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The following describes the industry categories for
some of our panelists:
Financial/Wall Street, Governmental OEM, Education,
Community Broadband WiFi, ISP/Datacenter/CoLo,
Computer Consulting/Engineering.
Moderator, Storm Background and Information:
Robert Weiner, President,
Programming Plus,
Executive Director of Unigroup of NY, Inc.
Special Guest:
Bob Hunt, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist,
Microsoft
Featured Guest:
Phillip Koblence, VP of Operations,
NYI
MEETING INTRODUCTION
Happy New Year to everyone from Unigroup!
Unigroup Elections: Unigroup holds Board of Director Elections every January. If you are a Unigroup Member and would like to run for the Unigroup Board, please contact us on or before our January 2013 meeting. Board members are expected to regularly attend Unigroup General and Board Meetings, and basically help the rest of the board run Unigroup. If you would like to help out Unigroup, but not join the board officially, please let us know. Unigroup needs your help! Unigroup is a not-for-profit volunteer organization, and has been serving the Greater NYC Metro Unix Users Community for 30 years!
Unigroup's January 2013 meeting will be an informal technical panel discussion about the Super Storm Sandy, and how it effected the Greater NYC Area IT community and its overall technical infrastructure. We hope to hear MANY storm stories and experiences from a variety of different people. The goal is to make everyone aware of the possible dangers and outcomes from such events, and to help everyone properly plan for the next emergency situation that may occur. I also have prepared a bunch of background material on the storm, with useful URLs.
Unigroup wants your input- please bring your stories and experiences with you if you will be attending this meeting (perhaps even jot down some notes now, in preparation). Bring stories from your friends and colleagues as well.
And, if you do have a specific Technology/Infrastructure story to tell, please let us know at the meeting!
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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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".
DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change 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 7th 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 Meeting Room.
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.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
Or take the new connection to the uptown '6'!
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).
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: Hurricane Sandy Aftermath and War Stories - Panel Discussion
Introduction & Description of Talk:
Unigroup is holding a Hurricane Sandy War Stories and Aftermath discussion at our January 2013 meeting.
We will discuss how the storm effected our area, our members, and their respective homes and businesses; discuss the effectiveness of disaster preparedness and business continuity plans; discuss how the storm effected different parts of our area differently, and how quickly/slowly services were restored (power, infrastructure, transportation, Voice/Data/Internet/Cellular/WiFi/Satellite communications, etc); effectiveness of systems and equipment dealing with the storm and its consequences (UPS/surge, electrical/backup power, flood prevention, communications primary/backup links, etc); unexpected problems post-storm (such as strange printer issues); how can things be handled better/differently going forward; availability of correct and timely information or lack thereof; mass notification systems and did they actually work; etc.
References & Web Resources:
NY Times Sandy Interactive Flood Map:
http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2012/1120-sandy/survey-of-the-flooding-in-new-york-after-the-hurricane.html
(!! Excellent !!)
USGS Hurricane Sandy 2012 Flood Event:
http://water.usgs.gov/floods/events/2012/sandy
Wikipedia on Hurricane Sandy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_sandy
DataCenterKnowledge Hurricane Sandy Articles:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/10/30/major-flooding-nyc-data-centers/
(just one of many stories that we will discuss at the meeting)
Netcraft on NYI Remaining Up Across the Storm:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/11/02/new-york-internet-rides-out-the-storm.html
NYC Flood Hazards:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/downloads/pdf/hazard_mitigation/section_3j_flooding_hazard_analysis.pdf
(yes, it was predicted years ago)
USC/ISI Preliminary Analysis of Network Outages During Sandy:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/isi-pubs/tr-685.pdf
Unigroup Meeting 201301: Hurricane Sandy Aftermath Talk - Whiteboard Discussion Points (Image)
NYI Blog entry for this Unigroup Hurricane Sandy Meeting
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Panel Discussion.
Featured Speaker Biography:
Phillip Koblence, VP of Operations, NYI: Phillip Koblence is
Co-Founder and Vice President of Operations at the New York Internet
Company
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
Panel Discussion.
Featured Company Biography:
NYI Corporate Overview: Established in 1996, NYI is headquartered
in the heart of the Wall Street area, with facilities in both
Lower Manhattan and Bridgewater, New Jersey. The company's core
services include colocation and dedicated servers, cloud computing
and managed services, disaster recovery and business continuity
planning. NYI provides mission-critical data solutions for a
broad range of industries, including media, financial services,
healthcare, law, fashion, architecture, life sciences and real
estate. NYI is SSAE 16, PCI and HIPPA-compliant. It also works
with financial services companies to achieve FINRA 4370
compliance. For more information, visit:
GIVEAWAYS
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.
(Note: Our supply of books is low right now, we hope to resolve that soon.)
FEE SCHEDULE
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".
NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does NOT indicate
membership in Unigroup.
Members: Remember to bring your membership card with you to
the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This 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 beverages.
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks.
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