Don’t miss SQL Server Magazine Connections Conference, the premier event for Microsoft developers and DBAs, in Las Vegas, November 10-13. Every attendee will receive a copy of SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition with one CAL.

Virtualization.info, the most popular and trusted news source about virtualization technologies since 2003, invites you to attend its premiere conference: the Virtualization Congress. On a truly independent stage, you’ll see the top technical speakers from the biggest industry players presenting real products, side by side with newest startups, who will be announcing for the first time breakthrough technologies. Join the entire virtualization ecosystem for three days and meet the people that are changing forever the way we deliver IT infrastructures.

View this web seminar to see how you can virtualize the connections between servers and storage creating a shared pool of resources, and is a flexible and highly available platform for consolidating SQL Server infrastructure. Thus seeing no degradation in performance and management is streamlined making this an ideal solution for mission-critical SQL Server databases running SAP applications.

Join Microsoft for the 2nd Annual Microsoft BI Conference from October 6-8th in Seattle, Washington. You’ll gain insight from industry thought leaders; learn about how other Microsoft BI customers are having success; discover best practices and gain product insight from Microsoft’s product experts. Visit www.msbiconference.com for more information.

IndyTechFest is the premier Developer/DBA conference in Indianapolis. Hosted by IndyPASS and IndyNDA, this years' conference includes over 30 sessions to fill your day with training from product experts and Microsoft MVPs. Admission is free!

This two-day course will be most valuable to medical device software engineers, engineering managers, scientists, and quality engineers (particularly in product development). This course will also be beneficial to quality assurance and regulatory affairs personnel who are new to the industry or their current position and do not have an in-depth knowledge of Medical Device Software requirements.
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Complex, Trusted Systems (Guest Lecture by Professor Hal Abelson)

San Francisco is being forced to overhaul security measures on the computer network that controls data for its police, courts, jails, payroll and health services, as well as other crucial information, after the technology administrator entrusted with the system blocked access for everyone but himself last month and for days refused to reveal the password, even from jail.

Network management has been a source of frustration for Cisco Systems for years.

CEO John Chambers annually seems to lament the state of Cisco network management when he's asked where the company is most challenged or weakest from a product development and marketing aspect.
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Thousands of commercial passenger and cargo aircraft were thrown off schedule at dozens of U.S. airports today, Aug. 26, unable to take off or land on time due to a major shutdown problem with the Federal Aviation Administration's flight control network.

"The FAA is experiencing problems with the computer system that allows FAA air traffic facilities to exchange flight plan data around the country," FAA West coast press liaison Ian Gregor told me via email.

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Computer-maker Dell is attempting to off-load its computer manufacturing plants around the world, The Wall Street Journal reported in its Friday edition.

The company has approached contract manufacturers over the last few months offering to sell the plants, the newspaper reported quoting "people familiar with the matter."

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BlueThread Technologies -- an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based software company and the leading provider of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server-based enterprise content management (ECM) solutions -- has partnered with software maker K2 to create a SharePoint-based ECM solution package.

Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2009 is on track for availability during the first half of next year with a full public Community Technology Preview of the business process management server product slated for this year's fourth quarter, Microsoft said Friday. Microsoft also provided more details about new capabilities in the software, which until now Microsoft had called BizTalk Server 2006 R3.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT | Matt Fahrenkrug and Bill Culhane get paid to handle the nuts and bolts of complicated construction projects. As the owners of Culhane & Fahrenkrug Consulting, they facilitate every aspect of commercial construction efforts, such as the second phase of a three-year, $US170 million building expansion for the Van Andel Institute, a cancer research facility based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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The software, which stands for the Method123 Project Management Methodology allows project managers to implement projects in a more structured fashion. It helps them to deliver projects in the same repeatable fashion, as opposed to approaching every project differently. By using the same formula for success, they will complete tasks faster than before and they can implement lessons learned from past projects, much more easily.
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