Storage Craft - DISASTER RECOVERY - February 4, 2015

As we head into 2015, now is a great time to focus on improving processes, productizing services and increasing profits. This fun and informative presentation will show you how a true disaster recovery solution can take an organization from having a backup of its data, to having quick recoverability of its systems availability. We will explore the evolution of backup systems, and demonstrate how you can bring you peace of mind and sanity with a “Recover-Ability” solution. See a live demonstration and how you can reduce both your recovery point objective and your recovery time objective with one system. 

Storage Craft Presentation Slides

Learning Objective: You will learn how to better protect your IT server and key workstation infrastructure by deploying an image based backup solution. You will be able to quickly recover data in seconds or service availability through virtualization of entire servers and systems in minutes.

10 attendees will receive a FREE license of ShadowProtect Desktop Edition - a $99 value!

Mark Crall is a veteran IT executive with 16 years of experience in the computer, software and services industry.  From running his own successful IT Services company, to managing the business development and channel community programs for a large SaaS company.  Mark has been recognized as one of the top 150 most influential people in IT SMB by SMBNation.com, and honored as one of CRN Magazine’s Channel Chiefs.  He has served on advisory boards, executive counsels and subject matter expert teams for companies like GFI, Microsoft and CompTIA.  He has also been tapped as both an expert panelists and keynote speaker at scores of live and broadcast industry events.

PowerShell - January 7, 2015 - From Beginner to Infinity & Beyond!

Mike Robbins, Microsoft Powershell MVP and Leader of the Mississippi PowerShell User Group

Want to Get-Started with PowerShell but have no idea how to figure out what the commands are? Or maybe you’re already somewhat familiar with PowerShell but want to learn more? During this presentation, PowerShell MVP and Scripting Games winner Mike F Robbins will start out by demonstrating the entry level basics of PowerShell that will teach you how to figure out what PowerShell commands exist as well as how to use those commands. We’ll discuss and demonstrate the pipeline, remoting, one-liners, scripts, and functions, all while using industry standard best practices. Did you know that some of the PowerShell best practices differ depending on whether you’re writing one-liners versus scripts and functions? We’ll also cover how to extend PowerShell so that you can manage Active Directory, Exchange Server, and SQL Server and briefly demonstrate a real world scenario that includes all of those products. Fair Warning: This is a demonstration heavy presentation!

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Mike F Robbins is a Senior Systems Engineer with over 20 years of professional experience as an IT Pro. During his career, Mike has provided enterprise computing solutions for educational, financial, healthcare, and manufacturing customers. He’s a PowerShell MVP and self-proclaimed PowerShell evangelist who uses PowerShell on a daily basis to administer and manage Windows Server, Hyper-V, SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, SharePoint, Terminal Services, EqualLogic Storage Area Networks, AppAssure, and Backup Exec. Mike is the co-author of Windows PowerShell TFM 4th Edition and is a contributing author of a chapter in the PowerShell Deep Dives book. He has written guest blog articles for the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog, PowerShell.org, and PowerShell Magazine. Mike is the winner of the advanced category in the 2013 PowerShell Scripting Games. He is the leader and co-founder of the Mississippi PowerShell User Group. Mike is also a frequent speaker at PowerShell and SQL Saturday technology events. He blogs at mikefrobbins.com and can be found on twitter @mikefrobbins.

Hackers' Night - December 3, 2014

An annual favorite.  Hackers' Night.  Our very own Eric Kornau is presenting.

We are going to concentrate on incident response and what tools and equipment a defender or service provider should have in preparation.

Tonight’s Hacker Defender night will be concentrating on recognizing cyberattack methods and the techniques and tools to minimize damage.  We’ll also look at some free and low cost tools that should be in every sysadmin’s toolkit.  

November 5, 2014 - CRM

Best Practices In Using CRM and ERP Solutions in the Mid-Market  

Kevin Martin, CPA, CITP, MCSE of Martin & Assoc. brings his 30+ years’ experience to discuss solutions from Sage, Microsoft, Intacct, Acumatica and Adaptive Insights.  Get an understanding of the pain points that your clients might have that M&A can solve with you and your client.  

M&A is getting ready to celebrate our 26th year.  Our staff of 20+ consultants are based in Cincinnnati, and serve Dayton, Greater Cincinnati area.  See you November 5, to share pizza and experience.