====================================================================

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1. UNIGROUP'S NOVEMBER 2015 GENERAL MEETING
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Topic: Solaris 11.3 and SPARC M7 Processor Release Meeting
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Speaker: Pavel Anni,
Solaris Hands-on Labs,
Oracle Corporation

When: Thursday, November 19th, 2015 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 502_CS (** 5th Floor **)

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.

INTRODUCTION:
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** Note: Change of Plans: Our Intel contact had to postpone
our planned Intel Architecture Roadmap Meeting, and we
are working to reschedule that meeting for year 2016.
We are pleased that we were able to find someone from
Oracle to take over our November 2015 meeting.

Unigroup is pleased to announce our November 2015 meeting
which will be our Release Meeting for the recent Solaris 11.3
Release and the new SPARC M7 Processor.

For December 2015, tentatively, there will be the annual
NYC Technical Groups Holiday Party. (Stay Tuned).

For January 2016, Unigroup's meeting is scheduled for one
week earlier than normal (on the 2nd Thursday), due to easier
classroom availability at that time. (Stay Tuned).

We will be rescheduling our planned meeting on the latest
Intel Processor Architecture Technology Roadmaps, presented by
Charles Milo from Intel (who has given Unigroup our previous
Intel Technology Roadmap presentations).

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.

Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list" (note: things tend to work out OK).

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: Solaris 11.3 and SPARC M7 Processor Release Meeting

Introduction & Description of Talk:
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This presentation will cover recent news regarding the Oracle
SPARC/Solaris platform. We will talk about new SPARC M7 processor
and systems, new Oracle Solaris 11.3 release and SPARC
virtualization technologies. We will also discuss Solaris
workshops and hands-on labs that we use to get our customers up
to speed with the new Solaris features and best practices.

Presentation Outline
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- SPARC M7 processor and its features: architecture,
Software in Silicon, performance.

- SPARC M7-based systems: T7 and M7 servers.

- What's new in Oracle Solaris 11.2 and 11.3:
- Data Management with ZFS.
- Software lifecycle with Automated Installer, IPS, Unified
Archives.
- Network Virtualization.
- Kernel Zones in comparison to traditional non-global zones.
- OpenStack, Puppet and others.

References & Web Resources:
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Oracle SPARC Servers:
http://www.oracle.com/servers/sparc/index.html

Oracle Solaris 11 Resources:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/learnmore/index.html

Oracle Solaris 11 Hands-on Labs (Oracle):
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/hands-on-labs/solaris-labs-1904205.html

Oracle Solaris 11 Hands-on Labs (Youtube):
http://www.youtube.com/user/OracleSolaris/playlists?sort=dd&view=50&shelf_id=2

Oracle Home Page:
http://www.oracle.com

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Speaker Biography
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Pavel Anni has been working with Solaris since 1992, when he became
the first authorized Solaris teacher in Russia. Since then he has
changed many roles and even moved from Russia to the US, but he
always worked with SPARC and Solaris technologies, spreading good
words about them. Pavel runs series of Oracle Solaris Hands-on Labs
across North America for about 3 years already and has trained more
than 1400 people on Oracle Solaris 11 and SPARC virtualization. He
believes that hands-on experience is the best way to learn new
technologies. Pavel lives with his family in Alpharetta, GA. In
his free time he enjoys running, hiking Georgia mountains and
working with his ham radio gear.

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Company Biography
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Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, sells, hosts,
and supports database and middleware software, application
software, cloud infrastructure, hardware systems, and related
services worldwide. Its hardware systems products comprise Oracle
Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking, industry specific
hardware, virtualization software, operating systems, management
software, and related hardware services. The company also provides
a range of services in three primary layers of the cloud: Software
as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a
Service. Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 and is
headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00

* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).

! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
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If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,

NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.

Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.

This normally includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef,
chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads
(potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water
and assorted SOFT beverages.

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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.

Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of
Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!

Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings.

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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 2016?? : Intel Processor Architecture Technology Roadmaps
- 2016?? : What's new in the latest C/C++ Standards
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
(aka: Are there too many Linux Distributions?)
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and Infiniband Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on Solaris
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, and other new peripheral technologies
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks

** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix
and the Unix/Linux/BSD User Community.

Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
11/19/2015, 12/2015 HolidayParty?, *01/14/2016, 03/17/2016, 05/19/2016, ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org

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