From david.vantine at mycci.com Fri Mar 5 16:36:55 2010 From: david.vantine at mycci.com (Dave Vantine) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:36:55 -0500 Subject: [Virtg-members] Reminder: VirtG meeting next Tuesday Message-ID: <90BE8315C4ADCD4F9D0159B7574E4B28433F71B542@endeavour> If you are planning on attending, it is recommended that you sign up at the link below so we can order the correct amount of pizza and soda. ... Thanks "Cloud Computing Security" "DFS Challenges" Waltham MA 6:00-9:00pm Tuesday March 9, 2010 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Microsoft Office - Waltham 201 Jones Road, Waltham MA Sixth Floor: Room MPR-B Directions & Map link Thanks to our Community Meeting Sponsor: AutoVirt AutoVirt And Thanks to our Prize Sponsors: Pearson Publishing and O'Reilly [cid:image001.png at 01CABC81.A5010130] [cid:image002.gif at 01CABC81.A5010130] Tonight's meeting will feature our own Peet Rapp with his current ISACA seminar on current Cloud Computing Security issues. Following that will be a new face from a new sponsor in the storage business. Join us as Brian Gladstein enlightens us about the challenges of using DFS for storage. 6:00-7:00 Networking, Introductions, Pizza 7:00-7:50 Peet Rapp, MBA CISA "Cloud Computing Security and Audit-Ability" While technology has evolved to a place providing organizations a myriad of business benefits in virtual-computing-as-a-service, one area continually overlooked by the media is Cloud Computing Security and Audit-ability. This presentation will review the current terminology of Cloud Computing as defined by NIST, identify the current security issues uncovered by the Cloud Security Alliance, then provide a suggested action plan to mitigate these issues by cloud application or environment developers. Peet Rapp is a senior certified IT auditor, in the process of obtaining a certification for Information Systems Management. He has co-authored the recent ISACA paper on Cloud Computing Security, has presented to 2 of 5 New England area ISACA chapters this topic. Peet is now part of an ISACA International task force to write a book and develop a webinar of ISACA's position on current Cloud Computing Security and Audit issues. 8:00-8:45 Brian Gladstein, AutoVirt "DFS Challenges" 8:45-9:00 Raffle and Prizes Cleanup Immediately after Registration Links: http://virtgmarch2010.eventbrite.com/ Registration not required, but is strongly recommended to let us know how much food we need to purchase. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.virtg.com/pipermail/virtg-members/attachments/20100305/9f60f6ad/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Hoard Facts By Bruce Hoard, Editor bhoard at 1105media.com New VRC Site Divulges Test Results I've received a couple of e-mails lately in response to my " Bogus Claims?" post asking for follow-up information on the Project VRC phase 2 test analyzing Terminal Services workloads running VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 1, Citrix XenServer 5.5 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V 2.0 on HP ProLiant DL380G6 servers with Intel Nehalem processors. The good news is that everything you need to know can now be found on the new VRC Web site (it's the one with the surprisingly sultry young lady at the top of the home page), which is located at www.virtualrealitycheck.net. In addition to the VRC phase 2 white paper, the VRC site also has an Excel-based overview of the phase two results. Bon appetit! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.virtg.com/pipermail/virtg-members/attachments/20100312/3641150e/attachment.html From david.vantine at mycci.com Mon Mar 15 09:44:05 2010 From: david.vantine at mycci.com (Dave Vantine) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:44:05 -0400 Subject: [Virtg-members] FW: You might want to sent this link out Message-ID: <90BE8315C4ADCD4F9D0159B7574E4B28433F71B6C6@endeavour> Here is another posting from a fellow member in reference to Pete Rapp's Cloud Computing discussion at the last meeting. The points are salient but done in a very humorous skit if you are interested. From: Steve Primost [mailto:sprimost at cox.net] Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:59 AM To: Dave Vantine Subject: You might want to sent this link out Dave -- >From a CISSP Forum posting, link to a YouTube Video on cloud computing...makes a couple of really good points Not sure if I can post to the mailing list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfaCoA2sQk Steve -- Stephen Primost | CISSP, CISM 19-1 Channel View Drive, Warwick, RI 02889 [m] (401) 632-7325 [e-mail] SPrimost at cox.net follow me - @sprimost -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.virtg.com/pipermail/virtg-members/attachments/20100315/d6db3980/attachment.html From david.vantine at mycci.com Tue Mar 30 08:46:53 2010 From: david.vantine at mycci.com (Dave Vantine) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:46:53 -0400 Subject: [Virtg-members] VirtG's April's meeting in 2 weeks Message-ID: <90BE8315C4ADCD4F9D0159B7574E4B284351FB3765@endeavour> Should be a great meeting from Citrix on VDI. Please register at the link below "It's Citrix Night!" Citrix and Microsoft: A Joint VDI Delivery Story Waltham MA 6:00-9:00pm Monthly Meeting of the Virtualization Group - Boston (www.virtg.com) Tuesday April 13, 2010 6:00-7:00 Networking, Introductions, Pizza 7:00-8:45 Todd D Smith, CCA, CCSP Citrix and Microsoft: A Joint VDI Delivery Story Citrix and Microsoft, working together, deliver the best VDI solution available. In this session, attendees will understand how the joint Citrix/Microsoft VDI offering is designed, built, and maintained. Attendees will also understand the operational and management benefits of the solution. Todd Smith is a Senior Systems Engineer for the Healthcare vertical at Citrix Systems. In this capacity, Todd provides customers and partners with application and desktop delivery solutions for healthcare challenges. His particular areas of expertise include the delivery of mission critical applications, desktop and server virtualization, mobile computing, disaster recovery, IT compliance, and green IT. Prior to Citrix, Todd has worked in the technology industry for 19 years in multiple industry verticals including; IT Auditing and Consulting for HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, ITIL, and ISO certification and compliance, IT Consulting, Program Management, Outsourcing, and IT Operations Management, Application Development and Management for Financial Services, and IT Services for Transportation Systems. Todd earned a BS in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA and resides in Saugus, MA with his family. 8:45-9:00 Raffle and Prizes Cleanup Immediately after Registration Links: http://virtgapril2010.eventbrite.com/ Registration not required, but is strongly recommended to let us know how much food we need to purchase. * Online Attendance: Not Available -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.virtg.com/pipermail/virtg-members/attachments/20100330/5129f6d1/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) 1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 13053 bytes Desc: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) 1.jpg Url : http://lists.virtg.com/pipermail/virtg-members/attachments/20100330/5129f6d1/attachment.jpg