EMC Proven Center Wrap up Day Two: WOW!

We had an exciting day in the Proven Center on Tuesday!

Highights:

• We met so many new EMC Proven Professional Experts yesterday;many of them generously agreed to be videotaped.  Coming soon!

• I did see many renditions of the EMC Proven Professional dance, but caught only one on video....the dancin'  EMC Proven Professional Program Manager, Liz Burns.  We'll see if the video makes it to YouTube :-)

• And the day was capped by the EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing ceremony.  Looking out over the huge ballroom, it was a see of red  as EMC Proven Professionals all wore their red shirts to celebrate Proven Day. 

• And, for the first time, we had a live Twitter feed at the event, and global EMC Proven Professionals participating remotely in Proven Day  had the opportunity to win prizes.

• Our EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing finalists anxiously awaited the award ceremony; alot of nervous energy in the room as the count-up began!

2010 Knowledge Sharing Award Winners:

• 1st place winner, Paul Brant, "Above the Clouds: Best Practices in Creating a Sustainable Computing Infrastructure to Achieve Business Value and Growth"
• 2nd place winners, Mohammed Hashim and Rejaneesh Sasidharan, "Applying Composite Data Deduplication to Simplify Hybrid Clouds"
• 3rd place winner, John Bowling, "SAN Performance - Getting the Most Bang for the Buck"
• Best of Consolidation, Sejal Joshi and Ken Guest, "Ever Growing Storage Area Network (SAN) Consolidation and Migration.  Is it for you?"
• Best of Cloud Security, Paul Brant and Denis Guyadeen, "How to Trust the Cloud - Be Careful up There!"
• Best of Skills Planning, "The Convergence Factor - When IT Service Silos Collide"
• Most Downloaded Knowledge Sharing Article written by John Shubeck, "Deploying a Celerra iSCSI Solution" (more than 16K downloads!)

Watch for these 2010 winning Knowledge Sharing articles (available soon).  Many additional Knowledge Sharing articles will be posted monthly, throughout the year.

Another day at EMC World, more fun to follow!