Great News! Even if you didn't attend Vision 2010 in Barcelona, you can access the presentations from many of the breakout sessions and labs. Just download the presentations from the track/tracks you are interested in and you'll be well on your way to enlightenment--or close anyway.

You can access all of the posted presentations here:

www.symantec.com/connect/vision/articles

Happy Learning!

Never ones to miss a meal, the Connect Trusted Advisors arrive for the Cruise Control party on Tuesday evening:

Only one day left of Symantec Vision 2010! Can you believe it? You've learned, you've laughed and you've partied. Keep the energy up just one more day, and we promise it will be worth it.

Keynote Update

Steve Morton - Still Taking Control!

The Wednesday keynote was all about information and storage management, as well as the realities of Windows 7 Migration. If you were there, you learned about both the challenges and the opportunities cloud computing presents for your enterprise. Steve was joined on stage by:

Deepak Mohan, Senior Vice President, Information Management Group, Symantec

Ed Reidenbach, Senior Director of Data Domain Product Management, EMC Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division

Anil Chakravarthy, Senior Vice President, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec

Mark Magee, Senior Director, Product Management, Endpoint Management Group, Symantec

Oliver Deibler, Director Global ICT...

For those who haven't yet tried the Vision self-paced labs, they are well worth a look!

I expected simple VMWare Player shortcuts on the desktop, so what I saw impressed the hell out of me. The desktop just has an IE shortcut where you register to use the VMs with a username and password. You can then select you lab and in the background on a server you own VMs are generated. The dual-screen setup also allows you to throw up the lab pdf on one screen, whilst you get to work on the other.

These VMs are accessed through the browser -nothing is local. This means you can do half-an-hour over lunch, logout and come back later to your VMs just as you left them.

This is a sterling service, and a very practical solution to providing Vision labs when large blocks of free time are hard to come by!

There are currently 5 labs on there, and more labs are added daily. This is the first of its kind at Vision, so try it out (and leave your email...