I started the day at a CSIA (Colorado Technology Association) session in downtown Denver. And no, I don’t know how Colorado Technology Association becomes CSIA in acronym form. I don’t question it, I just roll with it…
This morning’s session was sponsored by IBM and was on “eDiscovery” and records or information management and turned out to be very interesting and informative. Two knowledgeable speakers spoke (and I would’ve loved it if each had at least 30 more minutes…) and I picked up a lot of great tips and food for thought. They definitely weren’t just shilling for a product sale — in fact, they did a great job at not mentioning IBM products during the main portions of their talks.
The morning view from the 38th floor of today’s location was pretty awesome too. 
I’ve only been to a few of these CSIA events in the past few months, but have found them all worth the time.
This evening I decided to check out the Rocky Mountain Windows Technology Users Group. I’ve been aware of them for years but have never found the time — nor ambition — to attend an event, but tonight’s scheduled event looked interesting.
The main topic was “Solid State Disk drives” and the presenters were from Fusion-io. These guys have some pretty cool technology that I’ve never heard of. NAND based drives mounted on PCI-E cards. Vroom. From their site:
- Capable of over 120,000 random read/write IOPS
- Allows for less than 50 microsecond access latency
- Enables terabytes of Virtual Memory with near DRAM speeds
- Eliminates service interrupts due to I/O contention
- Save or resume virtual machine states in seconds
Fascinating stuff! Based on what I saw I’d like to get a few of these drives for some of my SQL Server database servers.
The location of this particular user group is pretty far south for metro Denver. I wonder if they could contact Microsoft and get some space in their office like the SQL Server UG does?
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February 17th, 2009 
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