Our company decided this year to step up to the plate with a Gold Sponsorship at TechEd IT Pro.  I can tell you this was a huge step for our company, but it really does show the growth we are experiencing.  A lot of this is because SharePoint is also experiencing major growth and I believe it has become the fastest growing server technology in Microsoft history.  Seems like every other vendor at Tech Ed was touting some type of SharePoint integration.

What excited me most about the show, was no doubt seeing the company I helped build have such a major presence.  The giant carpet was awesome all though I'm not sure about the idea of being walked all over... as Hao demonstrates.

We also had great booth positioning basically in the center of HP, Intel, EMC and APC.  This no doubt helped drive traffic to our booth, although the KnowledgeLake Shifter Cart didn't hurt.

Getting away from the KnowledgeLake pitch, I did find one new product that I thought was very innovative and impressed me.  It's a Virtual Document solution for SharePoint in appliance from a company called Black Blade.  Many of you may know the CEO, Brad Smith, who's a SharePoint MVP.  I really enjoy seeing people take advantage of the MVP program and use it launch new products and companies.  More on his company here: http://www.blackbladeinc.com.

As most know, Tech Ed this year was split into two different conferences/shows, Developer the first week and IT Pro the second week.  My understanding was the IT Pro had twice as many attendees (not confirmed, just what I heard) and numbered around 11,000.  This conference is getting really large, but what I didn't like about he split was that as an ex-code junkie, I still love the development world and since we were only exhibiting during the IT Pro week I really missed the sessions I enjoy most as well as the development vendor displays.

To finalize here, I don't know how many of you know about our new IN campaign, but think it's been a hit so far.  If you're not IN your OUT and more and more customers are looking for a way to be green and save money by getting rid of their paper and getting IN with KnowledgeLake.  As always I encourage you to stop by our web site http://www.knowledgelake.com and see what we are all about.

The rest of my Tech Ed pictures can be found here.

Regards,
Chris