That’s right! Coming to a city near you (Or specifically very near me :)) Is the Launch event for Girls In Tech (This is a Co-Ed event, so don’t get overwhelmed guys)
Girls in Tech – Chicago Launch!
Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. Everyone is welcome as we kick off and celebrate the launch of the Chicago chapter! Hor d’overs will be served.
What’s a cool way to use Twitter, Facebook, Twitpic and more? How about as a real time travelogue? Angela Dugan from Microsoft will talk about using social media to share your adventures with friends, family & co-workers in near real time!
If you are at all invested in technology, and want to see not only the future of technology continue to thrive but also to meet intelligent women of the world who will have a stake in that future – Your investment in an event like this will make all the difference.
And as an extra incentive, use coupon code “twitter” to save an extra $2 off of the event!
So, come on down and I’ll see you at TechNexus on Tuesday!
TechNexus 200 S. Wacker Drive 15th Floor Chicago, IL 60606
Today was the big day! The launch of the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, also known as the VCE Initiative!
CNN Broke the news as far as the link to the Webinar would go, with announcements being made by: John Chambers, chairman and CEO for Cisco Joe Tucci, chairman and CEO for EMC Corp Paul Maritz, president and CEO for VMware
There has been a lot of chatter about this, over the weekend and even moreso leading into this announcement, with some highlights:
The launch of Privatecloud.com is only the beginning in the mass of places to find out information and content on this amazing initative.
In unveiling the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, Cisco and EMC also introduced Acadia, a joint venture focused on accelerating customer build-outs of private cloud infrastructures through an end-to-end enablement of service providers and large enterprise customers. Acadia’s unique “build, operate, transfer” model for delivering the Vblock architecture, addressing people, process and technology, will offer customers further choice, flexibility and cost advantages as they seek to virtualize their IT infrastructures and evolve to private cloud environments. In addition to Cisco and EMC as the lead investors, the build-out of Acadia’s expanded capabilities in 2010 has also been capitalized by investments from VMware and Intel. Because the Vblock architecture relies heavily on Intel Xeon® processors and other Intel data center technology, Intel will join the Acadia effort as a minority investor to facilitate and accelerate customer adoption of the latest Intel technology for servers, storage, and networking.
In fact, many partners – both systems integrators, and service providers have all started lining up behind Vblocks. Here are just a few examples:
Most of the vCloud Express launch partners are using the VCE coalition, and want to move forward with a formal Vblock model. Examples are Terremark, Alphawest, Savvis, Orange and SunGard. (Thanks for this Chad!)
Also, looks like there is some Twitter presence too! So, represent! @privatecloudcom
Today, is quite an exciting day, and while all of this is high level, I’d be glad to go into much more depth about this – something I’m sure many of those linked and referenced here can say and do the same. This is not intended to be a tutorial, but an advisory of what’s new, where to go, and I’ll have separate blog posts to go into the details :) It’s an exciting day! :)
How many of you have ever attended a “Lunch and Learn”. For those of you not familiar it typically will involved a Partner, Vendor or someone with some information to share, and often involves food (Usually Pizza or Sandwiches).
Here are the typical conditions following lunch and learns “Wow, you mean there’ll be free food? Sure I’ll come to the lunch and learn!” or “I’m interested in that topic, but I love free food!”
Yes, those are very true and strong conditions when it comes to lunch and learns. Now let’s shift the tables a bit, and you become me. Hi, I’m Christopher and I’m vegan, and I love people and technology. So what does this mean?
If I am attending a lunch and learn, it is NOT for the food. When I attend these events it is because I want the “Learn” component of the lunch and learn. Even when it’s a subject that I know implicitly, it also has it’s value of my ability to ask questions (Both those questions I want to know the answers to, and those which others may not be asking but they really need to know the answers to and it isn’t being covered). These same guidelines apply to user groups as well, which is to say, whenever I go somewhere it is RARELY if ever for the food.
Just think about that, if you ever see me at a Lunch and Learn, a TechEd Party, User Group meeting or who knows what – I am either there to learn, meet you, or educate in my ever so technical evangelist way, but I’m never there for the food, nor am I ever there to be the ‘know it all ass who wants to show you what I know’. I’m more interested in what you know and if you have any questions or challenges, I love solving problems!
I did this before I did it for a living, and if I won the lotto tomorrow (Let’s make that Tuesday, for $180million please) I’ll continue to do it, because I care more about the education and growth of our community than I do anything else. An attitude of growth, sincerity and caring matter far more to me than egos, or free food :) Think about it the next time you meet a Vegan Technologist, we’re definitely not in it for the food ;)
That’s right! I’m actually telling you about the CWUG when it ISNT the day of the event!
And lo and behold, there will be some great things going on this Monday in Downers Grove!
We bring you the CWUG Geek Olympics, with prizes of sorts, food as always and more Points to help secure your place in winning the Laptop at the end of the year!
I’d highly encourage you to register for this event, but don’t hesitate to email or call me if you find that registration is full… I might be able to pull some strings! ;)
This will be a very special event, with beasts! …definitely Geek Trivia, Competition and Prizes!
Don’t wait! Sign up now! (And most importantly, show up)
