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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.

Our friends at Ascent Solutions are hosting an educational lunch next week on Security and Unified Communications with FBI-veteran and Cisco’s Senior Security Strategist, Patrick Gray.

If you would like to attend for free as 1Velocity’s guest, please email us.

Security and Unified Communications: What You Need to Know

Next Thursday, October 8
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Cili Restaurant at Bali Hai Golf Club

Helping ensure business continuity and compliance, and preventing data loss are key reasons why you should attend this seminar. Additionally, few technologies affect your business as broadly as unified communications. From customer service to individual productivity, these solutions do more than impact work efficiency. They also affect day-to-day operating expenses, creating new opportunities to reduce costs and improve profitability.

One method to control both threats and costs is integrating security and networking. And leading the effort is Cisco.

Learn the latest advances in security and unified communications on October 8 at a seminar and lunch hosted by Ascent Solutions and Cisco.

Patrick Gray, Senior Security Strategist with Cisco
Gray joined Cisco after serving as the director of X-Force Operations, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS). Before that Gray had served 20 years with the FBI. He has first-hand knowledge of the hacking community, its aims and methodologies as they attack government, e-commerce, energy and financial entities relentlessly.Before that Gray had served 20 years with the FBI. He has first-hand knowledge of the hacking community, its aims and methodologies as they attack government, e-commerce, energy and financial entities relentlessly.

Thank you to everyone who attended our Business Continuity breakfast seminar at Cili last week. Below are the presenter’s slides and some additional downloads on virtualization and disaster recovery. You can also find these on the 1Velocity website.

Virtualization

Joe Honan, Janalent

Virtualization reduces hardware, power, and maintenance requirements, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Learn how virtualization can also increase availability, speed deployment, and improve disaster recovery.

Handouts: Virtualization Trends (pdf), Desktop Virtualization (pdf)

Disaster Recovery

Panos Hawandjian, e2e Recovery

How do you know what is the ‘right amount’ of protection for your business? Even if you know, you still need to balance the solution against the cost and complexity of implementing it. Learn how to collapse your recovery times and eliminate data loss while learning about simpler, intuitive solutions that fits within your existing infrastructure.

Handouts: UDP vs. CDP (pdf)

Redundant Network Design

Brett Lewis, 1Velocity
Network uptime becomes more critical every year. During an unforeseen service interruption, a redundant network automatically switches to an alternate route, protecting critical elements of the network. Learn the keys to keeping your mission-critical connectivity running as usual during outages with a truly diverse infrastructure.