Duration: 60 minutes
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This webinar provides a crash course on servers from a small school perspective. Servers are high-tech warehouses where all the data and applications needed to power an effective school are delivered. We convened a panel of educators from small schools and industry experts to share their experiences and answer your questions in a live Q&A session. In this webinar, you will hear how your peers are putting server technology to use and benefits and challenges that they encountered.
If you have questions about how a server can benefit your school or college, please contact Ron O’Neal at ron_oneal@dell.com.
Making the Right Server Selection in Education
Moderator:
John Miri, Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Education
John Miri is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Digital Education. Miri earned an honors degree in Physics from Harvard University. He was appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to the top regulatory board overseeing statewide electronic government. He went on to lead transformational projects for two successive Texas State Chief Technology Officers and has become an advisor and close confidant to leading government and education CIOs around the nation. As the former Director of E-Government and Web Services for the State of Texas, Miri led the state to breakthrough results of 829 online services, 83 million citizen financial transactions and $5 billion in online revenue. He helped found three web-based technology companies that leveraged Web 2.0 and cloud computing to achieve dramatic results for clients in the commercial markets. Miri recently led the successful implementation of a longitudinal data warehouse at a major urban school district, and is a passionate advocate for students, teachers and administrators.
Speaking Panel:
Matt Biermann, Systems Administrator, Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI
Matt Biermann is a 12-year veteran of administrating technology in higher education. He has experience with a number of systems ranging from AS/400 and various Unix systems to Windows Server. Recently, his focus has been virtualization technology, resource sharing, consolidation and finding ways to provide higher levels of service to students, faculty and staff at a reduced cost to the institution.
Arvin Poole, Product Marketing Consultant - Servers, Dell
Arvin Poole recently joined the Dell Team in December 2010. He is responsible for the development and execution of go-to-market plans in support of the profit and loss for the server business across the education and state and local government sectors. In his previous role as President and Managing Director of SHAARP Management, Inc, a boutique management and marketing consulting firm headquartered in Austin, TX, Poole owned the strategic vision and day-to-day operations of the company and served clients in the government, IT, non-profit, digital media and private sectors. Prior to this role, he served as Marketing Manager for IBM’s Software Group and owned the creation of messaging and content for products across Service Oriented Architecture, Websphere, Information Infrastructure and Enterprise Data Center.
Larry Rego, IT Director, Hilmar Unified School District, Hilmar, CA
Larry Rego has been the IT Director for HUSD since 2003. He has helped bring the district into the new century with technologies like Voice-over-IP, server virtualization and by moving many applications into the cloud, which has increased manageability, flexibility and content quality provided to staff and students.
