Bill Huckabee is the Secretary of the West Sound Technology Association (WSTA) was part of a three member panel/presentation on things to consider when deploying a content management solution (CMS) at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. Bill brings to the table his professional experience with Envisioneering, Inc., a engineering assessment and advanced technology solution company doing work with the U.S. armed forces to the membership of the WSTA.  Huckabee spoke with Bryce Read from Varvid.com

Damien Bowersock, Technical Sales Manager at GreenBytes storage solutions spoke with Bryce Reed of Varvid at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. GreenBytes has developed easy-to-use, energy-efficient storage appliances that bring the benefits of data deduplication to a broader storage market and felt ITEC Conferences were a good fit to meet new and existing systems integrator and VAR partners.

Charles Keating, VP of the West Sound Technology Association (WSTA) was a featured speaker at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. Here he shares a little background of this unique group that focuses on IT professionals doing business on the west side of Puget Sound in Washington State with Varvid.com. WSTA was formed “to increase public awareness of the availability and quality of local technology professionals, and to serve technology professionals both at a general level of interest and in specialized technology fields” on the West Side of Puget Sound, including the Olympic Peninsula.

Keating said even though the peninsula is separated by Seattle by relatively short ferry rides, the logistical challenges posed by transportation makes their members and members’ clients look to a more convenient, local organization to engage with rather than trying to ‘commute’ by ferry to the big city. Keating’s ‘day job’ is President of Keating Consulting Service (KCS), an IT consulting firm he founded in Illinois in 1983 and moved to Bremerton WA several years ago. Charles holds several Microsoft MCP certifications and KCS has clients in all industries/sectors, Business, Government, Educational and ranging in size from Fortune100 to SMB.

Tom Henderson, Managing Director of ExtremeLabs Inc. speaks with Bryce Read of Varvid.com at the ITEC Seattle 2009 Conference about his experience at the show and touches on a few of the subjects he spoke on at the conference. Tom’s firm ExtremeLabs has performed technical analysis, product testing, investor technical due-diligence, and research in the enterprise computing/infrastructure field for over twenty-five years. This real world perspective made his observations both interesting and relevant during the Keynote Presentation on “The Top 10 Challenges Facing CIOs and IT Management Today.” Interesting points he made include increasing regional/national/international data security standards and the increasing use of SANs by organizations large and small. Later in the day he gave a second presentation on “The Four Flavors of Virtualization And How To Use Them” –noting that virtualization is really starting to take hold at all levels of business computing.