Surfing Bavaria

By on June 16, 2010 in Service Assurance

CA World Highlights reported live from Munich where beer and pretzels as well as CA Technologies customers were aplenty.

Because CA World 2010 was a big success last month in Las Vegas, we decided to bring highlights of the event to a few cities outside the U.S. for more intimate, local interaction with our customers that couldn’t make intercontinental trip.

CA TechnologiesTuesday’s event took place in Munich and emulated important facets of CA World including kick off keynotes on Service Assurance from Cliff Meltzer, corporate senior vice president and general manager of the Service Assurance business unit, and Virtualization and Automation Management from Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of the Virtualization and Service Automation business unit.

The remainder of the agenda comprised break-out sessions that zoomed in on use cases and best practices for assuring service levels and automating operations to enable the Data Center of the Future. Concurrently, solutions exhibits highlighted the latest releases from CA Technologies with a chance for hands-on product usage and 1:1 interaction with subject matter experts. The agenda proved popular as attendance exceeded expectations and our central European audience kept us busy in conversation even after the Bavarian beer, pretzels and weisswurst were gone.

We wound up the event in true Bavarian style with beer, pretzels and weisswurst.

I arrived in Munich a day early and between dodging raindrops had a chance to tour the lush English Garden. What I didn’t expect to see were surfers in an urban park.

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Denise Dubie

About Denise Dubie

Denise Dubie is New Media Principal in CA Technologies Thought Leadership Group. Prior to joining CA in 2010, Dubie spent 12 years of her career at Network World, an IDG company, covering the IT management industry and all its players (including CA and competitors) as well as high-tech careers and vendors such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft. As Senior Editor at Network World, Dubie also authored the publication's twice-weekly Network and Systems Management Alert newsletter and contributed to the Web site's Microsoft Subnet blog. Before IDG, she served as Assistant Managing Editor at Application Development Trends, managing writers and the monthly publication's production process. Dubie started her professional journalism career as a Staff Writer/Reporter at The Transcript, a small daily paper in Western Massachusetts. Dubie holds a B.A. degree in English Literature, with minors in journalism and political science, from Boston University.
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