Exhibit hall - Tuesday

The ID badges for attendees this year are the size of credit cards and contain an RFID chip in them. Whenever I enter a confernce session or talk to a vendor in the exhibit hall, they hold a device that look very much like an old-style cell phone up to my badge and it reads the RFID info off of it. At the conference sessions, the device actually speaks saying "allowed" if I pass muster. Haven't heard what it says if someone who hasn't paid for the conference sessions tries to sneak in to a session. Makes me think of the old sci-fi movie, Logan's Run.

At then end of the day today, I got an email which detailed exactly which sessions I attended and which vendor booths I visited. According to the email I spent time with 25 vendors today. Only 325 more to go :-)

Exhibitor Booth Scans
Scan Date Exhibiting Company URL
5/9/2011 10:17 AM NaviSite, Inc. www.navisite.com
5/10/2011 11:07 AM Xirrus xirrus.com
5/10/2011 11:07 AM VMware www.vmware.com
5/10/2011 11:24 AM Safari Books Online www.safaribooksonline.com
5/10/2011 11:34 AM Tripwire, Inc. tripwire.com
5/10/2011 11:37 AM FireHost, Inc www.firehost.com
5/10/2011 11:48 AM Citrix Systems www.citrix.com
5/10/2011 12:09 PM ManageEngine (Zoho Corporation) www.manageengine.com
5/10/2011 12:16 PM Spirent Communications www.spirent.com
5/10/2011 12:19 PM EMC emc.com
5/10/2011 12:21 PM New Horizons Computer Learning Centers newhorizons.com
5/10/2011 12:24 PM WildPackets, Inc. wildpackets.com
5/10/2011 12:29 PM Alcatel-Lucent (c/o MC²) www.alcatel-lucent.com/
5/10/2011 12:38 PM NetSupport Inc. netsupport-inc.com
5/10/2011 12:39 PM CXtec www.cxtec.com
5/10/2011 12:48 PM Diskeeper Corporation diskeeper.com
5/10/2011 12:49 PM APCON www.apcon.com
5/10/2011 12:55 PM Symmetricom symmetricom.com
5/10/2011 12:58 PM OFC/NFOEC www.ofcnfoec.org
5/10/2011 1:01 PM Smith Micro Software Inc smithmicro.com
5/10/2011 1:06 PM DisplayLink Corp displaylink.com
5/10/2011 4:18 PM Barracuda Networks www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/?L=en
5/10/2011 4:20 PM Brocade www.brocade.com
5/10/2011 4:40 PM Eaton Corporation eaton.com/powerquality
5/10/2011 6:31 PM Rackspace Hosting www.rackspace.com

They are all a blur already, but there were a number of interesting products that I saw.

Talked to someone at Eaton, who works out of Philly who specializes is Data Center air flow. Will come out and offer suggestions on how to save money on cooling.

CXtec sells refurbished VoIP phones. They can sell us phones just like we are using for significantly less than new. They come with lifetime warranties.

Safari Books online has thousands of technical books available digitally. You pay a monthly fee to access their entire library as much as you want. Todd, I know you have talked to me about this service, or one like it. It seems like a good deal for the department.

Compellent/Dell had a booth, which was separate from the Dell booth. I guess they had made their reservations before the merger.

I'm sure I'll remember more as I dig through the printed materials I picked up. That's it for now, though. I'm going to bed. Tomorrow will probably be just as exhausting as today was.