by admin | Feb 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am on my way back from the Quilt http://www.thequilt.net/ winter meetings in beautiful La Jolla CA. While it was hard to ignore the fact that it was 85 degrees all week while back home was feeling the brunt of snowstorms and record breaking frigid...
by admin | Jan 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
The concept that IT should be a strategic element of most any organization these days has been the talk of the town in recent years. Granted, we mostly hear advocacy for that position coming from the IT camp but slowly the “business” side of the house is...
by admin | Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Tim Wells, Director of Telecommunications and Network Technology Brown University explores the explosive growth in demands for network services, the convergence of network and service disciplines and the need to be incognito....
by admin | Aug 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dave Marble sits down with Jim Monti Director of Educational Reform, Compliance and Technology for West Warwick Public School System to talk about empowering kids and their families with technology. Watch...
by admin | Jul 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dave Marble sits down with URI’s Dave Porter (Director of Media and Network Services and OSEHAN Board Member) to talk about where they see OSHEAN evolving over the next few years. Watch here.
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
As I write this, I am on a plane flying back from Oklahoma where I was visiting OneNet, the Oklahoma Regional Research and Education Network (REN). I am always struck by the challenges the larger state RENs have in just reaching their member sites, not...
by admin | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
In 1979, I was in the second row of a Kinks concert at the Providence Civic Center singing the words to “LOLA” at the top of my lungs. I can proudly say that the event was recorded and I am now immortalized on the Kinks “One for the Road” live album…..along with...
by admin | Dec 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
I stopped in yesterday at Quidnessett Elementary School to listen to the holiday concert put on by the students. My wife works there in the after school programs so I try and do what I can to show support for their activities but the truth is that I am a...
by admin | Dec 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
We have been having interesting discussions recently about the top reasons for migrating to cloud services. Traditional thinking, including my own, predicted that the top reason would be cost. However, consensus from most industry surveys are concluding...
by admin | Oct 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last week I had the privilege of being invited to speak in a couple classrooms to students who are working in technology disciplines. I spent time at Coventry and Chariho’s Technical Centers talking about OSHEAN, the latest trends in IT and networking as well as...
