Our next Eastern Carolina InfraGard meeting is on Wednesday December 13, 2017 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm at Cisco.

We will open our meeting with a very special guest, National InfraGard President, Gary Gardner, who will address our membership about the national posture and future of InfraGard.

Afterwards, we will have two presentations:

1.Sean Patrick Tario, a new InfraGard member, will discuss the history, evolution and relevance of the data center and cloud services industry as well as the growing importance of the internet exchanges and carrier hotels that our digital world, economy and way of life so heavily depend upon.

2.Paul Bunker, a canine consultant and the owner of Chiron-K9 LLC, will discuss Integrating Canines into your Physical Security Program.

The FBI store will also be on hand to sell FBI merchandise (just in time for the holidays!)

Speaker biographies:

Sean Patrick Tario, CEO/Founder, Open Spectrum

Sean is a seasoned IT professional, entrepreneur, author, trainer and investor. He has worked over the years with hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups and scaling companies as a general advisor, director, consultant and award winning sales producer. He is the author of “Industry Playbook: Data Center Colocation”, now on its 4th Edition and sold over 2,000 copies. This book has served as the core material for the over 30 high impact data center marketplace training events across the country he has personally conducted and produced. His firm Open Spectrum has also extended this training online through the development of an online data center industry focused LMS platform.

Sean has represented hundreds of enterprise clients in the auditing, consolidation, migration, negotiation and closing of data center and hosting contracts with service providers around the world. He has personally toured over 400 colocation data centers across the country over the past 6 years. His firm provides ongoing market intelligence, reporting and due diligence to those who invest and operate within the data center marketplace.

Sean spends his free time interviewing industry executives for his “I Love Data Centers” Podcast. He also serves as an industry advocate and lobbyist through his work with the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (I2C) in Washington DC. Locally, Sean serves on the board of Innovate Raleigh and is a mentor through the NC State Entrepreneurship Clinic Mentor Program. Sean was born and raised in Chicago, spent 16 years in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving his wife and business to Raleigh, North Carolina 2 years ago.

Summary of Presentation:

At the crossroads of high-tech fluid dynamics, real estate, and our energy grid sits the data center. An asset and industry that is misunderstood, mostly hidden, and at the core of the brave new digital world we live in today. They are the ever-evolving and growing metropolitan city designed to house the data and data processing that drives our economy forward.

There is no cloud, just someone else’s computer and the data center is the home of every “cloud” you use today… and will remain the home of every “cloud” your great-grandchildren will eventually use. If you’ve ever walked into one of these purpose-built 100,000+ square foot facilities, with the security gates, iris scanners, bio-metric readers, badges, guards, and machinery all around you, it’s hard not to have your jaw drop, and an overwhelming feeling that you’re standing in something special.

Some say, ‘If you’ve walked through two or three of these facilities, you’ve seen them all!’ However, our experience has proven that this is far from reality. Each property and property owner is unique, and the use cases for these facilities only continues to grow in proportion to the volume of data sets being aggregated every second. The industry is, in fact, at an all-time high on numerous levels. Valuations of companies in the space, year over year IBITDA growth, total industry spend, total square footage in production… every variable is growing and, in most cases, growing faster than ever before.

In this talk Sean will discuss the history, evolution and relevance of the data center and cloud services industry as well as the growing importance of the internet exchanges and carrier hotels that our digital world, economy and way of life so heavily depend upon.

Paul Bunker, canine consultant and the owner of Chiron-K9 LLC

Mr. Bunker served in the British Army as a Canine Trainer/Instructor/Assessor for over 22 years. During this time, he was the Senior Instructor/Trainer of working canines and Handlers for both UK and US Military at the UK Defence Animal Centre. He was the first member of the military to be verified as a Association of Chief Police Officers (ACOP) Explosive Detection Canine trainer/assessor and instructor. He was attached to the Royalty Close Protection team in Europe and conducted missions in support of the protection of the British Royal family as well as VVIP’s from foreign nations.

For the past 13 years he has been involved in canine and handler training for the Department of Defense and various Department of Homeland Security agencies. Mr Bunker is a canine consultant and the owner of Chiron-K9 LLC, a company specifically focusing on canine detection and special projects.