Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Spring IT Roundtable Day 1 Part 2

The remainder of the day was filled with presentations by Scriptlogic, Datacore/Fairway Consulting Group, Service U, and Web Empowered Church. Scriptlogic demonstrated several products including Desktop Authority, Active Administrator and a Server management utility. All of which would be a definite asset to help in the management of any network. They are fairly expensive but they offered charity pricing equal to their educational prices. Fairway Consulting Group is partnered with Datacore to help organizations partner together for data recovery using asyncrhonous IP mirroring and storage virtualization. Tim Whitehorn, the CEO of ServiceU just had a Q&A time with the attendees and then shared some of the things in the works at his company. One thing that he is working on that would be a great addition is integration with HVAC controllers. He is currently working with tridiam.com and xcicorp.com to make this happen. He also shared some information about some legal implications for anyone who accepts credit cards since the recent news of credit card fraud involving TJ Maxx. After dinner, the final presentation was Mark Stephenson with the Web Empowered Church. His information was very informative but having started my day approximately 16 hours earlier, I don't have insightful comments related to his project.

Day 2 sessions are today from approximately 8-8 so it will be another long but very productive day. I will do my best at conveying the highlights in the future.

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