SharePoint Conference Season

Hi all,

While May, June and August are the era for the big platform events such as EMC World, TechED, and VMWorld…
October is the season for my two major application events.

I am happy to announce that EMC are proud Gold Sponsors at:-

• SharePoint Conference USA                    Anaheim, California – Oct 3-6
• SQL PASS Summit                                    Seattle, WA – Oct 11-14

EMC @ the SharePoint Conference

• Large booth where key experts from the EMC Business Units will be able to describe to you how to make your life easier with SharePoint
• Demonstrations, mini-lectures, and Q&As
• Free give-aways.  Yes, again, like TechEd, we will have free t-shirts and on the final day many, many cash spot-prizes for wearing your EMC T-shirt

      Two Sessions

• Proven Best Practices for Virtualized SharePoint and FAST Search  – Tuesday, Oct 4 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm

Speaker(s):  James Baldwin, Eyal Sharon  (James & Eyal show)
Level: 200
Understand technical best practices to design and deploy a virtualized SharePoint that leverages FAST Search. Understand how design a flexible and robust architecture that supports your advanced collaboration requirements. Understand how to architect a solution that addresses IT challenges for data growth, application availability and simplified management that also enables your users to find and leverage the right business information to make better decisions.

• Searching Video with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

Speakers:-  Matt Roberts, Nate Treloar
Level 300
Demonstrate how to integrate external video metadata generation services with native SharePoint Search capabilities

Dont forget Europe!

The European SharePoint Conference is taking place in Berlin, Germany   – October 17-20.

I will be there presenting the following session:-

Optimize, Store and Protect SharePoint 2010 Server…Best Practices     Wednesday 15:00 – Session W21

Learn about the critical best practices and considerations for optimizing and growing SharePoint farms, storing user data efficiently and securely, while backing up TB’s a data in minutes. RBS (Remote Blob Store) and Virtualization, are just two of the many techniques discussed in this session. Realize the considerations for providing fast, automated disaster recovery for the entire SharePoint environment through SAN-based technology.

EMC @ SQL PASS Summit

We will have something kinda special at the SQL PASS Summit.  Can’t say more.

But what I can say…

• Large booth area in the Pavillion, with SQL Experts from EMC including two heros from our team, Tony Wu and Bruce Ye, travelling all the way from Shanghai.
• Demos, booths, best practices and most importantly application-led conversations around;
• SQL Server scalability – Infrastructure
• Optimized Data Protection
• High availability to where? Same SAN? Same site? next door? next state? next country?  – All of the above <—
• Something Flashy
• Proven Solutions around high-speed SQL deployments, one of which is in build right now with Michael and David in our Cork labs.

Hope to see you there.

James.