ACCS2016

Everyone is talking about BYOD, but a lot of questions remain … How do I manage these devices? What are the security considerations? Can I maintain control without causing more work? The term BYOD can be confusing because it means different things to different people. A more accurate term is unmanaged devices. This session is for any organization or institution that has unmanaged devices, often in the form of personal devices, coming on to their network. Join us for a practical discussion to answering these questions and more regarding BYOD. Learn how to maintain control and increase the security of your BYOD network.

Nearly every service and application at Bentley University ties back into a central administrative system based on Banner software, which stores student, alumni, financial, and personnel data in an Oracle database. If one application uses that database inefficiently, such as with poorly written queries, it can impact the performance of other applications that also rely on the database. Understanding how applications interacted with the Banner system was a major challenge for Bentley.

Bentley University's 50-person IT organization manages a patchwork of departmental applications, as well as web-based services such as email; the MyBentley portal for students, faculty, and applicants; and a Blackboard online learning management system. When a task that should take seconds takes minutes, workflow gets disrupted—and many tasks are repeated, causing costly delays that add up to increased costs.

Join us to learn how Bentley University’s IT team addressed these challenges by utilizing wire data to quickly gain visibility into the Banner application without invasive agents ensuring better application performance, improving revenues and reducing costs.

Although wholesale migrations to the public cloud are rare, the hybrid cloud will be the predominate sourcing model for IT in Higher Education for the foreseeable future. This session will discuss how higher education institutions can harness the power of the cloud, while avoiding the common pitfalls and risks of the public cloud. This session will cover a number of cloud topics, including a discussion of hybrid cloud economics, a discussion of the most common real-world use cases and workloads for the public cloud, how to make your private cloud compatible with the public cloud, and top 10 considerations as you adopt public cloud in your organization.

Big data and cloud adoption have moved from experimental projects to mission-critical, enterprise-wide deployments providing new insights and innovations.  Intel and Dell will provide an overview of the changing landscape of education in this new world, with an overview of the latest technologies in data center, virtualization, server, storage, and security and more.

Connected Learning; Colleges and Universities are focused on making sure that students are ready for the careers that await them when they graduate and enter the workforce. Cisco can help you create a connected learning environment that delivers quality education to students and enables you to: Reach New Learners Beyond the Campus; Attract the Best Students and Faculty; Improve Collaboration; Provide Lifetime Learning; Cut Costs and Streamline Administrative and Operational Processes; Increase Safety and Security

In today’s mobile world, students expect to navigate the world of education in the same way that they manage their personal interactions and transactions. They are looking for a highly engaged and personalized experience – accessible via their preferred communication channels and devices. Educational institutions that can deliver on these expectations have a competitive advantage with a successful mobility strategy.

Join this session to learn:
• Why higher education institutions are designing their mobility strategies with virtualization and cloud technologies
• How mobile workspaces are improving education and allowing students and educators to be more successful
• Best practices and lessons learned from other schools who have been through the decision, design, and roll-out of their mobility strategy

An overview of Dell's Client Portfolio with a focus on security, manageability, and reliability.

Gartner, and IDC CIO's made huge predictions in 2015 with the direction of the digital business. The Migration from current state to future state must be a well planed roadmap. Identifying the phase in Evolution of an IT organization is key to crafting a plan to move to a cloud environment, private, hybrid and/or public. In the fast-paced environment of IT today, organizations must strive to become Disciplined, Standardized, Automated, and Optimized.

Paul Schaapman will outline the steps of moving beyond traditional infrastructure into a software-defined data center that will transform your IT to meet your Institutions Goals.

Paul Schaapman is a Data Center Architect at CDW, with over three decades of experience in IT. Paul focuses on determining business needs, current IT consumption models and developing final solutions intended to realize those business goals. Prior to CDW, Mr. Schaapman managed the technical infrastructure, overall process architecture, business continuity planning and information security for the Virginia Farm Bureau (VAFB). While at the VAFB, Mr. Schaapman was awarded the VMWare 2007 virtual vanguard award for “The most advanced virtual infrastructure.” Mr. Schaapman is also a member of VMware’s Partner Technology Advisory Board (PTAB) and also VCE’s PTAB

Simplified Migration: Migrating your business to the latest Windows operating system on the most secure business PCs has never been easier thanks to Dell Services. You can expect a smooth transition backed by superior service from Dell: Named Microsoft Partner of the Year and ranking #1 in Windows deployment.

A report by the McKinsey Global Institute, "Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things", defines IoT as “Sensors and actuators connected by networks to computing systems. These systems can monitor or manage the health and actions of connected objects and machines. Connected sensors can also monitor the natural world, people and animals.”

Considerations for Higher Education:
- Next Generation Student Experience
- Connected Campus
- Physical Campus Security
- Operational Efficiency
- Operational Improvement through predictive analytics
- Connected Stadium, Public Venues and Athletics
- Data Security

In Q4-2015, CDWG formed a Dedicated Team of Solution Architects to the Internet of Things. This team is supporting our Manufacturing, Education, Government and Public Safety verticals dedicated to delivering Smart and Connected Solutions. We anticipate the proposed content of this presentation to change over the next 4 Months before ACCS. We will adjust our content as IoT develops.

CDWG's Definition: Smart Devices Connected to the Internet, communicating with other things and people and transmitting data to be securely managed, stored and analyzed for actionable insights and value.

Everything produces data, but it is unlikely being analyzed in a meaningful way.

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud offering. Did you know Azure has 50 services that you can use to extend your infrastructure? Many of these services are new! Office 365 also has many new services available. Come to this session and see rapid fire demos of such things as:

- Azure Active Directory
- RemoteApp
- Azure Backup
- Azure Site Recovery
- Office 365 Delve
- Office 365 Groups
- Office 365 Social Engagement
- Office 365 Power BI
- And a lot more!

We will take a broad overview of what non brad specific Audio Visual programming looks like today and what the future holds for us. Discussions will include configurable and OOFTB (out of the box) systems, semi customizable systems, and fully custom systems. Finally we will look at what this all means to Crestron, .AV Framework, Crestron Studio, SIMPL & VT-Pro, and C#.

Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Fans have high expectations for Mobility when on campus.
Reliable Wi-Fi is critical to student retention and success. Visitors and Fans expect access to high performance Wi-Fi. Designing High Density Wireless for user demands in 2016 takes planning.

Wi-Fi in the numbers:
- Average College Student Brings 7 Internet-connected devices to campus - 2014 College Explorer Report
- 94% of Students use Wireless Devices for Course Work
- University of Montana surveyed students that were accepted but chose not to enroll. They found the top reason students cited for not attending was the lack of wireless access in the Residence Halls.
- Top Concerns for supporting Mobile Devices: 57% Security, 47% Bandwidth Limitation
- At College Games, Fans Often Leave at Halftime if they cannot connect to the internet or upload photos to social media
- Wi-Fi connectivity in Athletic Facilities and Public Venues makes more money for the University, through additional purchases, such as food, drink, merchandise or seat upgrades
- Tablets, Wearable Technology, and Data Analytics are changing coaching techniques and player performance

Richard Noonan, CDWG Wireless Solution Architect will discuss designing Wi-Fi in public venues, dorms, and stadiums to optimize the student, faculty, staff, and Alumni experience. Today, institutions must understand the applications and demands on the wireless network to create the ideal experience. Different types of construction and functions within a building impact the design of the Wi-Fi network. Richard will discuss designing high Density Wi-Fi for public venues for Higher Education such as University of Nebraska and University of Phoenix Stadium. Rich has over 7 years of experience designing wireless networks.

CDWG, a Gold Cisco Partner, holds Advanced Technology Specializations for Wireless LAN, and Advanced Technology Provider Certifications for Outdoor Wireless Mesh. CDWG is a Cisco Connected Stadium-Wi-Fi Partner. The Connected Stadium Wi-Fi badge designation recognizes CDWG's experience in designing high-density Wi-Fi solutions in challenging environments, as well as it's skill set and depth in wireless network. As of August 2015, CDWG was one of two partners to hold this designation.

University of Nebraska Video Case Study: http://edtechmagazine.com/higher/media/video/university-nebraskas-memorial-stadium-gets-high-tech-makeOver
University of Nebraska Story: http://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/08/full-access-university-nebraska-huskers-fans
Connected Campus: http://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/10/mapping-path-connected-campus
Mobile Devices at College: http://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/08/report-how-millennials-use-mobile-devices-college

Do more with less. How many times have you been asked to assist with this in your environment? Come join SyCom Technologies as we delve deep into the topic of Hyper-Convergence. In this session, we'll talk about what Hyper-Convergence means to the modern data center, what technologies are prevalent, what to look for from vendors, who is doing something exciting and why you might want to be a part of this growing trend. We'll also talk about the growing need for simplification of data center designs to support agility and flexibility and promote Fast IT.

Cisco HyperFlex combines compute, storage and networking into a simplified, easy to use system that brings new levels of speed and efficiency to IT.   Cisco HyperFlex unlocks the full potential of Hyperconverged Infrastructure, with superior application performance, flexible scaling and essential data services, allowing customers to extend the operational simplicity of HCI to more applications and use cases.   The HyperFlex Systems family is comprised of HX-Series Hyperconverged Nodes, based on Cisco C-Series servers.  These will be fully productized and branded products, marketed and supported exclusively by Cisco.

This lecture is like a crash course in everything new and interesting in the data storage industry. Of course, storage has not fundamentally changed in the last 40 years, so it would be more accurate to say that the lecture frames the state of the data storage industry in the context of hardware advancements and industry trends, while attempting to separate the vendor marketing fluff from the simple realities of how storage devices work.

The content is vendor-neutral, in that the focus is on architectures, industry trends, and problem solving, not on specific products from specific vendors. Examples are drawn from commercial as well as open source solutions.

$2.2M saved annually by eliminating open enrollment errors; slashing year-over-year retroactive payments by 50%; $2M reduction in end of year adjunct faculty budget overrun. If those numbers are of interest to you, please join Larry Fitch, Principal Value Manager for Workday, for a thought provoking discussion where we review alternative solutions for today’s existing finance, HR, payroll and student administrative systems. And more importantly, what the value of switching has been, in real terms for the organizations who’ve made the switch.

As network infrastructure has continued to grow in complexity, the IT resources needed to manage the network have faced staffing and budget challenges. Many education industry IT managers have turned to the cloud to address these challenges. This provides the opportunity to budget Wi-Fi network infrastructure as a subscription service, rather than a capital purchase. Done right, cloud Wi-Fi management can provide a single point for provisioning, configuration, reporting, firmware management and troubleshooting.

Cloud-based Wi-Fi network infrastructure has the potential to provide network policy enforcement, simplified BYOD, application analytics, L7 control, and location services, just as on-premises control does.

Extreme Networks will present a new cloud-based Wi-Fi network infrastructure management solution.