Monday Oct 15, 2007
An essential part of Redshift is the onset of distributed 'mega' data centers operated by a few large-scale service providers.
Day 3 of CEC began with a next generation data center panel which included some of today's key service providers who discussed their data center requirements.
Pictured here from left to right:
Eric Billingsley, Fellow, Finding & Research Labs, eBay
Charles Bess, Fellow, Innovation Center, EDS
Jeff Routledge, Dir, Systems Infrastructure, Fox Interactive Media
Dilep Bhandarkar, DE, Global Foundation Services, Microsoft
Jim Baty, Distinguished Engineer, VP and Chief Architect of Sun's Global Systems Engineering organization was the host.
That was a hard act to follow, but the next speaker was certainly up to the task!
Don Grantham, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Services, closed the event by thanking the 4,000 engineers in attendance for a job well done.
We would like to thank them as well. What an outstanding group of engineers!
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Friday Oct 12, 2007
At the CEC on Monday night, the Divas grabbed an early dinner and then dropped by the Unconference and Speed Geeking sessions.
For the Unconference, potential speakers announced the topic they'd like to present and then the audience voted for the 10 topics they wanted to learn more about. Once the topics were selected, the participants moved to various rooms to hear one of the presentations and ask questions.
Unconference speakers line up after the vote:
Speed Geeking is similar to Speed Dating, but the object of Speed Geeking is to talk to the experts of various technical topics and learn more about each subject--not to find a date! Take a look at Chris Gerhard's October 10th blog - he gave nice simple account of the Speed Geeking process and topics.
Hal Stern wore his best geekwear (from Computergear.com) for his Speed Geeking session:
Bob Sokol and Julian Edwards write their topic, "Do we really understand RedShift?", on their flip chart:
Various Speed Geeking tables:
The main entree:
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Thursday Oct 11, 2007
The CEC conference ended last night with a party at the Palms nightclub, Rain.
After 3 long days, it was great to get out and meet up with some old friends and make some new ones.
Here we are with
Dave Levy, Brian Down, Chris Gerhard and
Jeremy Barnish.
This is a group of guys from Sun's Telecommunications industry: Dan Nindorf, Wayne Abbott, Ralph Mangahas, Nobel Shelby, David Ryder and John Ross. They are customer engineers for AT&T, Qualcomm and Alcatel-Lucent.
Here are two engineers from
Sun's Center of Excellence organization: Wes Schiel (Atlanta) and Michael Wheaton (Florida).
Thanks for the photos everyone - hope to see you all again next year!
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Wednesday Oct 10, 2007
Photos from the CEC Demo Pavillion:
This is Daniel Rosenberg getting a CEtwo Demo from Diana Pittman and Neeraj Mathur:
OneStop Guys - Mike Briggs & Robert Holt:
Dynamic Infrastructure Demo
Andre Lavigne from N(i)2, John Stanford and Brian Couling from Sun:
Here's Joseph Johnen from Sun's Managed Services org luring me to his Open Systems Data Center Demo with a rubber ducky:
This is a group of engineers participating in the Solaris Installfest:
Here's a group of Latin American Support Services Engineers taking a break between sessions-
Giovanni Gomez, Fausto Moretti, Guillermo Salazar:
Angel Camancho standing with his Open Solaris Installer demo, which won 1st prize in the CEC integrated demo contest.
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
Dave Douglas, Vice President, Eco Responsibility was the opening keynote this morning. He discussed valuable strategies for the next generation data centers. We also learned that it takes 1000 years for a water bottle to disintegrate. I hid mine under the chair and have sinced switched over to refilling my new water bottle!
Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and President, was the next keynote this morning. Here's Dan showing off his "I LOVE SOLARIS" shirt to Jonathan.
Here is the rest of the audience doing the same!
And once again, we used our back stage pass to get you this EXCLUSIVE photo of Hal and Jonathan taping a video: Behind the Scenes at CEC 2007 -
Part 1
and
Part 2.
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
Bonjour! (We're staying at the Paris hotel, so we thought we'd try a little French.) In case you don't speak French, the title reads in English: "The Divas at the CEC on Sunday"
Our schedule has been really hectic since we arrived on Saturday, so our blog postings may be a little out of order and out of sync with each other.
Before the GSS Technical Leadership meeting started on Suday, we got a chance to meet and chat with Ruben Barros, PSD, Iberia, and Robert Darby, Services, Australia:
A question for Hal during the GSS Technical Leadership meeting:
The Ambassadors meeting:
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
This morning we sat front and center at the CEC general session so we could provide you with more great photos!
This is
Dan Berg, CTO GSS and CEC Executive Chairperson, opening up the conference:
Here's our boss,
Hal Stern, wowing the crowd!
Dr. James Baty sharing the spotlight with Dan:
Marc Tremblay, Sun Fellow, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, discussed Sun's multicore, multithread processor designs:
Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun cofounder & Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Systems Group gave us some insight into Sun's product lineup:
What a great day. Back again tomorrow!
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Monday Oct 08, 2007
I guess you can say that the Divas have press passes. We get to hang out backstage and see what really happens...
Look at all the engineers who volunteered their time to make sure things (Second Life, SMS, presentations, etc) are running smoothly:
This is the band for the General Session. They are playing a laser harp.
The audience anxiously awaits the CEC opening event:
More photos to come. Gotta run!!
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Sunday Oct 07, 2007
Vegas is great! We began the day at 7am with a run up and down the "strip". Where was everyone???
Could they be attending an early breakfast meeting at Sun's CEC conference or nursing a hangover from
Pamela and Rick's wedding reception?
Well... believe it or not we were not invited to the latter, so you will have to see our photos of Day 2 at CEC instead!
Our heart starter breakfast:
Hal at rehearsal:
Hal & Jim practicing for the big day:
Dan going on 3 days without sleep:
Me & Diana:
Is Paul laughing at me?
I can't tell you about this photo as I don't want to give away all the CEC
secrets!
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Sunday Oct 07, 2007
...doesn't always stay in Vegas. Especially if the Divas are attending CEC 2007 and happen to have a camera (or two)!! So, get ready for a photo log of our CEC adventure.
When you don't know where you're going, this girl is a very welcome sight!
When I arrived on Saturday, I sat with the guys in the next two photos on the shuttle heading to Bally's and Paris. I couldn't believe they had just completed a 28 hour journey from Dubai to Las Vegas...they looked great!
Francois Coetzee is a Partner Technology Manager in the MENA Partner Sales Organisation.
This photo came out way too dark and I owe them a much better picture! This is Peter Avakian and Lourens Strydom who are part of the Global Systems Engineering community in Dubai.
More photos from the other Diva coming soon!
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Thursday Oct 04, 2007
The Divas will be boarding a plane this weekend en route to Sun's annual Customer Engineering Conference (CEC).
We will be armed with Laptops, cameras, iPods and mobile phones. We don't want to miss a thing, and we don't want you to either! Please visit our blog throughout the week to keep your pulse on all the cool stuff going on.
SNEAK PREVIEW:
* 4000 customer engineers in person and many more participating via Second Life technology
* UnConference sessions and SpeedGeeking
* Java & Solaris certification
* Solution Showcase area including Project BlackBox, Constellation System, and Solaris Installfest
* SSSSSHHHHHH - we can't tell you everything!!
Au revoir - See you at the Paris Hotel!
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