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October Micronet Meeting: Tues, 10/16,10:30-12
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2007-10-10 10:24:31
October Micronet Meeting:  IT Career Development
Tuesday, October 16, 10:30-noon
150 University Hall

The topic for this meeting arose from previous Micronet meetings on IT mapping.  At these sessions many Micronet members expressed a concern that there were few formal avenues for career development at UC Berkeley.  Programs like the Career Development Opportunity Program (CDOP) were wildly popular but no longer exist.  For this reason we decided to devote a Micronet meeting to an informal forum to discuss IT career development at Berkeley.


1. Forum on IT Career Development:  We have invited (or strong-armed) 5 staff working in IT on the Berkeley campus to discuss their experiences and offer their perspectives on how to develop an IT career on campus.  The forum participants represent staff at different career stages working in a variety of IT positions and departments on campus.

Graham Patterson, System Administrator, Lawrence Hall of Scien
Michael Sinatra, 'Network Busboy V' (wonder what this maps to?), IS&T
Amber Sanchez, Programmer/Analyst I in the Law School
Kevin Zimmerman, System Administrator, Berkeley Wireless Research Center
Usha Manandhar, Programmer/Analyst, IS&T Client Services


We would also like to invite Micronet members to participate in this forum.  Our goal is to share ideas on how staff can advance their careers and their knowledge of the IT field. 

2. The last 10-15 minutes of the meeting are reserved for a speaker from Dell, Mark Spitzer.  He is the Dell account executive for UC Berkeley.  He has offered to bring in speakers for future meetings or to organize short courses on a variety of topics of our choosing.  Many, many years ago central computing in one of its incarnations used to offer short courses on topics from computer hardware to SPSS/SAS to network technologies.  Mark has put together a list of topics that could be offered as talks at Micronet meetings or at separate 'short course' sessions.  These short courses could be in hands-on or lecture format. The topics are listed at the end of this email.  Mark will discuss these topics, poll Micronet to see if there is an interest in such sessions. 


Lunch will be served at this meeting courtesy of our last speaker.

Claudia


Micronet Meetings
Where:  150 University Hall
When:  Third Tuesday of the month, 10:30-noon
Do you wish to make a presentation at Micronet?  What do you want to hear discussed?  Let us know....email Claudia Waters ( claudiawberkeley.edu">claudiawberkeley.edu) or Roger Emond ( rogeremondberkeley.edu">rogeremondberkeley.edu ).

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OCTOBER 2007 Dell Survey of MICRONETTERS
Topics for presentation or short course format


For future meetings, which of these topics would be of interest to you (please check all that apply):
Presentations would be by Dell. ; If there is interest Micronet can put up an online survey.


1. o       Newest Intel processors

2. o       Hardware management technologies: ASF 2.0, iAMT and vPro technology

3. o       Systems Imaging with Image Direct (Dell online tool)

4. o        Encrypted hard disk drives and key management

5. o        Dell support tools: premiersupport.dell.com; filewatch; orderwatch; servicewatch; warranty parts direct

6. o       Systems management functions overview (asset management; software provisioning and patching; event management; system migration; remote control; data protection and recovery; etc.)

7. o       Dell support program overview: Gold technical support for client systems; Asset Recovery Services; Custom Factory Integration; CompleteCare; Bronze/Silver/Gold for enterprise systems; escalation process

8. o       Data management issues: deduplication; data type and status analysis; protection; backup and recovery process innovations

9. o       Business continuity: developing workable plans for business disruption (temporary resource or facility loss)

10. o       Server sizing; deployment tools and programs

11. o       Server virtualization

12. o        Linux vs Windows for servers

13. o       New UC|Dell agreement: what it is; how it affects UC Berkeley; how to take advantage of it

14. o       Dell Premier Page web portal tool: what it is; how and when to access and use it

15. o      High Performance Compute Clusters (aka Beowulf clusters): trends and directions

16. o        Server virtualization: trends and directions

17. o        Data management and storage consolidation: trends and directions

18. o        Data center power and cooling management and issues

19. o        Why, when and how main production applications are moving onto Linux off of proprietary forms of Unix

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