Have you been thinking about server virtualization and if it will benefit your credit union? Join us for this server virtualization roundtable and learn how four of your peer credit unions utilized server virtualization. All four members of this panel are at different stages in the process and will provide valuable insight on what they have learned. You will hear about their successes as well as things they now know that they wish they would have known then. Listen to their experiences and take this opportunity to ask your questions. This event is in conjunction with the CUNA Technology Council.

Through this audio, you will:

• Hear a description of the panel's current environment and how they are or plan to use server virtualization
• Learn why their credit unions chose to implement virtualization
• Hear which vendors they chose
• Learn what went well and what they would have done differently
• Hear what benefits their credit unions gained from virtualization

CUNA archived events enable staff to pick up new skills and keep up with daily responsibilities. Hearing the archived audio conference will enable you to hear a presentation, questions of the instructor, and refer to handouts. You need only a computer with an Internet connection and speakers. The archived event is made available within 48 hours of the live event. Please note: The same username and password you use to register will be used to access your archived event.

This audio was offered live on
March 3, 2010

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This audio conference will be beneficial for all credit unions no matter what phase of server virtualization you're in - from just thinking about it as a possibility to the initial fact finding phase to ready to implement. The panel of credit union technology practitioners will be sharing their experiences and taking your questions.

Affiliation with CUNA/League is required for attendance.

Bill D'Camp

Bill is the information technology manager at Honda Federal Credit Union. Bill has more that 25 years experience in the computer industry and has been at HFCU for the last 5 years. Prior to joining Honda Federal Credit Union, Bill worked as an independent consultant in the LA/Orange County area of California and in Tokyo, Japan. He has 16 years of experience in defense contracting specializing in software development and systems integration.

Jennifer Weiss

Jennifer is vice president of Information Technology at Sandia Laboratory FCU located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jennifer has worked at SLFCU for 13 years, most of which have been in the IT department. She serves on the CUNA Technology Council's Executive Committee and Communications Committee.

Gregory Albano

Gregory has been the CIO for Deer Valley Credit Union for 7 years, totaling 22 years of service. Among all his job duties he has one overriding goal offering our member competitive electronic services on a small budget and developing good people and helping them on their career path.

Richard Borden

Richard has been with Heritage Credit Union since 1998, presently as information technology director. As such he heads up server, desktop, application, network, and security initiatives, oversees help desk operations and project management, matching business and end-user needs with efficient technology solutions.

With a background in sales and telecommunications, Richard entered the IT field working with financial institutions and professional companies' networking and application needs. After shifting to a specialization in hospitality and point of sale technology he moved back into financial services by joining a credit union IT shop, advancing into management and presently serving as IT director at Heritage Credit Union in Madison, Wisconsin with about 100 internal customers in eight locations.

Often known as "rk", Richard sits on the SMUG (Symitar Midwest Users' Group) committee to help bring common users of the core system together and stays active in various regional and local credit union and technology forums.


Jeff Arnts

Jeff is the IT manager at AltaOne Federal Credit Union. AltaOne is 530 million in assets and has 11 physical locations. The credit union has been a virtualized environment for 2 years on VMWare ESX. Currently they have approximately 65 servers virtualized with the project 90% complete.

Jeff has been at AltaOne for more than two years coming from IT at a Navy Base. AltaOne’s IT shop has six people, including Jeff, for over 60 servers and 200 desktops and thin clients.

Jeff has been part of the virtualization effort since he began working at AltaOne. Virtualization was done in house cooperatively with a vendor they have a strategic partnership with: Western NRG. They have virtualized database servers, e-mail, domain controllers, and their entire DMZ presence. They have an additional development environment that has the same architecture as the production, but a smaller scale version. They use HP blade systems (C-class) for server hardware and SANs from HP Lefthand.

The last day for cancellations was February 23, 2010. Substitutions are accepted anytime prior to the start of the program at no additional cost. Simply fax event and contact information, listing the new participant and who they will be replacing. Cancellation fees do not apply for free or complimentary programs.