Charles Bennafield will join us for a discussion on the current efforts belonging to The Creative Coast and SEDA.  The newly founded organization, The Creative Coast IT Connection will develop, nurture and retain IT Talent throughout the creative coast!

Patrick Gray is the founder and President of the Prevoyance Group, located outside Charlotte, NC. Prevoyance Group focuses on providing IT Strategy consulting, which covers the "softer side" of IT, focusing on issues such as organizational structure, CIO/C-suite relationships and helping businesses make sense of technology trends. Past clients include CA, Gillette, Nissan, OfficeMax, Pitney Bowes, SAP and several other Fortune 500 and 1000 companies. Always exploring new ways to generate more value from IT, Patrick has published a multitude of articles and has been quoted numerous times in major publications such as the New York Times, CIO Magazine, and InfoWorld, and several in-flight magazines that have graced seatback pockets around the world. Patrick recently celebrated the publication of his first book: Breakthrough IT: Supercharging Organizational Growth Through Technology, published by John Wiley & Sons. Also active outside the consulting world, Patrick is also a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Connected Minds, an organization dedicated to capturing often-neglected perspectives of historical events.

ITPA's June meeting will be held on Wednesday, 18th.  The topic is Storage and we have a speaker from Lefthand Networks joining us.  Please come and share in the knowledge to be gained from this meeting, we look forward to seeing you there.

Due to scheduling conflicts, our May meeting will be on the fourth Wednesday at the Hilton Garden Inn at 5711  Abercorn (next to Fresh Market center).  Lunch starts at 11:30.  We will be electing new officers for the next two years.  We have sent out nomination information to members. 

April's meeting will be at the Fairmont Restaurant  on Fairmont and Abercorn (behind Circuit City).

Our guest speaker for this meeting is Cleve Collins from  VMware .

Cleve will cover overall concepts of virtualization, benefits and how to get started with VMware solutions.