Virtualization Group – Boston Welcome! www.virtg.com

1. Opening … Virtualization Group – BostonWelcome!www.virtg.com Tim Mangan Vice President: Virtualization Group – Boston Kahuna: TMurgent Technologies LLP http://www.tmurgent.com Microsoft MVP for Application Virtualization

2. Virtualization Group - Boston • www.VirtG.com – Virtualization Group – Boston • Normal Meeting Second Tuesday – Microsoft – 201 Jones Road - Waltham MA; MPR-A • Not Recording or presenting Live tonight. Likely to resume Live Streaming 2010 timeframe. • Thank You All For Coming!!!

3. AgendaVirtualization: WAN & Security Time Description 6:00-6:45 pm Welcome – Virtualization News and T/Q & A 7:00-7:45 High Performance Virtual Application Delivery, Enabling Branch Office Consolidation and Remote Virtual Desktops by George Meleof Expand Networks 8:00-8:45 Fundamentals of Virtualization Security by Edward Halekyof Astroarch Consulting 8:50ish Evaluations, Door Prizes

4. Thank You To Our Sponsors! Thanks for sponsoring this event by supplying funds for pizza and beverages!!! Expand NetworksVirtually Everywhere http://www.expand.com/ Thanks also to our regular sponsors!!! Pearson PublishingOrder Books Online at: O’RiellyOrder Books Online at:

5. What is Virtualization Boston? Mission Statement Areas of Interest The Virtualization Group–Boston exists in order to encourage an exchange of knowledge about all aspects of virtualization, green technology and cloud computing between IT Professionals. Furthermore, we will foster affiliation with similar virtualization groups located elsewhere to expand the reach of knowledge and training resources. • Server Virtualization • Desktop Virtualization (Hosted and Local) • Presentation Virtualization • Application Virtualization • Storage Virtualization • Cloud Computing • Going Green

6. Leaders@virtg.com • We have MUCH to do, Let us know if you can help!

7. Our Plans • RSVP for Meetings so we can purchase the correct amount of food and soda’s • Live meetings that are recorded for download later for those that cannot attend. • Two Speakers every night. • Bio of all speakers and a link to samples of their work. • Presentation material available online within three days of presentation. www.virtg.com

8. What Is Virtualization? Without Virtualization With Virtualization Virtualization Issues Interface bound to process Virtual Presentation Presentation layer separate from process Infrastructure Personal profiles and settingsbound to OS Virtual Profiles Personal profiles/settings separate from OS Management Applications installed to Specific hardware and OS Virtual Applications Any application on any computer on-demand Licensing Operating System assigned to specific hardware Virtual Machine OS can be assigned to any desktop or server Interoperability Storage assigned to specific locations Virtual Storage Storage and backup over the network Support Network assigned to specificlocations Virtual Network Localizing dispersed resources Virtualization is the isolation of one computing resource from others

9. Past Sessions • Feb – Deep Dive Day • Virtualizaton 360 – Overview of Virtualization • Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V / John Kelebley • VmWare Virtualization: Portfolio and Roadmap/ Dan Sullivan • Improving File System Performance in a Virtual Environment / Bob Nolan • Security Aspects of Virtualization / Dan Stolts                     • Application Virtualization: Concepts and Platforms / Tim Mangan • Physical to Virtual Migration / John Kelbley  • Performance Discussion / moderated by Dan Stolts and Tony Piltzecker • SAN Considerations for a Virtualized Data Center / Tim Gwinn  • Running Linux on Hyper-V: “How To” & Support Considerations / John Kelbley  • VM Management (SCVMM) / Dan Stolts  • Client Hosted Virtualization with MEDV: First Look / Matt McDermott • Hyper-V Backup & Recovery "On The Cheap"  /  John Kelbley    • Virtualization on the Desktop / Jerry Feldman    • Case Study: Using Sanbolic on Hyper-V to Simplify SAN Storage / Dave Dupuis • March 26th – Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V / Bryon Surace • April 23rd – Citrix Virtualization Portfolio / Jerry Shea • May 28th – Cloud Computing/Bill Zach and App-V Sequencing/Tim Mangan • June 9th – Windows Server 2008 RDS and StarWind Storage SAN • August – Virtualization Summer Camp • September – Defragmentation(Raxco) & ISCSI (StarWind) • October – ThinStall Software & InstallFree

10. Future Agenda • December 8th • Dan Stolts • tbd • January 12th • Jose Castro • tbd • Virtualization Deep Dive Day - Feb 12th 2010 • (No regular February meeting) • March 9th • April 13th

11. In The News! • Microsoft Releases Windows 7 http://www.anysite.you.can.immagine.com • Amazon offers MySql Could Service http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900647&cid=nl_IW_cloud_html L.A. Votes to “GO GOOGLE” http://ct.techrepublic.com.com/clicks?t=469020513-2ee6503bcff80a40a2239526b3aa59f4-bf&brand=TECHREPUBLIC&s=5 • VMWare announces View 4 with software PC-over-IP and vSphere 4 support http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2009/11/09/vmware-announces-view-4-with-software-pc-over-ip-and-vsphere-4-support.aspx Net2Display v1.0 spec released by VESA http://www.vesa.org/Standards/summary/2009_10b.htm Microsoft Releases App-V 4.5 SP1 http://www.crn.com/managed-services/220200148;jsessionid=YLEGLS2UDGVBJQE1GHRSKH4ATMY32JVN • State of New York sues Intel in Antitrust Complaint http://www.betanews.com/article/New-York-Intels-agreements-to-lower-CPU-prices-led-to-overcharges/1257369743 • Atheros Exec Among 14 Charged In Widining Insider Trading Probe http://www.crn.com/it-channel/221600521;jsessionid=W51D3P3KCO3UBQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN • Finally, a “Technet”-Like Site for Your Family and Friends http://answers.microsoft.com

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14. More Thanks To… • Microsoft -Facilities, Presenters and Swag • O’Reilly Publishing – Swag • Pearson Publishing – Swag • VirtG - Virtualization Group – Boston