Delivering a Modern IT I nfrastructure Experience for our Customers

1. Delivering a Modern IT Infrastructure Experience for our Customers Tim Joyce President and CEO Roundstone Solutions Inc. 925-217-1177 tim@roundstonesolutions.com www.roundstonesolutions.com

2. Challenges you might be dealing with • Implementing Wireless access throughout campus • Providing for BYOD • Upgrading campus network speeds • Supporting Instructional technology • Managing older, traditional server/storage environment • Reduced staffs

3. Who we are • Experienced, Education-focused IT infrastructure integrator • Based in Northern CA, focused on Northern CA • Can help with: • Design and Architecture • Supply of solution • Installation and implementation • Management after the fact • Problem remediation • Experienced with newer technology approaches that will make your life easier • Personal touch; we want to meet you and learn your environment

4. Wireless Networking • You’re being challenged to provide complete wireless access to all, including BYOD • Aging wiring in the physical plant • Considering Cloud-based deployment • Roundstone can help by: • Designing and architecting a new wireless design • Providing products and deploying them into your environment • Ensuring authentication of user devices through various technology products

5. High Speed Networking • Access to high speed circuits is easy through state contracts • Need to upgrade your infrastructure to be able to take advantage of higher speed circuits • Need fast connectivity for north-south and east-west traffic • Roundstone can help by: • Assisting with a new design of a 10GbE or higher core backbone • Deploy state of the art technologies in route/switch, authentication, and security

6. Your Server environment • Most Colleges have Dell and/or HP servers, both Tower and Rackmount, and possibly some Blade servers • Price was probably most important factor • Servers are aging; ongoing maintenance costs • Virtualized to some degree • Probably running 1GbE interconnect • Roundstone can help by: • Upgrading to converged infrastructure • Eliminate VMware costs • Increase interconnect to 10GbE

7. Your Storage environment • Have storage internal to servers, and storage array (iSCSI or FC block) • Price was probably most important factor • Storage is close to end of useful life; ongoing maintenance costs • Probably running 2-8 GB Fibre Channel or 1GbE iSCSI • Roundstone can help by: • Upgrading to converged infrastructure or hybrid storage; capacity and performance at lower cost • Eliminate storage management effort • Increase interconnect to 10GbE

8. Converged Infrastructure • Many colleges have deployed Hyper-Converged infrastructure thus far, but others haven’t, due to: • Lack of familiarity/training with technology • Vendors haven’t focused on Education market to date • Purchasing approaches have separated server and storage technologies • Colleges can benefit from this technology; it scales linearly-“Buy what you need when you need it” • Roundstone can help by: • Determining appropriateness of technology for district and designing solution • Deploy technology and train district

9. Professional Services and Installations • Roundstone has a large team of experienced Engineers who can handle any technical issue, including: • Problem determination and remediation • Design and Architecture • Audits • Physical installation and equipment relocation • Implementation into your environment

10. Let’s Talk • Roundstone knows the Education market • We understand technology and how to make it work • We value getting to know you and your environment so we can add the most value • Call us at 925-217-1177 or email us at sales@roundstonesolutions.com • We look forward to working with you