I am at VMWorld - anyone else here? The MS T-Shirts are great - And are the best of the show. They only come in two sizes Large and bearded, sandaled Unix Administator.
Beer must be drunk from a glass in case we spill the bottles - I mean surely a tappered neck causes less damage than a pint glass - whatever! The age to drink out here is 21 - so the sign says anyone that appears under 30 will be ID'd On a negative note, the refeshments - you HAVE to pay for as the free stuff is in negative supply. They should perhaps ask for support from MS on this one as this show is about the Size of TechED Europe. You still have paper surveys - nothing green about that and you have to be scanned into every session - that you must pre-register for else it's a reserve line. I know the show is still in its infancy - but the concept is not!!! Anyway that's my tuppence worth (never will be a Euro). Regards, Mark Parris Base IT Ltd Active Directory Consultancy Tel +44(0)7801 690596 -----Original Message----- From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:11:33 To:[email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT for those in California http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2006/11/07/LA-Traffic-_2D00_-1_2C00_500-Shirts-in-150-minutes.aspx The show floor proved to be really busy this morning. One piece of evidence: we distributed 1,500 shirts in 2.5 hours. The orange shirts say "Virtualize World Peace" and the crowd was 2-deep at demos for Virtual Machine Manager (in beta now), SoftGrid and Windows Server virtualization (the hypervisor-based architecture for Longhorn). The sessions have proved to be muc better than the keynote. A few sessions on VDI and some interesting insights on how that model can create even more power consumption than before and the scalability challenge of adding all those desktop images to the servers/blades. The power consumption challenge was perhaps the most interesting given the comments from PG&E earlier today in the keynote. PG&E, which provides power to most of California, is providing business with credits ($700-$1,300) for consolidating servers in the datacenter using server virtualization. More to come later. Patrick -------------- Tax credits... interesting..... and excuse me us SBSers have been been putting 5 servers and the kitchen sink service on one box for years and I've not gotten a dime from PG&E and I'm a shareholder.... <snort> ;-) http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid94_gci1226458,00.html High Tech and Healthcare Program: http://www.pge.com/biz/rebates/hightech/ http://www.pge.com/docs/word_xls/biz/rebates/2006_Incentive_App/2006%20PGE%20app%20forms.xls -- Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? http://www.threatcode.com If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... man ... I will hunt you down... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] V«r¯yÊ&ý§-÷¹V¶+Þv*è®
