Author: R. Kyle Jones
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Attends MassCUE
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick attended this year’s MassCUE Technology Conference to welcome conference attendees.
This year was the conference’s most successful with the largest number of presenters ever, featured speakers Mary Cullinane and Yong Zhao, and thousands of conference attendees.
Kyle is proud to serve on the board of this powerhouse promoting the benefits of technology in education.
searchsecurity.com Article on IT Consumerization
Kyle and his bring your own device (BYOD) initiative at Essex Agricultural and Technical High School earned him a featured sidebar in a larger article on IT consumerization. The article focuses on both the increasing number of devices per individual, the diminishing size of those devices, and how companies are responding to the potential threat(s) from those devices.
METAA CTO Clinic on May 5
Kyle will be a featured speaker and panelist at the upcoming Massachusetts Educational Technology Administrators Association (METAA) on May 5, 2011. As a featured speaker, Kyle will be speaking on the topic of “Your Private Cloud in the Sky,” where he will speak on how to use virtualization software and techniques to deliver an organization’s infrastructure anywhere, anytime, on any device. The full description of the talk is as follows:
Everywhere you turn, you are hearing about cloud computing. However, there are applications that just aren’t available in a cloud-based environment. Or, perhaps, there is sensitive material that you’re leery of pushing into the cloud. In this session, learn about the software solutions that will allow you to build your own private cloud where you can make both desktops and applications available on a multitude of different devices including desktops, laptops, Google Android-based devices, iPads, and more. Moreover, you’ll learn how to integrate such solutions as part of a larger cloud initiative that includes applications that aren’t self-hosted.
Kyle will also be a featured panelist on a discussion of live@edu, Microsoft’s hosted email and application solution that seeks to compete with Google Apps.
Bradford Networks BYOC Webinar
Kyle will be the feature webinar presenter in an upcoming webinar from Bradford Networks on April 27, 2011. Bradford Networks is one of the top-ranked industry vendors in the network access control (NAC) space. Kyle leveraged their Network Sentry solution to enable a bring-your-own-computer (BYOC) model to the Essex Agricultural and Technical High School. When students bring their personally-owned devices to campus, they go through a registration and scanning process that protects the campus network. This allows teachers to leverage such devices on campus while still providing for the security of the campus network.
TechTarget Features Cloudarray Storage
Kyle was recently featured in an article on SearchSMBStorage.com, a part of the TechTarget network. TechTarget seeks to provide information technology professionals with the information that they need when making purchasing decisions, so articles are necessarily of a more technical nature. Being recognized by TechTarget illustrates that your solution is worthy of consideration by other leading IT professionals.
TechTarget chose to feature Kyle’s innovative use of Massachusetts-based startup TwinStrata’s CloudArray virtual appliance to make offsite backups of the school’s critical data using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This allows the school to have a geographically distributed offsite backup combined with a quicker onsite local backup, far exceeding federal disaster recovery guidelines for financial institutions while increasing the reliability of those backups and decreasing cost.
Registration is required to view the full article, but registration is free.
Starwind Software Writes Case Study on Lawrence Academy
StarWind Software makes innovative iSCSI target software that allows any Microsoft Windows-based server to be used as iSCSI storage by virtually any other server that can make use of iSCSI connections. This allows one to create an inexpensive and affordable iSCSI disk system to be used for server and application virtualization.
Kyle used StarWind’s software to create such an inexpensive disk solution at Lawrence Academy to be used as additional capacity for both non-critical server virtualization projects as well as storage for non-critical web-based applications.
The entire case study can be read in the Customer Success Stories section of StarWind’s website, or the PDF can be downloaded here.
Altiris Boston User Group
Kyle will be the featured speaker at the Altiris Boston User Group meeting on June 14, 2007. Altiris is the leading provider of hardware imaging solutions, and Kyle will be speaking on how to leverage their solutions to both complete large-scale rollouts of hardware as well as update existing equipment during the summer months when schools are not in session.
A schedule for the event can be downloaded here.
CDWG Writes Feature Article on HP Blade Server Implementation
CDWG, a huge national computer reseller, has written and nationally-published a feature cover story on Kyle’s blade server implementation at Lawrence Academy. Due to the premium of space in your typical private school, and, due to land costs and construction costs in New England, it is important to keep the server footprint small.
By leveraging blade server technologies, Kyle has dramatically reduced the server footprint as well as increased server processing power, decreased server power draw, and provided for easy and inexpensive expansion of the server core.
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