The ArchestrAnaut

A big red X for the Archestranaut.  I submitted a talk that would review and discuss the 3 or 4 most popular posts from the year.  Apparently it didn’t catch the right folks fancy.  That’s ok.  I guess one way to look at it is that I get to enjoy more of the show than I have in years past where I was a bundle of nerves before my talk.

With that being said I’m rolling around a couple ideas around an Archestranaut themed meetup.  In the Virtualization and Storage world a lot of people have started meetups called vBeers or StorageBeers.   Basically it’s nothing more than an excuse for some like minded geeks to get together and share a few beers over some technical.. or non-technical discussion.  If I can get a small critical mass of folks interested I’ll work on logistics, nothing too complicated.  If you might be interested in getting together some time during the conference to enjoy a few beers and chat with likeminded folks either leave a comment or shoot me an email directly.  Once I have enough people I’ll post info on whatever details I come up with.  Oh and one other thing.   This isn’t a fancy sponsored event where some vendor is paying for it all, just some regular guys and gals getting together.

- Andy

Here are a few posts I’ve been reading lately and you might be interested in.

Our take on what you can do to protect your ICS from the next cyber security threat. 

Stuxnet and What it Means to Our Security

One of our business development managers has started a new blog entitled Automate-Zen.  He’s a sales guy so you’re not going to get really deep technical deep dives.  What you will get is a little different take on what he’s seeing in the industry and specifically with our customers.

http://www.avidsolutionsinc.com/blog/automatezen/

Finally, Jay David has been really busy over at AutomationSuccess.com.  When I poked him a while back that we don’t see enough System Platform success profiles, at least I hadn’t found them, his response was essentially… “just wait and see”.  He wasn’t kidding.  If you have already been then it’s worth a return trip.  if you haven’t seen the blog yet, do yourself a favor and check it out.

http://www.automationsuccess.com/

- Andy