Since 1951, the Association of Information Technology Professionals has been a continuing resource to the IT professional for quality professional and self development, technology and industry trends, social networking and establishing lifelong friendships.  Serving the IT industry as a national organization and through our local chapters, AITP remains committed to delivering to its members the education, recognition, and credibility that will give them the competitive edge needed to succeed.

Mahalo to everyone who was able to join us at our May luncheon to hear Tom Riggins' presentation on storage concepts, storage tools, and tiering.

As a follow up from our March presentation by Sonny Bhagowalia, State of Hawaii CIO, re Transforming Government, the Office of Information Management and Technology has released a draft transformation strategy for public comment.  The transformation strategy outlines a multi-year plan which is planned for implementation in five major phases over the next decade. It is important for the Hawaii IT community to review and provide input. For more information go to: http://hawaii.gov/oimt.

Lastly, please join us on June 5th (note: new date for June - no meeting on June 21st) for an in-depth workshop and lunch presentation on Unified Service Delivery Management by Eric Gray, Chief Solutions Architect at NetScout. Eric will be discussing Private/Public Cloud, Virtual Desktop and Unified Communications Enterprise Deployments. For more information and to register, click 'here'.

Aloha,

Jeff Bloom
2012 AITP Honolulu Chapter President

New AITP Web Portal Previewed at Member Summit and NCC
 
AITP Members attending the 2011 AITP Member Summit and 2011 NCC (National Collegiate Conference) in Orlando got to be the first to see the look and feel of the new Web Portal being developed by the Web Migration team and a crew of volunteer Chapters and groups. AITP is investing in a new web portal infrastructure in order to increase functionality and save costs. The new portal will provide chapters with features they have been asking for. The portal will eventually replace today's www.aitp.org and www.aitpnetwork.org. See this Information Executive article (click here) for background on this project.

AITP Chicago and their team led by Charles Melidosian and Rose Southard represented large chapters. Charleston led by Thomas Malaniak represented mid-sized chapters. Las Vegas led by Robyne Hunsberger represented small chapters. Texas State Student Chapter of Region 3 led by Doug Fogle represented student chapters. The SLC (Student Leadership Council) also chaired by Doug Fogle represented Association committees. Region 5 led by Mark Gilfand represented Regions.
 
In addition to their landing page, each group also developed additional pages to highlight some of the new functionality available through the Your Membership product. Scheduled were demonstration pages for event management including credit card processing, newsletter creation, SIG's (Special Interest Groups), leader lists, and bulk email notifications.
 
We are still welcoming volunteers who would like to be part of the development effort. Please feel free to notify any of the members of the Web Migration Steering Committee of your interest at webmaster@aitp.org. Steering committee members are Bill Fly, Deborah Lovell, Mark Gilfand, Keven Webb, Darlene Gerber, Kristine Collins and Elaine Miller. Current plans are to open the new web portal this spring for chapters who want to migrate to or build new websites. Procedures will be developed and made available to chapters along with a migration timeline.

 
Article updated. Original by Elaine Miller published on March 2, 2011.