We recently attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference at Houston!
Two interesting things from the conference (that were not directly related to the event itself):
a) The StoreGrid demo we were running during the event had a StoreGrid server running on Amazon EC2 – with storage off Amazon S3. It worked flawlessly! Look out for a Beta of an ‘S3 capable’ StoreGrid – coming soon!
b) We’ve decided to ‘hit the road’ – and attend other relevant tradeshows/events to the extent possible. The best part about the Microsoft event was that it gave us the opportunity to meet many of our existing partners, put faces to names, and to understand their business & its associated requirements even better.
Towards having more sessions like these (and of course, recruiting new partners), we’ll be attending…
Hostingcon 2008 (we’re at Booth #104)
July 28-30, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (Click here for more details on Hostingcon)
Comptia Breakaway 2008 (we’re at Booth #222)
August 5-7, Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Orlando, Florida (Click here for more details on Comptia Breakaway)
If you’re attending either of these events, please drop by and say hello! You can also schedule a meeting, in advance.
We also have 3 FREE passes to give away to our partners (currently using StoreGrid SP Edition) for the CompTIA Breakaway event (each pass is valued at approximately US$ 695). Partners have been sent an email on this, but here are the details once again…
If you’re interested in one of these 3 free passes, please email us right away at news AT vembu DOT com and type ‘Interested in attending CompTIA’ in the subject line of your mail.
We’ll select 3 names from the first 50 requests we receive or at 11.59 PST on July 29 – whichever comes first. Please ensure that you will definitely make it to the event if you win – we’d hate to see a pass go unutilized!
Please note that these passes cover the event only (a value of approx. US$ 695). You’d need to arrange for your travel, accommodation, etc – on your own. Additionally, if there are any other associated charges/fees levied by CompTIA or other bodies, you’d need to directly take care of these.
From what we’ve heard, these CompTIA events are quite interesting and educative!
Hope to see you in Chicago and/or Orlando! What events are you attending this year? Let us know, and we’ll try and be there
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.
