Why Event Like SQLInspire Are So Important

Years Ago I helped found PASS “Professional Association of SQL Server”.  http://www.sqlpass.org/ Not bad for someone who was also sitting on the Board of Directors for The Independent Oracle Users Group at the time. http://www.ioug.org/  Its important to me as a professional that we invest in our careers. Through these volunteer activities I worked with and met a great number of people. Many of these people I met, I consider friends today. I was able to make a difference in my profession and as a professional I became even stronger.

No matter what technical problem I encountered in my career I was always able to overcome it. As the beetles said a little help from my friends. If I needed help, I would reach out to the many people I had met at these different organizations. Through that network there was always someone who had answer I needed.

When Robert Perl and Brian Moran approached me about participating in SQLInspire I was very excited. As a side notes Brian was someone I had met during the founding of PASS.  A real mover and shaker in the SQL Server world. The same can be said about Robert Perl.

I loved the entire concept behind SQLPeople and the event SQLInspire. How many times have your heard the expression it’s not what you know but whom you know.  This event was about people, about getting them together and inspiring conversations that help make us better professionals. When I consider the brain trust that will be there and the ticket price of $20.00 this is a no brainer. This event is being done not to make money, but because it’s the right thing to do.  I am going to be there and I would encourage anyone who can be there joining us.

The Elevator Pitch For SQLInspire

SQLPeople is hosting an event, SQLInspire, in New York City on November 12^th. Come and be inspired by a great line-up of speakers, including Steve Jones, Tom LaRock, Robert Pearl, Michael Coles, Andrew Brust, Michael Corey, and Brian Moran. The focus of this event is work – whether it’s navigating the new job market, getting approval for telecommuting, or finding the right work-life balance. Space is limited so register today!

The Details For The Event

SQLPeople is hosting an event, SQLInspire, in New York City on November 12^th. Registration for SQLInspire costs $20, which helps to cover a quality lunch, drinks and snacks through the day. The event will be held in the downtown Microsoft office. (1290 Avenue of the Americas 6^th Floor, New York, NY 10104). Here is the registration link...

http://sqlinspirenyc2011.eventbrite.com

The focus of this event is work. Don’t worry: we’re not here to tell you how to do your job, but our terrific line-up of speakers are ready to share their insights to help you grow professionally and personally. Tom LaRock is going to pep you up about getting things done today. Andrew Brust is going to share his knowledge about the different technologies going into Big Business Intelligence – there’s sure to be one that fits your needs.

If you’re looking for better work-life balance, Steve Jones has got you covered. Robert Pearl follows suit by giving tips to make the case for telecommuting and being successful while doing it. And if you aren’t happy with your job, Michael Coles will be talking about navigating the new job market. And if you’ve been thinking about striking out on your own, Brian Moran shares his insights into building successful professional services companies.

Even more, we’ve just secured a special guest speaker, Mike Corey, and we’re sure his discussion is going to wow. Space is limited, so register today and we’ll see you on November, 12^th!

Michael Corey

Founder & CEO, Ntirety

www.ntirety.com 

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Dreaming of a World With A Virtualized Phone

A few months ago I was talking with a friend, and we were discussing wouldn’t not be great if you could virtualize your cell phone and combine your home phone and your work phone into a single unit. As soon as you left work, you would spin up your home phone virtual image and shut down your work phone virtual image. Or better yet run both phone virtualization images at the same time.

Better yet, when you bought a new phone, you could just migrate the virtual images over to the new phone.  You could even bring it home and do it youself

When your work phone broke, no big deal. you could just migrate the virtual images onto a new phones hypervisor.  Or migrate the virtual image onto your desktop computer for a while. Image what this could do to the price of hardware costs of a phone. When any telecom carrier virtual image could run on any other telecom carrier’s physical device. This could go a long way to driving down the cost of the physical devices.

I could image the hypervisor arguments happening all over again.  Where vendors use terms like our hypervisor is better because our phone uses Paravirtualization. Image the FUD (fear uncertainly doubt) phone vendors could bring to the marketplace. Many phone vendors remind me of bad used car salesman.

VMware and Verizon team up for mobile virtualization by Stacy Higginbotham

Well Michael Ansaldi www.Michaelansaldi.com   sent me a great article by Stacey Higginbotham at

http://gigaom.com/2011/10/18/vmware-and-verizon-team-up-for-mobile-virtualization/

The Article is titled “VMware and Verizon team up for mobile virtualization”.   The article is well worth reading. Here is a sample “VMware has signed deals with Verizon and Telefonica to offer its mobile virtualization products on phones provided by the operators. The net result of this deal is that employees who want tocombine their work phone and their personal phone will soon be able to do so with the aid of the VMware Horizon software on their phones.

As is usual when dealing with mobile operators and corporate IT, some caveats apply. So far only Android devices will work with the Horizon hypervisor with VMware unable to offer the benefits of a hypervisor-enabled virtualization on Apple’s iOS devices including the iPad and iPhone for Verizon.

Well in my office we are always debating which phone is better. The Iphone of the Andriod. This may tip the scales in the favor of the Andriod.

Michael Corey

Founder & CEO, Ntirety

www.ntirety.com 

My Personal Twitter Account: Michael_Corey

Ntirety Corporate Twitter Account: Ntirety

Database Administration As A Service@ is a registered trademark of Ntirety, Inc.