WEST HARTFORD – A team of presenters led by former UConn Husky Donny Marshall discussed teamwork and the benefits of hyperconverged systems at a wine dinner that went into overtime. Guests were enthusiastically participating in the evening’s discussion while enjoying good food, wine and camaraderie at Fleming’s Steakhouse and Wine Bar.

Kelser’s VP of Professional Services, Matt Kozloski, and Manchester Community College’s Director of Technology, Barry Grant, spoke recently at NERCOMP’s annual conference in Providence, RI. They presented, “A VDI Design for Cultural Change” to a packed crowd of IT professionals that practice in the educational space. Their presentation shared the journey of bringing VDI to MCC. Read the recap of the event here. Here are Matt’s thoughts about the conference and his reflections on the benefits of virtualization in higher education.

Kelser’s Matt Kozloski, and Manchester Community College’s Director of Technology, Barry Grant, spoke recently at the annual NERCOMP conference in Providence, RI. They presented, “A VDI Design for Cultural Change” to a packed crowd of IT professionals that practice in the educational space. Their presentation shared the journey of bringing VDI to MCC.

EAST HARTFORD, CT – Select IT professionals from the area converged on Kelser’s headquarters to see how they could revolutionize their datacenter fabric with the Cisco Nexus 9000 series of switches.

(This post provides a continuation to Matt Kozloski’s post about Nexus 9000 Automation. In his post, Matt provides a primer on Nexus 9000 and shows some example code using PowerShell to access the REST API on the Nexus 9000.) We already know that the Nexus 9000 is an awesome switch, before we even get to the goodness of its programmability features. For example, the Cisco Nexus 9372PX performs non-blocking 10G line rate switching, has 6x 40GbE uplinks, and it sports a rich set enterprise functions you would expect from a Cisco Nexus switch, such as L2 switching, L3 routing, VXLAN, VPC, and Fabric Extenders to name a few. In this exercise we are going to query the switch for some information remotely using Python.

Cisco has long been known as the digital Fort Knox of the network security world. Their breadth of products offers an all-encompassing path to internet security, and includes a multitude of security fronts.

HARTFORD, CT – Kelser employees helped raise awareness and funds in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease at the second annual Brain Ball presented by the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter at the Connecticut Science Center.

Of course, Microsoft wasn't going to miss out on the cloud-computing revolution. In fact, Microsoft spearheaded the change by making one of the first large software-to-the-cloud solution moves with the Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft Office 365 is similar in look and feel to the industry-standard Office suite software, but in contrast, it’s now in the cloud. This move to the online world has helped simplify Microsoft’s licensing into a buy-only-what-you-need approach. It also offers ample additional features, including automatic security updates, and automatic backup. Microsoft Office 365 is a significant change from the decades-old Office software. Think of it as an Office 10.0. It is no longer a simple suite like Word and Excel, but rather, a collaboration-based solution.