READY TO DRINK FROM A FIRE HOSE? TALK TO AN EXPERT AT BRAINSHARE.

Got a thirst for knowledge? If you’re planning on staying in this industry, you’d better have a big one. And there’s no better place to quench that thirst than BrainShare. It’s where you can flood your mind with new insights and expertise gained by rubbing shoulders with real brainiacs. I’ve been looking over the session schedule lately and, I must admit, I’m ready to descend on Salt Lake and get my geek on.

Where else can you get direct access to so many IT experts? Have a question about securing workloads? Ask the folks who make intelligent workload management work. BrainShare offers more than 20 hands-on labs which are staffed by product development experts, software engineers, and systems architects.

One of today’s hottest topics is automating application monitoring, reporting and management. You may have read my recent blogs about NetIQ® AppManager®. In Apps Behaving Badly? How Would You Even Know?, I touched on how AppManager complements Novell Operations Center, NetIQ’s business service management solution. I also discussed how AppManager can help you plan, manage and deploy your VoIP services.

AppManager is extremely versatile—it can help you resolve most anything that involves application monitoring and reporting. You might have an AppManager use case in mind, but you’re not quite certain how to go about implementing it. If so, there’s a can’t-miss BrainShare session called Ask the NetIQ AppManager Experts. This open forum will be hosted by a team of NetIQ AppManager product managers, architects and services experts. If they can’t answer your questions, the answer simply doesn’t exist.

Speaking of experts, NetIQ senior management will be at BrainShare, and they’re eager to hear what’s on your mind. In fact, Jay Gardner, president and general manager of the NetIQ Business Unit, will be at the conference. He’ll share NetIQ’s short-term and long-term roadmap with attendees. Equally important, Jay will be there to listen. That’s one of the great things about BrainShare: our customers leave with new ideas and knowledge, and everyone who works for the Attachmate companies comes away with a better understanding of the challenges customers face, including ideas about how we can best address them.

Feel free to pull me aside at BrainShare. If I can’t answer your questions, I’ll track down someone who can. I’m already registered. Are you?

–Richard