TechEd 2010
By: Mario Mummolo
Microsoft TechEd 2010, New Orleans, had incredible sessions and keynotes, such as Bob Muglia’s presentation on how to realize the benefits of cloud-based computing and Ted Kummert on the journey of building a platform for all data, a platform that spans tiers within the cloud from mobile platforms to data centers. Our Chairman, Bill Stevenson, did a well attended joint breakout session with Microsoft on how Sanbolic adds value to this strategy.
TechEd had lots of knowledge transfer, group collaborations and breakout sessions that it certainly made it well worthwhile to attend as a vendor or as an end-user. It was a place to meet the subject matter experts and strategists in such areas as de-duplication, security, business continuity, SharePoint, cloud computing and more. And, it certainly was a place to have fun and party and meet new friends, such as the AvePoint party. They gave away a Ducati motorcycle; they also had the police escort us, and a live band, to a Bourbon Street bar. In Massachusetts police escort you out of a bar, never into a bar.
I’m always amazed on the number of bright people from all around the world that can all convene at one location for a few days, and act as one giant, extended, courteous family, that get along with one another, and have a common purpose in technology and education for the real world.
Sanbolic extends a hart felt “Thank You”, for stopping buy our booth. We came away with many valuable contacts. What we noticed is that there were two categories of people that stopped by the our booth, those who knew us and stopped by to say hello and those people who knew nothing about Sanbolic and our advanced software technology and wanted to learn the benefits of our Melio 2010 software to their specific IT infrastructure, such as Virtualization (Hyper-V or VMware ESX), Active-Active SQL Clustering, Citrix XenDesktop, Web Serving, Web Hosting, etc. Some stopped by our booth to just try their luck on winning our give-away prize, a Kindle, which by the way it was won by Gabriel Irizarry of Lockheed Martin. Congratulations Gabriel!!!
These are a few, fun, TechEd 2010 pictures (or links) that I would like to share with you:
1) Customers at our booth.
2) Microsoft visits Sanbolic booth
3) People behind the Microsoft Costumes
4) The Sanbolic booth worker bees.
PS: On a sad note, if you ask me about the oil spill, yes, I saw the devastation off the coast, on my flight back to Boston.
Regards,
Mario
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