Distributable Emergency Network (Den) | May 2023

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With the rise of cloud-based and managed services, public safety agencies responsible for emergency operations have struggled to advance technologically without sacrificing reliability and redundancy. DEN (Distributable Emergency Network) is a solution that allows public safety agencies and other approved organizations to operate a fully managed IT infrastructure in austere environments with or without an Internet connection. We will discuss the difference between daily IT operations and disaster IT operations and why it was necessary to build the "Black Cloud".

Speaker: Andy Whittman

Andy Wittman grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with degrees in Finance, Entrepreneurship & Business Development, and a minor in Political Science. He spent time performing due diligence for angel investors and venture capitalists before working as a contract developer specializing in web technologies and big data. While working as a contract developer, Andy began volunteering with New Hanover County Emergency Management and Pender County Search and Rescue.

In March 2020 Andy's company, Politac, LLC, launched DEN (Distributable Emergency Network) with the vision of providing managed software services to public safety and government agencies through agency-owned, portable infrastructure.

With the rise of cloud-based and managed services, public safety agencies responsible for emergency operations have struggled to advance technologically without sacrificing reliability and redundancy. DEN (Distributable Emergency Network) is a solution that allows public safety agencies and other approved organizations to operate a fully managed IT infrastructure in austere environments with or without an Internet connection. We will discuss the difference between daily IT operations and disaster IT operations and why it was necessary to build the "Black Cloud".

Speaker: Andy Whittman

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