Lightspeed Systems goes Premier League

January 20th, 2012

EAC Network Solutions have escalated Lightspeed Systems to one of thier top vendors. In recent months Lightspeed Systems have made significant changes to thier product portfolio, business model and pricing, which has made thier education focused suite of products more affordable to all of EAC Network Solutions education customers.

Lightspeed Systems internet filtering solution has in our view has been way ahead of the competition in the education space for a number of years. We are very excited about the changes the company have made which is means the product is now directly competing on price with other filtering solutions which in our view are not as well focused on the requirements of our education customers.

Having spoken to Roy Harris of Lightspeed Systems at the BETT show it is very clear that there has been a significant increase in customer interest in thier products, especially the New Lightspeed Suite, and My Big Campus.

Beaconsfield High School’s Bradford/Meru Deployment hits the news

January 20th, 2012

Forward-thinking Beaconsfield High School in Buckinghamshire has become one of the first schools in the UK to adopt a combined Bradford Networks and Meru Networks secure wireless solution. Designed to offer Sixth Form and Year 9 and 10 pupils access to a more independent and personal learning environment, the implementation paves the way for state schools to go wireless by encouraging pupils to bring their own devices (BYOD) to school and save on increasingly scarce school IT resources.

To view the full article please click on the following link: http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=69595

Bradford Networks Appoints Dan Haley as CEO

June 27th, 2011

New Chief Executive Brings More Than 30 Years of Software and Business Experience to Network Security Leader

Bradford Networks, the best choice for network security in evolving IT environments, today announced the appointment of Dan Haley to chief executive officer (CEO). In this role, Haley will act as the company’s chief strategist and visionary, overseeing the day-to-day management of the rapidly growing business.

Haley comes to Bradford Networks with more than 30 years of operating and international business experience with several software companies. During his career, Haley had helped these firms successfully navigate through and leverage major market shifts to their best advantage. A former venture capitalist, he also has deep experience in financing events, including initial public offerings, acquisitions, mergers and fundraising.

Read the full article here

ODDiZZi Where the world comes to life

June 25th, 2011

Oddizzi is a bright and refreshing teaching resource that instantly brings the world to life in your classroom.

We’ve had a very quick look at the site, and it looks like fun, great for the primary schools, they have a 21 day free trial so no reason not to take a look yourself.

Vision for ICT in Education

June 25th, 2011

To Deliver the curriculum via ICT using students own laptops & smart devices both from within school and from home.

Using Meru Wireless Bradford Networks!

To Deliver a standard desktop that can be accessed on both school owned and non-school owned devices, with full access to the schools curriculum software.

Using Microsoft VDI Premium suite, and Intel branded fully redundant hardware!

To deliver a powerful, flexible server solution which both provides a high level of performance and guaranteed service levels.

Using Microsoft Hyper V R2 server virtualisation and Intel branded fully redundant hardware!

To deliver high quality internet connections with BECTA approved granular filtered access to the wealth of available resources on the internet.

Using Lightspeed Systems and ISP partners.

We can demonstrate how schools can save huge sums of money on thier ICT budgets through implementation of new technologies (up to £1m over a 10 year period, depending on the size of the school)

Please contact us to hear more…

Festival of Education at Wellington College

June 25th, 2011

EAC Network Solutions are today attending the 2nd annual Festival of Education at Wellington College. We will be promoting our vision for ICT in education, and showing how using the latest technologies schools can benefit from better ICT systems now and in the future whilst saving large sums of money from thier ICT budgets over a 5 to 10 year period.

If you are interested to learn more watch out for further posts, come and talk to us at Wellington College today, or contact us during normal working hours and ask to speak to someone about our Vision for ICT in Education.

Quantum Acquires Pancetera Software

June 22nd, 2011

Acquisition brings key technology and expertise for managing data in virtual environments

Quantum Corp. has announced it has acquired Pancetera Software Inc., a privately held company that has significantly reduced the complexity and cost of managing and protecting data in virtual server environments. The combination of Pancetera’s technology and Quantum’s DXi appliances addresses the data storage challenges in virtual environments, enabling customers to protect data more efficiently and cost effectively.

“The Pancetera acquisition reflects Quantum’s continued focus on expanding our storage systems portfolio to provide greater value to existing customers and also reach a broader customer base,” said Jon Gacek, CEO of Quantum. “Together with our DXi deduplication and replication appliances, Pancetera’s technology allows Quantum to offer higher performance, easier-to-use, and more cost-effective solutions for managing and protecting data in virtual environments. We also are excited about the addition of a very talented Pancetera team, which will help us accelerate our development of new and unique DXi and StorNext solutions for meeting customers’ evolving needs in these environments.”

Read the Press Release

Sir Richard Branson to Headline WPC 2011 as Guest Speaker!

June 22nd, 2011

Seize the opportunity to hear the Virgin Group founder speak on Wednesday 13th July.

WPC 2011 is on 10th – 14th July 2011 – and this year’s conference is set to be the best ever.

Sir Richard Branson, the iconic Founder and President of the Virgin Group, will address the estimated 15,000 attendees at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference on Wednesday 13th July at Staples Centre, Los Angeles.

Beaconsfield High School open up the school network to student devices

March 1st, 2011

Recently EAC Network Solutions and Beaconsfield High School have completed a project to deploy a small Meru wireless network, and implement Bradford Campus Manager. Together the two products have allowed Beaconsfield High School open up the schools network for their students to bring in and use their own laptops at school.

Bradford Campus Manager enforces a compliancy policy on the student’s devices, to ensure they meet windows service pack & patch levels, whilst also ensuring a suitable anti-virus product is both installed and up to date.

Once a device has passed compliance it is passed into a production VLAN, where in the case of Beaconsfield High School, they get filtered access to the internet only.

The Meru wireless network is being used by both the students and also academically with a trolley of laptops in the maths department.

The project was an instant success, with a number of students bringing in, and being able to use their laptops in school after running through a simple web-based registration process.

As for all academic establishments there are many positives that can be seen from the success of this project; The solution now paves the way for the school making less annual investment in maintaining physical PC numbers, and a slow migration towards more centralised web and virtual desktop based services which can be securely accessed from any machine regardless of owner.

1/3 Off Installation Charges

March 1st, 2011

EAC Network Solutions are giving academic customers 33% off the installation charges, when installing products such as Whiteboards, AV equipment, Wireless Networks & CCTV during term time. Click here to see the full offer.