10:15 AM
Albemarle
Mobile Technology – BoF
Brandy Hyder
University of Virginia
Matt Sullivan
Old Dominion University
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The downloading of mobile apps increased by 300% in 2011 from what it was in 2010. What types of mobile apps are desired for general and academic use at Universities? What are you doing at your school? What are the benefits of native apps vs. web apps? Should we develop specifically for iOS and Android? Other platforms? HTML5?
Brandy has been working at University of Virginia for a little over 5 years now. She has been providing desktop support to the faculty and staff of Arts & Sciences up until March of 2012 when she will take on a new job at the University ofVirginia. Working with the faculty and staff Brandy has had to learn and adapt to the emerging technologies including mobile devices. She has had to quickly teach herself how these new devices work to be able to support her customers. It helps that she has a strong interest in these the mobile technologies. Even in her new role at UVA she will still be working with these devices.
Matt Sullivan has been the Web / Portal Lead at Old Dominion University for 6 years. He leads development, implementation, and maintenance of the University’s Web, Web Content Management, and Portal systems.
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Storage Design Essentials for Virtual Desktop
Jef McCreery
Washington and Lee University
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Washington and Lee University has successfully implemented a virtual desktop infrastructure. In this session, Mr. Jef McCreery, Director of Core Systems, discusses the implementation, lessons learned, and offers advice to other organizations on how VDI can help them, too, reduce costs and improve IT operations. How did Washington and Lee architect its VDI storage and data management infrastructure to balance performance, scalability and reliability and increase user satisfaction on a tight budget? Attendees will learn about the common pitfalls of VDI: image distribution; file systems placement; backups; antivirus; boot storms and how to evaluate storage solutions for the performance, capacity and reliability they need for their virtual desktop infrastructure. Learn how Washington and Lee sifted through the conflicting claims of storage vendors in order to choose and implement an innovative and virtualization-optimized storage system that provides the best solution for their needs, and how deduplication and Solid State Disk is used. Having implemented a highly effective storage architecture to support VDI, Mr. McCreery shares the design elements and best practices that have worked at Washington and Lee and that can help other organizations have happy Virtual Desktop users.
Jeb is Director of Core System
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Digital Education Collaborative: People + Technology = Success??
Nicholas Langlie
Longwood University
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Digital Education Collaborative: an initiative developed by Longwood, a public university in Virginia, to thoughtfully innovate, collaborate, teach and learn in blended and online spaces. Our initiative was born out of a common problem across institutions – the notion of investing in technology without the human support and/or structure behind it to make sure technology gets used. To really get quality out of the technology, we must invest in the people who use it. We want to empower others to thoughtfully implement blended and online learning with an emphasis upon application to real goals, as opposed to buying ‘stuff’ with little to no training or understanding of how to use it. And so, the Digital Education Collaborative (DEC) was born. We will share our planning and implementation process, how we built the division with existing resources, the value of purposeful communication and collaboration within an institution, and our goals. We will explain the seven organizational goal areas and corresponding key objectives that guide our division: Policy, Education and Training, Collaboration, Creation (content), Outreach, Quality, and Innovation. Prepare for a research supported, interactive and collaborative experience where you will have an opportunity to reflect and learn some tips and best practices for how to implement blended and online learning initiatives.
Dr. Nicholas Konrad Langlie is the Director of Planning and Policy at Longwood University and an adjunct professor of Graduate Education, Instructional Technology and Leadership at a number of Universities. Nick is a certified school administrator in NY State and has a PhD in Educational Leadership.
Additional Presenter(s): Jenny Quarles, Longwood University, Dr. Jeannine Perry, Longwood University
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“Captain, I’m giving it all she’s got”! – VCCS Datacenter Consolidation Efforts
Brian Viscuso
Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
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Over the past three years the VCCS has experienced tremendous growth in its student population (~20%), and with it the expansion and demand on technology services to its colleges. However, the VCCS Systems Office has been challenged with meeting this increased demand for technology and services while “living within their means” inside of their current datacenter facility footprint. Much like Scotty in the Engineering room on the Starship Enterprise, VCCS engineers have had to be creative in order to save the ship and complete their mission. The result has been an incremental, multi-pronged approach to datacenter consolidation through virtualization, blade and networking technologies, as well as facility improvements. And the mission continues!
For the past five years, Brian has served as the datacenter manager and lead for the Enterprise Systems Engineering team at the VCCS System Office. Brian previously served as the Director of Systems Engineering at the University of West Florida.
Jefferson – PC Lab
Securing the Future (Mobile Device Management)
Taron James
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Learn how to monitor, manage, and secure mobile devices deployed across a university environment (iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices). Using a web based centralized management console allows an administrator to set password policies, remotely lock and wipe devices, and perform asset tracking. Since the management console is web based, you’ll have the opportunity to manage devices anywhere you have internet access. Having the ability to protect mobile devices and their data can greatly reduce support cost and decrease business risk within your university’s technology infrastructure.
Taron James is the IT Executive Liaison of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Taron supports the IT infrastructure for several critical departments within the university such as the president office, police department, and the office of budget and resource analysis. Taron personally assist VCU’s president, VPs, and board members with their technology requirements and goals. Taron received his undergraduate and master’s degree from VCU in Information Systems. Taron is also a CompTia A+ Certified technician and currently pursuing his Information Systems Security Professional certification (CISSP). In Taron’s spare time he enjoys building homemade computers, creating websites\blogs, and keeping up with the latest technological trends.
Montdomaine
Virtual Desktop for Higher Education
Allen Jenkins
SyCom Technologies
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IT solutions for education. Increase productivity, facilitate learning and lower costs. Education is increasingly going online. From recruiting, and conducting classes, to providing students with various services or managing staff and internal resources, educational institutions are turning to Windows applications and the web to streamline processes and cut costs. More and more schools are implementing e-learning programs to expand the reach of their classrooms to students across campus and around the globe. This online movement involves many demanding requirements that extend beyond IT efficiency and cost reductions. These demands include privacy of information, a spike in usage of application servers for the few days centered around class registration periods, and a server infrastructure that can adapt as more services (for example, CPU-intensive e-learning programs) become available online.
Allan has nearly 15 years of experience in LAN/WAN design, implementation and support. He has extensive hands on experience in installing, configuring, administration and monitoring of servers under Windows 2000 Advanced server, NT 4.0 and NetWare environment. He also has excellent hands on experience on Enterprise level systems. MS Exchange 5.5 – configuration, administration, troubleshooting, migration of users and mail content management, Windows 2000 Terminal services in a cluster setup, Windows 2000 Active Directory setup and administration, Citrix MetaFrame XP, change management. Strong working knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP and other LAN protocols.
Additional Presenter(s): Citrix Solutions – John Ratcliff, Senior Engineer
Washington – Apple Lab
Deploying and Managing iOS Devices in Education
Jayson Bevins
Apple, Inc.
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This presentation will present practical methods for deploying iOS devices in the higher education setting. Best practices will be highlighted.
Additional Presenter(s): Aaron Davis, Apple Systems Engineer
11:15 AM
Albemarle
Keeping Employees Motivated – BoF
Thom Mattauch
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Employees are our most valuable resource. How can we motivate our employees? We know funds are scarce – how can we keep them enthused? How do we help them maintain their skills?
For the past 3 years, Thom has served as the VCU helpIT Center Manager. He has a staff of 8 FTE’s and 15 PTE’s. The VCU helpIT Center provides technical support for the VCU Community consisting of ~32,000 students, ~12,000 Fulltime Faculty and Staff, and ~18,000 Part Time Staff, as well as Alumni, Community Partners, and Vendors. The VCU helpIT Center provides a variety of support ranging from PC/Mac support, Mobile Device support, eMail and Network Connectivity, A/V Checkout, and Test Scanning services.
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Managing iOS on Campus
B. Bagby
Virginia Western Community College
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iOS devices are great for the individual user, but poorly thought out for enterprise support. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, except the popularity of these devices has forced them into our everyday work lives.
B Bagby is the Head Media Geek at Virginia Western Community College. He provides leadership and support for instructional technologies including mobile devices, classroom technology and social media. B has a B.S., and a M.Ed both of which took many years to earn, and a D.D. that only took seconds to buy online. You can find out more about be at BBagby.com. B tweets @theedugeek, and his department is vwccmediageeks on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
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ODU Data Center Network Upgrade With Nexus 5K and Double-Sided vPC
Scott Daffron and Rizwan Bhutta
Old Dominion University
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In 2011 the ODU Office of Computing and Communication Services undertook a migration to a consolidated all-IP data center storage network. This presentation will be given by the ODU network team and is meant to share with other network managers and engineers the challenges this project presented to the data center IP network, the various network design modifications considered to meet these challenges, and a technical overview of the final solution chosen.
Scott Daffron currently is employed as a senior network engineer for Old Dominion University. Prior to joining ODU, he has worked for fifteen years in both the healthcare and service provider industries holding senior-level positions in both network engineering and UNIX systems administration.
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Securing Data for Investigations and Litigation
Philip Kobezak
Virginia Tech
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In recent years various offices at Virginia Tech have found themselves deeply involved in not only e-discovery issues, but also responding to computer forensics requests, fraud and abuse cases, and other policy-related issues. For some of the requests it is important, from a litigation standpoint, to ensure that data is not only collected properly but a record is retained that will show the collection process. The importance of having accurate coordination, collaboration, and tracking of requests and the related information led the IT Security Office to develop and implement the Digital Data Request System (DDRS). This system provides a secure platform that brings the process into a single place that improves the workflow, accuracy, security and confidentiality. In addition to the approved information technology offices, university legal counsel, campus police, internal audit, and human resources utilize the system to ensure accurate information is recorded for any future use in investigations and litigations. This presentation will discuss the issues that led to the development of the DDRS, features of the system itself, access and reporting capabilities, and the system will be demonstrated to show the features that make it useful for management and officials at Virginia Tech.
Philip Kobezak has worked for Virginia Tech for more than ten years. He has been working for the IT Security Office since January 2006. Prior to that, he conducted performance and capacity planning for NIS Systems Support while also assisting the Security Lab with testing. Currently, Philip performs security reviews, responds to incidents, and provides technical guidance to departments. He conducts forensic imaging and analysis when needed. He is also involved in the development of software tools used in the IT Security Office. Philip holds the SANS / GIAC certifications GSEC, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GPEN, and GWAPT. He is also pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering.
Additional Presenter(s): Wayne Donald, Retired IT Security Officer, Virginia Tech. Before retirement, he was very active in improving communications and cooperative efforts between departments. Wayne’s institutional experience was instrumental in DDRS’s approval and development.
Jefferson – PC Lab
Rich Interactive Publishing for Mobile Devices with Adobe InDesign CS 5.5
Steve Adler
Adobe Systems
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Discover how to design professional page layouts with a variety of multimedia and interactive elements for digital distribution using the latest version of Adobe InDesign. Learn how to create and publish engaging EPUB 3.0 documents and digital Magazine applications for the tablets.
Steve Adler is an Education Solutions Consultant at Adobe Systems. After working for many years in education as an instructor, coordinator, and Adobe Education Leader, Steve focuses on integrating Adobe solutions across the digital campus. Steve has served on numerous faculties including The School of Visual Arts in New York and Stanford University’s Digital Media Academy
Montdomaine
Digital Video in Classrooms, Are You Ready?
Ken Mangum
Extron Electronics
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The expanding growth of digital technology in higher education classrooms presents new challenges for the A/V professional, such as High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), distance limitations, Display ID/EDID support, and merging digital systems with analog systems. In this presentation we will learn to design practical, working systems that incorporate the full range of digital technologies available. You will enhance your ability to explain and identify the proper sequences of design in order to build a fully optimized A/V system. In addition, you will learn to properly define EDID and how it can affect system performance as well as the necessary tools to successfully design and troubleshoot digital A/V systems.
Ken is the Education Technology Specialist for Extron Electronics. This role affords him the opportunity to provide consultation and assistance to colleges and universities in selecting the appropriate technologies to further their academic missions of teaching and learning. Prior to joining Extron, Ken served Towson University in Maryland for 13 years in various capacities including Manager of Classroom Technology, Director of Academic Operations, and as an adjunct faculty member in the department of Political Science. He has presented at numerous conferences including Educause, InfoComm and CCUMC His primary research interest is in utilizing technology and new media to increase engagement and improve information retention in students.
Washington – Apple Lab
The Mobility Revolution – How the iPad is Changing Education
Jack Burns
Apple, Inc.
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Learn how colleges and university are embracing mobility, equipping learners and creating a culture of innovation with iPads in and out of the classroom.
Jack Burns has worked in education and technology for more than 20 years. He holds a M.S. in Math/Science Education from the University of Tulsa. As a former classroom teacher, department chair, technology director, Jack brings a wealth of academic experience to his current role as Apple HiED Account Executive covering the VCCS.
Additional Presenter(s): James Kelly, Apple Development Executive
1:30 PM
Albemarle
SharePoint – BoF
Estrella Claudio
Old Dominion University
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There are a myriad of descriptions for SharePoint including browser-based collaboration and document management platform, a content management system, web-based intranet/extranet/internet, enterprise information portal, and even sharing/blogging/wiki style server. How is it being used at your University? What are the benefits of SharePoint 2010 and what are some of the “gotcha’s”?
Estrella has been working with ODU for 25 years and with OCCS since 1994. When ODU decided to provide SharePoint to the campus in 2008, Estrella began to learn about this tool and became System Admin.Just last year, She led the effort to upgrade to SP2010. One of the more challenging parts of this project was to include integration with Shibboleth and AD so that collaboration with faculty at other institutions would be easier.
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Dell Networking Solutions
Robin Olds
Dell
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The business is relying on the network more than ever before to achieve bottom line. This means more demands are being placed on the network. In order to keep up with these demands, organizations typically have simply thrown money at the problem without having a clear strategy for the growing business and the growing network. As a result, inefficiencies have crept into networks—costing money, without the promised potential being reached. On top of it all, there is a scalability issue where the network must scale to service a heterogeneous user audience accessing more mission critical apps, on more devices, from more places…including the campus, branch or remote offices as well as users that are on the road. Dell’s Solutions are Open and Optimized, allowing customers to avoid the “lock-in” that they may face when they are sold on a proprietary technology. While benefiting from an “open architecture,” you can also achieve a simplified and optimized environment by minimizing the footprint of IT and facilities assets (CAPEX).
Robin Olds is based out of Columbia, SC and is Dell’s Networking Sales Specialist with over 14 years in the IT industry. Before Robin joined Dell, he spent 5 years with Brocade formerly Foundry Networks covering South Carolina and Coastal Georgia, 7 years with AT&T formerly BellSouth working on South Carolina State Government, 2 years as a network engineer for a small integration company in Georgia and also served in the US Army. Robin has degrees from University of Florida, St. Leo University and is finishing his MBA from Charleston Southern University this May.
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Going Tapeless – Disk to Disk Backups and Offsite Replication
Ralph Lucia
Virginia Community College System
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Five years ago, the VCCS relied on tape backups, tape robots, and third party services to get critical data and system images offsite. Since then, these processes have been replaced with disk to disk backups and automated replication to an offsite disaster recovery facility approximately 135 miles from the primary datacenter. This presentation will provide an overview of the VCCS backup system, offsite replication process, WAN compression technologies and overall strategy. It will also answer a question that is often overlooked in disaster recovery plans. How do you replicate your critical data offsite after your primary datacenter has been destroyed and critical systems have been restored at the DR facility?
Ralph has 12 years experience in information technology and holds a Masters degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Illinois. He has worked for the VCCS for over 6 years in various capacities.
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Crisis Communication: Where do we start?
Sam Kennedy
VCU
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VCU is currently working to formalize our IT crisis communication processes. What forms of communication can be depended on and where do new technologies such as Twitter, Facebook, and mobile collaboration play a role? We will examine VCU’s path thus far and where we hope to be in six months. Session attendees will have the opportunity to share their own experiences. Let’s share!
Sam has over 20 years of experience in student life and technology in private and public sectors of higher education. Currently he manage the marketing and communications program for VCU with reporting responsibilities for media support services and the VCUCard identification program.
Jefferson – PC Lab
Web Content Management with Adobe CQ5
Steve Adler
Adobe Systems
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Learn about Adobe’s powerful new content management and data analytics tools. These tools empower education institutions to create, analyze, optimize education site content, campaigns, and targeted user experiences. Leveraging direct integration with the Creative Suite, CQ5 provides a productive, easy-to-learn, fun-to-use authoring environment with support for in-place editing, drag-and-drop page composition from a rich library of web components, and intuitive controls for SEO, scheduled delivery, and landing page optimization.
Steve Adler is an Education Solutions Consultant at Adobe Systems. After working for many years in education as an instructor, coordinator, and Adobe Education Leader, Steve focuses on integrating Adobe solutions across the digital campus. Steve has served on numerous faculties including The School of Visual Arts in New York and Stanford University’s Digital Media Academy
Montdomaine
HD Video Communications: Virtual Infrastructure, Cloud and Mobile Solutions – Expand your HD Video capabilities without breaking the budget
Bob MacKinnon
Whitlock / LifeSize
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This seminar will show how you can integrate new technology in the rapidly growing HD video communications market while still leveraging your current endpoints and infrastructure. We will review the latest virtual, cloud and mobile video solutions and how these technologies will enhance and extend your HD video communication capabilities.
Bob is a Regional Account Manager for Mid Atlantic – LifeSize Communications (a division of Logitech)
Additional Presenter(s): Karl Hermann, Federal Sales Engineer – LifeSize Communications (a division of Logitech)
Washington – Apple Lab
Face Time Saves Time
April Steele
Virginia Commonwealth University
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In order to lead a staff of student technicians in supporting the instructional technology in the classrooms the use of mobile technolgy has become a huge asset. iPads and Facetime creates a human chain of support and client coverage.
April has been with VCU for nearly 5 years and is a past presenter for ACCS.
3:45 PM
Albemarle
Software Licensing in Virginia (and Beyond) and the 2012 Virginia Software Summit
Sharon Pitt
George Mason University
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Managing our software portfolio is increasingly crucial as we seek to reduce costs and maintain appropriate and quality services for our faculty, staff and students. Software management occurs in an environment of increased consumerization of technology, confusing contractual terms and conditions, steep upgrade costs, and the promise of virtualized delivery of that software. In August of 2011, the second annual Virginia Software Summit was held at the University of Virginia. The summit agenda included a vendor panel discussion on software licensing, a Point/Counterpoint session on Click Through Licensing, and a discussion about statewide goals for license management. The mix of vendor participants and representatives from higher-ed public and private institutions lead to positive discussions on how to modify licenses to make them more useful to the changing needs of institutions, students, faculty and administrators. In this ACCS session, we will discuss the outcomes of the 2011 conference, the activities of an EDUCAUSE working group on software licensing, and initial plans for the 2012 Virginia Software Summit.
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Teaching with Blackboard Collaborate Better Than Face-to-Face: Facilitating Engagement in the Synchronous Learning Environment
Rick Reo
George Mason University
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The webinar will start on time; please log-in 10-15 minutes early to ensure you can log in and check to make sure that you will be ready when the session begins. This link will be open and available to you 30 minutes prior to the start of the webinar. The session will be recorded, and a link for the recording will be sent to all the registrants after the webinar concludes.
Description: Virtual communication and collaboration is a key component of any 21st century learning environment. Web conferencing tools are being used to hold live, online meetings, interactive presentations, just-in-time training, and remote support. In this highly interactive webinar, you will be introduced to some of the more useful teaching tools within Blackboard Collaborate v11 and learn a few “tricks of the trade” for putting them into practice. The main goal of the session is to demonstrate some best practices for teaching or training with Collaborate as well as some of the capabilities of its tools. This session will be conducted fully online using Blackboard Collaborate. Participants are required to have a USB headset with boom microphone in order to ask questions via VoIP audio feature.
As an instructional designer, Rick supports distance education faculty and programs across Mason’s regional campuses. He also provides broad range support for instructional technology at the Prince William campus. His interests center on online teaching with social software tools and open educational content and their integration with Blackboard LMS. Rick (MA, M.Ed.) currently teaches Introduction to Computers as an adjunct instructor at GMU, and has developed/taught a couple online courses on Web 2.0 tools in the past. He served on the board of the Association of Collegiate Computing Services of VA and was a formerly the New Media Consortium rep for GMU.
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5 Concepts to Future-Proof Learners
Michael Greene
Rappahannock Community College
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Preparing students and ourselves to carry this state and nation through the 21st century is a daunting task. In this session we’ll cover five concepts key to winning the future. Topics include efficiency, communication, autonomous learning and more with specific tools and resources for each. Incorporate these concepts into your own workflow, bring them into the classroom, teach them to your colleagues and you’ll help future-proof our world.
Michael is the the Web Services Administrator for Rappahannock Community College in Eastern Virginia. He designs, deploys, and manages web based systems for the faculty, staff, and students of the college. Mike loves creative 21st-century problem solving in higher education and helping prepare people for the technology of tomorrow, today.
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Case Study: Virtual Sprawl, BYOD and the Personal Device Explosion – Achieving Unified Security and Control in an Open Access Culture
Gaston Hebert
Enterasys Secure Networks
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The diverse set of demands that higher education institutions place on their infrastructure is tremendous. Factors such as BYOD personal device proliferation, increased mobility demands, virtualization, cloud computing initiatives and the ever present need for ensuring compliance have only made it more difficult to ensure security policy continuity across the college infrastructure fabric. In addition, cohesively managing these diverse systems environments in an efficient manner is a complex and daunting task. Ensuring that the infrastructure and tools are available so IT personnel can do more with less is a recurring theme. In this session, Gaston Hebert, Higher Education Practice Director for Enterasys Secure Networks will cover a case study describing the process and tools used to deliver unified policy and network control across the diverse IT and network infrastructure environment at St. Edwards University.
Gaston Hebert has worked in the field of IT for 15 years. He began with Dell Computer Inc. during the original Pentium chip release. Desiring actual hands-on technical experience, he took a job at St. Edwards University as Operations Manager. Gaston has worked at St. Edward’s for the last 12 years. Most recently as Director of IT Resources. As Chairman of the Network Capacity Analysis Committee, Gaston conducted an assessment of the university’s networks. This work led to overhaul of the university’s network systems including virtualized servers and SAN and the implementation of a ubiquitous wireless network, firewalls, and a system of access control. After Partnering with Enterasys for 4 years, Gaston recently joined Enterasys as National Director of Higher Education sales.
Jefferson – PC Lab
SharePoint: More Than Sharing Documents
John Hagerty
Electronic Systems Inc
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What is Microsoft SharePoint, the platform? Learn how to move beyond simply loading documents into SharePoint and take advantage of its rich feature set. Discover how it leverages your current IT investment to solve your business needs. By attending this workshop, you will learn how SharePoint can: Support business processes and activities, Offer Ease of Use for Current Office Users, Social Computing, Support Digital Assets Management, Support Findability, Allow Mobile Access, Increase IT ROI: and Leverage Community Resources.
ESI works closely with Microlink to provide Microsoft Sharepoint solutions. Presentation will be done by both Microlink and Sharepoint.
Montdomaine
Virtualizing: Practical Considerations
Randall Sayles
Cybernetics
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This group discussion will focus on practical aspects of virtualization as they apply to a small to medium size data center. The group will develop a blueprint for virtualization of a 20 server farm. Considerations will be given to Hypervisor selection, server selection (rack vs. blade center vs. tower) SAN configurations, iscsi vs. fiber channel vs. fiber channel over ethernet. Must have features on equipment and expansion. overall Backup and DR strategies. This will be a group discussion and not a infomercial.
Randy has been a technical sales engineer with Cybernetics for about 3 years. Prior to that, he worked for a number of firms in the area of virtualization, storage and infrastructure planning.
Washington – Apple Lab
The Law and the Cloud: Accountability and Empowerment in the New Computing
Mike McPherson
University of Virginia
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Click-through and shrink-wrap license agreements. Terms of use and privacy disclosures. Data mining, HIPAA, FERPA, e-discovery, FOIA, and intellectual property rights. The cloud and web services are a legal, contractual, and regulatory minefield, and our users are walking right into it, blissfully unaware of the danger. We don’t want to merely frighten them off, as this new world is rich with possibility and opportunities for teaching and scholarship. At U.Va., we have devised a mixture of policy, education, and operating procedures that we believe will help us navigate this minefield and reach the promise on the other side.
Mike McPherson has served as associate vice president and deputy chief information officer at the University of Virginia since July 2006. Prior to this appointment at UVa, Mr. McPherson served in a variety of other information technology leadership roles in higher education, including Director of Information Technology for the College of Literature, Science, & the Arts, University of Michigan; Special Counselor to the Provost, University of Michigan; and Interim President and CEO of Merit Network, Inc., in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the nation’s longest-running regional research and education network. Mr. McPherson received a B.A. in Multidisciplinary Humanities (Physics, History of Art, Theatre) from Michigan State University.
Additional Presenter(s): Madelyn Wessel is Associate General Counsel at the University of Virginia, focusing on intellectual property, copyright, licensing, technology, libraries, student affairs and civil rights. She has lectured on copyright, digital responsibilities, cloud computing, fair use and censorship.
