DFW IT Professionals is community of like minded technology professionals living or working in the Dallas Fort Worth Area. Our members represent every role in the technology industry from sales to security to hosting. Our mission is to help our members foster professional and personal relationships through online and in person  events.

What We Do

Lunch Events

Typically in Addison, we  have between 65 and 75 people show up each month at a popular restaurant that provides a seperate room for the group and individual checks. These lunches fall on the third Thursday of evey month and last from 11:30am to 1:00pm.

User Group meetings

The DFW IT Professionls User Group meetings are held on the first Thursday of evey month at the Microsoft campus in Irving. The room has seating for over 100 people and there are two large projector screen for easy viewing. We provide Pizza and drinks from Papa John's at each meeting so sponsorship is critical to the group's sucess. You can learn more about our sponsorship opportunities on our sponsorship page.

Lunch n Learn

Our newest event is a Lunch event similar to the networking lunches instead of open networking the entire time someone spends 45 minutes talking about an emergying technology.

Submitting Events

Sharing Technology Events with the community one of the goals of this group is increase awareness of technology events and activites in the DFW area. We encourage you to add your events to our website. We have 4 categories right now and they include User Group Meetings, Happy Hour Events, Lunch Events, and Webinars.

To add and event follow the following steps

1. Register on our Website
2. Login to the Website
3. Go to the Event calendar link
4. Near the bottom of the event calendar is a "Add Event" Link
5. Follow the link and enter the event details. (Make sure fill out both the common and calendar Tabs)

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Social Media

DFW IT Professionals participates in the Social Media conversation. You can find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and twitter.

Join us April 1st for a Presentation on Cloud Computing by Rackspace.

Managed Private Clouds

Your Mission Critical Applications are Ready to Run on a Private Cloud

Most clouds that people are familiar with are the public clouds, also known as shared clouds or private virtual servers. These clouds have hundreds or even thousands of businesses running in isolated containers within the same physical environment. And there are a lot of benefits to public clouds. But for some businesses, certain feature limitations and the implications on an application's architecture are definite drawbacks. They make it too difficult to transition from a dedicated environment to a public cloud.

Private Clouds, however, are an easy step into the realm of cloud computing. Each customer is physically separated on their own dedicated hardware. Not to forget that their support is also handled like a traditional managed hosting environment. So high levels of security, reliability, performance, customization and service are simply inherent to the solution. Yet you can still scale quickly, optimize your hardware resources and get utility billing for your VMs (Virtual Machines)—which are some of the benefits that make clouds so appealing in the first place. Think of it as getting the best of the cloud combined with the best of managed hosting—without the limitations of either.

Join us April 1st to learn how to create you Corporate Strategy for Adopting Enterprise Clouds (Private vs Public).

Rackspace will also be raffling an Apple IPod and other swag.

Pizza is free but please RSVP to make sure we order enough food and drinks.

Agenda: 6:00 -6:30: Dinner and Networking 6:30 -7:00: Announcements, and Business meeting 7:00 - 8:30: Presentation and wrap up

RSVP Here: http://events.linkedin.com/DFW-Pro-April-1st-Meeting-Corporate/pub/253167