It's been a while since I last attended a technology event. Recently I had the opportunity to attend Microsoft Innovation Summit 2019 at KLCC Convention Centre. I wanted to write more about it but I will try and find time to complete what is missing.
The photo backdrop place
The long queue
Spent 10-15 minutes
The hall is full so we resort to live broadcast at the banquet hall
Me and my partner
The live broadcast screen
This was awesome
The booth
The exhibition hall
Cheat mode
Me and the comrade
Selfie me
Afternoon Session
Gen Z is coming
I love free food
Unfortunately, I didn't win the lucky prize
Anyway, it was nice to finally attend a technology event. I learned a lot of new things and I hope to attend more events like this.
After attending the ARCHICAD seminar, I had another event to attend which was a follow from my last meet up with IBM. It was a privilege to be invited to come to this event to learn about Nutanix solution and Lenovo hardware although we are just a small fry compared to the other attendees.
Anyway, I first encountered Nutanix during a visit to one of our client data centre. I managed to snap the physical hardware during one of my visits. I was astonished by the 42U rack only having a small number of hardware with almost 70% of the slots are empty.
The actual setup of Nutanix at one of the small data centre I've visited
Only after receiving the technical sheet specification of the server they are purchasing from one of our clients, I realised that they are now adopting hyper-converged infrastructure on the campus. It certainly is a fascinating concept where the hardware cost can be optimized to strike a balance between cost and performance.
Glo Damansara is a new building located at TTDI Damansara.
Worq Coworking Space at Glo Damansara
Worq event hall
Lenovo + Nutanix solution presentation
Me at the event
Sponsored lunch, this is one of the reasons I am here..yay!
Nutanix login page
My brand new teammate in action
Malaysian Digital Hub at WORQ Glo Damansara
WORQ Community
Nutanix is certainly is an interesting hyper-converged solution. I also like Lenovo's concept of leasing servers at the client's office and only charge the local on-site user by the electricity consumption of the server. This is really out of the box concept to me and I hope my client would really like it as I do.
I've long heard about ARCHICAD but I never had the desire to try it out. Out of the blue, my boss asks me to attend a seminar about ARCHICAD at the office where originally they were selling Autodesk product. It kind of surprise me that they are not associated with Autodesk any more.
Anyway, I took some pictures for all my readers (hopefully I still have readers):
The ideal in-house marketing: An introductory class to ARCHICAD from GRAPHISOFT
Me in class
What ARCHICAD is all about
I am really intrigued that ARCHICAD still uses the dongle for license control. The price of each license is not much different compared to Autodesk AutoCAD but of course, you can't really compare the benefits of both software since both software has their own little league.
Why BIMcloud
Interesting enough, the BIMcloud is actually a software being installed on a host machine or a server where connected users operate their model or drawing files. I can't really say ARCHICAD is superior or not since I am not a heavy user of Autodesk product but the product can be an excellent alternative if you need an alternative tool that works. In today's world, we normally wouldn't want to be too dependent on one particular brand.
ARCHICAD is free to try out so just Google it and start trying it out.
In February, somehow one of IBM partners got hold of me and invited me to join them for a meetup. As I didn't have any important task at the time, I accepted their invitation and went ahead to meet up with them at IBM HQ in Bandar Utama.
An established name in the IT world
Where are the receptionist?
IBM hardware offerings
IBM solutions, I got lost here
People of IBM
IBM is huge, the price is huge, the challenge is also huge. However, they have huge competitions nowadays and in the razor-thin profit business of IT hardware, they need all the help they can get to stay relevant.
A Happy New Year 2018. It turns out that I only wrote a handful of blog posts last year. I know it was pathetic but I am working really hard to make a positive change this year.
Anyway, this was my 3rd year of attending VMWare's vForum in One World Hotel, Bandar Utama. The first and second was also held at the same place. The registration queue stretches from the lobby of the hotel towards the registration counter. The crowd was jam-packed but I must salute the host and the hotel venue for well managing the food for the enormous crowd, superbly done. I attended Google Cloud event earlier at the same place but the crowd was far less than VMWare vForum, clearly, the event organizer did a very good job.
I've been lazy to write or update this blog but determined enough to make a video using my rarely used outdated Camtasia Studio on my laptop. Check out my less than 2 minutes of video presentation. It may look crappy but I made the video in less than half an hour so imagine if I can spend an hour or two if I'm not that lazy.. haha...
By the way, check out the cool demonstration using Virtual Reality concept done by the awesome presenter on stage starting at 0.19s onwards. Very Cool stuff!
