Nashville Technology Council

Nashville Technology Blog (7/2/2010)

Yesterday, I couldn’t get the old Opryland logo out of my mind.  Being a native Nashvillian, I have always known our city as Music City.  No matter where I travel in the US or World, they know Nashville as Music City.  Music is always with us.  Our love of music spans genres from country to classical to rock and I think that is what makes Nashville special.  We love and celebrate all forms of music.

On Tuesday, the Music Council unveiled their plans for the future.   The mission: “Cultivating and advancing the ever-expanding music community to further establish Nashville’s position as the global music capital.”

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Nashville Tech Story (11/9/09)

With over 1,000 attendees, this five day conference is the largest educational conference for data center management professionals worldwide.  Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Data Center World hits the Nashville community, March 7th – 11th, at Gaylord Opryland Resort, bringing together a wide spectrum of attendees including CIOs, MIS Directors, Network and Communications managers, Systems Software managers, Facility managers, Disaster Recovery specialists, Security managers, and Operations managers.  

Not only is there the opportunity to network with peers and potential clients from businesses across the nation, there are a number of chances to educate from these individuals as well.  Conference case studies will take you through a real-life data center crisis and teach you the ins and outs of working through the problem.  Choose from 7 different roundtable discussions, which will give you the chance to ask questions to a panel if industry experts.  In addition, you can sign up for a data center tour at Nashville’s very own Dolphini Networks or Vanderbilt University’s ITS Facility.  This event also has optional tutorials, facilities/greening tracks, product information sessions, and industry leading keynote addresses.  

To find out more information on this event, visit http://www.datacenterworld.com/index.html.

Nashville Tech Story (11/6/09)

Communications Technology, Voice & Telephony, Data Services, Cabling, Infrastructure Options and Security Solutions were just a few of the industries represented at yesterday’s Technology Showcase, presented by Hiscall, at the Radisson Hotel Opryland.    This showcase exemplified everything that Hiscall sells and represents.  With over 25 breakout sessions to choose from and over 50 vendors represented, participants stayed very busy throughout the day.

Participating Nashville Technology Members included:

• Avaya, Inc.
• Juniper Networks, Inc.
• Nashville Electric Company
• NUVOX
• PAETEC
• ShoreTel, Inc.
• TANDBERG
• TippingPoint

Thanks, Hiscall, for letting us be a part of this event, and continuing to grow Nashville’s technology community.