http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/06/23/digipede-at-sia-big-show-big-partners-big-news/ An entrepreneur's journey into grid computing and partnering with Microsoft, by John Powers Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:26:46 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/06/23/digipede-at-sia-big-show-big-partners-big-news/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Cameron Purdy Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:11:55 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/06/23/digipede-at-sia-big-show-big-partners-big-news/#comment-149 I wasn't at the show, but I heard (from our staff) that it was pretty good. I am curious if you got a chance to drop by the Tangosol booth. If you are doing large-scale compute grid work (e.g. with a DataSynapse or a Platform grid), it's a must-have for data intensive loads. Peace. I wasn’t at the show, but I heard (from our staff) that it was pretty good. I am curious if you got a chance to drop by the Tangosol booth. If you are doing large-scale compute grid work (e.g. with a DataSynapse or a Platform grid), it’s a must-have for data intensive loads. Peace.

]]> http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/06/23/digipede-at-sia-big-show-big-partners-big-news/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Powers Unfiltered » Blog Archive » Work it, or it’s not worth it Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:27:39 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/06/23/digipede-at-sia-big-show-big-partners-big-news/#comment-26 [...] Here are a few more observations based in part on Digipede’s experience at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference in New York this week. I posted about this earlier today; this post is less fact, more perspective. For a small company like Digipede, a trade show can be a frightening investment. Travel is expensive, and disruptive – taking three or four people away from other activities for three or four days can throw off schedules for weeks. Booth space is pricey, the booth itself is pricey to buy or rent, shipping the booth and any other equipment and collateral is a pain, and renting a big monitor and power and internet connectivity and chairs and tables and trash cans and whatnot is vastly more expensive than it ought to be.  (OK, we’re not crazy — we used other vendors’ trash cans.) And for what? What will we demonstrate? Will anyone care? Who will attend? Will there by any potential customers, or just “vendors talking to vendors?” Will the press be there? If so, will they notice us? Is it really worth it? [...] [...] Here are a few more observations based in part on Digipede’s experience at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference in New York this week. I posted about this earlier today; this post is less fact, more perspective. For a small company like Digipede, a trade show can be a frightening investment. Travel is expensive, and disruptive – taking three or four people away from other activities for three or four days can throw off schedules for weeks. Booth space is pricey, the booth itself is pricey to buy or rent, shipping the booth and any other equipment and collateral is a pain, and renting a big monitor and power and internet connectivity and chairs and tables and trash cans and whatnot is vastly more expensive than it ought to be.  (OK, we’re not crazy — we used other vendors’ trash cans.) And for what? What will we demonstrate? Will anyone care? Who will attend? Will there by any potential customers, or just “vendors talking to vendors?” Will the press be there? If so, will they notice us? Is it really worth it? [...]

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