conference

Epic Technology Day is here again!

Hi folks, once again it’s time for Epic Technology Day! This is the day long conference my company holds twice a year. Unfortunately due to many ongoing projects I won’t be presenting this year, but I will be in attendance.

Lots of new things to look forward to at Tech Day this year, including the Cisco Now Van which will showcase some of the cool equipment from Cisco.

Also VMware will be there as per usual speaking about their great products. HP and Citrix will also be there touting their wares. Technology day is a great opportunity to network in the Manitoba IT community and learn a lot about what’s new and wonderful in the world of technology. You can register for it here.

Hope to see you there!

-RP

Kaseya Connect 2009

Well as I have mentioned before, I love the product Kaseya. It is a great solution for providing Managed Services to your customers. With Kaseya you can monitor and control small to large amounts of workstations and servers as well as create an alerts dashboard to notify you about impending alerts in a client’s environment.

Well that same company that brought you the Kaseya product is now holding a conference in Las Vegas. It’s called Kaseya Connect 2009. I for one am going to try my best to go if I can find the time to get away from my duties here in Winnipeg. I would encourage all of you in the Managed Services industry to go as well. There should be a lot to learn from this conference.

One of the things I’m going to try and get out of it is how I can better use the Kaseya product to increase efficiencies in our Managed Services division. It should be a blast!

-RP

Novell cancels BrainShare!

Hi folks, this just in from the conference world - Novell has cancelled BrainShare! This is a huge deal!

For those of you that don’t know, BrainShare is the most important conference for Novell over the past 20 years. For them to cancel this sends a message to the public clearer than any words that might be spoken. Novell is in trouble.

They are talking about switching to online learning etc. but nobody believes for a second that Novell is willingly doing this because BrainShare was always the best way to showcase everything that is Novell.

I for one think that Novell should seriously re-think this and bring BrainShare back!

-RP