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The Dynamic Conference Duo: Hosting Con and Datacenter Dynamics Internet

As promised in the July Edition of the Milldam Monthly, here’s a visual overview of our trip out west last week! We had the pleasure of beginning in Las Vegas to visit our client, Cobalt Data Centers, before heading to HostingCon (San Diego), the WHIR networking event (also San Diego!), and Datacenter Dynamics Internet (San Francisco). While some of these images appeared posted-live on Milldam’s Instagram, many are web-exclusives, published here for the first time! Enjoy!

Cobalt — We began our trip with a stop at our client Cobalt Data Centers, a leading colocation facility based in Las Vegas

Processed with VSCOcam with m5 preset — In order to keep up our strength during our trip on the west coast, we made a stop at ZoozaCrackers in the Wynn Casino! Milldam President Adam Waitkunas tries out the ZoozaChair

Processed with VSCOcam with b5 preset — The next leg of the trip brought us by car across the desert, driving from Las Vegas to San Diego. Temperatures rose to 106 degrees!

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset — We arrived in San Diego, with a beautiful view of the San Diego Convention Center.

Processed with VSCOcam with b1 preset — Time for some networking!

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset — Milldam’s Adam and Caroline enjoying a networking event hosted by Super Mirco and Soft Layer at the top of the Hard Rock Hotel.

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset — We enjoyed a nice stay down the road before walking over to…

Processed with VSCOcam with m3 preset — …Hosting Con 2015!

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset — We spent the day at Hosting Con, at the San Diego Convention Center in the historic gas lamp district of the city

Processed with VSCOcam with t1 preset — A busy show!

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset — Adam tried his hand at a server/network game – you were timed to see how fast you could deploy a stack of servers and connect to the network. The fastest time was about 30 seconds!

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset — Caroline tried her luck too. Both she and Adam clocked in well over 2 minutes (although she beat him by a second) – looks like they need to work on their IT skills!

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset — We stopped by the booth to say hello to client Hurricane Electric, a global Internet backbone

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset — They stayed busy with lots of traffic to the booth

Processed with VSCOcam with b5 preset — Surveying the hall

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset — We found another game! Caroline quickly got eaten by sharks in the virtual surfboard game by Ecwid

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset — Adam tried too – with much more success!

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset — A lovely evening in San Diego

Processed with VSCOcam with m5 preset — Next stop: The WHIR (Web Hosting Industry Review) networking event up the road!

Processed with VSCOcam with m3 preset — Making new friends

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset — We hopped back in the car and made our way north, to San Francisco

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset — Arriving at night!

Processed with VSCOcam with m5 preset — The next day, we attended a bustling Datacenter Dynamics Internet!

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset — Catching up with industry friends

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset — There were lots of interesting sessions to choose from – this one was titled ” Stitching Together the Network Fabric”

Processed with VSCOcam with t1 preset — We stopped to say hello to our client Future Facilities, creator of software for modeling and predictive simulation for data centers

Processed with VSCOcam with g3 preset — Strolling into the city to meet with more clients

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 preset — Great views from the hotel!

Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset — We wrapped up our time at Datacenter Dynamics with some networking upstairs

Processed with VSCOcam with p5 preset — Making our final farewells – we hope to be back next year to attend such productive and interesting meetings and conferences!

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