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By Stephen Creel
I just completed my 6th annual Symposium as a NetQoS employee and I want to thank our customers for making this another success. I was thinking back to my first one (2004) and there are some pleasing contrasts between that initial experience and what we accomplished this week. The early Symposia were intimate enough to be held inside our offices and we had a few dozen people spend a few days with us. I drove the van. We’ve grown to the point where we are hosting hundreds of customers, have three full days of sessions with four parallel tracks, six keynote presentations, a hands on lab, a usability lab, and a bouncy castle (just kidding on the last one)—all that necessitates a full-fledged conference venue and I don’t think there’s a better one in Austin than Barton Creek.
We believe this year’s Symposium contained the strongest agenda yet. In addition to the sessions presented by NetQoS employees relating best practices, how to’s and product updates, speakers from Microsoft, Cisco and EMC delivered popular presentations ranging from unified communications to unified computing to operations excellence.
Of course, events like these are not possible without customers like you that are dedicated to optimizing how well your organization can deliver applications. For those of you that could not make it to the event this year, we will get the presentations on the self-service portal as soon as possible and we hope to see you at a local workshop. Hopefully the economy will continue to improve and we will see all of you next year in Austin.
I’ve said enough. Here are a few comments from this year’s attendees:
- “I enjoyed the usability – being able to have input on planned features. I suggest an increase of the men and resources in the hands-on lab. It was full every time I looked.”
- “Sessions are getting better; More technically detailed. I continue to be more and more impressed with your products as they develop year over year.”
- “I really like Zach Belcher’s presentations. I think I have pulled the most useful information from them. The length was perfect. Any longer and topics and classes would have become a jumble.”
- “The presentations were packed with useful information and new product features just keep getting better each year. Great job!”
- “Please warn attendees about rattlesnakes on the nature trail.”
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Stephen Creel is the Director of Account Management at NetQoS.
