Events

About the Presenters

Eric Hentschel and Matt Kern

Eric and Matt each have over 30 years of experience in the technology sector with a majority of that time devoted to data storage, data protection, and data recovery. Whether you need on-site or in-the-cloud capabilities, a file or full-blown disaster recovery solution, a general unstructured file target or a high-performance all-flash storage solution, Eric and Matt have the years of experience to help you through the plan and build phases of your project and provide the configuration your organization requires for success.

Join Mirazon Chief Technical Architect Brent Earls, as he walks through datacenter and, subsequently, server migrations.

He’ll talk about planning ahead, like budgeting and making your project plan, before reviewing technical methodologies and recommendations, covering networking, servers, environmentals and moving day tips.

Costumes encouraged!

About the Presenter

Brent Earls

Brent is Mirazon’s Chief Technical Architect, responsible for large-scale implementations, client escalations, and company-wide best practices for Mirazon solutions. Brent has worked at Mirazon for over ten years, and is a VCAP and MCSE, to name a few of the letters in his email signature.

Join Shawn Waldman of Secure Cyber Defense, LLC for an up-to-date review of the cybersecurity threats out there and then walk through an incident response workshop.

In the workshop, we’ll work through your incident response process with real-world scenarios.

Bring your questions!

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About the Presenter

Shawn Waldman

Shawn is the founder and president of Secure Cyber Defense LLC, located in Miamisburg, Ohio. He’s a 20-year IT veteran and served in law enforcement as a police officer in the late 90s.

Getting Hip to the Hypervisors

Join Mirazon’s virtualization Jasons – Jason Thomas and Jason Powell – on a level-headed comparison of two of the major players in the type-one hypervisor arena: Hyper-V and VMware. 

The Jasons will cover:

• Basic commonalities
• Management
• Updating
• Licensing
• Storage
• Software-Defined
• Networking
• Security

About the Presenters

About the Jasons:

Jason Thomas (left) and Jason Powell (right) have been been Mirazon consulting engineers for quite a few years now, dealing in both VMware and Hyper-V environments. Before Mirazon, they were both system administrators at their respective employers, using VMware every day.

LouMUG and LouSPUG are joining forces to bring you LouSMUG!

Russell Patrick, SharePoint Consultant at Composable, will spearhead our Microsoft Office 365 discussion featuring some of the newest apps, Delve, and Flow.

About the Presenter

Russell Patrick

Russell is the key SharePoint Consultant at Composable Systems. Working in SharePoint for five years in three different capacities, Russell can answer almost everything on the topic. He is also involved with LouMUG, the Louisville Microsoft Users Group, and wishes to bring SharePoint Saturdays back to the Ville in the future.

“Ugh, I’ll just use my cell data, I guess.”

If you’re hearing people at your site saying this, this is for you.

We’re going to talk about RF, Wi-Fi design, and what’s coming down the pike in the world of wireless networks. You’ll leave LouMUG with ideas you can implement immediately to improve your Wi-Fi. Bring your questions and don’t hold back!

Greg will cover:

• RF Fundamentals
• Wi-Fi Design Tips
• The future in the world of Wi-Fi

Bring donations to WaterStep and receive an extra raffle ticket!

You can donate here and bring proof, donate monetarily onsite (they accept cash, credit or check), or bring new or gently used shoes or suitcases/duffle bags.

VDI can be great, but…

It introduces a whole new world in terms of delivering software to your users, including ensuring a functional experience and being trued up on your licensing.

Come to LouMUG on Friday, February 24 and learn more about Office 365 on VDI!

Gregg will cover:

Delivering the Digital Workspace

Increasing Productivity and Security with Microsoft Apps and O365 

Demo of VMware’s Digital Workspace

About the Presenter

Gregg Bielawski:

Gregg is a Technology Consultant at Ingram Micro, the world’s largest IT distributor. With over 10 years’ experience in the industry, he is a VMware Certified Professional in multiple disciplines including Datacenter, Cloud, Virtual Desktop and Mobility.

Gregg also supports solutions leveraging the VMware ecosystem with certifications and experience with their alliance partners including Cisco, EMC, HP, Microsoft and Veeam.