Recent Projects

  • Microsoft 365 Subscription Upgrade

    Aggregated and Organized Microsoft 365 Licensing Model for Clene Nanomedicine

    Q1 2021
    Due to ad hoc purchasing of individual Microsoft licenses rather than bundling, Clene was facing an expensive challenge managing their Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Looking to adopt a better licensing model with as little interruption in services as possible, Clene utilized Data Networks’ Microsoft expertise to build a more organized and aggregated subscription package that controlled […]
  • Foundational Security with Azure AD

    Integrate New Identification and Access Management Solution for a Maryland College

    Q1 2021
    This small college has struggled to maintain their existing identity and access management solution, resulting in many siloed solutions and an overwhelmed IT administration. Leveraging the MEEC agreement, they invested in Microsoft’s Academic A5 licensing to resolve device and user management across the campus. But due to the nature of their existing environment, deploying a […]
  • Microsoft Identity Manager Solution

    Replace MicroFocus NetIQ with Microsoft MIM for a Maryland University

    Q1 2021
    With operating costs for their existing MicroFocus NetIQ identity manager solution rising, and MicroFocus platform expertise dwindling, the university’s CITS determined the need to replace their identity manager solution, as well as build in-house administration and management expertise for the new solution. Data Networks recommended and deployed Microsoft’s Identity Manager (MIM) to provide the university […]
  • Server Refresh and DRaaS

    IT Infrastructure Security Update for Local Prep School

    Q1 2021
    A recent IT security audit revealed that this local prep school needed to maintain compliance with supported versions of their operating systems, hardware, and software to better secure and protect school data. They also determined the need to improve their disaster recovery capabilities – without deploying any physical infrastructure – by leveraging a more geographically […]
  • Chromebook Refresh

    CARES Act Student Chromebook Refresh for Maryland Public School System

    Q4 2020
    In December 2020, Data Networks was chosen to complete the school’s Chromebook Refresh for the 2020-2021 school year. This refresh project included imaging, White Glove configuration, and hardware repair services for 943 Chromebooks. Tags: K-12, K12, education, client computing, computers
  • Disaster Recovery Site VxRail Capacity Expansion

    DR Expansion for University Health Center

    Q4 2020
    Due to COVID-driven increase in demand on their production Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure, Data Networks determined this university health center’s DR site required more capacity to support the desired service levels for their infrastructure and to prevent capacity contention if production workloads needed to fail over to the DR site. To increase the capacity […]
  • S2D Cluster to Replace HPE

    Hyper-V Cluster Deployment for Orange Water and Sewer Authority

    Q4 2020
    OWASA’s configuration at their Waste Water Treatment Plant consisted of Microsoft’s Hyper-V clustered on an HPe StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). The software-defined hyper-converged solution was recently announced to be reaching its end-of-support lifecycle in HPe’s portfolio. Additionally, OWASA’s data capacity needs were growing beyond the expandable capabilities of the VSA, and local networking capabilities […]
  • Dormitory AP Expansion

    Additional Dormitory APs Deployed for Maryland College

    Q4 2020
    After a recent Wi-Fi access upgrade in the college’s residential facilities, a passive Wi-Fi survey identified areas where signal coverage was inadequate requiring additional wall-mounted APs in the bedrooms of some dormitories. Data Networks recommended, configured, and installed 131 new Aruba AP505H Access Points in the dorms – plus an additional 19 spare AP505H Access […]
  • Hyper-V Infrastructure Refresh with Dell Servers, Switches, and Storage

    Leveraging Existing Investments and Increasing Efficiency for Roland Park Country School

    Q3 2020
    Data Networks discovered that RCPS’ applications and data were hosted on outdated data center infrastructure with operating systems in extended support. The existing storage had limited scalability, preventing incremental scale-up investments for capacity or performance issues, and the school’s bandwidth needs had outgrown the 1GbE switching network. In order to better leverage RCPS’ IT investments […]
  • Dell Chromebook and Latitude Laptop Deployments

    Leveraging CARES Act Funding to Support Distance Learning for Dorchester County Public Schools

    Q3 2020
    This year, Data Networks has won several client deployment projects with Dorchester County Public Schools. In Q1, DCPS ordered 100 Dell Latitude 3300 laptops and 60 Dell Latitude 5510 laptops to be imaged and deployed into Anywhere Carts by our Professional Services team. More recently, DCPS teamed up with Data Networks Account Executive Amy Bateman […]