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Join our team at UNC Cause and see a special presentation. Carolina Advanced Digital will be sponsoring, exhibiting, and speaking at the UNC Cause 2019.
Carolina Advanced Digital is an exhibiting sponsor of the NCCCS IIPS Fall Conference.
About NC IIPS
The North Carolina Community College Institutional Information Processing System (IIPS) Users Group supports the System’s mission of effective teaching and learning by enhancing its members’ abilities to identify and use information technologies through nurturing and promoting communications, collaboration, and cooperation among its members cultivating the professional development and competence of its members anticipating technological changes and developing strategies to utilize them.
IT Hot Topics Conference 2020 is being rescheduled due to COVID-19.
The IT Hot Topics Conference, hosted by Carolina Advanced Digital and industry partners, is one of the most unique technology and security events in the area. An event that started as a technical user group in 2002, the IT Hot Topics Conference has blossomed in to a full-featured conference, with internationally-recognized speakers, trainings, and technical content unparalleled in the area.
This fun and intimate event brings together a few hundred IT and security professionals from across North Carolina, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions, and offers hand-picked content based on attendee requests, exceptional peer networking, and technical content that transcends sales-driven conferences and seminars.
Call for Speakers – https://www.papercall.io/itht2020
See what the buzz is about! If you haven’t heard of Mist (now a Juniper company) you should join us Tuesday, May 19th for a free half-day bootcamp on the new Mist technology including topics on security, remote access, and more. I’ve highlighted a few of our team’s recommended don’t-miss sessions in bold for you.
Carolina Advanced Digital is a Mist Masters partner. Join us for this half-day bootcamp featuring everything you need to know to break free from the shackles of your legacy network architecture.
- 15 engaging and entertaining workshops
- Jam-packed with FREE GEAR! We’re giving away a free AP + other prizes at every “drill”
- Bonus: Send us your controller config and we’ll send you a Mist Cloud Org with YOUR config replicated, so you can see it in action by the end of the day. You’ll even get a free Mist AP with your newly created Org.* (restrictions apply)
Sessions include
• Transitioning Your Controller Network to cloud? (30min)
• Remote Worker 101 (30min)
• What is the Self-Driving Network? Let’s get real about it! (30min)
• API Automation Customer Examples – Day 0, Day 1, Day 2 (30min)
• Mist Architecture – A behind the scenes look at Mist cloud (30min)
• Marvis Deep Dive & Roadmap (30min)
• How to Measure Wireless Experience w/ Service Levels (30min)
• Wired Experience Service Levels & Roadmap (30min)
• EX ZTP & Configuration with Mist Dashboard (30min)
• Guest Access (15min)
• Policy Configurations and Interoperability with Aruba Clearpass and Cisco ISE (15min)
• Auto provisioning with Mist (15min)
• Bonjour Gateway & Other Exciting Roadmap Elements (15min)
• Wireless IDS / IPS Security (15min)
• AI-Powered Radio Resource Management (15min)
Join us for the first of our Thursday Tech Talk series with the Carolina Advanced Digital crew. In this episode, we have a friend from Mist joining us to talk about returning safely to work with contact and proximity tracing inside the organization, how it’s different than the public-private app partnerships, and then we’ll hop over to a demo of Mist’s AI-based Wi-Fi, show you what’s going on in our office, and offer a sneak peek at some upcoming news.
In our third shorter episode, we’ll take a vendor-neutral look at the Wi-Fi technology and trends shaping today and tomorrow. Join Shital and Jen for the latest trends in WiFi 6 (802.11ax), WiFi 6e, cloud-managed solutions, security integrations, CBRS, and more. We’ll talk about what’s real, what’s hype, and how to start planning for what’s on the horizon. Since it’s a shorter session we’ll try to manage Q&A throughout. Hosted by Jennifer Minella.
- 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6, features and how/when to upgrade
- Update on wired needs for Wi-Fi
- New security standards, WPA3, Open Enhanced, and SAE
- On the horizon Wi-Fi 6e and what you should know
- Non-Wi-Fi wireless, CBRS and Private LTE moving in
- The real scoop on BLE, Location Services, and Contact/Proximity Tracing
- Today’s hot topic- MAC randomization, impact on guest portals, BYOD, and NAC; what behavior OS’s have, and how to work around it
- COVID and Wi-Fi, supporting expansions, pop-ups and more
- What’s new from our partners- Aruba’s announcements of AOS 10, Fortinet and the future of legacy Meru controllers, what’s cooking at Mist
Join Tech Talk episode 4 with the Carolina Advanced Digital crew. In this episode, Jen along with Dan and Mark (or whoever she can grab) will take a look back at the chaos of COVID-19 as organizations scrambled to work through remote access and the cleanup we need to do afterwards. Hosted by Jennifer Minella.
Join our team at UNC Cause and see a special presentation. Carolina Advanced Digital will be sponsoring, exhibiting, and speaking at the UNC Cause 2020.
Carolina Advanced Digital is an exhibiting sponsor of the NCLGISA Fall Symposium! Visit our booth for fun, games, and prizes. Also check out our mini-sessions each day before and after the main content.
Tweet with us at @cadinc using event tag #nclgisa.
Wed, Oct 21st, 9:30-11:00am
Email and Endpoint Security mini-sessions
Roundtable discussion followed by technology updates on Barracuda email security and domain spoofing protection, plus SentinelOne next gen AV. Session hosted by Bre and partner engineers.
Thurs, Oct 22nd, 3:45-4:45pm
Troubleshooting with Mist and Location Services
Technology updates on Mist’s new “self-driving network” for wired and wireless AI-managed infrastructure, plus location services overview. Sessions presented by Jennifer and Shital from Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc.
Fri, Oct 23rd, 1:00-2:00pm
Zero Trust, Micro-segmentation, and NAC
Roundtable on network access control, dynamic segmentation, and zero trust networks followed by a demo of Fortinet FortiNAC. Hosted by Bre and Network Security Engineers from Carolina Advanced Digital.
Carolina Advanced Digital is proud to be an exhibiting sponsor of the NCET conference. Note NCET was rescheduled from March 2020 to November due to COVID-19 response.
Come see our sessions!
- “New Self-Driving Networks with Mist Wi-Fi”
- “Case Studies: NAC Use Cases in K12”