Learn about Cluster Edition at Techwave
August may seem far away, but for those of us developing content for Techwave, it is right around the corner. This year’s Techwave conference has a lot of cluster related content, so if you’ve been curious about ASE Cluster Edition I recommend making the trip to Vegas.
Naturally the content is subject to change - but as of now I see five breakout sessions covering Cluster Edition as well as full-week, in-depth education seminar. It appears the education seminar will also be offered as a pre-conference course. If you sign up for a pre-conference course you can take a different full length class during the week. One of the breakouts I’ll be doing will show you how to setup a cluster on a laptop using VMware….should be fun!
TechWave Registration is now open!
Join us Aug. 4 – 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, NV... for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and Solutions Conference.
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TechWave 2008 Call for Papers... Now open
We are now accepting speaker proposals for the 60 and 90 sessions at the upcoming Sybase TechWave conference August 4 - 8th 2008.
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With Green Envy
An interesting email debate arose among my Evangelism colleagues today about whether "greening of the data center" was important to Sybase customers.
Opinions varied, some saying that "green" was a consideration that would only resonate with hardware and raised-floor types, and that it didn’t matter much to the software architects. Others argued that membership in the various green data center initiatives will help educate users about Sybase’s commitments to efficient infrastructures and raise visibility. Still others argued that Sybase servers, particularly Sybase IQ, are already "green" solutions and that we’re already reaping those benefits.
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Come see us at TechWave
We here in the WorkSpace team are excited about going to TechWave and opportunity to talk to our customers, about upcoming WorkSpace 2.0 release and get feedback. We welcome your suggestions for the future as well.
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Chris - you are right about virtualization
Chris Brown recently posted about virtualization. I am a huge proponent of virtualization. I've been using VMWare Workstation for a couple of years and really like it.
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Catchin' up a bit.
Well, it's been a little while since I checked in (so to speak) so I thought I'd just get caught up on a few things that have been going on over the last, say, month or so since my last posting.
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IT and the Secret of Life
Often times, engineers here at Sybase ask me “where’s the market going”. I wish I knew. If I did, I could trade stocks for a few minutes a day and forego all this fun. But I’m a better evangelist than stock picker, so I’ll stick to that, for now at least.
The question of where the market is going, of what our users need next, always reminds me of the comedy film “City Slickers” in which Curley, a scarey old cowboy (played by the recently-departed Jack Palance) asks Mitch (played by Billy Crystal) if he knows what the secret of life is.
Mitch sets up the zinger by answering “No, what?”. Curley, never wasting a word, holds up a single index finger and says, “One thing, just one thing…”. Mitch impatiently asks what the one thing is, to which Curley replies “That’s what you’ve got to figure out.”
Curley was right, you have to figure out the one thing.
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Virtualization and ASE
Virtualization (at the operating system level) seems to be quite the rage today ... more and more customers that I visit are talking about it, but I'm wondering, how many of you are actively using it, or are planning to deploy it on Linux (and run Sybase underneath)?
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