As we wrote earlier, our company organizes a meeting devoted to building large and efficient LAN networks. It's in a few days, i.e. June 13!

Brief characteristics of the Extreme Automated Fabric solution:

- efficient fabric backbone in mesh topology creates a structure that ensures:
   - redundancy - automatic reconfiguration after a link or device failure,
   - load balancing - all connections are active and are created in a way that ensures even load of devices and ports,
- access switches are configured automatically thanks to Fabric Attach functionality,
- Extreme Management Center (XMC) and NAC (Extreme Control) management software support the administration and reconfiguration of the network, and ensure the security of IT resources.

More details in agenda. If interested, please register with form on our website.

We also invite you to read the presentations showing the use of Extreme Networks solutions in healthcare:
– Network infrastructure as the key to improving the quality of medical services - business presentation,
– Extreme Solutions for Healthcare - technical presentation.

We invite!

On May 28 this year. The Wielkopolska Association of Employers Lewiatan invites you to a training entitled "How to avoid cybercriminals?" run by our IT security specialist.

 The training will cover the following issues:

1. Where is the growing popularity of computer crimes coming from?
2. Why are the rank and file of the organization the most frequent target of attacks?
3. What are social engineering techniques and why are they effective and popular?
4. Examples of social engineering attacks.
5. Effects of cybercriminals' actions on individuals and organizations.
6. Security incidents and legal regulations.
7. What preventive measures should be implemented in the organization?

At the end of the presentation, a link to a more detailed study on security policies and risk analysis will be provided.

Training date: May 28, hours. 16.00–18.30.
Place of training: Wielkopolski Związek Pracatorów Lewiatan, ul. Grunwaldzka 104, local 216, 2nd floor

Registration for members of the Association at the address asystent@wzp.org.pl

We invite!

On April 11, another of our meetings devoted to IT technologies took place. This time, the topic of the business breakfast was security for PaloAlto Networks networks and workstations. The title of the lecture is "PROTECTION AGAINST CYBER CRIME - PALO ALTO NETWORKS SAFETY SOLUTIONS".

In a relaxed atmosphere, we talked about next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and securing workstations using TRAPS software.

There are presentations at the following links:

• About Upgreat and announcements of upcoming meetings,
• Firewalls and protection of workstations.

Thank you for your presence and we invite you back. Next meeting on June 13 this year. will be devoted to building campus networks with Extreme Networks.

On Thursday, June 13 this year. in Concordia Design a business breakfast devoted to technology will take place in Poznań Automated Campus by Extreme Networks.

In a pleasant atmosphere of breakfast, we will discuss various aspects of building efficient and fault-tolerant LAN networks using the fabric structure:

• What is Automated Campus,
• Load balancing and fault tolerance issues in LAN networks,
• Network management with Extreme Management Center,
• Network access control using NAC (Extreme Control),
• Network traffic analysis from Extreme Analitics.

 Information on the meeting agenda can be found here here. Please register using form on our websitej.

On Thursday, April 11 this year. in Concordia Design a business breakfast devoted to network security by Palo Alto Networks will take place in Poznań.

During the meeting, we will discuss Palo Alto Networks technologies, in particular:

• next-generation firewalls (NGFW) operating on the application layer,
• protection of workstations using TRAPS software,
• operation of the WildFire cloud service,
• Thread Prevention protection,
• filtering network traffic,
• reporting on network traffic.

 Information on the meeting agenda can be found here here. Please register using form on our websitej.

On Thursday, January 31 this year. in Mous Bar A business breakfast devoted to hyper-converged solutions will be held on the 15th floor of the Bałtyk office building in Poznań.

In a relaxed atmosphere with a view of the whole of Poznań, we will discuss various aspects of the implementation of flexible solutions for data centers on the example of HPE Simplivity:

• Overview of the concept of hyperconvergence,
• Solution - physical platform, functionalities,
• Technical issues of SimpliVity,
• SimpliVity in terms of business and examples of applications.

 Information on the meeting agenda can be found here here. Please register using form on our websitej.

You can read more about HPE SimpliVity here.

On Thursday, June 28 this year. in Mous Bar a dedicated meeting will be held on the 15th floor of the Bałtyk office building in Poznań technical security issues related to the GDPR.

In a pleasant atmosphere of a business breakfast with a view of the whole of Poznań, we will discuss data leakage and theft protection offered by Palo Alto Networks (Next generation Firewalls and TRAPS):

• Securing personal data,
• Data protection against unauthorized access / theft,
• Reporting on events related to data theft.

 Information on the meeting agenda can be found here here. Please register using form on our websitej.

For more information on the compliance of Palo Alto Networks products with GDPR requirements, see here.

On October 11-13, 2017, the Primavera Conference & Spa hotel in Jastrzębia Góra takes place II IT Security Forum in Administration. There is a nationwide conference addressed to people responsible for cybersecurity in the public sector.

The topics of the Forum include both organizational and technical issues related to protection against external and internal threats. During the meeting, topics such as:

• obligations of public entities towards the President of the Data Protection Office under the new Data Protection Act,
• preparation of data protection documentation in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR,
• IT systems vulnerability testing,
• civil liability of administrators under the GDPR,
• risk analysis as the basis for the implementation of data protection: methods, scope, practice.

At its stand as part of the Forum, our company will present:

• implementation of network protection solutions based on PaloAlto firewalls and user station protection system using TRAPS software,
• security and GDPR compliance audits,
• NetApp arrays as an efficient platform supporting applications and guaranteeing data availability,
• our proprietary "Plug-In backup" solution built on the basis of Veeam products (data protection in 5 minutes, monthly billing according to the number of virtual machines).

Our participation in the Forum will be complemented by 2 webinars organized after the end of the event:

• PaloAlto next generation firewalls and TRAPS workstation protection - 20 October 2017, 11.00 a.m.,
• IT security in the context of GDPR - 27 October 2017, 11.00 a.m.

A dozen or so days ago it ended VI Wielkopolski Convention of IT specialists and XXX Club of Local Government IT. Our company once again participated in this event as a Partner and exhibitor.

At the UpGreat stand, we presented our IT security services:

• implementation of network protection solutions based on PaloAlto firewalls and user station protection system using TRAPS software,
• security and GDPR compliance audits,
• NetApp arrays as an efficient platform supporting applications and guaranteeing data availability,
• our proprietary "Plug-In backup" solution built on the basis of Veeam products (data protection in 5 minutes, monthly billing according to the number of virtual machines).

The presentations and information materials shown during the seminar can be downloaded from our website:

• presentation about UpGreat
• presentation about PaloAlto next generation firewalls and TRAPS workstation protection
• presentation about NetApp matrices as a proposal for local governments
• presentation about IT security in the context of GDPR
• a short film showing breaking into a WLAN - WEP network
• a short video showing breaking into a WLAN - WPA

Additional downloads:

• overview of PaloAlto firewall parameters
• PaloAlto Threat Prevention - comprehensive network protection against exploits and malware
• compliance of PaloAlto firewalls with the requirements of the GDPR
• WildFire service - protection against targeted and unknown malware
• TRAPS - advanced protection for workstations
• PaloAlto AUTOFOCUS service - enhancing protection against threats
• NetApp E2800 matrix - specification
• Veeam Backup & Replication - product description
• SOC service provided by UpGreat
• security audits performed by UpGreat

We would like to thank all the people who visited our stand and listened to our presentations. Of course, feel free to contact us!

We are after the technological meeting "Tasty morsels in the HPE menu", which took place on September 19, 2017 at the Concordia Design conference center in Poznań. During the meeting, some interesting HPE technologies were discussed:

• HPE VM Explorer and HPE StoreOnce - an alternative to expensive backup solutions. HPE VM Explorer is an inexpensive software for data protection in virtual environments (the list price of the Professional version for 4 processors with annual support is PLN 3,417.00 net). According to Gartner, HPE StoreOnce is the leader of deduplication solutions next to EMC DataDomain. HPE StoreOnce is a virtual or hardware appliance with a capacity from 5.5TB to 1.7PB - the nominal deduplication ratio is 20: 1.
• HPE StoreVirtual 3200 - enables the construction of multisite stretched cluster (network RAID). The HPE StoreVirtual 3200 array can be used independently as mass storage or as a network RAID in a configuration extended to two nodes.
• HPE Synergy 1200 - a new platform for blade servers enabling the construction of composable platforms for applications. The HPE Synergy 12000 is the successor to the blade computers (c7000 chassis).
• HPE Moonshot - a system enabling the construction of solutions with a large number of servers - high packaging, many hardware platforms and a very low expansion cost. Possible applications of HPE Moonshot are solutions for HDI (hosted desktop infrastructure), virtualization, solutions hadoop, efficient image and sound processing. HPE Moonshot will be perfect for a university or in a development environment.
• HPE Apollo - a very efficient server solution ensuring high density of server modules and mass memory at the same time. With the use of HPE Apollo, we can build efficient clusters for a variety of applications, e.g. in design, simulations, financial risk modeling or scientific modeling.
• HPE 3Par - we discussed the new version of 3Par OS 3.3.1 and favorable changes in the licensing of individual functionalities. HPE 3Par StoreServe is a family of mass storage products dedicated to large enterprises. HPE 3Par StoreServe enables the construction of efficient multi-node storage solutions ensuring redundancy and load balancing.

Our audience.

Below are the presentations and materials from the seminar:

• Piotr Flis - About UpGreat
• Maciej Grabowski - server solutions
• Piotr Nogaś - mass storage solutions

Additional information:

• HPE VM Explorer specification (simple backup software)
• HPE StoreOnce specification (storage with deduplication)
• HPE StoreVirtual 3200 specification (2-node matrix with built-in replication)
• HPE Moonshot specification (blade server system - up to 180 computers in one housing)
• HPE Moonshot presentation
• HPE 3Par StorServe 7000 specification (multi-node enterprise-class array)
• HPE Synergy 480 Gen10 Module specification (the latest module for HPE Synergy 12000)
• HPE Synergy 660 Gen10 Computing Module specification (the latest module for HPE Synergy 12000)
• HPE Apollo system specification (efficient modular servers)

We would like to thank everyone present for their time and invite you to contact our Sales Department!