IT disasters are inevitable, but downtime doesn’t have to be. In 2025, disaster recovery is more critical than ever, with sophisticated ransomware attacks, natural disasters, and system failures threatening business continuity. Are your recovery strategies ready?

Join us for an in-depth webinar on disaster recovery, which includes a deep dive into Zerto. Zerto’s powerful journaling enables point-in-time recovery with minimal recovery time. We will explore specific use cases that help organizations of all sizes minimize downtime and recover from cyberattacks, outages, and data loss.

But we aren’t stopping there. Disaster Recovery is more than recovering VMs and other workloads. We will also cover the “major items” needed to prepare your business to get your IT services and business processes ready to go in case of an emergency.

What You’ll Learn:

• Discuss Disaster Recovery use cases and trends in 2025

• Learn how Zerto delivers targeted,h rapid recovery from ransomware and disruptions

• Key strategies to strengthen your IT resilience and DR procedures

• Discover the “other things” that are usually missed when considering Disaster Recovery

Register Here:

Join us for an Introduction to HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass and HPE Aruba Networking CloudAuth. This session includes a combined presentation on both products, followed by your choice of one hands-on lab. Learn how to set up ClearPass as a AAA server, complete configuration for 802.1X (employees) and MAC-Auth (headless devices), integrate with Active Directory, explore Access Tracker, and use other troubleshooting methods. Also learn fundamental concepts of working with HPE Aruba Networking Central, specifically the Cloud Authentication feature.

Date: April 10th, 2025

Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST)

Speaker: Daniel Johnson, DNS & Bill Laycock, HPE Aruba Networking

Webex Link to be provided after registration

*Register today and let us know which lab you are interested in attending:

Clear Pass or CloudAuth*

Call your rep today to get registered. Or for more information email us at info@datanetworksolutions.com

Please join DNS & Juniper Networks for a fun and informative day at RCR to hear what's new with Juniper's AP47, and what we're doing with location services and implementation with our Ultra-wide band technology.

Including a behind-the-scenes tour of RCR.

Agenda

11:30 – Arrive

11:45 – Presentation

12:15 – Lunch

12:45 – 1:30 Tour

Call your rep today to get registered.

DNS will be celebrating March Madness at 2 locations, Columbia and Greenwood. Make sure to join us!

Please join us on Friday, March 21st, 12 to 4:30, drop in at: J's Corner Restaurant & Bar, 1015 Rosewood Dr, Columbia, SC 29201.

Please join us on Friday, March 21st, 12 to 4:30, drop in at: Carolina Tavern, 521 By-pass 72 NW, Greenwood, SC 29649.

Call your DNS rep today to get registered.

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming webinar, "Enhancing Your Security Posture with Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF-as-a-Service (WAAS)." in which we will explore the critical role of WAF in protecting web applications from emerging threats.

Date: March 13, 2025

Time: 10 am to 11 am (EST)

Webex Link: To be provided after registration

What You Will Learn:

- An overview of Barracuda WAF and its key features

- Best practices for implementing WAF in your security strategy

- Real-world case studies showcasing the effectiveness of Barracuda WAF

- Live Q&A session to address your specific questions

call your rep today for more information

In this free, two-hour virtual workshop, you will learn how Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform empowers you to confidently automate threat identification and enforcement across cloud, network, and endpoints using a data-driven approach and precise analytics.

During this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Protect users from ransomware attacks with the Cybersecurity Portfolio

• Prevent unknown threats with ML-powered NGFW

• Protect cloud deployment with the Prisma platform

• Automate, detect and investigate with the Cortex platform

• Maximize security efficacy and improve operational efficiency through consolidation.

  call your rep today to get registered.

Join Data Network Solutions and NetApp for an engaging Anti-Ransomware workshop. Participants will act as bad actors and security responses in this workshop. This hands-on interactive session will walk you through configuring ONTAP 9.15.1 to protect your data against a ransomware attack with the help of ONTAP's Autonomous Ransomware Protection. Additionally, you will explore protecting snapshot copies with Snapshot locking, while taking advantage of SnapLock and FPolicy for a Multi-Layer defense.

Key Topics to be Covered

• Autonomous Ransomware Protection: Uses machine-learning of your workloads to detect anomalies across all user activity.

• Snapshot Locking: Creates snapshot copies that cannot be deleted or changed, stopping ransomware attackers or rogue administrators that target backups.

• SnapLock: Prevents any deletion or alteration of your critical data and snapshots.

• FPolicy: A file-access framework within ONTAP that can be used to help you detect attacks and enforce protections at the file system level.

• Multi-Admin Approval: Protects your storage from more sophisticated intrusions where administrative authority is compromised.

• Proactive Detection: Uses workload analysis to detect and warn about abnormal activity that might indicate a ransomware attack, providing an early warning system.

• Immediate Protection: For FlexVol volumes, ARP/AI begins in active mode immediately after installation or upgrade, eliminating the need for a learning period.

• Automatic Updates: Offers frequent automatic updates to keep protection current against the latest ransomware threats, ensuring continuous security.

• Comprehensive Threat Assessment: Assesses threat probability based on various analytics, such as entropy and file extension types, and takes action to protect data if a threat is detected.

• Multi-layered Defense: Builds on proven ONTAP data protection and disaster recovery technology, providing an additional layer of defense alongside other features like snapshots and FPolicy.

We look forward to your participation in this informative hands-on workshop!

Call your rep today to get registered, or email us at info@datanetworksolutions.com

More details to come!

DNS is looking forward to participating in The Mark Cobb Memorial/Ron McWhirt Scholarship golf tournament.

Please join DNS & HPE Aruba Networks for a new hands-on workshop with the addition of Level 2. If you’ve already done the 29 Minute Challenge, you will enjoy Level 2. If this is your first time, you may work on Level 1 & 2. You will experience a workshop designed to help you deploy ZTNA & SWG policies to secure your users from online threats.

The event will be held virtually and will run from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST.

In this workshop, you will:

Learn about SSE (formally Axis Security)

Participate in hands-on SSE labs with your own Tenant.

Take a deep dive into Agent and Agentless SSE features and capabilities.

Learn how to architect, deploy, and operate ZTNA.

Practice real-world scenarios to become an expert in operations and troubleshooting.

Accelerate your SASE certification path.

Let us bring the next step in your SASE journey to you while you become the SSE expert on your team.

Contact your DNS rep today!

The Triangle InfoSeCon 2024 is a cybersecurity conference held at the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina. Here are some highlights:

Date: November 8, 2024 (Friday)

Venue: Raleigh Convention Center

More info to come!

Is your network edge secure? Do you have visibility into every device attempting to connect? Can you seamlessly accommodate nearly any network access request while providing a superior user experience at scale, all without compromising security? Are you confident that every user and device fully complies with your network security policy? Does your network team possess the time and expertise required to ensure that every switch port on your network is consistently configured to the exact access level needed each time a new device is connected?

If you find that your response to at least one of these questions is 'No,' you're not alone. Many organizations face similar challenges.

Join DNS for a virtual webinar where we will delve into HPE Aruba ClearPass, advanced RADIUS servers, their capacity to address common network security issues in the marketplace, best practices for security policies, and our recommended solutions.

Call your DNS rep today!

Register here: https://event.nutanix.com/masterclassonaidns

YOUR EXCLUSIVE INVITATION

Wednesday May 22nd, 2024


11:00 am – 1:00 pm ET


8:00 am – 10:00 am PT

SPEAKERS Dr. Norman Jacknis - is a PhD from Princeton University and a Professor of Practice, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University

Dr. Art Langer is the Associate Vice Provost, Professor of Practice, and Director of the Center for Technology Management and Digital Leadership at Northeastern University

Let's Strike Up Some Fun with DNS & Zerto - HPE Aruba Networking May 16th. You will hear all about:

VMware price increases - HPE Aruba has a network solution that could save your VMWare software budget!

An easy and cost-effective way to migrate your VPN to ZTNA

A quick and easier way to deploy a Cyber Security Resiliency Vault using Zerto

Call your DNS rep today to get registered!

Get Hands-on with Nutanix Unified Storage

Dive into live demonstrations, real-world use cases, and collaborative exercises that unpack the challenges of unified storage. Whether you are a seasoned IT professional or an aspiring enthusiast, this workshop will equip you with the tools to enhance your storage strategy and adapt your users and applications to the evolving digital landscape.

Network virtually with like-minded professionals, share insights, and elevate your skill set in a collaborative online setting. The Nutanix Virtual Hands-on Workshop isn't just an event; it's an opportunity to engage, learn, and transform your approach to storage management.

Call your DNS rep today to get registered

DNS and Partners are hosting 3 March Madness events in the NC area. Contact your DNS rep today to get registered.

Join DNS and Presale Engineer, Daniel Johnson

March 13th - 1:45 pm, Illustrator Room “ How to Secure Your Network Edge and Sleep Better at Night”

In this no-cost, hands-on workshop you will:

Go beyond traditional IPS to prevent all known threats across all traffic in a single pass.

• See how to get modern malware protection with ML-powered analysis.

• Use predictive analytics to disrupt attacks that use DNS.

• Learn how to enable safe access to the internet for users in any location by preventing known and new malicious websites.

• Rapidly identify and protect all unmanaged IoT and OT devices with a machine-learning-based, signature-less approach.

You will also hear from product experts, providing examples, best practices, and industry insights.

These workshops are hugely popular, and spaces fill up quickly. Register now to save your place at the next Ultimate Test Drive.

Call your DNS rep today to get registered.