Buffalo Meetup April 29, 2026

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Jeff
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Buffalo Meetup April 29, 2026

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UNYOUG Event
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 9:00AM - 4:00PM

Erie 1 BOCES Educational Campus
Building A, Room A-4
355 Harlem Road
West Seneca, NY 14224


From I-90 get off on Rt. 400, get off on the first exit (Seneca St), turn right on Seneca St. and then Right on Harlem Rd.
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Topics:
  • Beyond the Hypervisor Wars and HCI: An Automated Private Cloud for Oracle Workloads from Dell
    Joe Greenan is an Advisory Solutions Architect and Systems Engineer at Dell, specializing in infrastructure solutions for enterprise and mission‑critical datacenter workloads. At Dell, Joe partners with customers to design and optimize platforms, with a focus on performance, resilience, and operational simplicity. Drawing on experience across storage, compute, and virtualization, he helps organizations modernize their Oracle estates while aligning technology choices with business outcomes. He has held a variety of engineering and architect roles with Dell Technologies and EMC corporation for more that 25 years. Prior to that, he was a Sr. Business Process Consultant with Accenture and is an Attorney in private practice.
  • Visualize to Fortify: Backing GeoIP Blocking with Real Firewall Data
    Travis Kench, Mike Kozlowski, Hitesh Upadhyay (SUNY ITEC Security Team)
    In today’s threat landscape, GeoIP blocking remains a powerful yet often debated and underutilized security
    control. This presentation equips security professionals with data-driven insights and executive-ready reports
    needed to confidently justify GeoIP policies. We will explore compelling visualizations and log analyses
    demonstrating GeoIP blocking’s effectiveness, supported by the latest ITEC OSC Team's research and aligned to
    industry guidance and regulatory requirements, including the Code of Federal Regulations Title 28 C.F.R. Part
    202 and Executive Order 14117. You'll learn how to counter common objections such as the “What if they’re
    next door?” argument using real-world context and threat modeling. The presentation also addresses practical
    challenges of implementing GeoIP controls, especially when navigating C-suite permissions and legacy
    infrastructure limitations. For organizations facing these hurdles, we will present an alternative approach
    leveraging Zero Trust Network Access architecture via Cloudflare to achieve similar outcomes with greater
    flexibility and scalability.
  • Useful new features in Oracle 26ai (on-prem)
    Now that Oracle 26ai on-prem has been released lets looks at some useful new features for DBAs and Developers
  • Round table discussions
    Converting between Oracle and other RDBMS'
    Cloud database experiences
    Documenting standards, naming conventions, etc.
    Topics for the next events

Free Parking, no pass required!

Registration:
If you are planning to attend, please pre-register for the meeting here: http://www.unyoug.com/register.php.

Thanks!
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