The Des Moines branch of the Iowa Data Professionals will meet as usual on the second Monday of the month, December 13, 2021.

**This meeting will be 100% online, there will be no in person meeting **

You are welcome to join us at 5:30 PM Central Time (22:30 UTC) when our hosts will start the Microsoft Teams Meeting. Attendees are encouraged to connect and participate in networking or general discussions.

At 5:50 PM, we present Local Group Announcements.

At 6:00 PM Central Time (23:00 UTC) our featured Speaker, David Klee, will present “The Microsoft SQL Server Data Platform”. This will be the first of a series of three presentations that David will give to the Iowa groups. Each presentation stands on its own, but also builds on the previous presentations in the series.

Series Overview:

12/13 Des Moines “Data Platform”
12/14 I-380 “Infrastructure”
12/15 Quad Cities “Virtualization/Performance Tuning”

Our meetings usually end by 7:30PM Central Time, followed by opportunities for Q/A to our Speaker Q/A or our Local Group Leadership.

David Klee MVP biography:

David Klee is a Microsoft MVP and VMware vExpert with a passion for the convergence of data, cloud, and infrastructure. David spends his days handling performance and HA/DR architecture of mission-critical SQL Servers as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise are virtualization and performance, datacenter architecture, and risk mitigation through high availability and disaster recovery. You can read his blog at davidklee.net, and reach him on Twitter at @kleegeek.

David speaks at a number of national and regional technology related events, including the PASS Summit, VMworld, IT/Dev Connections, SQL Saturday events, SQL Cruise, PASS virtual chapter webinars, and many SQL Server User Groups.