I have been MIA for a while sorry about that, I hope to write more soon, there are a few things I want to touch on, though have been fairly busy (and lazy I admit) and haven’t gotten round to writing.
I wanted to mention though I’ll be going to the Nth Symposium 2013 down in Anaheim CA next week. HP invited me and I was able to take them up on this one. This is the first time I’ve accepted anything like this where HP is covering travel and lodging costs for myself and a dozen or so other bloggers etc. They say I’m under no obligation to write anything, good or bad about anything I see. I imagine there will be at least a couple posts.. I’m way late writing about the new 3PAR flash stuff, I’ve been busy enough I haven’t gotten the briefing from them on the details. I’ll get that next week, and be able to ask any questions I may have on it. Oh, I have to remember HP gave me a special disclaimer to put on those blog posts to say how they paid my way to avoid FCC problems..
While the Nth event does have costs, they seem to waive them if your qualified (have to work in IT).
There is also an HP Tech Day on Monday I believe(private event?), I believe I was told that was a sort of mini Discover.
I’ve never been much for IT conferences(or any event with lots of people), though I hope this one will be better than past ones I have attended, since at least some of the topics are more my pace, and I’ll know a few people there.
I’ll be in Orange County all of next week(driving down on Sunday leaving Saturday or the following Sunday), HP is covering a few of the days that the conference is at, the rest is out of my pocket. I lived in OC for the latter half of the 90s, so I have some friends there, and the bulk of my immediate family resides there as well.
If your in the area and want to get some drinks drop me a line.. I don’t know what my schedule is yet, other than Thur/Fri night I am available for sure (Mon-Wed night may have some of the night taken up by HP I don’t know).