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Hi All I wanted to put a quick shout on here about our upcoming 'Google and the Classroom' event taking place in Sheffield late November. Following the hugely successful (as well as enjoyable) event we held @ The Streetly Academy earlier this year we're taking the message Northwards. The format will be similar to the last, the focus being on spending a few hours in a laid back interactive fashion exploring more of the G Suite Edu (nearly typed GaFE) offering. We're incredibly proud that once again Andrew Caffrey, Assistant Headteacher at The Streetly Academy will be present to give further insight on his journey to becoming a LightHouse site. Also present will be James Leonard, Google for Education Dean Stokes, a leading expert on Google for Education. As well as kindly hosting the event Graeme Hathaway, Assistant Principal Learning Improvement and Innovation, The Sheffield College will also be there to inform attendees about the College's journey thus far with Haptic and Google. Our Team will be on hand also, we're also delighted that we can showcase Google Expeditions and let you all have a play around with the kit during the session. Places (sadly) will be limited to around 40 delegates, we're hoping to have more events planned shortly across the UK. It would be great to see you there. News post and registration form can be found here Joe

Having recently shared hugs and handshakes with the lovely guys and girls of Google, we are pleased to announce we can now offer our Chrome customers some free of charge training and assistance in change management; until the 30th June 2015, any order for 20+ Chrome Management Licenses or 20+ Google Play for Education Licenses, from Haptic, will qualify for a a free of charge, day long, Transformational Planning Workshop. The workshop is a one day interactive session for a maximum of 2 people, per school, facilitated by an educational technologist with extensive, knowledge and experience spanning deployment, change management,technical areas and pedagogy. It will be delivered either at your school or a local school and will walk attendees through considerations and practicalities around implementing a technology strategy in their school. If you have a current requirement for licenses, or simply want to find out more about Chrome and what it can do for you & your school, then don't hesitate to contact your account manager or [email protected] Google Transformational Planning Workshop.pdf

Hi all. We're incredibly excited to announce our partnership with iXsystems, and as I'm sure the tone already sounds like a generic partner announcement - let me add emphasis incredibly excited Excited mainly for two reasons: Firstly - the TrueNAS and FreeNAS lines are really interesting storage solutions. Open Source driven and harnessing ZFS, a self-healing file system that prevents, detects and corrects data decay, bit rot and corruption. Secondly - the iXsystems team are an absolute joy to work with. We've never worked with a storage vendor so willing to set up POC, solution walkthroughs and pre-deployment testing (typically they hot test drives for over a month in-house to ensure 0% fail rate on deployment. More on ZFS: True Protection TrueNAS provides unrivalled data integrity protection by using the OpenZFS enterprise file system. OpenZFS is a next-generation file system in every regard from its self-healing bit rot mitigation to its flexible snapshotting and replication. True Scalability OpenZFS is a future-proof 128-bit “scale up” file system that is designed for decades of continuous use. TrueNAS grows from hundreds of GBs to 4PB per system and is designed to make the increase in capacity painless. True Flexibility TrueNAS offers you the flexibility of choice, providing CIFS/SMB, AFP, and NFS for file storage and iSCSI and Fibre Channel for block storage. Every common operating system, hypervisor, and application is supported. TrueNAS uses OpenZFS to provide unlimited point-in-time snapshots, allowing you to roll back and access data as it was. TrueNAS is a proven way to mitigate virtual machine corruption, user error, and ransomware attacks like CryptoLocker.# True Performance TrueNAS delivers a perfect balance of price and performance that puts many all-flash arrays to shame. It uses TrueCache™ to leverage RAM, flash storage and spinning disks for flash-like performance with spinning disk capacities and economics.# True Freedom Originally developed at Sun Microsystems, but now Open Source, OpenZFS is an enterprise-grade file system that iXsystems has delivered to more users than anyone. We pride ourselves on working closely with the OpenZFS community to help make OpenZFS the greatest file system ever written. Thus far we've deployed iXsystems into Education, Aviation and Security organisations. If you'd like to know more about what they can offer, click the link below Partner Announcement - iXsystems - Haptic Networks Thanks for reading Joe