By PC users group to talk RAID
SPAUG (The Stanford Palo Alto Users Group for the PC ) regular monthly meeting will be 7:15 p.m., June 27, at the Elks Lodge 4249 El Camino Real, in Palo Alto. Regular monthly meetings are on the last Wednesday of the month.
All guests are welcome, and the meeting is free to all first-time guests.
The June speaker will be Jason Turk, speaking on the future of RAID, the redundant array of inexpensive disks. Turk is the national sales manager of Promise Technology.
For more information, see the Club Web page at: www.pa-spaug.org.
American Business Women’s Association
The Changing Times chapter of The American Business Women’s Association holds its monthly dinner meetings on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 2885 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara. Coming monthly programs include the Woman of the Year Celebration (today).
Cost is $25. For reservations, contact Robin James at (408) 938-2216. Reservations must be made by the Friday prior to each meeting.
Local IBM employee honored
Vern L. Watts, an engineer with IBM Silicon Valley Lab and resident of Los Altos, recently received a Corporate Award from Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM Corporation. The award honored his technical achievements and dedication in readying one of IBM’s premier transaction and database management systems for the era of e-business.
More than 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies use IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) to process over 50 billion transactions every day and manage over 15 billion gigabytes of critical business data. Foreseeing the changes that the Internet would bring, Watts, the chief architect, led the way in transforming IMS into a platform for Web-based, high-workload applications.
