Dal and TJ from Trendmicro have the unenviable task of kicking off the day this morning with the keynote at 8am. This is after a couple of massive parties last night which I understand finished with an open bar sponsored by bandwidth.com. I m sure that there would be MANY sore heads this morning. Myself I was out of there by midnight and heading to bed. I ve gotten a pretty … [Read more...]
SMBNation Session 4 SBS 2008 Real World Requirements
Lunch is over and it was really nice food good one HarryB. Susan Bradley and Ofer Shimrat are now onstage presenting a session on The Gotchas of SBS 2008. They have defined a gotcha as a feature of SBS 2008 that we may not have uncovered as yet. Ofer says The biggest gotchas in SBS 2008 have NOTHING to do with technology they are all about how you deal with the … [Read more...]
SMBNation Session 3 Firewalls What to choose
Session 3 brings with it the one and only Amy Babinchak ISA Goddess. Amy s extremely quiet manner often puts people at a sense of false impression. Her quiet voice makes them think she does not have much to say, nothing could be further from the truth. Amy has forgotten more than most of us know about ISA in the SMB space. Therefore her presentation on Selecting a Firewall in … [Read more...]
SMBNation – Session 2 Migration The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Session #2 Jeff Middleton, the self proclaimed King of Swing, is up on stage now talking about SBS 2008 migrations. He listed all the features of SBS 2003 and then in one click turned it into SBS 2008. He then blew away the myth for everyone that the migration process to SBS 2008 will be so simple. Going back to my earlier post today on the SMBNation Keynote if we continue … [Read more...]
SMBNation – Keynote
Ok so it s 8am on Saturday morning here in rainy Seattle. The legendary HarryB has opened the keynote with a overview of what s happening and passed the baton over to the Intel Dude (sorry missed his name). They started with a video in which they took the actual silicon from a CPU and showed it to users. Users had no idea that the brains of their computer was this little … [Read more...]