Start: 04/08/2014 - 9:00am
End: 04/08/2014 - 4:00pm
The Top Floor invites you to our Spring Tech Fair, featuring educational sessions by experts from the industry's technology leaders. See below for the training schedule and course descriptions.
This is your opportunity to engage directly with some of the industry’s leading technology experts - we're bringing them to you, right here in Middlebury, Vermont. The trade show floor will be open all day showcasing the latest technology from Hewlett Packard, Barracuda, Epson, Google, Microsoft and others. We’ve built plenty of time into the schedule so that you can have in-depth one-on-one conversations with these folks.
Who should attend? Technology Directors, CIOs, CEOs, and other technology and administrative leaders from businesses, hospitals, schools, government, and other organizations.
This event is FREE and includes lunch, but space is limited.
Top Floor Spring Tech Fair
Tuesday, April 8
9 AM - 4 PM
Middlebury Inn, 14 Court Square, Middlebury, VT
Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/topfloortechfair
Innovations in mobile computing and printing (Tech Session #1 9:30)
HP Printing & Personal Systems Group will showcase mobility products and new printing technology. They will have the latest notebooks, tablets, hybrids and Chromebooks that hinge, twist, click, and dock available for show-and-tell. Touchscreens are available on many models to support Windows 8, while all the latest models still support Windows 7 as well. HP Officejet Pro X printers are powered by HP PageWide Technology and can reach speeds of up to 70 pages per minute while maintaining legendary quality. The Enterprise X series includes advanced workflow solutions that do the heavy lifting so you won't have to.
Web security at the edge and in the cloud (Tech Session #2 10:45)
Barracuda Networks discusses web security, featuring the Barracuda Web Filter and Barracuda Firewall models. Organizations face a growing number of security and compliance challenges around mobility initiatives, bandwidth requirement increases, social media platforms, and other general issues regarding privacy and compliance. You are probably familiar with the features of Barracuda appliances, but we'll discuss the benefits realized by real-life customers. Eliminate malware infections on desktops, so you don't have to spend time cleaning them up. Ensure safe browsing on mobile devices on and off the network, including BYOD and 1-to-1 initiatives. See the strong reporting capabilities available.
The next era of storage (Tech Session #3 1:00)
The Northeast's HP Storage Solution Architect will lead a presentation on the latest storage offerings, from StoreVirtual for small and medium organizations to enterprise-class HP 3PAR solutions. Learn how you can get a free terabyte of storage with HP StoreVirtual VSA software, now included with select ProLiant Gen8 servers. Get wowed by the forward-thinking technology of HP 3PAR StoreServ. Attend this session, and be sure to visit the HP Storage booth in the ballroom.
Data protection and disaster recovery (Tech Session #4 2:15)
In a virtualized environment, traditional hardware solutions for data protection and disaster recovery are not effective, yet it's as critical as ever to ensure corporate data is safe and available. That's why Barracuda Backup was purpose-built to provide complete protection and DR for both physical AND virtual servers. Advantages include: comprehensive, cost-effective solution; cloud and private cloud disk-based replication; quick and thorough disaster recovery; deduplication and compression; easy deployment and administration.
Source: The Top Floor, March 31, 2014
United States
