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The Redundancy & Failover breakfast seminar is this Thursday, and we just announced the speakers for this educational training.

This Thursday

Redundancy & Failover Breakfast Seminar
8:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Cili at Bali Hai Golf Club
Event Info

Michael Marfino from BrightPlanIT will discuss data center redundancy, failover, and recovery from physical to virtual. Michael provides data center consulting to Fortune 100 companies.

Jean Nicolas, CCIE will cover network redundancy. Jean used to teach the CCIE course in southern Nevada and is now 1Velocity’s network operations manager.

Full bios:

MICHAEL MARFINO, BrightPlanIT

Michael Marfino has been in the IT field for close to 20 years, and has been based in Las Vegas for the last 13 years. He is the General Manager and Business Consultant for BrightPlanIT. Michael provides consulting on the implementation and operations of corporate data centers. He has worked with a wide array of companies in diverse industries, including many fortune 100 companies. Michael has degrees in Management Information Systems and Accounting from Canisius College in Buffalo NY.

BrightPlanIT is a Network Consulting, Systems Integration, Network Security, Training and Development service provider headquartered in Buffalo, with offices in upstate New York, Toronto, New York City, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Washington, DC. One of Microsoft’s most highly-rated partners worldwide, BrightPlanIT’s senior employees have designed and deployed systems in more than 70 countries; provided security designs and audits for Banks, defense contractors and Fortune 1000 companies; designed and deployed e-Commerce solutions for many of the leading firms in the computer software field; designed and built Enterprise Data Centers across the country and overseas, as well as trained many of our competitor’s technical resources.

JEAN NICOLAS, 1Velocity

Jean Nicolas, CCIE, CCSI, and MCP, has more than 15 years experience in computer networking, systems design and computer programming. Prior to joining 1Velocity, Jean worked at Network Learning, Inc., where he managed large MAN, WAN, and VoIP implementation projects and taught classes for students seeking CCNA, CCIE, and CCDA certifications. Previously, he worked as a senior network engineer for Cisco Systems, providing support to AT&T, UUNet British Telecom, and other telecommunications carriers around the world.

Attend this Event

Imagine you’ve lost all connectivity because of a fiber cut. Your data center is flooded. Your RAID just crashed.

Thursday, November 5
8:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Cili Restaurant at Bali Hai Golf Club
Attend this Event

Learn what it takes to have an always-on network with high availability to critical data and automatic failover for when systems fail.

Topics include:

• high availability
• identifying points of failure
• redundant hardware and software options
• replication
• multi-homing with BGP
• best practices and pitfalls to avoid

This breakfast will be more technical than past events and will cover hardware, software, and network redundancy.

Breakfast included. Recommended Continuing Education Credits: 2.
Pre-Register Online Today for $15. Same-day Registration: $20 cash or check at the door.